Mystery of the Urinal Deuce
Template:Infobox South Park episode "Mystery of the Urinal Deuce" is episode 1009 (#148) of Comedy Central's South Park which first aired on October 11, 2006.
Plot
Template:Spoilers When someone at South Park Elementary defecates in a urinal, Mr. Mackey searches for the boy responsible. Cartman begins to rant that it was a conspiracy, "just like 9/11", which he had been ranting about for a while. The others, on the other hand, simply brush him off as a "retard." Cartman performs an investigation, which he presents to his class. He claims that the true culprit behind the 9/11 attacks was Kyle. He has no real evidence to conclude this but uses some numerology involving Kyle's score on a test he earned a few days after the 9/11 attacks. Nevertheless, he manages to convince everyone that Kyle is guilty. When Kyle tells his mother that everyone thinks he is the 9/11 culprit, she calls a town meeting, arguing that children don't understand enough about the September 11th attacks. However, many of the townspeople also believe 9/11 might have been the result of a conspiracy, so they hire The Hardly Boys (parody of The Hardy Boys), two brothers who get "clues" (which is sometimes tongue-in-cheek for their erections) while investigating crimes, to discover the results of both the 9/11 attacks and the urinal incident, which the Hardly Boys decide must be related.
Kyle enlists Stan's help, and they leave South Park to find an organization that can prove Kyle's innocence. The group they find, however, believes that the United States government orchestrated the 9/11 attacks. The conspiracy organization have bottles of anthrax, which they use as "evidence" of the attack. As Kyle is holding them, a SWAT team attacks and arrests Kyle, Stan, and the leader of the conspiracy organization. They are taken to The White House. Presidential officials, along with President George W. Bush, quickly admit that the government actually is behind 9/11. Bush explains the incredibly convoluted method, which seems to greatly dishearten Kyle (who responds repeatedly with a comical, high-noted "Really?!" response), who always believed such theories were stupid. Since Bush admits this information, he decides to kill Stan, Kyle, and the conspiracy leader, as to not have this information leak out. The head of the conspiracy group is executed by George W. Bush.
As Dick Cheney tries to execute Stan and Kyle with a crossbow, he misses and allows the boys to escape. Meanwhile, Clyde is caught for the urinal incident, and while he admits to it, his parents tell Mr. Mackey he had a colostomy at age 5. Meanwhile the students continue to take glee at Mr. Mackey's determination to find the culprit. Later, in Chicago, Stan and Kyle run into the leader of the conspiracy group alive and well. After a short chase by Stan and Kyle, he is cornered in a back alley and shot dead by the father of the Hardly boys, who reveals that his sons discovered that all the conspiracy websites are false and run by the government. Stan, Kyle, and the Hardly family congregate at the Hardly house as the Bush Administration arrives, and eventually admits that the government wasn't behind 9/11. He explains they actually run the websites, so that the fourth of the country who are dumb enough to believe conspiracies will believe the government is all-powerful, while the other 3/4's know the truth: that "a bunch of pissed off Muslims" actually executed the 9/11 attacks.
When the father of the Hardly boys questions why everyone knew they were at the Hardly house, Stan puts a gun to Kyle's head and admits that he was the one who pooped in the urinal; the whole point of going with Kyle on this strange mission, he explains, was so they could get the "proof" that the government was behind 9/11, and the urinal incident (which again seems to be illogically linked in most people's minds), which the government was willing to go along with if it made people think they were all-powerful. Thus in the end, the fundamentalists are concluded to be responsible for 9/11, the government admits to Stan, Kyle, and the Hardly family that they wanted people to believe the government was in full control of everything. Soon after Stan receives his punishment for pooping in the urinal: cleaning the urinal, while Mr. Mackey lectured him (and unwittingly making Stan laugh).
Trivia
- In this episode, Stan is guilty of the "urinal deuce." However, in the season 3 episode Starvin' Marvin in Space, some men from the CIA show up at South Park Elementary to interrogate Cartman, Kyle, Kenny, and Stan. Cartman immediately says, "Hey, that was Kyle that went number two in the urinal!" Kyle quickly replies, "No it wasn't, fatass. I saw you do it!"
- Although Cartman claims Kyle received a grade of 91 on a spelling test twelve days after 9/11, the attacks occurred on a Tuesday, 12 days after would have been a Sunday.
- A new character, Leroy, is introduced before Cartman's inciting speech.
- After the first airing the fictional George W. Bush's lines were re-recorded sounding closer to the real George W. Bush for later airings.
- When Clyde is caught, Mrs. Garrison makes a reference to L. Paul Bremer's famous quote from the capture of Saddam Hussein, "We got him" to Mr. Mackey.
- Jose Venezuela is introduced this episode as the school janitor. In Ginger Kids he was briefly shown as the new bus driver.
- In the intro-style scenes about the Hardly Boys, the name of the author for the Hardly Boys books is visible as "Frederick Dickinson." This is similar to Franklin W. Dixon, the pen name under which the actual Hardy Boys books were written.
References to Pop culture/other works
- The Hardly Boys are a parody of The Hardy Boys. They also bear a resemblance to the Hearty Boys of the Food Network show, Party Line with The Hearty Boys and they talk and act similar to the characters Weston Esterhazy and Virgil from The Kids in the Hall.
- Dick Cheney's attempt to kill Kyle and Stan is a parody of the Dick Cheney hunting incident.
- The 9/11 researcher walks out of a fast food chain with a vertically flipped McDonald's logo, making it appear as a W. In InuYasha there is a parody of McDonald's (Supposedly called WcDonald's) with the same "W".
- George Bush sounds, in the way he speaks and accent, much like Dr. Evil from Austin Powers.
References to 9/11 conspiracy theories
- A wire-frame model of the World Trade Center towers can be seen in the 9/11 researcher's living room, referring to a widely-circulated video clip of a conspiracy theorist using such models to attempt to prove that the towers were demolished from within.
- A t-shirt worn by the 9/11 researcher says “911Truth.org”, which is a real 9/11conspiracy website. 911Truth.org later posted a response to the South Park episode in which they argue against most of the accusations made against them and other conspiracy theorists. [1]
- Kyle being seen in the smoke is a possible reference to the supposed appearance of Satan in the smoke of the crumbling towers. [2]
- The presentation that Cartman does is very similar to Loose Change, one of the biggest conspiracy starters.
References
[1]<South Park Episode Hits Mark For Toilet Humor, But Misses On 9/11 Skepticism />