Mystery of the Urinal Deuce
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"Mystery of the Urinal Deuce" is episode 148 of Comedy Central's South Park which first aired on October 11 2006.
Plot
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, claiming that he, and the quarter of the country that believes in a 9/11 conspiracy, are all retarded. Cartman performs an investigation, which he presents to his class in an impressive PowerPoint presentation. He claims that the true culprit behind the 9/11 attacks was Kyle. He has no evidence to conclude this but uses some insane 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; Mr. Mackey, however, continues to protest the fact that someone defecated in the urinal, and the rest of the town inexplicably decides the two are probably related. They hire the Hardly Boys (parody of The Hardy Boys) to discover the results of both the 9/11 attacks and the urinal incident. During the whole process they make barely concealed sexual comments in their investigation (e.g.: "I've got such a raging clue right now").It becomes clear what their definition of clue is.
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 of how they pulled the attacks off, which seems to greatly dishearten Kyle (who responds repeatedly with a comical, high-noted "Really?!"), who always believed such theories were stupid. Since Bush admits this information, he decides to kill Stan, Kyle, and the conspiracy leader, so as to conceal this information. The head of the conspiracy group is executed by George W. Bush.
As Dick Cheney tries to execute Stan and Kyle with a crossbow (in a parody of Cheney's hunting incident), he misses (again) 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 outside of a "McDonald's". 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 that the government actually runs all the websites that claim they were responsible, making the conspiracy theories actually a government conspiracy themselves. The point, Bush explains, is that, since one-fourth of Americans are "retarded" and will believe conspiracies, the government wants them to believe that it is all-powerful and could get away with the worst terrorist attack in history, while they tell the other 75% of the country the truth---that 9/11 was caused (in Stan's words) by "a bunch of pissed off Muslims."
When the father of the Hardly boys questions why everyone knew they were at the Hardly house, a gun is put to Kyle's head. When the camera shifts, it is Stan holding it. He admits that he was the one who defecated in the urinal ("All the stalls were all full and I didn't want to miss recess! I didn't think it would turn into such a big deal!"); 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 defecating in the urinal: cleaning the urinal, while Mr. Mackey lectures him (and unwittingly making him laugh, to Mackey's annoyance).
(Note: After it's initial showing, the character of Bush was redubbed. The first version of Bush had no accent and wasn't meant to be a true imitation. When reshown, the Bush charater was revoiced with a more accurate imitation of President Bush's voice and manner of speaking.)
References to other works/popular culture
- The 9/11 Conspiracy group in the episode parodies Dylan Avery and the documentary Loose Change.
- This is the second time a character in South Park has defecated in a urinal. The first time was in Starvin Marvin in Space, when Kyle was blamed, though he in turn blamed Cartman.
- The Hardly family is a parody of the literary Hardy family of super-sleuths created by Franklin W. Dixon. In both the books and the episode, a man named Fenton is the father of Frank and Joe. The boys also match the physical descriptions of the real Hardys, although the blonde is referred to as "Frank" and the dark-haired brother as "Joe," a reversal from the books.
- After the 9/11 conspiracy theorist is shot by President Bush, Rumsfeld says, "He died like a pig." This is most likely a reference to a similar scene in the film The Untouchables when Sean Connery's assassain says the same thing to Kevin Costner.
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