More Crap

"More Crap"

"More Crap" is episode 1109 (#162) of Comedy Central's South Park. It premiered on October 10, 2007.

The episode is one of very few where neither Cartman, Kyle, Kenny or any of the other children appear, except for Stan who has a minor role. The plot revolves primarily around Randy Marsh and the other adults in South Park.

Plot

After being constipated for three weeks, Randy Marsh goes to see the doctor and is prescribed a strong laxative, though the doctor warns him that taking a crap could be "very painful". Randy finally manages to take a crap, and is about to flush it when he notices just how big it is. After showing it to his family (which disgusts both Sharon and Shelley but impresses Stan and Jimbo), Randy becomes a home-town hero when he shows the guys at the local bar his huge feces.

Randy contacts the Guinness World Records, thinking that his masterpiece would give him the world's record for biggest crap. He is redirected to the "European Fecal Standards & Measurements Board" in Zürich, a society that keeps the record. After having his crap measured in units called "Courics" (it is mentioned in the episode that "one Katie Couric is about two and a half pounds of excrement"), Randy discovers that his crap weighs 8.6 Courics and that he has beaten the world record of 7.5 Courics. The society leaders contact the previous record holder, who is none other than Bono, and inform him that his record has been broken. As Randy is the first American to ever receive the award, the American government holds a ceremony to honor his achievement – however, it is interrupted by a video of Bono, claiming he has just taken a crap weighing 9.5 Courics and is therefore still the record holder, even though nobody apart from Bono has actually seen the crap in person.

Feeling depressed by Bono's victory, Randy is convinced by his friends to train hard and work at taking the record back from Bono. After spending about three weeks eating at P. F. Changs, an ultrasound reveals that Randy's crap has reached about 14 Courics in weight, yet his hopes are soon shot down by Bono demanding that he takes the crap in Zürich (even though the doctor has warned him not to fly during his "turd trimester"). Stan visits Bono's mansion and tries to convince Bono to just let Randy have the first place record, but soon discovers that Bono hates being "number two". After being threatened by Bono, Stan is taken to Zürich by Bono's butler, who informs him of the truth – Bono's record was set in 1960, the year he was born. Bono is not the record holder, he is the record.

File:Bono.PNG

An animated verison of Bono at his mansion.

The society leader explains that he took the world's biggest crap in 1960, and that he was so proud of it that he took it home and decided to raise it as a child, and over time it grew up into Bono. This explains why Bono is ashamed of being called "number two" (a play on the euphemism for defecation) and why Bono can help so many people and still seem "like such a piece of shit". However, the society leader also points out that, even though Bono faked his newest record, Bono himself is over 80 Courics in weight, and thus is still bigger than Randy's old record crap or any other crap in the world.

Right after this is revealed, Randy is finally able to relax after taking a giant crap, estimated to weigh more than 100 Courics. Randy is hailed as the new record holder, and the society awards him an Emmy. (Several times during the episode, such as when Randy first tries to take a crap, a spinning Emmy award is seen on-screen along with the text "Emmy Award Winning Series" - when the spinning Emmy appears during the last seconds of the episode, one of the society's members grabs it and sticks it in Randy's crap.)

Continuity

• Randy claims to have never been nominated for a Nobel Prize even though he won one in the episode Spontaneous Combustion.

Reception

TV Squad gave the episode an overwhelmingly positive review, stating that "it's low taste but it's South Park low taste, which makes it funny," and that "they [Trey Parker and Matt Stone] are on a roll. Possibly a toilet paper roll." IGN had mixed feelings about the episode, calling it "amusing, but not terribly so", giving it a rating of 7.4.

The episode currently has a score of 8.0 on TV.com, as voted for by viewers, which makes it the weakest of the season so far.

Allusions

• The plot of the episode is reminiscent of the 2007 documentary The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters. Both the film and this episode revolve around two people on a quest for a (seemingly) trivial world record.
• At various times in the episode Bono sings "Hello, hello!" and "Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah!" - these are both parts of the song "Vertigo" by Bono's band U2.
• The society leader's repeated use of the word "bitty" to describe breast-feeding Bono is taken from a sketch in the UK comedy series Little Britain, where a fully-grown man is breast-fed by his mother and refers to it as "bitty".
• All women who had lines featured in this episode, especially Sharon, continued to question throughout the episode a few times why the men were so obsessed with who took the biggest crap. Most of the time if this was asked to a man they would just tell the woman that they 'just don't understand' the importance.
• The license plate on Bono's car is "EINS", German for "one", a reference to the song "One".

External links

• Preview at South Park Studios
• Trivia at South Park Stuff
• Episode highlights at Comedy Central