Barely Legal: South Park Scatological Gags
Top 18 South Park Clever Poop Jokes List...
One of the reasons that some people really hate South Park is because they can't get past the toilet humour. The incorporation of scatological humour was a clever strategical choice by Trey Parker and Matt Stone because if someone is offended by a fart or a turd, then they sure as hell will freak the fuck out when they encounter South Park mockery of real social issues such as religion, abortion and government. That being said, some of the South Park toilet humour is quite gratuitous and it seems that characters like Mr. Hankey are an inside joke for the show's creators. The use of scat humour isn't always nuanced but sometimes it is very clever. This list compiles the top eighteen clever uses of scatological humour in South Park episodes. The list is in chronological order. And worth noting is that there are funny moments with shit in South Park but I wouldn't consider them clever (ie. Red Hot Catholic Love or Make Love, Not Warcraft).
18. S04 - Cartman's Silly Hate Crime 2000
Cartman lands himself in a juvenile detention facility where to appease his bully cellmate, he must smuggle in items. The main item is a board game which Cartman can only figure to stuff up his rectum. He poops the game out once it is returned to his cell. At the end of the episode Cartman poops an imaginary visual festival of delights for his cellmate (all offscreen). This was a clever play on prison stories and movies that deal with the issue of smuggling contraband.
17. S05 - It Hits The Fan
There is no actual visual depictions of feces in this episode but the narrative deals with the problematic use of the word "shit" as a substitute for whatever word is stuck on the tip of the tongue. "Shit" is uttered hundreds of times in the episode which unleashes a curse on the town of South Park. The episode was clever for using the idea of shit without ever relying on showing any for shock value.
16. S06 - Asspen
While Butters sleeps during a ski trip, Cartman takes some of his own poop and creates a skid mark on the septum of his unsuspecting and naive buddy. Butters has no idea about the "mustache", even after a ski instructor points it out in a comical, bluntly ironic manner. Cartman calls the prank, "a Hitler" for obvious reasons. The gag is handled in an amusing way and even Hitler gets the brunt of the mock.
15. S06 - The Death Camp of Tolerance
The use of scat humour here is quite clever but also pretty offensive. In the episode, the school children are sent to a camp in order to become better versed in political correctness. Spielberg's Schindler's List is parodied including the grim toilet scene. In the South Park episode, Cartman walks into a portable toilet and finds his female classmates hiding in its depths. He agrees not to rat them out to the counselors (guards). He actually defecates on them and then leaves the potty to rat on the girls for hiding. The parody is clever and the gag is priceless despite being disgusting.
14. S08 - Good Times with Weapons
Butters is often an insufferable character. Although his naivety can be cute, it can also be extremely annoying and you actually start to hope that he will land himself in trouble. In this episode, Butters is struck accidentally by Kenny's ninja throwing star. Butters has the star sticking out of his eye. To avoid getting in trouble, the four main friends decide to dress Butters up as a dog and send him to a vet. When Butters finally arrives at the vet clinic, he is put in a cage with stray dogs, who take turns urinating on him. The last dogs poops on him. This isn't such a clever gag, but the absurdity makes up for it.
13. S08 - Douche and Turd
When PETA terrorizes the South Park school into not having a cow as a sports team mascot, the students have to vote on a new mascot. The two options are provided by Kyle and Cartman - a giant douche and turd sandwich, respectively. The Turd Sandwich shows up at a pep rally and later a political debate. The mascot costume really is that of a turd sandwich. Not only are the characters clever and hilarious but the mockery of bipartisan American politics is priceless.
12. S08 - Something Wall-Mart This Way Comes
The episode begins with Cartman arguing with his friends about the fact that many people defecate just after death. Cartman is determined to prove that it is true, despite lacking opportunity. As the episode continues, there are some suicides by Wall-Mart employees. They indeed crap themselves. Finally, at the end of the episode, the four friends find a way to kill the actual nefarious Wall-Mart entity. When it dies, it too poops itself. Cartman has a priceless look on his face.
11. S09 - Mr. Garrison's Fancy New Vagina
The humour in this episode is certainly crude but the realism is clever. When Mr. Garrison has a sex change operation, he begins celebrating his new opportunities as a woman. In one scene, he enters a female restroom at a bar, where he tries to start gossiping with the other women who are powdering their face at the mirror. He then proceeds to enter a stall and perform in a typical male fashion. Of course this makes sense as his physiology remains male. It is a subtle point that men rarely consider.
10. S10 - The Return of Chef
In this episode, Parker and Stone kill off the Chef character (voiced by Isaac Hayes). The reason for this is that Hayes had joined the Church of Scientology in real life. The episode is brilliant as sound bytes from Chef over the years are spliced together to create a hilarious brainwashed character. When Chef falls into a chasm and dies, he is gored and torn apart by wild animals. The finale is when he craps himself. Of course, this shitty moment was cleverly set up a couple seasons earlier in the Wall-Mart episode.
9. S10 - ManBearPig
There is no fecal matter in this episode but instead Cartman discovers what he believes to be pirate treasure when the four friends are trapped in a network of caves where they were on a guided tour. To hide the treasure from his three friends, he finds that his only option is to eat all the treasure. When the boys try to escape the caves where they are trapped, Cartman can barely move on his own due to the extra weight. Kyle has to save Cartman, only to find out at the end that it was all because of the treasure. Cartman projectiles the treasure out his rear end but is quickly informed that it is fake treasure placed in the caves as part of the guided tour.
8. S10 - Mystery of the Urinal Deuce
Once again, there is no actual feces or defecation in this episode, but the subplot of the story is concerned with an unknown student who went number two in one of the urinals in the boy's bathroom at the school. The school counselor, Mr. Mackey, is irate and can only express his displeasure through vivid descriptions of the act that took place. Each description becomes more and more outlandish as Mackey attempts to compel the culprit to confess their crime. The students laugh uncontrollably as the descriptions become increasingly oblique.
7. S11 - Cartman Sucks
At the start of this episode, Cartman is showing his three friends a photo album he has put together where all the photos show pranks he pulled on Butters while Butters sleeps over at his house. One of the photos is entitled, "The Pierre" whereby Cartman crafted a fancy mustache on Butters's face with the aid of his cat's turds. The friends are unimpressed but Cartman's adulation is priceless.
6. S11 - More Crap
This is one of the best South Park episodes despite being very crude. The episode starts with a constipated Randy on the toilet. After visiting the doctor he is able to relieve himself finally. What he discovers is that he has taken the world's largest crap. It turns out that there is an organization that regulates the records for such matters. However, U2 frontman, Bono, is irate about the record being broken because he was the former holder of it. In the end, it is suggested that Bono didn't take the record crap but WAS the record crap. The twist is clever and Bono in real life has the kind of demeanor that makes the joke resonate with many. Randy retains his record and is even granted the opportunity to break it once more as South Park takes a final jab at the pandering nature of television critics.
5. S14 - The Tale of Scrotie McBoogerballs
In this episode, toilet humour is the actual subject of the narrative when the four friends attempt to write a novel that is more interesting, provocative and shocking than Salinger's Catcher in the Rye. Their novel is such an effectively wretched reading experience that the boys fear being grounded by their parents. They fob off the text onto the unsuspecting Butters who runs with it. Amazingly, the book becomes a bestseller. Eventually, Butters decides that his reputation precedes him and that he will be able to have a second bestseller. He pens, "The Poop that Took a Pee". The reception by the public is positive and Butters's book is lauded as a masterpiece. The whole thing is absurd and the cleverness is in how toilet humour is used as a substitute for pretty much any "popular" entertainment.
4. S15 - HumanCentiPad
The use of scat humour here isn't all that clever unless you are well-versed with the South Park series. Cartman is always plotting elaborately against his nemesis-buddy, Kyle. Kyle often avoids pitfalls through his sound use of logic, kindness and awareness. Cartman's ploys will spin out of control until finally he is the one on the short end of the stick. This is one of the primary narrative themes in South Park. In this episode, there is a reversal of fortune and it comes rather surprisingly. In that respect, the disgusting parody of the movie, The Human Centipede, is quite clever. The added critique of Apple Computers branding strategies is a bonus.
3. S15 - You're Getting Old
This is probably my favourite South Park episode because I totally resonate with the message. Stan becomes disillusioned with media and people generally, finding their behaviour and art to pander and be disingenuous. He starts to literally see and hear crap where once he knew things for what they were claimed to be. A doctor diagnoses his condition as "cynical asshole" syndrome. In the end, the substitution of crap for pop media is apt and clever.
2. S16 - I Should Have Never Gone Ziplining
The scat humour in this episode is pretty disgusting as Cartman craps his pants, but the detailed description of the anatomical process through parodying sensational Fox programs is hilarious. The episode is not one of the best, but the scat gag is amusing and the parody is very clever.
1. S16 Cartman Finds Love
Cartman sees an imaginary cupid version of himself which is set to the nefarious task of dissuading interracial coupling. Cartman's "Cupid-Me" is a little rascal and can act quite independently. At one moment in the episode, Cartman finds Cupid-Me in the washroom of his house. Cartman is astounded by the stink produced by Cupid-Me, but upon looking in the toilet bowl comments that the turds are shaped like little hearts. He is once more smitten with his imaginary cupid. The description substitutes for a visual which in itself was clever.
