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Fat Camp (South Park)

"Fat Camp"
South Park episode
Episode no. Season 4
Episode 15
Directed by Trey Parker
Written by Trey Parker
Production code 415
Original air date December 6, 2000
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"Fat Camp" is the fifteenth episode of the fourth season of the animated television series South Park, and the 63rd episode of the series overall. "Fat Camp" originally aired in the United States on December 6, 2000 on Comedy Central. This is also one of the few episodes before "Kenny Dies" in which Kenny does not actually die, though someone impersonating him does.

During a science class, the boys dare Kenny to eat a manatee's spleen, which Kenny does in exchange for money. He then commences to eat his own vomit for money, and expands outwards into all sorts of bizarre acts; this leads to him getting his own program, The Krazy Kenny Show, to showcase his disgusting acts, such as giving his grandfather a full body massage and washing his hair with battery acid. He also appears on Jesus 'n' Pals, the local talk show, where Jesus comments on this behavior by saying that Kenny is a prostitute for simply doing outrageous acts for money that require no real talent. The boys try to discover what the term means, by asking Chef. After initial reluctance to explain (as he assumes Stan and Kyle to be referring to the sexual connotations of being a prostitute), he sings "The Prostitute Song," with James Taylor in a parody of his song "Your Smiling Face".

Meanwhile, Cartman's mother and others from the town pay to send Cartman (against his will) to fat camp. There, a pair of overenthusiastic counselors try to teach him and other overweight children to exercise and live a healthier life, even using round-up trucks (disguised as ice cream trucks and taco stands) to trick attempted escapees into returning to the camp. Though Cartman resists, he soon reappears in South Park, looking scores of pounds thinner. The children are shocked by this, as well as the fact that this Cartman seems more mature and less mean. However, it would expectedly turn out that this isn't really Cartman, but a kid who recently escaped a drug rehabilitation center next door to the fat camp. Apparently, he has made a deal with the real Cartman, in which he returns to South Park as Cartman's doppelgänger and collects junk food, then brings it back for Cartman to sell to the other fat campers in exchange for 20% of the profit, which the impostor gets. As a result, none of the kids get any thinner, and their parents (who are shown to be obese as well and claim that their children are "genetically fat") are very unimpressed by the camp's efforts and decide to take their children home.


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