A Nightmare on Face Time
| "A Nightmare on FaceTime" | |
|---|---|
| South Park episode | |
| Episode no. | Season 16 Episode 12 |
| Directed by | Trey Parker |
| Written by | Trey Parker |
| Featured music | "Gangnam Style" by Psy |
| Production code | 1612 |
| Original air date | October 24, 2012 |
"A Nightmare on FaceTime" is the twelfth episode of the sixteenth season of the American animated sitcom South Park, and the 235th episode of the series overall. It premiered on Comedy Central in the United States on October 24, 2012. In the story, aspects of which parody the 1980 film The Shining,Randy Marsh purchases a Blockbuster video store and demands that his reluctant family work in it on Halloween with him. The title of the episode is a reference to A Nightmare on Elm Street.
Randy announces to his family that he has purchased a Blockbuster video store outside of town for $10,000, a venture he believes will make them rich. His family is skeptical of this idea, since online video streaming and Redbox-DVD vending machines have made brick and mortar rental stores obsolete. This is illustrated by the eerie, abandoned-looking store, which houses ghosts, and which the citizens of South Park regard as a haunted house of sorts. Despite this, Randy forces his whole family to work at the store. When this precludes Stan from trick-or-treating with his friends, Kyle resorts to using FaceTime on his and Stan's iPads in order for Stan to participate in the activity via telepresence. The boys dress up as the Avengers and throughout their walk, Cartman becomes infuriated when people fail to recognize that he is dressed as the Hulk. When the boys see a convenience store being robbed, they charge into the store, playing the roles of superheroes. But when they see that it's being robbed by a group of thugs called the Redbox Killers, and that the Killers have murdered the store clerk, the boys flee. In so doing, they lose Kyle's iPad and a flyer for a Halloween party called the Monster Mash. The Redbox Killers find the iPad and flyer, torture Stan virtually, and learn that the boys are going to the Monster Mash. The Killers dump the iPad in a field before heading to the Monster Mash to silence the boys as witnesses.
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