"Chef's Chocolate Salty Balls" | |
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South Park episode | |
Episode no. | Season 2 Episode 9 |
Directed by | Trey Parker |
Written by | Trey Parker Matt Stone Nancy M. Pimental |
Production code | 209 |
Original air date | August 19, 1998 |
"Chef's Chocolate Salty Balls" is the ninth episode in the second season of the American animated television series South Park. The 22nd episode of the series overall, it originally aired on Comedy Central in the United States on August 19, 1998. The episode was written by series co-creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone, along with Nancy M. Pimental, and directed by Parker.
Park City, Utah is in the midst of the Sundance Film Festival. Sundance's founder, Robert Redford, has decided that Park City has become too commercialized by the annual migration of the Hollywood jet set, so he decides to move the festival to South Park, Colorado. The Sundance Festival relocates to South Park, which is immediately deluged by Hollywood tourists. In school, Mr. Garrison gives the students an assignment to see one independent film during the festival and write a report on it. Chef sets up a sales stand at the festival for his fudge cookie recipes.
At night, Kyle is sitting on the toilet, when he thinks he hears Mr. Hankey, the Christmas Poo, calling to him from the toilet. Kyle persuades Stan, Cartman, and Kenny to help him find Mr. Hankey; they enter the sewer system to look for him. They soon find Mr. Hankey, who tells Kyle that the influx of all the Hollywood tourists, with their health-food diets, has disrupted the ecosystem of the sewer, which has made him deathly ill.