Child Abduction Is Not Funny
| "Child Abduction Is Not Funny" | |
|---|---|
| South Park episode | |
| Episode no. | Season 6 Episode 11 |
| Directed by | Trey Parker |
| Written by | Trey Parker |
| Production code | 611 |
| Original air date | July 24, 2002 |
"Child Abduction Is Not Funny" is episode 90 of the Comedy Central series South Park. It originally aired on July 24, 2002. This episode mocks moral panics, and was the last to feature Tweek as the "fourth friend" alongside Stan, Kyle and Cartman.
The parents of South Park will do anything to protect their children from kidnappers. They hire the owner and operator of the local City Wok, Mr. Tuong Lu Kim, to build a Great Wall around the city. They equip their children with Kid Trackers and even follow them to school. Just as Mr. Tuong Lu Kim is almost finished with the wall, Mongolians arrive to try to break through. When a study reveals that nine out of ten abduction cases are committed by the mother or the father, the parents send their kids out on their own so they won't have a fear of being kidnapped by their parents.
In the summer of 2013, fans voted Child Abduction Is Not Funny as the best episode of Season 6.
With the media full of school shootings, terrorist threats and child abductions, the parents of South Park grow excessively concerned about the safety of their children. Tweek is scared the most by the media reports, and his parents serve only to exacerbate his fears by turning their house into a virtual prison and playing cruel intellectual games with him designed by intention to increase his safety. Tweek loses his ability to empathise with others and refuses to assist a crippled person stuck on some train tracks. After a real child abductor (pretending to be the "Ghost of Human Kindness") fails to kidnap Tweek, the parents of South Park are put on high alert.
Taking advantage of expensive technology, the City commissions the owner of City Wok, Mr. Lu Kim to build a huge wall around the city similar to the Great Wall of China. Media reports continue to file in — it first convinces them they should not leave their children alone for a moment, prompting the parents to go with them anywhere they go. A later report convinces them they cannot even trust their own neighbors and family friends, forcing the parents to sever ties with each other. The kids, annoyed and embarrassed by their parents' actions, initially blame Tweek for their parents' paranoia, but soon decide that they'd have inevitably resorted to something this stupid eventually.
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