Good Times with Weapons

"Good Times with Weapons"
South Park episode
The boys in their ninja personae
Episode no.	Season 8 Episode 1
Directed by	Trey Parker
Written by	Trey Parker
Production code	801
Original air date	March 17, 2004
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"Good Times with Weapons" is episode 112 of South Park. The first episode of season 8, it originally aired on March 17, 2004. The episode's animation routinely switches from the usual cutout-and-solid-color style to a highly stylized anime theme. Asian-style ambience plays in the background.

This was also one of ten episodes to be featured on South Park: The Hits DVD. In addition, it was voted the 2nd best episode of all time by fans in the United States, while being ranked the third best among fans in the United Kingdom. This episode was one of the first to be available in high definition, available on the Xbox 360's Marketplace. A promotional HD DVD was also released exclusively for Best Buy.

This was the first episode with April Stewart as the bulk of the female characters following Eliza Schneider's departure.

At the Park County Fair, the boys come across a vendor selling "authentic weapons from the Far East" and are interested in purchasing them. Although the vendor says parental permission is required if the hopeful buyer is under 18 years old, Cartman uses this information to pretend that he, Kenny, Kyle and Stan are orphaned brothers (a ruse the boys have apparently successfully used "like twelve times" in the past) and successfully tricks the vendor into giving them the weapons. Stan purchases a pair of Tonfa, Kyle gets nunchaku, Cartman buys a pair of sai, and Kenny purchases (according to Cartman) the only thing he can afford, a pair of shaken-style shuriken. After showing their weapons off to Craig, they go around town pretending to be ninjas, becoming anime-like characters with their own individual superpowers. The animation style takes on an overall Japanese look and switches to a cinemascope aspect ratio whenever this happens.