HumancentiPad
| "HUMANCENTiPAD" | |
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| South Park episode | |
Kyle as part of the HumancentiPad
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| Episode no. | Season 15 Episode 1 |
| Directed by | Trey Parker |
| Written by | Trey Parker |
| Production code | 1501 |
| Original air date | April 27, 2011 |
"HumancentiPad", stylized as "HUMANCENTiPAD", is the first episode of the fifteenth season of the American animated television series South Park, and the 210th episode of the series overall. It originally aired on Comedy Central in the United States on April 27, 2011. In the episode, Kyle is kidnapped after agreeing to an iTunes user agreement, and forced to become part of a "revolutionary new product" that is about to be launched by Apple. Meanwhile, Cartman, who has not acquired an Apple iPad, pesters his mother on the issue, drawing her ire.
The episode was written and directed by series co-creator Trey Parker, and was rated TV-MA L in the United States. The episode's title, and main plot, refers to the 2010 film The Human Centipede (First Sequence). This episode parodies reports about tracking software built into Apple's iPads and iPhones, and also the tediously long end-user license agreements.
The making of the episode was the subject of the TV special, 6 Days to Air, which aired on Comedy Central on October 9, 2011.
After Cartman mocks the other students for not having an iPad, it is revealed that he himself does not have one, much to his humiliation. Meanwhile, Kyle, who did not read the Terms and Conditions when agreeing to download the latest iTunes update, is pursued by shadowy agents from Apple Inc., who wish to perform a number of intrusive actions upon him, informing him that he agreed to them when he downloaded the update. Kyle attempts to flee these men, and is incredulous when his friends inform him that they all actually read the entire Terms and Conditions when they downloaded the latest update. Kyle seeks refuge at his father's law office, but the Apple agents kidnap him and taser his father. Meanwhile, Cartman embarrasses his mother, Liane, at Best Buy, mooning the customers and angrily accusing her of "fucking" him after she offers to buy him the cheaper Toshiba HandiBook rather than the iPad. As a result of his outburst, she declines to buy him anything and takes him home. Kyle is thrown into a cell with a Japanese man and a young woman who also failed to read the Terms.
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