I'm a Little Bit Country
| "I'm a Little Bit Country" | |
|---|---|
| South Park episode | |
| Episode no. | Season 7 Episode 4 |
| Directed by | Trey Parker |
| Written by | Trey Parker |
| Production code | 704 |
| Original air date | April 9, 2003 |
| Guest appearance(s) | |
Norman Lear as Benjamin Franklin
"I'm a Little Bit Country" (also known as "The South Park KICK-ASS 100th episode TV special") is the fourth episode of the seventh season of the American animated television series South Park, and the 100th episode of the series overall. It originally aired on Comedy Central in the United States on April 9, 2003.
The episode was written by series co-creator Trey Parker. It is similar to the 1972 film 1776 and concerns the U.S. invasion of Iraq.
When Mr. Garrison agrees to let anyone protesting the war out of school early for a rally, all the kids pretend to care about the cause so as to get out of school early, even though they know little about the war. Some of the townspeople are protesting against the war, while others are supporting it. While the rest of the school races off to enjoy their day off, the boys lag behind to watch the protest and end up interviewed outside the school for their views on what the Founding Fathers would think about this, it becomes clear that they do not know who the founding fathers were; angered at the embarrassment, Garrison gives everybody an assignment to figure out what the founders' views of the war would have been. Stan, Kyle, and Kenny begin to study for their project, but Cartman decides to take a different approach, trying (and failing) to induce a flashback of the colonial era, first by saying clichéd flashback-inducing dialogue, and then by dropping a large rock on his own head.
Meanwhile, the people of the town are divided about the war, and after splitting in two, they both plan rallies: one pro-war (hawks), one anti-war (doves), both on the same day in the same place. They wind up having a great argument during both rallies, and in the end get into a huge fight where they begin to all kill each other. Meanwhile, Cartman electrocutes himself in water with a TiVo full of colonial documentaries from The History Channel in order to induce a flashback. He falls into a coma, and in his mind, he travels back to the colonial era in Philadelphia. After murdering the official messenger boy, he manages to get the job of delivering the Declaration of Independence from Thomas Jefferson's home to the Continental Congress for a vote; there, a great argument breaks out about whether or not to go to war against England, paralleling the events in town, which Cartman recognizes as being "very, very relevant".
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