Obama Wins!
| "Obama Wins!" | |
|---|---|
| South Park episode | |
| Episode no. | Season 16 Episode 14 |
| Directed by | Trey Parker |
| Written by | Trey Parker |
| Production code | 1614 |
| Original air date | November 7, 2012 |
"Obama Wins!" is the fourteenth and final episode of the sixteenth season of the American animated sitcom South Park, and the 237th episode of the series overall. It premiered on Comedy Central in the United States on November 7, 2012. The episode centers upon a secret that Eric Cartman is harboring that may alter the outcome of the 2012 U.S. Presidential election, and also references the erstwhile recent sale of Lucasfilm to the Walt Disney Company, and the narration work of Morgan Freeman, a parodied version of whom appears in the story.
The day after the 2012 U.S. Presidential election, in which Barack Obama has been reelected as President of the United States, Cartman shows Kyle that he has tens of thousands of voter ballots in his bedroom, which he stole from polling stations in numerous swing states. An outraged Kyle reports this to the police, but by the time the police search his bedroom, Cartman has hidden the ballots at Stevenson's Hummer, a dealership outside of town. It is revealed that Cartman was hired by General Pun Lee Tsao, working on behalf of the Chinese government, who secured a re-election for Obama as part of a deal with Obama. When one of Obama's aides points out the danger of Tsao going to the press, Obama dismisses this possibility, saying that everyone knows General Tsao's "chicken", a play on the dish General Tso's chicken that recurs throughout the episode.
Tsao, Cartman and Obama meet at a Red Lobster, where they are confronted by Kyle, Stan, Kenny and their friends, who learn, via explanation by Morgan Freeman, that in exchange for Obama's re-election, the Chinese want Obama to give them the rights to the Star Wars franchise (which George Lucas recently sold to the Walt Disney Company), so that the Chinese can make future Star Wars sequels. Freeman further explains that Cartman will not reveal the location of the ballots until his new demands are met. When Stan asks Freeman why he always shows up to explain something convoluted, Freeman responds that every time he does so, he gets a new freckle. Cartman demands of the Chinese that he be allowed to play Luke Skywalker's son in the future Star Wars sequels, but when Tsao angrily refuses, on the grounds that this was not a part of their original deal, Cartman flees the meeting.
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