Woodland Critter Christmas
| "Woodland Critter Christmas" | |
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| South Park episode | |
| Episode no. | Season 8 Episode 14 |
| Directed by | Trey Parker |
| Written by | Trey Parker |
| Production code | 814 |
| Original air date | December 15, 2004 |
| Guest appearance(s) | |
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Dante Alexander, Dakota Sky and Spencer Lacey Ganus as the lion cubs |
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Dante Alexander, Dakota Sky and Spencer Lacey Ganus as the lion cubs
"Woodland Critter Christmas" is episode 125 of the Comedy Central series South Park. It originally aired on December 15, 2004. It was the last episode of the series to have a Christmas theme for ten years until 2014's "#HappyHolograms".
In the episode, Stan finds himself in the middle of the woods with a bunch of seemingly cute woodland animals preparing for their savior to be born.
This episode, which like many routine Christmas specials has an anapestic rhyming narration and storybook style, begins in the forest, where Stan discovers a group of talking animals building a Christmas tree. They convince a surprised but apathetic Stan to help make a star for their Christmas tree before he goes home. That night, they wake him in his room and explain that one of the animals, a porcupine named Porcupiney, is pregnant with the creatures' savior. Drowsy and annoyed, Stan nevertheless agrees to help them build a manger for the baby. However, another problem soon appears: the Critters explain that one of their members conceives their Savior every year, only for the pregnant animal to be killed by a mountain lion. Exasperated, Stan goes to its mountain and manages to kill the beast by tricking her into jumping off a ledge, but is dismayed to find that the lion was the mother of three now-orphaned cubs. Stan is then horrified to discover that the woodland critters are Satan worshippers, and that their Savior is actually the Antichrist. They celebrate Stan's victory by sacrificing Rabbitty the Rabbit, devouring his flesh and having an orgy with his blood.
After much coercion from the narrator, Stan tries to stop the animals himself. But they easily rebuff him with their Satanic powers, which will apparently grow stronger as the Antichrist's birth approaches. Since the Critters claims that only a mountain lion can kill the Antichrist, Stan (heeding the narrator's instructions) returns to the mountain to enlist the orphaned cubs. Since they're too small to take on the Critters, however, they can only stop the birth by learning to perform abortions. Meanwhile, the evil Critters are searching for an unbaptized human host for the Antichrist. They discover Kyle, who is Jewish, and kidnap him to serve their purpose.
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