"World Wide Recorder Concert" | |
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South Park episode | |
Episode no. | Season 3 Episode 17 |
Directed by | Eric Stough |
Written by | Trey Parker |
Production code | 317 |
Original air date | January 12, 2000 |
"World Wide Recorder Concert" (also referred to as "The Brown Noise") is the 17th and final episode of season 3 in the Comedy Central series South Park. It was originally broadcast on January 12, 2000.
Four million children, including those from Mr. Garrison's class, are scheduled to play "My Country, 'Tis of Thee" at the televised Worldwide Recorder Concert in Oklahoma City led by Yoko Ono and Kenny G, but a flood caused the concert to be relocated to Little Rock, Mr. Garrison's hometown. This causes him considerable anxiety (as he confesses to Mr. Mackey) for he had "sexual molestation issues" with his father in the past.
In Arkansas, the boys encounter a hostile group of kids from New York City, also there for the concert, who call them "queefs". At first, the boys do not understand what queef means; assuming the New York kids had made the word up, the boys try to get back at them by making up their own word: mung, which as it turns out, is a real word meaning "the stuff that comes out when you push down on a pregnant woman's stomach." Even the other South Park kids know this word, leading to the four being jeered by both the New Yorkers and their own classmates. The boys want to find a way to get back at them, and when Cartman succeeds in his efforts to discover the legendary "brown noise", a sound made with the recorder that causes the listener to lose control of their bowels and "crap their pants", the boys plan to trick the New York kids into playing it. However, by accident, the altered sheet music for the concert is discovered by the organizer of the concert and is photocopied and redistributed to everyone.