Osama Bin Laden Has Farty Pants

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"Osama Bin Laden Has Farty Pants"

Episode no.	74
Airdate	November 7, 2001
South Park - Season 5 June 20, 2001 – December 12, 2001
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"Osama Bin Laden Has Farty Pants" is episode 509 of the Comedy Central series South Park. It originally aired November 7, 2001. It is somewhat notable as the first episode to air after 9/11, as well as the American invasion of Afghanistan; it dealt with the latter and only tangentially made mention of the former.

Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow.

1 Plot
2 Trivia
3 References
4 External links

[edit] Plot

South Park has changed since the events of 9/11: everyone is afraid of terrorists, wear gas masks for fear of anthrax attacks, and Stan's mother simply sits on the couch all day, in an almost catatonic state, watching CNN endlessly, apparently for "about eight weeks." At school, the kids each bring in a dollar in response to President Bush's request for charity to Afghanistan; Stan, Kyle, Cartman and Kenny bring in money and send it to four Afghan kids (who resemble them immensely, except of course that they're Afghan and speak Persian amongst themselves. Kenny's counterpart even has his face covered, minus his eye level), who in response send them a goat in the mail.

The boys realize they cannot keep the goat, and so try to send it back to Afghanistan; but since only American military planes are flying over the country, they can only do it by sneaking the goat aboard a military plane. They sneak into a nearby base, able to do so when the guards mistake the goat for Stevie Nicks there for a USO show; however, the boys wind up on the plane too, and arrive in Afghanistan.

The boys manage to find their Afghan counterparts, who refuse to take back the goat; furthermore, the two groups get into an argument over America (the boys assumed that most Afghans liked America, but the Afghan boys reveal that they don't). After the boys leave to try to get home, they get caught by terrorists and are brought to the hiding place of Osama bin Laden; bin Laden (who is depicted as being completely insane) makes a video tape revealing his hostages, and again the Army mistakes the goat (who's still with the boys) for Stevie Nicks. The Afghan boys, finding out about this, go and rescue the American boys despite their argument; Cartman, however, goes to challenge bin Laden in a struggle of wits, which parodies old cartoons with Cartman as Bugs Bunny.

The American army storms the cave to rescue "Stevie Nicks" and the boys escape, though Kenny and his Afghan counterpart die in the process. The boys wind up getting in yet another fight. Meanwhile, Cartman manages to trick bin Laden into dressing up like Uncle Sam. A bunch of terrorists crowd around to kill him, but they all end up getting killed. Bin Laden is shot by an American soldier. With the Taliban overthrown and bin Laden dead the boys say goodbye to the Afghan kids who, despite a somewhat schmaltzy moment, still hate them.

The troops celebrate their victory with a show by Fleetwood Mac and "Stevie Nicks." Before they leave, the boys pay tribute to America. They know that although it may have problems, it's their home. The episode ends with Stan and Kyle saluting the American flag, saying "Go America," and finishing with "Go Broncos."

[edit] Trivia

All the Afghan characters speak Farsi, one of the official languages of Afghanistan, during non-English dialogue. It is, remarkably for a comedy show, fluent and lacking an accent, but in a dialect more reminiscent of neighboring nation Iran, where it is far more common. ^{[citation needed]}

When Afghan Kenny is killed during the shoot out, the kids exclaim "Ya Allah! Koshtaen Keyvano!" which translates to "Oh Allah, they killed Keyvan!" Keyvan is an accurate Persian/Afghan name.
On the commentary of the episode, Matt Stone states that he hates Stevie Nicks, hence the goat.
The general from South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut appears for the first time since the film in this episode.

[edit] References

The song performed by Fleetwood Mac and the goat at the end of the episode is a parody of the 1982 Stevie Nicks song "Edge of Seventeen."
Cartman parodies the Bugs Bunny cartoons with signs depicting 2 pictures—which, when saying the 2 words together, forms a humorous word or phrase describing the antagonist (Elmer Fudd, bin Laden). His signs describe bin Laden as a "Screw ball,” a "shit head,” a "jack ass,” a "cock sucker,” and "Barbra Streisand." The first one of these (Screwball) is the only one of true Looney Tunes vintage; the rest come from his string of curses at the end of South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut.
The scenes with Cartman and Osama also spoof the various Warner Brothers/Disney cartoons during World War II, wherein the characters interact with animated versions of Nazis as to mock them. Osama's last line ("Terrorists is the CRAZIEST peoplez!") is directly from a Warner Bros. short called "Russian Rhapsody" where Hitler says "Nazis is the CRAZIEST peoplez." [1] [2]