Chef's Chocolate Salty Balls

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“Chef's Chocolate Salty Balls”
Episode no.	Season 2 Episode 22
Production no.	209
Original airdate	August 19, 1998
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South Park - Season 2 April 1998 - January 1999
Terrance and Phillip in Not Without My Anus Cartman's Mom is Still a Dirty Slut Chickenlover Ike's Wee Wee Conjoined Fetus Lady The Mexican Staring Frog of Southern Sri Lanka City on the Edge of Forever Summer Sucks Chef's Chocolate Salty Balls Chickenpox Roger Ebert Should Lay Off the Fatty Foods Clubhouses Cow Days Chef Aid Spookyfish Merry Christmas Charlie Manson! Gnomes Prehistoric Ice Man
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"Chef's Chocolate Salty Balls" is the ninth episode of the second season of South Park

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[edit] Synopsis

The Sundance Film Festival is moved to town and it badly affects Mr. Hankey. Chef tries his luck with his new food.

[edit] Plot

Park City, Utah - home of the Sundance Film Festival. The once quiet town is now a bustling tourist attraction. Robert Redford decides that the festival needs to be moved. They choose South Park.

Upon hearing this Mr. Garrison gets all the class to go see an independent film and to write a paper on it.

The festival is in full swing, but to Kyle's dismay, Mr. Hankey is being badly affected by the overload of sewage entering his home; the sewer.

The boys visit Mr. Hankey in the sewer and he explains to them about the delicate ecosystem of the sewer that is being corrupted, much like the town is.

Above, the town is beginning to tire of the festival, but they soon discover that this was Robert Redford's intention. Chef realizes selling his recipes have also helped ruin the town.

Kyle shows Mr. Hankey to the people in charge of the festival, but believe that it is a movie idea. Cartman begins selling Mr. Hankey t-shirts and makes a small profit.

Mr. Hankey begins to die, and is took to hospital. Kyle asks if he will go to Heaven but Chef hopes not, but tells Kyle he will. He gives him a Chocolate Salty Ball from his stall, and Mr. Hankey is revived. They then approach Robert Redgrave who throws Mr. Hankey at a wall. Chef gives him another Chocolate Salty Ball and he comes back to life.

Mr. Hankey then puts on a wizard hat and creates a tornado of sewage that begins to kill all the people from the film festival. Robert Regrave drowns in the sewage and the town is saved. Only problem is that it's covered in sewage.

Wendy who had been trying to get Stan to see films with her apologizes to him.

[edit] Trivia

• This episode was the last to feature the town as a backdrop in the closing credits. From Chickenpox onwards the credits are played over a black screen. This stays in the same way until the season ten episode Smug Alert!.
• This is the only time Mr. Hankey is seen when it is not Christmas.
• When Kenny is trampled the lines are changed and are spoken by two people:
  • Oh my God I found a penny!
  • You bastard!
• Mr. Hankey's near-death and the following sequence is a parody of a similar scene in the Rankin/Bass Frosty the Snowman Christmas special.
• Mr. Hankey summoning the sewage while wearing a wizard's cap is a parody of "The Sorceror's Apprentice" from Fantasia.
• There are many sexual references concerning Chef and his Chocolate Salty Balls.

Preceded by: "Summer Sucks "

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Followed by: " Chickenpox"