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HBC Network is a fictional Television broadcast channel on South Park. It is first mentioned in "Cartman's Mom is a Dirty Slut" with the HBC Movie of the Week, "Terrance and Phillip in Not Without My Anus", which became a full episode at the beginning of the second season.

Background[]

In "It Hits the Fan", the network airs the curse word "shit" on the show Cop Drama. This became so successful that the channel finds other uses for the word and puts it in all of the programming. A controversy among the townsfolk erupts with so many people using the word, that it has lost its ability to shock which rekindled an ancient curse. This curse caused people who use the word to throw up their intestines and die. The Knights of Standards and Practices are awakened in order to stop HBC from using the word shit, as repeated use will awake a dragon named Geldon. However, they fail to convince the network, resulting in Geldon being awakened and the knights having to slay the dragon live during HBC's Night of a Thousand Shits.

In "The New Terrance and Phillip Movie Trailer", the boys are trying to watch HBC for the new Terrance and Phillip movie trailer to come on. They have to sit through Russell Crowe Fightin' Around The World. They keep getting interrupted and have to move from house to house trying not to miss the commercial.

In "The Biggest Douche in the Universe", HBC hosts John Edward's psychic show in their studio in New York. And its president asks Stan to open his own talking-to-dead show.

In "South Park is Gay!", a show called Queer Eye for the Straight Guy is broadcast on the network, which causes all of the men and boys to adopt the "metrosexual" fashion and feminine mannerisms. Although the women do not mind at first, it soon becomes a burden for them. The real homosexuals of South Park; Herbert Garrison and Mr. Slave travel to New York City where the show is broadcast in order to kill the hosts of the show for selling out their culture. What they discover is that they are not real people, they are Crab People.

In "Best Friends Forever", HBC news ran news beat on the fate of Kenny McCormick's life or death debate, for persons in a persistent vegetative state.

"Today on Today" is a morning news program seen in "The Tale of Scrotie McBoogerballs", where they interview the author of the book of the same name. The book was written by the boys but Butters takes the credit for it so they would not be in trouble for writing it. The book becomes a hit after being published in 26 languages.

In "Member Berries", Today Show host Matt Lauer serves as the host of HBC News' "Commander-In-Chief Forum". He proceeds to ask the Republican nominee, Giant Douche if he has any viable plans if he were to win the election besides his promise to "Fuck them all to death!". He tries to blame his opponent, Turd Sandwich, and claim that he never said that before Matt shows a collection of clips with him saying those exact words.

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Trivia[]

  • In its debut episode, it was a parody of HBO.
  • The network is most likely a parody of U.S. broadcaster National Broadcasting Company (NBC). Besides sharing similar initials, some other shared elements:
    • The Today Show is a real morning show aired on NBC.
    • The turtle with a multi-colored shell that serves as the logo for HBC in episodes like "It Hits the Fan" "The Biggest Douche in the Universe" is similar to NBC's peacock logo.
    • The "Night of a Thousand Shits" is a parody of "Night of a Thousand Laughs", a promotion used by NBC in 1989 and 1990 to promote a night featuring several of their popular comedies together for one night only.
    • The "Must Shit TV" is a parody of "Must See TV", a promotional slogan used by NBC since 1993 to advertise its Thursday night programming. The Commander-In-Chief Forum on HBC News featuring Today Show host Matt Lauer interviewing Giant Douche is based on NBC News Commander-In-Chief Forum, which Lauer hosted and had then-Republican presidential nominee, Donald Trump interviewed.
    • In real life, Queer Eye for the Straight Guy aired on the cable network, Bravo, which is owned by NBCUniversal.
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