Mr. Hankey's Christmas Classics
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| “Mr. Hankey's Christmas Classics” | |||||||
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| Episode no. | Season 3 Episode 46 | ||||||
| Original airdate | December 1st, 1999 | ||||||
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| South Park - Season 3 April 1999 - January 2000 | |||||||
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Mr. Hankey's Christmas Classics is the 15th episode of the third season of South Park. An album with the same name was released in tandem with this episode.
[edit] Synopsis
Mailman Timmy sings "Mr. Hankey, the Christmas Poo with a chorus of South Park residents, followed by an introduction by Mr. Hankey sitting in an armchair by the fire in his sewer home. He tells the audience all about what's coming up in the episode, and explains that this is going to be a collection of songs dedicated to Christmas and other winter holidays.
Kyle is trying to teach Ike how to play with a dreidel, and sings "Dreidel, Dreidel, Dreidel". Stan and Cartman join in and sing their own verses of the song, followed by a verse by Sheila Broflovski. Gerald Broflovski adds the last verse, which is about how he thinks Courteney Cox is hot. Finally, they all sing the song together.
Adolf Hitler is seen kneeling beside an empty tree support. He is singing "O Tannenbaum", and crying, as he remembers all his years with Christmas trees. Satan happens by and, realizing that Hitler's sad because there's no tree, sings the song, "Christmas Time in Hell".
Mr. Mackey, dressed as a bell, sings all four parts of "Carol of the Bells" himself.
We then see Cartman, dressed in formal wear, in the town of Bethelhem. He sings "O Holy Night", but changes some of the lyrics to be about how he loves to receive presents.
Mr. Garrison is seen in class, singing "Merry Fucking Christmas" to the kids about the countries in which they don't celebrate Christmas, and how he goes into these countries every year and forces them into celebrating.
Shelley sings "I Saw Three Ships", while Stan and Kyle laugh at poke fun at her behind her back. She keeps warning them, and telling them to shut up, but they persist, and she finally takes the piano she was playing and drops it on them.
Santa Claus and Jesus are then seen on a stage singing a Christmas Medley. Jesus wants to sing carols about himself, while Santa also wants to sing songs about himself. They finally get into a medley of songs, each competing with the other over the song topics.
We then end with Mr. Hankey, and the entire cast of the episode singing "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas".
The episode ends with the anchorman "fighting the frizzies."
[edit] Kenny's Death
During the final song, Kenny is crushed by the chandelier that was decorated by Kyle and Stan earlier.
[edit] Trivia
- "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas" is the only unaltered song, and is sung by the entire cast in tribute to Mary Kay Bergman. During the lyric "Happy golden days of yore," clips of most of the characters that Bergman voiced (Wendy Testaburger, Sheila Broflovski, Mayor McDaniels, Mrs. Crabtree, and Liane Cartman) are shown in a white haze.
- Although Hooked on Monkey Phonics was the last episode to feature new recorded lines from Mary Kay Bergman, this episode is the last to feature her voice being that the album the songs in this episode come from was recorded well before Bergman's death.
- Before and after every commercial break, a live action segment featuring a news anchor is shown, saying "Fighting the frizzies, at eleven." This is a reference to a bootleg tape of The Star Wars Holiday Special which is the source for most of the bootlegs currently available online. The original tape featured a brief clip at the end from WCBS-TV featuring a newscaster informing viewers, "Fighting the frizzies, at eleven." As a novelty, those who reproduce the tape for others have customarily left this unusual clip intact, rather than editing it out. However, while the original news ad was apparently referring to "frizzy" hair, the ending credits of this episode of South Park features the news anchor boxing a man in a giant fuzzy suit.
- After seeing this episode, Courteney Cox thanked them for "mentioning her in that episode" (referring to Mr. Broflovski's line in "Dreidel, Dreidel, Dreidel") at a dinner for a mutual friend.
- While most of the songs are featured on the CD, the only song not featured from the episode is Jesus and Santa's Christmas Medley. It was going to be on the CD, but some of the songs couldn't be legally cleared in time.
- In Mr. Hankey, the Christmas Poo the title song was slightly different. In that episode the line So therefore vicariously he loves you was Even if you're a Jew
- Mr Hankey is said to live in the sewars but is living in a pink christmas house so every christmas he comes up that toilet
| Preceded by: "The Red Badge of Gayness" | South Park episodes | Followed by: "Are You There God? It's Me, Jesus" |
