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Something You Can Do with Your Finger

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South Park episode
“Things You Can Do with Your Finger”

Randy with the boys (and Wendy)!!!
Episode no. Season 4
Episode 9
Production no. 409
Original airdate July 12th, 2000
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"Things You Can Do with Your Finger" is episode 56 of the Comedy Central series South Park. It originally aired on July 12, 2000.

Contents

[edit] Plot

After having a dream in which he, Stan, Kyle, and Kenny are part of a successful boy band, Cartman decides to make this dream a reality - in hopes of gaining US$10,000,000 from it. He gets Stan, Kyle, and Kenny together and they have other kids try out as a fifth member. Wendy is the best one they could find, and she agrees to dress like a boy. Cartman calls their group “Fingerbang”, after a phrase he believes to mean when you use your hand and pretend it’s a gun (though Kenny reveals the true meaning of the word to them, which Cartman cites as sick: "Who the hell would do that?! Grow up, will you Kenny?"). They then attempt to get a gig at the mall, but two security guards mistake them for juvenile delinquents, and give them trouble for it.

When he hears about the boy band Stan is now a member of, Randy freaks out and inexplicably orders him to quit it. Later, he explains that back in the 1980’s, he joined a boy band, and consequently dumped his friends and family, and dropped out of school. The band was successful for a few years, and made millions of dollars, until the owner decided that the members were getting too old to be in a boy band, and had them replaced. He then suffered heavy debt, and was forced to sell everything he owned in order to return home, and had to use what little money he had left resuming his education.

After a while, he decides that Stan can only learn by making his own mistakes, and allows Stan to play in the band. The gig is late, and under threat of being canceled, so they rush over to the mall. Though they make it there in time, Kenny gets crushed to death by an elevator, and the band seems doomed without five members. Then Randy steps in and replaces Kenny. After performing the song, for whatever reason, they decide the “fame” they receive is too much, and the band goes on a hiatus. Or rather, retires altogether.

[edit] Censorship

  • In syndication, the shot of Cartman's mom urinating in the cup during the Porno clip of the bondage movie that was on Cartman's audition tape is removed.
  • The syndicated version leaves in Wendy Testaburger's audition song, but mutes out the first part of "cunt-taminated water" with a loud, piano chord sound effect.
  • The word "fuck" in Wendy's solo is bleeped out.

[edit] Kenny's Death

Kenny is killed after being crushed by a mall lift/elevator. Knowing that Fingerbang can't go on without a fifth member, Randy replaces him.

[edit] Notes

  • The mall manager is played by Marcus Vaughn who is a friend of Trey Parker and Matt Stone and appeared in Parker's film Orgazmo as a "stunt cock".
  • In this episode's commentary, the creators remarked this was the first episode where they really started to use the method of "straight-storytelling." Before this, almost all episodes had A-stories, B-stories, C-stories, etc. that would all come together in the end. In this episode, the creators said they learned that an episode can be about just one thing, with character's side stories all reacting to the main idea.
  • Randy's fit of rage, ending in him smashing the glass doors of the living room cabinet and shouting "No! Nooo!!" is very similar to a scene in Star Trek: First Contact, where Captain Picard does the same. In fact, Randy's voice changes from Parker's to a sampling of Patrick Stewart's voice from the film.
  • During the audition scene, the piano accompanist is a character Schroeder from the comic strip and cartoon Peanuts.
  • While it had been long established among the main characters that Kyle is Jewish, this is the first episode where Cartman criticizes him over it.

[edit] Goofs

  • During Cartman's first dream of Fingerbang's fame a girl with reddish orange hair and pigtails is duplicated throughout the crowd.
  • During Cartman's dream, right after Cartman's solo, Stan and Kyle both say "bang bang" but the voice heard is that of Cartman.
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