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Plot

Butters' Very Own Episode begins with his own theme, and Butters is excited because his parents' anniversary is coming up, and the whole family is going to Bennigan's to celebrate. A few days before this event, Butters' mom asks him to go and spy on his father, to find out what gift he was buying her. However, Butters (without understanding what he was seeing) finds his father going into a gay movie theater and bath house to have casual sex with men. He blithely reports back what he finds (complete with photographic evidence) to his mother, who goes completely insane. Butters follows his dad the next night to the bath house, only to find him lying on a bed masturbating, and also sees Mr. Slave have sex with an unknown man. At home that night, Mr. Stotch advises Butters not to tell what he's seen, saying it's okay to tell a little white lie if it keeps people from getting hurt. Butters responds that that won't be an issue, as he has already spilled the beans to his mother, which in turn alarms Mr. Stotch. This article does not cite any references or sources. ... Bennigans Grill & Tavern, commonly known as Bennigans is an Irish pub-themed casual dining restaurant chain with locations throughout the United States. ... Homosexuality refers to sexual interaction and / or romantic attraction between individuals of the same sex. ... A typical multiplex (AMC Promenade 16 in Woodland Hills, Los Angeles, United States). ... Gay bathhouses, also known as (gay) saunas or steam baths (and sometimes called, in gay slang in some regions, the baths or the tubs), are places where men can go to have sex with other men (note that not all men who visit gay bathhouses consider themselves gay). Bathhouses for... Inmates at Bedlam Asylum, as portrayed by William Hogarth Insanity, or madness, is a semi-permanent, severe mental disorder typically stemming from a form of mental illness. ... Mr. ...

At that moment Mrs. Stotch (who has decided to kill herself) enters the room and dully announces that she will be taking Butters for a car ride; Mr. Stotch, she states, will be staying home alone so he can think about what he has done. Mr. Stotch is concerned, but momentarily at a loss for words. It is revealed that Butters' mom intends to kill him so that he won't be left without a mother, but Butters is once more oblivious to her motivations and proceeds to confide in her about difficulties he has been having at school. She sends her car with Butters in it into the river, expecting him to drown, and then returns to their house to hang herself. Butters assumes that the incident with the car was an accident, and when his car is washed ashore, he tries to go back home so that their anniversary won't be ruined and they will still be able to go to Bennigan's.

Meanwhile, Mr. Stotch walks in on his wife writing her suicide note, and prevents her from taking her own life. He admits to his affairs, explaining that his fascination with homosexuality grew out of experimentation on the Internet, and likens it to an addiction and a sickness. Butters' father refuses to take responsibility for his actions instead, blaming the Internet itself for everything that had transpired. Mr. Stotch insists that he still loves his wife and wants to save their family, but upon finding out that Butters is "dead", he agrees to help cover up the deed and the two concoct a story about Butters being abducted by "some Puerto Rican guy." A suicide note is a message left by someone who later attempts or commits suicide. ...

As the media centers in on the "missing child" case, the pair are inducted into a "club" of people whose loved ones have taken from them by "Some Puerto Rican Guy", including Gary Condit, O.J. Simpson, and the Ramseys. Butters reappears in the end and, when his parents begin fighting over which version of their story he must tell, he scolds them for lying and trying to teach him to lie as well. Agreeing with their son, the two go before the press and reveal everything that has happened; the father's homosexuality and affairs, the mother's attempted murder, and the whole cover-up, and it is only at this point that Butters realizes what actually happened, and is visibly disturbed. This is followed by a lengthy scene in which Butters' father repeatedly screams about "slimy scumbag liars" and "murdering murderers" while the camera cuts to the blank but smiling faces of Condit, Simpson, and the Ramseys. Butters, having been completely ignorant of the truth, is aghast and deeply traumatized. When Stan, Kyle and Cartman look at him in shock, he attempts to respond with a joke. He then explains to the boys that, while the knowledge of what really transpired is horrible and his faith in the inherent goodness of truth is shaken, he's certain a delicious meal at Bennigan's will get him feeling back to normal: "I'm gonna be ok!" The boys are stunned and Stan asks "Really?" to which Butters sadly replies "No, I'm lying." Gary Adrian Condit (born April 21, 1948) is an American politician, a Blue Dog Democrat who served in the House of Representatives from 1989 to 2003. ... Orenthal James Simpson (born July 9, 1947), commonly known as O. J. Simpson and also just by his initials O.J. and his nickname The Juice, is a retired American football player who achieved stardom at the collegiate and professional levels. ... JonBenét Patricia Ramsey (August 6, 1990 – December 26, 1996) was a six-year-old girl known for her participation in beauty pageants in the United States. ... Popular press redirects here; note that the University of Wisconsin Press publishes under the imprint The Popular Press. Mass media is a term used to denote a section of the media specifically envisioned and designed to reach a very large audience such as the population of a nation state. ...

He then leaves to join his family at Bennigan's.

Development of Butters

This episode is perhaps most notable for marking the point where Butters became a popular and important character. Before this, he had been little more than a supporting character. With Kenny dead (having died “permanently” in the previous episode), a spot had been opened, temporarily at least, for a new main character, a role Butters held until “Professor Chaos” the following season. In DVD commentary, Parker and Stone indicate they already planned to make Butters the fourth group member, and created this episode as a prelude to him assuming a more prominent role in the series. He still remains a major character today, appearing in large roles in many episodes even after Kenny was resurrected. Professor Chaos is episode 606 of the Comedy Central series South Park. ...

Trivia

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• If you look closely at the newspaper Mr. Stotch is reading you will notice the headline "Towelie ban lifted" a reference to the earlier episodes Towelie and Osama Bin Laden Has Farty Pants
• The theme song "Everyone Knows It's Butters" is sung to the same tune as The Association's 1967 hit "Windy".

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References to pop culture

• The scene at the restaurant, where Simpson, the Ramseys, and Condit start chanting, “One of us! One of us! Gooble gobble! Gooble gobble!”, is a homage to the famous scene in the 1932 horror film, Freaks.
• The events of the episode parallel the well-publicized case of Susan Smith.
• Butters encounters the three laser dots of an unseen Predator that watches him with infared vision on the creepy road to South Park.
• The old man that tells Butters how to walk back to South Park is based on Jud Crandall from Pet Sematary. He also appears in the episodes "Asspen" and "Marjorine".
• When Butters is in the gay bathhouse you hear the song It Feels So Good by Sonique.
• When Butters and his mother are in the car by the lake, the radio plays Jingle Bell Rock by Bobby Helms.

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