“Freak Strike”
South Park episode
Whateva, I do what I want!
Episode no.	Season 6 Episode 82
Written by	Matt Stone Trey Parker
Directed by	Trey Parker
Production no.	601
Original airdate	March 20, 2002
Season 6 episodes
South Park - Season 6 March 6, 2002 – December 11, 2002
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This episode features a completely new opening sequence replacing the “4th Grade” one. It features the boys being made out of construction paper while clips are shown. With Kenny being “dead,” Timmy replaces him and sings his name repeatedly. The new theme is a more country-like version. Butters holds “The Butters Show” sign over the “South Park” sign at the end. This example of a title sequence, from long-running serial drama Another World, was seen from 1966 to 1981, making it one of the longest-running continuous title sequences on television. ... This page is a list of students at the school South Park Elementary. ...

Plot

Seeing an episode of Maury where a girl born with no midsection wins a gift certificate, Kyle, Stan, Cartman and Butters decide to try to get on the show with a faked deformity to win themselves a prize. The group decide that Butters should be the one to go on the show, with balls on his chin, which Cartman called "Chinballalitis". He reluctantly agrees, and two geeks in town make fake balls to put on Butters. Maury is a talk show hosted by Maury Povich. ... Kyle Broflovski is a fictional character in the Emmy-award-winning animated series South Park. ... Stanley Stan Marsh is a fictional character in the animated television series South Park. ... Eric Theodore Cartman, commonly referred to by his family name, Cartman, is one of the four main characters in the animated series South Park (the others being Stan Marsh, Kyle Broflovski, Kenny McCormick). ... Leopold Butters Stotch (voiced by Matt Stone) is a fictional character in the animated television series South Park; his nickname is a play on the word butterscotch. ... A deformity, dysmorphism, or dysmorphic feature is a major difference in the shape of the body a body part, or a body organ (internal or external) compared to the average shape for the part in question. ... Look up testes in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... This article is about the part of the face. ... The word geek is a slang term, noting individuals as a peculiar or otherwise dislikable person, especially one who is perceived to be overly intellectual.[1] Formerly, the term referred to a carnival performer often billed as a wild man whose act usually includes biting the head off a live...

Butters then flies, alone, to New York to appear on the show. In the green room, he meets other variously deformed people, who welcome Butters to their "union" (which ensures that US TV talk shows interview their members regularly). Man with Foot on Head tells him that they hate it when people fake a deformity — for example "Lobster Boy", who simply turned out to be a lobster. When they found out about this, they boiled him alive. Butters nervously agrees that he hates fakers too. New York, New York and NYC redirect here. ... For the music studio, film or online magazine named The Green Room, see The Green Room A green room is a room in a theater, studio, or other public venues for the accommodation of performers or speakers when not required on the stage. ... The Lawrence textile strike (1912), with soldiers surrounding peaceful demonstrators A trade union or labor union is an organization of workers who have banded together to achieve common goals in key areas such as wages, hours, and working conditions, forming a cartel of labour. ... For other uses of terms redirecting here, see US (disambiguation), USA (disambiguation), and United States (disambiguation) Motto In God We Trust(since 1956) (From Many, One; Latin, traditional) Anthem The Star-Spangled Banner Capital Washington, D.C. Largest city New York City National language English (de facto)1 Demonym American... TV redirects here. ... A talk show (U.S.) or chat show (Brit. ... Subfamilies and Genera Neophoberinae Acanthacaris Thymopinae Nephropsis Nephropides Thymops Thymopsis Nephropinae Homarus Nephrops Homarinus Metanephrops Eunephrops Thymopides Clawed lobsters comprise a family (Nephropidae, sometimes also Homaridae) of large marine crustaceans. ...

On the show, Maury introduces Butters as "Napoleon Bonaparte from South Park." Butters tells Maury that the kids at school make fun of him, and wins a trip to the largest miniature golf course in the world. Stan, Kyle and Cartman are watching the show at home, and Cartman is angry that Butters got "their" prize. He calls Maury, and tries to get himself on the show. The operator tells him they aren't currently interviewing people with deformities, but are trying to find "out of control kids" for a future episode. Cartman convinces his mom to take him on that show and lie that he's out of control (which, ironically, he is). Maurice Richard Maury Povich (born January 17, 1939 in Washington, D.C.) is an American TV talk show personality who currently hosts his self-titled talk show Maury which has earned him national recognition due to the paternity tests that are often aired. ... Bonaparte as general Napoleon Bonaparte ( 15 August 1769 – 5 May 1821) was a general of the French Revolution and was the ruler of France as First Consul (Premier Consul) of the French Republic from November 11, 1799 to May 18, 1804, then as Emperor of the French (Empereur des Français... Liane Cartman, originally voiced by the late Mary Kay Bergman and later by Eliza J. Schneider and April Stewart, is the single parent of Eric Cartman on the television program South Park. ...

Butters is grounded by his parents, who say he embarrassed them on national TV and gave his grandmother a mild stroke. Then, the freaks come to Butters' house looking for him — they want him to strike with them, so that they can take back the lime-light that was stolen from them. Fear of being discovered as a faker leads him to reluctantly agree, and he goes on strike with the group (which includes South Park's Nurse Gollum from the episode "Conjoined Fetus Lady" the Thompsons from the episode "How to Eat with Your Butt" and Kevin, Dr. Mephisto’s odd assistant). The term ground (or earth) usually means a common return in circuits. ... For other uses, see Stroke (disambiguation). ... This page is a list of staff at South Park Elementary from the characters on the animated television show, South Park. ... Conjoined Fetus Lady is the 18th episode of Comedy Centrals animated series South Park. ... How to Eat with Your Butt is episode 510 of the Comedy Central series South Park. ... Spoiler warning: Dr. Alphonse Mephisto is a fictional character in the animated television series South Park and is voiced by Trey Parker. ...

Cartman and his mom go on Maury. Seeing a teenage girl named Vanity swear, physically beat her mother and boast about her "out of control" way of life, Cartman dresses up as a slutty girl, to try and "beat" her and win the prize. For everything she says, he makes up an even more outrageous story. During this sequence, he says "Whateva! I do what I want!" Then a four month old baby girl named Chantel who takes her clothes off in front of everybody comes onstage. While it is clear this is not "out of control", as Chantel is just a baby and unaware of what she's doing, she is frowned upon by her mother (and the audience) who believe she is out of control.

At this moment the deformed-people's union hijacks the TV studio's video screen, and broadcast a plea to the audience. They say that they are the "real" freaks, and they should not lose their means of employment to people who are only freaks because they are stupid. The union members, featuring Butters, sing a song about looking for the "True Freak Label" on talk shows, and most of the audience agrees and leave the studio. Cartman is irate that Butters, again, ruined his chance to win a prize. He runs outside and rips the fake balls off of Butters' chin. But the union chase Cartman, who "ripped poor Napoleon's balls right off his chin!", so Butters thinks things might not turn out so badly for him. But at this moment his parents arrive in a taxi, and he knows he's in trouble again. For specific countries see Taxicabs around the world. ...

Continuity

Among the crowd at the Freak Strike is Nurse Gollum, the nurse at South Park Elementary who featured prominently in the episode "Conjoined Fetus Lady." Nurse Gollum is a fictional character in the animated series South Park. ... Conjoined Fetus Lady is the 18th episode of Comedy Centrals animated series South Park. ...

References to Popular Culture

• The largest influence for this episode was the movie Freaks.
• The Geeks who make Butter's fake balls are a parody of The Lone Gunmen originally of The X-Files. They also appeared in the episode "4th Grade".
• The scene where a man tells Maury that “the ratings have just started to plummet” is a play on the original Star Trek series, where crew members often viewed computer displays in such a way. The man also bears an uncanny resemblance to Leonard Nimoy.
• When Cartman appears on Maury and is arguing with the other out-of-control child about who’s badder, he states he "ran for Congress, won, and then had sex with an intern, killed her, and hid her body." This is a reference to the Gary Condit scandal.
• When Cartman is trying to convince his mother to go on the Maury Povich show with him, he says "I have such a pretty mother, such a wonderful mother..." These quotes and this tone were often used by Rhoda, the sadistic little girl in The Bad Seed to win favor from her mother.
• The "True Freak Label" video sabotage that the freaks make Butters star in is a shot-by-shot parody of the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union commercial from the 70s, which showed the workers singing a song known as "Look for the Union Label." According to the episode commentary, Parker and Stone were reminded of the commercial when viewing a bootlegged version of the Star Wars Holiday Special, which retained the commercial.
• Vanity's line "You ain't bad! You ain't nothing!" comes from the full-length music video of Michael Jackson's "Bad."
• While waiting in the green room on Maury, Butters is told a story about a fake "lobster boy", who turned out to be a real lobster. This may be a reference to an incident at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, where a performance arts student William Kofmehl was given a semester-long stipend to live on campus dressed in a lobster suit while living in a self-made shack and remaining mute to the outside world. After a month, the student's shack was destroyed by an on-campus fraternity, leading to worldwide notice.