How to Eat with Your Butt
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"How to Eat with Your Butt" is episode 510 of the Comedy Central series South Park. It originally aired on November 14, 2001.
Plot
The episode begins with the South Park children having their class pictures taken; it is here that we first see Stan and Kyle without their hats (and with a full head of hair, rather than shaved, as in "Super Best Friends"). We see that Kyle has a red "Jewfro." During the course of this, Kenny wears his parka backwards so that his "ass shows through his hood."Ms. Choksondik says that one boy spoiled their photo and will not get it back. However, the photo is of Butters, who made a normal face, and not Kenny. His parents ground him for making silly faces, and are convinced that his normal face is a silly face.
To compound this trick, Cartman then turns in Kenny's photo to a missing children's center, which places it on a milk carton. Cartman's description of him includes that he has a "brown eye", "blonde hair", and "rosy cheeks."
Astoundingly enough, the photo draws a response from a couple, Martha and Stephen Thompson, who lost their son some years earlier. They suffer from a fictitious congenital condition known as "torsonic polarity syndrome" or "TPS" which has them born with their faces replaced with human buttocks. With the syndrome, however, they still retain all normal functionality of their faces (including noses, eyes, etc.).
When the Thompsons appear looking at Cartman's house for Kenny, he is stunned and can no longer laugh, believing he has seen something so incredibly funny, that nothing else will ever be able to make him laugh again.
When he later starts to laugh again, Stan and Kyle decide that he couldn't laugh before because he actually felt guilty for making the Thompsons believe their son had been found.
Trivia
- Mr. and Mrs. Thompson's "real" son is Ben Affleck who also suffers from TPS.
- Due to the episode's title, this episode is often confused for "Red Hot Catholic Love", where the people of South Park literally begin to eat with their butts.
- This is one of the first of the few times that Stan and Kyle are visible without their hats.
- Mr. and Mrs. Thompson say that their son disappeared in 1982 when he was six, placing his birthdate in 1975 at the earliest. Affleck, however, was born in 1972.
Kenny's Death
After finding out Ben Affleck was the son of the people with TPS, Cartman makes joke about calling him "Ben Assfleck", he gets his sense of humor back. He tells Kenny to come home with him, and while they are crossing the street, Kenny is hit by a motorcycle and Cartman laughs again (actually there was a news report earlier in the episode about people being run over by motorcycles).
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