Mr. Hankey's Christmas Classics
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Both a South Park episode (315) and a CD, "Mr. Hankey's Christmas Classics" is a collection of comic holiday songs featuring the characters of South Park.
The Episode
The episode version of "Mr. Hankey's Christmas Classics" is episode 315 of South Park, and originally aired December 1, 1999. It features Mr. Hankey, the lovable Christmas feces, as the host; he sits by the fire in his sewer home and introduces shorts featuring very unusual Christmas carols. The episode was dedicated to Mary Kay Bergman, the voice of most of the female characters on the show, who committed suicide earlier in 1999.The list of songs from the episode is as follows:
- Mr. Hankey The Christmas Poo
- O Tannenbaum *
- Christmas Time In Hell *
- Carol of the Bells
- O Holy Night
- Merry Fucking Christmas
- I Saw Three Ships
- Let It Snow (and other songs)
- Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas **
The CD
The CD, which was the basis for the episode, features more songs than the show. They are as follows:
- Mr. Hankey The Christmas Poo
- Merry Fucking Christmas
- O Holy Night
- Dead, Dead, Dead
- Carol of the Bells
- The Lonely Jew On Christmas
- I Saw Three Ships
- It Happened In Sun Valley
- O Tannenbaum *
- Christmas Time In Hell *
- What The Hell Child Is This?
- Santa Claus Is On His Way
- Swiss Colony Beef Log
- Hark, The Herald Angels Sing
- Dreidel, Dreidel, Dreidel
- The Most Offensive Song Ever
- We Three Kings
- Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas **
Footnotes
- Though listed separately, "O Tannenbaum" and "Christmas Time in Hell" are basically two parts of one song.
- "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas" is the only un-altered song, and is sung by the entire "cast" in tribute to Mary Kay Bergman. During the lyric "Faithful friends who are dear to us," clips of most of the characters that Bergman voiced are shown in a white haze.
- 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 a local news station 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 feature a man dressed as a newscaster boxing a man in a giant fuzzy suit.
- After seeing this episode, Courteney Cox Arquette saw the creators eating in a restaurant and approached them, thanking them for "mentioning her in that episode" (referring to Mr. Broflovski's line in "Dreidel, Dreidel, Dreidel").
- While most of the songs are featured on the CD, the only song not featured on the CD but on the episode is the duet between Jesus and Santa, which was going to be on the CD, but some of the songs couldn't be legally cleared in time.
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