Jewbilee
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| "Jewbilee" | |
 Moses at Jewbilee. |
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| Episode no. | 40 |
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| Airdate | July 28, 1999 |
| South Park - Season 3 April 7, 1999 – January 12, 2000 |
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"Jewbilee" is the third and final part of the Meteor Shower story arc and episode 309 of Comedy Central's animated series South Park. It originally aired on July 28, 1999.
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[edit] Plot
Sheila and Gerald Broflovski are getting ready to go to Mr. Mackey's meteor shower party. While preparing to leave, Kyle and his brother Ike are preparing to go to Jewbilee camp: a Boy Scout-esque camp for Jewish boys. When Kenny arrives at Kyle's house to hang out, Kyle explains to Kenny that because he is not Jewish he might not be accepted at Jewbilee. Kenny doesn't care and asks the Broflovskis if he can go. They then grant Kenny permission and explain to him the basic tenets of Judaism on the car ride to Jewbilee. After dropping the boys off at Jewbilee, Sheila & Gerald leave for Mr. Mackey's party.
Kenny then becomes initiated even though not being Jewish and Ike is assigned to go with the other tots to the Squirts camp, which is a Cub Scout camp. After the initiation ceremonies, the boys make soap sculptures to honor their prophet Moses (who appears as a likeness to the Master Control Program from the movie Tron) who demands arts-and-crafts-like things. Kenny is then identified as not being Jewish and is banished from the camp. He saves the day, however, when he prevents Garth, the anti-Semitic Jew, from stealing Moses' spirit and summoning Haman. As the ultimate sacrifice, Kenny gives his own life to release Moses from a conch shell, so that Moses can live.
[edit] "Judaisms"
- The episode's depiction of Judaism has almost nothing to do with actual Jewish beliefs or practices, except in a very superficial way. In fact, much of what the writers include in the episode is based on various anti-semitic claims that have been made since the destruction of the Second Temple (including the supposed secretive nature of Jews; the worship of Moses rather than God; and the strange, almost pagan rituals).
- Like Moses, Haman is actually a non-supernatural character from Hebrew Scripture. He is a normal human being and appears in the Book of Esther as a counsellor to the Persian king, plotting to have all Jews in the empire killed; as a result he features prominently in the Jewish festival of Purim. In the episode however, he is depicted as a shadowy, Cthulhu-esque entity with glowing red eyes and tentacles.
- Garth the anti-semitic Jewish elder is a reference to the "Self-hating Jew" stereotype.
- Jewbilee is a reference to both the Biblical Jubilee and jamboree.
- During the induction ceremony, the Elder doing the inducting (and the inductee, immediately following) says the real Hebrew word להתקים - l'hitkayem (literally meaning "to exist") just before the bell overtop of the inductee's head is struck.
[edit] Kenny's Death
Sacrifices himself to save the Jews by breaking his skull over the "Conch Shell of Blind Faith" that Moses is imprisoned in, thus cracking it and releasing Moses.
[edit] Connection to Other "Meteor Shower" Episodes
- When Kenny is trying to hitchhike home, the ATF and a couple of police cars are on their way to Mr. Mackey's house, where they think a cult is residing. This is explained in the previous episode.
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| Preceded by "Two Guys Naked in a Hot Tub" |
South Park episodes | Followed by "Chinpokomon" |
