Kenny Dies
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| "Kenny Dies" | |
 Kenny is dying? |
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| Episode no. | 513 |
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| Airdate | December 5, 2001 |
| South Park - Season 5 June 20, 2001 – December 12, 2001 |
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"Kenny Dies" is episode 513 of the Comedy Central series South Park. It originally aired on December 5, 2001. Notably, the gag of Kenny dying in almost every episode was dropped after this episode, and he did not reappear until Red Sleigh Down (617). This is also the first known episode where Kenny's actual death is taken seriously.
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[edit] Plot
The episode begins in an abortion clinic with a woman giving her permission for scientists to use her unborn child for stem cell research. The truck transporting the fetuses from the clinic to a research facility is destroyed in an accident, however, and its cargo is noticed, and subsequently stolen by passerby Cartman (who was riding his Big Wheel and singing Sheena Easton's "Morning Train (9 to 5)"), who intends to resell the fetuses for a tremendous profit. To his dismay, the government puts a ban on stem cell research immediately afterward. Meanwhile, Kenny is diagnosed with muscular dystrophy, and his friends and family are told that he will probably die. The boys are shocked and saddened by the news but do everything they can to support him and keep him company during his stay in the hospital - all but Stan, who cannot bear to see Kenny dying and refuses to visit him.
Stan can't take it and runs off while visiting Kenny but is confronted by Kyle. Cartman, in the meantime, had himself educated by a researcher on how stem cells actually work, learns that they might be used to help Kenny, and gives a speech to the House of Representatives on behalf of stem cell research. He succeeds in getting the ban lifted by singing Heat of the Moment by Asia and begins visiting abortion clinics around the area to collect more aborted fetuses.
Stan, with the supporting words of Chef, finally gets up the courage to come visit Kenny in the hospital, only to find out that Kenny has died. On hearing that Kenny's last words were "Where's Stan?", he accuses himself of being Kenny's worst friend. During the funeral, Cartman bursts in and drags Stan and Kyle away to Shakey's Pizza to show them how he has manipulated the stem cells from his aborted fetuses into building his very own Shakey's Pizza. Kyle promptly beats up Cartman, because Cartman had pretended to take Kenny's death seriously and Kyle had hugged and comforted him, and Stan is relieved that he isn't Kenny's worst friend after all.
[edit] Trivia
- This episode is one of the few episodes in which Kenny's friends mourn his death. In many previous episodes, they didn't care because he kept coming back. In this episode, however, they were somehow able to tell his death would be more permanent.
[edit] Goofs
- When the woman is at the abortion clinic signing the papers, the blanket over her is the same color as her clothes rather then white like shown before and after.
- In the scene when Stan is sulking while setting cow manure on fire, Chef arrives to comfort him. As the camera pans to show Chef, a piece of cow manure appears out of nowhere in the bottom right hand corner of the screen.
- The American flag is hung incorrectly when Cartman addresses the US House of Representatives.
[edit] See also
| Preceded by "Here Comes the Neighborhood" |
South Park episodes | Followed by "Butters' Very Own Episode" |
