Korn's Groovy Pirate Ghost Mystery
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| "Korn's Groovy Pirate Ghost Mystery" | |
 Cartman with his Antonio Banderas blow-up doll, Kyle as a clown, Stan as cowboy, and Kenny as an ED-209 robot |
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| Episode no. | 41 |
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| Airdate | October 27, 1999 |
| South Park - Season 3 April 7, 1999 – January 12, 2000 |
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"Korn's Groovy Pirate Ghost Mystery" is episode 3.12 (third season, twelfth episode) of Comedy Central's animated series South Park. It originally aired on October 27, 1999.
[edit] Story
The radio station KOZY 102.1 is sponsoring a Halloween Haunt at the docks and the whole town is excited except for Priest Maxi, who believes Halloween is an abomination upon The Lord.
The children as well are excited about Halloween, except for Cartman who begins to celebrate the fact that it is only two months to Christmas. The fifth graders soon play a prank on them and Stan decided to prank them back to retaliate. Before they leave, it seems that Pirate Ghosts are in town.
Meanwhile Korn is driving in their Mystery Machine, in a style reminiscent of Scooby-Doo. As Jonathan plays a game, the bus crashes when the band spies Pirate Ghosts on the road. Cartman is then at home whining about Christmas presents and the rest of the gang come over and tease him, as Mrs. Cartman stands by and laughs after trying to defend him. To get back at the fifth graders, the children decide to dig up Kyle's dead grandmother, Cleo Broflovski, much to his dismay.
After digging up the corpse, they leave it at the harbor, where the corpse is promptly eaten by a stray dog. At the docks, the children meet KoRn, who have been wandering around. Soon, Priest Maxi appears and condemns the band for appearing in town.
The following morning, the grave watchers appear at Mrs. Broflovski's house and report the news that Grandma Cleo's body is missing. The grave watchers then presume that her corpse has been stolen by a necrophiliac. The search for Cleo Broflovski has begun.
Cartman receives a lifesized Blow-Up Antonio Banderas Love Doll with realistic genitalia. Even though it is his mother's, he believes it is his early Christmas present and subsequently elated, he goes to town with it all blown up. The children return to the docks in their costumes, with Kenny wearing an ED-209 robot costume. They find that the corpse is missing and go to KoRn with their findings. KoRn "infers" that the missing body is connected to the appearance of the Pirate Ghosts, and ends up in a minor debate whether the spirits are Pirate Ghosts (pirates who died and became ghosts) or Ghost Pirates (ghosts who became pirates later).
At the town square, the grave watchers are explaining the concept of necrophilia very explicitly until the Pirate Ghosts show up and terrorize the town. It seems that Priest Maxi was right about the holiday.
KoRn and the children go investigate the "Mystery of the Pirate Ghosts and the missing body." After a few mishaps, it is revealed that Priest Maxi was involved with the Pirate Ghosts. The mystery of Cleo Broflovski's missing corpse is solved when the dog regurgitates the body, whole. The Halloween Haunt goes as planned, with KoRn playing "Falling Away from Me", a big contrast to their cheery personality in the episode. The boys get their revenge against the 5th graders while KoRn is playing. Nibblet also punctures Cartman's Antonio Banderas Love Doll, deflating it.
Unfortunately, Kenny's ED-209 costume doesn't win him first prize in the best Halloween Costume Competition. The winner is Wendy Testaburger who is wearing a Chewbacca mask.
[edit] Kenny's Death
During the closing credits, when Kenny is walking away in his robot costume, sulking because his amazing costume didn't win first prize, a tiny Snowspeeder flies in and trips him with a tow cable, as in The Empire Strikes Back. Two more speeders then fly by and finish him off, with rats eating his corpse.
[edit] Trivia
- As with the previous Halloween episode, Spookyfish this episode uses the same opening. It is the last one to do so.
- The delivery man that gives Cartman his Antonio Banderas doll acts and talks in a very similar fashion to the Canadian mailman from Terrance and Phillip in Not Without My Anus. Even his physical appearance is very similar to the mailman in that episode, except that he is animated the way Americans usually are in the show.
| Preceded by "Starvin' Marvin in Space" |
South Park episodes | Followed by "Hooked on Monkey Phonics" |
