Skank Hunt
Skank Hunt
Season | s20 |
Episode | e02 |
Written By | Trey Parker |
Production Code | 2002 |
Original Air Date | 2016-09-21 |
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Official Description
The trolling on Twitter continues. The students of South Park Elementary have to deal with a painful loss. The boys decide they have to take down Cartman but meanwhile, Skankhunt42 manages to keep his identity as a troll a secret while he takes his on-line abuse global.
Full Description
The faculty at South Park Elementary holds a parents-only meeting, discussing the recent activity of an Internet troll named Skankhunt42 who harasses people on the school's student message boards and elsewhere on the Internet. The parents are implored to investigate the question of whether if one of their children might be the troll, unaware that Skankhunt42 is actually Gerald Broflovski.
Heidi Turner becomes depressed and deletes her Twitter profile, throwing her phone off a bridge. The entire school is devastated, and treat the situation as if Heidi committed suicide. The classmates and Mr. Mackey have a "funeral" during which they pay tribute to her on Twitter, despite her presence among them. Later, Scott Malkinson is convinced to "end it all" by deleting his Twitter. Mr. Mackey is forced to calm him down, only to have Scott come to him minutes later complaining about the same thing. This recurs to the point where Scott calls Mr. Mackey in the middle of the night.
Gerald gleefully continues his clandestine Internet activities. Although a colleague of one of Gerald's victims characterizes Skankhunt42 as miserable, Gerald is shown genuinely enjoying his day, dancing in the street, exhibiting extreme tolerance to bad behavior on the part of others. He soon discovers that his Internet attacks have made the news. Following his attack upon a Danish breast cancer awareness website, its webmaster, a Danish Olympic gold medalist named Freja Ollegard, states publicly that she will not be intimidated by Skankhunt42. Gerald sees this as a challenge that he happily accepts.
Convinced that Skankhunt42 is one of the boys, the girls conspire to take revenge against him, while the boys, convinced that Skankhunt42 is Eric Cartman, hold a meeting in which they resolve to fix the problem. They lure Cartman to a cabin in the woods, with the promise of a slumber party of all-night video game-playing. At the cabin, the boys brandish assorted weapons, with which they destroy Cartman's electronic devices and bury them.
As Skankhunt42's activities continue, the boys are shocked to realize that Skankhunt42 cannot be Cartman. Unaware of this, each of the girls confront their respective boyfriends, giving each one a letter stating that they are breaking up with them forever. As Stan observes this throughout the school, Wendy hands him her note before walking away.
Memorable Quotes
- "TWITTER WOULD BE BETTER OFF WITHOUT ME!" Scott Malkinson
- "Oh, my God. There's no Wi-Fi." Cartman
Characters
Character Debuts
Heidi Turner gets a new look in this episode. She now wears a white-striped dark pink hat with a purple and orange flower on the front left side of it.
The fictional Danish Olympic gold medalist and breast cancer survivor Freja Ollegard also debuts in Skank Hunt and gets killed off in the next episode.
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Bonus Factoids
Although she died in The Damned, some fans believed that Freja Ollegard was the true main villain of Season 20 and the real identity of Lennart Bedrager. But when he died in the season finale, the belief was proven false.
The couples at school were not seen reconciling with each other during the rest of Season 20 after this episode. But thanks to Bill Clinton's Gentlemen club, Kyle knowing the identity of SkankHunt42, and the reset of the Internet, all the school couples (including Red and Kevin, Nicole and Tolkien, and most importantly Stan and Wendy) should be back together by now.
Season 20
- e1 Member Berries
- e2 Skank Hunt
- e3 The Damned
- e4 Wieners Out
- e5 Douche and a Danish
- e6 Fort Collins
- e7 Oh, Jeez
- e8 Member Only
- e9 Not Funny
- e10 The End of Serialization as We Know It