{{notability|Episode|date=February 2009}}{{merge|List of South Park episodes|Talk:Death (South Park episode)#Merge proposal|date=February 2009}} {{Infobox Television episode

| Title = Death

| Series = South Park

| Image = [[Image:death_south_park.jpg|200px|]]

| Caption = Death appears.

| Season = 1

| Episode = 6

| Airdate = September 17, 1997

| Production = 106

| Writer = [[Trey Parker]]<br>[[Matt Stone]]

| Director = Matt Stone

| Guests =

| Episode list = [[List of South Park episodes|List of ''South Park'' episodes]]

| Season list = {{Infobox South Park season 1 episode list}}

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"'''Death'''" is the sixth episode of [[Comedy Central]]'s [[List of animated television series|animated series]] ''[[South Park]]''. It originally aired on September 17, 1997.

==Plot==

The Marsh family is celebrating [[Marvin Marsh|Grandpa]]’s 102nd birthday but Grandpa isn’t having a good time. He wishes he was dead, and tries to accomplish this goal while he and Stan watch ''Terrance and Phillip'' after the birthday festivities. As Grandpa is too old to do it himself, he asks Stan to help (asserting that he "killed his own Grandpa when he was [Stan's] age"), but Stan refuses.

Meanwhile at Kyle’s house, [[Kyle Broflovski|Kyle]] and [[Ike Broflovski|Ike]] are also watching ''[[Terrance and Phillip]]'' when their mother, [[Gerald and Sheila Broflovski#Sheila|Sheila]], comes in and gets upset by the content of the program. The next day at school Kyle discovers that Sheila has called everyone else’s parents and is leading a boycott of ''Terrance and Phillip'' in front of "Cartoon Central's" headquarters in [[New York City]]. During the school day, Stan seeks out various adults to find out whether or not he should assist his Grandpa in killing himself, but no one wishes to discuss the issue (not even Mr. Garrison, Chef, or Jesus Christ himself), so Stan talks to the guys about it.

Meanwhile Kenny is experiencing a bout of explosive [[diarrhea]]. The condition eventually spreads to the whole town, particularly to the adults protesting ''Terrance and Phillip''. Despite their protest of the show, they are shown laughing at various bits of "real life" toilet humor.

At home, the boys have been left alone to watch ''Terrance and Phillip'' at their leisure, as most of the community has followed Sheila to Cartoon Central to demand the show be taken off the air. All the while Grandpa Marsh is trying to convince Stan to kill him. In order to show him what it's like to live like him he traps Stan in a room and forces him to listen to [[Enya]], at which point he and the rest of the boys agree they must do it. They hang a cow from a tree to drop on Grandpa when [[Death (personification)|Death]] shows up and begins to come after the boys (specifically Kenny). They get trapped in Stan's room, where he realizes that "if parents spent less time worrying about what their kids watched, and more time worrying about what's going on in their lives, this world would be a much better place." Kyle adds that he thinks "parents only worry about what their kids watch because they rely on what their television as the sole educator of their kids." Kenny also gives input, though it is muffled. Death finally breaks in the room and the boys, including Kenny, narrowly escape outside the window. As they run through the streets, Grandpa follows, making insulting remarks at Death, such as, "I'm over here, you son-of-a-whore!"

[[Image:Southpark ep106 2.jpg|150px|thumb|left|South Park citizens slingshot themselves into Cartoon Central HQ]]

Back in New York, the protesters have given the network an ultimatum: take the show off the air or they will kill themselves. Although thirteen people have been [[slingshot]]ted and smeared on the face of the network building (the first of which being Kenny's father), the network refuses to take ''Terrance and Philip'' off the air until an executive comes out (in a [[gas mask]]) and announces; "Ladies and gentlemen, your [[Nazism|nazi-esque]] tactics of trying to stink us out with rancid faeces... has worked. Therefore, today we will be officially taking ''Terrance and Phillip'' off the network and replacing it with reruns of ''[[She's the Sheriff]]'' starring [[Suzanne Somers]]."

In South Park, while chasing the boys, Death stops at the window of a TV store and watches an episode of ''Terrance and Phillip''. The boys join him in watching until the announcement of its cancellation. Extremely angered at this development, Death kills Kenny, and Grandpa argues with Death about not taking him. Grandpa demands Death to kill him, but Death refuses. Then, Grandpa’s Grandpa shows up and tells him to not kill himself or he'll end up in [[limbo]] like himself; it must be from natural causes. The parents come back and put on ''She's The Sheriff'', are dismayed by the content, and go back to New York for another protest. As the boys brood over what they will do for entertainment (breathe gas fumes, smoke crack, or watch "those porno movie thingies"), Grandpa Marsh comes in and tell them he's planning a trip to Africa where over 400 people are "naturally" eaten by [[lion]]s every year. The boys laugh at this, then Kyle farts and the laughter increases.

==External links==

*[http://www.southparkstudios.com/guide/106/ Death] on the South Park Studios Episode Guide

* [http://www.tv.com/south-park/death/episode/2422/summary.html?tag=ep_list;ep_title;8 "Death" at tv.com]

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