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"**Mystery of the Urinal Deuce**"
"Mystery of the Urinal Deuce"
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Episode no.	Season 10; Episode 9
Directed by	Trey Parker
Written by	Trey Parker
Production code	1009
Original air date	October 11, 2006
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	Maddie Taylor as George W. Bush
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"Mystery of the Urinal Deuce" is the ninth episode in the tenth season of the American animated television series South Park. The 148th episode of the series overall, it first aired on Comedy Central in the United States on October 11, 2006. The episode focuses on the 9/11 conspiracy theories, and was written by series co-creator Trey Parker. In the episode, Mr. Mackey is determined to find out who defecated in the urinal, while Cartman manages to link it to 9/11. This causes Stan and Kyle to find the truth behind this terrible event in history.

Plot

When someone at South Park Elementary defecates in a urinal, Mr. Mackey searches for the boy responsible. When Mackey enters the classroom in a vain attempt to discern the culprit, Cartman explains that he believes it may be a conspiracy, much like 9/11. When the police decide they can provide no further assistance, they hire the "Hardly" Boys, though their unusual investigation tactics are generally perceived as ineffective. Later on, Kyle explains that he believes 9/11 conspiracies to be "retarded", though Butters claims the event was caused by George W. Bush: a fact he learned from Cartman.

A running gag featured in the episode has Mr. Mackey attempting to solicit a confession from the boys of South Park Elementary while making unintentionally funny euphemisms (e.g. "chocolate hot dog"), causing everyone to laugh and infuriating Mr. Mackey further. He eventually attempts to point the finger at Clyde as the culprit, but is forced to retract the claim when he learns that Clyde had a colostomy at age 5: rendering him incapable of defecating on his own.

Cartman researches 9/11 online: eventually pinning the blame on Kyle Broflovski during a presentation in class, where he cites Kyle's absence from school on September 11th and the fact he scored a 91 on a spelling test 12 days after the attacks as evidence. Despite the absurdity of Cartman's claims, he nonetheless convinces everyone that Kyle is guilty. Kyle enlists Stan's help, and the two leave South Park to find an organization that can prove Kyle's innocence. The group they find, however, believes that the United States government orchestrated 9/11. A SWAT team attacks and takes Kyle, Stan, and the leader of the conspiracy organization to the White House were U.S. officials, including President George W. Bush, reveal that the government really is behind 9/11. Bush appears to murder the conspiracy leader as Stan and Kyle flee, due to Dick Cheney missing the boys with his crossbow and triggering the fire alarm.

Stan and Kyle intend to travel back to South Park and tell everyone what they've learned, but as they walk along a street in Chicago, they spot the conspiracy leader, discovering that he was not actually killed. The boys chase him to a dead end, where he begs for mercy. Suddenly, a man shoots the leader and tells the boys to follow him to his house. There, he reveals that he is a detective, the father of the Hardly Boys. In the course of investigating the urinal in South Park, his sons followed "clues" (their erections) that led them to determine that the 9/11 conspiracy theories were actually spread by the government; in other words, the 9/11 conspiracy is itself a government conspiracy. President Bush and his staff appear, and after failing to persuade Kyle that they were behind 9/11, Bush explains that the government uses conspiracy theories to scare gullible citizens into believing that the government is more powerful than it really is. The Hardly father asks Bush how he knew their location. Stan points a gun to Kyle and reveals that he was the one who defecated in the urinal (his reason for doing so was that the stalls were full and he did not want to miss recess). He decided to blame the government for the urinal deuce, and the government was happy to take the blame, just as with 9/11. Kyle then asks who was truly responsible for 9/11, and Stan replies it was "a bunch of pissed-off Muslims."

Back in school, Stan is punished by being made to clean the urinal, while Mr. Mackey lectures him, unintentionally making him laugh.

Production

Series co-creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone revealed the inspiration for the episode on the DVD commentary. The aspects of the story which focus on the urinal defecation are based on an identical experience Stone had in elementary school. The 9/11 aspects are based on Parker and Stone's hatred of conspiracy theories regarding 9/11. The urinal defecation story was introduced into the episode late into production, when Parker and Stone realized the episode focused almost exclusively on 9/11. Before the urinal defecation story was implemented, the episode contained a parody of Duane Chapman and the television series Dog the Bounty Hunter, which was first intended for use in the season nine episode "Die Hippie, Die", and actually used in "Miss Teacher Bangs a Boy", season ten's next episode.^[1]^[2]^[3]

The episode also refers to the Dick Cheney hunting accident, when Dick Cheney shoots at Stan and Kyle and curses himself for "missing again".^[4]

Reception

IGN's Dan Iverson gave the episode a rating of 7.7 out of 10, calling it "topical and humorous". He did feel that the subplots involving the eponymous urinal deuce and the Hardly Boys were "awkward and really unfunny".^[5]

Notes

^ Uncredited.

References

^ Parker, Trey; Stone, Matt (2006). South Park season ten DVD commentary for the episode "Mystery of the Urinal Deuce" (DVD). Comedy Central.
^ Parker, Trey; Stone, Matt (2006). South Park season ten DVD commentary for the episode "Miss Teacher Bangs a Boy" (DVD). Comedy Central.
^ Parker, Trey; Stone, Matt (2005). South Park season nine DVD commentary for the episode "Die Hippie, Die" (DVD). Comedy Central.
^ Thompson, Dave (August 2014). South Park FAQ: All That's Left to Know About the Who, What, Where, when of America's Favorite Mountain Town. Rowman & Littlefield. ISBN 9781495002083.
^ Iverson, Dan (October 12, 2006). "South Park: "Mystery of the Urinal Deuce" Review". IGN. Retrieved October 12, 2006.

External links

"Mystery of the Urinal Deuce" Full episode at South Park Studios
"Mystery of the Urinal Deuce" at IMDb

[1] Uncredited.

[2] Parker, Trey; Stone, Matt (2006). South Park season ten DVD commentary for the episode "Mystery of the Urinal Deuce" (DVD). Comedy Central.

[3] Parker, Trey; Stone, Matt (2006). South Park season ten DVD commentary for the episode "Miss Teacher Bangs a Boy" (DVD). Comedy Central.

[4] Parker, Trey; Stone, Matt (2005). South Park season nine DVD commentary for the episode "Die Hippie, Die" (DVD). Comedy Central.

[5] Thompson, Dave (August 2014). South Park FAQ: All That's Left to Know About the Who, What, Where, when of America's Favorite Mountain Town. Rowman & Littlefield. ISBN 9781495002083.

[6] Iverson, Dan (October 12, 2006). "South Park: "Mystery of the Urinal Deuce" Review". IGN. Retrieved October 12, 2006.

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+"'''Mystery of the Urinal Deuce'''" is the ninth episode in the [[South Park season 10|tenth season]] of the American animated television series ''[[South Park]]''. The 148th episode of the series overall, it first aired on [[Comedy Central]] in the United States on October 11, 2006. The episode focuses on the [[9/11 conspiracy theories]], and was written by series co-creator [[Trey Parker]]. In the episode, Mr. Mackey is determined to find out who defecated in the urinal, while Cartman manages to link it to 9/11. This causes Stan and Kyle to find the truth behind this terrible event in history.
-"'''Mystery of the Urinal Deuce'''" is episode 148 of [[Comedy Central]]'s ''[[South Park]]'' which first aired on [[October 11]] [[2006]].
-==Plot summary==
+==Plot==
+When someone at South Park Elementary [[Defecation|defecates]] in a [[urinal (restroom)|urinal]], [[Mr. Mackey]] searches for the boy responsible. When Mackey enters the classroom in a vain attempt to discern the culprit, [[Eric Cartman|Cartman]] explains that he believes it may be a [[List of conspiracies (political)|conspiracy]], much like [[September 11 attacks|9/11]]. When the police decide they can provide no further assistance, they hire the [[The Hardy Boys|"Hardly" Boys]], though their unusual investigation tactics are generally perceived as ineffective. Later on, [[Kyle Broflovski|Kyle]] explains that he believes 9/11 conspiracies to be "retarded", though [[Butters Stotch|Butters]] claims the event was caused by [[George W. Bush]]: a fact he learned from Cartman.
-{{Plot|date=March 2009}}
-When someone at South Park Elementary [[Defecation|defecates]] in a [[urinal]], [[Mr. Mackey]] searches for the boy responsible. Mr. Mackey continually reminds the schools about the incident, but his remarks, such as "You Squat, maybe pull your [[Buttocks|buttcheeks]] apart, and then push out a [[chocolate]] [[hot dog]]", only amuse the pupils. [[Eric Cartman|Cartman]] begins to rant that it was a [[Conspiracy (political)|conspiracy]], "just like [[September 11 attacks|9/11]]", which he had been ranting about for a while. The others, however, simply brush him off, claiming that he, and others that believe in a 9/11 conspiracy, are all "retarded". Meanwhile, Mr. Mackey continues to protest the fact that someone defecated in the urinal, and the rest of the town inexplicably decides the two are probably related. When the police decide they can be of no further help, they hire the Hardly Boys (a parody of the [[Hardy Boys]]) to discover the results of the urinal incident.
+A running gag featured in the episode has Mr. Mackey attempting to solicit a confession from the boys of South Park Elementary while making unintentionally funny euphemisms (e.g. "chocolate hot dog"), causing everyone to laugh and infuriating Mr. Mackey further. He eventually attempts to point the finger at Clyde as the culprit, but is forced to retract the claim when he learns that Clyde had a [[colostomy]] at age 5: rendering him incapable of defecating on his own.
-Cartman performs an investigation, which he presents to his class in a presentation where, based on [[numerology|numerological]] interpretation, he claims that the true culprit behind the 9/11 attacks was [[Kyle Broflovski|Kyle]]. Nevertheless, he manages to convince everyone that Kyle is guilty. Kyle tries to rebuff this, but nobody listens to him. When Kyle tells [[Sheila Broflovski|his mother]] that everyone thinks he is the 9/11 culprit, she calls a town meeting, arguing that children don't understand enough about the September 11th attacks. However, many of the townspeople also believe 9/11 might have been the result of a conspiracy.
-Kyle enlists [[Stan Marsh|Stan]]'s help, and they leave South Park to find an organization that can prove Kyle's innocence. The group they find, however, believes that the United States government orchestrated the 9/11 attacks. The conspiracy organization have bottles of [[anthrax]], which they use as "evidence" of the attack. As Kyle is holding them, a [[SWAT]] team attacks and takes Kyle, Stan, and the leader of the conspiracy organization for questioning. They are then taken to [[the White House]]. Presidential officials, along with President [[George W. Bush]], quickly admit that the government actually ''is'' behind 9/11. Bush explains the incredibly convoluted method of how they pulled the attacks off, which seems to greatly dishearten Kyle (who responds repeatedly with a comical, high-noted ''"Really?!"''), who is usually more logical and skeptical than the other characters. Once Bush has admitted this information, he decides to kill Stan, Kyle, and the conspiracy leader, to conceal the conspiracy. The head of the conspiracy group is then executed by Bush, however the boys are not ([[Dick Cheney]] fails to kill the pair with a crossbow- in a parody of his [[Dick Cheney hunting incident|hunting incident]]) and the boys make their escape. Meanwhile, [[Clyde Donovan|Clyde]] is caught for the urinal incident, and while he admits to it, his parents tell Mr. Mackey he had a [[colostomy]] at the age of 5.
+Cartman researches 9/11 online: eventually pinning the blame on [[Kyle Broflovski]] during a presentation in class, where he cites Kyle's absence from school on September 11th and the fact he scored a 91 on a spelling test 12 days after the attacks as evidence. Despite the absurdity of Cartman's claims, he nonetheless convinces everyone that Kyle is guilty. Kyle enlists [[Stan Marsh|Stan]]'s help, and the two leave South Park to find an organization that can prove Kyle's innocence. The group they find, however, believes that the United States government orchestrated 9/11. A [[SWAT]] team attacks and takes Kyle, Stan, and the leader of the conspiracy organization to [[the White House]] were U.S. officials, including President [[George W. Bush]], reveal that the government ''really is'' behind 9/11. Bush appears to murder the conspiracy leader as Stan and Kyle flee, due to [[Dick Cheney]] [[Dick Cheney hunting accident|missing the boys with his crossbow]] and triggering the fire alarm.
-Later, in [[Chicago]], Stan and Kyle run into the leader of the conspiracy group alive and well outside of a WcDonald's". After a short chase by Stan and Kyle, he is cornered in a back alley and shot dead by the father of the Hardly Boys, who reveals that his sons discovered that all the conspiracy websites are false and run by the government. Stan, Kyle, and the Hardly family congregate at the Hardly house as the Bush Administration arrives, and eventually admits that the government ''wasn't'' behind 9/11. He explains that the government actually runs all the websites that claim they were responsible, making the conspiracy theories actually a government conspiracy themselves. The point, Bush explains, is that, since one-fourth of Americans are "retarded" and will believe conspiracies, the government wants them to believe that it is all-powerful and could get away with the worst terrorist attack in history, while they tell the other 75% of the country the truth—that 9/11 was caused (in Stan's words) by "[[Al Qaeda|a bunch of pissed off Muslims]]."
+Stan and Kyle intend to travel back to South Park and tell everyone what they've learned, but as they walk along a street in [[Chicago]], they spot the conspiracy leader, discovering that he was not actually killed. The boys chase him to a dead end, where he begs for mercy. Suddenly, a man shoots the leader and tells the boys to follow him to his house. There, he reveals that he is a detective, the father of the Hardly Boys. In the course of investigating the urinal in South Park, his sons followed "clues" (their [[erections]]) that led them to determine that the 9/11 conspiracy theories were actually spread by the government; in other words, the 9/11 conspiracy is itself a government conspiracy. President Bush and his staff appear, and after failing to persuade Kyle that they were behind 9/11, Bush explains that the government uses conspiracy theories to scare gullible citizens into believing that the government is more powerful than it really is. The Hardly father asks Bush how he knew their location. Stan points a gun to Kyle and reveals that he was the one who defecated in the urinal (his reason for doing so was that the stalls were full and he did not want to miss recess).  He decided to blame the government for the urinal deuce, and the government was happy to take the blame, just as with 9/11. Kyle then asks who was ''truly'' responsible for 9/11, and Stan replies it was "[[Al-Qaeda|a bunch of pissed-off Muslims]]."
+Back in school, Stan is punished by being made to clean the urinal, while Mr. Mackey lectures him, unintentionally making him laugh.
-When the father of the Hardly Boys questions why everyone knew they were at the Hardly house, a gun is put to Kyle's head. When the camera shifts, it is Stan holding it. He admits that he was the one who defecated in the urinal ("All the stalls were full and I didn't want to miss recess! I didn't think it would turn into such a big deal!"); the whole point of going with Kyle on this strange mission, he explains, was so they could get the "proof" that the government was behind 9/11, and the urinal incident (which again seems to be illogically linked in most people's minds), which the government was willing to go along with if it made people think they were all-powerful. Thus in the end, the fundamentalists are concluded to be responsible for 9/11, the government admits to Stan, Kyle, and the Hardly family that they wanted people to believe the government was in full control of everything. Soon after Stan receives his punishment for defecating in the urinal: cleaning the urinal, while Mr. Mackey lectures him (and unwittingly making him laugh, to Mackey's annoyance).
+==Production==
+Series co-creators [[Trey Parker]] and [[Matt Stone]] revealed the inspiration for the episode on the DVD commentary. The aspects of the story which focus on the urinal defecation are based on an identical experience Stone had in elementary school. The 9/11 aspects are based on Parker and Stone's hatred of conspiracy theories regarding 9/11. The urinal defecation story was introduced into the episode late into production, when Parker and Stone realized the episode focused almost exclusively on 9/11. Before the urinal defecation story was implemented, the episode contained a parody of [[Duane Chapman]] and the television series ''[[Dog the Bounty Hunter]]'', which was first intended for use in the [[South Park season 9|season nine]] episode "[[Die Hippie, Die]]", and actually used in "[[Miss Teacher Bangs a Boy]]", season ten's next episode.<ref>{{cite video | people=[[Trey Parker|Parker, Trey]]; [[Matt Stone|Stone, Matt]]|date=2006|title=South Park season ten DVD commentary for the episode "Mystery of the Urinal Deuce"| medium=DVD|publisher=[[Comedy Central]]}}</ref><ref>{{cite video | people=[[Trey Parker|Parker, Trey]]; [[Matt Stone|Stone, Matt]]|date=2006|title=South Park season ten DVD commentary for the episode "[[Miss Teacher Bangs a Boy]]"| medium=DVD|publisher=[[Comedy Central]]}}</ref><ref>{{cite video | people=[[Trey Parker|Parker, Trey]]; [[Matt Stone|Stone, Matt]]|date=2005|title=South Park season nine DVD commentary for the episode "[[Die Hippie, Die]]"| medium=DVD|publisher=[[Comedy Central]]}}</ref>
+The episode also refers to the [[Dick Cheney hunting accident]], when [[Dick Cheney]] shoots at Stan and Kyle and curses himself for "missing again".<ref>{{Cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=JtCGDwAAQBAJ&q=dick+cheney+south+park&pg=PT58 |title = South Park FAQ: All That's Left to Know About the Who, What, Where, when of America's Favorite Mountain Town|isbn = 9781495002083|last1 = Thompson|first1 = Dave|date = August 2014| publisher=Rowman & Littlefield }}</ref>
 ==Reception==
-[[IGN]] gave the episode a rating of 7.7/10, calling the episode "topical and humorous", but felt the subplots involving the titular urinal deuce and the Hardly Boys were "awkward and really unfunny".<ref> {{cite web| url= http://tv.ign.com/articles/738/738646p1.html| title= South Park: "Mystery of the Urinal Deuce" Review| author= Dan Iverson| accessdate= 2006-10-12| publisher= IGN}} </ref> The episode currently has a score of 8.7 ("great") on TV.com, as voted for by viewers.<ref> {{cite web|url=http://www.tv.com/south-park/mystery-of-the-urinal-deuce/episode/890300/reviews.html |title= South Park: Mystery of the Urinal Deuce Episode Reviews|accessdate=2007-10-19|publisher= Tv.Com}} </ref>
+''[[IGN]]''{{'}}s Dan Iverson gave the episode a rating of 7.7 out of 10, calling it "topical and humorous". He did feel that the subplots involving the eponymous urinal deuce and the Hardly Boys were "awkward and really unfunny".<ref>{{cite web| url= http://tv.ign.com/articles/738/738646p1.html| title= South Park: "Mystery of the Urinal Deuce" Review| first= Dan| last=Iverson| access-date= October 12, 2006| website= [[IGN]]|date=October 12, 2006}}</ref>
-==See also==
+== Notes ==
+<references group="lower-alpha" responsive="1"></references>
-*[[9/11 conspiracy theories]]
 ==References==
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 ==External links==
-*[http://www.southparkstudios.com/show/display_episode.php?season=10&id1=1009&id2=152 Official information on the episode]
+* [https://www.southparkstudios.com/episodes/bvihkk/south-park-mystery-of-the-urinal-deuce-season-10-ep-9 "Mystery of the Urinal Deuce]" Full episode at South Park Studios
+* {{IMDb episode|0871765}}
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