The New Terrance and Phillip Movie Trailer

Template:Infobox South Park episode "The New Terrance and Phillip Movie Trailer" is episode 604 of the Comedy Central series South Park. It originally aired on March 27, 2002.

Plot

Template:Spoiler The boys (Stan, Kyle, Cartman and Butters) stay for the night at Stan's to see the new Terrance and Philip movie trailer which will be shown during one of the commercial breaks of Fighting 'Round the World with Russell Crowe.

While watching the first minute of the show, waiting for the commercial to air, Shelley interrupts the boys' watching time and demands tampons or else they have to watch Buffy with her.

Butters is sent to get the tampons. While Butters is out, Cartman thinks the TV's color is messed up and decides to re-wire it, which breaks the TV.

So the boys leave the house (along with Butters who happens to arrive as they're about to leave) to watch at Kyle's house.

At Kyle's house, the boys kick Ike off the TV and arrive before the first commercial break. While watching Russel Crowe travel to Tiananmen Square, China and beat up some random Chinese people, the boys are kicked off the TV by Kyle's dad so Ike can continue to watch the news.

Since the boys can't go to Butters' or Cartman's place, they go to Chef's instead to watch on his new plasma TV.

The boys made it to Chef's just in time to watch the first commercial break. To their disappointment the trailer is not shown during the break. While continuing to watch Russell Crowe beat up blacks and Hispanics from New York, Chef tries to work his new TV to play 3 channels at the same time. Unfortunately, he can't quite figure out how to work the remote, and the TV transforms into a robot and leaves the house to wreak havoc on the street. The boys leave Chef to solve his problem and go to the bar to use the TV there.

After watching Russell Crowe beat up the show's editor, the barkeeper kicks the boys out of the bar since no children are allowed in. They all head off to find a TV. Meanwhile, Chef is following his rampaging TV robot while talking to the customer service hotline trying to find out how to stop it.

The boys arrive at a retirement community and watch the Russell Crowe show not caring that the old people were using the TV. After watching Russell Crowe sing (which results in his tugboat friend attempting suicide), the second commercial break comes on. Again, the trailer is not aired. The old people are getting sick of the Russell Crowe show and use their incontinence to get rid of the kids.

Having nowhere else to go, the boys go to Cartman's house instead to watch the Russell Crowe show even though Cartman's house is being fumigated. However the gas proves too strong and they leave Cartman's for Stan's house to use the black and white TV.

There's a problem though: Butters had the tampons through their whole entire journey, meaning Shelley didn't get to use one. As soon as Stan turns the front door knob, the door flies open and a torrent of blood gushes through the door, flooding the boys back into the street. There is no way Shelley will let them watch at Stan's house now.

But they see some crack addicts on the street with a small TV and join them to watch Russell Crowe beating up a man with cancer. The show is interrupted by Chef's TV destroying the tiny TV and killing one of the crack addicts. Chef is following and still talking to Customer Service.

The boys are lost with nowhere else to go and the last commercial break will be shown in a few seconds from now. The only option left is Butters's house, but Butters says that they can't watch it at his place. The boys finally ask him why, and he explains that he doesn't have a babysitter to watch over him. The others are angry because Butters's TV is still in his house working with nobody in it and he didn't tell them. They get to Butters's just in time to view the last commercial break AND the new Terrance and Philip movie trailer. Happy and satisfied, the boys go to Clyde's to see the trailer again (since he taped it). And that is also the end of the Russell Crowe show: fighting around the world. Meanwhile, Chef's TV is still out on a rampage.

Trivia

• The hype over the Asses of Fire II trailer spoofs the hype over the Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones trailer.
• The Russell Crowe show spoofs Teletubbies (in its graphics showing rays of sunlight behind a globe), Steamboat Willie (Russell spinning the ship's wheel), The Crocodile Hunter, Popeye cartoons (Popeye would often end up in fights), Theodore Tugboat and Crowe's own controversies.
• It's almost physically impossible to make the picture tube of a TV explode just by messing with the backside of the TV. Of course Stan's TV explodes for comedic effect.
• While in China, Russell Crowe incorrectly claims that the Tiananmen Square Protests of 1989 occurred in 1993.
• The boys are kicked off the couch so that Ike can return to watching The MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour; this is impossible, as Robert MacNeil left the show in 1995, after which it was replaced by The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer.
• When shown on TV, the commercial breaks of Russell Crowe's show coincide with the commercial breaks of the episode.
• The only episode to be shown in real time.
• The creators admitted that even they felt it was "totally fucked up" to be seeing Shelley's menstrual blood burst the doors down and flood the house.
• The TV robot resembled the robots created by the Trapper Keeper in the earlier episode, "Trapper Keeper." It also resembles Kenny's costume from "Korn's Groovy Pirate Ghost Mystery" which was a parody of the ED-209 from RoboCop.
• The actual Terrance and Philip movie trailer design involving many words flying at the viewer with very little actual content was used in some of the trailers for Stone and Parker's movie Team America: World Police in 2004.
• In the scene in New York, they refer to Russell Crowe as 'The Gladiator Guy'. It is known that Parker and Stone hate being seen as 'Those guys from BASEketball'.