Freak Strike

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"Freak Strike"
South Park episode
Episode no.Season 6
Episode 3
Directed byTrey Parker
Written byTrey Parker
Production code601
Original air dateMarch 20, 2002 (2002-03-20)
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"Freak Strike" is the third episode of the sixth season of the Comedy Central series South Park and the 82nd episode of the series overall. Going by production order, it is the 1st episode of Season 6 instead of the 3rd episode. It originally aired on March 20, 2002.[1] In the episode, the boys disguise Butters as an individual with testicles on his chin, allowing him to win them a prize on a television show. However, Butters only wins a round of putt-putt golf. The freaks who make a career of appearing on TV talk shows go on strike, and make Butters strike with them.

Plot

The boys are watching an episode of

sci-fi geeks
make fake balls to put on Butters.

Butters then flies alone to New York to appear on the show. In the green room, he meets other variously deformed people, who welcome Butters to their union, which ensures that US TV talk shows interview their members regularly.

On the show,

his mom
to take him on that show and lie that he's out of control.

Butters is

grounded by his parents for putting fake deformity on the Maury show. The freaks strike
in protest of Maury's decision to stop interviewing people with deformities, and head to Butters' house to recruit him. Fear of being discovered as a faker leads him to reluctantly agree, and he goes on strike with the group.

Cartman and his mom go on Maury. Seeing a teenage girl's "out of control" behaviour, Cartman dresses up as a

taxi
, and he knows he is in trouble again.

Production

The "True Freak Label" video sabotage that the freaks make Butters star in is a shot-by-shot parody of the

International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union commercial from the '70s, which showed the workers singing a song known as "Look for the Union Label." According to the episode commentary, Parker and Stone were reminded of the commercial when viewing a bootlegged version of the Star Wars Holiday Special, which retained the commercial.[3]

Home media

"Freak Strike," along with the sixteen other episodes from South Park: the Complete Sixth Season, were released on a three-disc DVD set in the United States on October 11, 2005. The sets include brief audio commentaries by Parker and Stone for each episode. IGN gave the season a rating of 9/10.[4]

References

  1. ^ Episode Guide - South Park Studios[permanent dead link]
  2. ^ "Freak Strike Transcript at IMSDb".
  3. ^ Trey Parker, Matt Stone (2008). South Park: The Complete Sixth Season: "Freak Strike" (DVD). Comedy Central.
  4. ^ Schorn, Peter (February 26, 2009). "South Park: The Complete Sixth Season DVD Review". IGN. Retrieved January 25, 2017.

External links

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