South Park (Classic), “Damien”/“Tom’s Rhinoplasty”
“Damien” (season 1, episode 10; originally aired 2/4/98)
Watching the first five minutes of “Damien” is like eating a dirt sandwich. It starts out okay, with the kids gathered in Mr. Garrison’s classroom and Cartman passing out invitations to his birthday party, with specific assignments regarding which gifts each guest is expected to bring. (The kids are willing to put up with this crap because Cartman’s kick-ass birthday bash is pretty much the annual social event of the season.) It’s also established that Pip, the British urchin from another century, isn’t invited, and is, in fact, the class goat. Parker and Stone never did a particularly good job of explaining what the hell Pip is doing on the show at all, and finally supplanted him with Butters. Pip never did become much more than a placemat character, whereas Butters, as a creation, is touched ...
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