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| - | "'''A Million Little Fibers'''" is episode 144 of ''[[South Park]]'' and was broadcast on April 19, 2006. The episode focuses on [[List_of_other_South_Park_residents#Towelie|Towelie]] and is the third episode in series history ("[[Terrance and Phillip in Not Without My Anus]]" and "[[Pip (South Park)|Pip]]" being the other two) not to feature any of the main characters. It parodies the controversy over the book ''[[A Million Little Pieces]].'' | + | # A landlocked country in Central [[Asia]]. Official name: Islamic Republic of Afghanistan. Capital: [[Kabul]]. Official languages: [[Persian]] ([[Dari]]), [[Pashto]]. |
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| - | Having lost a job due to his incompetence, Towelie decides to write his memoirs, but a publisher turns them down as uninteresting and irrelevant to the public. He then submits the manuscript again, under the guise of a human author called Steven McTowelie and having removed all the details about him being a towel. He is then invited to go on ''[[The Oprah Winfrey Show]],'' because [[Oprah Winfrey|Oprah]] loves and promotes his book. Meanwhile, Oprah's [[vagina]], Mingee is depressed that the overworked Oprah never pays attention to him anymore. Gary, her [[anus]], conspires with Mingee to get Oprah fired, so she can pay more attention to them and perhaps go to [[Paris]] (where Gary has always wanted to go). As Mingee realizes that Towelie is not a person, they call [[Geraldo Rivera]] and give him the information. Subsequently, Towelie is interviewed on ''[[Larry King Live]]'', during which Geraldo Rivera calls in from [[Afghanistan]] to reveal that the author of the book is a towel. | ||
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| - | When the truth comes out, Oprah does not see what the big deal is because people were inspired by the book for how it was written not by whether it is a lie or the truth. But, mobs congregate to protest wildly; Oprah invites Towelie back on the show, saying that he can explain that he wanted to make the book more relevant and easily understandable. However, instead she erupts in anger and calls on the audience to [[lynching|lynch]] Towelie. As she brought the audience onto her side, Mingee and Gary's plan is foiled. Towelie is cornered at the First National Bank of Chicago. Just as Oprah and the crowd prepare to lynch him, Mingee, fearing that their plans are never going to succeed, tears through Oprah's pants with a revolver. Taking hostages, he guns down a police officer and begins making demands in preparation for an escape to [[France]]. Gary tries to plead with Mingee to stop, put down the gun and give himself up, arguing that "they'll probably go easy on us." Mingee, however replies "Don't be stupid Gary, I killed a police man! They'll [[electric chair|fry]] me, and they'll lock you up for life!". Towelie struggles to think of an idea to deliver himself and his fellow hostages to safety, resisting the temptation to get high. He realizes that any stoned idea will only "get him into trouble". | ||
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| - | Towelie's solution: using his inherent flatness, Towelie slips into the bank and allows the hostages to enter through the previously locked doors. The hostages being cleared from the area, police snipers open fire on Oprah's nether region and accidentally hit Gary instead of Mingee. Mingee realizes that Gary was hit and begins to talk to him. A hallucinating Gary believes that he is in Paris and then dies. Gary defecates after he dies. Mingee, in a state of shock over the death of his best and only friend, takes his own life. Oprah survives, and is rushed to the hospital, with police informing Towelie and the hostages that Oprah will be fine — though the same cannot be said for either her anus or vagina. Towelie, now hailed as a hero, learns not to get high for ideas, but to get high as a reward ''after'' he comes up with them. | ||
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| - | According to the DVD commentary, this episode was originally their "bank episode." This is an episode that is partially animated before they start doing episodes the same week it is broadcast. "Banking an episode" allows the staff to have one or two days off during the run. It was intended to be a spoof of the TV show ''[[Intervention (TV series)|Intervention]]'' with the people of South Park trying to get Towelie into rehab. About halfway into making it, they decided it didn't work too well and it couldn't go anywhere, so they started from the beginning. They also discuss the "Hat on Top of a Hat" scenario to describe the "weirdness" of the episode, saying that when you put a hat on, and then you put a hat on top of the first hat, "you just end up looking like an idiot" (weirdness on top of weirdness replacing the hats).<ref name=DVD>Parker, Trey, and Stone, Matt. Audio commentary. South Park The Complete Tenth Season. Dir. Parker, Stone. DVD. Paramount Home Video/Comedy Central, 2007</ref> | ||
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| - | "A Million Little Fibers" is not highly esteemed among ''South Park'' episodes. [[IGN]]'s Eric Goldman gave the episode a disappointed 3/10 rating. He noted, "''South Park'' has often taken the most ridiculous situations and made them hysterical. But not so here. The fact is, this episode just didn't deliver the laughs. It was slow moving and often felt awkwardly put together." He also stated that while he didn't mind the absence of the main cast, "the episode didn't give the audience something great in their absence." | ||
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- A landlocked country in Central Asia. Official name: Islamic Republic of Afghanistan. Capital: Kabul. Official languages: Persian (Dari), Pashto.
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