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"Best Friends Forever" is the fourth episode of the ninth season and the 129th overall episode of the American animated television series ''South Park''. It was written and directed by co-creator Trey Parker and first aired on Comedy Central in the United States on March 30, 2005. The episode is based on the Terri Schiavo case and won a 2005 Emmy Award for Outstanding Animated Program. It aired mere hours before Schiavo died and received positive reviews from critics for its portrayal of the media frenzy that surrounded the Schiavo case. ==Plot== Kenny is the first person in South Park to have a new PSP video game system and simply cannot put it down. Kenny quickly works his way up to level 60 of the game ''Heaven vs. Hell'', but soon after is run over by an ice-cream truck (whose driver is playing with his own PSP as he makes it to level four) and dies. After ascending to Heaven, Kenny learns that God had created the PSP to search for what the angels call "our Keanu Reeves" — the person who can command his legions against Satan's forces of Hell in a manner like that of the video game. Kenny agrees to take the challenge, but he is revived just after hearing this. Because he had been dead for so long, he cannot talk or communicate and has suffered permanent brain damage. He is kept alive through the use of a feeding tube. The reading of Kenny's will, in which Cartman is given the PSP, and Stan and Kyle are given everything else, is interrupted by the announcement that Kenny is still alive. The lawyer mentions a passage about Kenny's wishes in the event of him being in a vegetative state, but the last page of the will is missing, making it impossible to tell what his wishes were. As Satan's army begins to close in, the angels need Kenny dead so that they can win the battle of the Apocalypse. Meanwhile, Cartman, claiming his status as Kenny's "best friend forever" to the Colorado Supreme Court with the first half of the BFF medallion, gets an order to take out the feeding tube, and he removes the tube after tracking down and finding Kenny's other BFF medallion half so he can get the PSP upon Kenny's death (it's implied that Cartman himself put the other medallion around Kenny's neck). Stan and Kyle, along with Kenny's parents and other protesters, wage a media war to put the feeding tube back in and keep Kenny alive, while Cartman enlists supporters of the rights of "best friends forever" to get Kenny's feeding tube removed. At the same time Satan enlists the help of an adviser, Kevin, to "do what we always do" and use the Republicans in order to get the feeding tube put back in. However, when telling the Republican Congressman what to say, he makes the mistake of hissing into his ear, making him repeat the noise, and his attempt to remedy the situation only makes it worse. After a long, intensive media campaign, the two sides are arguing in Kenny's hospital suite when Kenny's lawyer announces that the last page of the will has been found, and that Kenny's wishes were that if he were ever in a vegetative state, "please, for the love of God...don't ever show me in that condition on national television." The two sides realize that they have both been disrespectful of Kenny's wishes. Kyle then realizes they should not have made this issue into such a media circus, and concludes that Kenny should be taken off life support, commenting that Cartman was "right, for the wrong reasons", while he and Stan were "wrong, for the right reasons". Everyone in the hospital room agrees with Kyle and quietly leaves, allowing Kenny to die in peace. Kenny returns to Heaven just in time to command the angels to victory using a golden PSP. During the battle, attention is deliberately kept off of the battle, with the Archangel Michael exclaiming the battle "Is even bigger than the final battle in the Lord of the Rings movie!" The battle ends with Satan being shocked by the defeat of his army and killing his adviser, who also turned out to be his current boyfriend. Meanwhile, Kenny is presented with a golden statue of Keanu Reeves as a reward for defeating Satan's army. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Best Friends Forever (South Park)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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