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"Death" is the sixth episode of the first season of the animated television series ''South Park''. It originally aired on Comedy Central in the United States on September 17, 1997. In the episode, Grandpa Marvin tries to convince Stan to kill him, while the parents of South Park protest the foul-mouthed cartoon ''Terrance and Phillip''. Death himself arrives to kill Kenny, and presents a warning to Grandpa Marvin against forcing others to help him commit suicide. "Death" was written and directed by Trey Parker and Matt Stone. The episode, along with the ''Terrance and Phillip'' show, were inspired by early criticism that ''South Park'' was little more than flatulence jokes and primitive animation. The script portrays the parents as so invested in protesting television programs, they fail to pay any attention to what is actually going on in their children's lives. They seem to want to make television clean and wholesome so the entertainment industry can raise their kids and they themselves don't have to make the time and effort to be full-time parents. The episode also advocates against censorship and addresses the morality and ethics of euthanasia. "Death" was the last of the original six ''South Park'' episodes ordered by Comedy Central before the network committed to a full season. The episode's plot heavily influenced the screenplay of the 1999 film, ''South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut'', which also involves South Park parents protesting ''Terrance and Phillip''. In addition to Terrance and Phillip, the episode introduced recurring characters Grandpa Marsh and Sheila (then known as Carol), Kyle's mother. ==Plot== The Marsh family celebrates Grandpa Marvin Marsh's 102nd birthday, but he is tired of living and tries unsuccessfully to commit suicide. He tries to convince Stan to kill him, but Stan refuses because he fears he might get in trouble. Meanwhile, Kyle watches the cartoon ''Terrance and Phillip'', which revolves largely around fart jokes. Kyle's mother Sheila (then named Carol) gets outraged by the foul language and crude humor, and contacts other South Park parents to organize a boycott at the Cartoon Central headquarters in New York City. Later at school, Stan asks adults Mr. Garrison, Chef and Jesus whether he should help his grandpa kill himself, but they avoid discussing the issue as they can't put it in terms that Stan might understand, much to Stan's anger. Meanwhile, Kenny suffers from a bout of "explosive diarrhea", which spreads to others in the town, including the adults protesting ''Terrance and Phillip''. Despite objecting to the show, the adults themselves laugh and make jokes at their own real-life toilet humor. Carol proclaims that if Cartoon Central does not take the show off the air, the protesters will kill themselves, and they start slingshot-ting themselves into the building. With the adults out of town for the protest, the boys are free to watch ''Terrance and Phillip'' at their leisure. Grandpa Marvin continues asking Stan to kill him, and demonstrates how terrible his life is by locking Stan in a room and forcing him to listen to a song in the style of Enya's "Orinoco Flow". Now convinced that his life is excruciating, Stan finally agrees to kill his grandpa, and tries to do so by rigging a cow on a pulley and dropping it on him. Just as the boys are about to do it, Death himself arrives, but starts chasing after the boys instead of Grandpa Marvin. While fleeing, Stan calls his mother, who is too busy protesting ''Terrance and Phillip'' to listen to his problems. More than a dozen people have killed themselves against the headquarters building. Eventually, the network agrees to take the show off the air (ends up getting back on the air later on), not because of the deaths but because of the stench of the protesters' explosive diarrhea. Meanwhile, Death continues chasing the boys, but stops in front of a television playing ''Terrance and Phillip''. Death and the boys start laughing together, but after it is taken off the air, Death angrily touches and kills Kenny. Angered, Grandpa Marvin demands that Death kill ''him'', but Death refuses. Death then brings in the spirit of Stan's great great grandfather (Marvin's grandfather), who was killed by Marvin when he was Stan's age; the ghost warns Marvin that he must die of natural causes and not place the burden of his suicide on anybody else's shoulders or else he will spend his eternity after death in limbo (which is what happened to him). "Terrence and Phillip" is finally cancelled, much to the boys' horror. But it's replaced by the Suzanne Sommers TV show ''She's The Sheriff'' which also contains obscenities. Furious about all this, the parents go back to Cartoon Central network building to protest again. Grandpa Marvin instead decides to visit Africa, where over 400 people are "naturally" eaten by lions every year. The episode ends with the boys laughing, and then laughing harder when Kyle farts. 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「Death (South Park)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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