# South Park Christmas in Iraq **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 13, 2002, 6:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/south-park-christmas-in-iraq/142573 "2002-12-13T18:54:19Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![tracer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tracer/32/20578_2.png) [@tracer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tracer)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2002, 1:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/south-park-christmas-in-iraq/142573/21 "2002-12-14T01:15:11Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by BraheSilver \* > \*\*It wouldn’t be a Christmas episode if Kenny didn’t live through it. > > Just because he’s been dead all season doesn’t mean he can’t come back to live through this one. 😉 \*\* Kenny dead? Say it isn’t so! :eek: ---
**Author:** ![Yossarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/9de0a6/32.png) [@Yossarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yossarian)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2002, 1:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/south-park-christmas-in-iraq/142573/22 "2002-12-14T01:15:55Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Larry Mudd \* > \*\*_All aboard the Poo-choo Train!_ \*\* Even seeing the line in print causes me to break out in convulsive laughter. Definitely a Top 5 South Park episode. ---
**Author:** ![HalberMensch242](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/ecb155/32.png) [@HalberMensch242](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HalberMensch242)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2002, 1:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/south-park-christmas-in-iraq/142573/23 "2002-12-14T01:17:38Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Witch \* > \*\*You wont be sorry **ArchiveGuy**. I haven’t laughed so hard since the Radiohead/Scott Tennorman episode 😃 \*\* the end of that episode was by far…the most sadistic thing i’ve EVER seen on television…i was sick to my stomach after i watched it… ---
**Author:** ![Witch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/258eb7/32.png) [@Witch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Witch)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2002, 3:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/south-park-christmas-in-iraq/142573/24 "2002-12-14T03:29:19Z")
And Jimmy’s rendition of “The Twelve Days of Christmas”…heartwarming holiday fare! Yea, that episode is pretty bad **Halber.** But that’s what Scott got for selling Cartman those pubes man. ---
**Author:** ![Revtim](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/revtim/32/1042_2.png) [@Revtim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revtim)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2002, 3:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/south-park-christmas-in-iraq/142573/25 "2002-12-14T15:22:56Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by HalberMensch242 \* > \*\*the end of that episode was by far…the most sadistic thing i’ve EVER seen on television…i was sick to my stomach after i watched it… \*\* Yeah, I recommend it too! ---
**Author:** ![raisinbread](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/8491ac/32.png) [@raisinbread](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/raisinbread)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2002, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/south-park-christmas-in-iraq/142573/26 "2002-12-14T19:33:12Z")
Even if you find a cure for cancer and AIDS you’d still owe Santa 3 presents ---
**Author:** ![Cisco](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ccd318/32.png) [@Cisco](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cisco)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2002, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/south-park-christmas-in-iraq/142573/27 "2002-12-14T19:40:47Z")
I have a question about this episode. What does the Underpants Gnome say when Kyle says “Hey, aren’t you guys the Underpants Gnomes?” He says “[somethingsomethingsomething], but this time [something] we have Santa!” What’s he saying? ---
**Author:** ![neutron\_star](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/51bf81/32.png) [@neutron\_star](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/neutron_star)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2002, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/south-park-christmas-in-iraq/142573/28 "2002-12-14T19:43:44Z")
I liked that Santa had the exact same voice as Sexual Harrassment Panda. 🙂 It almost seemed like they went out of their way to show it, too, with Santa at one point expressing his sadness in the same tone of voice as SHP’s trademark “That makes me a saaad panda.” ---
**Author:** ![Scruloose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e68b1a/32.png) [@Scruloose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scruloose)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2002, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/south-park-christmas-in-iraq/142573/29 "2002-12-14T20:17:41Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Cisco \* > \*\*I have a question about this episode. What does the Underpants Gnome say when Kyle says “Hey, aren’t you guys the Underpants Gnomes?” > > He says “[somethingsomethingsomething], but this time [something] we have Santa!” > > What’s he saying? \*\* I thought he said something like, “we are for 10 months of the year, but around this time we work for Santa” Or something along those lines ---
**Author:** ![Cisco](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ccd318/32.png) [@Cisco](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cisco)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2002, 8:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/south-park-christmas-in-iraq/142573/30 "2002-12-14T20:27:32Z")
I got it! Thanks. He says “10 months out of the year, but this time of year we help Santa!” Thanks 😃 ---
**Author:** ![ISiddiqui](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/97f17d/32.png) [@ISiddiqui](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ISiddiqui)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2002, 10:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/south-park-christmas-in-iraq/142573/31 "2002-12-14T22:16:49Z")
“They shocked Santa’s balls!”\ 😃 ---
**Author:** ![bafaa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e480ec/32.png) [@bafaa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bafaa)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2002, 10:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/south-park-christmas-in-iraq/142573/32 "2002-12-14T22:31:04Z")
> [@](#): > > _Originally posted by Gaijin \* > \*\* > I especially enjoyed the scene where Santa is being tortured by the Iraqis. Santa goes from “You’re being very naughty, you should let Santa go, etc etc”, and when they shock his balls, "SANTA’S GONNA KILL YOU! SANTA’S GONNA F_CKING KILL YOU!!!" > \*\* That scene was copied right out of Lethal Weapon where they are shocking Mel Gibson. BZZZTT - “I’m gonna F\*CKING kill you!” And then they say they’re gonna torture Santa/Mel to find out what the plans are and he says “Then we’re gonna be here all night cause I don’t know shit!” Brilliant episode! ---
**Author:** ![Coriolanus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/coriolanus/32/18769_2.png) [@Coriolanus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coriolanus)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2002, 11:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/south-park-christmas-in-iraq/142573/33 "2002-12-14T23:22:48Z")
Santa decapitated Kenny in one of the first SP eps (certainly the first Christmas ep) during a fist-fight with Jesus. WRT the recent Christmas ep, Santa’s speech about how (paraphrased) ‘Jesus died for me… from now on, let Christmas be about Jesus’ was great stuff. ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Mudd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f14d63/32.png) [@Larry\_Mudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Mudd)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2002, 11:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/south-park-christmas-in-iraq/142573/34 "2002-12-14T23:45:47Z")
**Corbomite** , that’s in the _Spirit of Christmas_ short, which the series was based on. [Download it here](http://www.killfile.org/soxmas/), if you haven’t seen it in a while – there are better copies floating around now. The earlier, cruder (animation-wise,) _Santa vs. Frosty_ is fun because, although it still contains the _“They killed Kenny!”_ line, the kid who actually gets snuffed is the one we’ve come to know and love as Stan. The _Peanuts_ angle is a little more explicit, too. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/south-park-christmas-in-iraq/142573.md?page=1)