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"More Crap"

"More Crap" is episode 1109 (#162) of Comedy Central's South Park. It premiered on October 10, 2007.

The episode is one of very few where neither Cartman, Kyle, Kenny or any of the other children appear, except for Stan who has a minor role. The plot revolves primarily around Randy Marsh and the other adults in South Park.

Plot

After being constipated for three weeks, Randy Marsh goes to see the doctor and is prescribed a strong laxative, though the doctor warns him that taking a crap could be "very painful". Randy finally manages to take a crap, and is about to flush it when he notices just how big it is. After showing it to his family (which disgusts both Sharon and Shelley but impresses Stan and Jimbo), Randy becomes a home-town hero when he shows the guys at the local bar his huge feces.

Randy contacts the Guinness World Records, thinking that his masterpiece would give him the world's record for biggest crap. He is redirected to the European Fecal Standards & Measurements Board in Zürich, a society who keeps the record. After having his crap measured in units called "Courics" (it is mentioned in the episode that "one Katie Couric is about two and a half pounds of excrement"), Randy discovers that his crap weighs 8.6 Courics and that he has beaten the world record of 7.5 Courics. The society leaders contact the previous record holder, who is none other than Bono, and inform him that his record has been broken. As Randy is the first American to ever receive the award, the American government holds a ceremony to honour his achievement – however, it is interrupted by a video of Bono, claiming he has just taken a crap weighing 9.5 Courics and is therefore still the record holder, even though nobody apart from Bono has actually seen the crap in person.

Feeling depressed by Bono's victory, Randy is convinced by his friends to train hard and work at taking the record back from Bono. After spending about three weeks eating at P. F. Changs, an ultrasound reveals that Randy's crap has reached about 14 Courics in weight, yet his hopes are soon shot down by Bono demanding that he takes the crap in Zürich (even though the doctor has warned him not to fly during his "turd trimester"). Stan visits Bono's mansion and tries to convince Bono to just let Randy have the first place record, but soon discovers that Bono hates being "number two". After being threatened by Bono, Stan is taken to Zürich by Bono's butler, who informs him of the truth – Bono's record was set in 1960, the year he was born. Bono is not the record holder, he is the record.

The society leader explains that he took the world's biggest crap in 1960, and that he was so proud of it that he took it home and decided to raise it as a child, and over time it grew up into Bono. This explains why Bono is ashamed of being called "number two" (a play on the euphemism for defecation) and why Bono can help so many people and still seem like such a piece of shit. However, the society leader also points out that, even though Bono faked his newest record, Bono himself is over 80 Courics in weight, and thus is still bigger than Randy's old record crap or any other crap in the world.

Right after this is revealed, Randy is finally able to relax and take a giant crap, estimated to weigh more than 100 Courics. Randy is hailed as the new record holder, and the society awards him an Emmy. (Several times during the episode, the first of which was when Randy sat on the toilet of his home, a spinning Emmy award was seen on-screen along with the writing "Emmy winning series". When the spinning Emmy appears during the last seconds of the episode, one of the society's members grabs it and sticks it in Randy's crap)

Reviews

TV Squad gave the episode an overwhelmingly positive review, stating that "it's low taste but it's South Park low taste, which makes it funny," and that "they [Trey Parker and Matt Stone] are on a roll. Possibly a toilet paper roll." IGN had mixed feelings about the episode, calling it "amusing, but not terribly so", giving it a rating of 7.4.

The episode currently has a score of 8.3 on TV.com, as voted for by viewers.

Pop Culture References

• The society leader's repeated use of the word "bitty" to describe breast-feeding Bono is reminiscent of a sketch in the UK comedy series Little Britain, where a fully-grown man is breast-fed by his mother and refers to it as "bitty".
• The documentary The King Of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters is believed to be a source for parody in the episode . The way Randy and Bono compete for the "Biggest Crap Award" is similar to the real-life conflict between Billy Mitchell and Steve Wiebe regarding a Donkey Kong high score. This is also apparent when Bono sends the tape of his record-breaking attempt to the Guinness Society, and it is accepted without being checked, as well as issues of favoritism regarding Bono as a celebrity.
• "Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah!" is sung by Bono many times during the episode, and at one point he answers his phone by singing "Hello! Hello!" These are both lines from the song Vertigo by Bono's band U2.
• Throughout the episode, an image of an Emmy Award appears at the bottom of the screen, along with a message announcing that South Park has won the Emmy Award for Outstanding Animated Series, specifically during scenes that featured or heavily talked about defecation. At the end of the episode, a member of the association picks up the award from the bottom of the screen, and awards it to Randy by shoving it into his 100+ Courics crap, possibly indicating that Trey Parker and Matt Stone had not cared one way or the other about winning it.
• When Bono answered the phone in the middle of his speech at the beginning of the episode, it may have been a reference to Giuliani's answering his cell phone during a speech given to the National Rifle Association on September, 2007.
• Bono's video announcement of his new record 9.5 courics crap is similiar to Hank Aaron's video when Barry Bonds broke his homerun record and Dan Marino's video after Brett Farve broke his touchdown record.

External links

• Preview at South Park Studios
• Trivia at South Park Stuff
• Episode Highlights at Comedy Central