“Damien” is the tenth episode of the first season of the American animated television series South Park. It originally aired on Comedy Central in the United States on February 4, 1998. The episode serves as a satire on religion, faith and the nature of good and evil. Michael Buffer, the boxing ring announcer best known for the catchphrase “Let’s get ready to rumble!”, makes a guest appearance as himself.
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“Damien” is the tenth episode of the first season of the American animated television series South Park. It originally aired on Comedy Central in the United States on February 4, 1998. In the episode, the boys’ class is joined by a new student named Damien, who has been sent by his father Satan to find Jesus and arrange a boxing match between the two. The majority of South Park’s residents bet on Satan to win the match due to his enormous size and muscular physique, but Satan ultimately throws the fight and reveals he bet on Jesus, thus winning everybody’s money. The episode serves as a satire on religion, faith and the nature of good and evil, as well as a commentary on commercialism and the cult of celebrity in America. Michael Buffer, the boxing ring announcer best known for the catchphrase “Let’s get ready to rumble!”, makes a guest appearance as himself. It received generally positive reviews and was viewed by 3. 2 million households when it was first broadcast, making it the highest rated cable program the week it aired. It was originally conceptualized as a Christmas special, but the original broadcast was pushed forward when Parker and Stone decided instead to make “Mr. Hankey, the Christmas Poo” the season’s holiday episode. It marked the first appearance of Satan, who would become a recurring South Park character, and the character of Damien himself, who was inspired by the antagonist of the 1976 horror film The Omen. It also introduced several key characteristics of the Cartman character that have endured throughout the rest of the series, such as the fact that he is always on the move, even after kicking out his dad, since his dad has always moved on to the next thing in the world.
The boys finally accept Damien after he hurls Pip in the air and makes him explode in a shower of fireworks. However, a furious Cartman ends his party early after opening Kyle’s present to discover that it’s not what he had in mind. Afterward, Damien tries to apologize to the boys for setting fire to the playground and turning Kenny into a duck-billed platypus, stating that he was doing his father’s bidding and he did not have a choice. Meanwhile, Jesus is disheartened by the town’s lack of faith in him, and he does not retaliate to Satan’s attacks against him, despite Satan’s apparent taunting of “hit me”. The whole town then asks forgiveness of Jesus, who accepts the apology when Jimbo identifies him as a rare duck-boo when he dies and shoots him out of the sky. The next day, the kids make it for the end of the fight, and offer Jesus some words of encouragement. Afterwards, Satan reveals he had been in fact, to bet on Christ and then throw the fight from the South Park residents, winning him a lot of money and real estate from the real estate company. The town are angered by this, until Stan reminds them that Jesus told them that he told them to bet against him.
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