Volcano (South Park)

“Volcano” is the third episode of the first season of South Park. It originally aired on Comedy Central in the United States on August 27, 1997. The episode was written by series co-creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone. It featured the first appearances of recurring characters Ned Gerblansky and Randy Marsh.

About Volcano (South Park) in brief

“Volcano” is the third episode of the first season of South Park. It originally aired on Comedy Central in the United States on August 27, 1997. Stan, Kyle, Cartman and Kenny go on a hunting trip with Stan’s uncle Jimbo and his war buddy Ned. While on the trip, Stan is frustrated by his inability to shoot a living creature and Cartman tries to scare the hunting party with tales of a creature named Scuzzlebutt. Meanwhile, the group is unaware that a nearby volcano is about to erupt. The episode was written by series co-creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone. It was inspired by the 1997 disaster films Volcano and Dante’s Peak, both of which Parker and Stone strongly disliked. It featured the first appearances of recurring characters Ned Gerblansky and Randy Marsh. It also marked the first of two appearances for Scuzzle butt, who became a popular minor character and appeared in the video games South Park 10: The Game and South Park Rally. “Volcano’s” computer animation was greatly improved compared to the early episodes. It received generally positive reviews and was nominated for a 1997 Environmental Media Award. Slightly more than 1 million viewers watched the original broadcast, according to Nielsen ratings. The episode parodied the Duck and Cover educational videos from the 1950s and 1960s that advised people to hide under tables in the event of a nuclear attack. Stan does not understand, since Jimbo tried to kill earlier animals and wanted to impress Kenny, Jimbo points out that Kenny is always dead and that Stan will always be Jimbo’s nephew.

Stan tries to shoot him in order to redeem himself in his uncle’s eyes, but he is unable to do so and the delay gives Cartman time to remove the costume. The real Scuzzbutt then appears, and Jimbo apologizes to the boys for their seemingly imminent deaths, just before realizing that Scuzzle Butt is weaving a wicker basket to carry the huntingParty to safety. However, in a misguided attempt to prove he can kill something and prove that he now understands the folly of guns, Ned drops his rifle, which accidentally fires, killing Stan and the other animals. Finally, the boys decide to go home to watch cartoons instead of going on the hunting trip, thus deciding that hunting is stupid and confusing, thus Stan decides to watch home cartoons instead. This episode was the third produced, but it was broadcast as the second. The latter, who is also the town geologist, is established as Stan’s father in later episodes. Randy Marsh is also known as Stan’s father in the later episodes, and later became Stan’s dad in South Park 2: The Game. He reports his findings to the Mayor, who directs one of her aides to make appropriate decisions about the crisis. He orders the South Park residents to dig a trench to divert the lava away from the town. The hunters try to flee, but find themselves trapped on the other side of the trench, but due to a miscalculation he leads the trench to Denver, destroying it.

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