South Park
Season 5
14 listed hours · 1997–present · Comedy Central
From the desk
How this season is filed
Construction-paper kids roasting the news cycle before the week is over. Trey Parker and Matt Stone built Comedy Central's meanest appointment ritual: Stan, Kyle, Cartman, and Kenny as a Greek chorus of American outrage, plus a pipeline that trades polish for currency. Celebrity lawsuits, bleep battles, and the perpetual too-soon dare — satire that refuses to age into nostalgia.
TV Flash files Season 5 of South Park (1997–present) on Comedy Central as a mid listed season (5; 5 of 28) — 14 listed hours, 2001-06-20–2001-12-12 from “It Hits the Fan” (S05E01) to “Butters' Very Own Episode” (S05E14). Titles, dates, and synopses on file — no invented recaps.
Desk essentials in this season
- S05E01 It Hits the Fan
The bleep-battle hour: satire testing how loud a basic-cable cartoon can get before Standards blinks.
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S05E01 It Hits the Fan
The boys realize they may have made history of some sort when Cartman utters an expletive.
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S05E02 Cripple Fight
The boys join the Mountain Scouts with Timmy, who winds up in a fight with Jimmy in a supermarket parking lot.
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S05E03 Super Best Friends
A magician persuades Kenny, Cartman and Kyle to join his cult, and their journey lands them in Washington, D.C.
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S05E04 Scott Tenorman Must Die
Radiohead plays a role in Cartman's plan for revenge against an eighth-grader who wronged him.
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S05E05 Terrance and Phillip: Behind the Blow
The boys are devastated to learn that their heroes Terrence and Phillip have broken up.
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S05E06 Cartmanland
Cartman uses his $1 million inheritance to open his own amusement park.
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S05E07 Proper Condom Use
The impulsive implementation of sex-education classes at school leads to an all-out battle between the boys and the girls.
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S05E08 Towelie
The gang tries to protect a new resident in South Park from the government.
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S05E09 Osama Bin Laden Has Farty Pants
The boys decide to get into the patriotic spirit by heeding the President's advice to send money to the children of Afghanistan. But their spirits sour when they receive a package back and their mail becomes the focus of Government investigators.
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S05E10 How to Eat with Your Butt
As a prank, Cartman somehow gets Kenny's picture pasted on milk cartons as a missing child, which soon backfires on him.
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S05E11 The Entity (a.k.a. The Ginger Device)
Kyle is embarrassed by his cousin, Kyle, and tries to think of ways to avoid him in front of his friends.
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S05E12 Here Comes the Neighborhood
Kyle, Stan, Kenny and Cartman have a run-in with Token, the town's only rich kid. In retaliation, Token encourages other wealthy people to move into the neighborhood.
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S05E13 Kenny Dies
Cartman discovers the benefits of stem-cell research.
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S05E14 Butters' Very Own Episode
Butters looks forward to his parents' anniversary dinner despite his mother's reaction to his father's secret extracurricular activities.
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