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"The New Terrance and Phillip Movie Trailer"
"I told you I needed tampons, TURDS!"
Episode no.	83
Airdate	March 27, 2002
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"The New Terrance and Phillip Movie Trailer" is episode 604 of the Comedy Central series South Park. It originally aired on March 27, 2002.

Contents 1 Plot synopsis 2 Russell Crowe: Fightin' Around The World 2.1 Characters 2.1.1 Russell Crowe 2.1.2 Tugger 2.1.3 Wally B. 2.2 The Episode 2.3 Behind the Show 3 Trivia 4 Goofs

The boys (Stan, Kyle, Cartman and Butters) stay for the night at Stan's to see the new Terrance and Phillip movie trailer which will be shown during one of the commercial breaks of Fighting 'Round the World with Russell Crowe.

While watching the first minute of the show, waiting for the commercial to air, Shelley interrupts the boys' watching time and demands tampons or else they have to watch Buffy with her.

Butters is sent to get the tampons. While Butters is out, Cartman thinks the TV's color is "saturated" and decides to fix a loose cable, causing the TV to explode.

So the boys leave the house (along with Butters who happens to arrive as they're about to leave) to watch at Kyle's house.

At Kyle's house, the boys kick Ike off the TV and arrive before the first commercial break. While watching Russell Crowe travel to Tiananmen Square, China and beat up some random Chinese people, the boys are kicked off the TV by Kyle's dad so Ike can continue to watch the news.

Since the boys can't go to Butters' or Cartman's place, they go to Chef's instead to watch on his new plasma TV.

The boys made it to Chef's just in time to watch the first commercial break. To their disappointment the trailer is not shown during the break. While continuing to watch Russell Crowe beat up blacks and Puerto Ricans from New York, Chef tries to work his new TV to play 3 channels at the same time. Unfortunately, he can't quite figure out how to work the remote, and ends up inadvertently activating "HEM" mode. "HEM" turns out to stand for "Human Eradication Mode", and the TV transforms into a robot which bears a passing similarity to ED-209. Chef's TV crashes through the wall and leaves the house to wreak havoc on the street, firing lasers at passers-by and cars. The boys leave Chef to solve his problem and go to the bar to use the TV there.

After watching Russell Crowe beat up his show's editor for cutting one of his fight scenes short, the barkeeper kicks the boys out of the bar since no children are allowed in. They all head off to find a TV. Meanwhile, Chef is following his rampaging TV robot while talking to the customer service hotline trying to find out how to stop it.

The boys arrive at a retirement community and watch the Russell Crowe show not caring that the old people were using the TV. After watching Russell Crowe sing (which results in his tugboat friend attempting suicide), the second commercial break comes on. Again, the trailer is not aired. The old people are getting sick of the Russell Crowe show and use their incontinence to get rid of the kids.

Having nowhere else to go, the boys go to Cartman's house instead to watch the Russell Crowe show even though Cartman's house is being fumigated. However the gas proves too strong and they leave Cartman's for Stan's house to use the black and white TV.

There's a problem though: Butters had the tampons through their whole entire journey, meaning Shelley didn't get to use one. As soon as Stan turns the front door knob, the door flies open and a torrent of blood gushes through the door, flooding the boys back into the street. There is no way Shelley will let them watch at Stan's house now.

Shortly after, they see some crack addicts on the street with a small TV and join them to watch Russell Crowe beating up a man with cancer. The show is interrupted by Chef's TV destroying the tiny TV and killing one of the crack addicts. Chef is following and still talking to Customer Service.

The boys are lost with nowhere else to go and the last commercial break will be shown in a few seconds from now. The only option left is Butters' house, but Butters says that they can't watch it at his place. The boys finally ask him why, and he explains that he doesn't have a babysitter to watch over him. The others are angry because Butters' TV is still in his house working with nobody in it and he didn't tell them ("We can kill Butters later"). They get to Butters' just in time to view the last commercial break AND the new Terrance and Philip movie trailer. Of course, the trailer is a colossal let-down. This doesn't stop the boys from becoming ecstatic at having seen it. Happy and satisfied, the boys go to Clyde's to see the trailer again (since he taped it). And that is also the end of the Russell Crowe show: fighting around the world. Meanwhile, Chef's TV is still out on a rampage.

Fightin' Around the World is a fictional television show within South Park (a show-within-a-show), in which Russell Crowe and his tugboat "Tugger" travel to different parts of the globe, and meet interesting people, whom Crowe then picks fights with. In an interesting reversal of the debate surrounding Pavlova, Phar Lap and Split Enz, Australians and New Zealanders both claim Russell Crowe belongs to the other nation.

Russell is the lead character and fights everyone. He gets angry when people point at him saying "oh look, it's Russell Crowe." He manages to pick a fight with anyone.

Russell's beloved tugboat. Tugger takes Russell all over the world to fight different people, although he does not like it and probably does not like Russell. Tugger tried to commit suicide when Russell tried to cheer him up with a song off his new album; the tugboat was upset because he and his girlfriend had a recent fight. His reaction is a little similar to Stan's when Wendy dumped him.

Appeared at the end of the show. Wally B. is a wallaby who can stand upright and is Russell's friend. Wallabies come from the same country Russell Crowe comes from.

The episode shown was about Russell trying to have a good fight with various people including Chinese and African-Americans. He stops at a port and realises Tugger is down. Tugger had a fight with his girlfriend so Russell decides to cheer him up. Russell sings a song off his new album. Tugger tries to in various ways to avoid hearing Russell's music and shoots himself in the end. Tugger is taken to hospital where he recovers and gets a shiny new horn. Russell realises that all great actors take up good causes, so he states that he is "the greatest of them all" and decides to fight cancer. Since he cannot find cancer he fights someone with it. Back at the port some people notice Russell Crowe as he starts to pick a fight. Tugger blows his whistle meaning they have to go. Russell meets his friend Wally B. and they sail off into the sunset.

The South Park creators (Trey Parker and Matt Stone) made this show within a show because of an incident that happened to them the year before. Russell had invited them and other friends to listen to his new album. Trey and Matt disliked the album but did give him some constructive criticism, which was met with silence from most and a sarcastic comment from Russell. A record producer then came in and they listened to the music all over again. Trey and Matt, while still being friends with Russell, still decided to lampoon his alleged brawls he has had all over the world.

• Russell Crowe's calling the little girl a cunt at the end of the episode is censored by the tugboat whistle.
• The enormous build-up of hype over the Asses of Fire II: Attack of the Cramps trailer spoofs the hype over the Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones trailer.
• The theme song for Russell Crowe's show is a parody of The Lumberjack Song by Monty Python.
• The Russell Crowe show spoofs Teletubbies (in its graphics showing rays of sunlight behind a globe), Steamboat Willie (Russell spinning the ship's wheel), The Crocodile Hunter, Popeye cartoons (Popeye would often end up in fights), Theodore Tugboat and Crowe's own controversies. Trey Parker and Matt Stone said on the audio commentary for this episode that they are friends with and fans of Russell Crowe.
• Terrance and Phillip's new movie is the sequel to the film they made in South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut. This film is, according to Terrance and Phillip: Behind the Blow, their first collaboration since the first Asses of Fire.
• The TV robot's laser gun noises (along with the screams that accompany it) are the same in the computer game Empire Earth.
• The TV robot resembles ED-209 from the movie Robocop.
• The homeless man who is killed by the TV robot is the same one that bought the kids movie tickets in South Park: Bigger, Longer and Uncut.
• The medal attached to Russell Crowe's chest is most probably a reference to his grandfather's OBE decoration that Crowe wore to the 2001 Academy Awards ceremony.
• This is one of only two episodes to be shown in real time, the other being season 11's "The Snuke," which parodies 24.
• In the episode "Professor Chaos", Butters mentions going to get tampons for Shelley when he is ranting about being sacked. This is a reference to this episode.
• Russel's treatment of different races and peoples and his tendency to describe them as animals may owe somenthing to various episodes of Ren and Stimpy where different types of people; such as the elderly and the overweight (the "lummox") were treated as sub-species of humanity while the title characters acted as nature-show hosts.

• While in China, Russell Crowe incorrectly claims that the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989 occurred in 1993.
• The boys are kicked off the couch so that Ike can return to watching The MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour. In reality, Robert MacNeil left the show in 1995, after which it was replaced by The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer.
• In one of the Russel Crowe scenes, he is standing infront of St Basil's Cathedral in Red Square in Moscow, but the flag shown is not the Russian flag, but the flag of Serbia and Montenegro.
• In the trailer for "Asses of Fire 2" Terrance is shown skinny. Yet in Terrance and Phillip: Behind the Blow he is shown fat. In Cartoon Wars Part II he was fat again.

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