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The Return of Chef
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| “The Return of Chef” | |
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| South Park episode | |
 Chef, after being torn to pieces. |
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| Episode no. | Season 10 Episode 140 |
| Written by | Trey Parker Matt Stone |
| Directed by | Trey Parker |
| Guest stars | Peter Serafinowicz as Darth Chef |
| Original airdate | March 22, 2006 |
| Season 10 episodes | |
| South Park - Season 10 March 22, 2006 – November 15, 2006 |
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"The Return of Chef", or referred to as "Life Without Chef Part 2", is episode 140 of Comedy Central's animated series South Park and aired on March 22, 2006.[1] It was advertised as the tenth season premiere.[2] It was #1 on the "10 South Parks That Changed The World" list.
The episode parodies so-called "very special episodes", heavily satirizes Scientology, and is notable for its timing after the sudden departure of Isaac Hayes,[1] who had voiced Chef on the series since its inception.[2] This was mainly the result of the episode "Trapped in the Closet".
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The episode begins with a fake "Previously on South Park", which explains that Chef left South Park to join the "Super Adventure Club" (SAC) hoping to add excitement and meaning to his life. For three months he is gone, but, at the very beginning of this episode, he returns. The kids quickly notice that he is acting strangely, however, and soon, he begins to express a desire to have sex with all the boys (all the time using dialogue made up of audio clips from previous episodes, intentionally spliced together poorly to underline his strange behavior). He says things such as "I wanna make love to/your asshole/children!", "Lets go home and/make love!" and "I wanna/ stick my balls/ inside your rectum/ Kyle." The boys, wanting to find out what caused this, go to the Super Adventure Club headquarters, and soon discover that the group is made up of explorers who travel worldwide, molesting children. When the explorers try to hypnotize the boys, they realize that this "fruity little club" has brainwashed Chef.
The boys take Chef to see a psychiatrist, who determines he has been very heavily brainwashed. His solution is to help him get back to having sex with women, his classic pastime, to snap out of it. The boys and the psychiatrist bring Chef to a strip club, and after an initial cold reaction to the more comely, svelte strippers, Chef is taken by a fat dancer, snapping back to his old self again. However, agents of the Super Adventure Club have been following him. They shoot Chef with tranquilizer darts, and bring him back to their headquarters. When the boys follow the kidnappers back to their headquarters and angrily demand Chef's release, the Super Adventure Club leader explains the history of their organization with the caption "This is what Super Adventure Club actually believes" (a reference to Trapped in the Closet). Its founder was an explorer who, after being beaten to every great discovery, decided to be the first person to have sex with children in exotic places. He discovered that there are things in children's bodies called marlocs that enter the adult's bodies when they have anal sex with children and grants them immortality. However, the founder was hit and killed by a train in 1892.[I] Kyle then calls this "retarded". The Super Adventure Club leader asks Kyle if it is any more retarded than the ideas of Christianity or Buddhism, to which Stan answers "way, way more retarded" (in a reference to Scientology).
The boys are then told that they have to leave, but they refuse to leave without Chef. They are told that security will be called on them if they will not leave, but they still refuse to leave. When security comes, Kyle hits them with a baseball bat. They find Chef in a containment room where he was being read the SAC manual by a SAC member. Cartman tells Kenny to use The Spin Blossom Nut Squash (Kenny launching himself at the members' testicles) to free Chef. They then escape with him across the Super Adventure Club's bridge. A club member is able to convince Chef that he should rejoin the club. However, the bridge Chef is crossing then collapses after being struck by lightning.
Chef catches on fire. Unable to hang onto the bridge, Chef falls down, bouncing off several rocks before being impaled on a jagged tree stump. He is then attacked by a mountain lion and later a grizzly bear. One man from the Super Adventure Club, aiming for the mountain lion, shoots Chef three times before the animals dismember him. He gets the skin on his face ripped off, and then he gets ripped in half at the waist, and his organs are hanging out. Stan and Kyle then say their catchphrase: "Oh my God! They killed Chef!" "You bastards!". Cartman suggests that Chef may not be dead because "They say the last thing you do before you die is crap your--" At that instant, Chef's body empties his bowels, which Cartman follows up with a "Oh... never mind" and the boys leave the scene, dismayed that their friend is apparently dead.
A memorial service for Chef then occurs, with Kyle explaining that he didn't agree with Chef's recent decision, but is not angry at him for leaving South Park, and wishes only to remember him as the singing, jolly man he was. Kyle explains "We should be mad at that fruity little club for scrambling his brains" and not Chef himself (most likely a shot at Isaac Hayes quitting over the Scientology episode, due to his being a Scientologist). He then adds that Chef is still alive in their hearts.
The scene then turns to the SAC members, who are shown with Chef's body, putting it in a suit reminiscent of Darth Vader's in Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith, complete with a red-colored lightsaber-like spatula. One of the first things Darth Chef says after coming back to life is, "How would you like to lick my chocolate salty balls, children?"
This is the first of two episodes in which the Braniff clip is shown before the credits.
- All of the dialogue used for Chef in this episode is dialogue used in previous episodes strung together. Notable episodes include (but are not limited to) "Cartman Gets an Anal Probe", "Chef Aid", "Chef Goes Nanners", "Chef's Salty Chocolate Balls", and "Cancelled". It can be noticed that when he talks, music can occasionally be heard for however long one segment of dialogue lasts.
- This episode makes a reference to a similar scene in "Trapped in the Closet", which used a similar caption on the screen while explaining and making fun of esoteric Scientology beliefs.[3]
- The strip club the boys take Chef to, the Peppermint Hippo, was previously seen in "Lil' Crime Stoppers" along with the deep voiced stripper who constantly asked people if they wanted a dance.
- The scene in which Chef gets killed first resembles the rope bridge scene from Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom and then the scene in which Homer falls down the canyon in The Simpsons' episode "Bart the Daredevil".
- After Chef is killed, he "craps his pants". This is a running gag continued from the season 8 episode, "Something Wall-Mart This Way Comes".
The original television airing of the episode drew more than 3.5 million viewers, including 2.3 million viewers aged between 17 and 49.[2][4] This popularity made the episode Comedy Central's highest-rated season premiere since the year 2002 according to a Comedy Central spokesman and Nielsen Media Research.[2][5] The episode was also ranked fourth in video sales on iTunes.[5]
The episode received fairly high review ratings. IGN, a multimedia news and reviews website, reviewed the episode and gave it an overall rating of 8.0.[3]
The voice of Darth Chef was voiced by Darth Maul actor, Peter Serafinowicz.[6]
- ^ a b Al Barger (2006-03-24). TV Review: South Park "The Return of Adam Livshits". blogcritics.org. Retrieved on 2006-11-28.
- ^ a b c d 'South Park' Premiere Draws Big Audience. cbsnews.com (2006-03-24). Retrieved on 2006-11-28.
- ^ a b Eric Goldman (2006-03-23). South South Park: "The Return of Chef" Review. tv.ign.com. Retrieved on 2006-11-28.
- ^ Reuters (2006-03-24). Chef's grisly exit is a South Park hit. smh.com.au. Retrieved on 2006-11-28.
- ^ a b Hibberd, James. "'South Park' Episode Lives; Scientology Story Line Thrives Online as Comedy Central Looks the Other Way", TelevisionWeek, April 3, 2006, pp. TV Currents.
- ^ imdb (2007-10-29). IMDB - Peter Serafinowicz. smh.com.au. Retrieved on 2007-10-29.
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