Freak Strike
| "Freak Strike" | |
|---|---|
| South Park episode | |
| Episode no. | Season 6 Episode 3 |
| Directed by | Trey Parker |
| Written by | Trey Parker |
| Production code | 601 |
| Original air date | March 20, 2002 |
"Freak Strike" is the 3rd episode of the sixth season of the Comedy Central series South Park and the 82nd episode of the series overall. It originally aired on March 20, 2002. In the episode, the boys disguise Butters as a mutant with balls on his chin so that he can win them money on a tv show. However, Butters' only wins a round of putt-putt golf. The freaks who make a career of appearing on TV talk shows go on strike, and make Butters strike with them.
The boys are watching an episode of Maury on which several children with bodily defects are shown. A girl born with no midsection wins a gift certificate, so Kyle, Stan, Cartman, and Butters decide to try to get on the show with a faked deformity to win a prize. The group decide that Butters should be the one to go on the show with a scrotum on his chin, which Cartman called "Chinballitis." Butters doesn't want to go, but the other boys guilt him into doing so. Butters then reluctantly agrees, and the town's two sci-fi geeks make fake balls to put on Butters.
Butters then flies alone to New York to appear on the show. In the green room, he meets other variously deformed people, who welcome Butters to their union, which ensures that US TV talk shows interview their members regularly. Man with Foot on Head tells Butters that they hate it when people fake a deformity — for example, "Lobster Boy," who simply turned out to be a lobster. When they found out about this, they boiled him alive.
On the show, Maury introduces Butters as "Napoleon Bonaparte from South Park." Butters tells Maury that the kids at school make fun of him, and wins a trip to the largest miniature golf course in the world. Stan, Kyle, and Cartman are watching the show at home, and Cartman is angry that Butters got "their" prize. He calls Maury and tries to get himself on the show. The operator tells him they aren't currently interviewing people with deformities, but are trying to find "out of control kids" for a future episode. Cartman convinces his mom to take him on that show and lie that he's out of control.
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