Skank Hunt
| "Skank Hunt" | |
|---|---|
| Episode no. | Season 20 Episode 2 |
| Directed by | Trey Parker |
| Written by | Trey Parker |
| Featured music | "Smokin'" by Boston "Steal My Sunshine" by Len "Gortoz a Ran" (I await) by Denez Prigent |
| Production code | 2002 |
| Original air date | September 21, 2016 |
"Skank Hunt" is the second episode in the twentieth season of the American animated television series South Park. The 269th episode of the series overall, it first aired on Comedy Central in the United States on September 21, 2016. The episode parodied trolling, cyberbullying and suicide prevention.
The faculty at South Park Elementary holds a parents-only meeting, discussing the recent activity of an Internet troll named Skankhunt42 who harasses people on the school's student message boards and elsewhere on the Internet. The parents are implored to investigate the question of whether if one of their children might be the troll, unaware that Skankhunt42 is actually Gerald Broflovski.
Heidi Turner becomes depressed and deletes her Twitter profile, throwing her phone off a bridge. The entire school is devastated, and treat the situation as if Heidi committed suicide. The classmates and Mr. Mackey have a "funeral" during which they pay tribute to her on Twitter, despite her presence among them. Later, Scott Malkinson is convinced to "end it all" by deleting his Twitter account. Mr. Mackey is forced to calm him down, only to have Scott come to him minutes later complaining about the same thing. This recurs to the point where Scott calls Mr. Mackey in the middle of the night.
Gerald gleefully continues his clandestine Internet activities. Although a colleague of one of Gerald's victims characterizes Skankhunt42 as miserable, Gerald is shown genuinely enjoying his day, dancing in the street, exhibiting extreme tolerance to bad behavior on the part of others. He soon discovers that his Internet attacks have made the news. Following his attack upon a Danish breast cancer awareness website, its webmaster, a Danish Olympic gold medalist named Freja Ollegard, states publicly that she will not be intimidated by Skankhunt42. Gerald sees this as a challenge that he happily accepts.
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