The End of Serialization as We Know It
| "The End of Serialization as We Know It" | |
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| Episode no. | Season 20 Episode 10 |
| Directed by | Trey Parker |
| Written by | Trey Parker |
| Featured music | "Never Gonna Give You Up" by Rick Astley "Smokin'" by Boston |
| Production code | 2010 |
| Original air date | December 7, 2016 |
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"The End of Serialization as We Know It" is the tenth episode and the season finale in the twentieth season of the American animated television series South Park. The 277th episode of the series overall, it first aired on Comedy Central in the United States on December 7, 2016.
The episode, while mostly concluding the season's plot, once again reiterated the season's commentary on trolling and Internet anonymity.
The SpaceX facility has finished using Heidi Turner's research to create a massive source of energy that can easily propel transport to Mars. But after realizing that Heidi intends to break his heart (according to his skewed perception), Cartman tries to convince various SpaceX staff to cancel the Mars project by explaining that his visions of life on a Mars colony ended with the enslavement of men.
Kyle and Ike have recruited all of their remaining classmates to restart Skankhunt42's troll network, however their mother Sheila Broflovski escapes from the pantry she was previously locked in, forcing Kyle and Ike to escape using a Fulton system. As she searches for them across a crumbling South Park, Sheila ends up at the Tuckers' house where a distraught Laura Tucker reveals she has already used Troll Trace to reveal her husband Thomas' Internet history and invites Sheila to do the same. Sheila searches Ike first and discovers that he is innocent, but cannot bring herself to search Gerald.
At the Pentagon, the US government realizes the only way to stop Troll Trace is to overload the Internet with trolling to the point where it shuts down and resets itself. They coordinate with the trolling team in Denmark as well as Kyle and Ike to overload the system, but their effort cannot beat the now-active Troll Trace without a massive source of power: the Mars power source at SpaceX.
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