manbearpig

Al Gore showing a drawing of Manbearpig to the school. Episode no. Season 10

Episode 145 Written by Trey Parker Original airdate April 26, 2006 Season 10 episodes South Park - Season 10

March 22, 2006 – November 15, 2006 The Return of Chef Smug Alert! Cartoon Wars Part I Cartoon Wars Part II A Million Little Fibers ManBearPig Tsst Make Love, Not Warcraft Mystery of the Urinal Deuce Miss Teacher Bangs a Boy Hell on Earth 2006 Go God Go Go God Go XII Stanley's Cup ? Season 9 Season 11 ? List of South Park episodes

"ManBearPig" is the sixth episode of the tenth season of Comedy Central's South Park. It originally aired on April 26, 2006. The episode loosely parodies global warming and Al Gore's movie An Inconvenient Truth.[1]

Plot

Al Gore visits South Park Elementary School and talks about the terrible ManBearPig, "half man, half bear, and half pig," who roams the Earth and attacks humans for no reason at all. He also says throughout the episode that people will take him 'cereal' - apparently his version of serious. Afterwards, the boys' basketball game is interrupted by another visit from Al Gore, who is disguised (poorly) as the ManBearPig and claims to be "trying to spread ManBearPig awareness" by handing out flyers and bumper stickers. Stan's father, Randy, picks up the boys to drive them home. Randy says the former U.S. Vice President is just desperate for attention, because he has no friends. Al Gore phones Stan in the middle of the night and begins pestering him about manbearpig. Gore then breaks down on the phone, and Stan reluctantly agrees to go to a meeting, where Al Gore tells Stan and his friends that "MBP" is hiding in the Cave of the Winds. At first the children are reluctant to go with him, but when he explains that he will excuse the children from school, they agree to go.

In the cave, Gore first starts asking the tour guide illogical questions and begins moaning, trying to call ManBearPig. Al Gore forces the kids to follow him off the path, and begins shooting wildly with a SPAS 12, causing a cave-in that leaves the kids trapped in the caverns while Gore and all the other tourists evacuate the cave safely. Gore claims ManBearPig caused the cave-in and that the monster is still at large. While the boys search for a way out, Cartman discovers a small cavern filled with gold coins, pearls, and other treasures. He hides the loot from the other boys and starts swallowing the treasure piece-by-piece to smuggle it out of the cave. He gets really fat by doing this.

Outside the cave, a rescue team has been assembled to find the boys, despite Al Gore's pleas that the caves be filled with molten lead in order to kill ManBearPig. Gore diverts the flow of a nearby stream in order to cause a flood that fills the cavern in an attempt to kill the still-unseen monster. The boys meanwhile believe that Cartman, bloated with gold and jewels, is severely ill, and try to find a way out, carrying him.