201

"201" is the 201st episode of Comedy Central's series South Park. It aired on April 21, 2010. It is the second part of the 200th episode. It starred all the celebrities that were mocked in the first fourteen seasons. The episode also returns to many old plots used throughout the seasons such as the mystery of who Cartman's father is.

Synopsis
Angry celebrities and violent ginger kids are after the goo of the Islamic prophet Muhammad in order to become immune to slander. To add to the mess, the celebrities activate Mecha Streisand and threaten to destroy South Park and all anyone wants to know is, “Who is Eric Cartman’s father?”

Plot
The episode begins with a flashback of Mitch Conner in the Vietnam War, then it goes to the present time. Where Cartman is questioning Mr. Garrison & Mr. Hat about his father's true identity, Mr. Garrison refuses to tell, so Cartman goes to Dr. Mephisto instead.

Meanwhile, the Gingers demand to see if the person in the teddy bear costume is really Muhammad, so they unzip the costume to reveal it is actually Santa Claus. Stan tells them they made a promise to Jesus that Muhammad would stay in the U-haul, but before they could do anything, Mecha-Streisand appears and starts destroying South Park. Meanwhile, the Super Best Friends are trying to come up with a way to destroy Mecha-Streisand, while Buddha is still snorting coke and Jesus is watching porn, after she rages through the town and destroys many buildings along with several residents from the series' history. They decide to help get on the Super Best Friends Power Cycles, which are Segways. Cartman shows up at Dr. Mephisto with Mitch Conner disguised as a stereotypical black guy trying to get into Dr. Mephisto's lab. Meanwhile Mecha-Streisand is destorying South Park and ends up squashing Pip. Stan, Kyle and Kenny immediately go to Mephisto's lab after coming up with an idea to clone Muhammad so that all that the gingers and the celebrities receive the power never to be offended again, however Cartman still demands to know who is father is but they clone Muhammad first. Then Cartman and Kyle get into a debate about which is more important, Cartman's Father or Muhammad? The gingers end up capturing Muhammad, the boys and Dr. Mephisto, while Cartman is in a tunnel and then sees that Scott Tenorman is back.

The Super Best Friends pacify Mecha-Streisand by having Krishna adopt the form of Neil Diamond and providing her the opportunity to perform a duet with him.

The celebrities get Muhammad first, and Tom Cruise finally becomes able to never be insulted again. But the gingers then surround the entire town until they get Muhammad too, while meanwhile Cartman confronts Scott Tenorman once again, where it is revealed Scott was in a mental institution for several months while finding out all the information about Cartman. Scott then forces the town's residents to tell Cartman who his father really is. Scott's father was actually a Denver Bronco and that so was Cartman's, making them half-brothers. It also ironically means that Cartman had their father killed and fed him to Scott. So Scott forces Cartman to eat chili, but the Super Best Friends break in and free Cartman and fight the celebrities and gingers, while Stan unintentionally mocks on Tom Cruise once again when Seaman jumps on his back, revealing he could still be mocked on. Tom asks Rob Reiner how he could still be made fun of if he had Muhammad's Goo. Kyle says that there is no goo. He starts to give the traditional 'I learned something today' speech, but the entire speech is censored. Jesus adds his part to the speech, which is also censored, Santa as well.

The town works on re-building itself, and Cartman is crying over his father, but instead of grieving that he had him killed, he is sad that he is a ginger, Mitch cheers him up by saying that he's also half Denver Bronco which makes Cartman stop crying. Tom Cruise cries and wishes he could never be mocked on again, Kyle says that he knows a place where no people are around to make fun of him. The final scene is on the Moon, where Cruise's dead body is seen next to the dead whale from Free Willzyx. Just like in the aforementioned episode, the credits roll over the scene of the corpses of Tom Cruise and the whale--proving that he's not even safe here..

Trivia

 * As a result of the previous episode 200, Trey Parker and Matt Stone were threatened by a radical Islamic website Revolutionmuslim.com for including an image of Muhammad in disguise. Ironically it wasn't even Muhammad in disguise. It was really Santa Claus.
 * In a Statement from Trey Parker and Matt Stone, The speech that Kyle gave was about fear and intimidation and had nothing to do with Muhammad. Despite that, all the bleeps were added by Comedy Central due to the threat against Trey and Matt.
 * When trying to get into Dr. Mephisto's lab, Cartman's hand, Mitch Conner wears black-face, which is a racist parody of African-American performers.
 * The word 'Muhammad' is censored in this episode by Comedy Central (Not South Park Studios), due to the previous threats from Revolutionmuslim.com.
 * Before Mephisto explains who Cartman's father is, Stan, Kyle, and Kenny burst into the lab with Muhammad and claim that cloning Muhammad is more important, claiming that no one cares who Cartman's father is, poking fun at us and leaving us hanging on the suspense of finding out who Cartman's father is.[[Image:BatmanKillingJoke.jpg|right|thumb|Original artwork from Batman: The Killing Joke]][[Image:201_42.jpg|right|thumb|South Park recreation of Batman: The Killing Joke]]
 * Scott Tenorman's father, Jack Tenorman, is revealed to be Eric Cartman's father.
 * First time Kevin spoke (despite being only a shriek).
 * Scott Tenorman's behavior throughout the episode is similar to that of the Joker from Batman Comics. Furthermore, his introduction into this episode at the Chili Con-Carnival and the rollercoaster scene are made to look like an iconic sequence from the "Batman: The Killing Joke "
 * Because of the threats, the episode did not re-air during the 12AM EST slot nor during the 10:30PM EST slot the day after the first airing, so it has been replaced by "The Tale of Scrotie McBoogerballs" and "You have 0 Friends".
 * Many old supporting characters who have since stopped appearing returned in this episode such as Pip, Mr. Hankey, Dr. Mephisto and Kevin.
 * Several prominent locations from past episodes are visually destroyed, like Country Kitchen Buffet, Casa Bonita, and Raisins.
 * The conversation Mitch and Dr. Mephisto have is a parody of A Clockwork Orange, when Alex tries to get into an old lady's house to rob her, and she tells him that she doesn't let strangers in after dark, and that there is a telephone in the pub down the road.Nostream_SBF.png on SouthParkStudios.com]]
 * After this episode was first aired, "Super Best Friends" and "200" were removed from the iTunes Store for purchase.
 * "Super Best Friends" was also removed from the South Park Studios after "201" aired with a notice saying that they were unable to stream it (see image). This would've been because of all the controversy that was caused by RevolutionMuslim.
 * Characters such as the Marshs and Guermoes most likely survived because they were on the roof of the community center with Mayor McDaniels and Jimbo who come out alive.
 * This episode was aired censored in Canada. Usually, episodes shown in Canada on The Comedy Network are uncensored.
 * This episode wasn't aired in the UK on the scheduled airdate/airtime on which the newest South Park episodes are shown and was instead replaced by a re-run of Sexual Healing. It is unknown if it will be aired in the United Kingdom.
 * In Cartman's Silly Hate Crime 2000, the hooded girl calls the boys "Fudge Packers".
 * In The Simpsons episode The Squirt and the Whale the chalkboard gag Bart writes is "South Park, We'd Stand Beside If We Weren't So Scared" because of the death threats Trey Parker and Matt Stone received.

Continuity

 * This marks Mitch Conner's third appearance on the show.
 * This is the third official appearance of a majority of the Celebrities such as Tom Cruise, Rob Reiner, Barbara Streisand, and others.
 * This is the first major appearance of Mephisto and Kevin in just over ten seasons (His last appearance was in Cartman Joins NAMBLA however he did make short cameos in the crowd in Red Sleigh Down,It's Christmas in Canada,during the song in I'm a Little Bit Country and at the end of Eat, Pray, Queef in Season 13).
 * This is Scott Tenorman's first appearance since Season 9, and his first major appearance since Season 5.
 * This is Pip's first speaking role since Professor Chaos, and appearance since D-Yikes. He is crushed by Mecha Streisand when trying to convince her to leave the town alone.
 * This is Mr. Hankey's first appearance since Red Sleigh Down.
 * Bridon Guermo and his parents appear on the rooftop behind Randy during Mecha-Streisand's attack. They last all appeared in Elementary School Musical. Although Mr. Guermo appeared during Eat, Pray, Queef, singing Queef Free along with the other men.
 * The Pandemic "Cloverfield" style camera-work is brought back very briefly during Mecha-Streisand's attack on Casa Bonita.
 * Tom Cruise dies on the moon, rather silently, and was shown laying dead near Jambu, who was sent to the moon in the past episode, Free Willzyx.
 * Before entering to Mephisto's lab, Kyle remembers the case when the boys were trying to make an elephant and a pig have sex. It's a reference of An Elephant Makes Love to a Pig.
 * Tweek and his parents appear in this episode. This is Mr. Tweak's first speaking role since "Eat, Pray, Queef".