The Tale of Scrotie McBoogerballs

"The Tale of Scrotie McBoogerballs" is the second episode of Season Fourteen, and the 197th overall episode of South Park. It originally aired on Comedy Central on March 24, 2010.

Synopsis
The boys are given a controversial book to read in school and it inspires them to write one of their own.

Plot
The students at South Park Elementary are assigned to read The Catcher in the Rye, and grow excited when Mr. Garrison tells them that the book has caused so much controversy, it has been banned from public schools in the past. However, after reading the book, Stan, Kyle, Cartman, and Kenny are angry to find the content completely inoffensive, and feel the school has "tricked" them into reading. They decide to write their own offensive novel, The Tale of Scrotie McBoogerballs, with the intention of disgusting as many people as possible and getting the book banned. Later, Stan's parents find the first draft and read it. They find it so disgusting that they repeatedly vomit while reading. However, they both consider it the best book they have ever read. Fearful they will get into trouble for the book's content, Stan and the boys tell Butters he actually wrote the book. Butters believes them because ever since reading The Catcher in the Rye, he has been entering into altered states of consciousness that make him want to kill John Lennon, even though Lennon is already dead.

Butters confesses to writing the novel himself. However, Stan and the boys are furious to learn that not only do the South Park adults love the book, a publisher has agreed to sign Butters for a book deal. The Tale of Scrotie McBoogerballs becomes a huge success, and everybody who reads it vomits profusely, but declares it a masterpiece nonetheless. As Butters becomes a literary icon, the four boys unsuccessfully campaign to have the book banned. They are angered to find readers interpreting passages from the novel as allegories for contentious political issues, even though the boys never intended to convey such messages. Since the book made many references to the unattractiveness of actress Sarah Jessica Parker, Cartman and Kenny plan to get her killed, believing the negative publicity will cause the book to be banned. They dress Parker as a moose, then lead her into the woods during hunting season.

Butters writes his own novel, The Poop That Took a Pee, which consists solely of simple descriptions of scatological acts. The four boys are convinced the book will be a disaster and expose Butters as a fraud over the first book. However, much to their surprise, readers actually find it an ever better, more profound book, and continue reading their own allegorical messages into the text. After finishing the book, one crazed reader (for some reason) storms on to the set of reality television series Keeping Up with the Kardashians and murdering the entire Kardashian family with a pump-action shotgun. Both The Tale of Scrotie McBoogerballs and The Poop That Took a Pee are banned as a result, and Butters is horrified because he considered Kim Kardashian "the most beautiful woman in the world". Stan and Kyle suggest that instead of reading books and possibly discovering the wrong message in them, people should simply watch television instead. Cartman also claims Sarah Jessica Parker has also been killed because Butters accidentally dressed her in a moose costume while sleepwalking, although Butters says he does not care because she was ugly.