201

"201" is the 201st episode of Comedy Central's series South Park. It airs on Comedy Central on April 21, 2010. It is the second part of the 200th episode. It will star 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, violent ginger kids and Mecha Streisand are about 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. But before they could do anything, Mecha-Streisand appears and starts destroying South Park. So 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.

Meanwhile, the Super Best Friends are trying to come up with a way to destroy Mecha-Streisand, after she rages through the town and destroys many buildings along with several residents from the series' history. They finally destroy her by making a fake concert where Krishna takes form of Neil Diamond and performs a duet with Mecha Streisand, and then destroying her.

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 institute for several months while finding out all the information about Cartman. Scott then forces the town's residents to tell Cartman who is 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 killed their father and fed him to Scott. So Scott forces Cartman to eat the tainted 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 their 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 isn't crying over his father, but instead of griefing that he killed him, 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. We are led to assume the boys are talking about Imaginationland, but it skips to a scene on the Moon, where Cruise's dead body is seen next to the dead whale from Free Willzyx.

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 the Prophet Mohammed in disguise. Ironically it wasn't even Mohammed in disguise. It was really Santa Claus.
 * Promotional images for this episode show Cartman's hand, Mitch Conner to be in black-face, which is considered to be a racist parody of African-American performers.
 * The word 'Muhammad' is censored in this episode by Comedy Central (Not South Park Studios), most likely 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 Muhammed 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.
 * Scott Tenorman's father, Jack Tenorman, is revealed to be Eric Cartman's father.
 * First time Kevin spoke.
 * Scott Tenorman's first appearance and the rollercoaster scene in this episode have a strong resemblance with the lair of the Joker as seen in "Batman:the Killing Joke" http://www.scifi-universe.com/upload/actualites/2009/batman_killingjoke_05.jpg
 * Because of the threats, the episode did not re-air during the 12AM EST slot, and has be replaced by the episode The Tale of Scrotie McBoogerballs.
 * Many old supporting characters who have since 'disappeared' returned in this episode such as Mr. Slave, Pip, Mr. Hankey, Dr. Mephisto and Kevin. However, Chef, who was once a leading/secondary character, was not amongst them. Also some locations like Country Kitchen Buffet, and Casa Bonita.
 * The conversation Mitch and Dr. Mephisto have is a parody of A Clockwork Orange, when Alex tries to get into an old ladie's house to rob her, and she tells him that she doesnt let strangers in after dark, and that there is a telephone in the pub down the road.
 * 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 Mohammed. Also, all the bleeps were added by Comedy Central.

Continuity

 * This marks Mitch Conner's third appearance on the show.
 * This is the third offical apperance 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, 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.
 * 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 family are back from Elementary School Musical
 * The Pandemic "Cloverfield" style camera-work is brought back briefly.
 * 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. But when Stan and Kyle were talking about a great place, it sounded more like Marklar from Starvin' Marvin in Space.

Goofs
When Scott Tenorman was briefly shown last in The Death of Eric Cartman he appeared normal and mentally stable. Here he is shown as unhinged. This may've happened over the time we didn't see him however.