Night of the Living Homeless

"Night of the Living Homeless" is the seventh episode of the eleventh season of South Park.

Synopsis
An increasing amount of Homeless people in South Park worries it's residents, and the boys decide to solve the problem on their own.

Plot
Stan, Cartman, Kyle and Kenny are annoyed to see that a large group of Homeless people are taking over their Basket Ball court. Kyle feels sorry for them, and wants to do something about it. The other boys misunderstand him, and they set up a show where Cartman jumps over the Homeless people with his skateboard. The increasing amount of Homeless people is noticed by the City Council who have a meeting of what they should do about it. Several of the suggestions are to give the Homeless people make overs and designer sleeping bags to make them more pleasant to look at and to turn them into tires to make use of them. Wendy Testaburger's mom is the only one who is appalled at their offensive ideas. They are then told by the Homeless Adviser of the meeting that they must be extremely careful with the situation and not give out any money to them, which would only bring more.

Kyle doesn't realize the threat though, and still feeling sorry for the Homeless, he goes out late at night to give twenty Dollars to one beggar, but feels like his gesture is unappreciated when the man asks for more, then goes off begging for more money without a thank you. The next morning Kyle realizes a large group of Homeless have mustered outside his home, which is noticed by his friends. Kyle confesses to them that he gave one twenty dollar bill but doesn't believe thats the only reason why they are all there, while Cartman still thinks Kyle wants him to jump them with his skateboard. Randy Marsh is on his way home for work when he is swarmed by Homeless people. He gives some to make them go away but more keep on coming. He runs to the Community Center where Gerald Broflovski, Jimbo Kern and Steven and Linda Stotch are and barricades themselves inside and go on the roof.

The Homeless overrun the town making getting around almost impossible. Stan and Kyle see their fathers on the roof of the Community Center in a new report before the station is cut off by the Homeless. The four boys go out to help them, where they are picked up by one of the Mayors Aids. He tells them of the Homeless Adviser from the Council meeting and how he can help them before their car is hit by a truck and he is killed. The boys escape from the car and go down into the sewers where they head to the scientists house. At the Community Center Gerald decides to make a run for it, planning on getting to a bus station and going for some help. When outside, he gives away his change to the Homeless to get them off his back but realizes he doesn't have any change for the bus anymore so he begins to beg for change, making the rest of the adults think he's one of them.

The boys reach the scientists house, where Cartman comes up with the plan to jump over all the Homeless people to save those on the Community Center, which irritates Kyle who is sick of him talking about jumping over Homeless people, though Stan tells Kyle to stop talking about jumping over homeless people like it's his plan. The scientist interrupts them and explains that the Homeless live off of change, and that the nearby city of Evergreen faced the same problem. The Homeless break into the house though and the boys escape while the Scientist kills himself.

At the Community Center a whole new group of people reach the roof while fleeing from the Homeless. As time drags on for them things become more tense. They run out of pop-tarts (Their only food supply), but there is hope when Glenn, a member of the City Council, is able to get a signal on his cell phone. He calls his wife to find out what is happening when he learns prperty rates in South Park have gone down so low because of the homeless his house is being put on mortage, which makes him homeless which makes none of the others trust him. He starts to panic and starts asking for change so he can put his things in storage which leads Randy to shoot him.

The boys make it to Evergreen which is totally destroyed. They meet three men dressed in camouflage who tell them how they solved their Homeless problem. They explained they had the same Homeless problem as them until the Homeless got enough change to rent apartments and soon buy houses, which apparently 'caused' fights that destroyed the town because you "wouldn't know if the person living in the house right next door to you was homeless or not." One of the men tells them that he had to kill his own wife who he had been living with for 20 years because she was 'Homeless'. Kyle then finds a panplat on the ground the advertises South Park as a great place for the Homeless. The people of Evergreen didn't solve their problem, they just sent it somewhere else. In a following confrontation the wife the man had killed is actually still alive and attempts to kill him, resulting everyone dieng except the boys. They then customize a bus to drive into South Park and lure the Homeless out by singing, sending them to California like how Evergreen had sent them to South Park.

At California, Cartman jumps the homeless as Stan tells Kyle he can't see how it helps, to Kyle's annoyance...

Trivia

 * This episode parodies Dawn Of The Dead
 * Zombie films were originally parodied in "Pink Eye".
 * Mayor McDaniels' assistant Ted, apparently dies in this episode.
 * The song the boys sing is a parody of "California Love".
 * The girl jogging in California is the lesbian that Mrs. Garrison makes with in the episode D'Yikes