A Mother's Courage

A Mother's Courage
A Mother's Courage was a online short released on The Comedy Central website in 1998 to coincide with the Season 2 Halloween episode, Spookyfish. But weirdly it was lost from the internet until recently.

The Plot
The short was about Stan, Kyle, and Kenny demonstrating how to make a Jack-o-lantern that looks like Lou Diamond Phillips. They are also arguing with Cartman, who is in the background eating a whole bag of candy corn.

How it was lost
Originally it was available to download through a small 50 KB file called SouthPark.mcs and was made with a obscure tool called Media Conveyor which at the time was a rival to the form of Macromedia Flash. It was chosen because it was able to recreate the South Park art style with small downloads, which was important at the time because the average consumer had low bandwidth at the time, plus it worked with a cache system meaning that you could make a model once and save it to use for later. But as we all know, Macromedia Flash became the mainstay animation software of the show leading Comedy Central to pull the short and replace it with a web comic following the exact same story, and the short was presumed to be lost forever.

How it was found
Recently the south park fan fourms across the web found out about this and started to look for it. In October 2015 an Youtube Channel going by the name of Mannis found this short and uploaded to his channel.

Resources
http://lostmediawiki.com/A_Mother%27s_Courage_(Found_South_Park_Web_Animation;_1998)