The 19th Annual Cable ACE Awards 1997 was a South Park short created for the CableACE Awards of 1997.
Background[]
Eric Cartman, Stan Marsh, Kyle Broflovski, and Kenny McCormick are special presenters for the "The Best Talk Show Series" award. The nominees were:
- Charles Grodin: The Charles Grodin Show, CNBC.
- James Lipton: Inside The Actors Studio, Bravo Cable Network.
- Various NBC News Commentators: InterNight, MSNBC
- Larry King: Larry King Live, CNN.
- Bill Maher: Politically Incorrect, Comedy Central.
Throughout the presentation, the boys complain about the cheapness of the ACE awards during the previous non-televised night, by saying it was general admission, they had to pack their own dinners, and the prize for winning best animation series was a 5 Dollar gift certificate to Roscoe's House of Chicken and Waffles. Kenny reads the winning nominee in a muffled voice which was translated by Stan as Inside The Actors Studio Bravo Cable Network. They all clap at the end and nothing bad happens to Kenny.
Trivia[]
- This was the final edition of the Cable Ace Awards.
Video[]
South Park @ The Cable Ace Awards
Gallery[]
Script[]
Cast[]
| Cable ACE Awards 1997 | |
| A stage. Sela Ward is speaking | |
| Here are Stan, Kyle, Cartman [cheers and applause rise up from the audience] and the most eloquent of them all, Kenny. [looks off to her left. Cut to a construction-paper stage. Wearing solid black bowties, Stan and Cartman enter from screen left, Kyle and Kenny from screen right. They line up abreast behind a little podium] | |
| Whoa, dude! Sela Ward is hot! | |
| Yeah! | |
| (Yeah, I'd pinch her to get in trouble) [the others laugh as do the audience] | |
| Yeah. I would, too. | |
| Tonight, we are here to present the award for Best Talk Show Series. | |
| Ey! Wait a minute! | |
| What?! | |
| This doesn't look anything like last night's Cable Ace Awards! Everything's all fancy! | |
| That's because we were on last night, Cartman, when they did the non-televised awards for little, unimportant shows like ours. [laughter] | |
| What do you mean?! Why were we on last night?! | |
| Dude, it was the same as tonight, except that we had general-admission seating, and had to pack our own dinners. [laughter] | |
| Yeah. And instead of an actual award, people received a $5 gift certificate at Roscoe's Chicken and Waffles. [laughter] | |
| That sucks! Who's in charge here?! | |
| Anyway, the nominees for Best Talk Show series are- | |
| NO! Everybody, just...hold on a minute! | |
| Will you shut your fat mouth for five seconds, Cartman, so we can do this?! [laughter] | |
| No way! | |
| Shut up, Cartman! | |
| Anyway, the Best Talk Show nominees are... | |
| [displays a picture of the first nominee. Each nominee is applauded by the audience] Charles Grodin, CNBC. | |
| [displays a picture of the second nominee] Inside the Actors Studio, Bravo Cable Network. | |
| [displays a horizontal picture of the third nominee] Internight, MSNBC. | |
| [displays a picture of the fourth nominee] Larry King Live, CNN. | |
| [displays a picture of the fifth nominee] And Politically Incorrect With Bill Maher, C-Comedy-ee Cen-tral. | |
| Mmeh! | |
| And the winner is... | |
| Now, remember: there are no losers at the Cable Ace Awards, only people who are less likely to have another season. [laughter] | |
| Yeah. And the winner is... | |
| [opens an envelope] (Inside the Actors Studio, Bravo Cable Network.) [laughter] | |
| Oohhhh, huh, [he and Kyle start clapping] heh-heh-heh-hehh. [Cartman starts clapping] | |
| Congratulations. | |
| Yes. Very nice, very nice. | |
| [steps forward] Oh. He said the winner is Inside the Actors Studio, Bravo Cable Network. [cheers and applause] | |
| End of Cable ACE Awards 1997 | |