Colonel Harland David Sanders is the creator and owner of the Kentucky Fried Chicken fast food franchise. He appears in the episode "Medicinal Fried Chicken", although his fast food restaurants are mentioned in three previous episode.
Appearances
As owner of the KFC company, Colonel Sanders was not pleased to discover that his fast food restaurants were outlawed as a result of a new Colorado State law that forbade the KFC stores to sell their product in low income areas. As a result all the KFCs in Colorado were shut down and replaced with medicinal marijuana stores for the ill. As a result the Colonel began taking a page out of the book of drug dealers and using assorted means, shipped his product illegally into Colorado.
He initially worked with a boy named Billy Miller, and met with Billy's representatives Tommy and Eric Cartman. The Colonel took an immediate liking to Cartman because he saw no 'lie' in his eyes. Tommy on the other hand was not as fortunate, and was apparently working secretly for the "Naked Chef" James Oliver, and him killed by hanging him from a helicopter. The Colonel then agreed to do business with Cartman's organization under the sole-rule that Cartman NEVER "Fuck with him."
Soon after Cartman took over the organization, however his addiction to KFC kept him from carrying out the Colonel's orders of killing Jamie Oliver at the United Nations. Furious, he ordered a hit against Cartman and the KFC trafficking group. Unfortunately his people met opposition with the police and Cartman escaped death. Still, the Colonel regained his fast food foothold in Colorado when KFC was legalized once again.
Trivia
- In real life, Colonel Sanders has been deceased since 1980.
- Corbin Kentucky, where Cartman goes to visit the Colonel, is indeed the location where Harland Sanders originally started the KFC food chain from his old service station. In the episode however, the location is designed to resemble a typical South American jungle where illegal drugs are normally harvested from plants.
- The colonel's role in this episode paralels the role of Alejandro Sosa from the film Scarface.
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