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Episode no.	Season 20 Episode 05
Production no.	2005
Original airdate	October 19, 2016
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"Douche and a Danish" is the fifth episode of Season Twenty, and the 272nd overall episode of South Park. It aired on October 19, 2016.

Synopsis

The kids get pulled in to the search for the notorious Skankhunt42. Meanwhile, Gerald joins forces with the other trolls to stop Denmark from launching TrollTrace.com.

Plot

Spoiler warning! Plot details follow.

The episode starts as a fight between the girls and the boys is broken up by Cartman and Heidi Turner. In Denmark, the people ask for donations to help build their website which will identify the real identities of Internet trolls, and Gerald Broflovski and a group of other trolls decide to act before the website comes online. Gerald suggests that the trolls work together as a group to troll the entire country of Denmark at once and get groups to turn against each other all at the same time. Cartman and Heidi ask the kids at South Park Elementary to do a fundraiser to help with the Danish website and help unify the school by selling Danish pastries. The trolling against Denmark works, causing anti-Danish sentiment to rise and Denmark decides to leave social media completely, which also results in the fighting between the girls and the boys resuming. Cartman and Heidi send a VHS video to Denmark offering to help them find out who trolled them.

Meanwhile, Mr. Garrison resorts to using sexually explicit comments about women at his speeches in order to try to purposefully lose the election, which appears to work as women start to leave his speeches and his polling numbers plummet as a result. But when Garrison's supporters and campaign staff demand to know why he is making these statements, he answers that he knew all along that he would not win the election because the election is "fixed". His supporters riot, chasing him through the streets. He attempts to return to teaching at South Park Elementary as if nothing happened, but his campaign staff chases him out. Eventually he winds up at a member berry addiction meeting hosted by Randy Marsh who suggests that the berries are the cause behind people wanting to vote for Garrison, and that J. J. Abrams himself is somehow responsible.

Critical Reception

AV Club gave "Douche and a Danish" a "B" rating saying: "At a certain point though, the election became so highly scrutinized that, if the show was going to continue to successfully skewer it, Parker and Stone had to start getting more specific. The trajectory of their Trump surrogate had to more closely match that of The Donald himself. That comes to a head in “Douche And A Danish,” an episode broadcasted literally smack-dab in the middle of the final presidential debate between Trump and Hillary Clinton.

Parker and Stone wisely don’t try to predict the outcome of the debate. They don’t even depict the debate at all, at least not in any kind of official capacity. But via one of Garrison’s rallies, they do attempt to capture the current temperature of the Trump campaign and the audience on both sides: how he got to where he is, how people are reacting to him now, and the hypocrisy of some of his biggest supporters and detractors."

IGN gave "Douche and a Danish" a "8.4" rating saying: "More than ever, South Park has become razor-focused on continuity and slowly building its storylines from one week to the next. While it's frustrating that we probably won't be getting any standalone episodes in the vein of "Tweek x Craig" this year, the continuity-driven approach is really starting to pay off as the various threads come together. The show's biggest concern now should be finding something better for Cartman to do."