Hummels

Hummels
Type	Figurines
First	"Do the Handicapped Go to Hell?"
Times	2

Hummel Figurines, or Hummels in short, are small porcelain figures featured in Season Twenty-One episode "Hummels & Heroin".

Appearance

Hummels are small (about hand-sized) figurines from Germany, they come in different sizes and colors. They look shiny and a little bit realistic.

Background

In the Shady Acres retirement home, there is an unwritten rule that whoever has the best hummels becomes the "top bitch" (i.e. the bully), and Ms. McGullicutty is currently the placeholder. She takes advantage of her position and delivers drugs within crochet pillows, in exchange for more hummels.

Stan's grandpa, Marvin Marsh, has had enough of it, and Stan decides to help him. Cartman and other boys, known as the Barbershop Quartet, sing in front of those elderly people to distract them, while Stan sneaks into Ms. McGullicutty's room to steal all her hummels collection and give them to grandpa.

Marvin Marsh puts these hummels in a bag, uses them as a flail and totally beats up Ms. McGullicutty.

Trivia

Satan and his hummels

• Although Hummels have a prominent role in "Hummels & Heroin", they first appear early on in the Season Four episode "Do the Handicapped Go to Hell?", where Satan can be seen messing around with his Hummels in a display box.
• During the live tweet for "Hummels & Heroin" on October 25, 2017, it is mentioned that Trey Parker's grandmother is a collector of hummels. Her actual collection was used as Kim Jong-il's hummel collection in the film Team America: World Police which Trey and Matt Stone worked on.
• The hummels named in "Hummels & Heroin" (Merry Wanderer, Happy Traveler, Ride Into Christmas, Stormy Weather) are actual figures from the collection.