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Episode no.	Season 14 Episode 10
Production no.	1410
Original airdate	October 20, 2010
Episode chronology Previous Next "It's a Jersey Thing" "Coon 2: Hindsight"
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"Insheeption" is the tenth episode of Season Fourteen, and the 205th overall episode of South Park. It aired on October 20, 2010.

Spoiler warning! Plot details follow.

Synopsis

When he's sent to the school counselor to talk about his disorder, Stan realizes that he's not the only one who has a problem. When Mr. Mackey and Stan agree to surrender themselves to the hoarding experts, Stan gets more than a glimpse of what it was like for Mr. Mackey in the 4th grade at South Park Elementary.

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Stan is sitting at lunch with the other boys when Butters comes up with a message from Stan's girlfriend Wendy saying they need to talk. They meet and Wendy explains Stan's hoarding has gotten out of control and she can't take it anymore. An "expert," Dr. Chinstrap, helps Stan go through his locker, while it starts off seeming like the usual adult ridiculousness it soon becomes apparent that Stan really does have a problem. His locker is quite stuffy and find a number of disgusting items, including a maggot-infested sandwich and broken toothbrush which Stan refuses to give up. Chinstrap sends him to Mr. Mackey, who doesn't know what hoarding is, only for Stan to deduce Mackey is one himself. The two, along with Mr. Yeoman, a sheep herder (They mix up 'Herder' with 'hoarder'), are hooked up to a machine.

As Chinstrap and his assistant, Dr. Pinkerton, explain to Randy and Sharon, the machine will help them figure out why they are hoarders by drifting them to their subconscious. Moments later in Mackey's subconscious he is being bullied by a boy named Billy Thompson, who threatens to attack Mackey at a field trip the next day, when he runs into Stan and the sheep herder, who as the scientists explain in reality, are there because of the power of Mackey's dream. Within the dream, Mackey goes home with Stan, who tries to talk him out of the dream, but Mackey instead plays with his light-bright and old toys. Randy insists he has to rescue his son from the dream despite Chinstrap and Pinkerton's warning he'll be stuck there forever.

The dream moves on to the next morning where Stan, Mackey, the sheep herder and the kids board a bus for the field trip. Stan suddenly sees Randy, who is for some reason a butterfly. Stan asks if he's come to help but Randy reveals while that was his intention, he's more concerned with getting "butterfly poon". The experts claim that they have called in another group of "experts" to go into the dream to create a "dream within a dream", move them into Randy's dream (he'll think it's Matt Hasselbeck's dream), and save them, with one expert providing boombox sounds. The second group, the cast of Inception, comes in shooting at people before going into the dream, where they proceed to shoot even more people in the woods as the group arrives. Stan, the sheep herder and Mackey are introduced to Woodsy Owl, an owl with the tagline "give a hoot, don't pollute" before being put in with Billy's three friends.

The experts are now seen courting firefighters to get into the dream and begin trying to explain the events to Sharon, who claims it all sounds ridiculous and stupid. A pizza guy arrives and is sent in as well as Sharon is told she doesn't understand because she's not smart. Within the dream, Mackey and Stan are running from the bullies when Stan convinces Mackey to stand up for himself. Mackey prepares for a fight. Back in reality, the experts decide the dream has become too powerful, and at this point they must court "the most powerful dream infiltrator of all time." While he does not wish to come back, they convince him to help out a final time.

Within Mackey's dream, the second group of experts and the fire fighters arrive and kill Billy Thompson and the tormentors and wait for Mackey to wake up, when he remembers what happened, explaining he ran from the bullies and went into a shack, coming upon that same shack and entering as he mentions he ran into someone who talked nice to him, only to reveal another younger Mackey being sexually molested by Woodsy Owl. The owl begins trying to take control of the dream, when he is killed by Freddy Krueger. Woodsy destroyed, everyone wakes up and Mackey explains he must have become a hoarder because of Woody's tagline about not polluting. Freddy observes guilt he could not save the herder. They suggest Stan move on to his therapy now, but he claims to have a better idea and is seen throwing out the items in his locker. Wendy and Kyle ask him what his problem was and Stan says he doesn't care and doesn't want more therapy. Kyle suggests that "was your therapy" and the first expert comes out again doing boomboxing noises again as the episode ends.

References

"[[It's a Jersey Thing]]"

"Insheeption"

"[[Coon 2: Hindsight]]"