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'"Chef Aid"' is the 27th episode of Comedy Central's animated series ''South Park''. It originally aired on October 7, 1998.

Contents

Synopsis

Kenny's Death

Musicians at the benefit

Goofs

Trivia

Synopsis

In this episode, Chef discovers that Alanis Morissette's (fictional) hit song "Stinky Britches" is a song that he wrote many years ago, before abandoning his musical aspirations. Chef contacts a "major record company" executive, seeking only to have his name credited as the composer of "Stinky Britches." Chef's claim is substantiated by a twenty-year-old recording of Chef performing the song. The record company refuses, and furthermore hires Johnnie Cochran, who files a lawsuit against Chef for harassment. Cochran employs the Chewbacca defense, resulting in a win for the record company and damages to be paid by the defense. Chef now has 24 hours to come up with the money or face incarceration. However, instead of choosing the Hobson's choice and having had all his stuff taken by the selfish record company executive, Chef decides to raise all the money by sleeping with all the women in town, but instead of paying the executive, he will pay Johnnie Cochran the money so he can sue the record company.
The boys try to help Chef by rounding up various musicians, whose careers have been boosted by Chef's advice, to hold a benefit concert. The record company executive tries to sabotage the concert, but the outpouring of support for Chef touches Johnnie Cochran, whose heart "grew three sizes that day" (taken from Dr. Seuss's book, How the Grinch Stole Christmas!). Cochran switches sides for free, successfully defending Chef in a new trial (ironically, using the Chewbacca Defense again) and getting his name put on the album (and possibly getting the executive sacked).
Meanwhile, Mr. Garrison witnesses many strange attempts on Mr. Twig's life; he finds him boiling in a pot of water, and later snapped in half. The evidence begins to point to Mr. Hat as the culprit, culminating in a showdown between Garrison and Mr. Hat which lands the former in jail. Finally, the two are reunited at the concert and Mr. Twig (apparently) moves on.

Kenny's Death

Ozzy Osbourne bites Kenny's head off, reminisce of the infamous incident in a concert when he bit the head off a bat.

Musicians at the benefit

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★ Guest stars appearing as themselves for Chef's benefit:

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★ Joe Strummer

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★ Rancid

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★ Ozzy Osbourne

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★ Ween

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★ Primus

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★ Elton John

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★ Meat Loaf

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★ Rick James

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★ DMX

Goofs

★ When Chef and Mr. Garrison are at the jail, Mr. Garrison is only wearing a towel, but when Mr. Garrison and Chef arrive at Chef Aid, Mr. Garrison is wearing his usual outfit. Then when Mr. Garrison talks to Mr. Twig, Mr. Garrison is in a towel again.

★ At the end of his closing argument, Johnny Cochran says "The defense rests," but he's the lawyer for the prosecution.

★ Kenny is still there, when the record producer breaks the stage and the voice over is talking, even though he died some minutes earlier.

Trivia

★ When the movers are taking Chef's belongings out of his house, they carry an Isaac Hayes poster, who provides the voice of the character of Chef.

★ The song "Stinky Britches" is seen again in the season 2 finale, "Prehistoric Ice Man". In the episode, a man who was frozen in 1996 is walking by a store, and on the TVs in the store window is Marilyn Manson singing Stinky Britches in his Mechanical Animals costume. The man then continues to break the TVs in a fit of rage, because he cannot adapt.