About Last Night...

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South Park Season 12 - Episode 1212 - About Last Night...
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"About Last Night…" is the twelfth episode of the twelfth season of the American animated television series South Park, and the 179th overall episode of the series. It originally aired on Comedy Central in the United States on November 5, 2008. The episode was written and directed by series co-creator Trey Parker, and was rated TV-MA L in the United States. The episode depicts a fictionalized Barack Obama after winning the presidential election against John McCain. In a satire of American Partisan Politics, mass hysteria ensues as Liberals celebrate with drunken rioting and Conservatives experience apocalyptic panic. Meanwhile, Obama, McCain, and their respective campaign staffs are revealed to be a gang of jewel thieves who have rigged the Election. In a parody of the films Ocean's Eleven and Entrapment, Obama and McCain use the confusion of Election Night to carry out a high-tech heist from the Smithsonian. Parker and Stone briefly considered parodying Christopher Nolan's The Dark Knight by having then-President George W. Bush gallantly take the blame for the Smithsonian heist. They decided against it, however, as they felt that jokes about President Bush had been done to death. The episode includes audio from Obama's victory speech, which took place only 24 hours before the episode aired.

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Following the announcement of the 2008 presidential election results, Barack Obama (Trey Parker) and John McCain (Matt Stone) address their supporters on national television as the people of South Park watch. The town's Liberals, including Randy and Sharon Marsh and the Broflovskis, express a belief that Obama is the Messiah, crudely taunt their Conservative neighbors, and celebrate drunkenly in the streets. Meanwhile, the town's Conservatives, including the Stotches, Mr. Garrison and Mr. Mackey, sit despondently inside, certain that a Liberal President means that the Apocalypse is at hand. Ike Broflovski, who supported McCain, attempts suicide by jumping out a first-story window. Certain that Ike is badly injured, Stan Marsh and Kyle Broflovski put him in a child's wagon and try to take him to the hospital. Meanwhile, Obama and McCain turn out to be the best of friends and the leaders of a jewel heist club known as the "Presidential Crime Syndicate". Furthermore, Michelle Obama is really an ace computer hacker and single mother who has faked marriage to Obama to make him electable. Sarah Palin is secretly an extremely intelligent, poised, and articulate Englishwoman. The Syndicate has, in reality, rigged the U.S. Presidential election so that Obama could access an Oval Office tunnel, break into the Smithsonian's Museum of Natural History, and steal the Hope Diamond. In South Park, Stan and Kyle vainly search through the partying Liberals to find anyone who can drive Ike to the hospital. They watch as Randy Marsh, believing that Obama's win means that he no longer needs his job, punches his equally Liberal boss in the face and breaks his nose. When Officer Barbrady attempts to restore order, the drunken crowd assumed that he must be a Conservative, loudly boos him, and overturns his police car. Stan and Kyle find the Stotches building an "ark" while keeping many horrified Conservatives from entering as there's no more room. The boys' plea for help leads to a brawl among the terrified Conservatives and the boys head for the hospital on foot. They find the emergency room packed with Liberals who have partied too hard and Conservatives who have tried to kill themselves. Randy Marsh is seen on a gurney, drunkenly singing Barry Manilow's "Mandy", with the words changed to a hymn to Obama. In a suspense filled heist, Barack and Michelle break into the Museum, cross a room full of lasers, and steal the Hope Diamond. Ike, who had been a member of the heist the entire time, blows up a private jet that contains dummies of the criminals and alters hospital records to declare everyone involved legally dead. The next day, as the Presidential Crime Syndicate arrives at Washington Dulles International Airport to leave the country, Obama dannpunces that he will be going with them. Instead, he and Michelle decide to stay behind and "give this President thing a shot." The following morning, South Park's Conservatives emerge from their "ark" and realize that the world hasn't come to an end. Realizing that they overreacted to the election's results, they decide to give Obama a chance. They comment that if he is a bad president that they can easily just vote him out in four years. That same morning, Randy Marsh wakes up on his couch with a killer hangover, his pants missing, and his TV having been stolen by Eric Cartman while he was out partying. Stan then walks in and says, "Dad, your boss just called. He says you're fired." An outraged Randy screams, "Goddamnit! Obama said things would be different! That son of a bitch lied to us! I knew I should've voted for McCain!"