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South Park Season 9 - Episode 904 - Best Friends Forever
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South Park - Best Friends Forever is the 129th episode of the Comedy Central series South Park. It first aired on March 30, 2005. The episode is based on the Terri Schiavo case and won a 2005 Emmy Award for Outstanding Animated Program. In this episode, Kenny, who is one of the first to get the then newly-released PSP, has just reached level 60 on Heaven vs. Hell, when he is killed after being run over by an ice cream van. However, it is revealed that Heaven created the PSP in order to get "their Keanu Reeves" in order to defeat Hell in a final battle. However, due to technology, Kenny is brought back from Heaven and left in a persistent vegetative state, sparking an intense debate between Cartman, and Kyle and Stan. Eventually, Cartman wins "for the wrong reasons", and Kenny defeats Hell with the golden PSP.
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Kenny is the first person in town to get a new PlayStation Portable, (PSP), video game system and becomes inseparable from it. Meanwhile, Cartman, who couldn't get his own because he was late getting to the store, grows envious of Kenny's new toy. Kenny quickly works his way up to level 59 of the game Heaven vs. Hell, but because of his parents having an argument, he goes to complete the 60th level outside; there, he is run over by an ice-cream van (driven by someone playing the same game who just reached level 4) and dies.After ascending to Heaven, Kenny learns that God had created the PSP to search for what the angels call "our Keanu Reeves" — the person who can command his legions against Satan's forces of Hell in a manner like that of the video game.
Kenny is the first person in town to get a new PlayStation Portable, (PSP), video game system and becomes inseparable from it. Meanwhile, Cartman, who couldn't get his own because he was late getting to the store, grows envious of Kenny's new toy. Kenny quickly works his way up to level 59 of the game Heaven vs. Hell, but because of his parents having an argument, he goes to complete the 60th level outside; there, he is run over by an ice-cream van (driven by someone playing the same game who just reached level 4) and dies.
After ascending to Heaven, Kenny learns that God had created the PSP to search for what the angels call "our Keanu Reeves" — the person who can command his legions against Satan's forces of Hell in a manner like that of the video game. hey need someone skilled enough to defeat an army of 10 billion damned souls with only 10 thousand troops. Basically, he is "Keanu Reeves". When Satan's spy returns to hell and warns him of Kenny, Satan decides to give up, seeing no point in trying to fight a "Keanu Reeves". His advisor urges him to still go through with the attack. Just as the armies of hell attack, Kenny is revived. However because he had been dead for that long, he cannot talk or communicate and has suffered permanent brain damage. He is kept alive through the use of a feeding tube. The reading of Kenny's will, in which Cartman is given the PSP (out of pity) and Stan and Kyle are given everything else, is interrupted by the announcement that Kenny is still alive. The lawyer mentions a passage about Kenny's wishes in the event of him being in a vegetative state, but the last page of the will is missing, making it impossible to tell what his wishes were.
As Satan's army begins to close in, the angels need Kenny dead so that they can win the battle of the Apocalypse. Meanwhile, Cartman, claiming his status as Kenny's "best friend forever" to the Colorado Supreme Court with the first half of the BFF medallion, gets an order to take out the feeding tube, and he removes the tube after tracking down and finding Kenny's other BFF medallion half so he can get the PSP upon Kenny's death (it's implied that Cartman himself put the other medallion around Kenny's neck). Stan and Kyle, along with Kenny's parents and other protesters, wage a media war to put the feeding tube back in and keep Kenny alive, while Cartman enlists supporters of the rights of "best friends forever" to leave Kenny's feeding tube removed. At the same time Satan enlists the help of an adviser, Kevin, to "do what we always do" and use the Republicans in order to get the feeding tube put back in. However, when telling the Republican Congressman what to say, he makes the mistake of hissing into his ear, making him repeat the noise, and his attempt to remedy the situation only makes it worse.
After a long, intensive media campaign, the two sides are arguing in Kenny's hospital suite when Kenny's lawyer announces that the last page of the will has been found, and that Kenny's wishes were that if he were ever in a vegetative state, "please, for the love of God...don't ever show me in that condition on national television." The two sides realize that they have both been disrespectful of Kenny's wishes. Kyle then realizes they should not have made this issue into such a media circus, and concludes that Kenny should be taken off life support, commenting that Cartman was "right, for the wrong reasons", while he and Stan were "wrong, for the right reasons". Everyone in the hospital room agrees with Kyle and quietly leaves, allowing Kenny to die in peace. Kenny returns to Heaven just in time to command the angels to victory using a golden PSP. During the battle, attention is deliberately kept off of the battle, with the Archangel Michael exclaiming the battle "Is even bigger than the final battle in the Lord of the Rings movie!" The battle ends with Satan being shocked by the defeat of his army and killing his adviser. Meanwhile, Kenny is presented with a golden statue of Keanu Reeves as a reward for defeating Satan's army.
This episode won a 2005 Emmy Award in the category of "Outstanding Animated Program (for programming less than one hour)". This is the first time the show has beaten other nominees, such as The Simpsons and other winners. It also becomes the fourth prime time animated cartoon, and the first cable TV series, to win the award, behind The Simpsons, King of the Hill and Futurama.
"Best Friends Forever" generally received positive reviews for its portrayal of the Terri Schiavo case. In his book "The Deep End of South Park", Leslie Stratyne applauds the episode for its ability to "tackle such challenging issues as...right to die in 'Best Friends Forever'...its 'devil-may-care' attitude that has brought a fair amount of acclaim".
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