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Season 8
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No. of episodes	14
Release
Original network	Comedy Central
Original release	March 17 –; December 15, 2004
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The eighth season of South Park, an American animated television series created by Trey Parker and Matt Stone, began airing on March 17, 2004.^[1] The eighth season concluded after 14 episodes on December 15, 2004, and was written and directed by Trey Parker. The season deals with various topics that were relevant at the time of release. The episodes portray a spectrum of topics, from the effect of large scale retail corporations to immigration.

This is the first season to feature April Stewart as the majority of female characters instead of Eliza Schneider, who departed from the show due to a contract dispute.

Production history

On the DVD commentary for the episode "Cartman's Incredible Gift," series co-creator Trey Parker referred to the eighth season as "the year from hell," due to the grueling work schedule under which he and co-creator Matt Stone worked on both the series and their feature film Team America: World Police.^[2]

Episodes

No. overall	No. in season	Title	Directed by	Written by	Original air date ^[3]	Prod. code	Viewers (millions)
112	1	"Good Times with Weapons"	Trey Parker	Trey Parker	March 17, 2004 (2004-03-17)	801	3.31^[4]
113	2	"Up the Down Steroid"	Trey Parker	Trey Parker	March 24, 2004 (2004-03-24)	803	3.64^[4]
114	3	"The Passion of the Jew"	Trey Parker	Trey Parker	March 31, 2004 (2004-03-31)	804	4.43^[5]
115	4	"You Got F'd in the A"	Trey Parker	Trey Parker	April 7, 2004 (2004-04-07)	805	3.96^[6]
116	5	"Awesom-O"	Trey Parker	Trey Parker	April 14, 2004 (2004-04-14)	802	3.81^[4]
117	6	"The Jeffersons"	Trey Parker	Trey Parker	April 21, 2004 (2004-04-21)	807	4.23^[4]
118	7	"Goobacks"	Trey Parker	Trey Parker	April 28, 2004 (2004-04-28)	806	2.79^[4]
119	8	"Douche and Turd"	Trey Parker	Trey Parker	October 27, 2004 (2004-10-27)	808	2.91^[4]
120	9	"Something Wall-Mart This Way Comes"	Trey Parker	Trey Parker	November 3, 2004 (2004-11-03)	809	3.05^[4]
121	10	"Pre-School"	Trey Parker	Trey Parker	November 10, 2004 (2004-11-10)	810	3.26^[4]
122	11	"Quest for Ratings"	Trey Parker	Trey Parker	November 17, 2004 (2004-11-17)	811	3.20^[4]
123	12	"Stupid Spoiled Whore Video Playset"	Trey Parker	Trey Parker	December 1, 2004 (2004-12-01)	812	3.14^[4]
124	13	"Cartman's Incredible Gift"	Trey Parker	Trey Parker	December 8, 2004 (2004-12-08)	813	2.66^[4]
125	14	"Woodland Critter Christmas"	Trey Parker	Trey Parker	December 15, 2004 (2004-12-15)	814	2.58^[4]

References

^ "South Park Episode Guide (seasons 6, 7 and 8)". MSN. Archived from the original on 2009-04-15. Retrieved 2009-03-14.
^ Hicks, Jesse (December 10, 2006). "South Park: The Complete Eighth Season" Archived 2017-07-06 at the Wayback Machine. PopMatters.
^ "Watch South Park Episodes Online Season 8 (2004)". TV Guide. Archived from the original on August 13, 2019. Retrieved September 13, 2019.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j ^k ^l "South Park (Comedy Central): Ratings Recap". January 23, 2021. Retrieved January 27, 2023.
^ "Nickelodeon Slimes Cable Ratings Competition". Zap2it. April 8, 2004. Archived from the original on April 9, 2004.
^ Vasquez, Diego (March 14, 2004). "Fox's 'Swan,' no ugly ducking". Media Life Magazine. Archived from the original on September 30, 2007. Retrieved July 9, 2015.

External links

South Park Studios - official website with streaming video of full episodes.
The Comedy Network - full episodes for Canada

[MSN-1] "South Park Episode Guide (seasons 6, 7 and 8)". MSN. Archived from the original on 2009-04-15. Retrieved 2009-03-14.

[2] Hicks, Jesse (December 10, 2006). "South Park: The Complete Eighth Season" Archived 2017-07-06 at the Wayback Machine. PopMatters.

[3] "Watch South Park Episodes Online Season 8 (2004)". TV Guide. Archived from the original on August 13, 2019. Retrieved September 13, 2019.

[recap-4] ^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j ^k ^l "South Park (Comedy Central): Ratings Recap". January 23, 2021. Retrieved January 27, 2023.

[5] "Nickelodeon Slimes Cable Ratings Competition". Zap2it. April 8, 2004. Archived from the original on April 9, 2004.

[6] Vasquez, Diego (March 14, 2004). "Fox's 'Swan,' no ugly ducking". Media Life Magazine. Archived from the original on September 30, 2007. Retrieved July 9, 2015.

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  |ShortSummary = The boys buy Japanese weapons at a fair and imagine themselves as [[anime]] characters, but when [[Kenny McCormick|Kenny]] injures Butters in his Professor Chaos guise with a [[throwing star]], they must rush to get him medical attention without being caught.
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  |ShortSummary = Kyle finally sees [[Mel Gibson]]'s ''[[The Passion of the Christ]]'' and is convinced that Cartman was right about his [[Jewish deicide]] claims. Stan and Kenny also see the movie and hate it, prompting them to head to [[Malibu, California|Malibu]] to retrieve their ticket money from Mel Gibson himself.
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  |ShortSummary = In this spoof of ''[[You Got Served]]'', Stan recruits a Raisins girl, a Goth, and a Dance Dance Revolution master to compete against a group of breakdancers from Orange County. Butters is discovered to be a good dancer, but he has flashbacks of causing death and mayhem at a tap dancing contest.
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  |ShortSummary = Butters befriends a robot (actually Cartman in disguise) he receives in the mail and takes him to Hollywood, where movie execs want him for film ideas, over 800 of which star [[Adam Sandler]]. The government pursues Cartman for national security reasons.
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  |ShortSummary = A mysterious and very eccentric new neighbor named [[Michael Jackson|Michael Jefferson]] moves into town with his sheltered son, sparking fears that he is an unfit parent, and the police scheme to frame him for crimes he didn't commit. Meanwhile, Kyle begins to worry for the man's son, who is being neglected by his father.
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  |ShortSummary = The townsfolk becomes angry when immigrants from the year 3045 arrive and take the residents' jobs for lower wages.
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  |ShortSummary = Stan is forced to vote in an election for the school's new mascot after the old one is protested against by PETA.
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  |ShortSummary = When a [[Wal-Mart|Wall-Mart]] store comes to South Park, the townsfolk are torn between their love of the store's low prices, and their anti-corporate hatred of the retail giant which has reduced their local business center into an abandoned ghost town.
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  |ShortSummary = A bully from the boys' past is paroled from [[Youth detention center|juvenile hall]], which sends them into hiding.
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  |ShortSummary = The boys' school news show is in competition against a rival television program created by [[List of students at South Park Elementary#Craig Tucker|Craig]].
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  |ShortSummary = Wendy feels left out when all the fourth-grade girls start emulating the slutty antics of [[Paris Hilton]], who tries to buy Butters from his parents.
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  |ShortSummary = In the show's final Christmas episode for a decade, Stan helps the woodland animals build a manger for the birth of their Lord.
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v t e South Park episodes
Seasons 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 Specials
Season 8	"Good Times with Weapons" "Up the Down Steroid" "The Passion of the Jew" "You Got F'd in the A" "Awesom-O" "The Jeffersons" "Goobacks" "Douche and Turd" "Something Wall-Mart This Way Comes" "Preschool" "Quest for Ratings" "Stupid Spoiled Whore Video Playset" "Cartman's Incredible Gift" "Woodland Critter Christmas"