Chef Goes Nanners

Season 4, Episode 7, Aired
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Chef organizes a protest against the South Park flag, which depicts four white stick figures hanging a black stick figure, and apparently cheering. He sees it as racist, but Jimbo and many others in the town don't want to lose the history that the flag represents. At South Park Elementary, there is a debate over the issue, with Stan and Kyle leading a team for the flag, and Wendy and Cartman leading the opposition. After working together, Wendy finds that she has an attraction to Cartman.moreless
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  • Trey Parker

    Voice of Stan Marsh; Eric Theodore Cartman; Herbert Garrison; Officer Barbrady; Terrance; Timmy; Ned Gerblanski; Satan; Randy Ma

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    Matt Stone

    Voice of Kyle Broflovski; Kenny McKormick; Gerald Broflovski; Pip Pirrup; Jesus; Jimbo Kearn; Phillip; Saddam; Various Others

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    Isaac Hayes

    Voice of Jerome "Chef" McElroy

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  • Awww, this episode was cute.

    8.0
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    By Slinkgirl95, Aug 25, 2011 Report Abuse
    The reason I saw this episode was for the whole Wendy and Cartman thing. It got me really interested to see this episode and I don't often enjoy the old episodes.
    Okay, so, Chef is angry because the South Park flag is "racist", showing a black stick figure in the form of an African American being hung and there are a bunch of white stick figures in the form of Caucasians (white people). The kids in Mr. Garrison's class go into different debate groups with Stan and Kyle leading a group to not change the flag while Wendy and Cartman lead a team to change the flag. During their sessions together, Wendy and Cartman seem to have a lot in common and then soon, Wendy starts to become attracted to Cartman and even has a dream/nightmare about them in love but she is Stan's girlfriend. The day of the demate or whatever, Wendy kisses Cartman in front of everyone and Stan is shocked and gives her speech and the Kyle gives his speech about how killing has been around for years and then Chef realizes the flag was not racist and then the flag is changed to having five people of different races. Wendy tells Cartman she now doesn't have feelings for him and he walks off sadly.
    The whole Wendy and Cartman thing was the cutest and best thing in the whole episode so that's why I had to see this episode, back in like 2009 when I was really obsessed with South Park. Being a girl, I just loved it. It was fun to see the spending time with each other. Cartman is one of the best characters on the show, besides Randy but I don't really like Wendy but they just made such a cute couple in this episode. The dream sequence was hilarious and Wendy kissing Cartman was so funny and cute. Stan's shocked expression ws hilarious too.
    Some other parts I found pretty funny; Kenny eating the antacid tablets and then drinking water and then blowing up. Um... the KKK meeting though I can't really remember what happened during it.
    So that's pretty much my review for this episode. This episode was hilarious and cute.moreless

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  • Chef is angry with the residents of South Park, because their town flag depicts a black man being lynched by four white men. Wendy makes an unlikely ally in Eric Cartman during her debate against the flag. The townspeople join the arguement.moreless

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    By JohnQ1127, Jan 30, 2008 Report Abuse
    This episode was a direct satire of the furor over the South Carolina flag's confederate sybol. Satirizing a subjects like racism and lynching is a difficult and a tricky endeavor. The episode starts off with Chef protesting the South Park flag's racist overtones. The racist overtones are intentially exagerated by depicting a black man being lynched by four white men. My thoughts initially were how are they going to get out of this one? For me, they never successfully do. Two camps spring up, those against the racist nature of the flag, and those who support the heritage the flag represents. But it begs the question, what kind of heritage do these people want to celebrate? A heritage where black men where joyfully lynched?

    Uncle Jimbo begins to be uneasy when the Klan supports him during his rallies. Uncle Jimbo and Ned infiltrate the Klan to change the Klan's support. In one of the funniest scenes during the season, The Klansmen jump around and show what they have under their robes.

    The B story of Wendy and Eric although interesting, seams forced and distracting to the viewer. The conclusion to me was weak and lame. The boys somehow don't realize that it's a black man being lynched? How would Kyle feel about a flag with a gas chamber on it? Then Chef apogizes and is happy that the new flag has a black man being lynched by a multi-racial group instead of an all white one?

    For me they painted themselves in a corner and tacked on a weak a stupid ending. Which is ashame because it started out as a great episode. *This was one of the last episodes to feature a "b" or "c" story. Which is good because you only have so much time in a half an hour to handle such tricky subjects.

    *IMO, the best South Park episode dealing with race, was from seson 11 entitled "With Apologies to Jesse Jackson"moreless

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  • Chef made a great impact in this episode.

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    By ozai890, Jan 23, 2008 Report Abuse
    I loved this episode. It was almost perfect. The only thing that made it not perfect was Wendy Testaburger kissing Eric Cartman! I like seeing Wendy Testaburger and Stan Marsh together. That seperated a 9.9 from a 10. I really think that Chef made a great impact on this episode. Chef is one of my favorite characters. He is always so funny. Same with Jimbo and Ned. They finally have an episode that shows them a lot. The KKK thing was very funny. That was ridiculous, but it was still kind of funny. Overall, I give this almost perfect episode a 9.9.moreless

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  • Kinda good, a little bad

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    By gengar1993, Jan 15, 2008 Report Abuse
    My favorite part : Jimbo and his friend Ned shooting at birds, a squirrel and... Chis Peterson !! *laughs out loud*

    Okay, so Chef wants to change the flag, huh ? What I say is that it should stay the same. It's so funny !! XD Plus it was funny that Stan's team protected the flag and didn't figure out just why it 'should' be changed. :-) I really enjoyed Kyle's speech. "Killing has been around since the begining of time. All animals kill and the animals that don't kill are stupid ones, like cows and turtles and stuff. So people shouldn't be so upset about killing." In my opinion, great.
    What I disliked about this episode was the Wendy & Cartman thing. I hate all the girls of South park so I didn't like Wendy's whining. And I believe Cartman didn't have feelings for Wendy, he was just happy that someone liked him, in any way. Plus he could tease Stan for a while (he hates Stan, just much less than he hates Kyle). Considering that most kids hate him, he was just most probably hoping that somebody didn't hate him. But he was wrong. And the whole incident doesn't stop him from calling Wendy a whore. :-)moreless

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  • Chef Goes Nanners

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    By djjoe60, Oct 27, 2007 Report Abuse
    Chef is pissed off because he thinks that the flag of South Park is racist (it is, trust me) but I'm afraid that the tight hunting guy jimbo disagrees and there is a big debate in the town (this includes 3rd Grade as well).
    The kids are sent in with a supply teacher to debate this Chef Goes Nanners thing and it turns out that the whole Colorado town are interested in the debate. An interesting episode, but it is not one of the best slices of South Park.
    :) Funny, and enjoyable. Another episode based around Chef and his life being African-American.moreless

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    • When Chef holds up a picture saying a man got set on fire, it is in fact the album cover for "Killing In The Name" by Rage Against The Machine. Edit
    • For the first time, people laugh when Kenny dies. Edit
    • It's revealed that there are 4,388 people living in South Park. Edit

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    • This is the third episode with Chef's name mentioned in the title. Edit

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    • Kyle: Kenny ate all the mints, dad. Gerald: Oh, those weren't mints, those were antacid tablets. Kyle: oh... Kyle & Stan: KENNY! (Kenny drinks water then explodes) Edit
    • (to Kenny, who's eating a bowl of mints) Kyle: Look, Kenny, I know your family's poor, but you cant just eat a bowl of mints for dinner... Kenny: (Muffled) Well, f**k you.(Flips Kyle off) Edit
    • Wendy: Cartman, why don't you just go home. You aren't helping any. Cartman: You won't let me help. Wendy: That's because you're stupid and you're a racist. Cartman: ...touché. Edit

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    • Chef's Islam name, "Abdul Mohammed Jabar-Rouf Kareem Ali" is a spoof of NBA basketball players Kareem Abdul Jabar and Mahmoud Abdul-Rauf, as well as legendary boxer Muhammad Ali. Edit
    • The scene in which Chef sets the meditating monk on fire is a reference of Thích Quảng Ðức, a Vietnamese Buddhist monk, who burned himself to death in Saigon in 1963 to protest oppression of the governments position against the buddhist religion. Edit
    • The brief flute passage that begins Wendy's dream sequence is lifted from "Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune" (Prelude to the afternoon of a faun) by Claude Debussy. Edit

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