Christian Rock Hard

Season 7, Episode 9, Aired
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The boys have hit a crossroads with their band "Moop." Cartman wants the band to play Christian Rock, and leaves the band when Stan, Kyle, and Kenny don't agree. Before leaving, Cartman bets Kyle $10 that he will get a platinum album with a Christian Rock band before "Moop" can.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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  • Cool episode.

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    By crzza, Apr 05, 2008 Report Abuse
    The boys have hit a crossroads with their band "Moop." Cartman wants the band to play Christian Rock, and leaves the band when Stan, Kyle, and Kenny don't agree. Before leaving, Cartman bets Kyle $10 that he will get a platinum album with a Christian Rock band before "Moop" can. This was a very special episode. I love top watch it over and over and over again. Its one of my favorite episodes of all time not just of South Park. Its one of the best episodes of South Park. It was really, really funny. Moop is a funny name for a band.moreless

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  • This is one of the best south park episodes ... It rocksss !

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    By cinardali, Feb 15, 2008 Report Abuse
    I think this episode makes silly everyone who's against downloading mp3s from internet. We all know that mp3 or p2p or downloading songs from internet is not an artist problem. It's all about record firms. The record companies are still making ($) a lot of money but less. This will be a lesson to them i think. Thanks to the producers, great job with this subject. Also making Jesus songs from love songs ahaha :) cartman you're the number one !

    This is one of the best south park episodes i think. Subject war very simple and it has a good message in it.moreless

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  • This show doesn't have any boundries and this is why. Taking a funny lookat christian rock is a fresh way to deal with the issue of does this music suck?

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    By hamyslick, Mar 05, 2007 Report Abuse
    I like the part when cartman tells token that he knows how to play bass guitar and that he infact does have one down in his basement. The fact that he he was using old songs to cling the charts is also very funny. How do matt and trey come up with this stuff? It's like these guys have an endless supp;y of laughter. The arguements between cartman and kyle are just as funny as ever in this episode, and the gang is great as always at integrating second-tier characters and pulling it off seamlessly. Butters also going "#2" on cartmans head was a great ending too.moreless

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  • cool

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    By pocam0, Feb 03, 2007 Report Abuse
    best episode kdkdkdk kddddddddddd l l l l ll l ll l ll l ll l l ll l ll l l ll l ll l lll l l l ll l ll l l ll l ll ll l l ll l lk kk k kk k kk k kk mm mm m mm mm m mm mm m m mm mm m mm m mm m mm m **** dbbdjjdf dsd f d sd s d s d s d s d s d s d sd s d d d d sd ds s d sds z cmoreless

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  • I wanna feel his salvation al over my face!

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    By Darth-Revan45, Dec 19, 2006 Report Abuse
    This was a brilliant episode of "South Park". In this episode Eric makes a Christian Rock Band [loved Tokens comments on playing Bass] to win a bet against Kyle. But he is mainly rewriting pop love songs replacing "baby" with "Jesus" and things like that. And people thought he REALLY loved Jesus. But "Faith + 1" becomes a huge band and sells 1 million CD's much to Kyles dissapointment as their band "Moop" has nothing and is protesting piracy of Music [a great parody of that, besides those ******** have enough money]. Then Eric had "Moop" come to his bands party in which he spent all of the money only to discover that it was a "Myyrh" album and not a Platinum one, and Eric screamed "**** Jesus" and then Token kicked Erics ass and Butters told Eric to **** himself.moreless

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    • When the boys are practicing for their band, Stan is seen playing an electric guitar, but there is no amplifier. You can't play an electric guitar without an amp. Edit
    • When all of the bands and singers are arriving, you can see Skylar and his two band mates getting off the bus. Edit
    • When Kyle was yelling at Cartman, he said "A Christian rock band was a stupid idea then and it's a stupid idea now," and "You don't even know anything about Christianity." If you have seen the two-parter, "Do The Handicapped Go To Hell?" and "Probably," you will know that Cartman obviously had known MUCH about Christianity. However as he was doing it for the money, he could just been acting thus explaining his line "I know enough to exploit it". Edit

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    • This is the first episode of South Park to air in Halloween week, and have nothing to do with Halloween. Edit
    • Metallica is one of the biggest opponents of music piracy. Edit
    • Coincidentally, during the broadcast of this episode, there was a commercial that aired stating of Napster.com's return. (However, this new version of Napster is a pay per song or album service.) Edit

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    • "Sanctified" Guitarist: Is this the way to the backstage? Cartman: Who are you? "Sanctified" Drummer: We're the band "Sanctified". We play metal and punk, but with lyrics that inspire faith in Jesus. We prove that Christian music can be tough and hardcore. Cartman; (sarcastically) Yeah, you guys are really hardcore. "Santified" Guitarist: You bet your goshdarned rear ends we are! Edit
    • Cartman:(Singing)I want to get down on my knees and start pleasing Jesus, I want to feel his salvation all on my face... Edit
    • Cartman: (Singing) The Body of Christ! Sleek swimmer's body, all muscled up and toned! The Body of Christ! O, Lord Almighty, I wish I could call it my own! Edit

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    • Capitol Records: This is the second time Capitol Records in Hollywood has been parodied. In "Chef Aid" it was called Capitalist Records, but didn't have the distinctive record-stack shape shown in this episode. Here it has the record-stack shape, but is called Faith Records. Edit
    • Sanctified: We play Metal and punk but with Christian overtones. This is possibly an allusion to the Christian Thrash Metal band Demon Hunter. Their lyrics are written as strongly Christian, but are violent enough to attract a hardcore image. Edit
    • Sampling: The fact that Faith+1 was using old songs but changing the words is pointing at many artists. The include Puff Daddy's "I'll Be Missing You" (which was basically "Every Breath You Take" if the Police had rapped it). It also points at Vanilla Ice's "Ice, Ice Baby" (which used the beat from "Under Pressure" by Queen f/ David Bowie). Edit

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