Towelie

Season 5, Episode 8, Aired
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The boys get a new video game system and plan to play it for the entire weekend, but their plan is interrupted when they meet Towelie. Towelie is a genetically engineered towel created by the government. When the government finds out the boys know about Towelie, they steal the boy's game system and oblivious to everything going on around them the boys stop at nothing to get it back.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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  • One of my three favourite episodes.

    10
    "Perfect"
    By marbles01, Nov 13, 2011 Report Abuse
    One of my three favourite episodes. I really like Towelie. He's my favourite of the secondary characters. The fact that he's a towel with a weird obsession to get high is just plain out hilarious. Him and the boy's not caring about what's going on around them is what makes this episode funny. It has less swearing than a usual South Park episode and I think that it might be alright to let a twelve year old kid watch this episode. If you love silly storylines and towels who enjoy getting high than this is without doubt the episode for you.moreless

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  • Towelie

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    By djjoe60, Oct 27, 2011 Report Abuse
    So, Towelie is kinda a druggie with a twist. So he is a towel and a goddamn cute one as well. If ya have no idea what I am talking about then move on or watch the episode at www.southparkzone.com.
    Towelie is not the best character for sure. The episodes with him are not that good. This however is an example. The episode can be boring and I couldn't help but skip some of the crappy chatty scenes which didn't hold my attention. If I must say, I didn't really like that episode. But I do like the Funky Town scene!
    :( Not so good.moreless

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  • i loved this far more then i should have

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    By futuramarama, Sep 25, 2011 Report Abuse
    this was a fantastic episode. Things i liked included the macho towelie saying "Don't forget to bring a towel" in the masculine voice, Cartman finding the thing at the beginning of the episode, the ending with Cartman telling Towelie he is the "worst character ever", the music that played whenever Towelie got high, anytime Towelie said "Don't forget to bring a towel" or asked if they wanted to get high, Kenny dying and Kyle not caring and being more careful about the gamesphere, etc.
    i loved this episode a lot. a lot of funny scenes. the plot might not be great but the humor in this episode is top notch if you ask me, so definitely giving this an A+moreless

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  • I thought it was funny...then again i think everythings funny

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    By Shinigami124, Aug 15, 2008 Report Abuse
    I thought this episode was average but it did make me laugh. I mean a talking towel, that likes to get high, i couldn't think of anything more silly if i tried. I liked when towlie played funky town on the keypad. I also liked how towlie couldn't even stop getting high for 15 seconds and that buff towlie was great. I totally want a towlie t shirt and hearing his voice say "want to get high" on the towel always puts a smile on my face. It might be the dumb humor but i was laughing. So i liked this episodemoreless

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  • Another brilliant installment but the novelty of the Towelie character is worn off in this episode.

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    By oceanic6, Mar 20, 2008 Report Abuse
    When the boys are playing videogames at Stan's house; Cartman finds a bloody tampon in the trash. Stan's Mom, not wanting to get into menstruation with 8 - year old boys, offers to buy them the new Okama Gamesphere console if they drop the subject. With this episode we meet Towelie; the talking and drug - taking towel who is voiced by Vernon Chatman. The boys get drawn into a massive conspiracy involving the military and Towelie's manufacturer Tynacorp, one of which stole the boy's console from them so it's up to Cartman, Kyle, Stan and Kenny as well as Towelie to get the Gamesphere back. The humour for this episode is meant to stem from Towelie's antics but there're very few occasions where his drug taking and rambling about towels is funny. Another funny aspect which is the four boys bickering is muted as the four display a lot more teamwork and mateship in this episode as they have to work together to get the Gamesphere back. Basically watching how the storyline goes from lame to downright absurd is the best part of it.

    When you watch it you'll mirror Stan's thoughts on how the plot and objectives of the military and Tynacorp is hilariously unexplained leaving us "not caring". The show is split into 3 key parts; all of them involving the boys just wanting to play video games and the twist at the end makes this one of the best written episodes so far. While it's played for comedic effect; the violence got a little to prominent towards the end of the episode and a lot of the time the scene would've ended a lot more effectively with a snappy one - liner rather than having a body get shot to pieces. This episode looks stunning; the more hectic the scene was; the more the well - detailed and rapid - fire animation was utilized. Aside from Vernon Chatman as the hypersonic Towel; the voice work neither improves nor worsens on what's already been established.

    Towelie (the episode not the character) is yet another superb episode in South Park's stellar 5th season while the character is a little harder to warm to.moreless

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    • When the boys get the call to bring Towelie to the gas station to get their Gamesphere back, you can see in the background on the gas pumps one says diesel, and the other says high test. this likely meant that if you noticed it, you were high Edit
    • After Cartman finds the tampon and looks at it, the game controller switches positions in the next scene. Edit
    • When the 4 kids see Towelie outside the game shop, he tells them not to forget to bring a towel, then it shows the 4 kids and a voice says, "What" (presumably in Stan's voice), but none of the kids' mouths moved. Edit

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    • For the first 8 episodes of this season, the show was nominated for the Austin Film Festival's 2001 Sitcom Primetime Teleplay Competition Award. Edit
    • Towelie was an idea Matt Stone had when he was high on marijuana once. It is believed that this is where Towelie's obsession with getting high comes from. Edit
    • The original airing of the Towelie merchandise "commercial" within the episode featured Comedy Central's actual number at the end (1-800-4-COMEDY). In repeats, it is replaced by the fake number 1-800-555-TOWL. Edit

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    • (while the boys play their Gamesphere and pay no attention) Pseudo-military leader: Then perhaps we should show these kids who Tynacorp is REALLY made up of! Go on, tell them why you've been making towels, ZYTAR! (unmasks leader to reveal his alien head) Edit
    • Stan: Do you have our Okama Gamesphere? Military Leader: You did very well bring the towel back here, boys. Let me ask you something... What was it that those people at Tynacorp told you? That the "big, bad Military" wanted to turn Towelie into a weapon of mass destruction? Now let me tell you the REAL story... Stan: Oh, God! Don't care, don't care! Military Leader: Yes, we've been making our own smart-towels, but only because we HAD to. You see, when we started spying on Tynacorp, we discovered a certain terrifying secret... (The boys just stand there and stare.) Military Soldier: Go on! Ask him what terrifying secret! Kyle: What terrifying secret? Military Leader: That Tynacorp was using these towels to take over the world! Cartman: (to Kyle) We're never gonna play our Okama Gamesphere again, are we? Military Leader: Don't you see what towels like these are capable of?? You get out of the shower and dry yourself off... But then, the towel makes you drier and keeps on making you more dry... Can you imagine it? What it would be like to be way, way too dry? I'll tell you something: you don't want to know, and I don't know. Kyle: And we don't care. Military Leader: You've been double-crossed by Tynacorp, kids. They set this all up just so they can get you here and take us down. Stan: So let me get this straight... Our Okama Gamesphere is back at Tynacorp? Military Leader: Oh, yes. It has been all along... Edit
    • Stan: There it is. The Okama Game Sphere. Kyle: Dude, it's got 128 gigahertz d-ram. Stan: What's that? Kyle: Don't know, but it kicks ass. Edit

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    • TNA: The scientists mention Towelie's "TNA", which is likely not a reference to "t*ts n ass" but to deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA), the genetic instructions for every living thing. Edit
    • The Demon: A DC comic book series: The Demon,(Etrigan) contains a character: Jason Blood, whose friend Harry Matthews was transformed into a talking pillow similar to Towelie. Further similarity: a trademark of the character that he was a drug-addict and could constantly be seen smoking. Edit
    • Alien Sighting: When the military general is talking about copying 'TNA' in the vile behind him there was a chunk out of a towel in the shape of an alien. This is an 'alien allusion'. Edit

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