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''. The 16th episode of the series overall, it first aired on

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in the United States on May 20, 1998. In the episode, school counselor Mr. Mackey is fired, and turns to

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s. Meanwhile, the boys misconstrue what

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entails, and try to save Kyle's younger brother Ike from his upcoming

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. The episode was written and directed by series co-creator

Trey Parker Randolph Severn "Trey" Parker III (born October 19, 1969) is an American actor, animator, writer, producer, director, and musician. He is best known for co-creating ''South Park'' (1997) and '' The Book of Mormon'' (2011) with his creative part ...

. "Ike's Wee Wee" satirizes certain attitudes towards drug users, and explores whether family can only mean those who are related by blood. This episode introduced Ike's backstory as an adopted Canadian child. "Ike's Wee Wee" received positive responses from critics, who especially praised the episode for its touching moments.

Plot

Mr. Mackey, the school counselor, is giving a drug and alcohol prevention lecture to the class, emphasizing that

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marijuana Cannabis (), commonly known as marijuana (), weed, pot, and ganja, List of slang names for cannabis, among other names, is a non-chemically uniform psychoactive drug from the ''Cannabis'' plant. Native to Central or South Asia, cannabis has ...

and

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are bad. He passes a sample of marijuana around the class so that the children can learn its smell, but it is never returned (it's later revealed that Mr. Garrison stole it, as he is seen watching ''

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'' while high). As a result, Mr. Mackey is fired and later kicked out of his house, leaving him homeless. A desperate Mackey gives in to trying marijuana one night in an alley, and later LSD. Soon enough, Mr. Mackey becomes a drug-addled

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and meets a female hippie, with whom he decides to get married. While on

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, Mr. Mackey is captured and taken into rehab. Mr. Mackey emerges clean from rehab and is given his job back. Meanwhile, Kyle invites Stan, Cartman and

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to his younger brother Ike's

. When they learn more about what a bris is, and misconstrue it as a party where they are going to cut off his penis, Kyle tries to find a way to hide his brother from his parents and the

process. Kyle puts Ike on a train to

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and makes an Ike-style doll out of meat bones in an attempt to not arouse his parents' suspicions. This backfires when the doll is mauled by a rabid dog that subsequently gets run over by a truck, which leads Kyle's parents to think that Ike is dead. At the funeral, Kyle finds out that Ike is not his

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brother, but was adopted from Canada due to the tombstone featuring the Canadian flag. Upon discovering this, Kyle declares that Ike is no longer his brother and reveals the truth to his shocked parents, who retrieve Ike from Nebraska. Kyle is so upset, that when Kenny falls into a gravesite and is crushed by a gravestone, Kyle flatly says his line "you bastards". The day of the bris arrives, and Kyle is grounded for sending Ike away. When the

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arrives to perform the bris, Ike flees to Kyle's room in terror. Seeing Ike in distress and some old pictures prompts a change of heart in Kyle, and he defends his brother fiercely before it is explained to him what a circumcision actually is, at which point Stan and Cartman decide they want to be circumcised too. They watch the process; even though the boys pass out momentarily, Kyle is relieved to see Ike unharmed. Furthermore, Kyle realizes that he considers his friends to be family too, except for Cartman, who subsequently retorts that he doesn't want to be part of their family anyway.

Production

"Ike's Wee Wee" was written and directed by series co-creator

. The scene where Mr. Mackey loses the marijuana cigarette in class was inspired by a real event from Parker's life, where a counselor came into his class in seventh grade, and passed around a lit piece of marijuana, which then disappeared. At the beginning and end of the episode, there are scenes where the kids imitate Mr. Mackey's voice to him, while he is oblivious to the fact that he is being made fun of. Parker and his classmates used to do the same thing to their counselor in

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, who was the basis for Mr. Mackey's character. Parker said that he was especially proud of Chef's line, "There's a time and a place for everything, and it's called college", which is something Parker believes in, noting that if he had a child, he would tell him: "Do whatever you want, just wait till

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because you don't know what the fuck's up right now." Chef's sentence would later return in the season four episode " The Tooth Fairy Tats 2000". The episode introduced Ike's backstory as a Canadian child adopted by the Broflovskis. Ever since the recurring characters

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were established to be Canadians in the season one finale " Cartman's Mom Is a Dirty Slut", and the subsequent season two premiere " Terrance and Phillip in Not Without My Anus",News post dated April 28, 2001. In: all Canadian characters on ''South Park'' have shared the same simplistic design: having simple beady eyes and a floppy head made up of two halves. While Ike had been on the show since its first episode, the writers originally did not know that he was going to be Canadian; he was retroactively made one based on his visual similarity to Terrance and Phillip. Ike's backstory would play an important role in the film '' South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut'', which involves a fictional American–Canadian war, as well as in future episodes of the series, such as the season seven episode, "

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", in which Ike's biological parents take him away from the Broflovskis and bring him back to Canada. "Ike's Wee Wee" features regular voice acting from series creators Parker and

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for most characters,

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(credited as Shannen Cassidy) for female characters, and

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for

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. Additional dialogue was provided by ''South Park'' audio engineer Bruce Howell, while Ike's lines were uttered by Howell's then-five-year-old son Jesse.""As Crappy As Possible": The Method Behind the Madness of South Park"
''Creative Planet Network'' (February 15, 2012). Retrieved December 28, 2016.

Themes

"Ike's Wee Wee" raises the question of who really can be considered one's family. At first, Kyle's implicit idea is that family consists of "those for whom we care that are related by blood". Based on this viewing of family, he no longer feels the need to help Ike when he learns that they are not related by blood. As the story progresses, Kyle questions his initial beliefs, and forms the episode's central moral by saying that "Family isn't about whose blood you have. It's about who you care about." Thus, Kyle's reformed view of family not only includes his adopted brother, but his friends as well. Kyle's questioning of his own morals has been likened to engaging in the

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of inquiry. The subplot of "Ike's Wee Wee" satirizes certain drug subcultures, as well as drug use, and societal attitudes towards drug users. The way the episode portrays Mr. Mackey's lack of real knowledge about drug use and addiction has been described as an example of ''South Park'' satirizing

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, when "they lead to the sort of hypocrisy inconsistent with a proper

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Cultural references

Part of the episode revolves around the practice of

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, and the related ceremony called the ''

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'' or bris, and the boys' misunderstanding of the tradition. The boys believe that circumcision entails the cutting off of one's penis, which they refer to by the childish colloquial term " wee wee", except for Cartman, who insists on calling it "fireman".

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is also referred to by various names, including ''weed'', ''grass'', ''pot'', and ''

'', in which Mr. Mackey constantly pronounces the letter ''j'' as (as in ''jam''), which makes Kyle mispronounce the drug as "marry-Jew wanna". Drug use is often portrayed in conjunction with the

subculture, through hippie characters, such as the two teenagers that give

to Mackey, and the woman that he befriends and eventually marries. Jimbo and Cartman both use the term ''hippie'' pejoratively. During their argument, Jimbo tells Mackey that he should just go to a

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concert, to which Mackey says he can't since

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is deceased. On two occasions, the episode shows people watching ''

'' while high on marijuana or in rehab. In his drug prevention speech, Mackey claims that LSD was made famous by

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and

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, former members of

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. Both Lennon and McCartney are known to have experimented with the drug. While walking home, Mr. Mackey drunkenly sings the 1983

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song "

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". During Ike's supposed funeral, a

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player starts playing the

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folk song "

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". At the funerals, the priest uses the phrase "Ashes to ashes, dust to dust", from the

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burial service. When the townspeople start to harass Mackey, one of them shouts, "Now we see what you and

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have in common... Dope!". This references the famous catchphrase from ''

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'', "

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", which sounds similar to the word ''dope'', meaning illicit drugs. At Kyle's house, Kyle's parents offer the boys a dish called "GaHekgafuga", which is not a real dish. When Mackey is in India, he is captured by members of

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, and driven away in their van. Mackey is taken to rehabilitation to the Betty Ford Clinic, which is based on a real-life hospital. A common

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is referenced, where a

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(represents

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) and a shoulder devil (representing

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) appear near a character. This concept is spoofed in the episode, as both the devil and the angel suggest to Mackey that he should drink the beer. When Stan tells Kyle what he thinks a bris means, a

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is used, which is an unsettling filmmaking effect often used to show that a character is undergoing a major realization. The hallucinogenic effects of certain drugs are portrayed by different means. When inhaling cannabis, the alley that Mr. Mackey is in suddenly turns very colorful. After taking LSD, Mackey's head inflates like a giant balloon, and then literally detaches from his body, and floats away (the boys interact with Mackey by looking up at his head as it floats over them). In the scene where the boys are talking to

, he leaves without answering the boys' sexual question, angrily saying, "Dammit, children, why do I always have to be the one to explain all this stuff to you. Ask your parents for once!". This is in reference to Chef's tendency to give advice to the boys. While the children are trying to think of what is the most important thing for a man, Cartman says "Ham?", to which Kyle angrily replies, "No, not ham, you fat fuck!". This exchange was used verbatim between Stan and Cartman in '' The Spirit of Christmas'', the 1995 short film that was the precursor to ''South Park''.

Broadcast, reception, and impact

Two episodes preceded "Ike's Wee Wee" in the second season of the show. The episode scheduled for April 1, 1998, promised to resolve the

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ending of the first season finale, " Cartman's Mom Is a Dirty Slut", regarding the identity of Cartman's father, but was in fact an

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joke on the creators' part: " Terrance and Phillip in Not Without My Anus", an entire episode revolving around the two title characters. The April 1 episode was supposed to be a one-off, with the rest of the season starting in May. However, following overwhelmingly negative fan reaction, the episode resolving the Cartman's father storyline, "

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", was moved from its planned May 20 air date to April 22. "Ike's Wee Wee" then started a six-episode run of the season when it was broadcast on

in the United States on May 20, 1998. "Ike's Wee Wee" was met with favorable reviews. Critics especially praised the episode for its touching moments, in contrast with the

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often employed in the series. In his review of the episode in the ''

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'', Allan Johnson praised the episode, especially in comparison with the first two episodes of the season, considering it to be one of the better episodes of the series. When the series reached its 100th episode in 2003, the same writer also listed "Ike's Wee Wee" as one of the "top 10 episodes that have made one of the most provocative comedies on TV". A review in the

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said that "n the midst of all this potty-mouthed humor, there are moments that are downright touching", and particularly highlighted the ending of "Ike's Wee Wee" as an example, explaining that "all's well in the end, and Kyle and the boys learn a lesson about family values that even

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would approve of". In 2000, visitors of the Comedy Central website chose "Ike's Wee Wee" as their favorite episode during a voting called "''South Park'' e-Lections", held around the time of the United States presidential election that year. Mr. Mackey's line, "drugs are bad, m'kay?", has entered popular culture. The

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song, "The Kids" (which is featured on the

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of the single " The Way I Am" and the clean version of ''

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''), is thematically about drug use, and makes numerous references to ''South Park'' and impressions of the show's characters, including an impression of Mr. Mackey's voice and the repetition of his line. The song "Hip Hop Quotables" by

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, from his album ''

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'', also contains the line. In 2008, the line was referenced in the

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of a judge, in a case of the

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. Also, in a 2010 marijuana-related court case at the

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, Judge

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referenced the episode in his dissenting opinion, calling Mr. Mackey's words "immortal". In 2011, during a judiciary committee hearing about a marijuana-related bill in

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, a representative showed off a potential packaging for edible marijuana products. According to a group called the Cannabis Therapy Institute, the label on the package, which bore the placeholder text, "Legal and governmentally approved statement describing that pot is bad, M-ok", was a reference to the ''South Park'' episode.

Home media

"Ike's Wee Wee" was released on

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in April 1999, along with the episode " Chickenlover", on a video titled ''South Park: Volume 8''. The episode saw its first

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release in December 1999, on a disc called ''South Park: Volume 4'', which also included "Chickenlover", as well as " Cartman's Mom Is a Dirty Slut" and "

". ''South Park: The Complete Second Season'' was released on DVD on June 3, 2003. On these home releases, "Ike's Wee Wee" has a humorous introduction by series co-creators

and

, who are playing music to the elderly in a retirement home. Episodes of season two have also been released digitally, on services such as

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, the iTunes Store, and

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. Like most episodes of ''South Park'', "Ike's Wee Wee" is available to watch for free on the show's website, SouthParkStudios.com.

References

External links

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