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“Damien”
South Park episode
Damien
Episode no.	Season 1 Episode 10
Written by	Trey Parker Matt Stone Brian Graden
Directed by	Trey Parker
Guest stars	Michael Buffer
Production no.	108
Original airdate	February 4, 1998
Season 1 episodes
South Park - Season 1 August 13, 1997 – February 25, 1998
Cartman Gets an Anal Probe Weight Gain 4000 Volcano Big Gay Al's Big Gay Boat Ride An Elephant Makes Love to a Pig Death Pink Eye Damien Starvin' Marvin Mr. Hankey, the Christmas Poo Tom's Rhinoplasty Mecha-Streisand Cartman's Mom Is a Dirty Slut
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"Damien" is the tenth episode of Comedy Central's animated series South Park . It originally aired on February 4, 1998.

Contents 1 Plot 2 Kenny's death 3 Pop Culture References 4 Other South Park Episodes References 5 Miscellanea 6 External links

In anticipation of his upcoming birthday, Cartman hands out invitations to his birthday party during class. Mr. Garrison then announces that a new student is joining the class and presents Damien, who introduces himself as being from "the seventh layer of hell" (Mr. Garrison believes this to be Alabama). He continues that "now is the beginning of the end and the new reign of [his] father, the Prince of Darkness". After Cartman taunts him with a birthday invitation, flames erupt in the pupils of Damien's eyes and he telekinetically hurls Cartman's desk out the window, prompting Mr. Garrison to ask if he needs a "time out".

At lunch, Stan, Kyle, and Kenny compare invitations to Cartman's party and discover that they have each been instructed to buy a specific Mega Man action figure for Cartman:

The boys continue to mock Damien throughout lunch, and he turns Kenny into a duck-billed platypus before going into a rage and destroying the lunch room, demanding Jesus be brought to him.

While the rest of the boys go and find Jesus, Cartman revises his birthday gift list, making it clear that he needs all the Mega Men in order to combine them and create "Ultra Mega Mega Man".

Meanwhile Damien's wrath continues on the playground during recess. When Jesus arrives he tells Damien to let Satan come and he will face him. While waiting for Satan, the whole town manages to gather at the playground. Although Satan does not physically show, he informs everyone (through Damien) that the arrangements for the final battle will be made the next day, prompting Jimbo to make his way to his bookie, followed by the rest of the town.

It is decided that the final battle will be held at the South Park Forum and can be watched on pay-per-view for $49.95. Naturally, Cartman is angered that the final fight between good and evil will be held on his birthday. In anticipation of the fight, the entire town bets that Jesus will win the fight. Yet when Satan appears for the weigh in, appearing much larger than Jesus, the town goes back to the bookie to change their bets. The boys take it upon themself to train Jesus, drafting Chef into sparring with him. Chef reluctantly knocks out Jesus with a single punch.

At Cartman's party Damien and Pip show up, despite the fact that neither was invited. In order for Damien to "warm up" to the boys, he opens a pit of fire and lets black ghosts throw Pip in the air where he is engulfed in flames. Impressed by the fireworks display (and the abuse of Pip), the boys welcome him to join the party. While Cartman is opening his presents, he is happy to see that both Stan and Wendy gave him the correct Mega Man. However, Kyle, who was supposed to give Cartman a red Mega Man, gives him the board game, Ants in the Pants, saying the stores were all out of red Mega Men. Enraged that he can't get the Ultra Mega Mega Man, Cartman attacks Kyle and promptly cancels the party, ordering everyone out; they all go to see the fight.

At the fight, the referee informs Satan and Jesus that he, "want[s] a good clean fight, guys. No punching below the belt, holding, or miracles." Satan lands punch after punch on Jesus. Jesus is disheartened by the town's lack of faith in him and does not attempt to retaliate as Satan wears him down. When Stan shows up from Cartman's party, he gives Jesus a small pep talk about how Nancy Kerrigan wouldn't give up until she was #1. Kyle interrupts him to tell him that Nancy got the silver medal (second place). Instead, Stan tells him, "Don't try to be a great man, just be a man." When Jesus asks who said that, Stan tells Jesus that he did (but Stan later admits he heard it on Star Trek).

Inspired by Stan's words, Jesus punches Satan in the lower-forearm and Satan takes a dive, throwing the match. It is revealed that the only person who bet on Jesus to win was Satan. He had planned to inspire the crowd to bet on himself and get rich off their folly (and buy some real estate). The town asks for Jesus' forgiveness and he replies, "Aww heck, do I have a choice?"

• He was shot by Jimbo Kern when he was a duck-billed platypus, on the usual grounds that "He's coming right for us!"

• Damien is the name of the boy in the Omen, being the child of Satan in that movie. There's also a picture of a giraffe and a baboon on the classroom wall, which refers to the scenes in "The Omen" where Damien causes animals (two of which are giraffes and baboons) to go crazy.
• During lunch, the boys inform Damien that his mom is a "real dog." This is also a reference to the Omen, in which Damien's real mother is a jackal.
• Damien himself resembles the character Hecubus, Spawn of Satan from the sketch show The Kids in the Hall.
• Stan's line "Don't try to be a great man, just be a man" was originally spoken by William Riker to Zefram Cochrane in the movie Star Trek: First Contact. This also alludes to the fact that Stan has a rather vast knowledge of Star Trek, later expanded upon in Spontaneous Combustion. (Both times Stan speaks Star Trek lines, he says that both lines were from the bible.)
• Satan's anti-climactic threat "I'm going to smash your face into little bits" is a reference to the character Tim the Enchanter from Monty Python and the Holy Grail, who uses almost exactly the same description of what the Rabbit of Caerbannog does to its victims.
• The videogame character Mega Man is mentioned, though it should be noted that the Mega Man Cartman is referring to is totally different from the aforementioned videogame character.
• Jesus' assistant on the set of His TV show is referred to as Roland. The name of a paladin who served under Charlemagne.

• When the Towns people applaude Satan in the match, Jesus turns around. This looked similar to The Spirit of Christmas short when the Boys root for Santa

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• To date, this is one of two episodes of South Park to receive a TV-14 for offensive language (L) and graphic violence (V) instead of the show's usual TV-MA rating (for crude humor and offensive language) when first aired on Comedy Central. In syndicated reruns, this episode is rated TV-14 (except for Comedy Central reruns where this episode carries the TV-MA rating).
• Whenever Damien appears onscreen, a choir of voices chants in what sounds like Latin. The voices say "Rectus… Dominus… Cheesy Poofs…" ("Rectus Dominus" is dog Latin for "ass master"-in real Latin it means "righteous Lord"; "ass master" in real Latin would be "dominus recti" - an often used insult on the show while Cheesy Poofs is the name of Cartman's favorite snack.)
• Throughout the episode, whenever a shot of the 3rd grade class is shown the numbers "666" appear in red with the rest of the numbers on the wall. The black board reads some calculations and mathematical formulas, amongst them 2x + 3y + 1 = 666
• Damien was originally going to be voiced by Beavis and Butt-head/King of the Hill creator and voice actor Mike Judge. Due to the fast production on South Park, however, Judge was unable to record new lines. (Judge later voiced the unmasked Kenny on South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut)
• According to the DVD commentary, Pip was originally supposed to die in this episode, but Parker and Stone decided not to kill him off because they needed him for the crowd scenes.
• This was the only South Park episode where Satan was portrayed as being outrightly evil, rather than the insecure, emotionally dependant figure he would later be portrayed as.

• "Damien" at South Park Studios

Preceded by "Mr. Hankey, the Christmas Poo"

South Park episodes

Followed by "Tom's Rhinoplasty"

v • d • e Religion in South Park
Atheism	"Go God Go"/"Go God Go XII"
Christianity	"Are You There God? It's Me, Jesus" · "Best Friends Forever" · "Bloody Mary" · "Cartman Sucks" · "Christian Rock Hard" · "Death" · "Do the Handicapped Go to Hell?"/"Probably" · "Fantastic Easter Special" · "A Ladder to Heaven" · "Merry Christmas, Charlie Manson!" · "Mr. Hankey, the Christmas Poo" · "Mr. Hankey's Christmas Classics" · "Red Hot Catholic Love" · "Starvin' Marvin in Space" · "Red Sleigh Down" · "A Very Crappy Christmas"
Hell and Satan	South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut · "Damien" · "Hell on Earth 2006" · "The Succubus" · "Woodland Critter Christmas"
Islam	"Cartoon Wars" · "Osama Bin Laden Has Farty Pants" · "The Snuke"
Judaism	"Jewbilee" · "Ike's Wee Wee" · "The Passion of the Jew"
Mormonism	"All About Mormons"
Scientology and other NRMs	"Cow Days" · "The Return of Chef" · "Super Best Friends" · "Trapped in the Closet" · "Two Guys Naked in a Hot Tub"
Shorts and characters	Jesus and Pals · Jesus · Satan · "The Spirit of Christmas"
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