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"Mystery of the Urinal Deuce"
A conspiracy within a conspiracy...
Episode no.	148
Airdate	October 11, 2006
South Park - Season 10 March 22, 2006 – November 15, 2006
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"Mystery of the Urinal Deuce" is episode 1009 (#148) of Comedy Central's South Park which first aired on October 11, 2006.

Contents 1 Plot 2 References to other works/Pop culture 3 Trivia 4 See also 5 External links

When someone at South Park Elementary defecates in a urinal, Mr. Mackey searches for the boy responsible. Cartman begins to rant that it was a conspiracy, "just like 9/11", which he had been ranting about for a while. The others, on the other hand, simply brush him off as a "retard." Cartman performs an investigation, which he presents to his class in an impressive PowerPoint presentation. He claims that the true culprit behind the 9/11 attacks was Kyle. He has no real evidence to conclude this but uses some convoluted (and rather inane) numerology involving Kyle's score on a test he earned a few days after the 9/11 attacks. Nevertheless, he manages to convince everyone that Kyle is guilty. When Kyle tells his mother that everyone thinks he is the 9/11 culprit (Sheila: What what what!?), she calls a town meeting, arguing that children don't understand enough about the September 11th attacks. She also complains about Kyle being blamed for 9/11 and tried to protest to have a day (or something) to teach them about it and to get Cartman punished. However, many of the townspeople also believe 9/11 might have been the result of a conspiracy, so they hire The Hardly Boys (parody of The Hardy Boys) to discover the results of both the 9/11 attacks and the urinal incident, which the Hardly Boys decide must be related. During the whole process they make barely concealed sexual comments in their investigation (e.g.: "I've got such a raging clue right now").

Kyle enlists Stan's help, and they leave South Park to find an organization that can prove Kyle's innocence. The group they find, however, believes that the United States government orchestrated the 9/11 attacks. The conspiracy organization have bottles of anthrax, which they use as "evidence" of the attack. As Kyle is holding them, a SWAT team attacks and arrests Kyle, Stan, and the leader of the conspiracy organization. They are taken to The White House. Presidential officials, along with President George W. Bush, quickly admit that the government actually is behind 9/11. Bush explains the incredibly convoluted method, which seems to greatly dishearten Kyle (who responds repeatedly with a comical, high-noted "Really?!"), who always believed such theories were stupid. Since Bush admits this information, he decides to kill Stan, Kyle, and the conspiracy leader, as to not have this information leak out. The head of the conspiracy group is executed by George W. Bush.

As Dick Cheney tries to execute Stan and Kyle with a crossbow (in a parody of Cheney's hunting incident), he misses (again) and allows the boys to escape. Meanwhile, Clyde is caught for the urinal incident, and while he admits to it, his parents tell Mr. Mackey he had a colostomy at age 5. Meanwhile the students continue to take glee at Mr. Mackey's determination to find the culprit. Later, in Chicago, Stan and Kyle run into the leader of the conspiracy group alive and well outside of a "WcDonald's". After a short chase by Stan and Kyle, he is cornered in a back alley and shot dead by the father of the Hardly boys, who reveals that his sons discovered that all the conspiracy websites are false and run by the government. Stan, Kyle, and the Hardly family congregate at the Hardly house as the Bush Administration arrives, and eventually admits that the government wasn't behind 9/11. He explains they actually run the websites, so that the fourth of the country who are dumb enough to believe conspiracies will believe the government is all-powerful, while the other 3/4's know the truth: that "a bunch of pissed off Muslims" actually executed the 9/11 attacks.

When the father of the Hardly boys questions why everyone knew they were at the Hardly house, Stan puts a gun to Kyle's head and admits that he was the one who defecated in the urinal ("All the stalls were full. I didn't want to miss recess!" was his excuse); the whole point of going with Kyle on this strange mission, he explains, was so they could get the "proof" that the government was behind 9/11, and the urinal incident (which again seems to be illogically linked in most people's minds), which the government was willing to go along with if it made people think they were all-powerful. Thus in the end, the fundamentalists are concluded to be responsible for 9/11, the government admits to Stan, Kyle, and the Hardly family that they wanted people to believe the government was in full control of everything. Soon after Stan receives his punishment for defecating in the urinal: cleaning the urinal, while Mr. Mackey lectured him (and unwittingly making him laugh, to Mackey's annoyance).

• In the South Park episode Starvin Marvin in Space Cartman remarks that Kyle went for a number two in the urinal.
• The Hardly family is an extremely close parody of the literary Hardy family of super-sleuths created by Franklin W. Dixon. In both the books and the episode, a man named Fenton is the father of Frank and Joe. The boys also match the physical descriptions of the real Hardys, although the blonde is referred to as "Frank" and the dark-haired brother as "Joe", a reversal from the books.

• In the scene in which Kyle and Stan chase the 9/11 conspiracy group leader, the signs on the front of the burger shop he walks out of say 'Omega Size Those Fries' (with a picture of french fries accompanying it) and '$1 Fridays are Back' (with a picture of a burger accompanying it). The restaurant itself is a parody of McDonald's, with an upside-down version of the McDonald's 'M' logo on the outside of the building and the trash can.

• As the characters run in front of the magazine stand, parodies of popular magazines can be seen; one is called 'Shine' and is a parody of Time magazine; another says 'Live' and is a parody of Life magazine; another says 'Glad' and is a parody of Mad magazine, complete with a parody drawing of Alfred E. Neuman. Other magazine covers appear to be parodies of Sports Illustrated and O magazine.

• A shop that the characters run past is called 'Luigi's Pizza Palace'; the sign on the storefront displays the fake phone number 215-697-4563 (though the area code 215 is one of the actual area codes assigned for the city of Philadelphia).

• 9/11 conspiracy theories

• Official information on the episode

Preceded by "Make Love, Not Warcraft"

South Park episodes

Followed by "Miss Teacher Bangs a Boy"