Jewbilee
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 Moses at Jewbilee |
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| Episode no. | Season 3 Episode 40 |
| Written by | Matt Stone |
| Directed by | Matt Stone |
| Production no. | 309 |
| Original airdate | July 28, 1999 |
| Season 3 episodes | |
| South Park - Season 3 April 7, 1999 – January 12, 2000 |
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"Jewbilee" is the third and final part of the Meteor Shower story arc and the 40th episode of Comedy Central's animated series South Park. It describes what happened to Kyle and Kenny (who both went to Jew Scouts) on the night of the meteor shower. It originally aired on July 28, 1999.
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[edit] Plot
Sheila and Gerald Broflovski are getting ready to go to Mr. Mackey's meteor shower party. While preparing to leave, Kyle and his brother Ike are preparing to go to Jewbilee camp: a Boy Scout-esque camp for Jewish boys. When Kenny arrives at Kyle's house to hang out, Kyle explains to Kenny that because he is not Jewish he might not be accepted at Jewbilee. Kenny doesn't care and asks the Broflovskis if he can go. They then grant Kenny permission and explain to him the basic tenets of Judaism on the car ride to Jewbilee. After dropping the boys off at Jewbilee, Sheila and Gerald leave for Mr. Mackey's party.
Kenny then becomes initiated, despite not being Jewish. Meanwhile, Ike is assigned to go with the other tots to the Squirts camp, which is a Cub Scout camp. After the initiation ceremonies, the boys make soap sculptures to honor their prophet Moses (who appears as a likeness to the Master Control Program from the movie Tron) who demands arts-and-crafts-like things. Kenny is then identified as not being Jewish and is banished from the camp. He saves the day, however, when he prevents Garth, the anti-Semitic Jew, from stealing Moses' spirit and summoning Haman.
Meanwhile, the Squirts are being kidnapped by the bear the Broflovskis saw earlier in the episode. The Squirts master wants to capture the bear, but only so he can get his badge and therefore become a Scouts master instead of Squirts. Soon, the bear captures all the squirts and the Squirts master has to go to the Warden, but is shot by Garth, when he tries to stop him from summoning Haman. Kenny gets captured by the bear only to find that the bear wasn't killing the Squirts but was finding friends for her child. Kenny gets the Squirts and saves the day by sacrificing himself to save Moses, and Haman is defeated. Moses then kills Garth, and declares that they (the Jews) shall meet every year on that day to celebrate Kenny.
[edit] Kenny's death
Kenny sacrifices himself to save the Jews by breaking his skull over the "Conch Shell of Blind Faith" that Moses is imprisoned in, thus cracking it and releasing Moses. This is another of Kenny's deaths as an act of courage.
[edit] Connection to "Meteor Shower" story arc
- When Kenny is trying to hitchhike home, the ATF and a couple of police cars are seen driving by, heading to Mr. Mackey's house, where they think a cult is residing. This is explained in the previous episode.
- Kyle appeared in his Jewbilee uniform at the end of the previous episode. He then proceeded to tell Stan everything that happened in this episode.
[edit] "Judaisms"
- The episode's depiction of Judaism has almost nothing to do with actual Jewish beliefs or practices, except in a very superficial way. In fact, much of what the writers include in the episode is based on various anti-semitic claims that have been made since the destruction of the Second Temple (including the supposed secretive nature of Jews; the worship of Moses rather than God; and the strange, almost pagan rituals).
- Like Moses, Haman is actually a non-supernatural character from Hebrew Scripture. He is a normal human being and appears in the Book of Esther as a counsellor to the Persian king, plotting to have all Jews in the empire killed; as a result he features prominently in the Jewish festival of Purim. In the episode however, he is depicted as a shadowy, Cthulhu-esque entity with glowing red eyes and tentacles.
- Garth, the anti-semitic Jewish elder, is a reference to the "Self-hating Jew" stereotype.
- Jewbilee is a reference to both the Biblical Jubilee and jamboree.
- During the induction ceremony, the Elder doing the inducting (and the inductee, immediately following) says the incorrect Hebrew word nahitkayem (נהתקיים), rather than the correct word, nitkayem (נתקיים), meaning we will exist, just before the bell overtop of the inductee's head is struck.
[edit] Pop culture references
- The leader of Jewbilee has a variation of the Superman insignia on his shirt, with the Superman S replaced with the Star of David inside the Superman logo outline.
- Other than the fact that Moses is depicted like the Master Control Program in Tron, he also looks oddly like a huge dreidel, especially since Moses constantly spins.
[edit] References
- Episode 309 - Jewbilee (3) on SouthParkStuff.com.
[edit] External links
| Preceded by “Two Guys Naked in a Hot Tub” |
South Park episodes | Followed by “Chinpokomon” |
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