>> Hunter Hoover: His wife has a very clear drinking problem. I don't think shes happy in their marriage. They're also pieces of crap. Welcome back to Privy. Privy is a podcast about bathrooms recorded from my home bathroom. I'm your host Hunter Hoover and I love bathrooms. Happy Privy Christmas everyone. It's our month long celebration of the holiday season brought to you by the bathroom Mat. Here's what I'm going to say. Bathroom mats pretty great. The bathroom mat has a purpose
on those cold nights. You know, it's blustery, the wind's blowing, it's howling. At the point of this episode's record, we just survived what was called a cyclone bomb. Never heard of it. Not sure it's real, but it's, it's pretty much the wind blew really hard and it got kind of cold and windy and rainy.
And on those cold nights, those blustery evenings when you wake up in the middle of the night and level two tummy grumble, your toesies get cold when you're on minute 20 of sitting on the pot and there's no mat between your feet and the floor. So. So the bathroom mat exists for a purpose. The trouble
is is the mat lands. You know, it gets thrown in the wash or for some reason, God only knows like the, the bathroom mat gets moved and it's sitting away from where it ought to live, around the bottom of the toilet or at least at the feet section of the toilet where it can keep my toesies warm. Now you get ice toes in the middle of the night, you get little, you get little frost bitten little nubbins and it's no good. And I think there's a market for a heated bathroom mat
like the ones that go around the toilet. Heated bathroom mats Tmtmtm. In these colder months they need something between our hoofies and the bathroom floor. The bathroom floor is a cold floor. It's probably the coldest floor in the house in my opinion. It just is cold. You got to keep the joints and the toes warm in the cool of the evening. They do a number on them, the temperatures dropping. And as we begin December and a month of Privy Christmas,
we have a number of fun discussions for you. We've had a couple of mystery guests in years past and you know, I'm hoping that it stays calm this year. I kind of, you know, it's been nice hearing from Santa and Mrs. Claus, but, but this privy Christmas I kind of just, I kind of want to just remain calm. Keep it low key and I'm hoping, fingers crossed, I'M finally going to get to bring to you privies hunters privy top 10 holiday treats. @ long last it's
cooler. And uh, and one thing we do every year on Privy Christmas is, is we have a. We discuss and we look at and we just really revel in the. The beauty that is one of everyone's most beloved holiday characters to m. Do. So to kick off privy Christmas 2024, we got to take another trip back to the town of south park to explore the next installment of Mr. Hany's story, which is brought to us via the south park episode called A Very Crappy Christmas
in the Past. For, for our look at Mr. Hanky for the year, uh, uh, we've discussed an ongoing controversy around Mr. Hanky and, and another seemingly anthropomorphic piece of crap. Uh, and I'm not talking about our pre. No, uh, name Nutty the Friendly Nutty the Friendly Dump. Now it's all but squash. Like this controversy is all but squash. The creator of Mr. Hanky has said that the claim that Mr. Hanky is simply a copy and paste of Nutty the Friendly Dump is
patently false. They're obviously completely different ideas. Totally original IPS. When we met Mr. Hanky, the nutty controversies maybe one of the diff. More difficult things that the town of south park is faced. They've been through it. The town of south park, they've faced some adversity, but nothing could be quite as detrimental to their town as the Nutty controversy. And what we find when we look at the Nutty controversy is whatever Nutty the Friendly Dump had going on, which is by the way,
his name. I don't call him that. God called. That's his God given name. Nutty the Friendly Dump. First name Nutty, middle name the Friendly, last name Dump. If you don't understand my, my go here. But whether he's the source material for Mr. Hany, Mr. Hanky has truly become so much m more than Nutty the Friendly
dog. When we met Mr. Hanky on his first time out, it's kind of hard to tell if it's like if, if Mr. Hanky's just like a figment of one of the boys in South Park's brain or if he's like really there, that was what I struggle with. And it's not until we find out that some character named Chef knows all about Mr. Hanky as well that that we begin to get a feel like, oh, like this
is a character. Now I must also admit, and this is one of the facets of of my watch of Mr. Hanky is I. I have never seen south park other than the handful of episodes that I've watched. For our little tour of Mr. Hanky, I have no knowledge of South Park. So in my world, Mr. Hanky is like the most pivotal core character to the world of South Park. Turns out some guy named chef knows Mr. Hanky as
well. And then when we see Mr. Hanky again the following season, we find out that Mr. Hanky lives in the sewers underneath south park and that he has cool electric wizard powers. So that's pretty neat. He's like the brown turd wizard that every story always
wanted, you know. In that same season on the TV playing in the mall, we see an episode of in the episode Merry Christmas Charlie Manchion, a TV show depicting a kind of Mr. Hanky version of a Christmas classic in the same in in the vein and style of the Grinch. So not only is Mr. Hanky a pivotal and core character to the world of south park, we see the lore around Mr. Hanky has become much more than just his origin.
In his third real appearance, Mr. Hanky last year we observed him taking on the role of DJ Sl host, wherein he highlights a number of what I'm going to call alternative holiday classics, which we covered at length in last year's episode. Mr. Hanky is an established member of the south park world, but he also exists in his own world. The Mr.
Hank verse. He is in many ways a uh, south park celebrity, but he's also, he's kind of like Iron man where like Iron man in Iron Man's stories meets real life people that exist in real life. But Iron Man's not real. Like Mr. Hanky meets real life people, interacts with him, but he also has his own Mr. Hanky universe. He's a South
park celebrity. I'm going toa tell you this year for uh, our Mr. Hanky special, we are going to be looking at season four, episode 17, which is the next appearance of Mr. Hanky and it's called A very crappy Christmas. On what I'm calling here at Privy Christmas is our Mr. Hanky for calling turds Christmas extravaganza. Watch along. And in our extravaganja we're going to be doing our first ever watch along video for the podcast for online purposes and of like not
wanting to get sued. Um, um, I could do some shady. So here's the thing. There's ways to like do shady, shady dealings and, and you like. Oh, you play the video up here. Oh look at it and you like make it a little opaque and stick a weird whatever the top of that. I'm not playing games. Like we're not playing this over. We're not doing any copyright infringement. What this is gonna be is I'm going to do my best to give you some live commentary
of a very crappy Christmas. Now, um, um, for those who are, who are interested in watching along with us at home, uh, uh, I will let you know when it, when it's time to start us off. Um, but if you have an HBO Max subscription, you're going to want to navigate u uh, to, to season four, episode 17 of of south park on HBO Max. Now you might be able to find this episode on YouTube and I'll look and see if it's out there. If it is, I might post it in the thing below. Um um, and, and
again I'm not trying to skirt. We're not playing games with, with oh you know, all Hoover. Um, he showed it on there. This is purely going to be a watch long so if you would like to join me to watch this video together and we might put some screens and some stills up later, uh, we don't know. But if you want to join me in watching a very crappy Christmas together, pause this episode or don't and you just hear me watch the episode or you can skip ahead like I don't
know, like 20ish minutes. If you skip ahead 20 minutes you'll get to the synopsis and where we we really unpack the world of Mr. Hanky after we watch it together. But, but if you want to watch it together with us, pause the episode. Now go get your episode ready, ready to fire up. Um um. And then I'm go going toa give us a countdown on when to start it. So pause the episode. And now if you, if you have your episode ready, u uh, pull it up and you can hit play. And three, two, one.
All right. Characters and events. All celebrity voices are impersonated. I feel like the south park intro has gotten different. They're in fourth grade. That's baffling for their language. Um, um, oh yeah, they feature Mr. Hanky in the intro. I have to go back and no, I don't want to do that because that kind of ruins the whole thing. But like I, I haven't. Do they put Mr. Hanky in the intro regularly also? They've just got like live action stuff and this he's on, he's Jewish.
Okay. He put milk and cookies on the toilet. This little brother'name's Ike and he just ate a cookie right off the toilet seat. What an animal. What? What a raging animal. Yeah. Aw. Uh. They're just waiting in eager expectation for Mr. Hanky. Mr. M. Hanky always shows up. He always does. It's the most stereotypical Jewish parents that you've ever seen in your entire life. Just unbelievably stereotypical. Man, they're really letting the awkward set in for Mr.
Hanky. He's taking a while to get there. Wonder why his little brother's drawn that way. He's got like a weird eggh head that like separates in half. What the heck? M. There's cockroach in the toilet. Gross. Yuck. I hate roaches. Flippin roached, dude. I roaches are awful. My family in Florida, they have roaches. They freak me out. They'll scurry away. No way. All his parents carried him to bed. He missed it. The cookies are gone. It's a roach. The roach ate the cookies. So d
All right. They snuck out in the middle of the night. Classic fourth grade move. Kids. Don't. Don't do that. He's in his underwear. The. The one in the orange suits in his underwear. It's too good. He's just in the snow in his underwear. You might get some germs if you're walking in pieces. There he is. Mr. Hankies arrived. They're just standing in turds and talking to a turd. It's kind of confusing. Oh, Mr. M. Hanky's married. That's fun. Oh, she's drunamk. He can't get it right.
He o. He's a little bit, uh, different. Oh, the nuggets are going up to spread Christmas cheer. Mr. Hanky's wife's kind of awful. It's a beautiful home. Those walls are not soundproof. She's pretty drunk. Like for a turd. She does not hold her uphone. Uh, nobody. Everybody's got ear muffs on these days. It would just be like people walking around AirPods. Nobody's buying stuff for Christmas. Joe Biden's present. Everything's too expensive. Everybody'sick at Christmas.
No, you're not sick of Christmas and drinking winter spiced Cranberry Sprite? Mhm. He kick him in the netuts. They did Charlie Brown. Oh, here we go. Cool. They're gonna make their own like cartoon. That's awesome. The spirit of Christmas. Oh my gosh. What was Snoopy doing? That was just for a brief second, but Snoopy looked like he was murdering Charlie Brown. It's a terrifying sight. We got a boost the Christmas spirit so people buy presents. That seems to be the goal here. So
that's cheap. 300 bucks for an animated short. These boys are. These boys are go getters. I'd say sign them up. Nowadays 4th graders would take 300 bucks and go blow it on V bucks and prime sports energy drinks. O Mr. Hanking. His wife are fighting again. This mhm. Mr. Hanke's wife just absolutely just raised earth. Him so funny. Absolutely roached. Who the flip is Butters? This keyid looks like a dweeb. Okay, not bad. M. It looks exactly like him. He's like. Oh, it kind of looks like a
nobody wants you in the film, Butters. Y Yep, there it is. They told him no good. What the heck is cow day? There is south park like big on cows? Oh, Butters is getting perverted. Oh, dear lord. Nope. No sir. Again. Yeah, Butters. See, this is why you Nobody's hanging out with you, Butters. You're weird, Cornwallis. Hanky needs to get in the Christmas spirit. You'dang right you do. Like, Mr. Hanky's wife's kind of awful. She makes fun of his digit a lot too. Like Mr. Hany have a wiener.
It would seem that Mr. Hanky has a wiener. This might be. This might be big Mr. Hanky information that we're getting here. It's facts. He is crap by definition. Oh, they're gonna start singing. Here we go. Hey, there's the cows. The, uh, song is reaching in many ways. Oh, the bear got him a snack. Oh yeah, there's a big bear pile right there. He just freshly skied it. Remember, bears digestive trackact is is unique. We talked about that. This last groundhogs o
giraffe poop. Wonder if giraffees got anything cool going on. Why are we in the Serengeti? It's so random. Oh, yep, just a. Just a very, very straightforward frontal view of a woman taking it down. Thank you for that, Mr. Hanky. Cornwallis really hit puberty right there. Like he locked it down. That. That musical number took a huge turn. My dudes really like bringing out the pipes there. Oh, look. Oh, it's. It's like Lion King.
Oddly. O the bird just took a dump in the middle of the Lion King number. All right. Don't eat any hard peas. Oh, gosh'so. Uh, supposed to sing Hanukkah songs. Dradle, dreidele drele. Ooh, they're going for it. It's just them fighting and the guy thinks that'that's the story. Um. Oh, do you think this, like so he's like describing this process of animation. Do you think that this is how the people that make south park actually do this every time they make an episode? Because that
has. That is an endeavor. Like they're really going for it. They sent the turd to do a clean up crew. Oh yes. Is she ever not just totally scotched? South park just goes for it. Oh, no. Just. Oh gosh. Just draws a smile on the homeless guy with pooh. That's disgusting. Screw you guys. I think the fat one might be my fav Fav itite. Ooh, another musical number. Here we go. Here we go. Big fan. Huh? Huh? Why did they animate his face to look like the old, like Frosty cartoon guy? That was weird.
He's pretending to do the voice of the fat kid. Oh no. They just ran over the one kid. Does he die every episode of South Park? I feel like that. I feel like he died last year. Or I've seen that kid die in south park before. That is, that is not great. Why would they keep doing that? Oh, here we go. Okay, they're gonna show the movie. Here we go. This is what, this is what they've been working so hard for. The fat ones Back partman. The spirit of Christmas. It'not bad for fourth graders.
It's not going well. Oh, Mr. Hanky. Oh gosh, Mr. Hanky. Quit touching the. The projector. You're pissing everybody off. Mr. Hanky, come on. Everybody's leaving. You're, you're losing them. Um, there's like crap on the wall. Why is this lady s hair green? You'born with that hair color. Mhm. There'a cigarette box in Mr. Hingys room. Why does Mr. Hanky have a sailor's hat on? He usually has a Christmas hat. I wonder why does he have a sailor's hat? The hex, Albert Poo Dinger.
Oh, the music's coming back. Here we go. We're gonna save Christmas. Maybe. Oh, they're shorts playing. It's working out, huh? Mr. Hany's wife. Just a piece of work. Christmas is about presents. M u. Uh, okay, here we go. Okay. That dude's a pervert. Guaranteed. This lady with the green hair is making me angry. Oh, everybody's going to buy crap for each other for Christmas. Okay, they saved it. It's probably how the creators of south park
felt after they had some success. They're like, oh, we got to make this again. They're like oh, dear lord. Oh, and the dead kid. Oh well. And the credits are rolling. All right, let's end it. Well, that was something else. Thank you for joining us. If you're, if you're jumping back in, if you, if you didn't watch through the episode with us. Welcome back. I want to give my final thoughts.
So pretty much the premise here, Mr. Hanky doesn't show up for Christmas mostly because the spirit of Christmas has faded. Uh, and he also seems to not show up due to some family trouble. Um, his wife has a very clear drinking problem. I don't think she's happy in their marriage. They're also pieces of crap as Mr. Hanky Duallyie notes throughout the episode. And so he's going to try to teach his kids some lessons about Christmas. They uh, go to boost the Christmas spirit.
U and their, their humor gets very meta. They try to make a holiday, uh, ah, animated holiday episode featuring themselves, which is ironic because they're starring in a holiday animated episode featuring themselves. Uh uh, and remember there, there is this very blatant message of consumerism. Um, and, and I think that's on purpose. And we're gonna get to that in just a second. And I've only seen four or five episodes of South Park'm I'm still worried for
the boy that dies every episode. I don't even know it'the name, but I'm pretty sure I've seen this kid die at least two or three times now. Uh, ah, it's very funny. Uh, uh, Cartman I think is becoming my favorite. The fat one. I don't know if his name's Cartman. Um, um, all I know is Cartman's fat and Kyle's a Jew. That's what I have learned and gathered from my and Mr. Hanky's A Christmas loving turd. And I think in a very Crappy Christmas
featuring Mr. Hany. Uh, uh, I think the creators of south park are doing some of the truest form of satire where they are saying the quiet part about Christmas out loud. Like every, every year, like every Hallmark special and every Christmas movie and every. They're all trying to make it like, oh, the true meaning of Christmas. And, and while I do not believe that Christmas is about presents, it is not. Um, um, I and I don't think that the, the creators of south park truly believe that either.
I think they are making just the most purest satirical, uh, commentary on American consumerism culture by like, no, nobody's buying stuff. We have to turn this ship around. We have to get people to go buy crap because it's Christmas. Like, can it be Christmas without spending money? Is kind of the implicationelf Park. It's very
funny. Um, um, very satirical. But there, but there's some great things to take away and some little nuggets of, of background that we're gonna walk away with in this episode. First is this, this is the first time that we have seen Mr. Hanky's family, which is, which is kind of fun. I'm um, big fan of Cornwallis. Big fan of whatever the, the one that has the peanut stuck in his head. Um, um, he's a little special.
Ah. Also, I loved the Charlie Brown, like, nod to Charlie Brown Christmas and all of these little like Christmas animated shorts that they, that they brought into this episode about Christmas animated shorts. It's very funny. Um, um, but inside the episode of south park, there's a couple pieces of South Park's history. And I, I'mnna be honest, I had to kind of go look into this a little bit before I watched the episode. Uh, uh, because I found it when I was looking up the timeline for it, Mr.
Hanky and I was like, oh, that's interesting. And I started to read about this. So the first episode of South park debuted in 1997. Listener, if you're not born yet, welcome. Uh, uh, leave us a comment in the thing or shoot us an email or do whatever you need to do. Let us know that you're a Gen Z baby. Uh, uh, but, but before south park was South Park, south park was kind of the spirit of Christmas. Trey Parker and Matt Stone are the satirical minds behind South Park. Trey
Parker was influenced by Monty Python. He began writing plays and other things since grade school. And he was always kind of one of those dream big, see the big picture, make the big picture happen type of kids. Uh, Matt Stone grew up in Texas, where his dad insisted that if he's going to study music or tv, he also asked to study mathematics. And so this pursuit for a job and a career brought mat and trade to the University of Colorado in Boulder,
Colorado. And, and while in school, they along with another friend, Ian Harding, founded a production company named the Avenging Conscience. Now where's this going in the company? They began using the cut out paper animation style. We see the boys of south park animating with this style in the episode we just watched. But it is also the animating style that, that Matt and Trey use
in making south park. Fans of south park, they're going to recognize this form of animation Their first work of animation was two short holiday specials called the Spirit of Christmas. Now if you just watched a very crappy Christmas with us, the title Spirit of Christmas will stand out because in the episode, the boys of south park make a Christmas special to play for the town to get them to go by crap called the Spirit of Christmas.
In the Spirit of Christmas. The first Spirit of Christmas was subtitled Jesus Verseus Frosty and it was released in 1992. Uh uh, and this gained them attention by the film department or school. Their short film, uh, uh, uh uh. The character who would later be known as Eric Cartman, um, um, from south park is named Kenny, uh uh. And he dies. So like there's a little swap on that. But after this they went on to make a full length film. So they made the
Spirit of Christmas Part one. And then they went on to make a full length indie film about a cannibal prospector and a questionable adult film made for Japan. I don't know. But after moving to Hollywood, they gained attention from Fox executive Brian Grayn, who gave Parker and Stone a check to produce, ah, a video greeting they could send to their friends. They took the money, it was about a thousand bucks, not 300, I would
note, and they made the video greeting. And this video greeting was the sequel to the Spirit of Christmas. The Spirit of Christmas Part 2, subtitled Jesus vs Santa. This second short film released in 1995 and and it depicted established depictions of characters in the setting of South Park. In this version. Again, this is two years before the first episode of south park hits the air. The characters are named as they are commonly known
from the TV show. The short films become the Spirit of Christmas, then the characters in it become the basis for the animated series South Park. In fact, after the Spirit of Christmas 2 went viral, even though going viral wasn't even a thing that you really did back then, the duo Trey and Matt decided to make
a TV show out of some of their characters. Now we discussed this part on our Original look at Mr. Hany, but the festive holiday turd is what kept Fox from biting on south park, where it was taken up by Comedy Central instead. Many of the scenes that the boys play for the town to boost the spirit of Christmas are taken from the original spirit of Christmas to Jesus versus Santa. And it is a bulk of what the boys submit to boost the Christmas spirit and help Mr. Hanky save
Christmas. It's an interesting look at the history of south park that the creators took and put into this holiday special for Mr. Hanky that not only gives us more information about Mr. Hanky and his family. Um, um. But also gives us some interesting looks at some of the earliest parts of the south park history. The more I learn about Mr. Hanky, the more I feel like I come to understand how much he is interconnected to the identity of what south park really is.
Thank you all for, for joining us for our, for our first episode of privy Christmas. Mr. Hanky, for calling turds a, uh, Christmas extravaganta watch extravaganza. Watch along. I hope you enjoyed. I hope you enjoyed the show. Thank you again for being here. As always. Leave us a rating, a review. The five star options are preferred and those ratings and reviews go to help other people find the show. If you're a fan of south park or if you think a friend would find
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