World Wide Recorder Concert

Infobox Television episode
Title = World Wide Recorder Concert
Series = South Park


Caption = The children practicing for the concert.
Season = 3
Episode = 48
Airdate = January 12, 2000
Production = 317
Writer = Trey Parker
Matt Stone
Director = Eric Stough
Guests =
Episode list = List of "South Park" episodes
Season list = Infobox South Park season 3 episode list
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World Wide Recorder Concert is episode 48 of the Comedy Central series "South Park". It was originally broadcast on January 12, 2000.

Plot synopsis

Four million children, including those from Mr. Garrison's class, are to play "My Country, 'Tis of Thee" at the televised Worldwide Recorder Concert in Oklahoma City led by Yoko Ono, but a flood caused the concert to be relocated in Little Rock, Mr. Garrison's hometown. This causes him considerable anxiety (as he confesses to Mr. Mackey) for he had "sexual molestation issues" with his father in the past.

Meanwhile, Mr. Garrison has confronted his father about the issues of sexual molestation, however, the issue was not that his dad had molested him, but rather that he felt neglected because his father had "not" touched him. When Mr. Mackey finds out about this, he fears Mr. Garrison Jr. is so distraught about the issue that he could actually die if Mr. Garrison Sr. doesn't molest him. Mr. Garrison Sr. goes to a bar to ask for help from his friends as to whether he should have sex with his son to save his life. His friends think it is a hypothetical question and respond with other questions such as "Would you have sex with your father to save your mother's life" and other similar ideas. After getting no help, he leaves. During the night, Mr. Garrison is assaulted in the middle of the night by a mysterious stranger he believes is his dad; however it is actually Kenny G, and thus his life was saved without any incest on his father's part.

In Arkansas, the boys encounter a hostile group of kids from New York, also there for the concert, who call them "queefs". At first, the boys did not understand what word "queef" meant; assuming the New York kids had made the word up, the boys try to get back at them by making up their own word: mung, which as it turns out, is a real word in youth New York dialect, meaning "the stuff that comes out when you push down on a pregnant woman's belly." The boys want to find a way to get back at theem, and when Cartman discovers the legendary "brown noise", a sound made with the recorder that causes the listener to lose control of their bowels and "crap their pants"; the boys plan to trick the New York kids into playing it. However, by accident, the altered sheet music for the concert is photocopied and redistributed to everyone.

In the middle of the concert, the boys discover that everyone is playing the altered sheet music containing the brown note they race to stop the concert. Alas, they are too late and the note is played. Watching a worldwide broadcast, the boys discovered that everyone in the world ended up defecating in their pants. The New York kids are very impressed by this and take back the negative things directed at them. Mr. Mackey ends up telling the boys what a queef is, describing it as "a vaginal expulsion of gas." The boys go in the bus and drive off into the stars.

Overseas reception

This was originally the first episode of South Park to be rated 18 in the UK back in 2000 (the other episodes were 12, 15 and occasionally PG) due to the subplot about Mr. Garrison wanting his father to molest him. However, when Paramount started releasing their own versions of the DVDs, it was re-rated 15.Fact|date=August 2008