002 - The Spirit of Christmas [with Jesus]

Original Airdate: 25-Dec-1995
Brief Plot: Jesus shows up to do battle with Santa Claus.
Plot: Stan, Kyle, Cartman, and Kenny are singing "We Wish You A Merry Christmas" when Stan remembers Kyle's Jewish. Kyle and Cartman get in a fight which ends when Jesus appears. He's come seeking retribution at the mall. The kids bring him there where he finds Santa Claus and begins to fight with him. During the fight, they accidentally kill Kenny. Both Santa and Jesus ask the boys for help and Kyle and Cartman end up fighting again...causing everyone else to fight. Stan wonders, "What would Brian Boitano do?"...and right on cue, he skates in and gives them some advice. The kids convince Santa and Jesus to stop fighting and become friends. As a result, the boys learn the true meaning of Christmas...presents.

Morals: "Christmas is really about one very important thing..." "Presents!" (and ham)
Kenny: Decapitated by Santa
Quote:

Jesus: "I come seeking...retrobution."
Stan: [gasp] "He's come to kill you 'cause you're Jewish, Kyle!"
Kyle: "Oh fuck! I'm sorry Jesus! Don't kill me!"
Jesus: "Nay. Fear not. I love all my children."
Kyle: "Phew!"

Written by: Trey Parker and Matt Stone
Directed by: Trey Parker and Matt Stone

Fun Fact:

It started when a Fox executive Trey and Matt met through contacts made at Sundance gave them $2,000 to make a video he could send as a Christmas card. "I did the animation using construction paper cutouts," Trey Parker says, "and we both improvised the dialogue, screaming obscenities at each other in my basement while my mom was baking fudge upstairs. It cost $750 and we pocketed the rest."
The exec sent the video out at Christmas 1995 to 80 people, who promptly made it their card as well. And so on. "By February, we were hearing about it from every state, friends of friends in New York were telling us 'Metallica saw your video and they loved it.' We'd never bothered to put our name on it, so the whole thing came full circle when a friend from Ohio sent us a copy and said, 'You've got to see this.'"

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