Episode Title: "It's Christmas in Canada"

I was really hoping they would of gone back to the drawing board on this one and churned out a Saddam episode (even though it was only a couple days ago!)


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I still wouldn't put it past them. I still can't believe how fast they cranked out the Elian Gonzalez spoof episode.

Yeah I was expecting a Saddam episode as well. I suppose it could be done still, all those previews get sent out a week ahead of time. They could shelve the Christmas episode for next easily.

But Saddam's already dead in the SP universe. So what could they do with it?

Didn't he already come back once? Besides, he seems to have some pull in the underworld, maybe he'll come back only to get sent back to hell again.

Whaddya know. It was a Saddam thing after all.

classic!!!!!!

I shoulda known better. Trey and Matt won't let us down!

Cartman crying cracked me up.

Great episode. I called Saddam being the PM, once there was the whole mystery aspect. And I'm kind of glad they brought back the Kenny killing, it was a great death anyway.

I never cease to be amazed by how fast they can crank out an episode, and still make it drop dead hilarious.

For contrast, how long do you suppose it takes to write a "Becker" script?

Yep - they slipped Saddam in there. Nice job.

Thought it was a subpar episode, but the Cartman tirade against Kyle and the Jews had me

They must have been working frantically to get that finished by the time it was supposed to air.

So did they do this episode from scratch in like 2 days or did they change it around some?

The Canadian thing is getting old, but still a good episode. No oral exam for Saddam?

Cost 6,500 dorrar!
How about 50 dorrar?

Honk!

...never bargain with a chinese man!

My guess is that they had the episode in the can (there were always 8 episodes for this run, and this was #8). It is a Christmas episode, and most of it probably didn't change.

After Saddam was captured they probably went to Comedy Central and told them they wanted to redo the ending. Switch out villans, change the ending music a bit, and viola!

My guess is that the original ending involved Terrance And Phillip, who didn't appear for whatever odd reason.

Damn good episode...great ending!

They've been airing previews for that ep for a few days so I think they just changed the end.

Cartman crying at the end when Kyle hit was hilarious

*****ing genius

Which road?

This is Canada, we only have one road.



SP making fun of Canada will NEVER get old.

My thinking exactly. Hopefully the original ending will be a DVD extra in the future.

Even though it's frustrating to get so few new episodes with each batch, the upside is that Trey and Matt have the time to write quality instead of quantity.

Matt and Trey are my heros.....pure genius!

There's a fair amount of irony in those circumstances.

Ahh, wonderfulness.

They must have a lot of Canadians on their staff in order to get some of those caricatures so nailed down. The newf was great. Loved him wearing his cod coat the whole time.

I think the best part of Canadians is the square wheels. I was rolling when they showed the old-school highwheel with a giant square wheel.

I was expecting Kyle to one-punch Cartman and knock him out at the end (that's their style), so when he cried like a baby, it was still a good surprise and a great payoff.

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