When South Park was BLAMED for Hate Crimes

[@Madix]

Cartman going from treating gingers like subhumans, to becoming a full blown ginger supremist, is one of the most Cartman things ever

[@ksterlings197]

@@Madix Ginger Supremacy, Is that a bad Irish rock band?

[@Das_Ungeheuer]

​@@ksterlings197 Nah... They must be just a Coldplay cover band.

[@DiabolikalRA]

Only cartman could do that hahha

[@ksterlings197]

@@Das_Ungeheuer Coldplay? Is that what they call it when you like sticking your inch in dead people now?

[@ValleyMansonOfficial]

​@@DiabolikalRA didn't Hitler do something like that

[@rafa57games]

South Park is a +18 show. If kids saw it and then proceeded to bully other kids, it's their parents fault

[@infrences]

It heavily depends on the country. For example, here in Australia where I live the age rating is between M (no real age rating) and MA (15+) depending on the individual areas, and in most areas of Canada South Park is a 14+ show but in areas like Quebec it’s 13+. That’s not to say that it isn’t the parents’ faults because the episode would have a similar effect if South Park was universally 18+.

[@BOATMEALSHMOATMEAL]

Strictly enforcing an “age appropriate only” rule is not only nearly impossible, it’s how you end up with kids that are more socially inept than homeschoolers.

[@shadowchasernql]

@@BOATMEALSHMOATMEAL wtf???? no????????

[@dollzo]

​@@BOATMEALSHMOATMEAL how would that make them inept? Wouldn't it do the opposite? A child who watches my little pony is gonna better relate to their peers than a child who watches porn or gore videos for example

[@TheSkypetube]

@dollzo You are using mlp as an example. I think we should really be using you as one

[@maybe8985]

Out of topic but how Kyle went from being a daywalker to canonically have freckles is killing me.

[@MackBananas]

The Day walker reveals its true form

[@alternatewhale4996]

Genuine question, where is it stated that he canonically has freckles? I've never known this before, I've only ever seen it through fanart.

[@deepseanarq]

​@@alternatewhale4996 the end of obesity, south park special. at around the end of the special cartman insults kyle for having freckles

[@pandapooh1668]

Well it is accurate, you can develop freckles in youth, I wasn’t born with any and didn’t have many until I was like 6, now my face is covered with them lol, same thing happened to 2 of my siblings, weren’t born with them, now they both have a noticeable amount, but for some reason I’m the only one in my family who has a lot, and we’re not gingers lol

[@Fonzzz002]

My dad told me that in the 60s, the ginger kids on his school were bullied and often had little to no friends. He was the only one from his class to actually invite the ginger kid to his birthday party. While South Park definitely added fuel to the flame, they didn't start the fire.

[@TraceTheSable]

It was always burning since the world's been turning!

[@dandeodelacruz2710]

​@@TraceTheSableWe didn't start the fire!

[@gamingforever9121]

@@dandeodelacruz2710it goes on and on and on !

[@Lou-yf1jo]

Ryan Started The Fire.

[@Lou-yf1jo]

@@dandeodelacruz2710 Ryan Started The Fire.

[@skitariisoldier7367]

When you don't want to take responsibility, blame entertainment.

[@drchristophe207]

I find it funny that the movie was literally playing with this concept too 😂

[@rand0mtopg62]

then you blame canada

[@dustytheloneranger]

Great episode, but it definitely gave my bullies ammunition they would not have had otherwise. They would have had to get creative

[@tonythetiger1600]

As a fellow ginger I loved it I got ripped 4 being a day walker after this but gingers have been dissed 4 ever n it's socially acceptable 2 give gingers abuse there's even a kick a ginger day lol could u imagine kick a Nigerian day n it was fine 2 bully them lmao

[@ChondroMan]

Oh boo hoo. It's not even that bad I'm a ginger too and I embrace the fuck out of it as you should too. It's not that hard to ignore stupid ppl.

[@BOATMEALSHMOATMEAL]

@@ChondroManidk, man. Ignoring stupid people just doesn’t work because they don’t know when to quit. I’d rather be insulted in a creative way than hearing the same tired shit ad nauseam. Like, I can only roll my eyes so many times before I get a headache.

[@DjDoomtrain]

So you have No soul ?

[@DjDoomtrain]

​@@ChondroManand you have No soul either

[@ksterlings197]

You honour, is it REALLY a Hate crime if my client enjoyed doing it?

[@chahinebourenane6291]

Well yes

[@swordquillinc.5335]

Heheh. Nice one.

[@goddammitnappa1617]

Is it REALLY a hate crime if no one loved them to begin with?

[@swordquillinc.5335]

@@goddammitnappa1617 damn. But also accurate.

[@brendanblair64]

I'm a ginger myself, and think this is a great one! I can see how this led to bullying, but I personally didn't really experience anything. I had some kids on the bus refer to me as "ginger kid", but I don't think it was in a malicious way.

[@Kai_is_Krazy]

Soul?

[@senorpepper3405]

​@@Kai_is_KrazyI think he's a day walker

[@HeyNitroNova]

​@@senorpepper3405💀

[@SnugWugs137]

Sorry for your disability.

[@vincesaenz2760]

I’m sorry for your loss

[@Reluctantly_Adulting]

Bro! You missed the perfect opportunity to say "Gingercide!" instead of genocide. Smh. LOL

[@donovanlocust1106]

M.I.A. did a music video that had gingercide

[@NatalieXHunter]

In the UK we were bullying gingers long before South Park, it's a tradition passed down through generations.

[@tonythetiger1600]

As a ginger I think it's wild that it's fine 2 do so. we couldn't have a kick a black day pmslmao ginger power will rise from the shade xox 🖕🏻👨🏻‍🦰

[@therealjaystone2344]

Europeans too since they did deleted them during the plague days

[@saragates9890]

this is not a flex...? are you proud of genocide and colonization?

[@dryfox11]

And yall wonder why scotland hates you so much 😂 If I ever leave this red white and blue hell, im visiting the homeland of my fiery haired ancestors

[@noodlesofoodles]

yeah i joked about them not having souls way before ever saw that episode lol

[@brandonwaugh5109]

Ed Sheeran: South Park ruined my life Also Ed Sheeran: net worth of $200 million

[@KieroSi]

did anyone know who he was in 2005?

[@Your-Least-Favorite-Stranger]

​@@KieroSiIdk who he is now.

[@cortinastone]

As a ginger, I hate everyone saying, "You know who you look like?" Yes, I do.

[@colorbugoriginals4457]

money can't undo trauma

[@brianswathey]

@@colorbugoriginals4457it can purchase trauma-focused therapy

[@pap_core]

ed sheeran saying a animated series episode ruined his life is such a ed sheeran thing to do

[@licittofficial]

As a ginger. I think this episode is hilarious 😂 I did get bullied in primary school due to this episode... for a couple weeks. People would tell me I'm creepy, gross and don't have a soul. I hadn't seen the episode at the time, I didn't even know the term "ginger" was a thing. I knew I was pale skinned, had red hair and freckles, but I knew just as many blonde kids with light skin and freckles too. Nobody ever called me a ginger until this episode. I didn't even understand the references cause I hadn't seen the episode. I just thought it really dumb So i just kinda played into it. Like "yeah you're right! I don't have a soul!! I'm gonna steal your soul while you sleep 😈" Now I watch that episode and it's hilarious 😂

[@Puri_.Masquerade]

Soul?

[@brandonha]

Ok, no the girl at 7:58 didnt get bullied because of south park, her bullying started when her parents named her that. Thats a name for a collie

[@Das_Ungeheuer]

What was her name? 😂

[@Hoppers123popper]

​@@Das_Ungeheuer ginger ali

[@Das_Ungeheuer]

@@Hoppers123popper Really? It didn't occur to me that was her name 😂

[@skyluke9476]

Parents are evil. Fucking🦆 hell. It’s like they get together and go how do I make sure my child is even more emotionally scared and doesn’t get laid until they’re 30?

[@SoupSnakeSal]

it’s actually “Ginger Ail”, which is so much worse

[@Totomy2011]

I’ve been called Ed Sheeran more times than anyone has referenced this episode to me 💀

[@Sk0p3r]

Sue Ed Sheeran for ruining your life haha

[@Totomy2011]

😂

[@darktheshadowking5012]

Hi Ed Sheeran

[@nithity]

0:12 "TISSUES HAVE SOULS!"

[@DaltonDaDigga]

Bullying doesn’t “create tougher skin” it forces one to put up emotional barriers. Actual bullying is just bad

[@SqualidsargeStudios]

Ed needs to stuff it, he has had a pretty high career.

[@skyluke9476]

I’m a ginger and so is my brother. Neither of our parents were. South Park 100% ruined my life for a few years as a kid until people figured out other ways to make fun of me that were way more brutal. However South Park is still my favorite and most watched show of all time. This episode is still one of the funniest things ever, maybe if media outlets didn’t jump on a Facebook group with 1000 people on it and make it a nation wide story about kicking gingers it wouldn’t have been such a big deal. Yet again another time media will attack any controversy and throw flames to the “fire/lava” all so they can seem culturally relevant. One things for sure the media doesn’t have souls.

[@SlobbyMcSlob]

People were actually batshit scared that Cartman was going to die. They really thought he literally grew red hair, white skin and freckles, not that it was a prank. They were REALLY SCARED that Cartman was going to kill himself.

[@Aarnikfox]

As a ginger myself, this episode is absolutely amazing. We gotta all laugh at ourselves!

[@combatman4183]

You gingers SICKEN me..

[@lens_hunter]

It's like when Taylor Swift complains about how being a woman kept her down. Like what.

[@kimeraclan3135]

Self-deprecacting comedy is the best way to go in order to bridge the hate gap! It's not just about playing in with the crowd, but also giving a life lesson in a fun way.

[@colorbugoriginals4457]

i'm betting it depends a LOT on the peer group you were in when it went around.

[@Buttington_Headerson]

@@lens_hunterI’d rather be a woman tbh way easier

[@PracticallyBlind]

0:38 idk how his life is ruined when he’s living the dream

[@givmemilk1921]

It was during high school where he got ridiculed

[@madeinchina4764]

We was homeless before the fame

[@madeinchina4764]

We was homeless before the fame

[@charlulio]

Fun fact, I failed to get into the middle school responsible for kick a ginger day (A E Wright) it’s a school you have to take a test to pass, and I am born on kick a ginger day, and I am a ginger. Thank god I didn’t go there and went to the dumbass version in the same district.🙏🙏🙏

[@ZonamaPrime]

@5:55 Was the FUNNIEST moment of the episode. Jimmy is normally so wholesome.

[@EdinMike]

I’m Scottish so there’s plenty red haired people here but there are levels of “redness” mine isn’t bright orange, it verges on the more darker brown side of red. I’ve been told “Auburn” but meh, there’s probably more tolerance here in Scotland I guess !

[@senorpepper3405]

Daywalkers

[@EdinMike]

@@senorpepper3405 yeh there are definitely a lot of Daywalkers here 😅

[@carlamcgath7528]

@@senorpepper3405 We don’t have any sun to be day walkers 🤣

[@lukespillman1313]

The episode was blown way out of proportion! It's the bullies who misinterpreted things!

[@Suika_Ibuki_The_Drunk_Oni]

Hey. I'd take This episode any day over what Hollywood is doing to gingers.

[@jackakakreanxx5587]

such as?

[@aquaticalateralis]

​@@jackakakreanxx5587 Ginger erasure

[@kickflippro3]

@@jackakakreanxx5587they tend to cast black actors for ginger characters. Wally West - Comics/CW Jimmy Olsen - CW Ariel - Little Mermaid Jim gordon - The Batman Annie - Annie remake Starfire - Titans Mj - MCU Batgirl - Lego Batman Movie Iris west - Comics/CW April oneil - TMNT (2018 show) Elektro - The Amazing Spiderman 2 Hawkgirl - Comics/CW Heimdal - MCU Alice monaghan Hellboy (2019) Triss Merigold - The Witcher Heimdaal - MCU Alicia masters - Fantastic Four (2005) Rusty - Deadpool 2 Bow - She-Ra Isaac - Castlevania Josie Mccoy - Riverdale Miss Martian - Titans Ripcord - G.I.Joe Hawkman - Black Adam Movie Cyclone - Black Adam Movie

[@CeliMe007]

You completely lost me at the bullying builds character. All it did was give me PTSD and an eating disorder lol😂

[@WeAreASecret]

Yeah, I always find that a rather myopic statement. Learning to deal with occasional bullying and people just being jerks certainly builds character and is an important thing to learn, but being constantly harassed for years on end is a whole other deal that can really break a person down

[@matthewford2532]

​@WeAreASecret Is it at all possible that whatever brand of bullying you experienced wasn't as unique as you think it is and that those of us who suggest that likely have been through much worse things than someone saying a mean word at us? Your comment presumes that whatever bullying this person is facing for "years on end" is some sort of unique thing - I had a school bully for like 6 years straight and even met him as an adult and still got ribbed. Bullying is almost always long-term; otherwise, it's just someone being mean in a vacuum. As someone who firmly believes bullying builds character and believes further that it built some of my own even, I suggest that whatever you're experiencing isn't the unique part - it's your reaction to it that is uniquely poor.

[@CeliMe007]

@@matthewford2532 Saying bullying builds character is a bullshit philosophy and it will always be a bullshit philosophy to justify the abuse and harassment towards others. What kind of character building did the kids who've killed themselves learned? What lesson did they fail to pass? I know I didn't learn shit other than bullies are garbage people.

[@matthewford2532]

@CeliMe007 Hyperbolic and emotional arguments with no basis in reality, but thanks for playing. I'm sorry you chose to cope with mean words with food, but that is an issue within you - not with society. Victimhood is not attractive and it's not productive. If bullying causes eating disorders and self-harm, I should have a very unhealthy relationship with food and be self-harming regularly. I am not. The bullying is not what is causing it in an objective and logical sense - you're conflating your own mental deficiencies with your situation as a coping mechanism. It makes you feel better to blame the bullys instead of taking responsibility for your own actions. If you have an eating disorder, it must be because you were bullied - it couldn't possibly be anything else within you becuase you're perfect, right?

[@CeliMe007]

@@matthewford2532 it's not hyperbolic when it's the reality of the world that kids who've gone through constant harassment end up committing self harm. I'm sorry that you feel like being a victim is a terrible thing and that's the way you chose to coop with your own situation. But that doesn't change the reality constant harassment causes. The fact you have no counter to disprove what I've said means even you know deep down that what you're saying is bullshit and only said to put meaning behind your own pain and suffering. Or you were a schoolyard bully yourself trying to justify your actions.

[@jacobkoster3808]

Ginger here, I experience very little (if any) serious bullying because of this episode. This episode is a personal favorite of mine. In high school we would constantly make ginger jokes.

[@Jordan-_--gn4nn]

I’m a ginger and I always thought this episode was hilarious we all have to learn to laugh at ourselves sometimes 😂

[@canadianpumpkin7581]

4:38 to answer the fathers question, if both parents are non-affected carriers then it’s 25/75 for each child to be Ginger and 50/50 if the children will be non-affected carriers.

[@bigmanmikhail]

lil bro busted out the punnet squares for this one 🔥🔥

[@willlastnameguy8329]

8:13 "80 times" This might be the funniest thing ever.

[@peplo101]

I thought "daywalker" was a blade reference

[@Princess_Celestia_]

It is.

[@levrek-i2l]

as a ginger its one of the most favorite ep because some of it is very relateable. we have secret meetings every friday after class.

[@T0B3573R]

I think that something that would make the message clearer in this episode would be having gingers that see through Cartman’s bs and try and help Kyle, Stan, and Kenny. Showing that being any type of person doesn’t define you, and you are allowed to be more than what others say you are supposed to be.

[@TrollinMoke-yv7ce]

as a redhead this episode was hilarious

[@Sly88Frye]

I'm liking your channel so far. This is the second video of yours I've seen and I have just subscribed.

[@consecutivelyannoying1433]

Yeah this episode did definitely cause me some harsh bullying back in the day, but i dont know if i would appreciate my redhair without it

[@just_your_localguard9612]

Eww gross

[@deldel5204]

@@just_your_localguard9612crazy

[@missingchu8544]

As a natural ginger, idk how to feel about this. It is apparent that this episode did spark up some more bullying, especially in middle school, as the students follow South Park like its the Bible, and think the slurs/offensive themes are ok to say in front of other people. I’m slightly offended, as they seem to have no redeeming qualities in this episode like they usually do, so I’m not sure if they meant for this to be fully offensive. I’m extremely tolerant of jokes, and will not be offended at all whatsoever, but this is a bit far, especially since it led to harassment. I enjoy South Park, as it’s usually just poking fun, but this episode doesn’t feel like a joke.

[@AllergicToFrogs]

I love this episode! One little gag during the night when they capture everyone.. The two kids at the door in front of the little girl, run into each other and knock each other out and leave the door open. That was always hilarious to me, with like how people in horror movies make terrible decisions. Great video, appreciate you.

[@grungeisdead8998]

10:06 getting made fun of can help you develop thicker skin but it could also lead you to becoming so calloused that you inflict similar damage on others

[@AlldeLucas]

Okay… first of South Park was not meant to be watched by kids. Second of all: if people can’t get the critics at a South Park episode, that to me proves we need South Park to throw at our faces how dumb we’ve become.

[@jkbtw293]

kick a ginger day is fcking sick i wish i grew up in the 2000s

[@HerrDoktorWeberMD]

I'm a ginger, and after that episode aired, I did get a lot of remarks that I don't have a soul, but like... the physical bullying was already there. I didn't get brutally beaten for the sin of being ginger, I got brutally beaten for the sin of knowing how to operate a woodwind instrument. Anyway, I feel like South Park is the poster child for the pearl-clutching "depiction is glorification" nutjobs whose existence is why we can't have good writing in hollywood anymore

[@Princess_Celestia_]

Facts. The only time I ever "bullied" a ginger was when I stuffed this ginger kid into a locker and locked him in not because he was ginger but because he had a knife and a hit list on him. My name was on that list and he thought I'd be an easy target I guess. The school covered up the knife and hit list and gave me 3 weeks of In School Suspension for "bullying", while they expelled him and saw him shipped off to TYC (Texas Youth Corrections). This was all before cell phones came with cameras.

[@AceAlbatros]

2:42 Viral memes came from a small audience noticing them and then gaining traction and snowballing for awhile. Now memes are out of nowhere and dead within a few weeks to where people don’t even know about them, because there’s literally billions of new eyes on the internet. It’s not too hard to become viral at all. It doesn’t mean much anymore it’s 15 minutes of fame and it’s been shown it’s up to that person if it’s immediately dead or they make a giant career from it. I miss when the internet was like the Wild West and companies didn’t have a hold on EVERYTHING!

[@madswn81]

Just going to manhandle this classic quote to fit... Cartman, is not the hate crime we deserve, but the hate crime we need 🫣🫡

[@lobotzindiegoantesnesslope6004]

The show does not ridicules, it shows the reality of USA society through matt and trey’s Eyes

[@puli36]

Inept

[@daltonred7774]

i actually remember kick a ginger day lmao, kids werent even getting kicked hard enough to bruise at my school, it was more so playful, like pinching someone on st patricks day or something, but I guess some morons took it differently

[@zerourtaga1129]

I remember going up to this one kid in school I put my hand on his shoulder and said you know what day it is right he goes (sigh get it over with ) and all's I did was tap my foot along his like shin and I barely even tapped him I've stubbed my toe with more Force then that kick head

[@SquishyTheVampire]

Some kids did get kicked hard tho But imagine getting even lightly kicked like 100 time in a day. That would be pretty fuckin annoying lol.

[@thefirstsin2988]

How is Ginger not a curse word by now? I can totally see it being one.

[@DownWithBureaucracy]

People seem to forget that Cartman is intentionally NOT a good person. No one should conflate his actions with a way you should behave

[@CombatKoke]

Never underestimate a bully to find material to use, but this episode really made it mainstream to make fun of people for their race

[@BARKZIM]

The fact that people blame the episode instead of parenting is really silly. If you havnt taught your kid to treat everyone equally, and that fiction is just fiction, thats not on the media, thats on you.

[@PatrickSchmalstig]

9:19 I was NOT ready for that reference, LMFAO.

[@therealglosetik]

"They're not even a real country anyway!"

[@nathangrayshon6690]

As a kid that was ginger and overweight, sod this episode. As an adult, this shit is hilarious. Also just an observer comment, the sudden change from "ew gingers", to "omg I love your hair" that happens somewhere around the late teens is baffling.

[@TwilightLimits-sk7kn]

This episode annoyed me at first (because I'm a redhead) but I don't mind it now. I got made fun in school a few times for being a redhead. I haven't seen every episode of South Park but I have noticed redheads are the only hair colour that got made fun of. Blondes get a few jokes too but never any other hair colours

[@jessicaroberts521]

here at 11.2k. i love your videos and you deserve so much more subscribers. keep up the good work

[@JonDTraist]

As a day walker I love this episode, it really rallied me and my friends to celebrate Kick a Ginger Day every year, each year we’d find new and interesting ways to kick the gingies, such as drop kickings and various other spin moves, I’d recommend it to anyone who wants to mend the relationships in their lives and find inner peace

[@InsaneGreatsword]

To me, it seems like the episode created TikTok challenge trend whatever before TikTok was a thing.

[@Hwarming]

I'm not even a "ginger", I just have some red mixed in with my hair and I got bullied for it around when this episode came out, and this was in America

[@ebbygaming4244]

I'm unfortunately a ginger and this episode is my favorite episode of the whole show

[@ScrambledAndBenedict]

Funny story about Cartman getting his comeuppance. So my mom hates this show. She thinks it's just this horrid, trashy, awful thing. However, even she admits to liking two episodes: the one with the Mongolians smashing down the Shitty Wall, and the one where Cartman gets the supreme man-shit kicked out of him by Wendy lmfao

[@vincentino9448]

1:29 Whats the song during the first transition? I've tried looking but I can't find it 😭

[@ciscomartinez6092]

Smells like teen spirit -Nirvana

[@MikeHuntBFPD]

Rucka Rucka Ali song about gingers

[@MrOrcshaman]

Ironic now considering Disney is doing everything it can to erase gingers/red heads from every movie and show it makes.

[@therealjaystone2344]

Warner bros too

[@dryfox11]

For real, there’s like a list of 20+ charachters who got swapped out for various other races. All we got is black widow now

[@voodoobram]

Im a Dutch ginger and in Holland I only got friendly loving jokes people calling me day walker and other ginger’s screaming red power as they passed each other. But when i traveled to New Zeeland I noticed that particularly from people from England that in that culture ginger kids were bullied and getting a ginger child was something they really didn’t want. I also heard that they created a hug a ginger day to counter the kick a ginger day with I think is ridiculous, like we are special needs children. Love the episode!!

[@cheesypoofs2387]

It's so great you said "Easy Street was a banger" after you asked if we saw it. That song was the only thing I thought about when you asked.

[@Welldressedfe]

2:52 fun fact a long time a go peapole actually thought that gingers were vampires and when they died they put a stake in their heart so that they don’t come back as a vampire

[@AwesomeLaggy]

According to the wiki,Cartman’s hatred of gingers is possibly because of Scott tenorman,even though this was never confirmed,it’d make perfect sense

[@joeyhoy1995]

Man you had the perfect opportunity to cut to Butters, reading JD Salinger and marching towards John Lennon.

[@dylanfarmer8405]

0:15 me: Hey look! an army of people who look like me! because of orange hair my brother: that's so [bleep]ing funny

[@wimsylogic65]

I was bullied for being a ginger long before the South Park episode came out. Althoughi got called diseased and treated like I was contagious just because I have freckles. After that Ginger episode aired, My freckles which were seen as angel or sun kisses suddenly meant that I didn't have a soul anymore. I tell you what that was more hurtful than Being considered diseased. I never understood people who hated freckles.. I still don't get it in my mid-thirties, Also don't understand this fad with people doing fake freckles. I'm just grateful that even with all the hate I never stopped loving my spots.

[@charmer129]

The Leslie joke gets me everytime

[@Cloudy._.Reality]

As a ginger, I think this episode is fuckin’ hilarious!! my friends call me a “Burnett passing ginger” so that might be part of it…but~

[@teeonezee]

my dad used to tell me and my brother that he would "beat us like a red-headed step child"

[@evqngxline]

my mom & i saw carrot top. we were eating pasta in outdoor seating at a restaurant, and she nods to him and goes “that guys famous.” he is terrifying, but he was very nice to those who approached him

[@hachimajig6062]

Here in australia you get called a ranga, and the south park episode doesn't really have an effect from my experience.

[@Daisukie360]

Just gonna be honest and say that while you as an adult can tell it's supposed to tell a message, kids who saw the episode used it as a reason to bully people, kids are cruel and while you can try to put the blame on bad parenting all you want, the reality is that most kids who bully people think it's funny and don't see what is wrong with it as they're not thinking about how the victim is experiencing it.

[@slowlearner46]

Boohoo. One episode of SpongeBob made school a living hell. Hiiiiii Keeeviiinnn

[@totakkeagiraffe]

as a ginger who was relentlessly bullied im literally indifferent to this episode

[@PersistentDissenter]

Bullying with a support system *can* build character. Bullying without a support system creates more bullies. Also, no one has a soul.

[@Signupking]

South Park doesn't create problems, they just show them to the population.

[@lilz]

Clyde always has the best one liners

[@FML_Patata]

"Bullying builds character" Nah, dude. You only got room-temperate IQ. Deadass.

[@charlescannon2469]

Yes, but I'm not gonna die. Hard to argue that, not dying is pretty decent win.

[@AussieBlueDog87]

When I was a little kid, before SouthPark was a show, I use to get called a “red headed rat rooter”. Nowadays I know I need to wrap the rats in duct tape so they don’t burst when I root them.

[@louisetimpani]

A minute and 40 seconds in and I’m already subscribed

[@vincenthernandez2242]

7:58 was the kid's name really Ginger Ail???? 😂

[@amnora]

As a ginger, I got bullied by literally everyone and to this day, the stereotypes of having no soul persists (even though I'm an adult and this is one of my favourite episode).

[@mintwantsacookieanimations3473]

As a ginger I found this episode really funny, I come from a pretty small country so getting bullied for being ginger wasn’t very common. The most annoying things I had to deal with was back during primary school random students would come up to me and ask if my hair was dyed cus out of a school of like 500 there was only abt 7 ginger kids (one was me, another my younger sister, my friend and my other friends sister). Now it’s gone from ‘did u dye your hair?’ To people (now in highschool) assuming that every ginger kid is related. Like I’ve been friends with a guy (who goes to a different school) for a few years who also has ginger hair and when our schools do our joint school productions and people (mainly younger students) would assume that we’re either dating or siblings. Bear in mind that I have more wavy hair and his is a lot more curly and from things like facial structure we look nothing alike. Also with the whole gingers having no soul, yeah I find that kinda funny and I’ve kinda learnt to lean into it over time.

[@charlescannon2469]

I totally forgot about Rucka Rucka Ali. Dang that catchy song.

[@Sly88Frye]

I think Cartman learned from kyle. Kyle turned Cartman into a ginger and then seasons later Cartman turned a cow into a ginger.

[@the_og_deathrowhfmc2492]

As a ginger it would have been offensive to not include us in the show

[@JoeyPthemainsqueeze]

Blame Canada! lol had to sing the whole song when you mentioned it.

[@maiyo8518]

Little did Eric know that Kyle was a ginger boy. So dose he hate his friends?

[@keenanpringle6684]

Definitely an episode that caused me some grievance in school but I still think it's a fantastic episode I wouldn't change a thing about

[@HunterSentinel]

3:08 aren’t there multiple red heads in their class too.

[@peterolbrisch8970]

Growing up, I didn't know picking on gingers was a thing, nobody did. We had two in our class, and they were ok. I ended up being friends with the girl.

[@CupidsBrokenArrowOfficial]

I love being a ginger because of this episode

[@sublimehypocrisy]

I love eating ginger. I mean red headed girls, btw.

[@battlesheep2552]

A 14 year old CANADIAN boy? Well we all know what we have to do...

[@cranklabexplosion-labcentr8245]

Hate crimes: *a savage hypocrisy*

[@gabriellacomito5918]

Yeah, and the whole "Asians don't carry the ginger gene" is a stupid quote because ALL non-monoracial-white people don't carry the gene, just like they don't care the blond gene. All other ethnic races of human beings don't carry the redhead gene or the blond gene because they are both light-hair-color genes, they are both light colors; and all of them genetically have dark hair colors such as brown and black, most often such a dark shade of brown that it almost looks black when it IS brown. Just like other races don't commonly carry the light-eye-color gene or the light-eye gene such as green or blue, mostly blue, being the lightest, same so as blond, because light-colored irises are more sensitive to bright light/s and darker-skinned woman or even hotter areas with "non-white" people with lighter skin such as East Asian countries have brighter sunlight. Also, you're kinda wrong about Kyle not having freckles, Armchair Analysis. They just don't appear in the animation. In the pilot episode and in the unaired pilot, Kyle's brother Ike, who's not animated with freckles was described as "the little freckled kid who looks like a football", and at the almost-end of "The End of Obesity", Cartman described Kyle as having freckles; where it turned out that Cartman only wanted to lose weight so that he could diss people without them being able to give him an accurate comeback. Note that Kyle didn't say that he didn't have light skin or freckles, just said that he didn't need to avoid the sun, making Cartman explain that Kyle is a "daywalker".