The Top 10 South Park Christmas Episodes, Ranked

It begins as a narrated telling of a wholesome holiday fable, in which an increasingly reluctant Stan helps some sweet, adorable, talking woodland critters he stumbles upon as they prepare for the arrival of their savior, after Porcupiney the Porcupine becomes pregnant by immaculate conception. The reveal arrives after it is tricked into killing the apparent big bad villain of this woodland crew, a local mountain lion, and the cutesy crew celebrates with a Satanic blood orgy. Thatu2019s right, Porcupiney is to birth the son of Satan and soon Kyle is to embody the Anti-Christ. The rest, involving a gun-toting Santa and abortion-performing lion cubs, set a high-water benchmark for South Park</em>u2019s holiday oeuvre that has yet to be surpassed.</p>n</div>”,”alt”:”u201cWoodland Critter Christmasu201d u2014 Season 8, Episode 14 (2004)n”,”image_credit”:”Comedy 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