"Let Go, Let Gov" | |
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South Park episode | |
Episode no. | Season 17 Episode 1 |
Directed by | Trey Parker |
Written by | Trey Parker |
Production code | 1701 |
Original air date | September 25, 2013 |
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"Let Go, Let Gov" is the first episode in the seventeenth season of the American animated television series South Park. The 238th episode of the series overall, it first aired on Comedy Central in the United States on September 25, 2013.[2] The episode's story satirizes the 2013 mass surveillance disclosures,[3] and casts Eric Cartman in an Edward Snowden-like role, in which he infiltrates the NSA in protest of the agency's surveillance of American citizens.[4][5]