Sarcastaball

"Sarcastaball"
South Park episode
Episode no.Season 16
Episode 8
Directed byTrey Parker
Written byTrey Parker
Production code1608
Original air dateSeptember 26, 2012 (2012-09-26)
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"Sarcastaball" is the eighth episode of the sixteenth season of the American animated television series South Park, and the 231st episode of the series overall. It premiered on Comedy Central in the United States on September 26, 2012, and is rated TV-MA L. In the episode, Randy Marsh, concerned over drastic changes to elementary school football, inadvertently creates a new version of the game after uttering a sarcastic public remark, which quickly becomes the nation's most popular sport. As a result, Butters Stotch becomes a star athlete in the pastime, while Randy finds that he has lost the ability to speak without sarcasm.[1][2]

The episode references the controversial calls of replacement referees in a September 24, 2012 Green Bay Packers–Seattle Seahawks NFL game, and spoofs musician Cee Lo Green, the debate over concussions in American football, sports talk personality Jim Rome, and NFL players Peyton Manning and LaMarr Woodley.[3]

  1. ^ "Episode 1608 Press Release"[dead link]. South Park Studios. September 23, 2012
  2. ^ "Sarcastaball (Season 16, Episode 8)". South Park Studios. Retrieved September 24, 2012.
  3. ^ "South Park takes aim at NFL, refs and head trauma in Sarcastaball". Sporting News. September 27, 2012. Archived from the original on February 2, 2013. Retrieved March 12, 2022.