Something Wall-Mart This Way Comes

"**Something Wall-Mart This Way Comes**"
"Something Wall-Mart This Way Comes"
South Park episode
Episode no.	Season 8; Episode 9
Directed by	Trey Parker
Written by	Trey Parker
Production code	809
Original air date	November 3, 2004
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"Something Wall-Mart This Way Comes" is the ninth episode of the eighth season of the American animated television series South Park, and the 120th episode of the series overall. It originally aired on Comedy Central in the United States on November 3, 2004. In the episode, a "Wall-Mart" supermarket (used as a stand-in for Walmart) is built in South Park, and the people start to get addicted to shopping from it, due to its irresistibly attractive bargains, thus leading many businesses in South Park to close down. The four boys have to fight against Wall-Mart and to find a way to stop it from taking over the entire town.

The plot of this episode is a direct parody of the 1983 Disney movie Something Wicked This Way Comes based on the 1962 novel by Ray Bradbury.^[1]

^ Anne Gossage (2009). "Yon Fart Doth Smell of Elderberries Sweet". In Leslie Stratyner; James R. Keller (eds.). The Deep End of South Park: Critical Essays on Television's Shocking Cartoon Series. McFarland. p. 45. ISBN 978-0-7864-4307-9.

[1] Anne Gossage (2009). "Yon Fart Doth Smell of Elderberries Sweet". In Leslie Stratyner; James R. Keller (eds.). The Deep End of South Park: Critical Essays on Television's Shocking Cartoon Series. McFarland. p. 45. ISBN 978-0-7864-4307-9.

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