In "Trapper Keeper", Flora (voiced by Zoe Murphy Dion) was undecided on who to vote for class president, but ultimately chose Ike.

Garrison is particularly cynical, especially in comparison with the rest of South Park's adults, and he is one of the few characters to ever break the fourth wall on the show. Possible same sex relationships include Stephen Stotch in "Butters' Very Own Episode", and he sought a tryst with Eric Cartman in "Cartman Joins NAMBLA", in which Garrison solicited sex from a minor in an online chat room, and after meeting him near the South Park docks for sex (only then discovering then that it was Cartman, his own student), he was charged with soliciting and subsequently told by the school to take time off from his job. Trey Parker and Matt Stone had expected the Donald Trump presidential campaign to end before the eventual election. [1] The main plot of the episode involving the Trapper Keeper was written before the election,[1] but the subplot is a parody of the controversy surrounding the election's outcome. In the ninth-season premiere, "Mr. Garrison's Fancy New Vagina", Garrison, unhappy with being a gay man, decides to try living as a trans woman.

Mr. Hat is also a racist, as seen in "Chef Goes Nanners", where he is a member of the South Park branch of the Ku Klux Klan. Mrs. Garrison then returns to her own religion. Feeling he has proven that his policies work, he decides to go to Washington, D.C. to run for President, with Caitlyn Jenner as his running mate, and is absent from subsequent episodes. Cartman starts to thank Kyle just as the episode ends, but the credits roll before he can finish and cuts him off at "Kyle..." As for the kindergarteners, after countless lawyers come in and legal forms and endless meetings, Filmore concedes because "this game is stupid".

the "best line of the week. After discovering Canada has already built such a wall, Garrison travels to Canada and rapes the Canadian president (a caricature of Donald Trump) to death.

State results tallied on election night gave 246 electoral votes to Republican candidate George W. Bush and 255 to Democratic nominee Al Gore, with New Mexico (5), Oregon (7), and Florida (25) too close to call that evening. "[7] Stone added that the storyline "kind of wrote itself. Parker and Stone said they had fun recording the kindergarten scenes, because "instead of adults doing the voices of the kids, it was so funny to hear a little kid actually doing it. However, it was soon apparent that Mr. Hat was able to perform activities that would not have been possible if he were merely a puppet. Parker and Stone had expected Hillary Clinton to be victorious in the election, and described themselves as waiting for the election to end to focus on other storylines, intending for Garrison to return to teaching, humbled by his experiences. https://southpark.cc.com/video-clips/qhtu98/south-park-some-kind-of-genius

Filmore, (voiced by Nico Agnone), is likely the most well-known kindergartner, aside from Ike. [3] During the entirety of the show he has had heterosexual and same-sex relationships. Although Mrs. Garrison continues to inject snide and insulting remarks into Dawkins' lecture, Dawkins becomes drawn to Mrs. Garrison's masculine boldness and directness. "[15], "Trapper Keeper" originally aired on Comedy Central in the United States on November 15, 2000. Garrison realizes that he will be incapable of actually performing his duties as the president if he were to be elected, and tries repeatedly to sabotage his own campaign, even outright telling his audience to vote for Hillary Clinton instead of him. When he finally wakes he discovers that he actually slept for 500 years, and that the entire world now embraces atheism.

He begins a political campaign to get rid of all the Canadians by "fucking them all to death." When Ms. Choksondik is killed, Mr. Garrison is asked to be the Fourth Grade teacher, he accepts and finds out if the school fires you for being gay you can sue for millions. Hobby. It was suggested that Mr. Hat (and subsequently Mr. Twig) were manners through which Mr. Garrison could express his repressed gay feelings.

Parker and Stone were, however, forced to rewrite the season's final episodes to accommodate Garrison (and Trump) being elected as president, and felt that they could not resolve some of the season's storylines in a satisfying way as a result. Despite his cynical nature he appears to genuinely enjoy his job, falling into a depression when he is fired or is suspended from teaching.

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It has been established that Garrison has had heterosexual relationships, as with Liane Cartman, with whom most of the town has had sex at some point. [6] In the following episode, "Over Logging", Garrison can be seen smoking a pipe and parading around in a red smoking jacket, à la Hugh Hefner, and this could indicate an attitude of "straightness". ", he undergoes yet another sex change operation, returning to being a man.

For other uses, see, He is addressed by this name after his sex-change operation from ".

Then he saw the pregnant man on Oprah and came to the conclusion that he's still a man and paid to have his penis cloned onto a lab rat so that it could be reattached. It is not entirely clear how much autonomy Mr. Hat and Mr. Garrison have from each other. It has been implied he has scatophilic tendencies in "Proper Condom Use" when the majority of sexual acts he taught to the kindergarten class involved feces or defecation. Quaid is Filmore's best friend and a minion. Mr. Garrison was also inspired by a British literature professor Parker had at the University of Colorado; Parker said the voice he uses for the character is a dead-accurate impression of him.

In a fictional crossover psychotherapy session with Dr. Katz (from another Comedy Central series) in "Summer Sucks", Katz suggests that Mr. Hat was a personification of Mr. Garrison's "gay side".

For the first three seasons, Mr. Garrison was the third-grade teacher at South Park Elementary School.

From Season 04 Episode 12, Fourth Grade. In the season 1 episode "Mr. Hankey, the Christmas Poo" and the season 7 episode "It's Christmas in Canada", he suggests that the town get rid of all the Mexicans, but Mayor McDaniels repeatedly declines to do so. ", he undergoes yet another sex change operation (back to a man).

Mr. Garrison was depicted primarily as a teacher until his dismissal, and then mounted a campaign that resulted in his election as President of the United States. United States presidential election, 2000, United States presidential election in Florida, 2000, "Quantcast South Park episode Parodies Anime", "South Park: The Complete Fourth Season (2000)", https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Trapper_Keeper_(South_Park)&oldid=975250551, Short description is different from Wikidata, Television episode articles with short description for single episodes, Television episode articles with short description and disambiguated page names, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, This page was last edited on 27 August 2020, at 16:20. Despite having declared himself gay, Garrison continued to be ashamed of it as part of his continual emotional and psychological problems. In the episode "D-Yikes", Mrs. Garrison starts to have lesbian relationships.

It kills Kenny and destroys the house, and sets off to Cheyenne Mountain to absorb the secret military base's computer. In the Season 19 episode "Where My Country Gone?"

Mr. Garrison was also inspired by a British literature professor Parker had at the University of Colorado; Parker said the voice he uses for the character is a dead-accurate impression of him. The New York Post's Andrea Peyser analyzed the episode's references to the 2000 United States presidential election. however, following Principal Victoria being dismissed by the school, Garrison becomes frustrated with the recent immigration of Canadians to the town and begins to verbally bash them and declare they should leave their country, and is fired from his teaching job.

He succeeds by buying Cartman's trust, despite Cartman saying "I'm not supposed to have male friends over 30; I kinda got screwed over on that once." South Park and Philosophy: You Know, I Learned Something Today, South Park and Philosophy: Bigger, Longer, and More Penetrating, The Book of Mormon: Original Broadway Cast Recording. His only appearance was in "Stanley's Cup". He does not find out about Mrs. Garrison's gender history until later.

By the end of the sixth season, in the episode "The Death Camp of Tolerance", he was promoted to the fourth grade after the death of Ms. Choksondik. Parker said he believes Mr. Garrison has become one of the most complex characters on South Park, particularly due to his ever-growing relationship with Mr. Hat and his sexuality and gender issues; Parker said of Mr. Garrison, "He's the soap opera element to the whole series. Seeking refuge in a support group run by Randy Marsh, Randy tells Garrison that the reason people want him to be president is because J. J. Abrams has brainwashed people into liking his new Star Wars film using the Member Berries, linking the nostalgic themes of the Garrison campaign to the film's rehash of older material. It has been implied he has scatophilic tendencies in "Proper Condom Use" when the majority of sexual acts he taught to the kindergarten class involved feces or defecation.

Garrison rejected this, and Katz was never able to counterpoint because he was killed shortly afterward by a gigantic novelty firework. Though Garrison emphatically denied he was gay and tried to completely keep it a secret, he acknowledged that Mr. Hat and Mr. Twig had homosexual fantasies. Mr. Garrison trains Ms. Choksondik.

While this is happening, Stan, Kyle and Kenny accompany their robotic companion to Cartman's house to convince his mother to help them, but she goes off with Bill Cosby to have sex.

He even claims that whoever cannot make babies is a male, including infertile women. Along with his other works, it sold well until he learned that it won the Gay Pulitzer Prize and was deemed to be "the best work of homoerotic literature since Huckleberry Finn".