Medicinal Fried Chicken [SEP] series
Medicinal Fried Chicken
"Medicinal Fried Chicken" is the third episode of the fourteenth season of the American animated television series "South Park", and the 198th episode of the series overall. It originally aired on Comedy Central in the United States on March 31, 2010. In the episode, the South Park KFC is replaced by a medical marijuana dispensary, and Cartman gets involved in black market selling the KFC chicken. Meanwhile, Randy Marsh gets a medical referral for marijuana by giving himself testicular cancer, which makes his
testicles grow to grotesquely huge proportions.
The episode was written and directed by series co-creator Trey Parker, and was rated TV-MA in the United States. "Medicinal Fried Chicken" was first broadcast when Colorado was considering revising state medicinal marijuana laws and restricting fast food eateries. The episode provided social commentary against both types of laws, and suggested legislating lifestyle choices is ineffective and inevitably leads to black markets.
The Cartman drug market subplot was heavily influenced by the 1983 crime film "Scarface", with