| "The Tooth Fairy Tats" | |
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| South Park episode | |
 Cartman as a tooth fairy |
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| Episode no. | Season 4 Episode 2 |
| Written by | Trey Parker Matt Stone Nancy M. Pimental |
| Directed by | Trey Parker |
| Production no. | 402 |
| Original airdate | April 5, 2000 |
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Richard Belzer as Loogie |
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| ← Season 3 | Season 5 → |
| List of South Park episodes | |
"The Tooth Fairy Tats 2000" ("The Tooth Fairy Tats" on the South Park Studios website) is episode 49 of Comedy Central's South Park. It originally aired on April 5, 2000.
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Plot
The Tooth Fairy has visited Cartman, leaving him $2. He rushes to the bus stop to share his news with the others. He then unveils his latest plan. If they all combined their lost teeth, the tooth fairy will provide them with enough cash to purchase a Dreamcast. However, Stan and Kyle have lost all their baby teeth, but not Kenny. Cartman tries to get teeth out of his mouth. It turns out Butters has a loose tooth, and is waiting for the tooth fairy. Cartman decides to steal Butters' tooth, disguised as the tooth fairy, and places it under his own pillow to get money. Cartman's mother gets suspicious of the number of teeth he has lost (Cartman has "lost" 112 teeth), and calls the local dentist, Dr. Roberts. She decides to come clean with Cartman, and admits that there is no tooth fairy. Cartman tells this to Stan and Kyle, which Stan decides he can try with other kids to raise money for a Dreamcast: they place a tooth under a rich kid's pillow, and steal the money. Meanwhile, the knowledge that the Tooth Fairy isn't real prompts Kyle to question the truth of all things, including his own existence. He begins to study various philosophies about the nature of reality.
The boys soon find out that there are others who are in the business, and they are taken to the leader, named Loogie, who has been the leader of the business after his two brothers. His business is keeping track of which houses his gang hits, and having them put teeth under children's pillows, and leave a note for the parents to let them know that their children have lost teeth. Once they have finished the circuit of houses, they go back and collect the money. He gives the four boys a choice, either they work for him and get a 2% cut of the money, or have their penises cut off. They choose to work for him.
The American Dental Association is suspicious about the missing teeth and money, and the leader (Dr. Roberts) concludes that the culprit is a giant Half Chicken, half squirrel that steals either teeth or money from children as they sleep in order to build some kind of giant nest for its genetically superior and potentially dangerous offspring, and has at least a mild understanding of algebra. According to the leader its beak can also be detached and used as a flotation device. Tom Foley, another member believes that the missing teeth and money are due to a black-market tooth racket that he has seen before in Montreal, but nobody believes him, and even believe that Montreal is a fictional place.
The boys get rather wealthy from the tooth racket, but Cartman decides to form their own group and make more profits. When Loogie learns about this, he decides to murder Kenny by tying his feet to weights and drowning him, although this goes wrong when the water they throw Kenny in turns out to be only ankle deep. A fake news report goes on about a child named Billy who needs $600 for a bone marrow transplant, and has recently lost a tooth, but his parents plan to leave him the money. This turns out to be a trap set by Dr. Foley, to prove the ADA wrong. Although the report was a trap, Billy did have the illness, and did require the money. Cartman and Loogie fall into the trap and eventually get caught. Kyle, meanwhile, disappears while questioning his own existence, but soon reappears wielding control over all reality, even becoming the half chicken half-squirrel, scaring the police, the ADA, and Loogie's gang away. Loogie decides that the fall of his empire is a good thing, and ends the tooth racket. Meanwhile, Billy is saved as he discovers the "Tooth Fairy"'s money under his bed, and happily takes it to his parents.
As the credits roll, we see Kenny hopping through the water and then suddenly falling into deeper water and drowning. As the bubbles stop in the water, Timmy zooms across the screen on an above bridge, yelling his name.
Cultural references
The way that Loogie speaks is a parody of the way Marlon Brando spoke as Don Vito Corleone in The Godfather.
Loogie quotes Robert DeNiro's portrayal of Al Capone from The Untouchables when he finds out that the kids are planning on turning on him.
The set up to the sting operation is a parody of Beverly Hills Cop.
Production
As explained in the FAQ section on the official website: "When the year 2000 was coming up, everyone and their brother had '2000' in the titles of their products and TV shows. America was obsessed with 2000, so Trey Parker put '2000' in the titles to make fun of the ubiquity of the phrase."[1]
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| Preceded by “Cartman's Silly Hate Crime 2000” |
South Park episodes | Followed by “Quintuplets 2000” |
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