Plot
The boys (Stan, Kyle, Cartman, and Butters) stay the night at Stan's to see the new Terrance and Phillip movie trailer, which will premiere during one of the commercial breaks of Fightin' Around the World with Russell Crowe. Shelley, Stan's short-tempered older sister, allows them to watch if they bring her some tampons. Cartman thinks the TV's color is "saturated" and attempts to fix a loose cable, causing the TV to explode. The boys leave to watch at Kyle's house, but have to force Ike away from the TV. Gerald reprimands Kyle for pushing his little brother around and allows Ike to watch the McNeil Lehrer Report, forcing the boys to find another place to watch the show.
Throughout the episode the Fightin' Around the World with Russell Crowe show depicts Crowe with an exaggerated Australian accent, sailing the world with his tugboat friend Tugger and randomly beating people up. He fights many different nationalities, and at one point fights his own editor.
Since Cartman's house is being fumigated and Butters insists they cannot go to his house, they go to Chef's instead to watch on his new plasma screen TV. To their disappointment, the trailer is not shown during the break – and to make matters worse, Chef's confused fumbling with the remote causes the TV to transform into an ED-209-like robot. The TV wreaks havoc on the street, and throughout the remainder of the episode, Chef follows the destructive television around South Park, while talking to customer service on his cellphone in an effort to deprogram the machine. The boys go to watch TV at the local bar, only to be kicked out for being underage. They arrive at the Retirement Community where they manage to catch another commercial break, but the trailer is once again not aired. The elderly grow annoyed with the boys and force them out by simultaneously "releasing their bowels".
The boys resort to watching TV in an alley with a group of homeless people, only to be attacked by Chef's rampaging television-robot again and forced to flee. In desperation, they try to brave the fumes at Cartman's house, but it is too much for them to handle. Finally, they ask Butters why they cannot watch at his house – and Butters, obedient to a fault, explains that it is because his parents are not home and he does not have a babysitter. They rush to Butter's house and arrive just in time to view the last commercial break, wherein the trailer is finally shown. It turns out to be something of an anti-climactic teaser—very vague and nondescript, showing nothing but Terrance and Phillip wearing cowboy hats and farting, but the boys are ecstatic over finally getting to see it after all.
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