"Mr. Hankey, the Christmas Poo" is the ninth episode of the first season
of the animated comedy television series South Park. The show's first
Christmas special, it portrays the Jewish character Kyle feeling
excluded from the town's Christmas celebrations and being comforted by
Mr. Hankey, who can talk and sing. As Mr. Hankey does not come alive in
the presence of other characters, they begin to think that Kyle is
delusional. In another plot strand, the townspeople remove all symbols
of Christmas from South Park to render the celebrations politically
correct and inoffensive. When all the children start believing in him,
Mr. Hankey finally reveals himself to everyone and scolds them for
losing sight of the good things of Christmas and focusing on the bad.
The townspeople apologize to Kyle, then sing Christmas songs and watch
Mr. Hankey fly away with Santa Claus. Heavily influenced by the Peanuts
Christmas special "A Charlie Brown Christmas", "Mr. Hankey, the
Christmas Poo" was the first South Park musical episode and the only
episode in season one in which Kenny does not die. It is a satire of
political correctness and religious sensitivity and has been described
as one of the classic South Park episodes.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mr._Hankey,_the_Christmas_Poo>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
942:
William I Longsword of Normandy was ambushed by supporters of
Arnulf I, Count of Flanders while the two were at a peace conference to
settle their differences.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_I,_Duke_of_Normandy>
1790:
The Aztec calendar stone (pictured), now a symbol of modern
Mexican culture, was excavated in the Zócalo, Mexico City's main
square.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aztec_calendar_stone>
1944:
Nazi troops under Joachim Peiper killed unarmed prisoners of
war, captured during the Battle of the Bulge, with machine guns near
Malmedy, Belgium.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malmedy_massacre>
1951:
The Civil Rights Congress, an American civil rights group,
presented a document to the United Nations Genocide Convention charging
the United States government with genocide against African Americans.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/We_Charge_Genocide>
2010:
Tunisian street vendor Mohamed Bouazizi set himself on fire in
protest to police harassment, triggering the Tunisian Revolution.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohamed_Bouazizi>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
neotenous:
1. Exhibiting retention of juvenile characteristics in the adult.
2. (informal) Babyfaced.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/neotenous>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
You may well ask why I write. And yet my reasons are quite many. For it
is not unusual in human beings who have witnessed the sack of a city or
the falling to pieces of a people to set down what they have witnessed
for the benefit of unknown heirs or of generations infinitely remote;
or, if you please, just to get the sight out of their heads.
--Ford Madox Ford
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Ford_Madox_Ford>
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