Season 2 Episode 3 – Ike’s Wee Wee

Kyle thinks his little brother Ike is going to lose his manhood… while Mr. Mackey goes on a little trip…

Original Airdate

20^th May 1998

Featured Music

• Love Is  A Battlefield by Pat Benatar (1986, sung by Mr. Mackey)
• The theme to the A-Team (1983)

Character Debuts

• Bartender (we don’t hear his name)

Synopsis

Mr. Mackey decides to teach about drugs by passing around marijuana to the class, and learns the hard way what drugs can do to you. Meanwhile, Kyle thinks Ike is going to have a vital organ of his chopped off.

Kenny's Death

Falls into an open grave and crushed by a tombstone.

My Thoughts Back Then

I knew what circumcision was at the time I first saw this in April of 2005, being only 14, I was a long way off drinking alcohol, and I’ve never smoked tobacco, marijuana or used any other drug in my life. They’re not for me, even as a teenager I didn’t like energy drinks (they tasted like off fizzy pop to me), this is the sort of episode I can appreciate a lot more at age 30. I enjoy quality beer, cider and perry, but the strongest drug I take on a daily basis is my beloved cups of tea.

My Thoughts Now

LET’S RAISE THE ROOF! The seniors don’t really like concerts… BUT I HAVE TO GO TO THE BATHROOM… NINJA STAR! I’m loving these retirement home sketches on the home video release.

Today’s episode begins in Mr. Garrison’s class, where Stan boos Mr. Mackey and impersonates him, and then Kyle, and then Cartman… reminds me of how some of my teachers were mocked. Doing Health class in school, I can say Mr. Mackey is perhaps on par with my Year 10 Health teacher, who thought it was a good idea to show my class Once Were Warriors as classwork… funnily enough, my Dad was more upset than my Mum about that. Mr. Stewart and Mrs. Hay were much better than Mr. Mackey. YOU DON’T PASS DRUGS AROUND TO CHILDREN!

Alcohol is obviously not for kids, and Cartman doesn’t care what a bris is, there’s food! LSD was made famous by Lennon and McCartney, no-one knows where the marijuana – Mr. Mackey is with Principal Victoria and is FIRED! Mr. Mackey is sad, and we hear some sad music, I feel for Mr. Mackey here despite his foolish move. Mr. Garrison took it and then smoked it, watching Teletubbies! LOL.

Chef lectures the kids, and asks why they’re bad? Kyle knows the answer but doesn’t know what it means, and Chef explains it’s for college! Haha! Chef explains what a bris is, really badly, after Kenny names a man’s privates. Chef is annoyed, and tells the boys for the first time to ask their parents.

Mr. Mackey is depressed and walking around the streets, we get our first reference to the Simpsons while he’s been mobbed by all of town, and walks into South Park’s bar, despite not drinking… Devil Mackey tells him to drink it, Angel Mackey…. AGREES. Stan thinks a bris involves cutting off a man’s manhood… er NO.

Mr. Mackey stumbles home from the bar, absolutely trashed, and his landlord Mr. Freely lectures about drugs while smoking a cigar, and pelts Mr. Mackey with rocks. Sheila and Gerald are getting ready for the bris, and Kyle is freaked out when he finds out it’s a Jewish tradition. Gerald asks Stan to talk to Kyle, and all 4 boys are now freaked out. Kyle opts to kidnap Ike, while Mr. Mackey is now homeless, and accepts a joint from another man in the alley, now high.

Kyle puts Ike on a train to Nebraska, where the conductor thinks he’s a bin! Kick the baby makes a nice comeback, and Kyle kicks him on a train. Mr. Mackey now has a load of stubble, and bumps into 2 ex-students who give him LSD… oh no… Kyle, THAT’S NOT IKE! Nebraska is apparently a large load of corn fields and nothing else, in downtown Lincoln (its capital city), and Sheila thinks Ike is dead ☹. We go to Ike’s funeral, where Father Maxi can’t do  a Jewish ceremony, we find out Ike is from Canada this episode too. Kenny falls into an open grave and a tombstone falls on him.

Mr. Mackey is clearly a hippie who’s out of his mind (Jimbo has a point as Mackey walks into him), and Mr. Mackey goes fingerpainting with a bird, still fried from drugs. Gerald isn’t that pissed, and Kyle hypothetically grounded for a month? That’s pretty lax, considering Ike is his BROTHER. Ike is a table stand in a bar.

Kyle is sent to his room upon returning to Colorado, and is Mr. Mackey in love? He has his lights punched out by the A-Team, commandeered by Mr. Garrison, Principal Victoria, Jimbo and Ned. Kyle can’t even go to Ike’s bris, and I’m shocked that Gerald and Sheila let him have friends over! Unless they snuck in, which is the sort of thing I’m sure a lot of boys do (including some I know when we were younger).

Ike hands a photo album of Kyle and him to Kyle, and Stan tried to convince him – it’s here where it it’s revealed Kyle has more than one green hat. Mr. Mackey is in rehab, and there’s a Canadian bris tool? LOL Kyle realises that despite no blood relation, Kyle does love Ike, and he gets explained what a bris is, Cartman wants one now. The bris goes well, Mr. Mackey is fully back to normal, and Kyle considers Stan and Kenny brothers, but NOT Cartman. Mr. Mackey comes back and lectures the class, and we’re back to the start of the episode, with mocking Mr. Mackey’s voice.

One last note – I’m an only child, but I’m honoured to have several honourary brothers and sisters – if any of you read this, you’re all awesome.