Chelmedvedosvin

The episode begins with Al Gore speaking to schoolchildren, in which he talks about the “terrible threat” that, in his opinion, hangs over humanity, a creature named Chelmedvedosvin, who is “half human, half bear and half pig.” Everyone perceives the speech with bewilderment. On the same day that Stan , Kyle , Cartman and Kenny are playing basketball, Al Gore, dressed in the ridiculous Chelmedvedosvin costume, comes to them to warn of the “danger” again. When Randy takes the children home, he advises them not to communicate with Horus, but Stan does not agree - he does not believe in Chelmedvedosvina, but regrets Horus because he has no friends.

At night, Gore calls Stan and calls with his friends for an urgent meeting on the issue of Chelmedvedosvin. When they come, he announces that he was allegedly seen in a place popular among tourists - the Cave of the Winds, and calls the guys with him. During the tour, Gore asks the guide strange questions, tries to suspect the beast with strange sounds, and as a result, hearing the howl of the wind, he starts firing in all directions. A collapse occurs in the cave, and sightseers run out with horror. Only Stan, Kyle, Cartman and Kenny remain in the cave.

Lithered guys are looking for a way out, for which they diverge in different directions; Entering one of the “corridors”, Cartman discovers a treasure - a bunch of gold and jewelry. In a panic, he comes up with how to endure it, withholding it from the rest; he persuades everyone to stay in one place, and he constantly leaves, referring to diarrhea , but in fact Cartman decided to eat all the treasures.

Meanwhile, rescuers are thinking about how to get their children out of the rubble. Al Gore is among them and says that you can’t climb into the cave where Chelmedvedosvin hides. Since no one listens to him, he independently shuts off the current river nearby, so that the cave is flooded with water and Chelmedvedosvin dies.

Stan, Kyle and Kenny notice that Cartman is really bad - having eaten all the treasures, he is terribly bloated, looks monstrous and practically unable to move. Water begins to penetrate the cave, and they move toward the exit, dragging the heavy Cartman on him.

Rescuers lose all hope of saving their children and arrange a funeral, during which the guys crawl out of the cave. Stan indignantly expresses to Al Gore everything that he thinks about him, but he is still proud that he "killed Chelmedvedosvin." They want to take Cartman to the hospital; he resists, wanting to go home, but does not stand up and spews all the treasures right on the spot. One of the cave workers, seeing them, understands that these are fake treasures that lay in the cave so that tourists could take pictures with them. Meanwhile, Al Gore says that he will now do something else, for example, he will make a film with himself in the title role. He leaves with the exclamation of "Excelsior!", After which a "golden" jug flies out of Cartman's ass.

• The episode mimics the struggle of Al Gore with global warming , which appears here in the form of a meaningless monster invented by him, with the help of which all forgotten Gore wants to attract attention. At the end of the series, he mentions that “maybe he will make a film with himself in the title role” - here he refers to his “ Inconvenient Truth ”, which won an Oscar for best documentary and best song; Parker and Stone were extremely disappointed with this film ^[1] .
• The abbreviation that Gore uses to denote Chelmedvedosvin - MBP (ManBearPig) - is the real term used in the study of glacier melting due to global warming - Mass Balance potential ( Russian. Mass balance potential ) ^[2] .
• Al Gore uses the word “serial” instead of “serious” and “seriously” (MTV translates “curiously” instead of “seriously”). This is a reference to his reservation at the Oprah Winfrey Show - when they asked him what his favorite breakfast cereal was , he heard “serial” ( Russian serial ), and he answered: “Oprah” ^[3] .

• On April 1 (April Fool's Day ), the 2008 Think Gene biotechnology news site published an article on the creation of the chimera - the human-bear-pig, complementing it with illustrations and a scientific description of the genes involved. The article concluded with the words: “Al Gore is inaccessible for comment” ^[4] .
• In the comments on the 10th season of the series, published on DVD, the creators of the series spoke about the documentary film Mount The Inconvenient Truth . Matt Stone said the Horus movie was not supposed to receive an Academy Award for Best Documentary, stating that “it was not a documentary. It was a PowerPoint presentation . ”
• The observation post of the US Marine Corps in Treekha Nava, Afghanistan, was named after Chelmedvedosvin ^[5] .
• On November 7, 2008, in an interview with Gore was asked about the spread of concern about Chelmedvedosvin, and he laughed that he “could not believe” how many comments were received after showing this episode of South Park ^[6] .
• IGN rated the series at 6 out of 10 points, noting that it was generally good, better than the previous ones ^[7] .

• Cave of the Winds is a real place in Colorado ^[8] .
• "Excelsior" is translated from Latin as "higher and higher."
• Immediately after the children were overwhelmed, on the clothes of Al Gore you can see the sticker “Film Actors' Guild” (abbreviated “FAG”; in the Russian translation of Goblin - “Party of exceptionally gifted actors and directors”, abbreviated “P. I. D. . R."). This is a reference to Stone and Parker's film Team America: The World Police .

• In the second episode of the trilogy from season 11 of the series, “ Imagination, Episode II, ” the US government opens a portal to a country where imaginary heroes live; for some time one of the inhabitants of the evil half of the imagination, Chelmedvedosvin, crawls out into the real world. He looks scarier than on the illustrations of Horus, his appearance is based largely on the mutant bear from the movie " Prophecy ".
• In the final episode of the trilogy - “ Imagination, episode III ” - Al Gore appears again, showing a film with the filmed Chelmedvedoswin and proving to everyone his reality ^[9] , and then advocating a nuclear strike on Imaginationland in order to destroy Chelmedvedosvin (in the end, his efforts this strike takes place, but Butters neutralizes its consequences).
• In the game South Park: The Stick of Truth, Al Gore hires the main character to place sensors around the city supposedly capable of detecting Chelmedvedosvin. After completing the quest, Horus adds the hero as a friend on Facebook and begins to send him frequent and meaningless messages, because of which the hero decides to remove Horus from his friends. Gore accuses the hero of being the disguised Chelmedvedoswin and attacks him. After defeating Horus, the player after some time receives a message from him that Chelmedvedosvin is near the church. Arriving there, the hero fights with the same Al Gore, dressed in the suit of Chelmedvedosvin.
• In episodes 22 of the season “ It is time for grace ” and “ No one will become graceful?” "It turns out that Chelmedvedosvin actually exists.

• ManBearPig at South Park Studios
• ManBearPig Series Scenario
• " Chelmedvedosvin ” (English) on the Internet Movie Database