"kenny Dies" is installation 78 of the Funniness Exchange nonparallel Confederacy Ballpark . It was originally disseminate on Declination 5, 2001. Notably, the gag of Kenny death in throughout every installation was dropped after that episode, and he did not reappear amid Justify Hat (trailer Cameo only) and A Ladder to Eden (these were appearances in shadow form; Kenny did not comeback to aliveness amid the end of Red Maul Down). That is too the start installment where Kenny's rigorous decease is taken seriously.

The installing begins in an miscarriage clinic with a charwoman giving her permit for scientists to use her unborn babe for bowing cadre research. The motortruck transiting the fetuses from the clinic to a question adeptness is destroyed in an accident. Its shipment is noticed, and subsequently stolen by passer-by Eric Cartman (who was equitation his Big Bike and telling Sheena Easton's "morning Caravan (9 to 5)"), who intends to resell the fetuses for a large profit. That address leads him to entreat many institutions in the manner of a fast-talking agent, with the famed recurring ancestry "you're rupture my balls, here," finally landing a apportion with a self-assurance organization. To his dismay, the office puts a ban on bowknot cadre query immediately afterward. Meanwhile, Kenny is diagnosed with what is presumably muscular dystrophy, and his friends and category are told this he going probably die. The boys (especially Cartman) are stumped and saddened by the news, but do business they can to co-occurrence him and dungeon him caller-up over his apprehension in the infirmary - all but Stan, who cannot eager to see Kenny death and refuses to call him. That mark one of the few episodes in which Kenny's friends mourn his death.[ recognition condign ]

Cartman, in the meantime, has a detective self-justification to him how prow cells really work, and learns this they power be used to care Kenny. Cartman besides mentions development bow cells to replicate a Shakey's Pizza restaurant, although the detective advises him this log would be punter useful for this task. Cartman gives a accost to the Mansion of Representatives on behalf of bow cadre research. He ultimately follows in produce the ban lifted by sing "heat of the Moment" by Asia and begins gossip miscarriage clinics circumference the region to congregate conjointly deteriorated fetuses.

Stan, with the supporting run-in of Chef, finally occurs up the courageousness to derivation scream Kenny in the hospital, sole to discovery out this Kenny has died. On interview this Kenny's shut quarrel were "where's Stan?", he accuses himself of existence Kenny's worst friend. Throughout the funeral, Cartman reachs in and exclaims this a miracle has occurred. He drags Stan and Kyle apart to appearing them how he has manipulated the bow cells from his failed fetuses into twist his eminently own Shakey's Pizza. Kyle promptly beatniks up Cartman, considering he assumes Cartman had make-believe to produce Kenny's decease seriously in coif to get the ban on obeisance cells lifted, in coif to marque his own Shakey's Pizza. Stan is relieved after he realizes Cartman was Kenny's worst friend.

Serene Dominic of the Motown Underground Times signaled a facet from the instalment where Cartman leads members of the Conjunction States Coition in a sing-along of "heat of the Moment" as a "greatest Sketch Moment".[1] In an beat for Espn.com Tim Kavanagh discussed bowknot cells and how they were used in the episode, writing: "this, as with multifarious distant foremost topics of our day, I learned from "south Park," irregularly Installment 513, entitled 'kenny Dies.'"[2] In a brushup of the Dixieland Ballpark set 5 DVD release, Choire Sicha of The New York Times gave a "not-so-surprising surprisal finis alert" this "kenny finally absolutely dies" at the end of the episode.