Original paper for this tape only. Not a frame from the show, and not somebody else's picture.

Season 5

It Hits the Fan

S05E0163% hitSchool

June 20, 2001 · Focus: Stan

The cabinet is shrieking. A single word breaks containment at school and the town treats profanity like a weather event.

The picture is losing itHolding still

The cabinet is shrieking. A single word breaks containment at school and the town treats profanity like a weather event.

School. Play sends the paper cutouts through a different gag every press. Stop drops it.

The printed calls

A house call, hand-scored, and the cabinet is still loud about a premiere, finale, movie, or special.

plotHitConfidence 83

One word will escape at school and the town will track it like weather.

The curse-word counter is the episode. Hit.

gagHitConfidence 86

A counter will tick every time the word lands, like a game show from hell.

The on-screen tally is the gag and the plot. Hit.

characterPartialConfidence 60

Stan will be the patient zero and the only one who wants it to stop.

He is in the blast radius; he is not the only reluctant one. Partial.

musicalMissConfidence 15

The word will be banned by a closing gospel number.

No gospel. Miss.

Threading this tape into the theater. The sprockets are unhappy.