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] visit Grampa Marvin Marsh, who gives Stan a hideously tacky bejeweled ]. Stan and his friends know it is ugly and decide to sell the Bolo Tie to a ] store, in order to regain the 6,000 dollars that his grandfather spent on it. The clerks there tell him the necklace is worth next to nothing. He goes from store to store and even a ], but with every store he visits the price drops even lower. Cartman invites the boys to his house, where he reveals a formula for making money out of gold, similar in intent to one of the main goals of ]. Stan overhears his Grandpa planning to buy an item on the Shopping Network, but intervenes by calling the network and furiously telling the host what he is doing is wrong and that he should kill himself. Around this time Grampa Marvin revealed he had a dog but due to ] he cannot remember anything about her. ] visit Grampa Marvin Marsh, who gives Stan a hideously tacky bejeweled ]. Stan and his friends know it is ugly and decide to sell the Bolo Tie to a ] store, in order to regain the 6,000 dollars that his grandfather spent on it. The clerks there tell him the necklace is worth next to nothing. He goes from store to store and even a ], but with every store he visits the price drops even lower. Cartman invites the boys to his house, where he reveals a formula for making money out of gold, similar in intent to one of the main goals of ]. Stan overhears his Grandpa planning to buy an item on the Shopping Network, but intervenes by calling the network and furiously telling the host what he is doing is wrong and that he should kill himself. Around this time Grampa Marvin revealed he had a dog but due to ] he cannot remember anything about her.


Stan and Cartman find the origin of the Cash 4 Gold business in India. Both confront each other at a jewelry factory where the entire scheme is revealed. The factory makes the items, which are shipped to the Shopping Network, where the elderly buy them and give them as a gifts. The recipients sell them to a Cash 4 Gold store, which sends the gold back to India after it is smelted to start all over again. A worker in the factory gives Stan a ] as a gift. Stan uses this frame to put a picture of Grandpa and his dog and gives it to him as a gift. Marvin does not remember giving Stan the tie and now tells him it is "fucking gay as fuck." The episode ends with the Shopping Network being deluged with calls from the elderly now telling the host to kill himself, which he eventually does. Stan and Cartman find the origin of the Cash 4 Gold business in India. Both confront each other at a jewelry factory where the entire scheme is revealed. The factory makes the items, which are shipped to the Shopping Network, where the elderly buy them and give them as a gifts. The recipients sell them to a Cash 4 Gold store, which sends the gold back to India after it is smelted to start all over again. A worker in the factory gives Stan a ] as a gift. Stan uses this frame to put a picture of Grandpa and his dog and gives it to him as a gift. Marvin does not remember giving Stan the tie and now tells him it is "fucking gay as fuck." The episode ends with the Shopping Network being deluged with calls from the elderly now telling the host to kill himself, which he eventually does as the price of the jewerly falls to under three dollars.


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Television episode
"Cash for Gold (South Park)"

"Cash For Gold" is the second episode of the sixteenth season of the American animated television series South Park, and the 225th episode of the series overall. It originally premiered on Comedy Central in the United States on March 21, 2012 and is rated TV-MA L.

Cartman launches a gemstones network show and creates a very lucrative business. Stan searches for the real value of a piece of jewelry that was a gift from his Grandpa. Meanwhile, Cartman's lucrative new business preys upon an extremely vulnerable clientele.

Plot

The Marshes visit Grampa Marvin Marsh, who gives Stan a hideously tacky bejeweled Bolo Tie. Stan and his friends know it is ugly and decide to sell the Bolo Tie to a Cash 4 Gold store, in order to regain the 6,000 dollars that his grandfather spent on it. The clerks there tell him the necklace is worth next to nothing. He goes from store to store and even a Taco Bell, but with every store he visits the price drops even lower. Cartman invites the boys to his house, where he reveals a formula for making money out of gold, similar in intent to one of the main goals of alchemy. Stan overhears his Grandpa planning to buy an item on the Shopping Network, but intervenes by calling the network and furiously telling the host what he is doing is wrong and that he should kill himself. Around this time Grampa Marvin revealed he had a dog but due to Alzheimer's he cannot remember anything about her.

Stan and Cartman find the origin of the Cash 4 Gold business in India. Both confront each other at a jewelry factory where the entire scheme is revealed. The factory makes the items, which are shipped to the Shopping Network, where the elderly buy them and give them as a gifts. The recipients sell them to a Cash 4 Gold store, which sends the gold back to India after it is smelted to start all over again. A worker in the factory gives Stan a picture frame as a gift. Stan uses this frame to put a picture of Grandpa and his dog and gives it to him as a gift. Marvin does not remember giving Stan the tie and now tells him it is "fucking gay as fuck." The episode ends with the Shopping Network being deluged with calls from the elderly now telling the host to kill himself, which he eventually does as the price of the jewerly falls to under three dollars.

References

  1. "Episode 1602 'Cash For Gold' Press Release". South Park Studios. March 19, 2012

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