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For the website, see Cash4Gold

"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. The airdate on Comedy Central is scheduled to be on March 21, 2012.

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 bejeweled Bolo Tie. Stan decides 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. He goes from store to store and even a Taco Bell, but with every store he visits the price drops. Cartman invites the crew to his house where he reveals a formula for making money out of gold (similar to one of the main goals of Alchemy which Cartman references). While watching the Shopping Network, Stan hears his Grandpa about to buy something else but this time Stan intervenes. He calls the network and telling the host to kill himself. Around this time Grampa Marvin revealed he had a dog but due to Alzheimer's he can't remember anything about her.

As the episode proceeds, 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, the items are shipped to the shopping network where the elderly buy it and give it as a gift, the person who receives the gift sells it to a Cash 4 Gold store, who sends it to the smelters, who ship the gold to India where the process starts 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. The episode ends with the shopping network getting spammed with calls from the elderly now telling the host to kill himself, which he eventually does.

References

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

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