Medicinal Fried Chicken

It is the third episode of the 14th season of the American animated television series south park. It aired on march 31, 2010. In the episode, the South park KFC is replaced by a medical marijuana dispensary, and cartman gets involved in black market selling the KFC chicken. Meanwhile, Randy Marsh gets a medical referral for marijuana by giving himself testicular cancer, which makes his testicles grow grotesquely huge. The episode was written and directed by series cocreator Trey Parker. It was first broadcasted when Colorado was considering revising state medicinal marijuana laws and restricting fast food eateries. The episode provided social commentary against both types of laws, and suggested legislating lifestyle choices is ineffective and inevitably leads to black markets. The cartman drug market subplot was heavily influenced by the 1983 crime film scareface, with Cartman resembling fictional drug lord Tony Montana and KFC founder Colonel Sanders as antagonist Alejandro Sosa. The episode also included several jokes about Pope Benedict and the child sexual abuse scandals that had been surrounding the Catholic church at the time. The concept of a former KFC resaurant becoming a medicinal marjuana store mirrors that of a real life dispensary.