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"More Crap" is the ninth episode of the eleventh season of the animated television series South Park, and the 162nd episode of the series overall. It was originally broadcast on Comedy Central in the United States on October 10, 2007. In the episode, Randy Marsh produces what is apparently "the biggest crap" ever taken, but his claims for the world record are challenged.

"More Crap" is highly scatological in tone, with its plot and humor revolving around feces as a topic. It is one of the few episodes of South Park in which neither Cartman, Kyle, nor Kenny appear. The episode satirizes U2 vocalist Bono, who is portrayed as strongly arrogant and competitive due to harboring an embarrassing secret. The plot of "More Crap" satirizes the competitive nature of aiming to achieve a record in a peculiar category, and parodies elements of the 2007 documentary The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters.

The episode aired shortly after South Park received an Emmy Award that year for the episode "Make Love, Not Warcraft". A running gag in "More Crap" makes reference to the series's Emmy-wins, during especially scatological scenes.

Randy Marsh is severely constipated and has been unable to defecate for over three weeks, which he attributes to excessive consumption of P. F. Chang's. After taking a prescription laxative by his doctor, he undergoes an extremely painful bowel movement and produces an abnormally large, football-shaped chunk of feces. He is impressed with its size, although his wife Sharon and daughter Shelley are disgusted and annoyed when he insists on showing them, as well as keeping it in the basement. Certain that he has broken a record of some sort, Randy contacts the Zürich-based European Fecal Standards and Measurements office. Representatives from the institute conclude that Randy has achieved the world record, weighing the feces in at 8.6 "couric"s (one couric is approximately equal to 2.5 pounds or 1.1 kilograms). As Randy is the first American to ever achieve the record, the American government holds a ceremony in his honor. However, it is interrupted by a video of Bono, the previous record holder, claiming that he has produced feces weighing 9.5 courics. His claim is accepted, despite his only evidence being an unverified photograph.

Randy becomes despondent over the loss of his record, before his friends convince him to train to reclaim the position. After three weeks of eating, an ultrasound reveals his feces to have reached up to 14 courics in weight. Bono successfully demands that Randy be required to defecate at the headquarters in Zürich. In response, Randy's son Stan visits Bono's mansion and tries to appeal to him, noting Bono's overt success in comparison to Randy's failures. However, an indignant Bono refuses to be "number two" at anything. Bono's butler reveals to Stan that Randy may die if he defecates. As they head towards Zürich, the butler explains that no one has ever survived defecating in such large amounts. He further explains to Stan that Bono set his record in 1960, the year of his birth; Stan realizes that Bono is not the record holder, but the record itself.

Everyone is gathered in Zürich waiting for Randy to defecate. Stan rushes in and reveals the truth about Bono, which the institute's leader, Sir Orloff Broloff, confirms; he reveals that he defecated Bono in 1960, and his pride was such that he raised him as his child ever since. Over time, Bono grew strongly indignant at being "number two", and strove to be number one in many fields; Stan realizes that this is why Bono can help many people through his humanitarian work and yet still "seem like a piece of shit." Broloff further reveals that Bono has grown to over 80 courics in weight and is almost six feet tall, a record that remains unmatched. At that moment, Randy finally expels a pillar of feces that lifts him off the toilet seat and is estimated to weigh more than 100 courics. Randy is thus proclaimed the new record holder, and an institute member lifts a recurring Emmy image off the screen and presents it to Randy by lodging it in his feces.

Parts of the plot of "More Crap" derive from the 2007 documentary The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters. The documentary follows Steve Wiebe as he tries to claim the world high score for the arcade game Donkey Kong from reigning champion Billy Mitchell. In the documentary, Wiebe beats the record but is suspected of using a machine that has been tampered with. To prove his gaming skills, Wiebe performs the high score in front of a live audience, before Mitchell sends in a low-quality VHS tape depicting himself achieving a higher score. Bono's personality in the episode is similar to the depiction of Mitchell in the documentary, including how he is allowed to play by different rules than other competitors. South Park creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone spoke highly of the documentary, calling it a "really well-done movie".

South Park has a history of using toilet humor since its debut, such as the recurring character Mr. Hankey, a sentient piece of feces. While the series gained reputation for its use of political humor as it progressed, scatological humor still remained a staple in its later seasons. "More Crap" was named as "perhaps [South Park's] most poo-centric episode of all time". In the episode, women - such as Randy's wife Sharon - are portrayed as not understanding the pride men can feel for the size of their feces. This has been viewed as Parker and Stone's awareness to toilet humor being more appealing to men. This divide in the appreciation of toilet humor was further satirized in the thirteenth season episode "Eat, Pray, Queef". Randy's love for his growing excrement is portrayed at one point in an analogy of a mother's love for her unborn child. In the scene, Randy's clinician shows him his "unborn" feces via medical ultrasonography, and warns him against traveling by airplane, as he is in his "turd trimester" - a pun on the third period of pregnancy.

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