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"'''South Park Is Gay!'''" is the eighth episode of the [[South Park (season 7)|seventh season]] and the 104th overall episode of the American animated sitcom ''[[South Park]]''. It originally aired on [[Comedy Central]] in the United States on October 22, 2003. In the episode, [[Kyle Broflovski|Kyle]] struggles to understand a new [[metrosexual]] fad that has sprung around the men and boys of South Park and is the only one who does not want to conform to it. The episode features a parody of the TV show, ''[[Queer Eye (2003 TV series)|Queer Eye for the Straight Guy]]''.
The episode was written and directed by series co-creator [[Trey Parker]]. In 2011, he and co-creator [[Matt Stone]] listed it as one of their least favorite episodes of the series.<ref name="ew"/> However, the
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Parker and Stone have since criticized the third-act twist of "crab people" and consider the episode one of their worst. Though they brainstormed for hours to improve the episode (after having deleted the initial subplot of Mr. Garrison leading the other gay people in South Park to "compete" with the metrosexuals), they were unable to come up with anything better than crab people. Executive producer Anne Garefino particularly criticized the idea, deeming it "stupid." Parker later noted that {{"'}}Crab people' became this thing [in the writers' room]. It's like, you just know there's something better, but you can't think of it, and now you've just got to go with crab people."<ref name="ew">{{cite magazine|title='South Park': Matt Stone and Trey Parker Name Their 15 Best Episodes (and 53 Worst)|url=http://www.ew.com/gallery/south-park-matt-stone-and-trey-parker-name-their-15-best-episodes-and-53-worst/502151_worst-51-south-park-gay|date=October 11, 2011|magazine=[[Entertainment Weekly]]|accessdate=March 21, 2016}}</ref>
In the DVD commentary, Stone called the Crab People "the worst idea we've ever had."<ref>{{Cite video |url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0705961/ |people=[[Trey Parker|Parker, Trey]] |date=November 2004 |title=South Park: The Complete Seventh Season: "South Park Is Gay!" |format=Audio commentary |medium= DVD|publisher=[[Paramount Pictures#Paramount Home Entertainment|Paramount Home Entertainment]]}}</ref> Despite Parker and Stone's distaste for the characters, however, the Crab People have actually become fairly popular villains with fans of the show.
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