The Best 'South Park' Episodes Featuring The Goth Kids (2024)

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"That's the name my stupid parents gave me! I like to be called by my Goth name: NightPain." -Edgar Allen Poe

Henrietta's parents are worried about her, so they decide to send her to a camp for emo kids to straighten them out. When she returns, she's completely changed and ends upjoining the emo kids. The only way to get her back to normal is for the Goth kids and the Vamp kids to team up to take down the emo kids, and, obviously,the only way to do that is to summon the spirit of Edgar Allen Poe.

Once Edgar Allen Poe arrives, they discover he's more Goth than any of the Goth kids. They go to Troubled Acres to stop the spread of emo kids and learn that a ficus plant is being used to transform the kids. He later learns that Goth, Vamp, and Emo kids are really all the same, and Henrietta turns back to normal.

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"I walked into the cafeteria today. Rebecca Miller and Philip Russ were dressed like vampires drinking Clamato juice with four kids from the football team." -Michael

Butters is terrified there are vampires at the school. Afraidof being grounded again, he decides to join their group and become a vampire. Once he transforms, he becomes ungroundable.

Meanwhile, the Goth kids are madthat the vampire trend has come to their school becauseeveryone thinks they're vampires when they're clearly goths. The only way to defeat the vampire kids is to burn down the town's Hot Topic.

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Raisins

"If you want be one of the nonconformists, all you have to do is dress just like us and listen to the same music we do." -Michael

After Wendy breaks up with Stan, his friends take him to Raisins to cheer him up. As Stan struggles to come to terms with being dumped, he decides to become a non-conformist like the Goths. Meanwhile,Butters falls in love with one of the Raisins waitresses.

The first episode to feature the Goth kids, "Raisins" showcases the Goths in a major role.After the Raisins girl breaks up with Butters, he tells Stan that he has a beautiful kind of sadness because at least he knew true happiness. This convinces Stan that he shouldn't be a mopey Goth guy and tells them, "I liked liking life a lot more than hating it. Screw you guys. I'm going home."

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Mysterion Rises

Toolshed: Dude, why would the Goth kids worship Cthulhu?
Mysterion: Makes sense. Unrelenting despair and a thousand years of darkness sounds pretty goth.

Mysterion and his fellow superheroes must work together to defeat Cthulhu, who has risen from the Gulf of Mexico. However, as Coon has been scorned by his fellow heroes hedefects and joins Cthulhu's side so that he can defeat them once and for all.

When trying to find out why he can't die, Mysterion (Kenny) goes to a cult meeting where many familiar faces, including the Goth kids, are present. Later, Mysterion confronts them in an alley to try to decipher what the mysterious message means, "That is not dead can eternal lie, and with strange aeons even Death may die."

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"Dancing is something you do alone in your room at three in the morning." -Goth Kid

Stan and his friends get served by a dance crew. Randy Marsh tries to stick up for his son but gets served, too, forcing Stan to round up his dance crew, which consists of a Goth kid, a Raisins girl, a Dance Dance Revolution expert, and Butters. They get in a dance competition and Butters inadvertently kills the rival dance crew, meaning Stan's team won!

When Stan needs a dance crew, he turns to the Goth kids for help, who show him how they dance. They all refuse to join his true because they don't want to be conformists. However, Michael shows them all up by being so non-conformist that he'll actually join the crew.

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"That was killer. We showed them." -Tall Goth

Jimmy is ready to perform in the school talent show, but the day of the competition, he can't control a raging boner. Jimmy tries everything to make it go away, including getting a prostitute to help him. He's able to perform at the talent show that evening, but when he goes on stage, the erection appears again.

The Goth kids are one of the few acts we see perform in the talent show. They sing, "Talent Shows Are for F*gs." While they're definitely not a central part of the episode, their brief appearance is pretty hilarious.