"Something Wall-Mart This Way Comes" is the ninth episode of the eighth season of the American animated television series South Park, and the 120th episode of the series overall. It originally aired on Comedy Central in the United States on November 3, 2004. In the episode, a Wall-Mart is built in South Park, and the people start to get addicted to shopping from it, due to its irresistibly attractive bargains, thus leading many businesses in South Park to close down. The four boys have to fight against Wall-Mart and to find a way to stop it from taking over the entire town. The plot of this episode is a direct parody of the 1983 Disney movie Something Wicked This Way Comes based on the 1962 novel by Ray Bradbury. Plot The episode begins with Cartman betting Kyle five dollars that when people die they "crap their pants", which Kyle rebuffs. Meanwhile, a Wall-Mart opens in South Park to much fanfare, and everyone in town starts shopping there. The popularity of Wall-Mart forces the local businesses to shut down, including Jim's Drugs. Local residents soon begin working at Wall-Mart for minimum wage and an extra 10% employee discount. South Park turns into a ghost town, and the townspeople decide they no longer want to live with the Wall-Mart in their community. However they quickly fail to resist, starting to miss the bargains, so they (as a mob) ask the Wall-Mart manager to have the location closed down. Terrified, he asks them to meet him outside in five minutes. As the people stop outside his office, the manager is thrown through the window in an apparent suicide by hanging, and then voids his bowels. Cartman joyfully tells Kyle that he owes him $5. The townspeople burn the building down, only to later see it being rebuilt. A worker tells Kenny, Kyle, and Stan that Wall-Mart's headquarters in Bentonville, Arkansas ordered the rebuilding. Stan and his friends arrange a bus trip to Bentonville to stop the company, but are joined by Cartman, who the Wall-Mart subliminally ordered to stop them. Though none of the boys trust him (and Kyle knows firsthand that Cartman is secretly against them), they are in a hurry to leave. They reach Bentonville, despite Cartman's attempts at sabotage, and talk to Harvey Brown, the president of Wall-Mart, who is ashamed of the damage caused by the company. The boys