The Guest Stars of
"Butt Out"

by Wild Willie Westwood



Butt Out!: Pam, Vernon, Kyle, and Randy

These four came to motivate the students of South Park to not smoke cigarettes, but their delivery is lame. When they suggest that the kids can grow up to be just like them, the boys think not and proceed to start smoking the next day, even though Stan and Kyle know better. Randy does the beat-box sounds and rap tongue-twisters, Pam ends their rap making the sounds of a diesel truck, Kyle spells out "Butt Out, Cigarette!", and Vernon does a few beat-box sounds of his own.


Rob Reiner and his Smoke Stoppers staff, Sawmill Worker (BUDS Man)

Rob Reiner is called upon to help ban smoking in Colorado. He focuses on the bars there. He has a ravenouse appetite, so hearing him lobby to ban cigarettes for better health rings false, since he no doubt has health problems from his weight. He, disguised as Rita Poon, and the boys go undercover at the Big Tobacco company, taking a tour so they can take a picture at the factory of the boys. Reiner then has his staff digitally insert cigarettes onto the boys' hands so they look like they're actually smoking on the factory floor. He then has Cartman make a commercial saying he's going to die soon from lung cancer due to smoking. The pale hunch-back offers Cartman a cupcake as reward for his work, but Cartman senses that the cupcake will do something bad to him, maybe even kill him, so he bolts out the door. He tells his friends about the danger he's in, and the boys have a decision to make. They choose to deal with the big showdown they often face on the show, but realize too late that they would have been grounded either way.
The man wearing the BUDS hat is smoking at the bar when Reiner notices him. He tries to get the man's attention, but fails at first. He goes to talk to the man about the effects of smoking. Cartman admires Reiner's willfulness.


Big Tobacco receptionist and Kevin Harris

The receptionist is the first person Reiner and the boys meet.when they go to Big Tobacco to take a tour. Kevin Harris, V.P. of Big Tobacco, arrives and takes them on a tour, which ends with a view of the activity on the factory floor. Reiner takes the picture he wants and rips off his costume, then he and the boys run out of there. The boys go back to the tobacco company for protection when Cartman reveals he's about to be sacrificed for Smoke Stoppers' cause. The boys come to realize that both sides of the smoking issue will lie in order to get their points across. Big Tobacco will lie about the health effects of cigarettes so they can get more customers, anti-smoking groups will demonize Big Tobacco to get customers to stop smoking.