South Park's Tolkien Gaslighting

The lengths South Park has gone to commit to the Tolkien bit is incredible

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[Hamantha]

This isn’t just regular gaslighting, this is… advanced gaslighting

[Renegadetotheth]

You can change the subtitles. But you can’t change the stick of truth.

[crimsond]

The part afterwards "Stan: no, no, no I remember Cartman wearing a shirt that clearly said T-O-K-E-N! Kyle: Yeah because Cartmans a fucking moron." Gets me everytime

[daegandg]

I love how because Stan still says Token, you know it wasn’t just a search and replace, but they went through all the subtitles themselves and changed it manually

[ThaiTie]

I had a roommate for a year who I swear was named Maxwell. I saw a piece of mail about 8 months into the lease that showed his name as "Axel". My buddy also thought the same, because the three of us were hanging out for quite a few months before the revelation. Our jaws hit the floor when he told us lmao.

[theprophet]

I swear to god this episode drove me nuts. Token’s name has gotta be one of the biggest mindfucks of all time. They can retcon their show but they can’t retcon my memories!

[artydomi]

Next they'll have an episode where they reveal Cartman isn't fat...just big boned.

[BertKreisinger]

They need to release a patch for the stick of truth and the fractured but whole, because the subtitles refer to him as token, this is the best gaslight ever

[UnkleRuckusNoRelation]

Fifty years from now people will have this as the mandela effect

[HammerSpam]

Headcanon: Tolkien doesn’t mind being called Token, Tolkien actually says that he does not like Lord of the Rings referring to it as “fantasy dragon shit” and even spells his own name as Token in one episode, implying he’s not terribly fond of his name

[yeastofthoughtsmind]

Nah, the funniest part isn't the lengths they went to gaslight people. It's the amount of newer south park watchers that fully bought into it and believed they'd made the same mistake as stan.

[charleshalcomb]

Gaslighting your entire audience is a very South Park thing to do

[MrCharles]

Jokes on Trey Parker and Matt Stone this time, those of us with the DVD episodes know the truth lol

[Valstein]

"Your name always was Tolkien" - Rhett Caan

[sierrajohnson]

Revealing that Stan is the TRUE MC of South Park. Everything was from his pov, including the name adjustment

[ItCameFromTheSkyBeLo]

I thought they just changed it across the board. Making Stan be the only one who called him Token in the CC in the old episodes is EVEN FUCKING BETTER

[tahraethestoryteller]

We need to have an episode where the town cancels the doctor for gaslighting everyone

[jettcameron]

They still left it as Token on the “Tokens Life Matters” shirt Cartman wore

[SundayNightFringe]

Season 10 episode 5. Tsst. At 18 minutes Cartman has a plan to kill his mom, at the bottom of the plan it reads, "Frame Token".

[LolaTheSlayingPuppy]

Another fun fact: in the fractured but whole Tolkien’s name is still set as “Token”