Best Six South Park Clips From Season 8, Part Four: “State Tap Champion”

Butters is the main star in our fourth entry for best six clips from season eight. This easily convinced poor chap is seemingly always getting the raw end of the stick. When a rowdy dance troupe from out of town serves his best friends and forces them into a dance competition, they seek out Butters’ tap dancing skills for the winning edge. But, Butters has a grave secret: he accidentally killed half a dozen people at a state tap dancing championship years ago, and still has not recovered from it mentally.

Randy Gets Served
After hearing that his son was served by an out-of-town dance troupe with some serious skills, Randy decides to take matters into his own hands. Little does he know that the dance troupe has a teacher who decides to serve Randy with a toppling serve that lands him in the hospital. While Randy is recovering, he implores his son Stan to put together a dance troupe like South Park has never seen before, and really ‘Bring It’ to those haughty kids who served them.

You Got F'd in the A Bashes All Dance Movies
One can speculate all that they want when trying to figure out where and how, and when, the makers of South Park find the fodder for their next episode. However, if you just turn to popular culture, trendy movies that suck, religions in the news, and celebrity meltdowns, you will quickly realize that these are indeed the primary targets of the show. As was seen in this episode, where they make fun of a variety of cheesy dance movies, where somehow everybody in the movie is a professional street dancer, and they go around randomly challenging others to pro dance bouts.

Best Fourth Clip from Season 8: “State Tap Champion”
Our pick for the fourth best clip from this season depicts one depressed and nostalgic Butters who recalls a state tap champion fiasco, after being asked if he wants to join Stan’s dance troupe. After locking himself in his room for days upon end, Butters finally confronts his fears and remembers what happened that fateful day that his tap dance shoe slipped off and caused lighting trusses to kill half a dozen audience members. The clip is imbedded below. Watch one of only two instances in the show’s history where Butters murders innocent people unintentionally.