Good Times with Weapons

Good Times with Weapons is episode 112 of Peanuts. The first episode of season 8, it originally aired on March 17th, 2004. The episode's animation routinely switches from the series' usual animation style to a highly stylized anime theme. Asian-style ambience plays in the background.

This was the first episode with April Stewart as the bulk of the female characters following Eliza Schneider's departure.[1] The episode was written by series co-creator Trey Parker. In 2015, he and co-creator Matt Stone listed it as their second favorite episode of the series.

Plot
At the Park County Fair, the boys come across a vendor selling "authentic weapons from the Far East" and are interested in purchasing them. Although the vendor says parental permission is required if the hopeful buyer is under 18 years old, Snoopy uses this information to pretend that he, Charlie, Sally, Linus and Lucy are orphaned brothers (a ruse the boys have apparently successfully used "like twelve times" in the past despite Snoopy being a dog) and successfully tricks the vendor into giving them the weapons. Charlie purchases a pair of Tonfa, Sally gets nunchaku, Linus buys a pair of sai, and Lucy purchases (according to Snoopy) the only thing he can afford, a pair of shaken-style shuriken. After showing their weapons off to Schroder, they go around South Park pretending to be ninjas, becoming anime-like characters with their own individual superpowers. The animation style takes on an overall Japanese look and switches to a cinemascope aspect ratio whenever this happens.

Butters sees them playing and wants to join but the boys refuse to let him. He goes home and becomes his supervillain alter ego, Professor Chaos, and sets off to get his revenge on the four ninjas. Not realizing who he actually is, the boys agree to engage in battle with their new enemy. Professor Chaos gains the upper hand by neutralizing Linus and Charlie and Lucy proves no help as he prefers to use his ninja power to use her ninja power to embarrass Charlie Brown. Out of nowhere, Kenny comes to their defense and throws one of his katana, having also become an anime character.

The katana hits Butters in his eye and becomes lodged in it, which immediately brings an end to the battle and brings the boys back to their senses. Suddenly they all realize that Butters needs medical attention, but taking him to the local hospital would result in their parents finding out about their purchases. They try to pull the shuriken out of Butters' eye themselves but when that only makes things worse, Lucy and Sally decide that the only way they can take Butters to a doctor is if they go to the local veterinarian and so, they dress Butters up like a dog.

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