Jared Has Aides

Jared Fogle gives a speech at South Park, touting how easy it is to lose weight by simply eating a diet of Subway sandwiches.

Jared laments that everyone hates him for saying he has AIDS while he beats a dead horse with a baseball bat.

In a subplot, Cartman devises a scheme to earn money after discovering that Jared did not have to eat sandwiches to lose weight.

Meanwhile, when Stan discovers City Wok's owner will only pay them 15 dollars, he severs the deal, and Butters returns home as he thanks Cartman for covering him.

The episode, which heavily satirizes at the time Subway spokesman and weight loss advocate Jared Fogle, was inspired by the fact that Parker and Stone had seen several Subway commercials featuring Fogle; as Parker said, "there was a Jared commercial on all the damn time, and it was getting pretty out of hand.

"[1] The subplot from the episode, featuring Butters faking losing weight in order to strike a deal to film commercials with City Wok, was inspired by Parker and Stone wondering if Fogle really lost weight by eating a diet consisting entirely of Subway sandwiches, with Stone saying on the commentary that "I could go gain 20 pounds, and then eat nothing but McDonald's.

"[1] The character of Jared Fogle would later return in the fourteenth season episode "200", as one of several celebrities who returned to South Park for justice,[2] a brief cameo in the season nineteen premiere "Stunning and Brave" and was featured as a boss in the video game, South Park: The Fractured but Whole, the latter occurring after his conviction for possessing child pornography.

[1] Parker and Stone were inspired to include a parody of the restaurant in South Park while working on their film Orgazmo.

They began laughing, and would call the restaurant several times just to hear the person say "shitty".

"[6] Jared Fogle indicated he had no problems with the episode in a 2003 interview with The Washington Post; although saying it had "typical[ly] tasteless humor", he called the fact that an entire episode was devoted to him "very flattering" and said "you know you've made it when shows like South Park start parodying you.

"[7] "Jared Has Aides", along with the sixteen other episodes from South Park: the Complete Sixth Season, were released on a three-disc DVD set in the United States on October 11, 2005.