In the episode, Al Gore visits South Park to warn everyone about a creature called ManBearPig, an allegory for global warming.
[2] Al Gore (voiced by Trey Parker) visits South Park Elementary and warns the school's students about an imaginary monster named ManBearPig which roams the Earth attacking humans.
As a rescue team assembles outside the cave to find the boys, Gore diverts the flow of a nearby stream in order to cause a flood which fills the cavern in an attempt to kill the still-unseen monster.
[3] "ManBearPig", along with the thirteen other episodes from South Park's tenth season, was released on a three-disc DVD set in the United States on August 21, 2007.
The episode is notorious as an allegory for climate change denial because the South Park creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone were initially unconvinced about Gore's film An Inconvenient Truth.
[5] "ManBearPig" is used as a nickname for Pantolambda bathmodon by some researchers, because it had "five-fingered hands, a bearlike face and the stocky build of a pig".