Trapper Keeper (South Park)

When "Bill Cosby" is caught by Officer Barbrady and Cartman, he explains his actions: the Trapper Keeper binder is destined to gain sentience and hybridize into a supercomputer to conquer the world in the future, and wipe out all traces of humanity.

Flora is indecisive at first but eventually chooses Ike; Filmore's supporters demand recounts and then call in Rosie O'Donnell, his aunt, who protests the results.

After teams of lawyers get involved, filing masses of paperwork and holding protracted meetings, Filmore concedes the election because, according to him, "this game is stupid."

While this is happening, Stan, Kyle and Kenny accompany their robotic companion to Cartman's house to convince his mother to help them, but she goes off with Bill Cosby to have sex.

Kyle is freed and disconnects the Trapper Keeper's CPU, causing it to lose power and release Cartman and a now deceased O'Donnell as it collapses.

State results tallied on election night gave 246 electoral votes to Republican candidate George W. Bush and 255 to Democratic nominee Al Gore, with New Mexico (5), Oregon (7), and Florida (25) too close to call that evening.

Mathematically, Florida's 25 electoral votes became the key to an election win, while both New Mexico and Oregon were called in favor of Gore over the next few days.

After an intense recount process, Bush was officially declared the winner of Florida's electoral votes and, as a result, the entire presidential election.

"Trapper Keeper" was written by South Park co-creator Trey Parker when he, Matt Stone, and a group of friends visited Lake Powell.

[5][6] Anne Garefino, executive producer of South Park, said that when they applied the presidential election process to kindergarten, it "finally [made] sense".

[10][11] The Trapper Keeper's ability to take on the physical forms of the various things it has consumed is a reference to the eponymous entity in the 1958 version of the movie The Blob.

[7] She went on to say that Rosie O'Donnell appears in "Trapper Keeper" and plans to gather lawyers, media and her friends to "help settle the race the way she sees fit", while in Florida, O'Donnell, Harvey Weinstein, Gloria Steinem, Bianca Jagger, "and other celebrities signed a petition demanding a revote in Palm Beach County, ensuring the race would go to Gore".

[1] Alan Sepinwall and Matt Zoller Seitz of The Star-Ledger reviewed the episode as "terrific, especially the vote for kindergarten class president, and the recount-recount-recount bit".

"[12] DVD Movie Guide's Colin Jacobson characterized "Trapper Keeper" as "a clever riff" on Terminator and the controversy of the 2000 election.

"[13] IGN's David Galindo called the episode "great,"[14] and Fort Worth Star-Telegram's Lisa Davis named Mr. Garrison's line "You're all acting like a bunch of kids!"