Free Hat (Paperback)

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles "Free Hat" is episode 88 of the animated series South Park. It originally aired on July 10, 2002. The episode openly ridicules Lucasfilm's digital altering of George Lucas' original Star Wars trilogy and Steven Spielberg's E.T. Kyle, Stan, Cartman, and Tweek, go to see a "re-re-re-release" of Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back. Before the movie, a trailer for the 20th Anniversary release to E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial is shown, which points out the various edits made to the movie. A trailer of the fictional "re-re-release" of Saving Private Ryan is then shown where similar edits have been made; the soldiers' guns have been digitally changed to walkie talkies, and the word "Nazi" has been changed to "persons with political differences." The four complain about how directors edit their movies to make them more family-friendly or politically correct. Finally, the movie they came to see appears, but not before a banner is displayed on the screen (and also read by an announcer) to note the word "Wookiee" has been changed to "hair challenged animal" and that the entire cast has been digitally replaced by Ewoks.