page_title: Fishsticks (South Park)
section_title: Legacy
hierarchical_section_title: Fishsticks (South Park) / Legacy
caption_attribution_description: Graffiti deriding rapper Kanye West at Bonnaroo, referencing a popular South Park episode satirizing the artist. Image is cropped.
context_page_description: "Fishsticks" is the fifth episode of the thirteenth season of the American animated television series South Park. The 186th overall episode of the series, it was originally broadcast on Comedy Central in the United States on April 8, 2009. In the episode, Jimmy writes a joke that becomes a national sensation, and Cartman tries to steal the credit while rapper Kanye West is the only person in the country who fails to get the joke, but cannot admit that he does not get it because he believes himself to be a genius.
  The episode was written and directed by series co-creator Trey Parker, and was rated TV-MA L in the United States. The episode was conceived from a joke among Parker and fellow co-creator Matt Stone about a fish dressed as motorcycle daredevil Evel Knievel, which eventually turned into a joke about Kanye West not understanding a joke about why liking fishsticks made him a gay fish. The way Cartman tries to steal credit for the joke was inspired by real people Parker and Stone have worked with in the television business.
  Parker provided the voice of West in the episode and during the song "Gay Fish", a parody of West's song "Heartless".
context_section_description: On September 13, 2009 during the 2009 MTV Video Music Awards, Kanye West interrupted an acceptance speech from Taylor Swift by walking onto stage, grabbing the microphone and praising her fellow nominee, Beyoncé Knowles. The incident received considerable press attention and drew further attention to "Fishsticks", which Comedy Central re-broadcast for two straight hours on September 15, 2009.
  Following a controversial 2008 performance at music festival Bonnaroo, many concertgoers have since sprayed graffiti around the festival grounds, as well as making signs, deriding the rapper as a "gay fish."
caption: West's 2008 appearance at music festival Bonnaroo left many concertgoers angry; in the years afterward, attendees derided him as a "gay fish".[28]
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