Fourth Grade (South Park)

"Fourth Grade" is the eleventh episode of the fourth season of the animated television series South Park, and the 59th episode of the series overall. It first aired on November 8, 2000. Written by Trey Parker, "Fourth Grade" focuses on the main characters' transition to the fourth grade, a change that would remain consistent in subsequent seasons.^[1] It is the episode in which the character Mr. Garrison, who had been homophobic in his rhetoric during the first few seasons, finally comes to terms with his own homosexuality.^[2][3]