The first four episodes in this season have the year 2000 at the end of their episode titles. As explained in the FAQ section on the official website: "When the year 2000 was coming up, everyone and their brother had '2000' in the titles of their products and TV shows. America was obsessed with 2000, so Trey Parker put '2000' in the titles to make fun of the ubiquity of the phrase."[1][2]
This is the first season not to feature Mary Kay Bergman as a series regular, who provided many of the female voices on the show (Bergman died by suicide on November 11, 1999). It also marks the only whole season to be animated with their old software PowerAnimator before switching to Maya. Eliza Schneider and Mona Marshall replaced Mary Kay Bergman in season four after her death.[3][4]
Voice cast
Malcolm McDowell (pictured in 2015), made a guest appearance as the narrator in "Pip"
This is the first season to feature Eliza Schneider and Mona Marshall as series regulars, who would go on to provide many of the female voices on the show. They replaced Mary Kay Bergman, who died on November 11, 1999.
The boys plan to get rich off a scheme involving the tooth fairy, which attracts the attention of an unusual crime boss. Meanwhile, Kyle ponders his existence after his parents tell him the truth about the tooth fairy.
All the kids in South Park are mistakenly diagnosed with attention deficit disorder after the new, mentally disabled student Timmy is misdiagnosed himself. Meanwhile, Timmy joins Skyler's rock band, and Phil Collins plots to separate them.
Stan's family take in a grandmother and her quintuplet granddaughters from Romania who are on the run from the American and Romanian government. Meanwhile, Kenny practices opera singing and he eventually becomes famous in Eastern Europe.
Cartman's search for mature friends lands him as the poster child for NAMBLA. Meanwhile, Kenny tries to prevent his parents from planning to have a child.
Stan must get Cartman to donate one of his kidneys to save Kyle's life when everyone in town is addicted to new-age medicine run by an old woman and her "Native American" co-workers. Meanwhile, Mr. Garrison becomes a romance novelist after getting fired from teaching for his incompetence and his actions in the previous episode.
Cartman ropes Stan, Kyle, and Kenny into creating a boy band, Fingerbang, in the quest to get $10 million. Wendy joins in the band and poses as a boy. Meanwhile, Stan's father, Randy, tries to prevent Stan from joining, as his previous ventures in a boy band didn't end well.
The boys question whether the handicapped (Timmy) or Jews (Ike and Kyle) go to heaven, while Saddam Hussein returns to Hell, leading to an awkward reunion with Satan.
The boys enter fourth grade, and build a time machine to go back to the third grade. Meanwhile, the fourth grade teacher Ms. Choksondik seeks help in controlling the students from Mr. Garrison, who is now a hermit who won't come to terms with his homosexuality.
A man from the future wants Cartman's new Trapper Keeper. Meanwhile, Mr. Garrison's kindergarten class holds an election for class president with confusing results in the voting.
Timmy finds and befriends a live turkey for the Thanksgiving play named Gobbles, but his chances of being in the play are slim when a fancier turkey is brought in. Meanwhile, Butters keeps telling the other fourth graders about the technical superiority of the kindergartners' play, so they're forced to keep upping the stakes.
Kyle is upset when Mr. Hankey is too busy with his family to spread holiday cheer, so he and the other boys create a Christmas cartoon based on Parker and Stone's "The Spirit of Christmas."
