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3. They Played Fishsticks On Loop After The MTV Video Music Awards
The hilarious episode Fishsticks mocks Kanye West and his total inability to laugh at himself. In it, Kanye is the only person in the country to fail to understand a joke, but he can't admit that he just doesn't get it since he's such a self-proclaimed genius. A day after the episode aired, he wrote on his blog that it hurt his feelings.
"South Park murdered me last night and it's pretty damn funny," he wrote. "It hurts my feelings but what can you expect from South Park!"
So when Kanye West hurt someone else's feelings at the 2009 MTV Video Music Awards by famously interrupting Taylor Swift's acceptance speech, further attention was drawn to the brilliance of this episode, and Comedy Central knew exactly what they had to do. Two days after the MTV incident, the network ran the Fishsticks episode on repeat for two straight hours as a very deliberate middle finger to Kanye.