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Chef Jerome McElroy, often referred to as just "Chef", is a fictional character on the Comedy Central series South Park who was voiced by Isaac Hayes.A cafeteria worker at the local elementary school in the town of South Park, Colorado, Chef is generally portrayed as more intelligent than the other adult residents of the town, and understanding to the children.
"Chef Goes Nanners" is the seventh episode of the fourth season of the animated television series South Park, and the 55th episode of the series overall. It is eighth in production order. "Chef Goes Nanners" originally aired in the United States on Comedy Central on July 5, 2000.
A soundtrack album, titled Chef Aid: The South Park Album, was released in 1998, during the broadcast run of the second season. It comprises songs featured in and related to the series, including "Chocolate Salty Balls", performed by Isaac Hayes as Chef, from this episode. [2] [3] [4]
"Chocolate Salty Balls (P.S. I Love You)" reached No. 1 on the UK Singles Chart. [6] The song was a contender for the Christmas No. 1 single in the UK but debuted at No. 2, behind the Spice Girls' "Goodbye", missing out on the top spot by 8,000 copies and garnering the most weekly sales for a song at No. 2 since Wham!'s "Last Christmas" in 1984. [7]
At South Park Elementary, Randy is discovered to have taken over as cafeteria chef (embracing his predecessor's mannerisms), having quit his job to do so. Ignoring the planned school lunch menus, Randy cooks a variety of extremely gourmet food dishes clearly both too complex for, and not to the liking of, the students.
It beat the second highest-ranked cable show, Bravo's Top Chef, by about 600,000 households. [12] The episode received generally mixed reviews. If Magazine writer Carl Cortez, who was critical of the second half of season thirteen, ranked "Pee" as one of the best episodes of the season, and said it included several "classic South Park moments
In 2001, Terry Gilliam selected it as one of the ten best animated films of all time. [78] In 2006, South Park finished fifth on the United Kingdom Channel 4's "50 Greatest Comedy Films" vote. [79] Readers of Empire, in a 2006 poll, voted it No. 166 in the greatest films of all time.
"The Return of Chef", along with the thirteen other episodes from South Park ' s tenth season, was released on a three-disc DVD set in the United States on August 21, 2007. The set includes brief audio commentaries by series co-creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone for each episode.