Elementary Season 4
Season 4AiredNovember 5, 2015-May 8, 2016Premiere episode"The Past Is Parent"Finale episode"A Difference in Kind"No. of episodes24Season guidePreviousSeason 3NextSeason 5The fourth season of Elementary began airing on November 5, 2015.
Elementary Season 4
Collider: Was there always an intention to do a special episode for Harley Quinn in the break between seasons, or was that figured out later on? When did you guys decide, "Let's give the fans something while they're waiting for a little more"?
SCHUMACKER: It wasn't us actually asking to do it. We had kind of joked around early on about doing a Hanukkah special, because we felt like there aren't a lot of those, and that could be fun. Then years later they were like, "Well, Max is asking for something to tide people over between seasons." It just so happened that the timing of it was somewhere around February. We were like, "Well, if we're going to do a holiday special in February..."
HALPERN: Quinta is so good at this, because [Patrick] and I and Quinta sit before the seasons, and we talk about what she's seeing, what we're thinking, and then we go into the writer's room, and then we start seasoning. She and he and I sort of have the same philosophy, which is the character has to develop first, and then the relationship, and then you have to see where you've developed that character. Is that character in a place where they're ready to be in this relationship? Sometimes they're not, and that's fun, and then you get this relationship that's not really going to work, and it's messy. Sometimes we don't want this relationship to be messy and not work. We want it to ultimately get to a place where it could work. So then we need this character to really mature over the course of their time on screen.
In a slightly tepid return to The Brownstone, the case surrounding the opening episode of season four fails to really excite - but the chemistry between Holmes and Watson is as emotionally satisfying as ever.
Noble will join the CBS mystery drama's cast as a series regular. His character has been referenced in past seasons as being instrumental in Sherlock's first stint in rehab three years ago and in pairing the brilliant sleuth with Joan Watson, initially his sober companion, and now his investigative partner and friend.Advertisement
Cortes returned later in the season in "Down Where the Dead Delight", asking for Joan's help in finding an elusive suspect named Hector Mendoza. Joan is warned by Sherlock to be wary of Cortes' intentions, and his warnings turned out to have some merit, as Joan revealed that Hector Mendoza was savagely beaten by Cortes. The witness to the beating stated that a woman with dark hair committed the assault, leading Joan to suspect that Cortes was trying to frame her for the crime. Cortes denied the frame-up attempt, but did state that she truthfully did not know where Mendoza was, until she found him on her own and assaulted him. Cortes explained that Mendoza had beaten and pistol-whipped a young girl, leaving her brain-damaged. He was never brought to justice, so Cortes committed the beating; claiming she was giving him what he deserve.
South Park is an American animated television series created by Trey Parker and Matt Stone for the Comedy Central television network. The ongoing narrative revolves around four children, Stan Marsh, Eric Cartman, Kyle Broflovski, Kenny McCormick, and their bizarre adventures in and around the fictional and eponymous Colorado town.[1] The town is also home to an assortment of characters who make frequent appearances in the show such as students and their family members, elementary school staff, and recurring characters.[1]
Stone and Parker voice most of the male South Park characters.[2][7] Mary Kay Bergman voiced the majority of the female characters until her death in 1999, near the end of the third season.[8] Eliza Schneider and Mona Marshall succeeded Bergman in 1999, and respectively 2000, with Schneider leaving the show in 2003, after the seventh season.[8] She was replaced by April Stewart, who, along with Marshall, continues to voice most of the female characters.[8] Bergman was originally listed in the credits under the alias Shannen Cassidy to protect her reputation as the voice of several Disney characters.[16] Stewart was originally credited under the name Gracie Lazar,[17] while Schneider was sometimes credited under her rock opera performance pseudonym Blue Girl.[18]
Some South Park staff members voice other recurring characters; supervising producer Jennifer Howell voices student Bebe Stevens,[7] writing consultant Vernon Chatman voices an anthropomorphic towel named Towelie,[7] and production supervisor John Hansen voices Mr. Slave, the former gay lover of Mr. Garrison.[19] South Park producer and storyboard artist Adrien Beard, who voices Tolkien Black, the only African-American child in South Park, was recruited to voice the character "because he was the only black guy [in the] building" when Parker needed to quickly find someone to voice the character during the production of the season four (2000) episode "Cartman's Silly Hate Crime 2000".[20][21]
Eric Cartman first appeared in the 1992 short series The Spirit of Christmas and is voiced by Trey Parker.[7] Cartman has been portrayed as aggressive, prejudiced and emotionally unstable since his character's inception. These traits are significantly augmented in later seasons as his character evolves, and he begins to exhibit psychopathic and extremely manipulative behavior. He is depicted as highly intelligent, able to execute morally appalling plans and business ideas with success. His intelligence goes further, as Cartman is shown to be a multi-linguist, able to speak many different foreign languages fluently. Among the show's main child characters, Cartman is distinguished as "the fat kid",[2] for which he is continuously insulted and ridiculed.[24] Cartman is frequently portrayed as a villain whose actions set in motion the events serving as the main plot of an episode.[5] Other children and classmates are alienated by Cartman's insensitive, racist, homophobic, anti-semitic, misogynistic, lazy, self-righteous, and wildly insecure behavior.[25][26][27][28][29] He is also the most prejudiced character on the show. Cartman often makes anti-semitic insults towards Kyle,[2][30] constantly teases Kenny for being poor,[31] particularly manipulates and mistreats Butters Stotch and displays an extreme disdain for hippies.[32][33] As a result, Cartman usually gets the consequences for his actions due to a flaw in his schemes or other characters proving to be smarter than him. Despite his antagonistic tendencies, he has been portrayed as a protagonist or antihero on several occasions. Cartman has short straight neatly-parted brown hair, pale skin, (no visible eye color due to how the series is animated), and extremely-fat body with neck flab and a double chin. He wears a small teal hat with a small flat yellow puff-ball on top and a matching yellow band where the forehead part of the hat begins, a large bright-red coat, matching yellow gloves, brown khaki pants, and black shoes.
Randy is 45 years old, and like Parker's father, is a geologist, making his first appearance in the series while monitoring a seismometer in the episode "Volcano". He was depicted to work at the South Park Center for Seismic Activity, and was later shown to work for the U. S. Geological Survey. He was briefly fired from his geologist job near the end of the 12th season, and quit briefly during the end of the 14th season, but has since been-rehired both times. He also serves on the city council, specializing in the town's parks and public grounds. A recurring character trait of Randy's is his being prone to overreacting and obsessively seizing upon irrational ideas and fads, whether by himself or as part of a large contingent of the town's adult population. Though the show frequently depicts him to be a moderate to heavy drinker, numerous episodes have dealt with Randy's belligerent and negligent behavior brought upon by his severe intoxication.
The episode "Gluten Free Ebola" revealed that Randy produces music and performs as the noted musician Lorde, a fact that was explored subsequently in "The Cissy". This has become a running gag that has continued through multiple episodes, such as suggesting much of the Marsh family's income comes from his music career as Lorde rather than his geology job. As of season 22, Randy quit his job and moved the family to the countryside where he sets up Tegridy Farms to grow and distribute cannabis. For most of season 23, Randy was officially the protagonist of South Park as the show focused on his work at the Tegridy Farms instead of the town of South Park and its elementary school. Randy is also responsible for the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic after Mickey Mouse encouraged him to have sexual intercourse with a bat and a pangolin while he was sick during his trip in China ("Band in China").
For the first eight seasons of the series, the character was known as Mr. Garrison. He underwent a sex change in the season 9 premiere "Mr. Garrison's Fancy New Vagina". The character was thereafter known to the other characters as Janet Garrison or Mrs. Garrison, despite being unmarried. In the season 12 episode "Eek, a Penis!", he undergoes yet another sex change operation, returning to being a man.
Gerald and Sheila Broflovski are an upper-middle-class, Jewish married couple who raise their ten-year-old son Kyle and three-year-old Canadian son Ike. Gerald is a lawyer who also serves on South Park's council as the city attorney,[55] and his role in this profession has been put on display in episodes such as "Sexual Harassment Panda" and "Chef Goes Nanners" in which a trial or legal issue plays a large part in the plot.[56][57][58] He is a generally kind, amiable person, though at intervals he has been shown to assume a snobbish attitude that disaffects his friends and family. Examples include the episode "Chicken Pox" where it is revealed that he used to be close with Stuart McCormick when they were younger but that the two had a falling out due to economic differences or when he begins acting like an arrogant snob after buying a hybrid car in "Smug Alert!". In "Sexual Harassment Panda", Gerald repeatedly sued South Park Elementary (which was faultless in every case), and later every citizen of South Park, showing his shameless monetary greed and disregard for civil propriety. Gerald was once seen to have a repressed gambling problem,[59] and prior struggles with a fictional form of inhalant abuse known within the show as "cheesing".[56] Gerald is, in season 20 of the show, revealed to be an internet troll. His internet alias is 'Skankhunt42', and initially, everyone thinks that Eric Cartman is, in fact, Skankhunt42. When trolling, he makes provocative statements against women, and, most notably, creates images where he "puts a dick in [women's] mouths." He always drinks red wine and listens to music by Boston when trolling. His antics eventually place him in the news after trolling a Danish Olympian making him of the two main antagonists of the entirety of season twenty alongside Lennart Bedrager. 041b061a72