South Park: Snow Day!breathes new life into the ongoing series of South Park video games, mainly with its clever and more relevant original story and refreshing style of gameplay. The plot is a lot more contained and makes you feel as though you’re a part of one big episode, but there are still lots of interesting turns that result in a hilariously unexpected and twist-filled ending.

Snow Day! sees the entire town of South Parkhit by a mysterious apocalyptic blizzardthat has put a pause on all normal operations and sent the kids back into action. Figuring out what’s behind the storm and what it means for South Park is New Kid’s most important objective yet. So here’s how it all goes down, explained.

Spoilers ahead for the events that lead up to the shocking and ‘poopy’ finale of South Park: Snow Day!

Also, crude adult humor and themes relating to poop.

What Happened Between Cartman And Mr. Hankey, Explained

The entire plot of Snow Day! rests on Cartman taking advantage of the terrible blizzard that struck South Parkto not go to school. It gives an opportunity for the boys and New Kid to resort to their roleplaying game, pitted against one another until a shocking revelation occurs.

After defeating Stan the Marshwalker,who was originally believed to be the one responsible for summoning the deadly blizzard in South Park, he turned out to be innocent. That’s what prompts Kyle to piece together that it was none other than Mr. Hankey, the Christmas Poo.

Why? Because that deceitfully charming little Christmas turdMr. Hankey ended up falling victim to cancel culture. As Kyle explains, he put out Twitter posts alarming enough to trigger Congressional hearings and have the whole of South Park unite against him.

Mr. Hankey was forced to leave town and has beenplotting his revenge on South Park ever since, turning back up again with his Dark Matter that falls right into place with his nefarious new scheme for the town.

Once this has all sunk in at the War Table, Cartman realizes that if the blizzard was over, and they stopped Mr. Hankey, he would have to go back to school. But he doesn’t want to go back to school,so, surprise, surprise, Cartman betrays New Kid and the group!

With the promise of an eternal school closure, Cartman helps Mr. Hankey with his planto bring all of South Park under his control with the Dark Matterand gets granted more advanced Dark Matter abilities for himself in return.

This new pact with Hankey and the powers it came with allowed Cartmanto conjure the giant demonic snowman version of himself named Bulrog(his persona from the Naruto spoof episode), which served as a punishing obstacle during the boss fight.

After you defeat Cartman,he becomes your ally again and the betrayals are seemingly over, joining forces with New Kid to confront the evil Mr. Hankey.

The Final Battle, Explained

The final section of the game takes you to Hell’s Pass Hospital, where Mr. Hankey throws all sorts of Dark Matter-controlled minionsand enemy types your way, as you ascend the various levels of the snowed-in building.

Eventually, you reach the final stage to find Mr. Hankey just lying there in an ice cave withan array of Dark Matter vines flowing into him. Cartman knows exactly what Hankey has planned next and warns New Kid not to hit him, despite the other boys' encouragement.

For once, Cartman was right and told the group so! Mr. Hankey’s plan all along was topump New Kid full of Dark Matterand use them as a vesselto then steal it all back at this very moment to be able to transform into the final boss form of Scheisse-Hulud!

The Dark Matter has turned Father Maxi and everyone else under its control into worshipers ofMr. Hankey, who’s now become a gigantic poop wormthat parodiesthe Fremen name for sandworms in Dune, Shai-Hulud, and in the design as well.

‘Scheisse’ is German for ‘sh*t’ and sounds perfectly close to Shai, hence why the creators went withScheisse-Hulud for the naming of the giant sandworm form of Hankey.

Given that South Park: The Stick of Truth centered around Nazi zombies, it’s also not surprising that a German phrase appears here in such a way.

Scheisse-Hulud spits out giant turd balls, has a Dark Matter laser beam, and even sends out small little minions called pooplets that attack you and steal the packs of toilet paper you need to arm the cannons with if you want to take it down.

After that last toilet paper is shot at Scheisse-Hulud and the creature is sent plopping down like the wormy pile of sh*t that it is,New Kid has saved South Park and can proceed to the final cutscene in the game.

The Ending Scene, Explained

The boys did it! The new weather report confirms thatSouth Park is returning back to normal, even the demand for toilet paper is now once again back to only being needed “for wiping your butt.”

Cartman, Kyle, Stan, and Kenny are now all waiting at the bus stop since school is finally back in session, when all of a sudden,Jesus comes down from the skyto tell the boys how disappointed he is that they didn’t do more to help Mr. Hankey when he was getting canceled.

The reason for Jesus' visit has to do with Cartmanjust explaining how he prayed to God the night before to not f*ck him in canceling school and that he’s forced to go back now only because he’s used to getting screwed over by a higher power.

Jesus tells the boys that Mr. Hankey shouldn’t be so viciously punished for his mistakes because they can happen to everyone and thata far graver mistake he considers “truly wrong” is not forgiving others.

This statement makes them see everything in a whole new light and changes their perspective, so theygo to talk to Mr. Hankey in an attempt to reach himand tell him they’re sorry in a hilarious back-and-forth conversation through a toilet bowl.

After some convincing, Mr. Hankey, the Christmas Poo believes that the boys are on his side and still love him, as that’s what really matters to him.They then have one final request for Mr. Hankey– if he could use his magic to start another snow day in South Park to delay school for a little longer.

Hankey happily grants their wish, andan immediate snowstorm arrives in South Park againto catch people off guard after just experiencing a brief moment of recovery. This time, however, it’s a proper enjoyable snow day with no ill will behind it!