Editing Good Times with Weapons (section)

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{{Infobox television episode
| series         = [[South Park]]
| image          = Good Times with Weapons.jpg
| image_size     = 250
| caption        = The boys in their ninja personae
| season         = 8
| episode        = 1
| director       = [[Trey Parker]]
| writer         = Trey Parker
| production     = 801
| airdate        = {{Start date|2004|03|17}}
| guests         = 
| prev           = [[It's Christmas in Canada]]
| next           = [[Up the Down Steroid]]
| season_article = South Park season 8
| episode_list   = List of South Park episodes
}}

"'''Good Times with Weapons'''" is the first episode of the eighth season of the American [[animated series]] [[South Park]] and the 112th episode of the series. It originally aired on March 17, 2004. In the episode, the boys are transformed into Japanese warriors after they buy martial arts weapons at a local market. Their sworn enemy, Professor Chaos, confronts them and a highly stylized battle ensues. The episode's [[animation]] routinely switches from the usual [[cutout animation|cutout]]-and-solid-color style to a highly stylized [[anime]] theme.

This was the first episode with [[April Stewart]] as the bulk of the female characters following [[Eliza Schneider]]'s departure. The episode was written by series co-creator [[Trey Parker]]. In 2015, he and co-creator [[Matt Stone]] listed it as their second favorite episode of the series.<ref name="ew">{{cite magazine|title='South Park': Matt Stone and Trey Parker Name Their 15 Best Episodes (and 53 Worst)|url=https://ew.com/gallery/south-park-matt-stone-and-trey-parker-name-their-15-best-episodes-and-53-worst/|date=November 3, 2015|magazine=[[Entertainment Weekly]]|access-date=March 21, 2016|archive-date=November 26, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211126155229/https://ew.com/gallery/south-park-matt-stone-and-trey-parker-name-their-15-best-episodes-and-53-worst/|url-status=dead}}</ref> The episode was rated [[TV-MA L]] in the United States.