Reception
Serene Dominic of the Detroit Metro Times called the scene from the episode where Cartman leads members of the United States Congress in a sing-along of "Heat of the Moment" by Asia as one of his "Greatest Cartoon Moment". In an article for ESPN.com Tim Kavanagh discussed stem cells and how they were used in the episode, writing: "This, as with many other important topics of our day, I learned from "South Park," specifically Episode 513, entitled 'Kenny Dies.'" In a review of the South Park season 5 DVD release, Choire Sicha of The New York Times gave a "not-so-surprising surprise ending alert" that "Kenny finally really dies" at the end of the episode. Alessandra Stanley of The New York Times cited the episode when noting that the political commentary on South Park, like The Simpsons and Freak Show, was genuinely "provocative" satire, unlike the "safer...mainstream iconoclasm" of Saturday Night Live.
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