Tegridy Farms (Location)
- "Tegridy" redirects here.
- For other uses, see Tegridy Farms (Disambiguation).
Tegridy Farms was a marijuana farm that served as both the Marsh family's residence and family business from Season Twenty-Two to Season Twenty-Seven. It is located outside the town of South Park itself and surrounded by other farms, and the only permanent crop is hemp, which is used to product a wide variety of products such as milk, hats, tape, and more, as well as producing and selling several varieties of marijuana.
The farm was first introduced in the eponymous episode, "Tegridy Farms", where Randy moves the family here to start a new life after becoming dissatisfied with the deterioration of the town's values, and is initially depicted as a successful, thriving business until later episodes begin showing signs of financial issues. The farm is later sold at the end of "Sickofancy", marking the end of Randy's new business.
Background
When the family first moves in, the farm is depicted as a relatively small family business, making products for themselves more than for profit, and it is one of many neighboring hermp farms, including "Golden Marey Kush Farm", "John & Judy Cannabis Acres" and "High Valley Marijuana Farms", some of which begin to sell out to large vape companies, a compromise Randy refuses to make. The farm is around an hour from town according to Stan Marsh when he complains to his friends it now takes him that long to reach school. He and Sharon are also shown working on helping create the hemp products and working on the farm, and along with Shelley wearing hemp clothing. Randy also convinces Towelie who first arrives as a weed inspector to join the business and he becomes a resident of the farm.
The farm's distance from town is a plot point when the farm next appears in "The Scoots", where Stephen and Linda Stotch try to hide out there to get away from the trick-or-treaters.
The farm makes another appearance in "Time To Get Cereal", where Jimbo Kern and his old buddy Ned Gerblanski wander over to the farm while hunting and in front of the family encounter ManBearPig who attacks and takes away Ned Gerblanski, leaving the family shocked. In "Nobody Got Cereal?" Stan tries to takes shelter at Tegridy Farms after breaking out of jail with his friends, only to find Randy playing video games. He finds out from Randy that his grandpa, Marvin Marsh, has something to do with ManBearPig killing people.
The farm also appears in "Unfulfilled" during the "Unfulfilled" montage and in the season finale "Bike Parade", where Randy manages to expand his weed business. He gains a lot of customers due to the Amazon workers' strike and provides home delivery with the help of Towelie and E-Scooters.
In the first six episodes of the Season Twenty-Three, the normal opening theme is replaced with a whole new Tegridy Farms intro, sung by Randy. The clips from the intro contain several scenes taking place on Tegridy Farms from previous episodes as well as new scenes. The closing theme retains the same, but it features Randy Marsh scatting "Tegridy Farms" over the song.
In "Mexican Joker", Tegridy Farms is shown to have grown from a local family farm and significantly expanded as a lucrative business, occupying the entire surrounding 420 Valley, as well as becoming a local tourist attraction. The farm now includes:
- Visitor Centre
- Tegridy Tour - Tours around the farms
- Science Center - A science lab for weed
- Testing Room - A place for testing products
- Gift Shop
When finding out that townspeople like Mr. Mackey, Stephen Stotch and Jimbo are now growing their own weed at home instead of ordering from him, Randy becomes insecure about losing his successful business and feels threatened, and his partnership with Towelie ends. He ends up committing a number of terrorist attacks and bombings throughout town to damage at-home weed growing, forcing the townspeople to rely on his business.
In "Band in China", Randy becomes interested in expanding business further and driving up profit by bringing Tegridy Weed to China. When he arrives in the country with product to sell, the inspectors at customs check his bag and discover the marijuana. Randy, unaware that marijuana remains illegal in China, ends up in a prison where he meets Winnie the Pooh. At the tribunal, Randy tries to make a deal with the Chinese government, but to successfully close it, he is forced to kill Winnie the Pooh, which he does, returning home and proud of himself for growing his business.
In "Shots!!!", it is revealed that Randy has now made $300,000 dollars by selling weed after closing the deal with the Chinese. He celebrates this achievement by making a parade on South Park's Main Street and by selling new Tegridy T-shirts. After Randy shows the family his new advertisements for Tegridy Farms, Sharon tells Randy that the only reason the Chinese are buying his weed is to plant it on their student protesters so that they can put them in jail. In the end, Randy meets with Towelie up on the town's hill to apologize for being a bad person. To forgive him, Towelie forces him to say "Fuck the Chinese Government" and he does, bringing the two back together.
Since the family is no longer selling weed to the Chinese in "Let Them Eat Goo", Towelie suggests using the mulch that goes to waste to earn profits. After Randy goes to Burger King and tries a plant-based burger, he decides to make his own using the leftover mulch. He opens a new restaurant in town called Tegridy Burger, which has an enormous success until the people find out that he and Towelie killed two hundred cows.
In "Tegridy Farms Halloween Special", Towelie shows Randy the Halloween Special marijuana blend he made, but Shelley appears with a potion she cooked and destroys the Halloween Special. It turns out that Shelley's potion made the Halloween Special better and more powerful. Randy throws a Halloween party at his house, in which he and Towelie get so high that they experience hallucinations of plant zombies, monsters, zombie cows, and a dead Winnie the Pooh coming after them and desiring violent revenge for their actions in the previous episodes.
In "Season Finale", the Tweaks come with incriminatory footage of Randy blowing up people's yards for growing their own weed weeks earlier at the City Hall and Mayor McDaniels accuses him of killing thousands of cows and poisoning everyone with his Halloween Special, as well as many other things. Randy ends up in the Park County Jail because of this and his whole family celebrates his imprisonment by throwing a party at the farm. Randy manages to get his charges dropped after the town sees the real "Mexican Joker" who he has blamed for his actions, and returns to Tegridy Farms where he tells his family that the growing season is over because of the upcoming winter.
In "Christmas Snow", the town outlaws alcohol during the holidays and the adults lose their holiday spirit, so Mayor McDaniels arrives at the farm and tries to persuade Randy to come up with a solution. When he explains that marijuana is out of season, he instead creates a cocaine strain named "Christmas Special" and leads a movement to legalize cocaine nationwide as previously done with marijuana.
In "The Pandemic Special", Randy begins selling a new marijuana strain inspired by the COVID-19 pandemic, named "The Pandemic Special". He soon discovers that he is responsible for the COVID-19 pandemic due to his actions while in China, and that the Pandemic Special contains a cure for the virus, testing it on Jimbo while he is ailing in the hospital, leading to him beginning to recover and Jimbo staying temporarily with the Marshes while he overcomes the virus. Randy is forced to create more special with his semen, which helps alleviate the symptoms but also leads to everyone who uses the special having Randy's mustache. At the end of the episode, Tegridy Farms was closed due to fires caused by riots occurring throughout South Park, and with it happening, he continues to make more specials.
In the timeline seen in South Park: Post Covid, it is shown that Sharon eventually demands a divorce after the family become fed up with the farm and Randy's behavior in general, leading to a dispute where Randy refused to cede half of the farm to her. In his anger over the disagreement and completely fed up by his father's selfishness, Stan decided to burn the farm down but accidentally incinerated his own sister because Randy locked her in the barn as punishment for not helping with the chores. Sharon was unable to handle her death and shot herself. This eventually causes Stan and Randy's relationship to become estranged and the farm has remained abandoned ever since. Forty years later in the future timeline, Stan and Randy came back to the farm for Randy to search for the last Tegridy seed to grow hemp that can cure the new variant of Covid but discovers the Chinese got it first and stole it. Stan left his father behind and Randy pities himself in the middle of the field until he spots the last Tegridy plant and vows to protect it as all cost. Randy is shown to still regard the farm as the peak of his life, valuing it over his family even in old age, and blaming Stan for ending his dream.
In South Park: Post Covid: The Return of Covid when the boys travel back to the past, Stan leaves the final marijuana bud from the future as a gift to Randy, leaving a note telling him he loves him. Randy mass produces the plant, apologizes and makes up with his wife, then they work together to distribute the "Post Covid" special for free throughout the town, leading people to make up and forgive each other, distributing it similar to a vaccination, and ultimately averting the release of the film Space Jam 2.
By Season Twenty-Five, Tegridy Farms faces competition again, now from Credigree Weed, formed by Steve Black. Randy initially partners with Steve in an effort to diversify his workforce at the farm for marketing purposes, but partnership soon falls apart when Randy does not allow Steve to innovate and make any business decisions for Tegridy Farms and Steve realizes he is only being used. Steve decides to leave and start his own weed business, purchasing a plot of land right opposite of the Tegridy Farms and moving his family over. This angers Randy who accuses Steve for being a "phony", setting a rivalry between the two businesses.
"Credigree Weed St. Patrick's Day Special" sees the first major competition in which both farms attempt to sell their own variants of the St. Patrick's Day Special. Randy accuses Steve of cultural appropriation and gets into a fight, before being taken away by the police. When Steve receives an order of 2.5 tons of weed from the owner of Farty O'Cool's Irish Pub, he decides to buy all of Randy's special from Towelie and resell them at the pub. When Randy found out he went to the party and ripped off the Credigree Weed label to uncover the Tegridy Farms label underneath which caused shock within the crowd. Steve then claimed he used both brands of weed (as he did not have enough of his own weed).
South Park: The Streaming Wars sees both farms competing and expanding their business into streaming services, selling their own water rights to the residents in Denver under the advice of the water commissioner. Both farms, and later Mr. Cussler, employ the help of Tolkien and Stan to build boats that can float from the farm down to the Denver Reservoir. Randy eventually discovers Stan's work for the Cussler Industries and berates him for such an act.
In South Park: The Streaming Wars Part 2, after a 'full nuclear Karen' event, Randy expresses confusion and concern as his current state of behavior and how he was a scientist and often warned the town about major happenings but had become obsessed with getting high and becoming rich. He returns to his work as a geologist to try to solve his problems and starts apologizing for the 'weed thing', admitting to Steve that even if they set aside their differences and work together, Tegridy Farms had taken over his life and "ruined his character" and admitting that after started the weed farm he "got entitled and did everything [he] could to protect it" until the weed was gone. When the townspeople start running out of water, however, the Marshes are forced to turn to Randy, making him do weed again and return to his arrogant, entitled behavior.
In "Japanese Toilet", Sharon tells Randy to replace the farm's main toilet, "Ol' Blue". Randy buys a Japanese toilet for $10,000 but she is not impressed with it. Randy begins showing off the new toilet to others in town, who feel that the Marshes are flaunting their wealth, which Randy justifies by comparing them to the wealthy Kennedy family in Massachusetts, leading to his attempted as assassination and the subsequent replacement of the Japanese toilet back by "Ol' Blue".
In "Spring Break", Randy bids farewell to Sharon and Shelley as they head off to vacation, having the farm to himself and planning to do drugs and party. When Stan and Tolkien choose to play Warhammer 40,000 instead, he is disappointed and invites strippers, leading to a wild party where the farmhouse suffers some major damage and becomes out of control, leading to the death of a police officer. Injured and crying, he calls Sharon to come home.
In South Park: Joining the Panderverse, the oven door at the farm is no longer working and Randy tries to find a handyman to help repair it, only to become frustrated that it cannot be repaired due to handyman becoming too busy. The broken door later makes the farm a suitable place for the efforts to open a multiversal portal using the Panderstone and Randy briefly travels through universes.
In South Park (Not Suitable For Children), Randy tries to open an OnlyFans account to promote the weed company after finding out that Mrs. Streibel is making ten thousand dollars a week on the platform, deciding to become an influencer. He films videos without wearing pants in different parts of the house, to Sharon's horror, but nobody seems to want to subscribe to his videos. He and Sharon eventually enter a competition when Sharon opens her own account to prove it is easier than him, and she quickly succeeds in gaining subscribers. After a discussion about using hashtags to optimize the algorithm in his favor and the value of trending topics, Randy begins filming himself exposing his penis to various flavors of Cred energy drink and begins gaining subscribers, only to discover the social media views on TikTok and Meta are mostly from children, which gets him into serious trouble.
In "Sickofancy", the marijuana business stagnates further as ICE begins detaining Randy's Mexican workers who actually help pick the weed. Randy and Towelie work with Chat GPT on an ambitious plan to rebrand Tegridy Farms as "Techridy Marijuana Solutions", an AI-based tech company, start doing ketamine to help which gradually distracts them, and try to appeal to the White House but their efforts ultimately fail to save the business. Randy admits the marijuana business has placed the family into significant debt, sobers up, and the episode ends with the Marsh family selling the farm and moving away.
Residents
The current residents of the location are unknown after it was resold and purchased in "Sickofancy"; however the former residents include:
- Randy Marsh
- Sharon Marsh
- Shelley Marsh
- Stan Marsh
- Towelie
- Jimbo Kern (temporarily while recovering from Covid-19)
Neither Sparky or Marvin Marsh were ever seen at the farm despite having previously been depicted living and spending time at the Marsh Residence.
Prominence
- "Tegridy Farms" - The Marsh family moves here.
- "The Scoots" - Stephen and Linda Stotch come to get away from the trick or treaters.
- "Time To Get Cereal" - Ned is attacked by ManBearPig.
- "Nobody Got Cereal?" - Stan comes here after breaking out of jail.
- "Unfulfilled" - Seen during the Unfulfilled montage.
- "Bike Parade" - Randy and Towelie start delivering the weed to people's door.
- "Mexican Joker" - Randy gets angry when he finds out that his revenue from the weed business went down.
- "Band in China" - Randy tries to expand the business to China.
- "Shots!!!" - Randy celebrates on earning $300,000 selling weed.
- "Let Them Eat Goo" - Randy and Towelie come up with the idea of Tegridy Burger. Later, a farmer dumps his cows on the farm after plant-based burgers make cows useless.
- "Tegridy Farms Halloween Special" - Randy celebrates the Tegridy Farms Halloween Special.
- "Season Finale" - Appears throughout the episode, closing for the season in the end.
- "Christmas Snow" - Mayor McDaniels and a few people from town come here to ask for Randy's help. A marijuana strain named "Christmas Snow" is produced and sold here.
- "The Pandemic Special" - Randy sells a new marijuana strain named "The Pandemic Special" here.
- "Pajama Day" - Randy is seen on his tractor on Pajama Day.
- "The Big Fix" - Randy hires Steve Black to work with him at the farm, only for the latter to quit and start his own weed farm nearby.
- "Help, My Teenager Hates Me!" - Stan calls his teenager over the phone, yelling at each other.
- "Credigree Weed St. Patrick's Day Special" - Randy tries to sell his special against Credigree Weed's special.
- "Cupid Ye" - Cartman rushes to Stan in an attempt to escape from Cupid Ye.
- "Japanese Toilet" – Sharon argues with Randy to replace an old toilet with a Japanese version of it.
- "Deep Learning" - Stan begins sending text messages to Wendy with the help of ChatGPT.
- "Spring Break" - Randy hosts a party for Spring Break.
- "Sermon on the 'Mount" - Over dinner, Stan explains that Jesus Christ paid a visit to school.
- "Sickofancy" - The government takes Mexican workers hired by Randy. Efforts to save the business don't succeed and Randy ends up selling the farm.
- "Turkey Trot" - Seen in the background when Cartman visits Credigree Weed, still up for sale.
Movies
- South Park: Post Covid - Randy and Stan visit the burnt remains of the farm to find a special weed Randy made.
- South Park: Post Covid: The Return of Covid - Appears in a flashback, being burnt down by Stan, and when Randy plants the bud given to him by Future Stan.
- South Park: The Streaming Wars - Randy sets up his own streaming service.
- South Park: The Streaming Wars Part 2 - Randy destroys almost all of the crops before returning to his profession as a geologist. When the Marshes needed Randy to turn back into Karen by smoking weed, Sharon offers a jar of Thanksgiving special which she had saved and kept away.
- South Park: Joining the Panderverse - Randy tries to get his oven door fixed by calling the handyman. It later serves as a suitable location to open a multiverse portal using the panderstone.
- South Park (Not Suitable For Children) - Sharon argues with Randy about his OnlyFans account.
- South Park: The End of Obesity - Randy scolds Shelley for wearing a belly shirt. Later, he denies to Sharon that he uses obesity drugs, causing her to doubt her own physique.
Gallery
- Images of Tegridy Farms
Randy working the crop.
Hemp being refined.
Stan begrudgingly helping in the barn.
Tegridy Farms at sunrise.
Tegridy Farms at night.
Tegridy Tour
Science Center
Testing Room
Gift Shop
Tegridy Farms during Halloween.
The Halloween Special
The Halloween Special after Shelley threw a potion on it.
Tegridy Farms at winter.
Greenhouse
The barn at night as seen in "Christmas Snow".
Tegridy Farms in the future.
Tegridy Farms burning down.
The empty interior as the Marshes sell the farm.
Trivia
- The word "tegridy" is apparently a parody of "integrity", having the intention of being both ironic and satirical about the concept of an addictive drug that's still illegal in many places, being portrayed in the eyes of those who produce and consume it as a natural, all-healing plant that should not be proscribed.
- As of August 2021, Trey Parker and Matt Stone announced that they'll make "Tegridy Weed" a real weed farm.
- The original website has evolved and became a business rather than an email newsletter.