What overall episode number is Towelie?

“Towelie” is the 73rd overall episode of South Park. It is also the eighth episode of season 5, with production code 508, and first aired on Comedy Central on August 8, 2001.

The episode follows Stan, Kyle, Cartman, and Kenny as they try to recover a stolen video-game console amid a conflict involving a paramilitary group and extraterrestrials. Its title character, Towelie, is a talking towel whose repeated advice is to “remember to bring a towel,” followed by his tendency to get high.

Towelie was voiced by producer Vernon Chatman and became a recurring character despite being designed partly as a satire of South Park merchandising. The episode itself even features a fake-looking Towelie merchandise commercial. A common mix-up is confusing the episode’s season position with its series position: it is eighth in season 5, but 73rd overall. It originally aired between “Proper Condom Use” and “Osama bin Laden Has Farty Pants.”