Black Friday (South Park) Black Friday (South Park) "Black Friday" is the seventh episode in the seventeenth season of the American animated television series "South Park". The 244th episode of the series overall, it premiered on Comedy Central in the United States on November 13, 2013. The episode is the first of a three-episode story arc, which continues with "A Song of Ass and Fire", and concludes with "Titties and Dragons". The plot, which employs themes and motifs from the TV series "Game of Thrones", concerns the characters' anticipation of a Black Friday sale, with Randy Marsh taking a temporary job as a mall
Black Friday (1869) Black Friday (1869) The Black Friday, September 24, 1869, gold panic was caused by the efforts of two speculators, Jay Gould and his partner James Fisk, also called the "Gold Ring", to corner the gold market on the New York Gold Exchange. The scandal took place during the Presidency of Ulysses S. Grant, whose policy was to sell Treasury gold at weekly intervals to pay off the national debt, stabilize the dollar, and boost the economy. The country had gone through tremendous upheaval during the Civil War and was not yet fully restored. This period, known as the Gilded Age,