So lemme ask you this, why in the heck I'm I talking about a PlayStation sports title that is rated E and 3+ which is called Tiger Woods 99 PGA Tour Golf??
Well if you put the game CD on your PlayStation, it will still work as a normal game. But if you put it into your computer and open the game's files. You will see that there is a video file called ZZDUMMY.DAT that is got nothing to do with the game nor it can be access in the game. This DAT file It is in fact the pilot episode of South Park called The Spirit of Christmas which can be played with a video player (mainly VLC). I'd love to show you the exact episode of the pilot but unfortunately Viacom (who owns Comedy Central) has blocked it on YouTube. I'm afraid you're your own to find it unless you're lucky enough to have spare copy of Tiger Woods 99 which has the ZZDUMMY.DAT file which is of course the South Park pilot. I'm not sure if the PAL versions of the game has the pilot. Censored Gaming has an interesting video covering this:
Because Electronic Arts' employees thought it was really funny and slapped the pilot on the game's disc without Viacom's consent. Electronic Arts fired the employees for putting the South Park video on the game's disc, recalled 100,000 copies of the game off the shelves and apologized everyone in the process. Even a mother's son discovered the pilot episode on the game's disc which his mother complained to Electronic Arts which you can read RetroJunk's article here:
http://www.retrojunk.com/article/show/4508/the-tiger-woods-99-recall
Luckily, Electronic Arts was really aware of this and didn't receive any lawsuits from Comedy Central and it's owner Viacom. Electronic Arts then later re-release the game without the video file. The PC version wasn't effected. I don't know why EA's employee manage to pull this off.
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