An Elephant Makes Love to a Pig
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| Episode no. | 5 |
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| Airdate | September 10, 1997 |
| South Park - Season 1 August 13, 1997 – February 25, 1998 |
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"An Elephant Makes Love to a Pig" is episode 5 of Comedy Central's animated series South Park. It originally aired on September 10, 1997. South Park's creators, Trey Parker and Matt Stone, refer to it as "An Elephant Fucks a Pig" on the Season 1 DVD.
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[edit] Plot
The boys are waiting at the bus stop when Cartman notices Stan has a black eye. As it turns out, his sister Shelley has been beating him up and he doesn’t know what to do. Kyle has problems of his own, as his mom won’t let him keep his new pet elephant in the house. At school, Mr. Hat teaches the class about genetic engineering, which prompts Kyle to decide to splice his elephant with Cartman’s pot-bellied pig, Fluffy, to make little "pot-bellied elephants". Upon hearing this Terrance bets Kyle that he can clone a whole person before Kyle can get a pot-bellied elephant. Thus, the cloning war begins.
Mr. Garrison suggests the boys use their genetic modifications for the upcoming science fair and that Kyle and crew should check out the genetic engineering ranch outside of town. Mr. Garrison then asks Stan to stay after class talk to about his black eye. When Stan explains that bruise is from his sister, Mr. Garrison calls him a pansy and sends him home.
Once at home, Shelley again beats up Stan and throws him out the window, where the guys are waiting for him. They head off for the South Park Genetic Engineering Ranch.
While at the ranch, Dr. Mephisto shows them his genetically engineered collection, including several monkeys with multiple asses. Mephisto then explains that, just like the Loverboy song says, "pig and elephant DNA just won’t splice." He then steals a blood sample from Stan and the boys flee.
Back at school the boys learn Terrance has cloned a human foot. The boys go to Chef with their genetic engineering problem, and after he too cites the Loverboy song, he gives them the idea to try to have the animals "make sweet love" to breed. Stan goes home and gets beaten up by Shelley again.
Meanwhile, back at the ranch, Mephisto and his assistant have created a human clone of Stan for Terrance (Mephisto’s son)'s science project. The boys attempt to get the pig and the elephant drunk to get them to make sweet love, but it doesn’t seem to be working until Chef stops by and sings to the animals with a little help from Elton John.
The cloned Stan breaks free from Mephisto's ranch and proceeds to terrorize the town. The boys eventually find the clone and take it to Stan’s house and convince it to attack Shelley, which it does after destroying the house and indirectly killing Kenny. Mephisto shows up and kills the clone, but Stan is afraid he’ll be in trouble for everything the clone did, but Shelley, in a brief moment of kindness, takes the heat (after which she beats up Stan again).
When the science projects are due Terrance presents a five assed monkey, but Kyle has nothing until the pig gives birth to a pot-bellied pig that looks like Mr. Garrison. Garrison quickly awards it first prize over Terrance's five-assed monkey.
[edit] Kenny's Death
- The Stan Clone knocks Kenny into a microwave with a chair, cooking him.
[edit] Censorship
- Trey Parker claims the original title of the episode was "An Elephant Fucks a Pig", but under pressure from Comedy Central, they changed it. He maintains however, that if such a situation ever arose in real life, "the elephant wouldn't be making love to a pig, it would be fucking it."
- A small portion of Shelley beating Stan was removed. Originally, she lit Stan on fire, and then put the fire out with buckets of water, which explains why Stan is suddenly seen in a small puddle of water after being thrown by Shelley. Comedy Central asked Matt and Trey to remove the scene, in fear of children, after viewing the episode, setting themselves on fire, which is similar to the fire controversies of Beavis and Butt-head. Apparently though, the scene is shown outside of the U.S. in some international prints of the episode [1]
[edit] Miscellanea
- This episode contains one of the first mentions of Cartman's mom's promiscuity. It also sheds a little light on Cartman's behavior possibly stemming from sexual abuse by Cartman's mom (such as being forced to dress like a mailman).
- Half of a scene that takes place in the lunchroom appears in the same frame-by-frame cardboard cut-out style that the pilot episode was shot in. The style is notably different from the rest of the episode, including a noticeable difference in voices, mouth movement, scene coloring, and character positioning. The reason for this is that the scene was originally part of the pilot, but was cut for time and then inserted into this episode.
- Mephisto is revealed in this episode to be a Buddhist. ("Oh, thank Buddha I found you boys!)
[edit] Goofs
- Despite his death, Kenny is shown twice in class during the school science projects near the end.
[edit] References
- Elton John: Elton John stops by South Park for about 5 seconds to help Chef sing to Fluffy and the elephant so they can get in the mood to make sweet love
- Loverboy: A supposed Loverboy hit, "Pig and Elephant DNA Just Won't Splice", is repeatedly cited.
- Great Expectations: When answering Cartman's question about the validity of his name, Pip begins to quote the first line of Dickens' famous novel.
| Preceded by: "Big Gay Al's Big Gay Boat Ride" |
South Park episodes | Followed by: "Death" |
