An Elephant Makes Love to a Pig
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"An Elephant Makes Love to a Pig" is episode 105 of Comedy Central's animated series South Park which 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.
Synopsis
The boys decide to try and genetically splice Kyle’s elephant with Cartman’s pot-bellied pig, Fluffy, to make pot-bellied elephants. However, pig and elephant DNA just won’t splice, so the boys must try to get them to make sweet love.Plot
The boys are waiting at the bus stop when Cartman notices Stan’s black eye. Stan’s sister 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 a pot-bellied elephant. Terrance bets Kyle that he can clone a whole person before Kyle has 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 talk to Mr. Hat about his black eye. When Stan explains that his bruise is from his sister, Mr. Garrison calls him a pansy and sends him home.
Once at home, Shelley proceeds to beat up Stan and throw him out the window. The guys are waiting for him outside and 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 more than one ass (one has four asses). Mephisto then explains that pig and elephant DNA 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 then go to Chef with their genetic engineering problem. Chef informs that the pig and the elephant will need to 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’s science project, who turns out to be Mephisto's son. Later, the boys try and get the pig and the elephant drunk, so they can make sweet love. It doesn’t seem to be working until Chef stops by and sings to the animals with a little help from Elton John.
Back at the ranch, the cloned Stan breaks free 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. Stan is afraid he’s 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).
Some time later, the boys present their science project at school, a pot-bellied pig that looks like Mr. Garrison. Mr. Garrison then quickly awards them first prize over Terrance's five-assed monkey.
People references
- Fiona Apple: In the opening of the DVD, Trey says that he would like to be spliced with Fiona Apple
- 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 repeatedlly cited.
Trivia
- 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."
- 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 entirely 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.
- Some of the scenes where Shelly is shown abusing Stan were shortened or removed entirely before the original airing because it was deemed over-the-top.
- Mephisto is revealed in this episode to be a Buddhist. ("Oh, thank Buddha I found you boys!)
- The last words spoken by Cartman, "That'll do, pig," are a reference to the movie Babe.
Animation Goofs
When a cooked Kenny falls out of the microwave his arms appear to be attached to his head.Kenny's Death
- Knocked into microwave with chair and cooked by Big Stan.
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