Raisins (South Park episode)
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| Episode no. | 110 |
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| Airdate | December 10, 2003 |
| South Park - Season 7 March 19, 2003 – December 17, 2003 |
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"Raisins" is episode 110 of the Comedy Central series South Park. It originally aired on December 10, 2003.
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[edit] Plot
The boys are playing football when Bebe tells Stan that his girlfriend Wendy has decided to break up with him. Stan tries to get Wendy to be his girlfriend again, asking Kyle and Jimmy to talk to her for him. Jimmy's speech impediment worsens the situation when Stan suggests calling her a "continuing source of inspiration for him". Jimmy stutters and says, "Stan says you are a cunt..." before he can get out the whole sentence, Wendy has already walked away.
Stan starts to withdraw from life, and all he thinks about is the breakup. In an effort to stop Stan from thinking about Wendy, the boys take him to Raisins (a parody of the Hooters restaurants) where all of the employees are attractive, young pre-teen girls. Being taken to Raisins doesn't help Stan with his problems. Meanwhile, Butters falls in love with one of the waitresses (Lexus), and obsesses over her throughout the episode, even though she obviously doesn't like him back. Stan then relizes he can't get his friends to get them back together, he needs to get Wendy's friends to do it. So he asks Bebe to talk to Wendy, but she tells him to do something romantic to show Wendy how he feels. He asks her what he should do, and she tells him to "stand outside her window, and play Peter Gabriel." When Stan does this, both Wendy and Token appear at the window. Stan's bad mood is intensified as he discovers that Wendy left him so she could be Token's girlfriend. Kyle angrily tells Stan that, if he is so depressed, he might as well hang out with the Goth kids. Stan then becomes friends with the Goth kids, who are obsessed with non-conformity, while ironically forcing Stan to conform to their ways.
Butters runs out of money because he has spent it all at Raisins. Butters' parents decide to come with Butters to meet his "girlfriend." When they arrive at Raisins, Butters' parents realize that Lexus doesn't really like him. They tell him that these girls know that they can make men do whatever they want by flirting, and that these girls do this for a living, but he doesn't believe them and offers to stay with Lexus. In fact, he tells his parents to go to "heck". However, Lexus tells Butters that she doesn't want to have anything to do with him. She leaves to deliver curly fries.
Butters begins to go outside and cry in the rain. Seeing Butters cry, the Goth kids invite him to join their clique; but Butters says that, even though he's sad, he's happy that something could make him feel so strongly. He must accept the bad things in life as well as the good. He also adds "Besides, I'd rather be a crying little pussy than a faggy Goth kid." Stan agrees with Butters and leaves the Goth kids. Stan is back to normal as he is playing football. When Token and Wendy walk by, he calls Wendy a bitch and gives Token the finger. Afterward, he goes back to playing football.
[edit] References to popular culture
- "Raisins" is a play on the popular franchise Hooters. Raisins is a slang term referring to the nipples of a prepubescent female.
- The Raisins girls are all named after expensive luxury cars (Lexus, Mercedes, Porsche, Ferrari).
- In one of the Goth kid's room, there is a poster that says, "Blauhaus" which seems to resemble Bauhaus' Singles: 1979-1983, Volume One album. There is also a "Skippy Puppy" poster in the room an obvious parody of the industrial band Skinny Puppy, and when the mother enters the room you can see a "Bleeding Frog" poster on the wall that could be a parody of the band Bleeding Through. Next to the "Skippy Puppy" poster, a red poster with a black crow on it is visible with the words "Nothing Matters World Tour" written above the crow similar to the nu-metal Family Values Tour.
- When Stan joins the Goth Kids, he starts to wear a t-shirt featuring the face of Gothic/Romantic writer Edgar Allan Poe with the word "Nevermore" written above it - a reference to the Poe poem The Raven (which is Stan's "Goth name").
- The scene where Stan holds up a boombox playing a Peter Gabriel song mirrors the famous scene from the film Say Anything; the major difference is that in the movie, John Cusack's character, Lloyd Dobler, plays the song "In Your Eyes", which is romantic, and Stan plays "Shock the Monkey", which is anything but.
- Another Say Anything homage can be seen when Stan seeks advice from the Goths; the scene's set up like Lloyd's encounter with the guys outside the Gas 'n' Sip.
- In one scene during the montage of Stan grieving about the lost love, we see him standing on a brick bridge looking into the water below. This resembles a commonly used scenario on Peanuts. This is further reinforced by the following scene, where a child resembling Pig-Pen is seen briefly.
- The song playing after Wendy breaks up with Stan is Cinderella's "Don't Know What You Got (Till It's Gone)." The song in the school scenes, after Jimmy tries to talk to Wendy, is Air Supply's "All Out of Love."
- Benny's is a play on the real-life diner, Denny's.
[edit] Trivia
- This episode was mainly inspired by Trey Parker's past experience with his ex-fiance, Liane Adamo. The heart break and pain that Stan endures is very similar to the situation of Trey Parker when he found out that his fiance was cheating on him[1]. Interestingly enough, Wendy is a resemblance to Liane Adamo herself [2].
- This episode implies Butters thinks the anus is an exclusively male body part; when Bebe calls the boys assholes, Butters replies "Well, at least we HAVE assholes, you dumb girl!" However, this may have just been a random insult, as the other boys, besides Stan, laugh.
- Jimmy's accidental repetition of the syllable "cont", which was mistaken for cunt, marks the second time that South Park says "cunt" uncensored (the first being in "Something You Can Do With Your Finger").
- At the beginning of the episode, before the first football game, a caricature of Rob Schneider appears to be playing in the school yard. This is perhaps a throw-back to the earlier episode: 615 "The Biggest Douche in the Universe", which features a number of mock Schneider movie trailers. The Schneider look-alike reappears in Raisins when Butters takes his parents to meet Lexus.
- Stan's goth look is re-created with the South Park series 4 action figure by Mezco.
- The edifying role Butters has in this episode in which he explains the "moral of the story" is the second time he has a central role in an episode, the first time being when he starred in "Butters' Very Own Episode."
- At the end of the episode, Stan says Cartman's catchphrase "Screw you guys, I'm going home." Like Cartman in "Scott Tenorman Must Die", Stan matures and undergoes a slight change in character.
- Since this episode, Wendy has become a very minor character, with the exceptions of Stupid Spoiled Whore Video Playset and Follow that Egg!. In Follow that Egg!, she tries to get back together with Stan, so it is possible Token had dumped her.
- Stan mentions he has not talked to Wendy for weeks. This may be the reason why she broke up with him.
[edit] Censorship
- In syndication, the scene in which Stan talks to Jimmy is shortened, and the final utterance of the syllable "cont" is bleeped.
| Preceded by "Butt Out" |
South Park episodes | Followed by "It's Christmas in Canada" |
