Marjorine
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| "Marjorine" | |
 Meet Marjorine. |
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| Episode no. | 134 |
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| Airdate | October 26, 2005 |
| South Park - Season 9 March 9, 2005 – December 7, 2005 |
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"Marjorine" is episode 909 of Comedy Central's South Park. It aired on October 26, 2005.
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[edit] Plot
Cartman gets a video tape of the girls of South Park Elementary using a Cootie Catcher but, not realizing it's a game, Cartman believes the girls possess a high-tech gadget to see into the future.
All the boys make a laboratory to study the device, and come up with a plan to steal it. First, they get Butters to fake his death, dropping a pig corpse from a tall building to fake Butters' suicide. Cartman believed this to be appropriate, since everyone will be wondering where Butters is while pretending to be a girl (comically, however, when their teacher announces the unfortunate death of their fellow classmate, everyone has a confused expression, with someone replying "who's Butters?"). He then dresses up as a new girl, Marjorine, and infiltrates a slumber party. None of the girls like Marjorine, and soon their teasing sends him into the bathroom, crying. The girls feel bad and decide to give "Marjorine" a makeover.
Meanwhile, Mr. Stotch is told by an old farmer not to dig Butters' body up and re-bury him at the Indian burial ground (something he hadn't even been thinking of doing). The farmer, in a nod towards Pet Sematary, says, "Don't do it Stotch! Sometimes, what you take out of the ground ain't the same thing you put in!" Butters' father does re-bury the pig-corpse there, believing this will bring Butters back to life.
Butters (as Marjorine) is starting to have fun with the girls when one of the girl's father realizes that there are boys around the house. Butters thinks his cover is blown and makes a desperate escape with the device, and gives it to the other boys before going home to tell his parents he's alive. The boys, this time around, decide that the power of the fortune-telling device is too great for any mortal. Rather than spending their lives defending it from girls, the CIA, terrorists and Russians, they decide to destroy it by having Kenny blow it up.
Meanwhile, Butters' parents have now convinced themselves that their child will return as a demon. When Butters comes home, his parents lock him in the basement. When he says he is hungry, his parents kill a saleswoman for him to eat, still thinking Butters is a hell-spawn.
The episode ends with Butters asking for SpaghettiOs instead.
[edit] Trivia
- Marjorine is a play on the spreadable foodstuff margarine. This seems to reflect on being the "female version" of Butters' real name, which sounds almost exactly the same to the food butter.
- Butters' gravestone reads: Leopold "Butters" Stotch
- The claim that Clyde had a colostomy, made in the season 10 episode "Mystery of the Urinal Deuce", is invalidated in this episode as we see Clyde has no waste pouch attached to his side while he showers off.
- Strangely, the Stotch's basement has changed completely since "The Return of the Fellowship of the Ring to the Two Towers".
[edit] Goofs
- In Butters' basement, no character except for Butters casts a shadow.
- Besides Butters there are 7 girls at the slumber party but there appears to be 2 more in the "Light as a Feather, Stiff as a Bord" scene.
[edit] References to pop culture
- The scene when Butters is knocking on his parent's door after he gets the device is an allusion to the short story called "The Monkey's Paw" by W. W. Jacobs.
- The sequences in which Cartman and the boys discuss the "fortune teller" in the lab (Cartman has messy hair, a tired face and wears a loose shirt and tie) mocks modern thriller novels and movies, a la Michael Crichton or Dan Brown.
- The scene with hazardous material suits and the quarantine shower spoofs E.T.
- The last scene when, Butters's parents lure a woman to the basement and hit her with a shovel to kill her; and then giving her corpse to Butters to feed him is directly inspired by the cult horror movie Hellraiser.
- The scene at the slumber party where the girls do "light as a feather, stiff as a board" is a direct reference to the 1996 horror film The Craft and/or the 1987 horror film "The Gate (1987)", although it has become a common slumber party game.
- This episode seems to be a spoof of Pet Sematary due to the Indian Burial Ground, the graveyard scene,and the farmer look-alike of Jud Crandall who is a character from Pet Sematary. He makes his third appearance in this episode. He previously appeared in "Butters' Very Own Episode" and "Asspen".
- In the episode Quest For Ratings, Cartman suggested making a "show about killing Butters".
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