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 paper fortune-telling device (called a Cootie Catcher in North America) 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. 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. However, his 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 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 blowing it up.
[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 exactly the same to the food butter.
- Butters' gravestone reads:
- Leopold "Butters" Stotch
- Jesus said "Come unto me all ye who labor and are heavy laden and I will give you rest." Matt 11:28""
- In Butters' basement, no character except for Butters casts a shadow.
- The farmer look-alike of the Jud Crandall character from Pet Sematary makes his third appearance in this episode. He previously appeared in "Butters' Very Own Episode" and "Asspen".
[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 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.
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| Preceded by: "Two Days Before the Day After Tomorrow" |
South Park episodes | Followed by: "Follow That Egg!" |
