Tweek vs. Craig
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| Episode no. | 36 |
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| Airdate | June 23, 1999 |
| South Park - Season 3 April 7, 1999 – January 12, 2000 |
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"Tweek vs. Craig" is episode 304 of Comedy Central's animated series South Park. It originally aired on June 23, 1999.
[edit] Plot
The boys are in shop class, and are told by the teacher Mr. Adler about what shop class is for. They are also asked who the biggest troublemaker in their class is. Stan and Kyle say that Tweek is, while Cartman says that Craig is. Mr. Adler asks Craig if he is a trouble maker, and he says he's not, but he then flips the teacher off.
Meanwhile, all the girls (and Kenny) are in Home Ec. When the teacher tells them that they will be making things that are 'lacy and pretty', Kenny cheers. Wendy explains that she requested to be in shop class, but the teacher tells her that Home Economics is for the pretty girls who won't have to worry about careers and instead will marry a nice man. Kenny cheers even louder at this, eliciting strange looks from the girls around him.
In shop class, Stan, Kyle and Cartman speculate about who would win in a fight between Tweek and Craig, Cartman puts five bucks on Craig while Kyle and Stan put five on Tweek. Stan and Kyle go to talk to Tweek, to provoke him into fighting Craig by saying that Craig "chooses." Cartman talks to Craig and says that Tweek has called him a "big poop eater". Craig gets mad, but Cartman stops him fighting in class and that they should fight after school. He agrees, and flips Tweek off. Tweek sees this, and also agrees to fight. Mr. Adler takes a picture frame out of his drawer, and begins to daydream (presented in live action) about the woman whose photo is in the frame. It is shown that they were in love, and that Mr. Adler's first name is Richard. He then eats half a packet of nicotine gum. Stan then asks if they can go, as it is the end of the day. Mr. Adler dismisses the class.
The boys go outside to the yard, and are waiting for the fight, raising their bets to 10 dollars. Kenny arrives, the boys ask him why he's taking Home Ec as the girls go past and all say goodbye to him. The rest of the boys in the 3rd grade come, and Kyle tells them about the fight. Clyde then tells the three that both Tweek and Craig went home about fifteen minutes ago. Stan and Kyle, dismayed by the no-show, go to Tweek's house to see why he went home. Tweek says he realized that he and Craig have no reason to fight, but Stan claims that Craig turned up, called him a wuss and said he had crooked teeth. Kyle adds that he did an impression of Tweek being a chicken, and that everyone in the whole world saw it. Tweek agrees that he will actually fight Craig tomorrow.
Cartman and Kenny go to Craig's house, and ask him why he didn't show up. He says he wanted to watch Red Racer instead. Cartman then says that Craig doesn't care about what Tweek said about his mom. Craig agrees and shuts the door in their faces. Cartman then changes his tactic by saying that Tweek said that he sticks his guinea pig up his anus. Craig says that he will fight Tweek after Red Racer.
At dinner, Tweek is asked about his day, and Tweek asks what he should do if someone wants to fight him at school. His dad tells him about how someone challenged him to a fight when he was dating his wife, but the story soon becomes an irrelevant non sequitur. While the two continue dinner, Tweek waits for the end of the story, and asks what happened. His dad tells him that he moved away or something, and Tweek starts to bang his head on the table in frustration, stating that his parents never help him. Craig tells his dad that he's suppose to get into a fight with "some kid." When he says "Oh" in reply, he ends up in an argument with his wife, causing the entire family to flip each other off.
Mr. Adler returns home from a date with the Home Ec teacher. She wants to come in but he refuses, making up excuses. He then goes in, picks up another picture of his dead fiancée, and starts to daydream some more, and then has some more nicotine gum. The next day at school, the boys hold a press conference for the fight in the school cafeteria. Cartman and Kyle trade insults, and then start a fight, and Kenny and Stan join in. Clyde says as he watches that Tweek and Craig seem to really hate each other and that it should be a good fight.
In shop class, Mr. Adler ends up dreaming about his fiancée again, and it is shown that she was a skywriter whose plane exploded in mid-air and crashed into the ocean, where she then drowned. Clyde breaks him out of his daydreaming by telling him that Tommy got his face stuck in the belt sander and now has no face. When he is sent to the nurse, Clyde asks him about the picture and if the woman pictured is dead. Mr. Adler dismisses him. After school, the fight is about to happen, when it is revealed neither can fight, so the bout is postponed until they know how. Craig learns to sumo wrestle with Cartman at the martial art center while Tweek is taught to box by Stan's uncle Jimbo.
In Home Ec, Kenny is told to transfer to shop class by the teacher, and the bell goes for the end of the day. The girls go out to the fight, all the others are out in the playground and Clyde is selling programs. The two come out and start to fight. In the shop class classroom, Mr. Adler writes a suicide note explaining he can't cope since he has run out of nicotine gum. He then gets on the moving table saw, sets it running, and waits for his death. Outside, the two boys are tired, but Kyle says that Craig just called Tweek a boner. They continue to fight. Kenny goes to the shop classroom, since he is sent to start work on the jigsaw (though he actually goes to work on a large table saw). Tweek and Craig then are propelled through the shop classroom window, still fighting. Mr. Adler starts up and demands to know what's going on. Tweek and Craig knock the stool out from underneath Kenny, and Kenny hangs on the saw machine. Tweek slams Craig into a second saw which knocks over the one Kenny is on. Kenny's jacket is caught by the blade, spun around and then flies into a box of damp, old, rusty, sharp, nails, however, he says the line "I'm okay", leading to speculation over whether he genuienly died.
When Mr. Adler picks up Kenny's body, his fiancée talks to him through Kenny's hood, telling him to move on, and his uncle and grandma turn up too. He says he can move on now, and hugs Kenny. Stan says, "Dude, this is pretty fucked up right here." They then go to the hospital to visit Tweek and Craig to tell them about the bet. They then tell Tweek and Craig that both families called each other wusses, causing another fight between them. Neither of them ever truly win the fight.
[edit] Kenny's death?
Fired into a box of old rusty nails, but he says "I'm okay" after being pulled from it.
[edit] Trivia
- Mr. Adler is based on a teacher Matt Stone had in elementary school.
- The woman who played Mr. Adler's fiancée is Pam Brady, the assistant writer of the show.
- Tommy, the boy who sands his face off, is later seen in the crowd of the fight scenes, complete with face.
- This was the first episode to air before the premiere of South Park Bigger Longer And Uncut
| Preceded by: "The Succubus" |
South Park episodes | Followed by: "Jakovasaurs" |
