Starvin' Marvin (South Park episode)

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South Park episode
"Starvin' Marvin"
Starvin' Marvin the "Ethernopian".
Episode no.	109
Airdate	November 19, 1997
South Park - Season 1 August 13, 1997 – February 25, 1998
Cartman Gets an Anal Probe Weight Gain 4000 Volcano Big Gay Al's Big Gay Boat Ride An Elephant Makes Love to a Pig Death Pink Eye Damien Starvin' Marvin Mr. Hankey, the Christmas Poo Tom's Rhinoplasty Mecha-Streisand Cartman's Mom Is a Dirty Slut

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Starvin' Marvin, the ninth episode of Comedy Central's animated series South Park, first aired on November 19, 1997.

1 Plot
2 Kenny's Death
3 Trivia
4 Goofs
5 External links

[edit] Plot

Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow.

In this Thanksgiving episode, the boys send in money to Sally Struthers' organization to help Ethiopians, hoping to get a watch as compensation. There is a mix-up, and instead a little Ethiopian boy (Starvin' Marvin) is sent to them. Eventually, the government comes to get Marvin (who is at Cartman's house) to send him home, but Marvin claims that Cartman is the Ethiopian boy, and Cartman gets sent to Ethiopia. Meanwhile, back in South Park, Dr. Mephisto's mutant turkeys go crazy, and the townspeople unite to fight them.

[edit] Kenny's Death

Attacked by mutant turkeys; loses an eye in the attack.

[edit] Trivia

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Starvin' Marvin (South Park episode)

The turkeys make an appearance in the South Park video game.
When Stan calls Cartman a "fat-ass", Cartman retorts by calling Stan a "vas deferens".
There are two interesting analogies written on the classroom blackboard. The first reads "Trees are to bushes as bulldogs are to houses" and the second reads "David Duchovny is to tampons as nougat is to chocolate".
Wendy and Cartman's argument about giving charity to poor people (which Cartman ends by declaring, "Well then, perhaps they (the poor) should die, and decrease the surplus population!", is drawn almost word-for-word from A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens, with Cartman (of course) speaking Scrooge's lines. Trey Parker and Matt Stone have also parodied Dickens through the character of Pip and the episode of the same name.
Both Chef and the leader of the mutant turkeys dress up like Mel Gibson as William Wallace in Braveheart to give a pep talk that parodies the famous speech in the movie.
Trey Parker and Matt Stone have both said that this is one of their favorite episodes.
Over one million people died in Ethopia during a famine in 1984-1985.
An audio clip from this episode was used in the movie Duplex.
When the turkeys kill Kenny and take out his eye, you can see that his eye is blue.

[edit] Goofs

At the buffet, Kyle, who is Jewish, is seen slicing a ham. Pork products are not kosher. Therefore, Jews are not allowed to consume it (though Kyle's family may not be that devoutly Jewish, since there have been other episodes of Kyle or any member of Kyle's family eating food that isn't considered kosher (cf. Asspen, Conjoined Fetus Lady, and Cherokee Hair Tampons).
Click languages are not spoken in Ethiopia. Rather they are found in southern Africa, around the Kalahari Desert area.