History Recap / SouthParkS1E5AnElephantMakesLoveToAPig

* StrangeMindsThinkAlike: Mephisto and Chef think of the same Loverboy song that apparently goes "Pig and Elephant DNA just won't splice."

** In Canada, when this episode aired on the Creator/GlobalTelevisionNetwork (which was the first Canadian network to air the show), Mr. Garrison negatively mentioning German people was cut out. As of 2020, on [[Creator/MuchMusic Much]], the words "retarded" and "retard" are bleeped out.

* EstablishingCharacterMoment: This is where the first hints of Mrs. Cartman's promiscuity are established.

* IntercourseWithYou: Chef's song, as always.

* DoubleStandardAbuseFemaleOnMale: The kids at school feel bad for Stan's abuse...until they find out his sister beat him up and either make fun of him, don't believe him, or, in the case of Mr. Garrison, tell him to stop being a wuss -- never mind that Shelley is a violent psychopath.

* InterspeciesRomance: The boys want to create an elephant/pig hybrid.

* BigSisterBully: Shelley to Stan.

* KarmaHoudini: Shelley never gets punished for beating up Stan or see the error of her ways. The episode ends with her still continuing to bully him with no signs of that stopping anytime soon.

* PetTheDog: Cartman is very concerned about Fluffy's well-being throughout the episode, and he's not okay with the boys' attempt to get her to mate with an elephant.

* OffModel: One portion of the cafeteria scene suddenly reverts to the paper cut-out style used in the pilot. This is due to the fact that it was a recycled scene from the unaired version of the pilot, and the creators decided to place it in this episode.

* CensoredTitle: The original production title was "An Elephant Fucks a Pig," but Comedy Central ordered it to be toned down. Trey Parker and Matt Stone expressed annoyance with the change in the early introduction for the episode (seen on both the 1998 VHS and the 2004 Season 1 DVD).

* CensoredTitle: The original production title was "An Elephant Fucks a Pig," but Comedy Central ordered it to be toned down. Trey Parker and Matt Stone expressed annoyance with the change in an early introduction video for the episode (seen on the 1998 VHS). This title is also used in the DVD mini-commentary.

* {{Bowdlerization}}: Along with the change in title (see below in CensoredTitle), a scene was cut that involved [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iEqzCOBnjWw Shelley lighting Stan on fire]] and soaking him with a bucket of water (only to repeat the actions twice more). It was removed so late in production that a puddle still inexplicably appears underneath Stan after she's thrown him. Comedy Central censors had ordered the scene cut out of fear of a repeat of the ''WesternAnimation/BeavisAndButthead''-"little kid plays with fire and his parents blame the show for it" controversy. The missing scene has been shown on some overseas cuts of the show and has cropped up once or twice on Website/YouTube, but it's currently missing. The HD remaster (which is the version shown on HBO Max) doesn't reinstate the scene and instead removes the inexplicable puddle.

* BigSisterBully: Shelley

* BracesOfOrthodonticOverkill: Shelley

* CensoredTitle: The original production title was "An Elephant Fucks a Pig", but Comedy Central ordered it to be toned down. Trey Parker and Matt Stone expressed annoyance with the change in an early introduction video for the episode (seen on the 1998 VHS). This title is also used in the DVD mini-commentary.

** Kevin Stoley is referred to by the name "Casey", while the storyboards for season 1 had identified him as "Sky".

* NoodleIncident: When did Mr. Garrison have sex with Cartman's pet pig? Why did he do it? And how was he able to do so without Cartman ever finding out?

* ShoutOut: The final line, “That'll do, pig” is from the classic ''Film/{{Babe}}'', a favorite of Parker and Stone.
* StrangeMindsThinkAlike: Mephisto and Chef think of the same Loverboy song that apparently goes "Pig and Elephant DNA just won't splice".

'''Episode''' – 105\\
'''Airdate''' – 9/10/1997

* HotSkittyOnWailordAction: The crux of the boys' story is that they want to breed an elephant with a potbellied pig in order to make a pig-sized elephant that you can more easily keep as a pet. Aftera bit of difficulty, they are able to get the two animals to mate and the pig does indeed bear offspring...but it ends up looking more like Mr. Garrison [[BestialityIsDepraved for some reason]].

* {{Bowdlerization}}: Along with the change in title (see below in CensoredTitle), a scene was cut that involved [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iEqzCOBnjWw Shelley lighting Stan on fire]] and soaking him with a bucket of water (only to repeat the actions twice more). It was removed so late in production that a puddle still inexplicably appears underneath Stan after she's thrown him. Comedy Central censors had ordered the scene cut in out of fear of a repeat of the ''WesternAnimation/BeavisAndButthead''-"little kid plays with fire and his parents blame the show for it" controversy. The missing scene has been shown on some overseas cuts of the show and has cropped up once or twice on Website/YouTube, but it's currently missing. The HD remaster (which is the version shown on HBO Max) doesn't reinstate the scene and instead removes the inexplicable puddle.

'''Airdate:''' September 10, 1997

* HypocriticalHumor: Cartman makes fun of Stan for getting beaten up by a girl throughout the episode, and goes on numerous diatribes about what he'd do if a girl ever tried to pick a fight with him. But when Shelly hears one of his rants and furiously demands to know who said it, rather than confront her, Cartman instead fearfully points at Kenny.

* KarmaHoudini: Shelley.

* {{Bowdlerization}}: Along with the change in title (see below in CensoredTitle), a scene was cut that involved [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iEqzCOBnjWw Shelley lighting Stan on fire]] and soaking him with a bucket of water (only to repeat the actions twice more). It was removed so late in production that a puddle still inexplicably appears underneath Stan after she's thrown him. Comedy Central censors had ordered the scene cut in out of fear of a repeat of the ''WesternAnimation/BeavisAndButthead''-"little kid plays with fire and his parents blame the show for it" controversy. The missing scene has been shown on some overseas cuts of the show and has cropped up once or twice on Website/YouTube, but it's currently missing. The HD remaster doesn't reinstate the scene and instead removes the inexplicable puddle.

** During one of his rants, Cartman mentions his mom "having sex with some guy I don't even know, on my dad's bed," indicating that at this stage the creators still envisioned Cartman having a father, as he did in the unaired pilot. This was later changed in the season finale to Cartman not knowing who his dad is, and the creators indicating in one of the official website's Q&A articles that in this episode Cartman was just ranting aimlessly, without any real clue what he was talking about.
** Mr. Garrison hated Germans rather than Mexicans.

* AbusiveParents: There's hints of Mrs. Cartman being one involving Cartman when it comes to her promiscuity.

* InterspeciesRomance: The boys want to create an elephant/pig hyvrid.

** Mr. Garrison hated Germans rather than Mexicans

* {{Bowdlerization}}: Along with the change in title (see below in CensoredTitle), a scene was cut that involved [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iEqzCOBnjWw Shelley lighting Stan on fire]] and soaking him with a bucket of water (only to repeat the actions twice more). It was removed so late in production that a puddle still inexplicably appears underneath Stan after she's thrown him. Comedy Central censors had ordered the scene cut in out of fear of a repeat of the ''WesternAnimation/BeavisAndButthead''-"little kid plays with fire and his parents blame the show for it" controversy. The missing scene has been shown on some overseas cuts of the show and has cropped up once or twice on YouTube, but it's currently missing. The HD remaster doesn't reinstate the scene and instead removes the inexplicable puddle.

* StockFootage: Footage from "[[Recap/SouthParkS1E1CartmanGetsAnAnalProbe Cartman Gets an Anal Probe]]" is reused when the boys are talking to Pip at the cafeteria. To be fair, this is a scene that was not used in the version of "Cartman Gets An Anal Probe" that aired on television. However, given that [=CGAAP=] is (to this day) the only episode of South Park to actually be made with construction paper, the difference in animation between this scene and the remainder of this episode is pretty jarring.

* TheyKilledKennyAgain: Kenny dies when he's thrown into the microwave by Stan's mutant clone and is burnt to a crisp.