History Recap / SouthParkS3E13StarvinMarvinInSpace

* ChristianityIsCatholic: Averted with annoying and ignorant Christian (but seemly Evangelical in practice) missionaries, who try to convert Marvin's Ethiopian tribe into (evangelical) Christianity, and this makes Marvin rightly mad at them for forcing his folk to their religion instead of actually helping them.

* HeelFaceTurn: Despite her antagonism in this episode and "[[Recap/SouthParkS1E8StarvinMarvin Starvin Marvin]]," Sally Struthers has a change of heart and turns against the missionaries once the boys remind her of her charity work and how she's inspired them to help the Ethiopians.

* CoolAndUnusualPunishment[=/=]LoudOfWar: The government forces the boys to give them information by having one worker rub his hand against a balloon to make a noise that is apparently hard for the ears. Cartman eventually cracks.

* MayTheFarceBeWithYou: The second half of the plot turns into a ''StarWars'' spoof.

* PlanetOfSteves / {{Smurfing}}: All people, places, and things on Marklar are referred to as Marklar. Kyle even explains the situation in the Marklar's language.
-->'''Kyle''': Wait. Wait. I think I can explain this whole thing. Marklar, these marklars want to change your marklar. They don't want Marklar or any of these marklars to live here because it's bad for their marklar. They use Marklar to try and force marklars to believe they're marklar. If you let them stay here, they will build marklars and marklars. They will take all your marklars and replace them with Marklar. This marklar have no good marklar to live on Marklar, so they must come here to Marklar. Please, let these marklars stay where they can grow and prosper without any marklars, marklars, eh or marklars.
* PlotHole: Kenny gets frozen in carbonite and is left stuck on Sally Struthers' ship. However, when the boys finally figure out how to open the wormhole back to Marklar again, he can be seen in the ship with the other kids when they're in process of passing through it.

** The CBN spaceship is modeled after the Rebel fleets X-Wing fighters.

* SeriesContinuityError: Kenny gets frozen in carbonite and is left stuck on Sally Struthers' ship. However, when the boys finally figure out how to open the wormhole back to Marklar again, he can be seen in the ship with the other kids when they're in process of passing through it.

* TotemPoleTrench: The boys do this and pretend to be Tom Brokaw so they can distract the government while Marvin boards his people onto the spacecraft. When Kyle makes a comment from inside the costume, Cartman at the head tries to cover by saying that he had some bad burritos.

* EasyEvangelism: Averted, as the Christian (Evangelical) missionaries don't understand Marvin's tribe language and neglect the ''whole tribe'' as a means to converting them to their version of Christianity. This eventually causes the tribe to board Marvin's spaceship to find a new home-- this is solved by moving to Marklar, where the missionaries are banished.

* NoDelaysForTheWicked: Parodied and taken UpToEleven: the missionaries are somehow able to instantly conjure up a spaceship capable out of interstellar travel and several upgrades for it out of thin air just because a fundraiser show is asking donations for those things without any plausible way of turning those donations into the required materials and labor in the ridiculously short span of time that passes from the fundraiser show requesting the donations and the missionaries receiving the end result, especially since the fundraiser is still taking place on Earth while the ship is off in outer space trying to stop the boys and Starvin' Marvin.

* SeriesContinuityError: Kenny gets frozen in carbonite and is left stuck on Sally Struthers' ship. However, when Martin warps back to Marklar, he can be seen in the ship with the other kids.

* TheyKilledKennyAgain: Subverted, he only gets [[HumanPopsicle froze in carbonite]]. We don't ever see him freed, though.

* InMemoriam: This episode was dedicated to Creator/MaryKayBergman (the main female voice on the show), who committed suicide a week before the episode premiered.

** This episode forgets the half of actual real Ethiopian population is part of Ethiopian Orthodox [Tewahedo] Church or part of Oriental Orthodoxy with a small yet important exception to ''P'ent'ay''[[note]]Which is Amharic and Tigrinya language term for a Christian of a Protestant denomination that uses their version of Evangelicalism[[/note]].
** Marvin himself and his tribe are portrayed as ''secular'' for some reason instead part of generic Traditional African religious minority or part of other two major religions in Ethiopia like again Oriental Orthodoxy or Sunni Islam like in real-life.
* ChristianityIsCatholic: Averted with annoyed and ignorant Christian (but seemly Evangelical in practice) missionaries try to convert Marvin's Ethiopian tribe into [Evangelical] Christianity and this cause Marvin rightly mad on them for forcing his folk to their religion instead actually helping them.

* EasyEvangelism: Averted badly due of Christian (Evangelical) missionaries lack to understand Marvin's tribe language and neglect the ''whole tribe'' so as means to converting them to their version of Christianity. This eventually cause nearly all of the tribe riding Marvin's spaceship as means to find a new home and this is solved by moving them from ''earth'' so as long Marvin's tribe is in peace from missionaries and their Christian societies from "being helpful" ever again.

** The CBC spaceship is modeled after the Rebel fleets X-Wing fighters.

** The CBC spaceship's bridge is loosely designed like the bridge of the [[Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries USS Enterprise NCC-1701]].
** The scene where Marvin flies over Australia is reminiscent of ''FlightOfTheNavigator''.
* TakeThat: On Christian missionaries (with especially in Evangelicals) and ''The700Club''. The former is depicted trying to bribe starving Ethiopians with food into adopting Christianity and ordering them to read the Bible in "God's language" (English). The latter shamelessly asking their followers for money to buy space travel equipment to bring Christianity to the Marklar, who really don't give a crap about it after hearing a stirring explanation from Kyle.

* ChristianityIsCatholic: Averted with annoyed and ignorant Christian (but seemly Evangelical in practice) missionaries try to convert Marvin's Ethiopian tribe into [Evangelical] Christianity and this cause Marvin rightly mad on them for forcing his folk to their religion instead actually help them.
* CoolAndUnusualPunishment[=/=]LoudOfWar: The government forces the boys to give them information by having one worker rub his hand against a balloon to make a noise that is apparently hard for the ears. Cartman eventually cracks.

* EasyEvangelism: Averted badly due of Christian (Evangelical) missionaries lack to understand Marvin's tribe language and neglect the ''whole tribe'' so as means converting them to their version of Christianity, This become eventually unwelcome as nearly of tribe riding Marvin's spaceship as means to find new home and this solved by moved Marvin and his tribe them from ''earth'' so as long his tribe is in peace from missionaries and their Christian societies from "being help" ever again.

* EasyEvangelism: Averted badly due of Christian (Evangelical) missionaries lack to understand Marvin's tribe language, They become eventually unwelcome there and this solved by moved Marvin and his tribe them from ''earth'' so as long his tribe is in peace from missionaries and their Christian societies.

* TakeThat: On Christian missionaries and ''The700Club''. The former is depicted trying to bribe starving Ethiopians with food into adopting Christianity and ordering them to read the Bible in "God's language" (English). The latter shamelessly asking their followers for money to buy space travel equipment to bring Christianity to the Marklar, who really don't give a crap about it after hearing a stirring explanation from Kyle.

* TheyKilledKennyAgain: Subverted, he only gets [[HumanPopsicle frozen in carbonite]]. We don't ever see him freed, though.

** This episode forgets they half of actual real Ethiopian population is part of Ethiopian Orthodox [Tewahedo] Church or part of Oriental Orthodoxy with a small yet important exception to ''P'ent'ay''[[note]]Which is Amharic and Tigrinya language term for a Christian of a Protestant denomination that uses their version of Evangelicalism[[/note]].

** This episode forgets they half of actual Ethiopian population is part of Ethiopian Orthodox Church or part of Oriental Orthodoxy with a small exception to ''P'ent'ay''[[note]]Amharic and Tigrinya language term for a Christian of a Protestant denomination that uses their version of Evangelicalism[[/note]].
** Marvin himself and his tribe are portrayed as ''secular'' for some reason instead part of Traditional African religious minority or part of other two major religions in Ethiopia like again Oriental Orthodoxy or Sunni Islam like in real-life.
* ChristianityIsCatholic: Averted with annoyed and ignorant Christian/Evangelical missionaries try to convert Marvin's Ethiopian tribe into Evangelical Christianity and this cause Marvin rightly mad on them for forcing his folk to their religion instead actually help them.

* EasyEvangelism: Averted badly due of Christian/Evangelical missionaries lack to understand Marvin's tribe language, They become eventually unwelcome there and this solved by moved Marvin and his tribe them from ''earth'' so as long his tribe is in peace.

* PlanetOfSteves / {{Smurfing}}: All people, places, and things on Marklar, are referred to as Marklar. Kyle even explain the situation in the Marklar's language.
-->'''Kyle''': Wait. Wait. I think I can explain this whole thing. Marklar, these marklars want to change your marklar. They don't want Marklar or any of these marklars to live here because it's bad for their marklar. They use Marklar to try and force marklars to believe they're marklar. If you let them stay here, they will build marklars and marklars. They will take all your marklars and replace them with Marklar. These marklar have no good marklar to live on Marklar, so they must come here to Marklar. Please, let these marklars stay where they can grow and prosper without any marklars, marklars, eh or marklars.

* TakeThat: On Christian missionaries and ''The700Club''. The former are depicted trying to bribe starving Ethiopians with food into adopting Christianity and ordering them to read the Bible in "God's language" (English). The latter shamelessly asking their followers for money to buy space travel equipment to bring Christianity to the Marklar, who really don't give a crap about it after hearing a stirring explanation from Kyle.

* ChristianityIsCatholic: Averted with annoyed and ignorant Christian/Evangelical missionaries try to convert Marvin's Ethiopian tribe into Evangelical Christianity and this cause Marvin rightly mad on them for forcing his folk to their religion.

** Marvin himself and his tribe are portrayed as ''secular'' for some reason instead part of Traditional African religion minority or part of other two major religions in Ethiopia like again Oriental Orthodoxy or Sunni Islam like in real-life.

** Marvin himself and his tribe are portrayed as ''secular'' for some reason instead part of Traditional African religion minority or part of other two major religions like again Oriental Orthodoxy or Sunni Islam like in real-life.

** This episode forgets they half of actual Ethiopian population is part of Ethiopian Orthodox Church or part of Oriental Orthodoxy with a small exception to ''P'ent'ay''[[note]]Amharic and Tigrinya language term for a Christian of a Protestant denomination[[/note]].

* CoolAndUnusualPunishment[=/=]LoudOfWar: The government force the boys to give them information by having one worker rub his hand against a balloon to make a noise that is apparently hard for the ears. Cartman eventually cracks.

Stan, Kyle, Cartman and Kenny are approached by the CIA about an Ethiopian boy called Starvin' Marvin who has got hold of an alien spacecraft.

* CoolAndUnusualPunishment[=/=]LoudOfWar: The government force the boys to give them information by having one worker rub his hand against a balloon to make a noise that is apparently hard on the ears. Cartman eventually cracks.

* PlanetOfSteves: All people, places, and things on Marklar, are referred to as Marklar.