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1'''Original air date:''' 11/29/2000
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3A ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark''-style retelling of ''Literature/GreatExpectations'', with Creator/MalcolmMcDowell as the narrator and starring Pip Pirrup.
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5!!This episode has the following tropes:
6* ActorAllusion: Creator/MalcolmMcdowell introduces himself as "[[Film/AClockworkOrange your humble narrator]]" (as well as "a British person").
7* ADayInTheLimelight: The episode focuses on Pip.
8* BecauseYouWereNiceToMe: A platonic version: the convict who Pip helped free takes him in and teaches him how to be a gentleman for freeing him.
9* BittersweetEnding: The convict is killed, but Pip and the others manage to rescue Estella and the men from Miss Havisham. The narrator assures us they all lived happily ever after, "except for Pocket, who died of Hepatitis B.".
10* BreadEggsMilkSquick:
11** Referring to Pip's education towards becoming a gentleman: "He was taught fencing and marksmanship, and he was shown how to dance and eat box."
12** Pocket educates Pip on his table manners, with his corrections starting at the mundane and ending with the crude, especially telling Pip that he shouldn't expose his penis to check it for scabs in front of company.
13* CruelAndUnusualDeath: Miss Havisham breathes acid into the convict's face.
14* DoesNotLikeMen: Miss Havisham.
15* FamilialBodySnatcher: The purpose of Miss Havisham's genesis device is to enable her to do this.
16* {{Jerkass}}: Estella, though she's as nice as Pocket when compared to Miss Havisham.
17* MissingEpisode: Almost never aired, probably due to the near-universal negative opinion on it.
18* NiceGuy: Pocket. Too bad he died of Hepatitis B.
19* NoNameGiven: The narrator just says he's "A British Person".
20* NonStandardCharacterDesign: Every adult in this episode, and even Pocket to a lesser extent, has a completely different, more grotesque and appropriately Dickensian design compared to the usual ''South Park'' characters.
21* OffTheRails: Follows ''Great Expectations'' up until Estella's adoptive mother builds a DoomsdayDevice powered by male tears.
22* OverlyLongGag: Estella breaking the necks of the bunnies that Pip hands her to prove that she ''can't'' be as heartless as she thinks she is. She only stops because she'd grown bored with it, which Pip proclaimed as proof of his point.
23* ParasiticImmortality: Miss Havisham tries to use her Genesis Machine to transplant her consciousness into her daughter Estella's body to prolong her life. Her plot is foiled when Pip convinces Estella she has a heart and gets her to leave the Genesis Machine while it's working. This causes the machine to explode, killing Miss Havisham.
24* PetTheDog: Subverted, Estella almost apologizes to Pip for breaking his heart but stops herself before she can.
25* RaisedAsAHost: Estella was raised specifically to break men's hearts in order to power Miss Havisham's genesis device, and then serve as her new body.
26* SlidingScaleOfAdaptationModification: Parodied. The episode starts off faithful to the book, but then once the Genesis Device is introduced, it goes ''completely'' off the rails.
27* WholePlotReference: To ''Literature/GreatExpectations''. The episode is actually pretty faithful to the book until the introduction of the Genesis Device!

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