An Elephant Makes Love to a Pig

Season 1, Episode 5, Aired
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Kyle gets an elephant, but his parents won't let him keep it because it is too big. Mr. Garrison gives a lecture on genetic engineering, which gives Kyle the idea of making a pot-bellied elephant by splicing the genes of his elephant with a pot bellied pig. Terrence bets that he can clone a human before Kyle can make his animal. Kyle and the boys go to the South Park Genetic Engineering Ranch, where they meet a Mephesto. Mephesto takes some blood from Stan, which Terrence uses to make a clone. Chef tells the boys that in order to make a pot-bellied elephant, the elephant would have to make love to a pig. The boys get the animals drunk, and the deed is done, but the Stan clone, starts wreaking havoc on South Park.moreless
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  • Trey Parker

    Voice of Stan Marsh; Eric Theodore Cartman; Herbert Garrison; Officer Barbrady; Terrance; Timmy; Ned Gerblanski; Satan; Randy Ma

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    Matt Stone

    Voice of Kyle Broflovski; Kenny McKormick; Gerald Broflovski; Pip Pirrup; Jesus; Jimbo Kearn; Phillip; Saddam; Various Others

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    Mary Kay Bergman

    Voice of Wendy Testaburger; Liane Cartman; Sheila Broflovski; Sharon Marsh; Mrs. McKormick; Mayor McDaniels; Ms. Crabtree; Princ

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  • great

    8.5
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    By futuramarama, Jan 15, 2011 Report Abuse
    Kyle wants to clone his elephant with Cartman's pig to make an elephant-pig. A rival classmate clones Stan. The deed is done with the elephant-pig, but now Stan's clone is going through South Park, making it Hell for everyone (especially his sister). Can the clone be stopped?

    Weird episode but also pretty good. Some of it bored me but overall it was a nice episode to watch and laugh at. So my final grade is a B- or so. Not the best episode ever, not at all, but a nice episode to watch. Funny with a decent plot. Just greatmoreless

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  • A strange episode indeed.

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    By masterhal3000, May 20, 2009 Report Abuse
    Wow this episode is much stranger than the first few ones.... but it's fantastic! For their science project the boys try to get a pig and an elephant to make love, and see what theeir baby looks like. But another kid tries to beat it by cloning people, with the help of his crazy mad scientist father, Mephisto. The kid eventually makes a clone of Stan but it comes out wrong and runs round south park causing havoc. This episode would have scored 8.5 but I watched the other few episodes in this series and realized just how good south park really is....moreless

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  • "Well, spank my ass and call me Charlie, isn't this exciting. Two A+ students in a cloning war."

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    By VestalDarkness, Apr 16, 2008 Report Abuse
    Kyle gets the brilliant idea to genetically engineer pot-bellied elephants so he can have an elephant as a pet, but is disappointed to find that pig and elephant DNA won't splice. Chef suggests getting the animals drunk so they can make love and produce their own offspring. Meanwhile, Stan's genetic clone is wreaking havoc on South Park. Even spliced together, these elements feel like different stories running through the same episode, and it never achieves a completely cohesive feel, although parts of it are certainly funny. Kenny's death is particularly well-done in this episode (no pun intended), but it is the highlight of an otherwise mediocre journey.moreless

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  • Not really the greatest episode.. but you have to remember that it's before Season Four.. the Season that made things great. Warning: Contains spoilers fo sho.

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    By joeyissoweird, Mar 26, 2008 Report Abuse
    This episode wasn't really the greatest addition to the first season of South Park. But, you have to remember that it was before Season Four, a season that got South Park to the right track. The humor in this episode is very dull and not very funny, but it's an okay episode. As a South Park fan, I still enjoyed this episode and the historical landmark it made on the series.

    Kyle, Kenny, and Stan wants to make small elephants by having an elephant mate with a potbelly pig, but Cartman is a little worried. This ends up being successful, but with one drawback.

    I enjoyed this episode. I'm glad that the latest episodes aren't as bad as this, but I still enjoyed this episode.moreless

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  • An underappreciated but still quality episode from the King of Laughs; South Park.

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    By oceanic6, Mar 25, 2008 Report Abuse
    In it; Kyle can't keep his new elephant at home because it's too big. After learning about genetic engineering in class, however, he finds a solution to his problem: splice the genes from his elephant with Cartman's pot-bellied pig to produce miniature pet elephants. After genetical engineer Dr. Mephisto tells them it's impossible; Chef says they should try to get them to do the "Mattress Mambo". When Dr. Mephisto genetically clones Stan into a giant monster; it looks like Stan can get revenge on his abusive sister. This is probably the first episode where the ending isn't totally clear from the beginning unlike the previous 5 episodes which were chronically predictable; this one is a little more complex and hence a lot more interesting.

    The humour is quite inconsistent; Chef, Dr. Mephisto and the giant Stan are very funny but some lame, immature exchanges and the graphic physical abuse inflicted onto Stan has no place being in a show designed to make us laugh. At this point of the show; Stan and Kyle were basically interchangeable as they shared the same traits and often the same opinions but giving Stan his own story is an attempt to set him apart from his friend and make him a populer character in himself just as the same for Cartman was done effortlessly.

    But sadly his slightly weak and flat sub - plot of him and his sister just doesn't do his character justice and he remains the standard straight guy of the group. It's as if the writers know that Cartman will steal whatever scene he's in so they've allocated him some pretty awful material as if to shift the focus onto Stan but by doing so they've made the two prominent characters fairly unappealing to watch. With this episode we meet mad scientist Dr. Mephisto who became a hit, recurring character thanks to memorable early appearences such as this one; the poor guy's been unofficially killed off with no speaking appearences since Season 4. The animation is still very crude and is swimming with continuity errors. Thankfully the show accept's it's limitations and doesn't aim too high. I've always been astounded on how realistic the kid's voices sound; you'd never guess that it's just two 30 - year old guys who use computers to alter their pitch. Trey Parker does a credible Marlon Brando impression as Dr. Mephisto, Mary Kay Bergman gets into the beastly sister Shelly as it's one of the only female characters in this episode and Isaac Hayes is at his smoothest as Chef.

    While it's not perfect; An Elephant Makes Love to a Pig really consolidates the crude yet charming nature of the show.moreless

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    • Visitor Sighting: An alien can be seen near the beginning of the episode, in Mr. Garrison's classroom, on the bulletin board behind the children. It is a picture or drawing of an alien amongst other pictures, and can be seen a couple of different times. Edit
    • The scene where Pip asks the boys what's for lunch and the boys have a go at him was from the unaired plot from "Cartman Gets an Anal Probe". The explanation for this is that the scene was originally part of the pilot, but was cut for time and then inserted into this episode. The animation is significantly different than the rest of the episode, far cruder, as reflected by the style of the original pilot Edit
    • During the genetic experiment results K.C. is shown in his seat before he heads back to it with his weed and the first prize button is on Fluffy's cage for a second BEFORE Mr. Garrison awarded it. Mr. Hat awards the prize but Garrison's right hand is visible. Edit

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    • When originally aired in Canada on Global, Mr. Garrison's line about genetic engineering being able to correct God's horrible mistakes, "like German people" was cut to remove the "like German people" part. However, this is uncut when aired on The Comedy Network. Edit
    • The geologist from the episode "Volcano" turns out to be Stan's father Randy Marsh as revealed in this episode. Edit
    • Dr. Mephisto makes his first appearance in this episode. Edit

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    • Kyle: Oh my god! They killed Kenny! (to microwave) You bastard! Edit
    • Bebe: I'd want a pot-bellied elephant. Pip: Yes! I'd pay $50 for one! Edit
    • Chef: Hey, I know you. You're that crazy cracker from up on the hill top. Dr. Mephisto: Sir, if splicing the DNA of humans and various animals together is crazy… Edit

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    • Elton John Intro: When Chef says "Ladies and gentlemen, Mr. Elton John!" is very similar to George Michael's introduction of Elton John in "Don't Let the Sun Go Down on Me!" Edit
    • The Omen: Terrence: Daddy, nooo! When Terrence yells to his father Mephisto, as he shoots the Mutant Stan it is very similar to the 1976 film The Omen, when Gregory Peck is in the church and wants to stab his devil possessed son Damien. Edit
    • Babe: Cartman: That'll do pig. At the end of the episode, Cartman says this line from the 1995 film Babe, a story about a pig that acted like a dog. Edit

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