Story

Description

Cartman holds an emergency meeting with the fourth grade boys to disclose a shocking secret regarding the girls. They have a mystical relic that allows them to see the future. After showing recorded footage of the girls operating this "Future Telling Device”, it in reality is just a paper fortune teller kids typically make, the boys immediately put a complex plan in motion to steal the device.

It's decided that Butters must fake his own death and pose as a new female student, so he can infiltrate a slumber party hosted by classmate Heidi Turner and steal the device. His death is faked by dropping a dead pig dressed in his clothes from the Bowery Building in front of a large crowd and Butters’ parents. A funeral for Butters takes place soon after.

At school Ms. Garrison introduces a new female student -- a girl from Dallas named Marjorine. Her "mother” Cartman phones Heidi's mother and secures an invitation to the slumber party. However, Marjorine doesn't fit in with the girls and is reduced to tears by their cruel insults. When Marjorine locks herself in the bathroom, Wendy and Bebe realize they have been too hard on her. The girls apologize and attempt to comfort Marjorine with the promise of a makeover. The boys, keeping watch from outside, grow worried and check up on Marjorine, only to find her dolled up, happily partying to Justin Timberlake's "Rock Your Body" with the rest of the girls.

Meanwhile, Butters' parents are hysterical over the loss of their son. Desperate to console his wife, Stephen follows the ominous warning (or advice) from a creepy farmer and digs up Butters’ fake pig body. Stephen reburies the body in an old Indian cemetery as a Pagan ritual in hopes of resurrecting Butters, aware the resurrected may return as an abomination.

Back at the party, Heidi's father spots the boys outside and angrily exclaims so. Figuring the boys' plan has been discovered, Marjorine grabs the device and quickly escapes. However, she refuses to accompany the boys back to Cartman's house, where they've set up a high-tech "containment field" to house the artifact. Saying the device is nothing but trouble, Marjorine removes her wig, wipes off her make up and goes home.

The boys take the device to their hideout but decide that Butters is right. Its power is too great and will bring disaster to whoever possesses it. They move the device to the woods and allow Kenny to blow it up, who creates an explosion needlessly large enough to be seen from space.

Butters arrives home to tell his parents he isn't dead. They are horrified upon seeing Butters, as they are convinced he has been resurrected as an “unholy demon spawn”. Instead of welcoming him back, they chain him up and lock him in the basement. When he says he is hungry, his parents kill a saleswoman and offer her body for Butters "to feed on." He prefers some SpaghettiOs instead.

What I Learned Today

"That time device is nothing but trouble!"

Memorable Quotes

• "Just keep stalling, Butters. We don't have the dead pig quite ready yet." Cartman
• "Lord, as we commit this child's body to the earth, may we ask it be the last child you strike down so mercilessly? We know this request to be futile, Lord, but just thought we would ask." Father Maxi
• "Well, I'm just a typical little girl. I like dancin' an' and ponies and getting my snootch pounded on Friday nights." Marjorine_Identity
• "Now Butters, we don't know exactly what it is that girls do at their slumber parties. But if they all start . . . you know . . . lezzing out, just roll with it." Cartman
• "God only knows the horrors that go on at girls' slumber parties." Cartman
• "I'm sorry son, but you're a demon spawn now." Stephen Stotch
• "You, sir, mocked Cartman before, yet you too sit here demanding answers! Now, damn you, let him speak!" Clyde
• "Just come down now son, and we promise we won't ground you for more than a couple weeks." Stephen Stotch
• "Now, Marjorine, that's not very lady-like. Us Colorado girls love to get pounded in the sniz just like any woman, but we keep it to ourselves." Ms. Garrison
• "Sometimes, dead is better." Old Gas Station Worker
• "You're going to live alone because you're a nerdy, dorky, geek!" Red
• "Oh Butters you smell like bacon." Stephen Stotch
• "You aren't there to have fun you black asshole!!" Cartman
• "Oh god, it's terrible!! WHAT HAVE I DONE?!!" Stephen Stotch

Characters

Stan Marsh

Kyle Broflovski

Eric Cartman

Kenny McCormick

Butters Stotch

Linda Stotch

Stephen Stotch

Bebe Stevens

Clyde Donovan

Wendy Testaburger

Craig Tucker

Janet Garrison

Jason

Bradley Biggle

Father Maxi

Character Debuts

Marjorine, Butters' female alter ego.

Marjorine

Heidi Turner, the 4th grade girl with brown hair and a lime green shirt. She's been in several episodes before (such as "Probably" and "Stupid Spoiled Whore Video Playset"), but she gets her first big role here. Her mother and father, Mr. and Mrs. Turner, make their debuts as well.

Heidi Turner

Mr. Turner

Nancy Turner

Although they aren't formally introduced, two other 4th grade girls have their quasi-debut: Isla (the brown-haired girl with a red shirt, shown operating The Device with Bebe and the girls in the beginning), and Esther (the black-haired girl with the aqua jacket, as shown on Cartman's "Surveillance Targets" board).

Isla

Esther

Body Count

The saleswoman who is killed by Butters' dad so that his "undead" son could "feed." There's also the dead pig that the boys dress up as Butters and toss off a building.

Locations

Bowery Building

Behind The Scenes

Where Did The Idea Come From

Trey and Matt think there's too much going on in this episode. About 50 percent too much, to be exact. Either of the stories -- Butters rising from the grave, or dressing up as Marjorine to steal the girls' fortune-telling device -- could easily have stood alone.

Pop Culture References

Pet Sematary

Pet Sematary at IMDB

When the guy with the thick Maine accent knocks on the door and tells Butters' dad about the Indian graveyard - that's basically the plot of Pet Sematary. The King version ends even scarier than this one.

Shout Outs

Heidi, the slumber party hostess, has a poster for a line of toy dolls called Twerpz tacked to a wall. It's a spoof of the Bratz dolls.

Cartman's plot to infiltrate the girls' slumber party (by dressing up one of the boys as a chick) bears striking resemblence to the 2002 film Juwanna Mann, which Kevin directly points out. Cartman gets pissed, "No, not like Juwanna Mann, Kevin, okay? It's WAY cooler than that!"

Red brings the new Justin Timberlake CD (Justified) to the slumber party. Later, they all dance to Timberlake's dance hall hit "Rock Your Body." The girls also play "Light as a Feather, Stiff as a Board," which is a popular levitation game played at slumber parties.

The containment facility the boys build to house the "Future Telling Device" looks a lot like the containment center set up outside of Elliot's house in the classic film E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial. This was also parodied in Season 2's "Chef's Chocolate Salty Balls."

Bonus Factoids

Pointless Observations

Butters' grave marker bears the following Biblical quote: "Jesus said 'Come unto me all ye who labor and are heavy laden and I will give you rest.' Matt. 11:28."

Cartman uses his Wellington Bear Video Camera to capture the surveillance footage of the girls -- a new device in the growing Wellington Bear catalogue. He similarly uses his Speak and Record Bear to catch Shelly and Skyler in "Cat Orgy."

At Heidi's slumber party, there's a Barbie-esque Paris Hilton doll on the floor. This comes from "Stupid Spoiled Whore Video Playset" . There's also a board game called Blister, a parody of Twister.

Clyde and Cartman seem to get along strangely well in this episode -- despite the fact that Clyde has admitted to hating Cartman on multiple occasions.

Season 9

e1 Mr. Garrison's Fancy New Vagina

e2 Die Hippie, Die

e3 Wing

e4 Best Friends Forever

e5 The Losing Edge

e6 The Death of Eric Cartman

e7 Erection Day

e8 Two Days Before the Day After Tomorrow

e9 Marjorine

e10 Follow That Egg!

e11 Ginger Kids

e12 Trapped in the Closet

e13 Free Willzyx

e14 Bloody Mary