Follow That Egg!
Template:Infobox South Park episode "Follow that Egg!" is episode 910 of the Comedy Central series South Park. It originally aired November 2, 2005.
Plot synopsis
In this episode, Mrs. Garrison – formerly known as Mr. Garrison – finds out that her former boyfriend, Mr. Slave, is planning to marry South Park's other major homosexual figure, Big Gay Al, as soon as the Colorado governor legalizes such unions. The couple broke up in Mr. Garrison's Fancy New Vagina, when the eponymous change in Garrison quashed Mr. Slave's attraction to her. Mrs. Garrison realizes she still has feelings for Mr. Slave, and dedicates herself to doing whatever she can to prevent their union from being legalized.
The kids are paired off and assigned to care for eggs as if they were babies as part of a lesson in parenting responsibility. To Stan Marsh's horror, his ex-girlfriend Wendy is assigned to his best friend, Kyle Broflovski (Stan, meanwhile, is paired with Bebe Stevens). The assignments cause tension, as Stan starts to suspect Kyle of having designs on Wendy while Bebe is angry at Stan's indifference to their egg.
The governor demands a study demonstrating that gay families are unstable before agreeing to veto the marriage bill. Mr. Garrison reorganizes Stan, Kyle, Wendy and Bebe into same-sex couples, hoping that Stan's poor "parenting" skills will destroy the egg and provide the results the governor needs.
In a parody of child custody battles, Wendy becomes upset because Stan and Kyle now have the egg that originally belonged to her and Kyle. The boys remain on bad terms; Stan is still suspicious about Kyle's motives with Wendy and frequently snaps at him. Cartman breaks his egg but Garrison is so bent on the gay marriage law to be vetoed, he gives him a new one with a threat to break his legs if he breaks it again. Garrison makes plans for the final egg check in front of the governor's office, and has an assassin destroy the egg. However, it is then revealed that Kyle — fearing Stan's ability as a parent — gave him a fake egg and saved the real egg. The two boys reconcile and rush to the governor's office, narrowly escaping the assassin's gunfire, and even bombs (somehow already planted in the ground). The bill passes and gay citizens are permitted to marry.
The episode concludes with Mr. Slave and Big Gay Al marrying. Wendy apologizes to Stan for doubting his ability to be a parent, but he brushes her off. Neither they nor Garrison and Slave get back together. Matt and Trey have said this will not be the last episode with Mr. Slave because he is just "too hilarious".
Notes
- Token is the only one that gets a brown egg.
- Butters doesn't appear at all in this episode, and his name isn't even on the parent chart, suggesting that he may still be considered dead and locked up in his basement from the end of "Marjorine" or his parents may have grounded him for faking his death. Butters eventually made a return in the following episode, "Ginger Kids".
- Mr. Garrison shows unusual kindness and honesty to Cartman after he breaks the egg, contrasting his normal selfish attitude, however this is quick to change when Cartman revealed that his plan was to take all the blame, fail, and have his partner pass so their grades would average out to a C-.
- Part of the lyrics in Mrs. Garrison's song claims she should "boldly go", another one of the Star Trek references on South Park.
- The episode title is a spoof of "Follow that car," a line commonly preceding chase scenes in many movies. There is even a scene in this episode where the kids are in a taxicab that is driving very erratically similar to movie chase scenes.
- After the governor says the line,"Like anyone cares about f**kin dykes", one of the people in the front of the crowd-excluding the mustache-looks exactly like Stan's dad in the episode "South Park Is Gay!".
- The assassin resembles Jean Reno in the movie "Léon", aka. "The Cleaner". The assassin also resembles Solid Snake.
- The bridal shop Mr. Garrison passes translates, loosley, to "The Little Pussy Bridal Shop".
- One of the lines Stan says when Kyle asks Stan if his hat is really stupid. ("As a matter of fact, it is the most amazing hat I've ever known") He sounded like Eric Cartman.
- This is the first episode after Raisins where Stan shows that he retains feelings for Wendy.