Starvin' Marvin in Space
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| “Starvin' Marvin in Space” | |||||||
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| Episode no. | Season 3 Episode 44 | ||||||
| Original airdate | November 17, 1999 | ||||||
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| South Park - Season 3 April 1999 - January 2000 | |||||||
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Starvin' Marvin in Space is the 13th episode of the 3rd season of South Park.
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[edit] Synopsis
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.
[edit] Plot
Inside its spaceship, an alien Marklar is preparing to land. It does so and encounters lions who kill it.
In a missionary nearby, young Ethiopian boy Starvin' Marvin is asked to read a passage as he and his fellow starving Ethiopians are made to worship Christ, follow the Bible and take Christian names under the promise of food. He walks out and heads towards a crowd who stare over a mountain ridge at the lion that killed Marklar's spacecraft. Starvin' Marvin heads towards it and enters, accidentally launching it.
After Starvin' Marvin's activity is discovered by the FBI, they decide to contact four American boys who had encountered him before.
At school, two FBI agents tell Mr. Garrison that they need to speak to Stan, Kyle, Cartman and Kenny.
After being tortured (by having to listen to balloons being scraped) Cartman finally explains who Starvin' Marvin is.
Starvin' Marvin soon encounters the boys when his craft crashes into Cartman's house. They are then took into space when the craft jumps into a wormhole and winds up on the planet Marklar.
When they return the FBI agents are waiting. The boys (except Kenny) manage to get back in the craft along with Starvin' Marvin and go back towards the planet Marklar in order to colonize it as a new home for the starving Ethiopians. The FBI manage to bribe Sally Struthers (who is now a hutt) with Kenny's body. The Christian missionaries then realize they can spread the word of Christ to the planet Marklar.
Pursued by the FBI and missionaries, the boys have to figure out a solution. Cartman manages to convince Sally Struthers to leave them alone and to help stop the missionaries by appealing to her by saying that theyre trying to be like her and simply helping these people.
On Marklar, the boys cannot convince the Marklars to let the Ethiopians stay due to the fact they cannot adjust to Marklar linguistics. Kyle manages to speak Marklar by giving his usual big speech but replacing every word with 'marklar' and the Ethiopians and Starvin' Marvin are allowed to stay. Meanwhile, the missionaries are dragged away. The boys make an empty promise that they'll return to which Cartman says "when Jesse Jackson is President..."
[edit] Trivia
- Final appearance of Starvin' Marvin. (though he appears in the final crowd in I'm a Little Bit Country)
- The song in the credits is the song from Trey Parker and Matt Stone's band DVDA called "I am Chewbacca".
- There are many references to Star Wars (Sally Struthers looks like Jabba the Hutt, Kenny is frozen in carbonite like Han Solo).
| Preceded by: "Hooked on Monkey Phonics" | South Park episodes | Followed by: "The Red Badge of Gayness" |
- When entering a warp zone escaping Sally Struthers and the missionaries,Kenny is seen with Starvin' Marvin and the other three boys in the ship although back then Kenny was left with the CIA and the American Gov.
- The red button that Cartman presses to activate the wormhole to Marklar, is also the same button he pressed earlier that activated the song.
[edit] Goofs
- Sally Struthers became Jabba the Hutt.
