Raisins (South Park episode)

Infobox Television episode
Title = Raisins
Series = South Park


Caption = Lexus and Butters
Season = 7
Episode = 110
Airdate = December 10, 2003
Production = 714
Writer = Trey Parker
Director =
Guests =
Episode list = List of "South Park" episodes
Season list = Infobox South Park season 7 episode list
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"Raisins" is episode 110 of the Comedy Central series "South Park." It originally aired on December 10, 2003.

Plot

The boys are playing football when Bebe tells Stan that his girlfriend Wendy has decided to break up with him. Stan obviously cares a lot about this, as he has liked Wendy ever since the first episode of "South Park". The other boys tell Bebe that Stan doesn't care, which results in Bebe calling the boys "assholes".

Stan tries to get Wendy to be his girlfriend again, asking Kyle and Jimmy to talk to her for him. Jimmy's speech impediment worsens the situation when Stan suggests calling her a "continuing source of inspiration for him". Instead, Jimmy stutters and says, "Stan says you are a cont-..." Before he can get out the whole sentence, Wendy tells him to tell Stan to "fuck off", and then walks away.

Stan starts to withdraw from life, and all he thinks about is the breakup. In an effort to stop Stan from thinking about Wendy, the boys take him to Raisins (a parody of the Hooters restaurants) where all of the employees are young preteen girls, wearing heavy make-up. Being taken to Raisins doesn't help Stan with his problems and, if anything, only makes things worse. Meanwhile, Butters falls in love with one of the waitresses (Lexus), and over her throughout the episode and neglects to see and understand her pseudo interest in him (even when she asks a bouncer to keep Butters away from her).

Stan realizes he can't get his friends to get them back together; he needs to get Wendy's friends to do it. So he asks Bebe to talk to Wendy, but she tells him to do something romantic to show Wendy how he feels. Stan then asks Bebe to explain it further, and she tells him to "stand outside her window, and play Peter Gabriel". Stan does so (choosing the less-than-romantic "Shock the Monkey"), only to find Wendy at the window with Token (paying homage to the John Cusack movies" High Fidelity" and " Say Anything").

Stan's bad mood is intensified by this discovery, especially as this also inflicts damage on his his friendship with Token. Kyle angrily says that, if Stan is so depressed, then he might as well hang out with the Goth kids. Stan takes the advice literally and does become friends with the Goth kids, who are obsessed with non-conformity, while ironically forcing Stan to conform to their ways.

Butters runs out of money because he has spent it all at Raisins. Butters' parents, delighted that their son didn't turn out gay (Stephen Stotch won a bet from his wife for this), decide to come with Butters to meet his "girlfriend". However, they realize that Lexus doesn't really like Butters when they arrive at Raisins, and tell him that the Raisins girls know that they can make men do whatever they want by flirting, and thus do this for a living. Butters doesn't believe his parents and angrily tells them to go to "heck". He then offers to stay with Lexus, but Lexus explains to Butters that she doesn't want to have anything to do with him. She leaves to deliver curly fries.

Butters starts to withdraw from life like Stan does. He goes outside and cries in the rain. Seeing Butters cry, the Goth kids invite him to join their clique. Butters replies "Yeah... And I'm sad! But at the same time I'm really happy that something can make me feel that sad... It's like... It makes me feel alive, y'know? It makes me feel human. The only way I could feel this sad now, is if I felt somethin' really good before, so I have to take the bad with the good. So I guess what I'm feelin' is, like a beautiful sadness... I guess that sounds stupid... Besides, I'd rather be a crying little pussy than a faggy goth kid". Stan agrees with Butters, saying one of Cartman's famous lines, "Screw you guys, I'm going home." He then leaves the Goth kids as well.

On the next day, Stan is back to normal and asks the other boys to play football together (along with Butters, who is now relieved of his own misery). When Token and Wendy walk by, Stan calmly calls Wendy a bitch and gives Token the finger. Kyle congratulates Stan for recovering from the incident.

Censorship

* In syndication, the scene in which Stan talks to Jimmy is shortened, and the final utterance of the syllable "cont" is bleeped. No other edits appeared aside from the usual tightened language restrictions, which as usual "do" permit words like "fag" and "pussy", thus leaving Butters' line about how he'd rather be a "crying pussy instead of a faggy Goth kid" intact. Additionally, Stan's middle finger to Token was left intact.Fact|date=August 2008

Rating

This episode is rated 15 in the UK by the BBFC, but the audio commentary on the South Park season seven DVD set is rated 18 because the word "cunt" is said by Trey Parker and Matt Stone unedited.