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's horror, his ex-girlfriend Wendy is assigned to Kyle (Stan, meanwhile, is paired with Bebe). 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. Mrs. 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, she 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".

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Stan and Kyle wearily present their egg to Mrs. Garrison.

Notes

• This episode spoofs the controversity of Same-sex marriage.
• 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".
• Mrs. Garrison shows unusual kindness to Cartman in replacing his egg, and in the same vein Cartman shows very uncharacteristic honesty in revealing that he broke his egg. Of course, as both have their own agendas, the unholy alliance between the two can effectively be deemed temporary.
• 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 Mrs. Garrison passes translates, loosely, to "The Little Pussy Bridal Shop".
• This is the first episode after Raisins where Stan shows that he retains feelings for Wendy.
• The song Mrs. Garrison sings on love, near the beginning of the show, sounds very similar to "Love Changes Everything", the theme song from Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical, Aspects of Love.
• The assassin has a visitor medal / badge on his shirt
• It is odd that Father Maxi and not a judge marries Mr. Slave and Big Gay Al due to the Roman Catholic Church's stance against same-sex marriage.
• Star Trek refrence #2: After the sceene in which Kyle reveals he had hidden the real egg and replaces the one "killed" by the assasin, he asks Stan if he really thinks his hat is stupid (A comment made by Stan over the phone earlier in the episode). Stan approaches Kyle, and says: "As a matter of fact, it is the nicest hat I have ever known". Stan uses the exact same intonation and style of Captain Picard in Star Trek: First Contact, when he appologizes to Mr. Worf after calling him a coward by saying: "As a matter of fact, you are the bravest man I have ever known".
• When he is sitting at the coffee table and then at the kitchen table, Stan's arms are drawn similarly to those of Linus and Charlie Brown from Peanuts, usually as they are leaning on the brick wall. He has large forearms and his fingers (he's not wearing gloves) are splayed; at the kitchen table, one arm is resting on the table and his other hand on the side of his face, a pose often assumed by Peanuts characters.
• At one point Mrs. Garrison asks the citizens of South Park to gather up "trucks and queers" so they can have a "good old-fashioned fag drag." This can be seen as a reference to the death of Matthew Sheperd.