Peep (South Park)

The episode begins with the discussion of the "typical Englishman" (played by Malcolm MacDowell ) about English literature . He talks about Dickens and reports that Pip, who “for many years has been one of the brightest characters in the American television series South Park,” is the main character in Dickens’s novel, Great Expectations . In the future, the "typical Englishman" acts as a narrator.

Next begins the animated part of the episode. Pip hurries to the cemetery to visit the grave of his parents. There he meets a fugitive convict who begins to threaten him. Not afraid of the threats, Pip helps the convict free himself from shackles (he knows how to do this, since he is a student of a blacksmith ), and then gives him his sandwich. After freeing the convict, Pip returns home to his sister and her husband, a blacksmith named Joe.

Pip's sister is very rude and constantly insults her husband. Joe, good-natured, but not very smart, in response to the complaints of his wife, who says she is dying of hunger, forges an orange from iron. After that, he forges a newspaper in which he finds an advertisement for Miss Havisham, the richest resident of the city. Miss Havisham is looking for a playmate for her daughter, whom she promises to pay 20 sovereigns a day.

Pip goes to Miss Havisham to get a job. At the gate of her house, he meets Estella, daughter of Miss Havisham, who takes Pip to her mother, while constantly insulting him. Miss Havisham, dressed in a wedding dress, sits in a dark, gloomy room. When she sees Pip, she asks him: “Aren't you afraid to look at a woman who has not seen the sun for twenty years?”, To which Pip answers: “Oh no, that you! These days, you can often come across those who have not seen the sun for twenty years! ” She then asks Estella to play with Pip. Estela refuses, claiming that Pip is a commoner, however, having learned that he can break his heart, he offers to play “hit the young man on the head with a big log.” However, to the astonishment of Estella and her mother, Pip claims that her sister taught him this game, and they constantly play it.

Miss Havisham asks Pip what he thinks of her daughter. He finds her very beautiful, although she very "loves to insult." Realizing that he liked Estella, Miss Havisham asks him to come next week.

Pip gradually falls in love with Estella, and she begins to treat him with more sympathy. Walking around the garden, she lets Pip kiss her. After that, they stumble upon a boy bathing in a fountain. Estella says that this is her other friend for games, which surprises Pip. At this time, Miss Havisham, watching them from the window, rejoices that Estella "will break his miserable heart into a million small pieces."

Pip falls in love with Estella more and more, but realizes that she will never fall in love with a simple student of a blacksmith. He talks about this with Joe when a lawyer from London arrives at their house, who says that his client, who wishes to remain anonymous, wants to provide Pip with a “brilliant future,” for which he must go to London and become a gentleman . The lawyer gives Pip 20 pounds on the road, and then leaves. Pip suspects that the anonymous benefactor is Miss Havisham, and rejoices that his great hopes have come true.

In London, he settles in a room with Poket, a boy whom he saw bathing in a fountain in the garden of Miss Havisham. Pip reports that Miss Havisham paid for his studies in London to become a gentleman, to which Poket claims that she "has completely gone crazy." At dinner, he tells Pip her story. He says that Miss Havisham was in love and was going down the aisle, but on the day of the wedding received a letter from her fiancé in which he announced that he was leaving her. After that, she stopped all the hours in the house and no longer went out into the sun.

After becoming a gentleman, Pip decides to visit Miss Havish's house to meet Estella. Miss Havisham says that Estella went to school and became a real lady there. She reports that Pip will be able to meet with Estella on Friday at a ball held at the court. Miss Havisham urges him to love Estela, and when he leaves, says that his heart will be broken.

Peep goes to the ball, "which was organized by the King of Britain, Tony Blair, " in order to realize his high hopes and officially ask Estella to become his girlfriend. During the dance, Estella tells him that she does not have a heart that can love. During the conversation, a young man named Steve comes up to them, who declares that it is time for them to leave. Estela reports that Steve is seventeen and has a car. When Pip asked if she liked Steve, she replied that she was supposed to, because he was her boyfriend. This leads Pip into bewilderment; it seemed to him that he had done everything to please Estela, but Estella said that sometimes it happens, because Steve is seventeen and he has a car.

Upset Pip goes to Miss Havisham, but in her house he catches Estella and Steve. Pip does not understand why Miss Havisham made him a gentleman, to which she notices that not everything and not always what it seems. Rejoicing that Pip's heart is broken, she asks to tell him about her feelings. Steve, who realized that he was used, is indignant, which leads Miss Havisham to even more enthusiasm.

She states that she needs the tears of suffering men for her “birth mechanism,” which will allow her soul to merge with Estella’s soul and break men's hearts for another century. After that, she tells Estella to stand on the platform, and at Pipa she lets in mechanical monkeys. Pip in horror runs out of the estate of Havisham and falls near the gate. He regains consciousness in Joe's hut. Next to him are Pocket, Joe and the stranger, in which Pip identifies the escaped convict. Pip finds out that after their last meeting, the convict moved to Wales , where he took up his mind and got rich. It was he who sent Pip to London, expressing his gratitude in this way, because only Pip treated him humanly. Hearing this, Pip says: “Today I understood a lot: being a gentleman is not only able to dance and behave at a table, it means being a gentleman to everyone.” After that, he calls for “kick the ass” Miss Havisham.

When they arrive at the estate, it turns out that Miss Havisham has already launched her gear. Joe begins to fight with mechanical monkeys, a convict rushes to Miss Havisham, but she kills him by spitting acid on his face. At this time, Pocket is trying to calm those to whom Estella broke her heart, as their tears are fuel for the birth machine. He distracts their attention, asking them to think about nice things like pandas or picking up stamps . However, in any of the proposed topics, they see a dark, sad side. So, thinking about pandas, they recall that pandas are an endangered species , and when it comes to stamps, one of the boyfriends recalls that his father died from an accident with stamps .

Pip persuades Estella to leave the car. He tells her that she has a heart. To prove this, he takes a rabbit out of a bag and says that a heartless man would easily break his neck. After his words, Estella kills the rabbit; then Pip removes the next rabbit from the bag, which she also kills. This continues until Pip reaches the twenty-sixth rabbit. Seeing another rabbit, Estella declares that she does not want to kill him, because she does not see the point. Pip says that Estella still has a heart, since she saved the rabbit's life. Estella asks to give her a rabbit to check Pip’s words, but he refuses, and, saying that she bought her life, helps her to leave the mechanism.

Because of this, the process of unification of souls that has begun is interrupted, the birth machine breaks down, and Miss Havisham burns alive. Joe, Pocket, Pip, Estella and men with broken hearts leave the estate. Estella finally confesses to Pipu love, and Poket asks him to return his rabbits to him.

The episode ends with the "typical Englishman" slamming Dickens' volume lying on his lap and saying: "And they lived happily ever after. Everyone except Pocket - he died of hepatitis B ".

• There is no traditional splash screen in this series, and the final credits use a font other than the usual one in this series.
• Pip's last significant role, after this series, he acts only as a background character.
• This series also confirms that Pip's parents are dead - he comes to their grave at the beginning of the series.
• At the end of the episode, instead of Kyle, who is not here, Pip himself brings morality with the standard words “Today I understood a lot.”
• At the end of the episode, instead of Kenny, who is not here, Pocket dies.
• At the end of the episode, Miss Havisham burns down while sitting on a chair - the fire is due to a short circuit.

• Pip at South Park Studios
• Pip Series Script
• " Pip " (English) on the Internet Movie Database