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Phillip "Pip" Pirrup is the under-rated and often mis-treated character in South Park. He is a British (exchange?) student, and has since been only a background character since the third season. But his true power was showed in episode 205, "Conjoined Fetus Lady", when he blew the enitre Chinese dodgeball team away with some sweet moves.
He is voiced by Matt Stone.
Pip is the fourteenth episode of the fourth season of South Park. It aired on November 29, 2000.
For some reason, this story is broken up into three acts. This is mostly likely done to allow time for commercial breaks, and to go with the theme of the story being told like a story is told in Masterpiece Theater.
The episode starts off with a British person, talking about the great masterpieces of English literature. He says that Pip, the character from South Park, is based off the main character in the book, Great Expectations.
Since many people haven't read Great Expectations, during this episode of South Park they will tell the story. In the end, you'll know the story so well, it'll be almost like you read the Cliffs Notes.
The British person, which is what he calls himself, narrates the story throughout the episode. It starts with Pip going off to see his parents, who are dead.
While at the graveyard, an escaped convict comes and threatens Pip. Not scared, Pip helps out the convict by giving him a sandwich and cutting the convict's handcuffs. Pip knows how to break the handcuffs because he is an apprentice to a blacksmith.
Pip goes back to his home, where his sister and her husband (Joe Gargery) live. His sister is abusive and yells a lot. Joe is stupid, but is a superb blacksmith. He makes a newspaper out of metal.
In the newspaper is a ad. The wealthiest woman in town, Miss Havisham, is willing to pay twenty quid a day to a little boy who will play with a lonely girl. Pip goes to the Havisham residence to accept the job.
At the gate, Pip meets Estella, a young girl who takes him to see Miss Havisham. She insults him the whole time. Miss Havisham is in a dark room, and asks Pip, "does it frighten you to look upon a woman who has never seen the sun in twenty years?" Pip says no.
She tells Estella to play with Pip. Estella doesn't want to; she says, "with this boy? But he is just a commoner!" Upon learning that she can break his heart, she agrees to play "hit the boy with the yellow hair over the head with a log".
Miss Havisham asks Pip what he thinks of Estella. He thinks she is quite pretty and insulting. Miss Havisham tells Pip to return in a week. Pip soon falls in love with Estella, and dreams about her.
Eventually, Estella is a little nicer to Pip, and lets him kiss her. They then walk in the garden. They come across a naked boy, playing in the fountain. Estella casually says that he is another playmate of hers; Pip is not the only one. This makes Pip feel bad; it seems she still does not care about him, and she resumes insulting him. Miss Havisham, who has been watching through a window, is quite happy about this, and says, "Yes, yes, she will break his heart into a million pieces."
Despite Estella being mean, or perhaps because of it, Pip finds himself falling more and more in love with her every day. This is bad for Pip, because she is rich and he thinks she would never marry a commoner like him. Pip talks this over with Joe, and Joe agrees with Pip.
Luckily, a man comes in. An anonymous benefactor, most likely Miss Havisham, has agreed to pay for Pip to go to London and learn how to become a gentleman. Joe is paid twenty summons to let Pip go. Pip is enthusiastic, because if he is a gentleman, Estella might like him. Pip has become a young man of great expectations.
In London, Pip is sent to live with his roommate, Mr. Pocket. Pocket is the boy Pip say earlier, naked in the fountain. Pip says this is because Miss Havisham is generous, and is paying for both of them to become gentlemen. Pocket says he has nothing to do with Miss Havisham anymore, because she is mad.
Pocket tells the story of Miss Havisham. He interrupts it to tell Pip whenever Pip does something improper, like farting at the dinner table. Each time, Pip apologizes, and Pocket says, "Not at all, I'm sure."
Miss Havisham grew up as a rich young girl. She was about to marry a man, when he failed to show up at the wedding. He left her a letter, a letter she got at 9:30. Since then, she stopped all the clocks in the house at 9:30, and never looked upon the sun again.
Pip spent the rest of his time in London learning how to be a gentleman, by learning "fencing, archery, and how to eat box".
After his time in London, he shows up at Miss Havisham's house to thank her for letting him go to London, and to see if he is good enough for Estella. Estella has been learning how to be a woman. Miss Havisham tells Pip that he can find Estella at a party at the palace on Friday. She sends Pip off, telling him to love Estella. Once she is alone, she again says something threatening about how Estella will break Pip's heart.
At the ball, held by Tony Blair, the King of England, Pip is expected to formally ask Estella to be his girlfriend. The two dance, and talk about how Pip is now a fine young gentleman. Estella says that she has no heart, and cannot love. Pip disagrees.
Right when it seems fit for Pip to ask Estella to be his girlfriend, her boyfriend Steve comes in. Steve is seventeen, has a car, and for some reason, is not English.
Pip, saddened, runs to tell Miss Havisham, only to find that she approves of Estella's boyfriend. She tells Pip that things aren't always as they seem. She is glad that Estella has broken Pip's heart. Estella's boyfriend is saddened to know that Estella was just using him to hurt Pip, and Miss Havisham takes joy that his heart is broken as well.
In a strange parody of a James Bond villain, Miss Havisham explains why she has her daughter Estella break hearts. Miss Havisham will use the tears from the men with broken hearts to power a genesis machine. Miss Havisham will become young again and put herself in Estella's body, and then she continue breaking men's hearts for another generation. She then uses her robot monkeys to attack Pip.
Pip escapes and falls unconscious. He wakes up, and finds himself in his old house. Joe and Pockets are there. The anonymous person who sent Pip to London is revealed to be the escaped convict Pip met at the beginning of the story. Because of Pip's kindness, the convict led a life of goodness and became a millionaire. Sending Pip to London was his way of repaying Pip for the good that Pip did to him.
The four of them, Pip, Joe, Pockets, and the convict, decide to stop Miss Havisham. They show up too late; Miss Havisham has already started the machine.
Joe and the convict fight the monkeys. The convict dies in the struggle, and Joe is overwhelmed the whole time.
Meanwhile, Pockets tries to get the broken hearted men not to cry, so they won't power the machine. He tells them to think of nice things, like panda bears and stamp collecting. The men find ways to make the nice things sad; panda bears are sad because they are almost extinct, and one man's father died in a stamp collecting accident. They men continue to cry and fuel the machine.
Pip tries to convince Estella to leave the machine. He knows she has a heart, and to prove it, he reaches into his sack and pulls out a bunny. No one with a heart would kill a bunny. He gives Estella the bunny. She kills it.
Pip then says no one with a heart would kill two bunnies. She kills the second bunny. On and on this goes until they get to the twenty-sixth bunny. She doesn't see the point in killing the bunny. Pip says this proves that she has too big of a heart to kill twenty-six bunnies.
Estella decides Pip is right, and gets off of the machine. This messes up the machine, killing Miss Havisham and letting Joe kill all of the monkeys. Joe, Pocket, Estella, and all the men with broken hearts leave the mansion.
Then they all live happily ever after, except for Pockets, who dies of Hepatitis B.The Character
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