Bebe's Boobs Destroy Society
"
Bebe's Boobs Destroy Society" is episode 610 of the
Comedy Central series
South Park. It originally aired on
July 17,
2002.
In this episode,
Bebe (
Wendy's best friend) develops
breasts. Though they're small (she originally thought they were
mosquito bites), they cause all the boys in town to (without even realizing why) begin to think that she is unusually smart and cool. However, this causes Wendy and the other girls to get incredibly jealous, especially since
Stan, Wendy's boyfriend, is one of the boys affected.
Consequently, the boys begin to fight and bicker about who gets to play with Bebe, and, first in spurts and then seemingly permanently, begin to act like
cavemen. Meanwhile, Bebe, worried boys might never take her seriously (as happened to her mother, a
stereotypical dumb blonde), consults a
plastic surgeon about
breast reduction surgery, but is denied because he considers the procedure crazy. However, when Wendy shows up asking for
breast enhancement surgery, he happily obliges. Meanwhile, Stan's father has a talk with him about his breast-obsession.
The next time they are seen, they are at school, Bebe walks in wearing a box over her chest, which causes all the boys to suddenly break out of their trance; Stan shares his father's advice to not let breasts control their lives, and the boys all agree that is best. Just then, Wendy shows up, with her breast implants. Unlike Bebe, she is ridiculed rather than praised, which is probably why she doesn't have them in any later episodes (Bebe, too, appears normally in future episodes).
*The main plot of this episode is a
parody of the movie
Slums of Beverly Hills, in which the protagonist grows breasts and gains a new level of popularity among the male crowd, and attempts to get breast reduction surgery.
*In this episode,
Cartman often plays a game called "Lambs" that is originally simply a scene out of
The Silence of the Lambs.
Planet of the Apes and
2001: A Space Odyssey are parodied while the boys act like cavemen.
*The scene of Bebe's boobs conspiring while she's asleep is a parody of a similar scene involving hands in
Quicksilver Highway.
*"Ata" stands for twins in the Nigerian language, which Stan used to describe Bebe's breasts while he was in a different state of mind.
*Timmy reveals his independence when he enters Cartman's basement; his wheelchair floats down the steps.
*Bebe's breasts simply disappear after the episode, interestingly enough. Either she got the reduction surgery, or she simply managed to cover it up.
* When Bebe's mother answers the door to Stan, he replies in a completely different tone of voice, similar to Kyle's.
*In the syndicated version, the scene of Wendy's breast implant surgery was removed due to its subject matter.
*The last car the kids throw a rock at is an SUV. This is actually
Jimbo Kern in his Hummer.
