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* BreadEggsMilkSquick: "He was taught fencing and marksmanship, and he was shown how to dance and eat box."

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* BreadEggsMilkSquick: BreadEggsMilkSquick:
** Referring to Pip's education towards becoming a gentleman:
"He was taught fencing and marksmanship, and he was shown how to dance and eat box.""
** Pocket educates Pip on his table manners, with his corrections starting at the mundane and ending with the crude, especially telling Pip that he shouldn't expose his penis to check it for scabs in front of company.
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* ParasiticImmortality: Miss Havisham tries to use her Genesis Machine to transplant her consciousness into her daughter Estella's body to prolong her life. Her plot is foiled when Pip convinces Estella she has a heart and gets her to leave the Genesis Machine while it's working. This causes the machine to explode, killing Miss Havisham.
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* SomethingCompletelyDifferent: This is ''not'' your typical ''South Park'' episode. In fact, it's not a ''South Park'' episode at all!
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'''Original air date:''' 11/29/2000
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Everythings Better With Monkeys has been turned into a disambiguation. Zero Context Examples and examples that don’t fit existing tropes will be removed.


* EverythingsBetterWithMonkeys: Miss Havisham commands robot monkeys.
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* BreadEggsMilkSquick: "He was taught fencing and marksmanship, and he was shown how to dance and eat box."
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* BittersweetEnding: The convict is killed, but Pip and the others manage to rescue Estella and the men from Miss Havisham. The narrator assures us they all lived happily ever after, [[spoiler:"except for Pocket, who died of Hepatitis B.".]]

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* BittersweetEnding: The convict is killed, but Pip and the others manage to rescue Estella and the men from Miss Havisham. The narrator assures us they all lived happily ever after, [[spoiler:"except "except for Pocket, who died of Hepatitis B.".]]



* NiceGuy: Pocket. [[spoiler:Too bad he died of Hepatitis B!]]

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* NiceGuy: Pocket. [[spoiler:Too Too bad he died of Hepatitis B!]]B.
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* NonStandardCharacterDesign: Every adult in this episode, and even Pocket to a lesser extent, has a completely different, more grotesque and appropriately Dickensian design compared to the usual ''South Park'' characters.
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* SomethingCompletelyDifferent: This is ''not'' your typical ''South Park'' episode. In fact, it's not a ''South Park'' episode at all![[note]]This was the last time the show attempted an episode like this: along with [[NeverLiveItDown the stigma of the similar episode "Not Without My Anus,"]] Trey and Matt realized that their audience didn't like tuning in to see anything other than the four main boys, and, later on, Stan's dad, Randy.[[/note]]

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* SomethingCompletelyDifferent: This is ''not'' your typical ''South Park'' episode. In fact, it's not a ''South Park'' episode at all![[note]]This was the last time the show attempted an episode like this: along with [[NeverLiveItDown the stigma of the similar episode "Not Without My Anus,"]] Trey and Matt realized that their audience didn't like tuning in to see anything other than the four main boys, and, later on, Stan's dad, Randy.[[/note]]all!
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A ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark''-style retelling of ''Literature/GreatExpectations'', with Creator/MalcolmMcDowell as the narrator.

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A ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark''-style retelling of ''Literature/GreatExpectations'', with Creator/MalcolmMcDowell as the narrator.
narrator and starring Pip Pirrup.



* BecauseYouWereNiceToMe: A platonic version, the convict who Pip helped free takes him in and teaches him how to be a gentleman for freeing him.

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* BecauseYouWereNiceToMe: A platonic version, version: the convict who Pip helped free takes him in and teaches him how to be a gentleman for freeing him.



* OverlyLongGag: Estella breaking the necks of the bunnies that Pip hands her to prove that she ''can't'' be as heartless as she thinks she is. She only stops because she'd grown bored of it, which Pip proclaimed as proof of his point.

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* OverlyLongGag: Estella breaking the necks of the bunnies that Pip hands her to prove that she ''can't'' be as heartless as she thinks she is. She only stops because she'd grown bored of with it, which Pip proclaimed as proof of his point.



* SomethingCompletelyDifferent: This is ''not'' your typical ''South Park'' episode. In fact, it's not a ''South Park'' episode at all![[note]]This was the last time the show attempted an episode like this: along with [[NeverLiveItDown the stigma of the similar episode "Not Without My Anus,"]] Trey and Matt realized that their audience didn't like tuning in to see anything other than the boys (or Randy).[[/note]]

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* SomethingCompletelyDifferent: This is ''not'' your typical ''South Park'' episode. In fact, it's not a ''South Park'' episode at all![[note]]This was the last time the show attempted an episode like this: along with [[NeverLiveItDown the stigma of the similar episode "Not Without My Anus,"]] Trey and Matt realized that their audience didn't like tuning in to see anything other than the boys (or Randy).four main boys, and, later on, Stan's dad, Randy.[[/note]]



* YouAreBetterThanYouThinkYouAre: Parodied. Pip ''tries'' to invoke this with Estella by claiming she's not heartless enough to kill a baby bunny, but she snaps the its neck without hesitation. Rinse and repeat for another twenty-five baby bunnies.

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* YouAreBetterThanYouThinkYouAre: Parodied. Pip ''tries'' to invoke this with Estella by claiming she's not heartless enough to kill a baby bunny, but she snaps the its neck without hesitation. Rinse and repeat for another twenty-five baby bunnies.
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* NiceGuy: Pocket. [[spoiler:Too bad he died of "Hepatitis B".]]
* NoNameGiven: The narrator is simply called "A British Person."
* OffTheRails: Follows ''Great Expectations'' up until Estella's mother builds a DoomsdayDevice powered by male tears.

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* NiceGuy: Pocket. [[spoiler:Too bad he died of "Hepatitis B".]]
Hepatitis B!]]
* NoNameGiven: The narrator is simply called just says he's "A British Person."
Person".
* OffTheRails: Follows ''Great Expectations'' up until Estella's adoptive mother builds a DoomsdayDevice powered by male tears.



* SomethingCompletelyDifferent: This is ''not'' your typical South Park episode. In fact, it's not a South Park episode at all![[note]]This was the last time the show attempted an episode like this: along with [[NeverLiveItDown the stigma of the similar episode "Not Without My Anus,"]] Trey and Matt realized that their audience didn't like tuning in to see anything other than the boys (or Randy).[[/note]]
* WholePlotReference: To ''Literature/GreatExpectations''. The episode is actually pretty faithful to the book until the introduction of the Genesis Device.

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* SomethingCompletelyDifferent: This is ''not'' your typical South Park ''South Park'' episode. In fact, it's not a South Park ''South Park'' episode at all![[note]]This was the last time the show attempted an episode like this: along with [[NeverLiveItDown the stigma of the similar episode "Not Without My Anus,"]] Trey and Matt realized that their audience didn't like tuning in to see anything other than the boys (or Randy).[[/note]]
* WholePlotReference: To ''Literature/GreatExpectations''. The episode is actually pretty faithful to the book until the introduction of the Genesis Device.Device!
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* WholePlotReference: To ''Literature/GreatExpectations''. The episode is actually pretty faithful to the book until the introduction of the Genesis Device.

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* WholePlotReference: To ''Literature/GreatExpectations''. The episode is actually pretty faithful to the book until the introduction of the Genesis Device.Device.
* YouAreBetterThanYouThinkYouAre: Parodied. Pip ''tries'' to invoke this with Estella by claiming she's not heartless enough to kill a baby bunny, but she snaps the its neck without hesitation. Rinse and repeat for another twenty-five baby bunnies.
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* FamilialBodySnatcher: The purpose of Miss Havisham's genesis device is to enable her to do this.


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* RaisedAsAHost: Estella was raised specifically to break men's hearts in order to power Miss Havisham's genesis device, and then serve as her new body.
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* OverlyLongGag: Estella breaking the necks of the bunnies that Pip hands her to prove that she ''can't'' be as heartless as she thinks she is. She only stops because she'd grown bored of it, which Pip proclaimed as proof of his point.
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* BittersweetEnding: The convict is killed, but Pip and the others manage to rescue Estella and the men from Havisham. The narrator assures us they all lived happily ever after, "except for Pocket, who died of Hepatitis B."
* CruelAndUnusualDeath: Miss Havisham breathes acid into the convict's face
* DoesNotLikeMen: Miss Havisham
* EverythingsBetterWithMonkeys: Havisham commands robot monkeys.
* {{Jerkass}}: Estella, though she's as nice as Pocket when compared to Miss Havisham
* MissingEpisode: Almost never aired, probably due to the near-universal negative opinion on it
* NiceGuy: Pocket

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* BittersweetEnding: The convict is killed, but Pip and the others manage to rescue Estella and the men from Miss Havisham. The narrator assures us they all lived happily ever after, "except [[spoiler:"except for Pocket, who died of Hepatitis B."
".]]
* CruelAndUnusualDeath: Miss Havisham breathes acid into the convict's face
face.
* DoesNotLikeMen: Miss Havisham
Havisham.
* EverythingsBetterWithMonkeys: Miss Havisham commands robot monkeys.
* {{Jerkass}}: Estella, though she's as nice as Pocket when compared to Miss Havisham
Havisham.
* MissingEpisode: Almost never aired, probably due to the near-universal negative opinion on it
it.
* NiceGuy: PocketPocket. [[spoiler:Too bad he died of "Hepatitis B".]]



* PetTheDog: Subverted, Estella almost apologizes to Pip for breaking his heart but stops herself before she can

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* PetTheDog: Subverted, Estella almost apologizes to Pip for breaking his heart but stops herself before she cancan.
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* ActorAllusion: Creator/MalcolmMcdowell introduces himself as "[[Film/AClockworkOrange your humble narrator]]" (as well as "a British person").
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* SlidingScaleOfAdaptationModification: Parodied. The episode starts off faithful to the book, but then once the Genesis Device is introduced it goes completely off the rails.

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* SlidingScaleOfAdaptationModification: Parodied. The episode starts off faithful to the book, but then once the Genesis Device is introduced introduced, it goes completely ''completely'' off the rails.
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* OffTheRails: Follows ''Great Expectations'' up until Estella's mother builds a DoomsdayDevice powered by male tears.

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* BittersweetEnding: The convict is killed, but Pip and the others manage to rescue Estella and the men from Havisham. The narrator assures us they all lived happily ever after, "except for Pocket, who died of Hepatitis B."



* Jerkass: Estella, though she's as nice as Pocket when compared to Miss Havisham

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* Jerkass: EverythingsBetterWithMonkeys: Havisham commands robot monkeys.
* {{Jerkass}}:
Estella, though she's as nice as Pocket when compared to Miss Havisham
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* NoNameGiven: The narrator is simply called "A British Guy:

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* NoNameGiven: The narrator is simply called "A British Guy:Person."
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* SomethingCompletelyDifferent: This is ''not'' your typical South Park episode.

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* SomethingCompletelyDifferent: This is ''not'' your typical South Park episode. In fact, it's not a South Park episode at all![[note]]This was the last time the show attempted an episode like this: along with [[NeverLiveItDown the stigma of the similar episode "Not Without My Anus,"]] Trey and Matt realized that their audience didn't like tuning in to see anything other than the boys (or Randy).[[/note]]
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* SlidingScaleOfAdaptationModification: Parodied. The episode starts off faithful to the book, but then once the Genesis Device is introduced it goes completely off the rails.
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* WholePlotReference: To ''Literature/GreatExpectations''.

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* WholePlotReference: To ''Literature/GreatExpectations''. The episode is actually pretty faithful to the book until the introduction of the Genesis Device.
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* BecauseYouWereNiceToMe: A platonic version, the convict who Pip helped free takes him in and teaches him how to be a gentleman for freeing him.
* CruelAndUnusualDeath: Miss Havisham breathes acid into the convict's face
* DoesNotLikeMen: Miss Havisham
* Jerkass: Estella, though she's as nice as Pocket when compared to Miss Havisham
* MissingEpisode: Almost never aired, probably due to the near-universal negative opinion on it
* NiceGuy: Pocket
* NoNameGiven: The narrator is simply called "A British Guy:
* PetTheDog: Subverted, Estella almost apologizes to Pip for breaking his heart but stops herself before she can
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A ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark''-style retelling of ''Literature/GreatExpectations'', with Creator/MalcolmMcDowell as the narrator.

!!This episode has the following tropes:
* ADayInTheLimelight: The episode focuses on Pip.
* SomethingCompletelyDifferent: This is ''not'' your typical South Park episode.
* WholePlotReference: To ''Literature/GreatExpectations''.

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