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'''English''' is the primary [[language]] spoken in the [[United Kingdom]], [[Ireland]], [[United States]], [[Australia]], and [[New Zealand]], and sundry other places; one of the primary languages of [[Canada]] and [[South Africa]]; and a second language for most [[Europe|Europeans]] and many in the rest of the world. Worldwide, the language is second only to Chinese in number of speakers, and its cultural and economic importance has given it preeminent status as a language of international communication.

| Title = Bebe's Boobs Destroy Society

| Series = South Park

| Image = [[Image:Bebe Screenshot.PNG|200px|]]

| Caption = Bebe at [[Eric Cartman|Cartman's]] house

| Season = 6

| Episode = 610

| Airdate = [[July 17]], [[2002]]

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| Episode list = [[List of South Park episodes|List of ''South Park'' episodes]]

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"'''Bebe's Boobs Destroy Society'''" is episode 610 of the [[Comedy Central]] series ''[[South Park]]''. It originally aired on [[July 17]], [[2002]].

== Plot ==

The children return to school for the first time since the death of Ms. Choksondik in the episode [[The Simpsons Already Did It]]. During the break, [[Bebe Stevens|Bebe]] ([[Wendy Testaburger|Wendy's]] best friend) has developed [[breasts]]. Though they're small (she originally thought they were [[mosquito]] bites), they cause all the boys in town to begin to think that she is unusually smart and cool, without even realizing why. However, this causes Wendy and the other girls to get incredibly jealous, especially since [[Stan Marsh|Stan]], Wendy's boyfriend, is one of the boys affected. They start calling her a slut and saying she has a huge vagina.

Consequently, the boys begin to fight and bicker about who gets to play with Bebe, and first in spurts, then seemingly permanently, begin to act like [[cavemen]]. An example of the boys being attracted to Bebe is Stan, Kyle, Cartman and Tweek having a discussion on kicking out someone. Cartman at first kicks out Kyle and Tweek, offering them a sort of severance package, including peanuts and a watch but Stan refuses to let either boy go, and the next scene shows Bebe as part of the South Park four without Eric, resulting in Cartman walking over saying "**** you Kyle! **** you Stan! **** you Tweek! Bebe you're still cool." Meanwhile, Bebe, worried that boys might never take her seriously (as happened to her mother, a [[stereotype|stereotypical]] [[dumb blonde]]), consults a [[plastic surgeon]] about [[breast reduction|breast reduction surgery]] who rejects the proposition because he considers breast reduction immoral. He then tells her that if she wants them bigger, "now might be the time to size up." Similarly when Wendy asks for a breast implant he accepts her request, but only after she announces she has three thousand dollars, cash. Meanwhile, Stan's father has a talk with him about his breast-obsession, going along with Stan's calling breasts "[[Ah-tah]]s".

English descends from the language spoken by the [[Angle tribe|Angles]] and [[Saxon|Saxons]] who invaded [[Britain]] at the beginning of the [[Middle Ages]], usually referred to as [[Old English language|Old English]]. Although its most commonly used words today derive from those early Anglo-Saxon roots, its vocabulary was greatly influenced over time by both [[Old Norse language|Old Norse]] and the [[French language]]. By about the time of the [[Renaissance]], the language had evolved into what is known as [[Middle English]]. From the [[15th century|late 1400s]], the language changed further into what is described as [[Modern English]]. English has continued to assimilate foreign words, especially [[Latin language|Latin]] and [[Greek language|Greek]], even to the present time. As a result of this history of assimilation, English today has the largest vocabulary of any language in the world.

The next time they are seen, 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 not to let breasts control their lives, and the boys all agree that it is the 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. Butter's goes up and pokes them, saying that they're all "hard and oogy." Bebe, too, appears normal in future episodes. This could mean that she found a way to cover them up.

== Goofs ==

* In the scene where Stan, Kyle and Tweek go over to watch Terrance and Phillip with Bebe, Stan knocks on the door. Bebe’s mom then answers the door. When Stan asks for Bebe, his voice sounds exactly like Kyle’s.

* When Stan, Kyle, Tweek and Bebe appear in the bus stop (after Cartman asks who were they going to get rid of as a replacement for Kenny), it appears that Bebe doesn’t have any breasts.

== Pop culture references ==

In [[1755]] [[Samuel Johnson]] wrote the first significant English dictionary.

* 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. Some could say that Bebe resembles the film’s lead star, Natasha Lyonne.

* In this episode, [[Eric Cartman|Cartman]] often plays a game called [[Lambs (game)|Lambs]], that is originally simply a scene out of ''[[The Silence of the Lambs (film)|The Silence of the Lambs]]''.

* ''[[Planet of the Apes]]'' and ''[[2001: A Space Odyssey (film)|2001: A Space Odyssey]]'' are parodied while the boys act like cavemen. ''2001'' was also parodied in the “[[Trapper Keeper (South Park episode)|Trapper Keeper]]” and “[[The Tooth Fairy Tats 2000]]” episodes.

* Stan, while in his caveman persona, calls boobs “ah-tah,” a word meaning "fire" in the language of the characters of the movie ''[[Quest for Fire]]''.

English is a slightly [[inflected language]], retaining features like

* The scene of Bebe’s boobs conspiring while she’s asleep is a parody of a similar scene involving hands in ''[[Quicksilver Highway]]''.

* One of the boys near the end of the episode says “Fire, bad!,” referencing ''[[Frankenstein]]''.

* Possessive (which has developed into a [[clitic]])

* Verb conjugation (third person single ending of -s)

* Verb tenses

* Plurals

* Accusative ''(only on pronouns)''

All in all English is a much less inflected language than the bulk of [[Indo-European]] languages, placing more of the information in the word order.

English [[grammar]] is based on that of its Germanic roots, though some scholars during the 1700s and 1800s attempted to impose Latin grammar upon it, with little success.

[[English orthography]] diverts considerably from the spoken language. It is not a [[phonology| phonological]] orthography.

English is noted for the vast size of its active vocabulary and its fluidity. English easily accepts technical terms into common usage and imports new words which often come into common usage. In addition, [[slang]] provides new meanings for old words. In fact this fluidity is so pronounced that a distinction often needs to be made from formal and correct forms of English and contemporary usage.

Varieties of English include [[American English]], [[Australian English]], [[British English]], [[Canadian English]], [[Hiberno-English]], [[Newfoundland English]], [[New Zealand English]], and [[South African English]]. These varieties may, in many cases, contain several subvarieties, such as [[Cockney]] within [[British English]] and [[African American Vernacular English]] (AAVE) (aka [[Ebonics]] (spoken among some African-Americans).

English belongs to the [[Germanic languages|Germanic branch]] of the [[Indo-European]] family of languages.

See also [[rhotic]], [[singular they]].

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==Censorship==

* The scene near the end of the episode where Wendy gets her breast implant surgery (where the doctor haphazardly shoves the implant into her chest while blood spurts everywhere, the doctor curses profusely, and Wendy being naked during the operation) was cut from the syndicated version.

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