Raisins (South Park) - Plot

Plot

The boys are playing football when Bebe tells Stan that his girlfriend Wendy has decided to break up with him. The other boys tell Bebe that Stan does not care, which upsets her.

Stan tries to get Wendy to be his girlfriend again, asking Kyle and Jimmy to talk to her for him. Jimmy's speech impediment worsens the situation when Stan suggests calling her a "continuing source of inspiration for him ". Instead, Jimmy stutters on the word "continuing", only managing to repeat the first syllable (pronounced "cunt") which Wendy mishears as an insult.

Stan starts to withdraw from life, and all he thinks about is the breakup. In an effort to stop Stan from thinking about Wendy, the boys take him to the restaurant Raisins—a play on Hooters—where all of the employees are young preteen girls, no older than the boys themselves, who enjoy wearing heavy make-up. The waitresses are named after luxury car manufacturers, such as Porsche, Mercedes and Ferrari. Being taken to Raisins does not help Stan with his problems and, if anything, only makes things worse. Meanwhile, Butters falls in love with one of the waitresses (named Lexus), and obsesses over her throughout the episode, failing to see the insincerity of her interest in him.

Stan realizes he can not get his friends to get them back together; he needs to get Wendy's friends to do it. So he asks Bebe to talk to Wendy, but she tells him to do something romantic to show Wendy how he feels. Stan then asks Bebe to explain it further, and she tells him to "Stand outside her window, and play Peter Gabriel". Stan does so, a reference to Lloyd Dobler's actions in the movie Say Anything, and chooses the rather unromantic "Shock the Monkey" by Peter Gabriel, only to find Wendy at the window with Token.

Stan's miserable mood is intensified by this discovery, especially as this also inflicts damage on his friendship with Token. Kyle angrily says that, if Stan is so depressed, then he might as well hang out with the Goth kids. Stan takes the advice literally and does become friends with the Goth kids, who are obsessed with non-conformity, while ironically forcing Stan to conform to their ways, and also listen to industrial music like Skinny Puppy.

Butters runs out of money because he has spent it all at Raisins. Butters' parents, delighted that their son did not turn out gay, decide to come with Butters to meet his "girlfriend". However, they realize that Lexus does not really like Butters when they arrive at Raisins, and tell him that the Raisins girls know that they can make men do whatever they want by flirting, and thus do this for a living. Butters does not believe his parents and tells them off. He then offers to move in with Lexus, but she bluntly explains to Butters that she is not his girlfriend, and proceeds with her job delivering curly fries.

Butters starts to withdraw from life like Stan does. He goes outside and cries in the rain as "All Out of Love" by Air Supply plays in the background. Seeing Butters cry, the Goth kids invite him to join their clique. Butters replies that the sadness he is feeling is a "beautiful sadness" because it means he felt something really good before and this makes him feel alive, and on that note declines their offer. Stan agrees with Butters that he liked liking life more than hating it, saying one of Cartman's famous lines, "Screw you guys, I'm going home." He then leaves the Goth kids.

On the next day, Stan is back to normal and asks the other boys to play football together, along with Butters, who is now relieved of his own misery. When Token and Wendy walk by, Stan calmly calls Wendy a bitch and gives Token the finger. Kyle is thankful for Stan's recovery from the incident.