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In season 1 episode 4, titled "Big Gay Al's Big Gay Boat Ride," the boys learn a few lessons about tolerance and acceptance when they encounter a member of their community who is gay.

The episode begins with the boys gearing up for a football game with their rivals from the neighboring town of Middle Park. However, Kyle Schwartz is a terrible football player, and his constant blunders on the field end up costing the team the game.

After the game, the boys return to the animal shelter to visit Sparky and Big Gay Al.

They witness a group of anti-gay protesters who are picketing outside the facility, denouncing Big Gay Al and his lifestyle. This fails when Sparky jumps onto Fifi just to steal her diamond-encrusted collar.

  • Shoo the Dog: An unintentional example: Stan complains that he doesn't want a gay dog like Sparky, but a butch dog like Rin Tin Tin. Sparky overhears this outside Stan's house through his window, so he digs under the fence and runs away, sighing at how his owner rejected him for his sexuality.
  • Smug Snake: Jimbo boasts about his nephews proficiency at football to the entire town, causing them to cast their vote on him.

    When Chef calls him out on it, Garrison doubles down by saying that he only acts gay to get chicks.

  • Incompatible Orientation: Stan mail-orders a female poodle named Fifi and tries to set her up with Sparky to force the latter into a straight relationship. During Homecoming, Kyle himself (helmet-clad) is rammed by many Middle Park players diving in on him.
  • Lovable Sex Maniac: Sparky may have a tendency to hump every male dog he sees, but he's still a good boy.

    Do you understand?
    Stan: I guess.
    Mr. Well.

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    Lay off the Cough Syrup Stan

    Pretty solid episode, Mr. Garrison being gay starts here and then we get into all that other stuff. [Sparky looks confused] Don't be gay, Spark.

    Poor Enrique blows up at the end of the episode.

  • Epic Fail: Cartman finishes a report for school on how Simon & Simon were not actually brothers — only on television. Don't be gay.
    Kyle Did it work?
    Stan: I don't know.
    Cartman: He still looks pretty gay to me.

  • Another example occurs when told to make a presentation on Asian culture, and he makes it up as he goes along despite knowing nothing of the subject.

    Stan: Um...

    That was roughing!

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    As for Jimbo's subplot, the South Park Cows beat the spread against Middle Park (albeit with some causalities), but the bomb strapped to the latter group's mascot blows up when Richard Stamos sings his high F.

  • Black Comedy Rape: Sparky has sex with both a street dog named Sylvester and Clyde's dog Rex, leaving them both whimpering and yelping as they scurry away.
  • Book Dumb: Jimbo proudly declares himself to be a South Park Elementary alum, since that was as far as most of the town got.
  • Brutal Honesty: Mr.

    Garrison doesn't allow anything to stop him from speaking his mind about a subject, whether it be homosexuality, his newfound favoritism for Stan, or Richard's Stamos' lack of singing prowess.

    Cartman: Wait a minute, why the hell does he get an A-?
    Mr. Big Gay Al takes a liking to Sparky and offers to adopt him.

    Since Stamos is a Dreadful Musician, the bomb doesn't go off, but Stan beats the spread against Middle Park anyway, saving Jimbo's hide. Unfortunately, Stamos learns his high F at the end of the episode, causing the bomb to go off long after the game.

  • Good Counterpart: Big Gay Al is one to Garrison. Even when angry at him, he never gives up on him and tries to be stern but fair.
  • Musical Trigger: Jimbo straps a bomb on the opposing team's mascot, set to go off when the high F of "Loving You" is sung during halftime.

    Unfortunately, the assignment is on Asian cultures.

  • Establishing Character Moment: This is the first real hint at Mr. Garrison's homosexuality.
  • Establishing Series Moment:
    • After the previous episode mocked liberals and Democrats for making anti-hunting laws with gaping loopholes, this episode takes a shot at conservatives and Republicans for their anti-gay beliefs, confirming that South Park isn't taking sides.
    • This episode, with its genuinely emotional moral and moments, also establishes that, even with its indulging of Vulgar Humor, South Park can be a show with as much dramatic moments as there are comedic ones.

      Much to his chagrin again, he gets better at the end of the episode.

      Garrison: It's obvious where all the talent in that family went!

    • Jimbo, Ned, and their bombs expert, spend a rather long time trying to hit the high F themselves, with Ned being particularly bad at it due to his laryngeal cancer.
  • Early-Installment Weirdness:
    • This time Clyde is voiced by Matt Stone instead of Trey Parker, which is why he sounds like Butters in this episode.
    • Jesus and Pals is depicted as a call-in advice show rather than a daytime talk show, as seen in later episodes (such as "The Mexican Staring Frog of Southern Sri Lanka").
    • Once again, Kyle says Stan's Oh my God, they killed Kenny!

      while in this episode, Al got Stan to reunite with his dog and reunite other gay animals with their owners, and was proud of him when he succeeded. Yet, in the episode itself, he is just Stan's gay dog, Sparky. Mr. Garrison is uncharacteristically lenient on Stan compared to the other classmates because he's the school's quarterback and the only hope the South Park Cows have to beat the spread against Middle Park.

      You wanna be both nurturing and clinging at the same time.