Conjoined Fetus Lady
"Conjoined Fetus Lady" is episode 205 of the Comedy Central series South Park. It originally aired June 3, 1998.
Plot Synopsis
In this episode, the boys meet Nurse Gollum, the South Park Elementary nurse. However, they are horrified to discover that she has a dead fetus attached to her face, due to a condition called "Conjoined Twin Myslexia." Upon hearing about this and the boys making fun of her, Kyle's mom Shiela decides to help the woman, and winds up causing a "Conjoined Twin Myslexia Week" declared in South Park for its sole sufferer.
Meanwhile, the school dodgeball team becomes eligible for competitions, and goes on to fight the State Competition in Denver, the Nationals in Washington, D.C., and finally goes to China for the World Championship. In the first two, South Park is able to win because Pip, the British exchange student, becomes incredibly angry whenever kids incorrectly call him "French," giving him the strength to take down the other team. However, in China they discover the kids to be unstoppable, and the team is crushed until only Pip remains.
Pip, however, manages to win when the one of the kids tricks the Chinese into calling him French; he wins, but by this point everyone has decided they don't want to play dodgeball anyway and he gets no credit for it. Back home, the townspeople have donned hats that make them appear to have fetuses on their faces, held a parade for Nurse Gollum and videotaped her constantly. She angrily declares that she does not want any extra attention or special treatment, and that by doing so they make her feel singled out. She says she only wants to be harrassed and ridiculed just like everybody else in the town and storms away. The adults think she is ungrateful, but the kids begin to question if the fetus actually makes her smarter.
Notes
- The nurse in the pilot South Park episode, which never aired, was named Nurse Schwartz and had no disfigurement.
- There is no such thing as Conjoined Twin Myslexia; the latter word, however, can be loosely translated as "Mislexia," which means "to hate to read." Since Conjoined Twins Who Hate to Read makes no sense for this episode, it may be a coincidence or merely a joke because it nevertheless SOUNDS like it could be a real disease.