Creators Matt Stone and Trey Parker had the idea to recreate Charles Dickens' "Great Expectations" in the style of "South Park" from the very beginning of the series. The character of Pip has been a minor character on "South Park" from the show's onset, having appeared in the pilot episode, "Cartman Gets an Anal Probe." Pip had a somewhat bigger role in the original, unaired version of the pilot, but most of his scenes have been cut from the reworked and shorter broadcast version. One of these cut scenes, a short sequence in the school cafeteria that introduces Pip, was reinserted into the show's fifth episode "An Elephant Makes Love to a Pig." (As the scene came from the pilot, it was created with traditional paper cutout stop motion animation.) In the scene, Stan asks Pip about his peculiar name, but Cartman interrupts Pip during his answer. Pip's reply – "my father's family name being Pirrip and my Christian name Phillip, my infant tongue--" – is identical to the opening line of the novel "Great Expectations", which is narrated by its protagonist, Pip.