Background Concept and CreationĪccording to the creators, Trey Parker and Matt Stone, they thought it would be impossible to put a character like Archie Bunker on late-20th century television.

3.2 Antisemitism and Other Forms of BigotryĮric Cartman is a male.

1.4.1 Manipulation and Leadership Ability.

He also weighs 90 pounds, as revealed in ' Weight Gain 4000'. In earlier episodes, Kenny was his best friend, however, in later seasons, Butters Stotch is usually depicted as such.Ĭartman was the first one of the boys to be shown without his hat, as seen in ' Merry Christmas Charlie Manson!'. However he is usually Kyle's first choice when he breaks his friendship with Stan. None of the other three main children really consider Cartman their friend and do not know why they started hanging out with him in the first place, but a certain form of unstable friendship ends up being born between them. Cartman is sometimes the main antagonist of an episode, for example ' Trapper Keeper'. ' Cartman Gets an Anal Probe' For other uses, see Eric (Disambiguation).Įric Theodore Cartman, usually referred to as just Cartman, is one of the main characters, along with Stan Marsh, Kyle Broflovski, and Kenny McCormick. In fact, back when that got introduced is pretty much where the show started falling off.The Spirit of Christmas: Jesus vs. No one likes the Randy weed farm sub blot. Some better jokes would've been nice, though. There's rarely deeper meaning, even if people love to search for it. They go about how toilet paper is wasteful and inefficient, and it's one of those cases where you can't tell if the South Park creators are being serious or completely joking, or perhaps trying to use 'big toilet paper' as a metaphor for big pharma, but I really doubt it. But yeah, still an interesting episode, just not exactly funny. It wasn't a set up for anything, like you may hope not even a joke - it's just 'here's a thing people are talking about right now.' Not the first time South Park does this, and it disappoints a bit.

As a joke it led nowhere, clearly just shoehorned in because the creators always want to throw in relevant things into the show, but can't really make them work into it in a funny way. It's weird that instead of big pharma or big oil, who are way more relevant right now, South Park is like - 'big toilet paper is the current thing we should make an entire episode about.' And there's Hogwarts Legacy thrown in in the beginning, clearly just because it was a hot topic for a week.

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