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Posted on 01/17/2009 4:42:23 PM PST by chasio649
South Park's Eric Cartman is one of my favorite television characters, animated or otherwise. Don't get me wrong. I am not intolerant, foul-mouthed, bigoted, obese, selfish, and fond of hitting little stuff, such as gnomes, aliens, and little critters, with a stick. Apparently, though, I'm not the only one who likes the little fat kid. He was 10th on TV Guide's 2002 list of the “Top 50 Greatest Cartoon Characters” and the only South Park character to make it to the list (if you're curious, Bugs Bunny topped the list, followed by Homer Simpson, Rocky and Bullwinkle, Beavis and Butthead, and the Grinch).
True enough, a lot of South Park fans believe that for an episode to be good, it has to have good Cartman moments, and, in turn, a good Cartman moment more often than not means a good episode. For those who are true blue South Park fans, when we think of Eric Cartman, we usually see his plump little round body and hear his southern accent saying either, “I hate you guys,” or “That's so lame,” You're breaking my balls man,” or simply a very curt and high-pitched, “Hey!”
I'm sure most of you have your very own favorite Cartman moments. I've listed my top 5. Feel free to add your bests in the comments below!
5. Cartman spitting in the nanny's mouth on “Tsst”
Here, Cartman's cussing, bigotry, and insensitivity towards other people's feelings have become so harsh that his mom started hiring people to control his son. At one point, he spit in his nanny's mouth when the latter wouldn't give back his 360. The nanny was just trying to go down “to his level” which proved to be a horrible idea.
4. Cartman snapping at the hotel person on “Ginger Kids”
On the episode, Cartman launched a campaign to rid the world of non-ginger kids, i.e., red hair, pale skin, freckles, when he woke up one day as a “ginger kid.” Near the end, he and his legion of followers were ready to lower the kids in cages into pots of molten lava when the hotel person interrupted the ceremony to ask if they needed more lava. Cartman didn't really do anything here, but I swear, I can hear his voice snapping, “You're welcome now leave us alone!” Doesn't sound as funny in paper. Watch the episode.
3. Cartman showing an incriminating photo in class on “Cartman sucks”
Definitely not one of Cartman's shining moments. With some incriminating photos showing himself with Butter's penis on his mouth and determined to not let Kyle have the pleasure of tormenting him, he shows the picture himself in class.
2. Cartman feeding someone his dead parents on “Scott Ternorman Must Die”
Hailed as one of Cartman's most dastardly, borderline psycho moments, Cartman sowed a plot against ninth grader Scott Tenorman for swindling him of $16.12. No one expected the length the scheming Cartman would go to, until late in the episode, when Cartman revealed to Scott Tenorman that he killed Tenorman's parents and put them on the chili he was eating. Trivia: there were debates among the show runners on whether they had gone too far with this episode. The nays apparently won, as the episode was aired in one piece.
1. Cartman hitting everyone, admonishing them to “Respect my authoritah!” on “Chicken Lover”
Because Cartman is just the type to abuse a little authority that is entrusted to him, his arguably most popular catchphrase came when he was made deputy police chief for a few hours. In a nutshell, he would start hitting everyone with his stick, while telling them to “Respect my authoritah!”
The runner-ups include the time when Cartman thought he was dead for eating a lot of chicken skin, when he organized a Christian rock band, when he pretended to have tourette syndrome, and when he tried to redo the whole civil war.
What's your favorite Cartman moment?
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Oh yeah, I can't argue with that. Anytime, for any reason, I hear her name, see her face, or whatever, I instantly think of that "South Park" episode...that can't be good for one's celeb status!
Cartman: Egh, stop defending your little girlfriend for writing about some stupid fish.
Stan: Dude, dolphins are intelligent and friendly.
Cartman: Intelligent and friendly on rye bread with some mayonnaise.
Cartman has the best songs. Taken From Christian Rock Hard:
Cartman: All right, guys, this is gonna be so easy. All we have to do to make Christian songs is take regular old songs and add Jesus stuff to them. See? All we have to do is cross out words like “baby” and “Darling” and replace them with [writes next to “baby”] Jesus.
All right, Butters, give me a beat. Okay, nice. Very nice. All right, Token, give me a smooth bass line.
Token: I don’t know how to play bass.
Cartman: Token, how many times do we have to go through this? You’re black. You can play bass.
Token: I’m gettin’ sick of your stereotypes!
Cartman: Be as sick as you want, just give me a God-damned bass line! [Token begins to play a bass line, then is surprised that he can actually do it, then realizes that Cartman is right]
Token: God-damnit!
Cartman: All right. Nice, fellas. Nice.
I need you in my life, Jesus.
I can’t live without you, Jesus
And I just want to feel you deep inside me, Jesus.
Butters: Well done!
Glenn L. Diaz writes like a dumbass needing a 10 year old to proof his articles. There are so many grammatical errors it was hard to read.
Southern accent my eye.
When he was on the Maury Povich show:
Yep...you are probably right...that was EPIC!!!!
One month ago today, this amazing film opened in theaters. And now, we proud few gather here as a people brought together by its message! Fellow fans of Mel Gibson, our numbers have grown and now, together, we have the power to change the world! Now I believe we should take to the streets and march in unwavering support of this important movie! And as we march for The Pasion we should also voice our support! So, when I say "Es ist Zeit für Säuberung," you all chant back "Wir müssen die Juden ausrotten."
Too funny... I remember there were quite a few on FR who weren't too happy with the attacks on Mel.
When he thought he was invisible! Cartman rules. But, Butters is my favorite!
I loved the episode where he dictated his list of bad behavior to Butters because he thought he was dead and couldn’t get into heaven.
“Tried to kill all the Jews”
“Killed a kid’s parents and made him eat them”
“Crapped in the principal’s purse about a hundred times”
Butter’s underplayed reaction was perfect. “We’re gonna need more paper”.
cheesy 
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