[Sam's Army]

If by "uptight" you mean he will refuse to laugh at anything no matter how sick and disgusting just because people told him it is funny (for example, a boy getting revenge on a classmate who sold him phony pastable pubic hair by killing his parents and feeding them to him as dinner), I would guess that he is "uptight."

Huh?

[Hawkeye's Girl]

A boy (Eric Cartman) getting revenge on a classmate who sold him phony pastable pubic hair by killing his parents and feeding them to him as dinner happened on "South Park".

Was it funny? Yes. Was it gross? Also yes, but that's why "South Park" is rated as an adults only show.

[discostu]

I don't think the parent eating thing was supposed to be funny in it's own right, but it worked as setup for future jokes. A couple of times since then Stan and Kyle have warned kids not to mess with Cartman because "he'll make you eat your parents... no seriously he will". And THAT'S funny because it's just the kind of dumb thing juvenile kids would say as a stupid threat but it's absolutely true, Cartman will make someone eat their parents we've seen it. It also setup his company to help kids get revenge on their parents.

[L.N. Smithee]

Huh?

From the Parents Television Council, August 22, 2001:

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The July 11 episode [of South Park] began with Cartman, the most clueless of the fourth-graders, informing his pals that he now had pubic hair. He reassures them that “this doesn’t mean we can’t still hang out. It just means that I matured faster than you.”

It seems that Cartman, unaware that a person grows pubic hair when he or she’s old enough, bought the hair in question from Scott, an unscrupulous ninth grader, for ten dollars. Once he realizes he’s been taken, Cartman is furious (“I’m gonna get that son of a bitch!…That a—hole!”) and plots his revenge. He tries to train a pony to bite Scott’s penis off, but the pony won’t cooperate, instead fellating the fake penis Cartman provides.

That, incredibly, brought to a close the more tasteful portion of the episode.

Cartman then devises a scheme which results in Scott’s parents trespassing on land owned by a “crazy redneck.” The landowner fatally shoots the parents. Cartman takes their bodies, saws them up, and makes them one of the ingredients in a chili which Scott eats at a cookoff. (The dismemberment isn’t shown, but once Cartman tells Scott what he’s done, Scott reaches into the chili and pulls out one of his mother’s fingers, her engagement ring still on it.)

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Some people here think South Park is great simply because it is politically incorrect and takes shots at liberal sacred cows like Barbra Streisand and Janet Reno. It's a shame it takes sickos like the creators of South Park to get that done.