After several unsuccessful attempts by the optician to cure them, including a pupil dilation that resulted in him walking into several walls and a botched laser eye surgery that ended up with Cartman having to wear bandages over his eyes for three days, he managed to get a transplant from a "donor" who's head he had preserved in ice - the donor being Kenny, who Cartman says had perfect sight. In "Funnybot", Cartman speaks German to the Germans, seemingly offering them Kyle as a way to make peace with them, or just kill him. Butters tells his parents he sees a ghost. Cartman's perceived stupidity by his friends can be attributed to his sometimes naive, careless behavior. All Rights Reserved. He even has professional help with his photo shoot in Part III. Still, despite her taking a more firm stance with Cartman, Liane will still often spoil him, due in large to part to pre-emptively avoid his tantrums as seen in "You're Getting Old". He normally used to go to Chef with his problems, and Chef was always willing to help him. South Park's Eric Cartman has a distinct way of speaking, and ever since the show debuted back in 1997, his . He is miserably and completely scrooged, determined not to give up the slightest amount of money, such as refusing to give a dollar to Afghan children in "Osama bin Laden Has Farty Pants", "I'm not giving a dollar to those towel-heads!" [3] They decided to keep it one episode when they scripted scenes with the old man in Skeeter's Bar, feeling as though his dialogue connected the two stories enough. Meanwhile, Wendy feels hurt that Stan isn't communicating with her. Cartman has a cat named Mr. Kitty, and a pot-bellied pig named Fluffy Mr. Kitty and Fluffy have never been seen together in the series thus far. [5], Parker remarked that the episode was inspired by his own life, when he had ordered items from Amazon.com, only to forget what it is when it arrives. In situations where the other boys share his goals, Cartman is often the de facto leader (e.g. He never actually struck anyone with these weapons, although it is pretty obvious he could have. It has been implied (at least in earlier episodes) that Liane may be responsible for much of Cartman's racism, anti-semitism and homophobia, as he often was to quote disparaging things that he had supposedly heard her say. He has been shown using a dagger when trying to stop Stan and Kyle from destroying the Wall-Mart, and a pair of sai (a Japanese short sword) in "Good Times with Weapons". In "Two Days Before the Day After Tomorrow", he threatens Kyle with a gun for his "Jew Gold". I'm not black, all right?!". Garrison and Randy realize they they need someone in their lives to hold them accountable and keep them from doing stupid stuff. In "Coon 2: Hindsight", Cartman, as The Coon, beat up Bradley and Clyde after questioning his method of running Coon and Friends. Cesar's methods work, and Cartman becomes a normal, good natured, well behaved boy. Although having his origins as a secondary role as the comic foil, Cartman has evolved into a character of stunningly articulate manipulative talents and techniques. In "Woodland Critter Christmas", Cartman made Stan the protagonist of his Christmas story (he is described as 'the boy in a red poof-ball hat'). Cartman and Butters free hostages being held by convicted murderers at the Red Cross so Cartman can carry out God's divine purpose. You're not a Jew". Ironically, despite (or perhaps because of) these qualities, Cartman also seems to be a natural leader, able to utilize overwhelming charisma and rhetoric to gain the obedience of large groups on a moment's notice (as in "The Passion of the Jew"), appearing to be innately aware of how to take advantage of "mob mentality" and direct it toward accomplishing his personal goals, as has been evidenced in countless episodes throughout the series' history. Cartman places his mother second on his 'Shit List', seen in "The Fractured But Whole" with Kyle as first on the list. In "The Death of Eric Cartman", Kyle sums up Cartman's character as a "fat, racist, self-centered, intolerant, manipulative sociopath". implying that one of his relatives may have abused him. Kyle: Dude, for the last time, don't call my brother a dildo! In "Jared Has Aides", after listening to Butters get beaten by his parents, as Cartman was responsible for it by pretending to be Butters on the phone and insulting them, Cartman says, "If I were older I would totally start jacking off right now", hinting at sexual sadism. In the episode "Fatbeard", Kyle encourages Cartman to run away to Somalia, hoping that he will die. Eric Cartman 1 episode, 2012 Desmond Stone 1 episode, 2018 Tom Chou 1 episode, 2019 . Kenny even went as far as to try to kill Cartman with a sniper rifle, but this was confiscated. ", Cartman saves Kyle and his family when a large storm is about to go towards their house in San Francisco. Unfortunate, this resulted in him being completely unable to control what he said, and began revealing assorted secrets such as him and his cousin touching penises. 6 11 comments Best Top New Controversial Q&A Add a Comment dykwim 3 yr. ago Cartman is heavily implied to only pick on others because of the insecurity he has acquired from others calling him fat. Cartman has Butters apologize to Kyle for him. All Rights Reserved. Cartman does not understand him until he takes his pants off, at which point, he runs out yelling in monotone fashion "Lame!" Eric Theodore Cartman, usually referred to as just Cartman, is one of the four main characters, along with Stan Marsh, Kyle Broflovski, and Kenny McCormick. In the film South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut, Cartman is shown singing in mock versions of Chinese, French, Dutch and an unidentified African language by singing "Kyle's Mom's a Bitch". He founded a boy band named Fingerbang in the episode "Something You Can Do with Your Finger". Pulled into some conflicts irrelevant, a small out of place Barbarian and a seemingly uncaring Thief have to work together with a level-headed Shaman and an internally screaming Warrior to put a stop to an out of control Wizard thirsting for too much power. It is also shown that Cartman sometimes uses his talent to express his delusional side, he demonstrates this through his hand, which he calls Mitch Conner. In "The Entity", Kyle described Cartman as "my sort of friend-ish", as his best explanation of their relationship. Cartman: Yeah, go home, you little dildo! He shows signs of not only anti-social behavior, but also sadism, identity issues, sexual confusion, psychosis, psychopathic nature, and narcissism. But when he learns who his mother slept with matters get complicated. Cartman is mostly known by his family name, and most characters, including Stan, Kyle, Wendy, and Tolkien, call him by his surname. See production, box office & company info. Cartman treats Liane like absolute garbage, verbally assaults her, manipulates her, and she's always just taken the abuse as if she deserved it. Character Information Gender Male Hair Brown Age 34 Birthday July 1, 1987 Occupation Student Grade 4th Grade Voiced By Trey Parker (South Park) Matt the User (Gaming Videos) Evil Genius (AISP Season 1) Steven (AISP Season 2) In "Cartman's Silly Hate Crime 2000", when Tolkien constantly mocks Cartman about his weight, and Kyle after provokes him, Cartman throws a rock Tolkien. However, the wrestling in which they performed was more dramatic theater in which they created complicated in depth story lines for their wrestling personas, rather than actual athletic prowess. Cartman's most passionate abhorrence is aimed at hippies, though he seems to use this term for liberals in general. In "D-Yikes! While many of his male peers think this is funny (especially Kenny), it often causes the girls to despise him. He usually tries to prove Craig wrong and annoy him. They all cry together. In "Tsst", he beats up a kid, handcuffs him to the flagpole, gives him a hacksaw, poisons him, and tells him the only way to get to the antidote was to saw off his leg. It is also likely that he said this to get a better grade, because the A and F average out to a C, whereas two F's would mean Cartman failed. The boys stop ignoring Cartman when they decide he's changed. He seemed go through all of that solely for the purpose of tricking the rest of the boys. His most frequent targets are adults and Butters, though he often targets other children for more personal purposes, including convincing Butters to "take one for the team" and be anally gang-raped by men from NAMBLA in "Cartman Joins NAMBLA", and repeatedly convincing Kyle that he is doing good, only to exploit Kyle's help later on. South Park South Park A New Toilet Season 9 E 6 04/13/2005 Cartman's mom gets banged by the plumber. The fact Cartman does this could indicate an unconscious sexual desire towards men (Ben Affleck in-particular in this case), Cartman's extreme lengths to trick his friend (despite them not being present to witness the hand jobs, making the actions pointless in the grand scheme of things), or that Cartman's Mitch Conner is part of a psychological break resulting in a multiple personality. Kyle points out to him that Kenny dying twice would be impossible and Cartman goes along with it noticing the logic. Liane Cartman is notably one of the only single parents in the town of South Park, Colorado, consistently doting on her sociopathic, bigoted child, and bending to his any and every desire. It appears that Liane is convinced of her son's goodness and accepts any excuses or stories he makes up, no matter how improbable. He is also shown to be very vulgar and disgusting, doing things like holding people down and farting on them and making them smell his rectum. In "Pandemic", the boys decided to start their own Peruvian band to earn some spending money. Aside from the sheer volume of expletives in his dialog, he also uses words in different (and often grammatically incorrect) context. In the episode "Tsst", Cartman was able to drive several nannies from his house with insults and insinuation (even causing one to be put in a mental hospital). In "The Streaming Wars," the latest "South Park" movie for Paramount+, Liane has hit her breaking point. Instead of telling her how he felt, he attempts to spare her feelings and therefore any guilt he'd feel for telling her by irrationally attempting to get rid of her. For example, in "Kenny Dies", Cartman delivers a speech to the United States House of Representatives convincing them to vote in favor of stem cell research. On rare occasions, such as in the episode "Imaginationland", he is given the codename "Blackie" as a reference to his racism according to. ", he cross dresses as "Bad Irene", a woman who is addicted to abortions. As of "Dead Celebrities", he seems to be more passive toward Kyle, greeting him with only " 'Sup, Jew?". This unfortunately could explain much of his behavior. In "Skank Hunt", he joins Stan, Kyle, Butters, Tolkien, Jimmy, Craig and Clyde to smash Eric Cartman's electronics. He is seen with a new toy, Muscleman Marc. Some examples of this are: instead of saying 'I'm serious" he will say "I'm seriously", instead of saying "here" he will say "heahre" (sometimes in the earlier episodes, he would even pronounce "here" as "myah"), apologized to Wendy by saying he was very "remoursefulness" for his actions ("Breast Cancer Show Ever"), and instead of saying "respect my authority", he would say "respect mah authoritah." HUMANCENTiPAD: Directed by Trey Parker. Liane puts her foot down and says she's not getting the implants, so Cartman threatens to get them himself, convinced that Liane will then buckle and do as he asks. Liane is considered one of the more prominent parents of all the South Park parents, as she makes many appearances throughout the series . Likening the surprise to Christmas morning, he noted in the episode's DVD commentary he has a tendency to order random items when South Park episodes are near completion: "I [order items] the most on Tuesday nights, when we're approving animation like crazy, it's like three in the morning, I'll just get on the computer and start ordering shit from Amazon [] just to make Thursday [its arrival date] like Christmas. Users can unsubscribe at any time. South Park. ) In the same episode he formed a wrestling league along with some of the other boys. He also quotes, "Haha charade you are" from Pink Floyd's song, Pigs (Three Different Ones). Enraged, Cartman yells in despair, "No, he has a strong heart, he wants to live!!!" The episode "The Damned" ends with Cartman asking Heidi what was at the bottom of a vagina, and she responds by saying "want me to show you? Craig Tucker observed in "Fishsticks" that Jimmy was lucky Cartman was only asking for half the money that would be made from patenting a joke that Jimmy had come up with, and Cartman was intent on taking credit for (he had actually lied on the couch eating chips, offering no input). However, in the "The Death of Eric Cartman", during the scene where Cartman has Butters apologize to all of his peers in his stead (as he believes he is a ghost), he seems to wish to recant some of his earlier misdeeds towards Kyle (and obtain his forgiveness), and seems genuinely moved upon seeing him. The schemes he has tried include; becoming a part of the Denver "tooth racket"; and stealing Tooth Fairy money from kids, starting a boy band called Fingerbang, and forming his own church and embezzling its collection money These all failed miserably for several reasons.