In the South Park episode " Ginger Kids ", Cartman asks a crowd of fellow gingers to name great Americans with red hair, the only name they can think of is " Ron Howard ".

In the racing game South Park Rally, a user can race as Cartman against other users playing as other characters, while choosing to place him in any of a variety of vehicles.

In South Park Let's Go Tower Defense Play !, Cartman can be selected as a playable character used to establish a tower defense against the game's antagonists.

Still the social outcast, he has nevertheless been seen spending considerable amount of time with the other children, and continues to be a frequent source of help to Cartman, while also being the main victim of Cartman's pranks and manipulation ( for instance in the season 11 episode " Cartman Sucks " Cartman goes on numerous sleepovers with Butters so he can pull pranks on him while he sleeps ).

The game first appears in episode 4x05 " Cartman Joins NAMBLA ," and can also be seen at the beginning of episode 8x02 " Up The Down Steroid ".

Cartman is especially delighted that one can buy three copies of Timecop for $ 18 instead of just one for $ 9. 98, though Kyle wonders why one would need three copies of the same movie.

Meanwhile, Cartman, claiming his status as Kenny's " best friend forever " to the Colorado Supreme Court with the first half of the BFF medallion, gets an order to take out the feeding tube, and he removes the tube after tracking down and finding Kenny's other BFF medallion half so he can get the PSP upon Kenny's death ( it's implied that Cartman himself put the other medallion around Kenny's neck ).

Mr. Garrison's hatred for Gifford was foreshadowed in " Cartman Gets an Anal Probe ", where the sentence " I'm not positive, but I think Cathy < nowiki >< nowiki ></ nowiki > Lee Gifford is much older than she claims to be ," can be seen on his classroom's chalkboard.

Cartman is planning to befriend the gullible Butters and discover his embarrassing secrets, so he can blackmail him and / or embarrass him in school.

Kyle is touched, and says that if Butters is for some reason unable to attend, Cartman can.

Just as " evil " Cartman is the complete opposite of his normal self, " evil " Stan and Kyle are both the opposite of their normal selves and are thus cruel, wanting to bring their wussy " friend " Evil Cartman back so they can torment him once more.

He and Kyle then decide to use it on Cartman — their Cartman — so they can keep the nice one.

Cartman starts to thank Kyle just as the episode ends, but credits roll before he can finish and cuts him off at " Kyle ..." As for the kindergarteners, after countless lawyers come in and legal forms and endless meetings, Filmore concedes because " this game is stupid.

Cartman has a " brilliant " idea, reasoning what she meant was that it could be possible that eating food through the rectum can cause defecation through the mouth.

The following day Stan and Kyle are at the bus stop playing with their Terrance and Phillip dolls when Cartman arrives explaining that he had the weirdest dream and that he became a Vietnamese prostitute and rode a bull, a limosine pulls up, the driver of which can be seen to be the alien from the first episode: " Cartman gets an anal probe ", and Leonardo DiCaprio thanks Cartman for his services.

Meanwhile, Cartman does whatever he can to try and make himself laugh.

After listening to a compassionate speech from them, Cartman says that he will no longer sneak in food, and together they all can lose the weight.

Cartman is also inspired by All in the Family patriarch Archie Bunker, of whom Parker and Stone are fans.

Cartman is also featured in the documentary film The Aristocrats, telling his version of the film's titular joke to Stan, Kyle, and Kenny, and in " The Gauntlet ", a short spoofing both Gladiator and Battlefield Earth that aired during the 2000 MTV Movie Awards.

Cartman also appears in four South Park-related video games: In South Park, Cartman is controlled by the player through the first person shooter mode who attempts to ward off enemies from terrorizing the town of South Park.

In South Park, the authors Trey Parker and Matt Stone are also voice actors for most male roles, especially the boys: Parker voices Stan, Cartman and others while Stone is the voice of Kyle, Kenny, Butters and others.

Kyle also featured in the documentary film The Aristocrats, listening to Cartman tell his version of the film's titular joke, and in the " The Gauntlet ", a short spoofing both Gladiator and Battlefield Earth which aired during the 2000 MTV Movie Awards.

A reference is also made to Feed the Kitty in the 13th and 14th episodes of season 14 of South Park with Eric Cartman acting as Pussyfoot and Cthulhu as Marc Antony in his " cute kitten " routine.

Cartman and the puppet also go through several of Señor Wences's classic routines.

Cartman also overhears his mother orgasm while having sex with one of the plumbers and mistakes this for sobs of grief.

Although Parker and Stone sought to improve the details and textures of the characters and overall animation, they also specifically chose Alias because it would allow the animation to maintain the show's deliberately crude visual style they first created with construction paper in The Spirit of Christmas and " Cartman Gets an Anal Probe ".

This blind faith is also illustrated by the complete disregard Cartman demonstrates for warnings that Weight Gain 4000 carries a risk of permanent damage to the liver and kidneys.

" " Pinkeye " was also the first episode in which Liane Cartman, Eric Cartman's mother, was portrayed as a promiscuous woman who was previously a crack whore and is willing to engage in pornographic sex for money ; during the episode, she is mentioned and actually featured on the cover of " Crack Whore Magazine ", much to the shock and dismay of Cartman.

Parker and Stone also said the episode introduced several key characteristics of the Cartman character that have endured throughout the rest of the series.

The general responds to Cartman ( who's also in attendance ), " Wow kid, you're a little faggot!

Bachar also served as production assistant on the pilot episode, " Cartman Gets an Anal Probe ".

Cartman's initial joy is crushed when Kyle says he is taking Butters instead of Cartman, because of Cartman's bigotry towards Jews and also as reciprocation for Butters inviting Kyle to his birthday party.

The episode introduced significant changes in the characterization of Cartman, and it also prompted the creators to only focus on one plot within an episode, as opposed to the show's earlier episodes, which involved several loosely related subplots.

" Scott Tenorman Must Die " was also released as part of The Cult of Cartman, a 2008 DVD compilation of Cartman-centric episodes.

Cartman decides to buy an amusement park, fulfilling his dreams not only of having a park all to himself without having to wait in lines, but also for the pleasure of telling other people that they can't come to it, presenting it as a reference to How the Grinch Stole Christmas !.

He is an only child being raised by Liane Cartman, a promiscuous single mother who in " Cartman's Mom Is Still a Dirty Slut " ( 1998 ) claims to be a hermaphrodite when she claims to be the father of Cartman.

However, the season 14 ( 2010 ) episode " 201 " later reveals that Liane actually is his mother, and that his true biological father is Jack Tenorman, a fictional former player for the Denver Broncos whom Cartman arranged to be killed in the season five ( 2001 ) episode " Scott Tenorman Must Die ," making Cartman and Scott Tenorman half-brothers and putting Liane's intersexual identity in question.

In " You're Getting Old ," the final episode of the first half of South Park's 15th season, it is hinted that Kyle and Cartman may be developing a genuine friendship, possibly due to the void left by Stan's apparent departure.

The show's writers debated during production of the episode whether or not the incident would be " a step too far, even for Cartman ".

Parker felt that the act could sufficiently be the culmination of Cartman's sociopathic behavior, and would " a new bar " by portraying Cartman as being capable of performing anything short of murder.

Cartman is shown at times to be pure evil, claiming himself to have ground a kid's parents up into chili, and then fed it to the kid because Cartman didn't like him, and then to proceed to boastfully taunt the kid without any remorse.

In response to the focus on elements of satire in South Park, Parker has said that the main goal of the show is to portray Cartman and his friends as " kids just being kids " as a means of accurately showcasing " what it's like to be in school in America ".

Stan, Kyle, Cartman and Kenny are grouped together with Tweek, a jittery child, who suggests that the presentation should be on the " Underpants Gnomes " who are tiny gnomes that sneak into his house and steal his underpants.

He is considered to be the show's breakout character along with Randy Marsh and Eric Cartman.

" After tricking him into selling them several dangerous ninja weapons ( parental permission is required if the hopeful buyer is under 18 ; Cartman uses this information to pretend that he, Kenny, Kyle and Stan are orphaned brothers, a ruse the boys have apparently successfully used " like twelve times " in the past ), they pretend to be ninjas, only to transform into anime-like characters with their own individual superpowers, as the animation style takes on an overall Japanese look and switches to a Cinemascope aspect ratio.

Cartman pretends to be invisible to get to Butters undetected, unwittingly exposing himself onstage to the shocked audience.

The plot of the South Park episode " City on the Edge of Forever " is revealed to be a dream within a dream for Stan Marsh ; he undergoes a false awakening as Cartman within his own dream.

Other characters who may have aspects of DID ( MPD ) are Herbert Garrison and Eric Cartman, as Mr Garrison possesses various hand-puppets-Mr Hat and Mr Twig-who are perceived to be extensions of his own personality, and Cartman has been shown to treat his stuffed toys and even his own hand as separate identities.