It ends when Terry Gilliam's animations play around with Cartman and everything is crushed by the giant foot.

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 " Scott Tenorman Must Die ", Eric Cartman is swindled by Scott Tenorman.

Eric Theodore Cartman is a fictional character in the American animated television series South Park.

Voiced by Trey Parker, Cartman is an obese, immature, spoiled, selfish, manipulative, lazy, foul-mouthed, deluded, mean-spirited, sadistic, racist, sexist, anti-semitic, homophobic, xenophobic, sociopathic, narcissistic, and ill-tempered elementary school student living with his unwed mother in the fictional town of South Park, Colorado, where he routinely has extraordinary experiences not typical of conventional small-town life.

Cartman is one of the most popular characters on the show and has remained one of the most recognizable television characters ever since South Park became a hit during its first season.

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 the unaired pilot of South Park, Cartman does have a father who is his mother.

Among the show's main child characters, Cartman is distinguished as " the fat kid ", and his obesity is a continuing subject of insults and ridicule from other characters throughout the show's run.

Cartman is frequently portrayed as an antagonist or villain whose actions set in motion the events serving as the main plot of an episode.

Fearing for his reputation after losing a fight to Wendy Testaburger in the season 12 ( 2008 ) episode " Breast Cancer Show Ever ", Cartman receives several assurances from numerous classmates that their opinion of him is already at the point where it cannot get any lower.

Although, at other times, Kyle is an enthusiastic participant in Cartman's schemes and Cartman is sometimes seen actually being nice to Kyle in some instances.

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.

Cartman's resentment of Stan is usually reserved for when Cartman proudly proclaims his hatred for both Stan and Kyle as a duo, and his contempt for Stan as an individual is usually limited to his annoyance with Stan's sensitivity, affection for animals, and the relationship Stan shares with Wendy.

In this short, his character first appears as he does in the series, and is given the name " Cartman ", while the character of Kenny appears as the character is depicted today and given Cartman's moniker from the previous short.

In keeping with the show's animation style, Cartman is composed of simple geometrical shapes and primary colors.

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.

Travis Pickett of IGN gave it a 8. 5 rating, especially praising Trey Parker and Matt Stone for managing to contrast the episode with the actual Simpsons ( with themes like Cartman performing fellatio on " some guy in an alley "), while respectfully paying their dues.

Although these elements were established in " Cartman Gets an Anal Probe " and the Spirit of Christmas precursor cartoons, " Weight Gain 4000 " further pushed the conventions of television, and especially of animated television entertainment.

The children are relieved they do not have to worry about disease for at least eight years, especially Stan and Wendy, and the episode ends with Cartman playing " red rocket " with another dog.

Cartman decides to hire a security guard to keep trespassers out, especially Stan and Kyle.

The other boys ( especially Kyle ) think it is stupid and disgusting, and Cartman bets him $ 20 it will work.

Cartman tries various methods to get his money back, but Scott remains always one step ahead.

Prominent publications and television channels have included Cartman on their lists of one of the most iconic television and cartoon characters of all time.

Conversely in one episode (" Major Boobage ") Cartman acts as an Oskar Schindler character for the town's cats, a rare case of a subplot based on Cartman's altruism.

Ever since the show's second episode, " Weight Gain 4000 " ( season one, 1997 ), Cartman, like all other characters on the show, has been animated with computer software, though he is portrayed to give the impression that the show still utilizes its original technique.

Parker and Stone, despite being the basis for Stan and Kyle, insist that Cartman is their favorite character, and the one with whom they identify the most.

However, at least in one episode ( Chef Goes Nanners ), Cartman develops secret liking for Wendy, which is apparent from the end of episode when Wendy describes her temporary infatuation towards Cartman as ' sexual tension ' and even though Cartman agrees in front of Wendy, he sighs with sorrow alone.

In one scene, he offers to roshambo Cartman in order to get his Walkie-Talkie back, and immediately kicks Cartman in the groin, causing him to drop the walkie-talkie.

Kyle is one of the show's four central characters, along with his friends Stan Marsh, Kenny McCormick, and Eric Cartman.

Stan is one of the show's four central characters, along with his friends Kyle Broflovski, Kenny McCormick, and Eric Cartman.

It included four boys, two resembling Stan Marsh and Kyle Broflovski, one called Kenny who looked like Cartman, and a fourth unnamed boy who looked like Kenny.

The counselor insists, as the real-life interventionists often do, that all parties be allowed to " say whatever they need to say " to one another during the course of the actual intervention, which leads to Cartman endlessly harassing Kyle with insults and racial / ethnic / religious slurs.

Cartman pleads with the mayor to stop the festival, but it turns out that the mayor was the one who permitted the music festival in the first place thinking it would make the town some money.

Cartman eventually agrees to help, but only after Randy promises to offer a Tonka radio-controlled bulldozer and Kyle's mother assures Cartman that Kyle will never have one, instead having to watch Cartman playing with the bulldozer.

He wrestled under a mask as one of the Oddities and the character had a fascination with Eric Cartman from the TV series South Park.

In the season 4 episode " The Wacky Molestation Adventure ", Cartman was supposed to block out the sun, but one writer pointed out that " The Simpsons already did it.

Cartman can also be seen speaking German fluently in Season 15 Episode 2 " Funnybot ".

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 ".

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.