Cartman next appeared on August 13, 1997, when South Park debuted on Comedy Central with the episode " Cartman Gets an Anal Probe ".

Kyle next appeared on August 13, 1997, when South Park debuted on Comedy Central with the episode " Cartman Gets an Anal Probe ".

Stan next appeared on August 13, 1997, when South Park debuted on Comedy Central with the episode " Cartman Gets an Anal Probe ".

On August 13, 1997, Butters first appeared as a background character when South Park debuted on Comedy Central with the episode " Cartman Gets an Anal Probe ".

Scenes are shown in the boys ' memories from episodes such as " Cartman Gets an Anal Probe ", " Weight Gain 4000 ", " Volcano ", " Death ", as well as moments from the episode itself.

The character of Pip has been a minor character on South Park from the onset of the series, having appeared in the pilot episode, " Cartman Gets an Anal Probe ".

After the South Park pilot episode " Cartman Gets an Anal Probe " drew poor test audience results, Comedy Central requested a script for one more new episode before deciding whether to commit to a full series.

The South Park pilot, " Cartman Gets an Anal Probe ", did not do well with test audiences, and Comedy Central executives were unsure whether they wanted to order any additional episodes.

While " Cartman Gets an Anal Probe " was created almost entirely with construction paper, " Weight Gain 4000 " was the first South Park episode made completely using computers.

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 ".

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.

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.

Nevertheless, several reviewers declared " Weight Gain 4000 " a significant improvement over the pilot, " Cartman Gets an Anal Probe ", and felt it went in a much more satirical direction.

Jeff Simon of The Buffalo News, who did not like " Cartman Gets an Anal Probe ", felt " Weight Gain 4000 " proved the series could be funny.

" Likewise, The Washington Post critic Tom Shales strongly criticized " Cartman Gets an Anal Probe ", but said the second episode was funny and included " cleverly intertwined " plot-lines.

It was released on the " Volume II " video, along with " Big Gay Al's Big Gay Boat Ride "; other featured episodes included " Cartman Gets an Anal Probe ", " Volcano ", " An Elephant Makes Love to a Pig " and " Death ".

While the series pilot " Cartman Gets an Anal Probe " was animated with construction paper, subsequent episodes were made using computers.

The episode was released on the " Volume I " video along with " Cartman Gets an Anal Probe "; other featured episodes included " An Elephant Makes Love to a Pig ", " Death ", " Weight Gain 4000 ", and " Big Gay Al's Big Gay Boat Ride ".

This was done to maintain the show's deliberately crude visual style they first created with construction paper in " The Spirit of Christmas " and the pilot episode, " Cartman Gets an Anal Probe ".

The episode was released on the " Volume II " video, along with " Weight Gain 4000 "; other featured episodes included " Cartman Gets an Anal Probe ", " Volcano ", " An Elephant Makes Love to a Pig " and " Death ".

The scene in the cafeteria, in which the four boys are annoyed by Pip, is a cut scene from the original version of the South Park pilot, " Cartman Gets an Anal Probe "; as such, the animation in that individual scene is actually traditional paper cutout stop motion, while the animation throughout the rest of the episode is done with computers.

The episode was released on the " Volume II " video, along with " Death "; other featured episodes included " Cartman Gets an Anal Probe ", " Volcano ", " Weight Gain 4000 " and " Big Gay Al's Big Gay Boat Ride ".

The episode was released on the " Volume III " video along with " An Elephant Makes Love to a Pig "; other featured episodes included " Cartman Gets an Anal Probe ", " Volcano ", " Weight Gain 4000 ", and " Big Gay Al's Big Gay Boat Ride ".

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

* In an episode of the animated TV series South Park, Eric Cartman and the United States Congress sing " Heat of the Moment " a cappella.

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 ".

For example in the South Park episode " Christian Rock Hard ", Eric Cartman forms a Christian rock band simply to make financial profit off this kind of music by taking secular lyrics and replacing certain words with " Jesus ", saying " It's the easiest crappiest music in the world, right?

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.

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.

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.

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.

In the season five ( 2001 ) episode " Scott Tenorman Must Die ", Cartman, feeling cheated out of $ 16. 12 by a local eighth-grader named Scott Tenorman, successfully executes an elaborate scheme to publicly humiliate Scott in front of his favorite band Radiohead, by tricking Scott's parents into getting murdered and then tricking Scott into eating them.

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

In the episode, Cartman, after watching The Passion of the Christ numerous times, deifies the film's director, Mel Gibson, and starts an official Gibson fan club, praising Gibson for " trying to express — through cinema — the horror and filthiness of the common Jew ".

In the season 13 ( 2009 ) episode " Fishsticks ", Cartman subconsciously believes that he solely created a joke that quickly becomes a nationwide sensation, despite the fact that the character Jimmy Valmer writes the joke without any assistance.

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 the season 16 ( 2012 ) episode " Jewpacabra ", Cartman converted to Judaism.

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

* It is mentioned briefly in the 1999 " Cat Orgy " episode of the animated series South Park, when Shelly refers Eric Cartman as the " Turdman of Alcatraz ".

In 1997, the second episode of the popular animated TV show South Park featured Eric Cartman as a spokesperson for a fictional product called Weight Gain 4000.

Characters in animated series " South Park ," including Eric Cartman and Stan Marsh usually wear tuques.

* In " Fat Butt and Pancake Head ", a 2003 episode of the animated television series South Park, Eric Cartman creates a hand puppet in the style of Señor Wences ' Johnny.

" The Death of Eric Cartman " is the sixth episode of the ninth season of the animated television series South Park, and the 133rd episode overall.

Cartman, however, goes to challenge Bin Laden in a struggle of wits ( a reference to the style of Anti-German / anti-Japanese Looney Tunes and Disney's animated cartoons during World War II

" Cartman Joins NAMBLA " is the fifth episode of the fourth season of the animated television series South Park, and the 53rd episode of the series overall.