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Eric Theodore Cartman, voiced by Trey Parker, is a fictional character in the animated series South Park. He is one of the four central characters. Cartman is arguably the most well-known and recognizable character of South Park.

Cartman wears a light blue and yellow cap, a red jacket, yellow gloves, and brown pants most of the time. He wears a green T-Shirt under his jacket, though it is rarely seen. He has light brown hair (although it is occasionally black, such as when he is presented as Adolf Hitler or a sumo wrestler); and of the four leads is the one who is most frequently seen without his cap. He has a double chin, large hands and feet, and is often made fun of because of his obvious weight problem, something which is shown to be his own fault as a result of over-eating.

According to Trey Parker and Matt Stone, when they were creating South Park, they were perplexed about how, nowadays, it would be impossible to put a character like Archie Bunker on television. They thought, however, that if he was an animated nine-year-old boy, it might just be allowed; thus, Cartman was born.[1]

Cartman's persona has notably changed over the course of series. While always self-centered and bigoted, he was portrayed as more of an immature brat in the earlier seasons. As the seasons progressed, his personality became more aggressive and cunning, eventually crossing the line into outright sociopathy, while his bigotry morphed seamlessly into fascistic hatred. His abilities to manipulate other people into doing what he wants have become keener, along with his overall intelligence. Cartman's pet peeve throughout the show has been hippies, whom he despises for a number of reasons.

In 2005, Cartman was ranked number nineteen on Bravo's 100 Greatest TV Characters, beating out characters like Lenny Briscoe, Frasier Crane, Cliff Huxtable and Mr. Spock.

Cartman has also featured in a few songs by Eminem, who is a fan of South Park, most notably "The Kids", which is a humorous rant about drugs. This song is found on the clean version of The Marshall Mathers LP and the explicit version of the song is found on the special edition of the album.

Personality and impact

Cartman (usually only addressed by his last name or some pejorative term; only his "mother" Liane Cartman and adults such as Chef address him as Eric) is spoiled, foul-mouthed, ill-tempered, racist, insensitive, manipulative, sadistic, greedy – and considerably obese (thus giving rise to the pejorative names "fat ass" or "ass master" by which he is often referred). It can also be assumed he is a sociopath as he said to Guidance Counselor Mr. Mackey that he finds people dying funny. Generally speaking, he has exhibited at one time or another every negative trait that can be found in a human being, or expressed a desire to do so. Cartman, however, does not consider himself a bad person at all and Liane does only rarely, such as in Tsst.

A recurring joke throughout the series is that despite the seeming sweetness and surface wholesome appearance of his 'mother' Liane Cartman — she is, in fact, a promiscuous, hermaphroditic, crack-smoking porn queen, prostitute and overall degenerate. As a result of being exposed to Liane's questionable behavior, Cartman knows some things that most children should not. In episode "An Elephant Makes Love to a Pig" Cartman exclaims, "If a girl was ever beating me up I'd be like, ' AY! Why don't you stop dressing me up like a mailman, and making me dance for you, while you go and smoke crack in your bedroom and have sex with some guy I don't even know, on my dad's bed! '"

Generally, Liane dotes on her son endlessly, beyond simply spoiling him. Cartman usually gets what he wants simply by whining. His attitude (along with his obesity) is hinted to be genetic, as most of the Cartman family appears to have exactly the same temperament and physical form as Eric does. His disposition is also factored by environment; as when the kids appointed Clyde Donovan as the 'replacement fat kid' while Cartman was away in a juvenile hall, he took on an ill-tempered temperament similar to Cartman's when he was subjected to the same kind of teasing — implying that Cartman acts the way he does as a sort of defense mechanism.

Popularity

As the anti-hero of the four leads, Cartman was never intended to be the focus of the series. After the show premiered, however, his outrageous and shocking behavior made him instantly popular with viewers. Another reason Cartman tends to stand out is because he is generally the most pro-active of the four main characters. Cartman is frequently the one to come up with new ideas and plans, usually told excitedly to an often unimpressed Stan, Kyle, and Kenny after running up to them and breathlessly shouting "You guys! You guys! Guess what?"

Aware of Cartman's popularity, the show's writers are careful to temper the many unfavorable aspects of his behavior with contempt. Cartman frequently comes up with ideas that are ridiculous or offensive and while he may appear to have the upper hand, his antics tend to inevitably turn on him. He is often shown receiving the brunt of consequences generated by his behavior by the end of the episode. (though he never learns the lesson involved)

Physical confrontations

Although Cartman frequently insults and taunts his friends (particularly Kyle, Kenny, and Butters), he sometimes appears to be more cowardly than they are when it comes to physical confrontation. In "It's Christmas in Canada", Kyle slaps Cartman and he immediately bursts into tears; in "Kenny Dies", Kyle beats Cartman up at the end; in "Christian Rock Hard", Cartman is beaten up by Token after provoking him with racial jibes; and in several episodes he is unable to overpower Kenny. However, in such earlier episodes as "Damien", "Spookyfish", and "Tweek vs. Craig", Cartman has no problem with fighting the other boys back physically; most recently, in episode "Cartoon Wars Part II," he did not back down from fisticuffs with Kyle. His peers, meanwhile, also give as much as they take, constantly calling him "fat ass", questioning his intelligence and intimating how they like him the least.

Eccentricities

It has been repeatedly hinted that Cartman has serious behavioral and emotional problems and/or gender issues, since he behaves effeminately on occasion. It may be from his mother being a crack whore, and/or not growing up with a father figure. He exhibits several compulsive behaviors, including the need to complete singing the Styx song "Come Sail Away" if someone sings the first few lyrics, and humming other prog-rock songs (including singing Asia's "Heat of the Moment", which helped him convince Congress to lift the ban on stem cell research).

Cartman also displays traits of gender nonconformity, as he occasionally has tea parties with stuffed dolls (pretending they are talking about how cool he is), owns a female cat named "Mister Kitty", and on one occasion was seen re-enacting a scene from The Silence of the Lambs as Buffalo Bill with a doll he named Polly Prissypants trapped down a well. In episode 601, Freak Strike, Cartman goes on the Maury Povich Show, to be a panelist during a discussion on out of control kids. In an attempt to win the assumed prize, he dresses up as a promiscuous teenage girl. In episode 802, AWESOM-O, Butters videotaped Cartman dressing up as and pretending to be Britney Spears while dancing around a cardboard cut-out of Justin Timberlake.

Cartman has had brushes with sexual abuse at least four times: In the episode Cartman joins NAMBLA, he joins the North American Man Boy Love Association to try and make mature friends. This leads to him and his friends being chased after by a group of naked men. He vowed never to be friends with anyone over thirty since then. In another episode, Simpsons Already Did It, Cartman discovers that semen causes Sea-Monkeys to form a civilization and become more like people. He then goes to a sperm bank, on the advice of his mother, to collect more semen to cause his 'seaciety' of sea people to grow at an even faster rate. Cartman empties a bowl of semen into the tank, telling his friends that he collected most of it from the sperm bank and the rest from a man named Ralph. He tells his friends that he was not charged for Ralph's semen, that the man 'just made me close my eyes and suck it out of a hose.' In the episode AWESOM-O, a movie producer asks Cartman, disguised as "AWESOM-O", if he is a pleasure model. Cartman does not understand him until he takes his pants off, at which point, he runs out screaming "Not cool! Totally lame!". Also, in the episode Fat Butt and Pancake Head, Cartman convinces Ben Affleck (among others) that his left hand is a Mexican singer named Jennifer Lopez; Affleck has a sexual encounter with "Miss Lopez", leaving Cartman covered with "Ben Affleck spooge".

Although Cartman can at times be worldly, he is often wildly misinformed — once believing that dolphins lived in igloos. Cartman has also been known to formulate complex, yet inane, plans — some of which have succeeded. In "I'm a Little Bit Country", instead of studying, Cartman records various documentaries on the American Revolution on a TiVo and then electrocutes himself with it in a tub, which sends him on a flashback/time travel experience to 1776, and ultimately helps him stop the pro-war/anti-war fighting going on back in present-day South Park.

Cartman briefly became the object of Wendy Testaburger's affections during the episode "Chef Goes Nanners" and was passionately kissed by Wendy at the end of the episode. And though he shows no outward signs of longing for a girlfriend, Cartman became visibly upset when the fourth grade girls, inspired by Paris Hilton to start discovering boys and sexually objectifying them in public, outright ignored Cartman. Cartman angrily yelled "Fuck You" to a group of girls who were inviting everyone but Cartman to their grade's first boy-girl party and later, after receiving a make-over and hip new clothing to make him attractive to the girls, attempted to crash the party uninvited.

Cartman also has a disturbing habit of appearing in other peoples' homes in the middle of the night. He has a preoccupation with becoming "mature," or at least more so than his friends, which frequently ends in Cartman doing something that is anything but mature.

A defining arc during the show's fourth season was Cartman's single-minded quest to make US$10 million. The schemes he has tried include becoming a part of the "tooth trade" and stealing Tooth Fairy money from kids, starting a boy band called "Fingerbang", and culminating in forming his own church and embezzeling the church's collection money.

He also appears to be driven by a desire to surpass Stan, Kyle, and Kenny. Knowing that his satisfaction chiefly comes with seeing other people unhappy, Kyle once deliberately congratulated Cartman on winning a bet. This of course ruined all of Cartman's egotistical satisfaction at having humiliated him.

Cartman's hatred of hippies runs very deep, and he even mutters about them in his sleep. When he was forced to venture to San Francisco he was so afraid of contamination that he wore a protective suit with its own airhose. Cartman also has a pathological hatred of redheads, or Gingers, (although this is most likely just an excuse to further express his disdain for Kyle, who has red hair) and when the other kids lead him to believe he has become a redhead himself, he briefly leads a cult of homicidal redhead children bent on world conquest known as the Ginger Separatist Movement.

Cartman apparently sees scenes of sickening destruction and horror every time he closes his eyes, but thinks nothing of it. He also occasionally has milk come out of his nose when he laughs, even if he was not drinking milk. This milk-sneezing problem is due to a malfunctioning kidney, which Cartman is tricked into donating for transplant, benefiting his friend Kyle, who receives the malfunctioning organ.

Anti-semitism

Due in part to his adversarial relationship with Kyle (who is Jewish), Cartman is very anti-Semitic. In episode "The Passion of the Jew", after seeing The Passion of the Christ, he believes the film was Mel Gibson's way of rallying people against the Jews, and idolizes him for it. He then dresses up as Hitler and manipulates people, who think that they are simply raising awareness for the movie and Christianity, to join him in an anti-Jew march while chanting in mispronounced German: "Es ist Zeit für Rache" (It is time for revenge) and "Wir müssen die Juden ausrotten" (We must exterminate the Jews).

Heroic Moments

Cartman has many heroic moments: though not always intentionally, he has saved the boys, the town and the entire world on quite a few occasions.

• In the full-length feature film, South Park: Bigger, Longer, and Uncut, his filthy mouth, getting electrocuted by a power box, coupled with the experimental V-chip implanted in his brain to stop him from swearing (which gave him temporary electrostatic powers), saves the world from Saddam Hussein.
• In the episode "Roger Ebert Should Lay Off the Fatty Foods" he gets angry at Stan and Kyle for having not watched his 'Cheesy Poofs' commercial, then throws a temper tantrum that unwittingly saves them from becoming zombie plane'arium (sic) slaves by destroying the plane'arium's projector.

• In the episode "Rainforest Schmainforest" after Cartman's lack of respect for the choir teacher's authority leads him to wander astray; he later returns with help when the rest of the group is in trouble.
• In the episode "Starvin' Marvin in Space" just when the missionaries were about to capture them, Cartman via video-screen tells Sally Struthers that her career told people to help more people and convinces her to help them.
• In the episode "Osama Bin Laden Has Farty Pants" he destroyed the Taliban and set up Osama bin Laden's death (in a spoof of a Bugs Bunny cartoon).
• In the the show's 100th episode, I'm a Little Bit Country, Cartman travels back in time to 1776 in order to meet the founding fathers and eventually save the day and the town from total chaos.
• In the episode "Die Hippie, Die", his intolerance of hippies saves South Park from a drug-filled hippie music festival.
• In the episode "Best Friends Forever", he unwittingly saves the world from a gruesome Armageddon by going to the Supreme Court and acquiring the rights to pull out Kenny's feeding tube so that he can get his hands on the PlayStation Portable that Kenny had left for him in his will; acting in complete opposition to Kyle and Stan, who try to save him by rallying to keep Kenny on life support.
• In "Smug Alert!," he travels to San Francisco (a place he had vowed never to go) and ultimately saves Kyle and his family from the smug storm that sucked San Francisco out of existence and into "its own asshole". This, however, is rooted in Cartman's realization that he needs Kyle around, because Kyle is a much better opponent for his hatred than Butters.
• In "Fun With Veal", Cartman uses his negotiation skills to get baby cattle smuggled out of Stan's house and into Mexico so they can be free.
• In "The Death of Eric Cartman", Cartman accidentally rescues 12 people being held hostage at the Red Cross by three convicted murders that had escaped from prison. Cartman thought that he was a ghost and attempted to scare the fugitives by moving things around. The fugitives are merely befuddled by Cartman's behavior, which provides enough of a distraction for the police to end the hostage situation.

In the episode "Tsst", it is hypothesized that Cartman is the way he is because of his mother's submissive nature. Under the tutelage of Cesar Millan, Liane learned how to be the dominant figure in her relationship with her son as Eric eventually became submissive. This evolved to the point where he would carry out commands from his mother, even if he hated performing them; though his under-lying personality remained the same.

In an attempt to free himself from his mother's now unbreakable control, Cartman attempts to murder Liane in her sleep. The training and changes he had gone through, however, had begun to affect his personality. He began to question aspects of his nature that made him selfish and only want what he wanted. The two sides of his personality, good and evil, attempted to win Cartman over until he passed out. When Liane awoke in the morning, she found him calmly eating breakfast and doing his homework — indicating that Eric had developed a dominant good side.

When Cesar Millan later rejects Liane's attempts at a relationship, destroying the hope for a husband/father figure she desires in the process, she lost the confidence she had learned and once again turned to Cartman for support and companionship, spoiling him once more. When she then offers to indulge him with food and toys, it subsequently tempted the evil side of Eric to become dominant again.

Family

Cartman is the only boy in the series who does not have a father shown at any time. This is because of his hermaphrodite mother, who actually had sex with an unknown female, thereby fathering him. After his birth, Ms. Cartman raised him as his mother. This shocking twist is revealed at the end of the two-part story arc, "Cartman's Mom is a Dirty Slut" and "Cartman's Mom is Still a Dirty Slut". So, technically, Cartman does have a father on the show (he does not appear interested in finding out who his mother is and is content to be raised by a single parent). Interestingly, in the unaired pilot Cartman did have what appears to be a father and sister, though they had no lines.^{citation needed]}

Cartman's extended family is shown in the episode "Merry Christmas Charlie Manson!", where he and the others go on a trip to Nebraska to visit them for Christmas. Most of his relatives appear to be similar in matter to him; all fat, with the same speech impedement and catchphrases. The family is seen again in the episode "Cartmanland" at his grandmother's funeral — where she leaves her estate (valued at $1,000,000) to Eric, citing that the other family members would "have spent it all on crack". His grandparents' names are Harold and Mabel, and he has an uncle named Howard.

Eric is also known for being called "Poopsykins" by his mom.

Pets

Cartman has a pet, Mr. Kitty, though the cat is actually a female. Cartman often chastises his cat or tries to hit it with a stick. Cartman also had a pet pig named Fluffy in the episode An Elephant Makes Love to a Pig.

He also has a stuffed frog toy that he keeps with him sometimes; "Clyde Frog" (called "Artemis Clyde Frog" while playing "Wild Wild West" in the episode "Cat Orgy", referring to the Artemus Gordon character) being his seemingly closest and most beloved inanimate companion. Clyde Frog is a character from a puppet show that was played in schools in the 1970's.

Other beloved stuffed animals include Wellington Bear (a take off of Paddington Bear), Polly Prissypants, Rumpletumskin (a poor man's Raggedy Anne), and Petey Panda.

Talents

Music: Cartman appears to be the most musically talented of the four boys. This is apparent by his ablility to play the piano quite well (although it plays itself on the Christfest stage), as seen in the episode "Christian Rock Hard", the violin ("Something Wall-Mart This Way Comes"), the French horn ("Summer Sucks"), the drums ("The Red Badge of Gayness"), the harmonica ("Jakovasaurs") and the recorder ("World Wide Recorder Concert"). He can also sing the entirety of Styx's "Come Sail Away" in 27 seconds flat (in fact, he cannot avoid doing so once he hears the first few notes of the song, an occasional running gag used in the show, which first appeared in the episode "Cartman's Mom is Still a Dirty Slut").

Aside from the Styx song, Cartman frequently bursts into song, often spontaneously. This penchant for ad hoc songs was specifically mentioned in "Ginger Kids".

Public Speaking: Unlike the other boys, Cartman seems to have no problem talking to people and speaking in general. He has an uncanny way with words and uses that to his advantage whenever he comes up with an idea.

Manipulation: Although having his origins as little more than a comic foil, Cartman has evolved into a character of stunningly articulate manipulative talents, following closely in the footsteps of other famous manipulators such as Iago. In several episodes throughout the series, he employs this skill to get what he wants. His most frequent targets are Butters and adults in general. He was able to get Congress to lift the ban on stem-cell research in the episode "Kenny Dies" and talked the ginger kids out of killing all non-gingers before Kyle told him that they had played a trick on him in "Ginger Kids". In "Tsst" Cartman was able to manipulate his nanny to leave his house with insults and insinuation.

In "Cartoon Wars", he exploited a controversy involving the appearance of Muhammad on FOX's Family Guy to try to get the show off the air; he pretended to be the hapless victim of an Islamic terrorist attack to try to discourage the FOX president and the Family Guy staff writers (before he finds out those writers are manatees) from airing the Muhammad episode.

Cartman's shining accomplishment (according to Comedy Central's list of "Cartman's 25 Greatest Moments") came in the episode "Scott Tenorman Must Die". Though Scott Tenorman continually defeats Cartman throughout the episode, Cartman has the last laugh as he indirectly coerces Scott's parents into a situation where they are trespassing, shot and killed. Cartman then steals the bodies and makes them into a chili which he promptly feeds to Scott. To make matters worse, Tenorman's favorite band, Radiohead, sees him crying over the loss of his parents and deems him a crybaby. Afterwards, Stan and Kyle decide it would be best to avoid angering Cartman ever again.

Rectal Smuggling: Cartman has the ability to use his rectum to smuggle a variety of unusual objects. The ability first appeared in Season 4, in the episode "Cartman's Silly Hate Crime 2000" where an incarcerated Cartman smuggles several cigarettes and later a complete board game into his cell using his rectum. At the end of the episode it is hinted, although not definitively seen, that he smuggles a number of popular attractions from Disneyland, among them being Pirates of the Caribbean, Splash Mountain, and the Disneyland Monorail System. His rectal smuggling was put to the test again in the Season 10 episode "Manbearpig" when Cartman swallowed several pounds of artificial gold and jewels (not rectal smuggling) under the impression that the treasure was real and that he was going to sneak millions of dollars of precious stones and metals out of a cave without his friends knowing about it. He later was seen uncontrollably defecating large quantities of the "treasure", causing him great pain to do so. In the first South Park episode "Cartman Gets an Anal Probe" and later in the 7th season on the 100th episode "Cancelled", Cartman's ass was used by aliens over the years to store one of their satellite dishes to transmit the reality show "Earth" back to the network headquarters.

Foreign Languages: Cartman speaks fluent German (although mispronounced), particularly when he drums up his Nazi and racist ideals to others whilst dressing up as Hitler. Cartman also knows at least some Spanish which is shown in the episode 616, "My Future Self n' Me", where he directs a group of cheap-labor Mexican children while covering Butters's house in poo. This indicates that he may have been telling the truth about his knowledge of Spanish when the choir director asked if anyone knew it in the season 3 episode "Rainforest Schmainforest". Cartman has also picked up the Japanese language in episode "Chinpokomon".

Pilot Skills: Cartman has the ability to piloting different vehicles from cars to spaceship. He can drive a drill vehicle in Die, Hippie, Die. Also, he is the one who most rides in his Big-Wheel.

Weaponry: Cartman has a lot of expertise with weapons. In Wing, Cartman uses an Heckler & Koch assault rifle, however Kyle is shown with better ability to operate it than him. He also carries with him an unloaded gun in Two Days Before the Day After Tomorrow and Cartoon Wars Part II. In Good Times with Weapons, Cartman is an expert with the sais.

Quotes and catchphrases

Note: Since about Season 6, Cartman has been using his classic words and catchphrases less and less, so you may find most of these words and catchphrases more in seasons 1 to 5. (Some words are intentionally misspelled to imitate Cartman's accent.)

• "Respect mah authoritah!" (Respect my authority)
• "Kewl." (Cool. sometimes "Super kewl.")
• "Suck my balls!" (sometimes followed by the name of the person he says it to)
• "Kick ass!"
• "Shut your goddamn Jew-mouth!!!" (Usually to Kyle)
• "Screw you guys…I'm goin' home." (He usually points his fingers to his right when he says this.)
• "I'm not fat, I'm big boned!"
• "Shweeeet!"
• "Super sweeeet!"
• "HEY!" (pronounced- "AY!". Usually followed by an order or threat.)
• "Lame!"
• "You guys! I'm serious!"
• "Weak!"(also "Super Weak", or "Weak, dude!")
• "AY! I'll kick you in the NUUUUUUUUTTTTSSS!" Or AY! You shut up or I'll Kick You sqa In Da Nuts!!!! (Nuts)
• "You guys! You guys! Guess what?"
• "But Meeehhhhmmm! ('Mom')" (when whining)
• "I hate you guys." (said for no apparent reason)
• "I love you guys."
• "Ah hate you, Kenny."
• "You're breakin' my balls, here " (when negotiating)
• "Kenny, your family is poor."
• "I'm seriously!"
• "Words cannot express how much I truly, truly, hate you guys."
• "No, Kitty! This is my pot pie!"
• "Nnnnnnehhhh, kitteh, thatsa BAD KITTEH!" [Translation: "No, Kitty! That's a BAD KITTY!" Cartman's accent gets progressively worse the needier he is.]
• "Hella cool!" (Sometimes "Hella awesome" or just "Hella") (from episode 215, "Spookyfish")
• Nananana nana heheh heh heh heh heh (whenever he exploits something or when he is getting famous while rubbing it in Kyle's face.)
• "Oh, dude, that's totally tits!", or "Aw, Tits!" (the toothfairy episode)
• "Ha ha very funny you guys."
• "Stupid Jew."
• "Whatevah, I'll do what I wawnt" (From Episode 601, 'Freak Strike')

Likes

• Adam Sandler in AWESOM-O
• Adolf Hitler in The Passion of the Jew and Make Love, Not Warcraft
• Casa Bonita in the episode of the same name
• The Chinpokomon "Pengin"
• Ethiopians in Starvin Marvin
• Jakovasaurs
• Kicking people in the nuts (also known as Rochambeau in the Mecha-Streisand episode)
• Mel Gibson in The Passion of the Jew
• Okama Gamesphere in Towelie
• Redheads (When he temporarily became one) in Ginger Kids
• Shakey's Pizza (As shown in Kenny Dies)
• Stem Cells in Kenny Dies
• Theme Parks (As shown in "Cartmanland")
• Trapper Keeper Futura S 2000 in the episode of the same name
• Wall-Mart in Something Wall-Mart This Way Comes
• The movie Wild Wild West in Cat_Orgy
• Xbox 360 in Tsst
• World of Warcraft in Make Love, Not Warcraft

Dislikes and Hates

• Afghanistan in Osama Bin Laden Has Farty Pants
• Barbra Streisand in Mecha-Streisand
• Cesar Millan (The Dog Whisperer) in Tsst
• Eye doctor in The Succubus
• Family Guy in Cartoon Wars Part I and Cartoon Wars Part II
• Fat Camp in the episode of the same name
• Granola in Pink Eye
• Hippies in Die Hippie, Die
• Islam in Osama Bin Laden Has Farty Pants
• Jews
• Kenny McCormick in The Succubus
• Kyle Broflovski in The Succubus
• Lines in Cartmanland
• Nannies in Tsst
• PETA in Douche and Turd
• Phil Collins in Timmy 2000
• Rainbows in Weight Gain 4000
• San Francisco in Smug Alert!
• Scott Tenorman in Scott Tenorman Must Die
• Stan Marsh in Trapped in the Closet
• Succubi in The Succubus
• Jesus in Christian Rock Hard
• Baseball in The Losing Edge

Top Episodes

On October 14-October 16 of 2005, Comedy Central aired a marathon each night of episodes based on viewer votes on their favorite episodes related to Cartman. The list, complete with Cartman's involvement in each one, is as follows:

1. 501 - "Scott Tenorman Must Die" - Chops a boy's parents into chili after he refuses to give him $16.12.
2. 101 - "Cartman Gets an Anal Probe" - Gets an anal probe that makes him fart fire.
3. 803 - "Up the Down Steroid" - Pretends he's retarded to win the Special Olympics.
4. 902 - "Die, Hippie, Die" - Tries to stop a hippie music fest.
5. 107 - "Pink Eye" - Dresses as Hitler for Halloween and then a Klan member.
6. 413 - "Trapper Keeper" - Gets a Dawson's Creek Trapper Keeper and fuses with it in an homage to Akira (film).
7. 709 - "Christian Rock Hard" - Starts a Christian Rock band
8. 802 - "AWESOM-O" - Dresses up as a robot to learn Butters's secrets.
9. 705 - "Fat Butt and Pancake Head" - Uses ventriloquism with his hand for a fake Jennifer Lopez.
10. 113 - "Cartman's Mom is a Dirty Slut" - Tries to learn who his father is.
11. 906 - "The Death of Eric Cartman" - Thinks he is dead.
12. 213 - "Cow Days" - Thinks he is a Vietnamese prostitute.
13. 102 - "Weight Gain 4000" - Gains lots of weight before Kathy Lee Gifford comes to town.
14. 804 - "Passion of the Jew" - Tries to exterminate the Jews.
15. 109 - "Starvin' Marvin" - Gets sent to a poverty stricken nation.
16. 807 - "The Jeffersons" - Falls in love with Michael Jackson.
17. 711 - "Casa Bonita" - Tries to get invited to Kyle's party.
18. 601 - "Freak Strike" - Pretends he's an out of control child.
19. 617 - "Red Sleigh Down" - Tries to get on Santa's good list.
20. 302 - "Spontaneous Combustion" - Gets crucified.
21. 314 - "The Red Badge of Gayness" - Leads a Civil War act for the Confederates.
22. 506 - "Cartmanland" - Inherets a million dollars and buys an amusement park.
23. 607 - "Simpsons Already Did It" - Creates an underwater society with brine shrimp and semen.
24. 406 - "Cartman Joins NAMBLA" - Joins the North American Man-Boy Love Association
25. 303 - "The Succubus" - Gets glasses.
26. 608 - "Red Hot Catholic Love" - Craps out his mouth after sticking food up his anus and wins $20 from Kyle.
27. 203 - "Chickenlover" - Becomes a cop.

Trivia

• According to the South Park calendar, Eric Cartman's birthday is July 1st.
• Cartman is the 2nd oldest of the four boys.
• "Cartman" is the codename for Red Hat Linux version 6.1.
• According to the episode "The Succubus", Cartman has the eyes of the 32nd Kenny.
• Cartman has only one kidney. The other is inside of Kyle, because they are the only two in South Park who share the AB negative blood type. It was transplanted into Kyle against Cartman's will, and despite his efforts to prevent this by installing a "Kidney Blocker 2000", in the 4th season episode Cherokee Hair Tampons.
• Cartman is the only one of the four main boys whose middle name has been revealed on the show. (Theodore)
• Cartman was originally called Kenny in the prototype clip of South Park called "Jesus vs Frosty".
• In the Japanese language dub of South Park, Cartman is voiced by LILIKO
• Cartman's voice was featured in episode 65 of MTV Cribs and in the film Duplex
• A photorealistic version of Cartman's appearance was produced as a police artist sketch for the episode Free Willzyx (see).
• In an episode of the Power Puff Girls, Blossum is thrown into a coat rack and appears in Cartman's attire. She then says "He tripped me, seriously."
• Cartman seems to have difficulty telling the difference between the French and the English as he constantly calls Pip French when he is English and he calls the Mole English when he is actually French.
• As seen on "Two Days Before the Day After Tomorrow" and "Cartoon Wars Part II" Cartman carries with him an unloaded gun.
• In the episode "Wing", during the scene in which Token becomes a client of the "Super Awsome Talent Agency", you can see that the mouse of Cartman's computer is on the left side of the computer, implying that he is left handed. However, in the same episode, Cartman is seen handling his G36 assault rifle with his right hand on the grip and left hand on the hand guard, and thus may be ambidextrous.
• In the episode "Tom's Rhinoplasty", he claims to have Dutch-Irish ancestry - "My grandma was Dutch-Irish and my grandpa was lesbian, that makes me quarter lesbian!"

External links

• South Park Studios official site
• Eric Cartman Quotes
• 'Come Sail Away' by Styx
• South Park Sounds including 'Come Sail Away'