Top 15 Most Evil 'Eric Cartman' Moments
He's possibly one of the most loveably nasty characters in TV, and South Park wouldn't be the same without Eric Cartman. Of all the characters ever created for television Eric Cartman stands proud as possibly the most evil. Since he first graced television screens back in 1997 Cartman has consistently proven that he is a manipulative, selfish and vindictive sociopath.
In a sense, regarding South Park’s history as a whole, it would be fair to say that Cartman is the villain of the piece and if the best thing to do with your enemies is to keep them close, then Stan, Kyle and Kenny have pretty much befriended everyone’s favourite chubby racist.
Whittling down the top 10 moments – note, moments not episodes – of Cartman’s very offensive past is a much more difficult task than you could imagine. This is the spoiled child who has assumed the guise of The Coon, dressed as Hitler, led a hate march against the town’s Jewish society and generally spread hatred for red haired people, hippies, dwarfs and anybody who is unlike his self. His brilliance is rightfully cemented as he constantly reaps what he sows, yet continues to go about his general mischief. So come on down to South Park and see one particularly naughty friend of mine.
In a sense, regarding South Park’s history as a whole, it would be fair to say that Cartman is the villain of the piece and if the best thing to do with your enemies is to keep them close, then Stan, Kyle and Kenny have pretty much befriended everyone’s favourite chubby racist.
Whittling down the top 10 moments – note, moments not episodes – of Cartman’s very offensive past is a much more difficult task than you could imagine. This is the spoiled child who has assumed the guise of The Coon, dressed as Hitler, led a hate march against the town’s Jewish society and generally spread hatred for red haired people, hippies, dwarfs and anybody who is unlike his self. His brilliance is rightfully cemented as he constantly reaps what he sows, yet continues to go about his general mischief. So come on down to South Park and see one particularly naughty friend of mine.
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- DirectorTrey ParkerStarsTrey ParkerMatt StoneApril StewartJimmy begins using steroids to improve his chances in the special Olympics. Meanwhile, Cartman disguises himself as a handicapped boy so he can enter as well and win the cash prize.No. 15
Cartman Joins the Special Olympics, when Cartman learns that there's a $1,000 prize for winning the special Olympics, he puts great effort into making himself appear disabled so he can compete. Kyle is even more horrified than usual by Eric's actions, believing he'll end up in Hell. But Cartman can't be stopped and proceeds to lose at every event in the Special Olympics. When asked what his specific condition is, Cartman says: "How the hell should I know? I'm retarded. DUURRHH!" - DirectorTrey ParkerStarsTrey ParkerMatt StoneDian BacharCartman becomes an evangelical preacher when the boys break off from their church. Meanwhile, the feud between Saddam and Chris continues.No. 15
The South Park children build a church to live in sinlessness, and do not go to school, avoid home as much as possible, and listen earnestly to Cartman, who acts like a televangelist-esque preacher. Back in South Park, Cartman reveals to Stan and Kyle that he, in fact, only opened the church to con kids out of money, and not out of religious fervor (according to him, people can easily be forgiven by God). Sister Anne then manages to disband Cartman's church by having Jesus come and close it. As punishment for his sins, Cartman is sent somewhere worse than Hell, Mexico, and happens to meet Kenny at the bus stop. A similar event happens in Hell, when even after Satan explains his intent to be single, Saddam continues to harass him, the Devil reveals that he has "asked an old friend for a favor", and Saddam is forced to go live up in Heaven with the Mormons. This, to him, is Hell. - DirectorTrey ParkerStarsTrey ParkerMatt StoneIsaac HayesA drunken Civil War re-enactment leads to an actual Civil War breaking out.No. 14
Cartman Re-Starts the Civil War, In the episode "Red Badge of Gayness," a civil war reenactment breaks out into a real civil war. Cartman, not wanting to lose a bet, rallies all of the re-enactors to don Confederate uniforms and – drunk on Schnapps, they invade Topeka. Cartman says: "They think the South is a joke…they don't respect our authoritah." - DirectorTrey ParkerStarsTrey ParkerMatt StoneMilan AgnoneEric's mom turns to Dog Whisperer Cesar Millan as a last resort to turn him to a good little boy, but he may have also turned him into a repressed killer.No. 13
The troubled and troublesome child has pushed his mother, Liane Cartman, a little too far and help is called in to assist his road to rehabilitation.
Nanny Stella is the first to come to Liane’s aid, and the first to be swiftly driven away. Between her arrival and her departure, Cartman is a pure evil genius. He mocks her accent, he breaks the magical boundaries that restrict him to the time out stool, he spits directly into Nanny Stella’s mouth, he casually sings Journey’s Don’t Stop Believing as he reconnects his Xbox and finally he torments Nanny Stella by questioning why she doesn’t have children herself.
To Nanny Stella’s dismay he persists, “You’re sterile, is that it? No, that’s too convenient of an excuse. The truth is nobody ever wanted to have babies with you, is that it? Always the mom’s maid, never the mom. Must be hard on you, knowing that the years are ticking away, your friends all getting married and all the while your uterus slowly shrivelling away, drying up, becoming totally worthless.”
Cartman pushes and pushes all the right – or wrong – buttons, and, well let’s just say Nanny Stella doesn’t stick around for long. - DirectorTrey ParkerStarsTrey ParkerMatt StoneMona MarshallWhen Butters is invited to Kyle's birthday party instead of Cartman, Cartman kidnaps Butters and locks him in a bomb shelter.No. 12
The Casa Bonita episode is yet another episode that showcases all of Cartman’s awful personality traits as he tricks an unsuspecting and innocent Butters into believing the world has been hit by a meteor.
Cartman manipulates and tricks his way into being invited to Casa Bonita for Kyle’s birthday, but gets caught at the very last minute. He threateningly holds the birthday boy as the police begin to arrive and then runs off into the Mexican themed restaurant mumbling “less than a minute, less than a minute.” He swiftly experiences everything he has dreamed of doing in Casa Bonita as police officers block his path and surround him, ending in a climactic cliff dive to the shock of onlookers.
One of the police officers addresses the criminal, “Well kid, you made an entire town panic, you lost all your friends, and now you’re going to juvenile for a week. Huh! Was it worth it?”
Cartman floats in a manmade river with half shut eyes and a satisfied smile, before replying with no remorse, “Totally.” - DirectorTrey ParkerStarsTrey ParkerMatt StoneMona MarshallCartman takes a photo with Butters' penis in his mouth to prove Butters is gay. He later finds out what the picture really means and freaks out when the photo disappears. Meanwhile, Butters has to go to a special camp to calm his urges.No. 11
Cartman Figures out How to Not Be Gay, In "Cartman Sucks," Cartman is pulling his latest prank on a sleeping Butters, only to learn it has backfired. He put's Butters' penis in his mouth and took a picture, thinking it made Butters look gay. Then Kyle convinces Cartman that this prank makes him gay – not Butters. This sets Cartman on a quest to get his penis into Butters mouth. Cartman's irrational fear is a great parody on homophobia and the general "confusion" surrounding sexuality. It's the moment where Cartman is just about to succeed that gets Butters sent away to a prayer camp. Cartman says: "I checked on the internet Kyle, and getting Butters to put my weiner in his mouth wouldn't make me not gay!" - DirectorTrey ParkerStarsTrey ParkerMatt StoneMona MarshallFeeling guilty after watching another commercial about helpless children set to Sarah McLachlan singing, Kyle volunteers and is shocked to find Cartman helping crack babies at the hospital already. Kyle gets drawn into Cartman's despicable plot, thinking he can also help the crack babies.No. 10
Kyle learns that Cartman is volunteering at a hospital, working with babies who are addicted to crack, but believes that his motives are not entirely altruistic. It transpires that Cartman is getting the babies to fight over pieces of crack and broadcasting the footage over the Internet.
Cartman's contempt for the crack babies is so significant that he considers them to be slaves, visiting the chancellor of a university while dressed as a southern slave owner (complete with an accent), he enquires how to manage his slaves, labouring under the misapprehension that the university's basketball players are slaves.
Although this kind of behaviour is pretty despicable, Cartman does plan to build an orphanage for the crack babies, even though he views it as nothing more than a PR exercise. However, all's well that ends well as EA Games con Cartman's firm out of all of its money, and the crack baby orphanage is built by the guitarist Slash, who's portrayed as the equivalent of Santa. - DirectorTrey ParkerStarsTrey ParkerMatt StoneMona MarshallCartman leads a group of schoolmates to Somalia to become pirates.No. 9
After seeing news reports about Somali pirates, Cartman believes that the classic, swashbuckling age of piracy has returned. Encouraged by Kyle, Cartman recruits Butters, Clyde, Kevin, and Ike as his crew, and travels to Mogadishu to pursue his dream.
Cartman's annoyed to find that rather than the paradise he'd anticipated, Mogadishu is a failed state, where poverty and disease are rife. Cartman and his crew are kidnapped and ransomed to a French ship, which they promptly hijack, since the crew are terrified by Kevin's toy lightsaber.
Returning to Mogadishu, Cartman gains the respect of some of the local pirates, who join him. He then attempts to transform them into a stereotypical band of pirates. As Butters, Ike, Kevin and Clyde become disillusioned with their new lifestyle, Kyle arrives to take Ike home.
Delusional about how good life in Mogadishu is, Cartman decides to ransom him off. A US ship arrives to rescue Kyle and the team of snipers onboard assassinate all of the Somali pirates, helping Cartman and ending his career of piracy. - DirectorTrey ParkerStarsTrey ParkerMatt StoneEliza SchneiderKyle needs a kidney transplant, and Cartman is the only suitable donor. Meanwhile, Mr. Garrison writes a novel.No. 8
Several episodes of series 4 of South Park were loosely connected by Cartman's fruitless attempts to make ten million dollars. One of his schemes that didn't pan out was selling his kidney to Kyle. The main plot of this episode is that Kyle develops a life-threatening kidney condition, which is worsened by his mother putting her faith in alternative medicine, which eventually turns out to be an enormous scam.
Stan is told by a doctor that Kyle needs a kidney transplant and that the only person in South Park who's a suitable donor is Cartman. Cartman stubbornly refuses to give up his kidney unless he is given ten million dollars in exchange.
While this isn't really an act of supreme evil, it still shows how much of a bastard Cartman is. Though he pays the price, as, at the end of the episode, he's tricked into signing a waiver agreeing to donate his kidney. - DirectorTrey ParkerStarsTrey ParkerMatt StoneMona MarshallThe boys cope with loss when Kenny is hospitalized with a terminal disease. Cartman attempts to save him by legalizing stem cell research.No. 7
One of the similarities between Kenny Dies and Cherokee Hair Tampons is that both feature Cartman exploiting the worsening health of one his friends for his own gain.
Kenny is dying of muscular dystrophy and nothing can be done to help him, as stem cell research has been criminalised. Cartman goes to Washington DC and delivers an impassioned speech to Congress about Kenny's condition and how stem cell research can help to cure him.
Eventually, Kenny does die and it's revealed that the only reason Cartman was attempting to have the ban revoked was so that he could sell a consignment of foetuses he found after the lorry transporting them crashed.
Another of his questionable motives for revoking the ban was so that he could surround a branch of Shakey's Pizza with foetuses and grow an exact copy next door. I think you'll agree that the punch in the face from Kyle was well deserved. - DirectorTrey ParkerStarsTrey ParkerMatt StoneApril StewartCartman leads a campaign against the Jews after seeing "The Passion Of The Christ." Meanwhile, Stan and Kenny try to get their money back from Mel Gibson and discover that he is completely insane.No. 6
After watching The Passion Of The Christ, Cartman becomes enamoured with Mel Gibson, and believing the film to be a call to arms, begins a campaign to exterminate Jewish people, roping in unsuspecting fans of the film who believe that Cartman is promoting a resurgence of Christianity.
While dressed as Hitler, he leads a procession of The Passion Of The Christ fans through the streets of South Park chanting, "Es ist Zeit für Rache. Wir mussen die Juden ausrotten." (The time for revenge has come. We must exterminate the Jews.)
Things come to a head when Cartman's followers encounter a delegation of Jews who are demanding that the local cinema stop showing the film. Stan makes a speech about how people should focus on Jesus' teachings rather than his death. Cartman's followers leave and his campaign comes to an end when Mel Gibson defecates on his face. It's subsequently revealed, in the episode AWESOM-O, that his mother grounded him for his actions. - DirectorTrey ParkerStarsTrey ParkerMatt StoneJonathan KimmelCan Cartman and Kenny stay as "Best Friends Forever", even when Kenny buys the last PSP in stock?No. 5
Continuing the motif of exploiting his friends when they're at their most vulnerable, this episode sees Cartman attempt to kill Kenny, as Kenny had left Cartman his PSP in the event of his death.
Kenny buys a PSP and gets to level sixty of a game called Heaven vs. Hell before being run over by an ice cream van, the driver of which had just reached level four while driving. Kenny's death is revealed to have been orchestrated by God, who invented the PSP to find a human so skilled at Heaven vs. Hell that he would be capable of commanding the armies of heaven against Satan (parodying the film The Last Starfighter).
When Kenny's will is read out, Cartman finds out that Kenny hated him and left him his PSP out of pity. However, after the reading of the will, it's revealed that Kenny survived, but is in a persistent vegetative state. Cartman begins a long campaign to have Kenny's feeding tube removed so that he can finally take possession of the PSP.
The thing that sets this apart from most of Cartman's other acts of evil is that he actually succeeds, as Stan and Kyle concede that Cartman was right about letting Kenny die, albeit for completely the wrong reasons. Kenny is allowed to die and Cartman receives the PSP. - DirectorTrey ParkerStarsTrey ParkerMatt StoneAdrien BeardCartman leads a vendetta against kids with red hair and freckles, until a prank makes him think he is one of them.No. 4
Hate speeches and attempted genocide are hobbies of Cartman, so it won't come as a surprise that it wasn't just the Jews he tried to eliminate. Sick of Cartman's ranting about how disgusting gingers are and his constant assertion that they don't have souls, Kyle and Stan dye his hair ginger, bleach his skin, and draw freckles on his face with henna.
Cartman subsequently experiences the prejudice he had previously promoted and forms the Ginger Separatist Movement. The movement makes plans to kill all non-ginger children in South Park using a pool of lava. It's decided that Kyle shall die first, as he is a "Daywalker" (red haired, but without light skin and freckles), but before he dies he whispers the truth into Cartman's ear. In order to save himself, Cartman successfully calls off the planned mass murder. - DirectorTrey ParkerStarsTrey ParkerMatt StoneMona MarshallCartman and Cthulhu get their revenge on Coon and Friends, while Mysterion continues to try and discover the secret behind his superpower of never being able to die.No. 3
Cartman has done many questionable things, but until series 14 he had never forged an alliance with a demon from an HP Lovecraft novel and launched a pogrom against the minorities he hates.
In an attempt to put a halt to an oil spill, BP drill a hole on the moon that opens a portal releasing the Lovecraftian demon, Cthulu. Cartman (as his superhero alter-ego the Coon) joins forces with Cthulu and launches the aforementioned pogrom, attacking synagogues, the Burning Man festival, and destroying San Francisco.
It's not all bad, though, as he lays waste to a Justin Bieber concert, killing Bieber and all of the attending fans. - DirectorTrey ParkerStarsTrey ParkerMatt StoneMona MarshallAfter Cartman and Kyle are infected with the AIDS virus, they turn to Magic Johnson for assistance in finding a cure.No. 2
When Cartman goes to have his tonsils removed, he's accidentally infected with AIDS. Kyle can barely suppress his delight as, after years of such cruelty to other people, Cartman is finally paying the price.
As an act of revenge for Kyle's mockery of him, Cartman infects him with AIDS as well. Now, you don't have to be professor of ethics to know that intentionally giving somebody AIDS is a pretty messed up thing to do.
Kyle and Cartman visit Magic Johnson (supposedly the only man known to have recovered from AIDS) and discover a cure. Although Cartman expresses his relief that he and Kyle are both cured, Kyle still decides to break Cartman's Xbox in retribution.
You may argue that Cartman's rampage in Mysterion Rises is more evil than this due to the scale of it. But, while Cartman's attempt to reshape the world to his own design was certainly evil, it was based on mindless prejudices, whereas this is a targeted attack against a single person he's known for years. Plus, as mentioned, Cartman got Cthulu to kill Justin Bieber, which makes the entire thing not so bad. - DirectorEric StoughStarsJonny GreenwoodRadioheadTrey ParkerCartman plans an elaborate revenge when an older boy cons him out of money.No. 1
This truly is the apex of Cartman's evil. This is where he transforms from a petty schoolyard bully to the despicable, Machiavellian figure we know and love. Teenager Scott Tenorman cons Cartman into buying his pubic hair for ten dollars. Cartman's attempts to get his money back result in Scott conning him out of a further $6.12.
Cartman formulates an incredibly convoluted revenge plot that involves a pony biting off Scott's penis while Radiohead (his favourite band) watch. Cartman then invites Scott to a chilli festival he's set up. Kyle warns Scott about Cartman's plan, causing Scott to plan to humiliate Cartman further by feeding him chilli with pubic hair in it.
The day of the chilli festival arrives and Cartman reveals that he anticipated Kyle's betrayal and knew that Scott would attempt to incapacitate the pony. He also anticipated Scott sending his parents rather than going himself and warned the pony's owner (a violent redneck) that there were pony killers in the area.
The farmer kills Scott's parents and Cartman steals the bodies and grinds them into the chilli that Scott is eating. Catman gleefully reveals all of this to Scott. To add insult to injury, Radiohead turn up and ridicule Scott for crying. Cartman then climbs onto the table and begins to lick up Scott's tears.
Kyle's decision that they should never piss Cartman off again is very wise. It's this moment that truly cements Cartman's evil and makes Damien from The Omen look friendly in comparison