My favorite aspect of Cartman is that despite his evilness, he's a hedonist - more specifically just a kid who wants to have fun. There is no line he won't cross to get what he wants but at the end of the day, what he wants is usually something simple - a new toy, a visit to a fun place, a tasty snack, making his friends a bit jealous, etc
I love that the part that makes this character SO enjoyable and basically makes all his charm (and brings a bit of sympathy to his character sometimes) is that he’s literally a kid. If he was acting like this as an adult, I swear his charm would be gone, and dare I say making him a bit generic. Like all of the kids in this show, but it’s 10 times more essential to his character.
@@HaydenPlayzGamesyeah I can see the appeal in Randy’s character, but he would be a Randy in more twisted and intolerant, just insufferable the same way 😭
@@HaydenPlayzGames Nah, Randy's actions generally come from a place of honesty and often just well intended stereotyping whereas Cartmans comes from dishonest and selfishness
Every time there is a controversial societal trend I think ''They're gonna have Cartman show off the worst aspects of this on the next episode of South Park, aren't they?''
He makes fun of Kenny in poverty, Kyle being Jewish, Tolkien / Token being black, etc and people laugh out loud. Not out of bigotry but because the stereotypes really do make people laugh, even at ourselves. The fact he doesn't always get away with it is important in balancing him out and having people root for him or against him.
I think the best and funniest example of cartmans inconsistencies is that him bashing a guys head in with a branch and him trying the whack the other boys with a whiffle ball bat are literally one episode apart
My favorite Cartman moment is when he thinks he's dead and butters is the only one who can see him, and so they go to the red cross to help the hostages. 😅 And he thinks they can't see him cause they're like "I'm so confused" cause they're just confused at why this kid just walked in and started going "ooooooooo" and throwing shit around 😅😅😅 brilliant writing it gets me every time
Anybody that had the dvds, do y’all remember the little shorts when Matt and trey would talk about the episode at the start and end? The shorts with them dressed as cowboys will always be fried into my brain lmao
"Kyle, give me back my powers so I can fight this evil villain!" "Okay, okay. You can have your powers back." "Alright! And now I will use my power to... TURN KYLE INTO A CHICKEN! BLEH!" "GODDAMN IT CARTMAN!"
THIS!, Cartman truly loved her and their children and he gave them up to save the world. Seeing his fate in the fixed reality made me tear up because he actually changed and became a better person.
@@DefyReality-ll2cg Same here, seeing cartman end up becoming a fat, homeless alcoholic so everyone else had a good life actually made me cry. It showed he really had changed. It was just really funny that the only timeline where he changes and becomes a better person is literally the worst timeline for everyone else.
I played Eric Cartman for a few years in an official TV advert for the Australian broadcaster - in between double episodes (around 2001-2003) there was an interstitial ad saying “don’t go away, another new episode coming right up” voicing over me with a red shirt, blue beanie, and eating Cheetos in a bowl of milk, as well as cutting out cartoon characters from a cereal box. Unscripted and improvised by me was the “tongue thinking” while using the scissors. I’m pretty sure I added non-verbal grunting sounds that sounded exactly like Cartman - the result of which I spent the next year walking down the main street feeling very like I was possessed by Cartman, making those noises again.
While Eric is a brilliant character, I refuse to agree he is the best written one- since writing an outrageous vain character who always wants to be in the center of attention is actually a lot easier than writing a more reserved, morally righteous and intelligent, but anger-prone multi-dimensional self-learning character with a savior-complex, which is why I'd argue Kyle is the best written character of the show.
I think Cartman also brings out the human side of all of us. As in we aren't all good, or all bad, we are both. Cartman says the bad shit that we as adults think sometimes (albeit in a really exaggerated way), but because he's a kid, he can say it with little to no repercussions. He's basically the free spirit we wish we could be. Edit: I think Cartman is better written, even in his early development, than Joffrey Baratheon
is it wired to say i dont really like south park but i love watching these commentary vids abt it. like its not a bad show just a bit too crude for my liking yet i find these videos about the show really fascinating
One of the first episodes I saw, with my dad, was Cartman feeding chili to Scott Tenorman. I didn't think much about it except maybe this is why actual 8yos shouldn't watch it. The next one I saw was Cartmanland with Kyle renouncing his Faith. Honestly, those didn't have a huge impact on me. My favorite Cartman moment? In The List when Cartman literally goes out of his way to gloat about how the girls thought he was better looking than Kyle. He knocks on the window and moves with the curtain as Kyle covers the window. It is hilarious to me how he moves with the scenery to make a point he's made several times out of pride. That was one I watched on my own when I started getting into it.
Could you help me out, my Dad hates the show because he thinks one time Cartman said "I give you cancer" in one of the early seasons. I cannot find anything about.
How is it that Wayne Cramp from 'The Cramp Twins' gets so much hate from the cartoon community, yet people really like Cartman? Even though he has done things that are far worse than what Wayne did. Granted, some of Cartman's inflections can make me laugh; yet Tom Kenny's performance as Wayne is also funny and people don't turn the other cheek for him.
I'm really surprised to find south park fans that hate eric cartman. After he got his come upins the postCOVID special, I saw a lot of sp pages on social media talking about how they were glad it happened and what a pos he is. Like, bro, it's a cartoon. Don't take it so seriously.
The overuse of tegridy farms made randy to drop to number 2 or even 3 imo. Till then, cartman was and still is South Park, but randy was the best character on the show
FYI, interrupting the video we're enjoying right in the middle to plug yourself is 100x more annoying than starting the video with it. I'm 100% all for great creators plugging their channel and advertising and whatnot however they choose. Doesn't mean it's not annoying, but if the content is great I'm happy to put up with it. And this channel has GREAT content. But, just sayin, if, like you said, your goal is to be LESS annoying, you're doing it wrong.
Stan is the least interesting character in the series. I love Randy but Stan is unnecessary. Kyle is perfect as Cartman’s foil. And Kenny is fun. His focused episodes are always a hoot. Stan isn’t even top 20 best South Park characters
"Kyle I'm sorry for all those times I called you a jew."
"Cartman I am a jew"
"No kyle don't be so hard on yourself"
My favorite aspect of Cartman is that despite his evilness, he's a hedonist - more specifically just a kid who wants to have fun. There is no line he won't cross to get what he wants but at the end of the day, what he wants is usually something simple - a new toy, a visit to a fun place, a tasty snack, making his friends a bit jealous, etc
Great analysis
most people that evil are hedonist. They like the power, money, and sex that comes from gaining power and dominating others.
Eric Cartman feels like he knows he’s a cartoon character and by next week his actions won’t affect him.
Fr fr and the fact he knows Kenny is just gonna come back to life so he doesn’t care
I love that the part that makes this character SO enjoyable and basically makes all his charm (and brings a bit of sympathy to his character sometimes) is that he’s literally a kid. If he was acting like this as an adult, I swear his charm would be gone, and dare I say making him a bit generic. Like all of the kids in this show, but it’s 10 times more essential to his character.
Isn’t that just Randy? lol
@@HaydenPlayzGamesyeah I can see the appeal in Randy’s character, but he would be a Randy in more twisted and intolerant, just insufferable the same way 😭
@@HaydenPlayzGames Nah, Randy's actions generally come from a place of honesty and often just well intended stereotyping whereas Cartmans comes from dishonest and selfishness
Yeah, everybody loves kids.
Wait-
@@HaydenPlayzGamesor mr garrison lmao
Every time there is a controversial societal trend I think ''They're gonna have Cartman show off the worst aspects of this on the next episode of South Park, aren't they?''
He makes fun of Kenny in poverty, Kyle being Jewish, Tolkien / Token being black, etc and people laugh out loud. Not out of bigotry but because the stereotypes really do make people laugh, even at ourselves. The fact he doesn't always get away with it is important in balancing him out and having people root for him or against him.
It's Tolkien
If only everyone still believed this. The world was so much better 20 years ago.
All I can say about Cartman is there has never been a character that I have loved and hated at the same time!
Cartman is, indeed, the most beautiful thing to ever bless this earth
The Somalia pirates episode is peak cartman, it's when he's at his most entertaining and humble at the same time some how
I love how in the show the viewers get manipulated to be on his side at times 😭
I think the best and funniest example of cartmans inconsistencies is that him bashing a guys head in with a branch and him trying the whack the other boys with a whiffle ball bat are literally one episode apart
Strange maybe but my favorite Cartman moment is when he puts on a nice sweater to get Kyle to let him come to Casa Bonita.
That's not being nice, that's wearing a nice sweater.
My favorite Cartman moment is when he thinks he's dead and butters is the only one who can see him, and so they go to the red cross to help the hostages. 😅 And he thinks they can't see him cause they're like "I'm so confused" cause they're just confused at why this kid just walked in and started going "ooooooooo" and throwing shit around 😅😅😅 brilliant writing it gets me every time
That’s a close second to Cartman committing to the bit, becoming a robot that got starved and abused robo-sexually
@@whophd awesome-o is one of my favorite episodes 😅
Im high af rn but you earned yourself a subscriber in the middle of the video. That was genius
Anybody that had the dvds, do y’all remember the little shorts when Matt and trey would talk about the episode at the start and end? The shorts with them dressed as cowboys will always be fried into my brain lmao
"Kyle, give me back my powers so I can fight this evil villain!"
"Okay, okay. You can have your powers back."
"Alright! And now I will use my power to... TURN KYLE INTO A CHICKEN! BLEH!"
"GODDAMN IT CARTMAN!"
He's my Favorite Character in all of fiction. I'm a Cartman enjoyer😭✨
Fr.
Knowing what he was before he met his Jewish wife in the Covid special makes his sacrifice hit that much harder
THIS!, Cartman truly loved her and their children and he gave them up to save the world. Seeing his fate in the fixed reality made me tear up because he actually changed and became a better person.
@@DefyReality-ll2cg Same here, seeing cartman end up becoming a fat, homeless alcoholic so everyone else had a good life actually made me cry. It showed he really had changed. It was just really funny that the only timeline where he changes and becomes a better person is literally the worst timeline for everyone else.
@@bilalashraf1611not to mention it made 0 sense and was just in general a really weak ending for him
Insanely high quality video for your sub count, you deserve it all man
5:47 It’s so sad to see everytime😭
Just found this channel, very thorough and fun analysis. Happily subbed
Great video, keep up the great work. This can rival other videos on the same topic.
I played Eric Cartman for a few years in an official TV advert for the Australian broadcaster - in between double episodes (around 2001-2003) there was an interstitial ad saying “don’t go away, another new episode coming right up” voicing over me with a red shirt, blue beanie, and eating Cheetos in a bowl of milk, as well as cutting out cartoon characters from a cereal box. Unscripted and improvised by me was the “tongue thinking” while using the scissors. I’m pretty sure I added non-verbal grunting sounds that sounded exactly like Cartman - the result of which I spent the next year walking down the main street feeling very like I was possessed by Cartman, making those noises again.
you need more views & likes bro this content,s good
edit: i see how from 66 likes its going to 100
i love ur videos dude
Subbed! You deserve more recognition!
Good stuff!!! Keep em coming
i think cartman is in love with kyle
5:52 all jokes aside my sister did this, box of kfc chicken sitting in the fridge she eats the skin off all the peices then puts it back in the fridge
making Kenny cry is no joke
There's a reason Eric Cartman has the most montage videos out of any other character.
one of the best is definitely a bold statement but I think Cartman is indeed well written ngl
Cartman is the darth Vader of South park, while kenny is the R2D2
12:55 canadian rating spotted
They’ll never make me hate you cart
Ur channel will blow up for sure
Still waiting on the Faith + 1 CD, Matt and Trey...
One of the scariest psychopats in tv 🤯🤯😣😣
His names Eric, not Pat
Great stuff man.
No Cartman, no South Park.
another great video! keep it up
That kfc/scarface episode is hilarious
My nephew is cartman personified, I’m not even joking
One of my childhood best friends was just like Cartman, and our other best friend, well, he was jewish. I was poor. I guess I was Kenny. LOL.
Love your videos
Nice videos keep them up!!!
Great channel. Just subscribed
While Eric is a brilliant character, I refuse to agree he is the best written one- since writing an outrageous vain character who always wants to be in the center of attention is actually a lot easier than writing a more reserved, morally righteous and intelligent, but anger-prone multi-dimensional self-learning character with a savior-complex, which is why I'd argue Kyle is the best written character of the show.
I think Cartman is interesting. Kyle is cool but he lacks some complexity that usually comes with writing a character with a personality disorder
Solid videos keep it up
I think Cartman also brings out the human side of all of us. As in we aren't all good, or all bad, we are both. Cartman says the bad shit that we as adults think sometimes (albeit in a really exaggerated way), but because he's a kid, he can say it with little to no repercussions. He's basically the free spirit we wish we could be.
Edit: I think Cartman is better written, even in his early development, than Joffrey Baratheon
By a country mile the best villain ever written, imo.
We have a politician here in the UK who is Cartman personified, Nigel Farage.
God damn.. now I have to watch every episode of south park AGAIN
My nickname at School was Cartman. 😂😅😂
is it wired to say i dont really like south park but i love watching these commentary vids abt it. like its not a bad show just a bit too crude for my liking yet i find these videos about the show really fascinating
One of the first episodes I saw, with my dad, was Cartman feeding chili to Scott Tenorman. I didn't think much about it except maybe this is why actual 8yos shouldn't watch it. The next one I saw was Cartmanland with Kyle renouncing his Faith. Honestly, those didn't have a huge impact on me. My favorite Cartman moment? In The List when Cartman literally goes out of his way to gloat about how the girls thought he was better looking than Kyle. He knocks on the window and moves with the curtain as Kyle covers the window. It is hilarious to me how he moves with the scenery to make a point he's made several times out of pride. That was one I watched on my own when I started getting into it.
Could you help me out, my Dad hates the show because he thinks one time Cartman said "I give you cancer" in one of the early seasons. I cannot find anything about.
Are u gunna do a butters show ?
Nah, cartmen is the hero
Randy has become irreplaceable as well. Randy has become a main character since around when we found out he is Lorde hahaha
This is the second time I’ve heard “IMBD” in a video is it engagement bait or a miss speak
It's so much simpler.
He's funny
We like those who make us laugh
Ive truly never felt more sympathy for someone on this show than when Kenny started crying over the chicken skin 😭😂
How is it that Wayne Cramp from 'The Cramp Twins' gets so much hate from the cartoon community, yet people really like Cartman? Even though he has done things that are far worse than what Wayne did. Granted, some of Cartman's inflections can make me laugh; yet Tom Kenny's performance as Wayne is also funny and people don't turn the other cheek for him.
“haha charade you are”
11:12 HE IS FUNNY!!!!!!!!💔💔💔💔
The most frustrating thing about the chili episode was that Scott tenormans pub€s are black and not ginger
@08:25 IMDB not IM-B-D. My wife makes the same mistake too
This is like the second time I’ve heard him do this
Thinking about it he probably is one of if not my most favourite character in anything. No I don't seem to have any Jewish candy.
I thought umbridge from Harry Potter was the most hated character in all media
Why does everyone forget his war crimes in the red badge of gayness.
I'm really surprised to find south park fans that hate eric cartman. After he got his come upins the postCOVID special, I saw a lot of sp pages on social media talking about how they were glad it happened and what a pos he is. Like, bro, it's a cartoon. Don't take it so seriously.
The overuse of tegridy farms made randy to drop to number 2 or even 3 imo. Till then, cartman was and still is South Park, but randy was the best character on the show
UH OHHHH!!!!
I love Eric 😋
FYI, interrupting the video we're enjoying right in the middle to plug yourself is 100x more annoying than starting the video with it.
I'm 100% all for great creators plugging their channel and advertising and whatnot however they choose. Doesn't mean it's not annoying, but if the content is great I'm happy to put up with it. And this channel has GREAT content. But, just sayin, if, like you said, your goal is to be LESS annoying, you're doing it wrong.
cartman is the definition of gaslighting
Stan is the least interesting character in the series. I love Randy but Stan is unnecessary. Kyle is perfect as Cartman’s foil. And Kenny is fun. His focused episodes are always a hoot. Stan isn’t even top 20 best South Park characters
Agreed cartman is the apsolute best. And butters is 2nd. Randy is good somtimes but overrated
yeah no, never rooted against Cartman lol
would rather kill off Stan than Kyle for sure..
I wouldn't have minded Kyle being killed off i don't like him
I feel like Kyle is a important background character rather than a main but I still think he can be funny and the voice of reason to Eric
Baaaaaad takes but thanks for sharing.
What the fuck is wrong with you
I don't empathize with cartman, i hate him.
idk i dont remember ever rooting against cartman lol, its always annoying when he fails