South Park episode where Cartman killed his parents. Scott Tenorman doesn't owe anyone

Eric Cartman believes he has reached puberty because he has pubic hair. He actually bought them from a high school student named Scott Tenorman. When Cartman learns that pubic hair doesn't need to be bought - it just has to grow on its own, he decides to return the $10 he spent on the purchase.

Cartman tries to get his money back different ways, but Scott constantly manages to outsmart him. During one of his attempts, Eric loses another 6 dollars and 12 cents. He also agrees to drive over 100 miles to another city in hopes of making a million dollars, since Tenorman told him about a "pubic hair fair" where Cartman could sell it for $5 per hair. Upon arrival, Cartman discovers that there is no fair and receives a package full of pubic hair. Cartman eventually tells Scott a story about his sick grandmother who will die without a $16 operation, but Tennorman, after Cartman begs him for money and pretends to be a little pig, burns all the money.

An angry Eric begins to plot revenge. At the beginning, Cartman tries to win his friends over to his side, but they are indifferent to this story. He decided to take revenge alone.

Cartman's first plan is to train Denkins' farm ponies to bite off Tenorman's penis at a certain point. But an inexperienced horse, training on a stuffed animal, instead of biting off the penis, begins to suck it. Jimbo and Ned then appear and advise Cartman to find out Tenorman's weaknesses and take advantage of them. Eric found out that Scott was a Radiohead fan. He decided to humiliate the offender in front of the whole city by duplicating the voice of the band's lead singer, who “says” that Scott is “not cool at all.” His plan fails, and Tenormand shows the public a videotape of Cartman pretending to be a pig, trying to get his money back.

Then Cartman, going wild with anger, makes up new plan. He writes a letter to Radiohead asking them to come to South Park on Tuesday around five to see "his friend Scott" because he is dying of "butt cancer." But Kyle and Stan call Tenorman and tell him about Cartman's idea, since they hate him. Cartman invites Scott to culinary duel, where he “can win a pony ride.” Knowing Cartman's plan, Tenorman tells his parents that there is a stray, starving pony living on Denkins' farm. They go to the farm to take the horse to the kennel. Scott, deciding to humiliate Cartman again, asks all his friends to put their pubic hair in his chili sauce so that Cartman will eat it along with the sauce.

At the competition, everyone is waiting impatiently for Cartman to be in Once again humiliated (except for the Chef, who knows nothing and brought his chili). Scott eats Cartman's sauce first and invites him to try his own sauce. When Cartman is almost finished with all the sauce, Scott is about to tell the whole truth about pubic hair, but Eric unexpectedly interrupts him.

Cartman says he knows everything about Tenorman's plan. He states that he swapped Chef's and Scott's sauces, adding that he "didn't expect Chef's sauce to be as good as it was; Instead, he relied on his friends Kyle and Stan to turn him in, call Scott and warn him about the trap." True, they did not know “that Denkins is crazy and shoots everyone who tries to get close to his horse,” especially after Eric’s stories about the “brutal killer.” Eric says he knew Tenormand would “send his parents for the horse to protect his penis.” According to Cartman, “When Denkins spotted the intruders, he killed them both with one shot.” While the farmer reported to the police, Cartman took away the corpses and, with the help of a hacksaw, cooked his Mr. and Mrs. Tenorman chili from them, feeding it to Scott.

Hearing this, the audience is shocked, and Scott begins to sob bitterly. At this very moment, Radiohead appear and, seeing Tenorman sobbing, laugh at him, calling him a crybaby and “some uncool kid.” Scott roars even more, and Cartman, in a fit of passion, begins to lick tears from his face, saying: “Yes! Yes! It worked! Do you want me to lick your tears, Scott? Sweet taste of victory! Here they are, tears of immeasurable grief! How tasty they are, how sweet they are!”

The episode ends with Kyle commenting that "he and Stan better not piss off Cartman anymore." Stan agrees.

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Hysterical Society and Cultural Language

Modern society is by its nature extremely hysterical. For example, you can take anything - say, elections in the United States. When Barack Obama became president, conservatives wrung their elbows and declared the end of the world. About the same thing happened in liberal society with the advent of Trump - hysteria and apocalyptic revelations. The best people to help us calm down and laugh at everyone at once were Matt Stone and Trey Parker, who created the perfect toolkit for deconstruction - South Park. It was like that before.

Until it struck new season, which turned out to be the weakest in the history of the show. All the media, fans and critics fell into hysterics at once. “South Park” has gone downhill, it’s no longer funny and in general we already have “Rick and Morty”, a bunch of fashionable ironic indie animated series and some kind of cruelty with Adult Swim. But is this fair? To understand this, we first have to explain why South Park is important to modern culture.

We have already called it a toolkit for deconstruction. South Park has always been such a not-quite-animated series. That is, in form - of course, although it is far from orthodox. By the way, this is precisely what repels many ordinary people from her. Everything is too ugly and sketchy, they say. Parker and Stone themselves look at this as a natural process of weeding out the audience. Moreover, sketchiness is an extremely convenient quality for what their creation actually is – a multimedia language.

Yes, in fact, “South Park” is a system of signs with the help of which Stone and Parker, in an absurd and provocative form, convey to us their opinions about culture, politics and social life. Some call this an expression of the libertarian position on TV, but this is only partly true. They are too nihilistic to belong to one camp or another.

Formation of handwriting

It's interesting that on different stages existence, South Park worked differently with cultural codes. The first four seasons - up to the episode "Scott Tenorman Must Die", the most important in the history of the show - are the stage of language formation, when we are introduced to the characters and the rules of the game, along the way realizing own capabilities. From the moment the personality of Eric Cartman (as the main anti-hero in the history of American television) is established, the series begins to really work.

If you're one of those people - and there really are some - who's only watched the last few seasons, then you might think that the show is sitting on an "info-feed" needle, working mostly with current trends. But it was not always so. More precisely, it was not a mandatory element. Basically, Parker and Stone talked about whatever they wanted. After all, it’s funny, you see, to look for a social request in ridiculing the show about the dog trainer Dog Whisperer in “Tsstt” or the sci-fi cliche of the seventies in the two-episode “Forward, God, Forward!”

Although there is no escape from current reasons. The episode “Osama Bin Laden Has Smelly Pants” answered 9/11 with a simple and clear “It’s okay, we can live and laugh again,” and “Margaritaville” expressed author's position on the topic of the financial crisis. A free structure is what distinguished South Park from most cultural products and made it possible to speak on any topic in free form. As a result, precise expressions like “a terrorist attack on our imagination” or the Family Guy writers’ description of manatees were born.

But it’s impossible to stay on the air for twenty years without changing. Stone and Parker introduced new characters, forgot old ones, and for the last few seasons, most likely, on the wave of the game’s success South Park: The Stick Of Truth – introduced a single storyline for the whole season. Somewhere around this point, the series began to lose its old audience, and the current season was the last straw for many. Is he really bad?

Search, not stagnation

Well, yes. But wait, don’t disperse. That's not why we piled up so much text. There are nuances. The first was noted by everyone - this year the second game South Park: Fractured, But Whole! was finally released, taking a bunch of creative resources, including the best jokes. This must be taken into account, but not everything. Parker and Stone themselves admit that the idea with a single line was not entirely successful and are gradually trying to get away from it. And this needs to be done, if only because many episodes are written almost on the fly. It worked perfectly without a single line, but now, when leaving a cliffhanger, the creators don’t always know where it will lead.

Sometimes they lead to a dead end and we have to painfully stew in the relationship between Heidi and Cartman from episode to episode, turning Eric into a completely different character. Some jokes feel half-baked, like Mark Zuckerberg's appearance. Some, like the film "Dead Man", are understandable only to Americans and people deeply immersed in American culture(Columbus Day series). And in general most season, it’s unclear where all this is heading.

The thing is, they don't know yet. And that's okay. No one should be judged for wanting something new, and try not to stumble, get confused or lose yourself in twenty years. This whole season is about search and feedback. Stone and Parker are well aware that they cannot return to their old selves, and therefore reflect on the theme of self-repetition, making an homage to the feature film “Big, Long, Uncut.” A last series season, it is no coincidence that it revolves around the tomatometer on Rotten tomatoes.

IN English language There is a wonderful word that has no Russian equivalent - self-awareness, which means awareness of one’s own shortcomings and a realistic attitude towards them. Season 21 of South Park is very self-aware and that gives us hope. Just like the fact that the two strongest episodes are the final two. Unfortunately, it was only possible to feel the pulse at the very end. They even managed to come up with, it seems, so far best joke about the series Stranger Things - yes, this hype train could not pass unnoticed - but that’s worth something. But the funeral tone of the reviews was set even at the release of the first three episodes.

Before reading the funeral speeches, you should look at things soberly. Trey Parker and Matt Stone are not Matt Groening from The Simpsons or, thank God, Seth MacFarlane. The first one seems to have stopped feeling the culture due to age, and the second one is a manatee.

No, they're still funny. And proof of this is the game Fractured, But Whole! (if only it weren’t so ridiculously optimized, but that’s another story).

A few seasons ago they went on a quest. Now - at least according to them - they are trying to find their way back. And at this time, only the lazy did not kick them for not being able to become the voice of the generation again at a click. The viewer can also understand. The current state of South Park leaves him with a deep sense of inadequacy. The feeling that everything is not as it should be. Everyone knows: the artist must be hungry, Carthage must be destroyed, Scott Tenorman must die. But the best tools for analyzing culture don't have to die because of a failed search. At least for now.

If you decide to return to South Park, then start with your knowledge of the cult animated series.

Plan:

1 Plot
2 Death of Kenny
3 Parodies
4 Facts

Introduction

"Scott Tenorman Must Die"(English) Scott Tenorman Must Die) - episode 501 of the animated series "South Park", which premiered on July 11, 2001. This episode was one of ten included on DVD South Park: The Hits(and the earliest of them). Radiohead make their own guest appearances in the episode.

1. Plot

Cartman tries to get his money back in various ways, but Scott constantly manages to outsmart him. During one of his attempts, Eric loses another 6 dollars and 12 cents. He also agrees to drive over 100 miles to another city in hopes of making a million dollars, since Tenorman told him about a "pubic hair fair" where Cartman could sell it for $5 per hair. Upon arrival, Cartman discovers that there is no fair and receives a package full of pubic hair. Cartman eventually tells Scott a story about his sick grandmother who will die without a $16 operation, but Tenorman, after Cartman begs him for money and pretends to be a little pig, burns all the money.

An angry Eric begins to plot revenge. At the beginning, Cartman tries to win his friends over to his side, but they are indifferent to this story. He decides to take revenge alone.

Then Cartman, furious with anger, makes a new plan. He writes a letter to Radiohead asking them to come to South Park on Tuesday around five to see "his friend Scott" because he is dying of "cancer in his ass." But Kyle and Stan call Tenorman and tell him about Cartman's idea, since they hate him. Cartman invites Scott to a cooking match where he “might win a pony ride.” Knowing Cartman's plan, Tenorman tells his parents that there is a stray, starving pony living on Denkins' farm. They go to the farm to take the horse to the kennel. Scott, deciding to humiliate Cartman again, asks all his friends to put their pubic hair in his chili sauce so that Cartman will eat it along with the sauce.

At the competition, everyone is impatiently waiting for Cartman to be humiliated once again (except for the Chef, who knows nothing and brought his chili). Scott eats Cartman's sauce first and invites him to try his own sauce. When Cartman is almost finished with all the sauce, Scott is about to tell the whole truth about pubic hair, but Eric suddenly interrupts him.

Cartman says he knows everything about Tenorman's plan. He states that he swapped Chef's and Scott's sauces, adding that he "didn't expect Chef's sauce to be as good as it was; Instead, he relied on his friends Kyle and Stan to turn him in, call Scott and warn him about the trap." True, they did not know “that Denkins is crazy and shoots everyone who tries to get close to his horse,” especially after Eric’s stories about the “brutal killer pony.” Eric says he knew Tenormand would “send his parents for the horse to protect his penis.” According to Cartman, “When Denkins spotted the intruders, he killed them both with one shot.” While the farmer reported to the police, Cartman took away the corpses and, with the help of a hacksaw, cooked his Mr. and Mrs. Tenorman chili from them, feeding it to Scott.

Hearing this, the audience is shocked, and Scott begins to sob bitterly. At this very moment, Radiohead appear and, seeing Tenorman sobbing, laugh at him, calling him a crybaby and “some uncool kid.” Scott roars even more, and Cartman, in a fit of passion, begins to lick the tears from his face, saying: “Yes! Yes! It worked! Do you want me to lick your tears, Scott? Sweet taste of victory! Here they are, tears of immeasurable grief! How tasty they are, how sweet they are!”

The episode ends with Kyle commenting that "he and Stan better not piss off Cartman anymore." Stan agrees.

2. Kenny's death

When Scott shows a video of Cartman pretending to be a pig, Kenny laughs so hard that he dies of laughter. His soul, having left his body and flying into the sky, continues to laugh. Perhaps this is just a coincidence, or perhaps a parody of the film Who Framed Roger Rabbit, where the toons die in a similar way. Three more times in South Park we see Kenny's soul fly out of a dead body: in the episodes " Best friends Forever", "Death" and in the film "Big, Long and Uncut".

3. Parodies

The scene in which Cartman serves Scott his own parents' chili is reminiscent of Shakespeare's Titus Andronicus, where Titus feeds his enemy, Queen Tamora, with her sons Demetrius and Chiron. Titus was eventually killed, but Cartman got away with it. Also, the scene with chili sauce for the competition was in the film “The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2”.
During Scott's eating of his parents, Cartman completely changes the meaning of the phrase "Feast of Thyestes", taken from the myth of Thyestes and Atreus' wife Aerope. In order to take revenge, Atreus exiles Thyestes, and then invites him to a feast, where he gives Thyestes his own two sons. It is unclear whether the creators of "South Park" intentionally addressed this myth or not.
When Cartman, sitting in the bushes, explains to Jimbo what Radiohead are, he begins to sing the chorus of their first hit, "Creep", Ned joins in, and Jimbo asks them not to sing.
The revenge that Cartman originally came up with (about a pony biting off Scott's penis) seems to reference the famous "Story of Little Hans" in Freudian psychology. There Hans had a fear of castration, namely that his penis would be bitten off by a horse.

4. Facts

The episode was named by South Park assistant producer Mike McMahan as his favorite, noting that he “loves when Cartman is deeply, extremely angry; A pony sucking a hot dog is also a great idea." Another South Park assistant producer, Kurt Nickels, also highlights this episode, noting that it is "the moment when Cartman became capable of anything." John Hansen also considers this episode his favorite.
When Cartman introduces himself as an insurance agent, he gives himself the name of singer Kris Kristofferson.
This episode was listed as one of the "Most Outrageous" Episodes Comedy Central .
Trey Parker wanted to call this episode "Scott Tenorall Must Die", but used the name "Tenorall" because it was easier to pronounce.
Radiohead are the favorite band of the show's animation director, Eric Stough. Matt Stone is also a big Radiohead fan. While talking with members of the band, Parker and Stone learned that they would like to voice someone; then they were offered a role in this episode.
This episode is one of the few where Eric Stough is credited as director.
In the episode when Chuck Tenorman drives away the hidden people from the house, Randy, Gerald, Stuart and Steven can be seen in disguise.

Notes

Interview with Mike McMahan - www.southparkstudios.com/fans/behind/interviews.php?interview=41 at South Park Studios (English)
Interview with Kurt Nickels - www.southparkstudios.com/fans/behind/interviews.php?interview=35 at South Park Studios (English)
Interview with John Hansen - www.southparkstudios.com/fans/behind/interviews.php?interview=33 at South Park Studios (English)
1 2 Episode description on Southparkstuff.com - www.southparkstuff.com/season_5/episode_501/ (English)
South Park Studios - Employee Bios - www.southparkstudios.com/behind/employee.php?page=5 (English)
Chat with Matt Stone - www.southparkstudios.com/fans/behind/interviews.php?interview=25 at South Park Studios. April 15, 2005 (English)