Cartman Sucks

This is one of the funnier episodes of South Park.This episode is an example of how Cartman tries to mess around with Butters.What happens in this episode is that Cartman tries to make everyone think Butters is gay.So Cartman puts his penis in Butters's mouth.However Kyle says that what Cartman did makes him look gay and the only way to reverse it is if Butters can put his dick in Cartman's mouth(Kyle is joking).So Cartman tries to put Butter's dick in his mouth and Butters's father catches them.He sends Butters to a strict camp for people who are "bi-curious".Meanwhile, Cartman loses the picture he took of it happening and thinks Kyle stole it.Cartman Sucks is a very funny South Park episode.

For all its scatological nastiness and misanthropic apathy, South Park can be sincerely sweet when necessary. Butters, as a character, has all kinds of psychological, even physical torture inflicted upon him by Cartman throughout the series, but his contagious optimism and childhood innocence anchor and counterbalance the mean spirited farce. Nowhere is this more apparent than in "Cartman Sucks" which sees the titular troublemaker verging on his pettiest stunt yet, and certainly his gayest one. I expected, based off the title, that this would be a capital-c Cartman-centric episode (like Cartmanland or Scott Tenorman), but what made the biggest impression on me was Butters' b-plot. Matt and Trey are good satirists because they're hilarious in spite of missing the mark like 40-50% of the time, but their parody of gay conversion camps is an unabashed indictment of American evangelism and homophobia (especially inflicted upon impressionable, confused kids). Butters' final speech marks an important step in maturity for the series, its legitimately sweet and precedes a memorably hilarious final moment with Cartman. An all around wonderful piece of TV.