AWESOM-O

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"AWESOM-O"
AWESOM-O applies Butters' suppository.
Episode no.	116
Airdate	April 14, 2004
South Park - Season 8 March 17, 2004 – December 15, 2004
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"AWESOM-O" is episode 805 of the Comedy Central series South Park. It originally aired on April 14, 2004. It holds the show record for being created in the shortest amount of time, taking only three days.[1]

This episode was advertised as "The Return of Lemmiwinks". However, no such episode exists. This disclaimer appeared before the episode began:

"Due to this week's tragic events in Hawaii, the Lemmiwinks episode of South Park will not be shown tonight. Instead, we present the all new and slightly better episode, AWESOM-O."

1 Plot synopsis
2 Production
3 Cultural References
- 3.1 References to other South Park episodes
4 Goofs

[edit] Plot synopsis

Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow.

Cartman disguises himself as a robot named "the AWESOM-O 4000" (a parody of the Honda ASIMO) and puts himself in a crate on Butters' doorstep, planning to befriend a gullible Butters and thereby discover Butters' embarrassing secrets. However, Butters also tells "AWESOM-O" that he knows one of Cartman's secrets -- he has a videotape of Cartman dressed up like Britney Spears, making out with a cardboard cut-out of Justin Timberlake. Butters adds that he plans to show the tape to the town next time Cartman plays a prank on him.

Cartman, terrified about Butters' plan, searches Butters' room furiously for the tape (while having the robot suit on, or Butters will know "AWESOM-O" was another prank) but fails, meanwhile gets starved because Butters believes that he is a robot and doesn't need to eat. With agreement from Cartman's mom, Butters' parents (knowing who "AWESOM-O" really is but thinking it's an elaborate game that Butters is in on) decide to let "AWESOM-O" come with Butters on a trip to Los Angeles to visit his aunt. Left with no alternative, Cartman is forced to go, or else reveal his disguise.

In Hollywood, movie producers hear about the "robot" and decide to hire him from Butters to create movie ideas; Cartman, as the robot, pitches one thousand nonsensical ideas (800 of which star Adam Sandler), while the movie producers are gullible enough to buy them. Meanwhile, the U.S. Military hears about "AWESOM-O", and decides to capture him to make him into a weapon. "AWESOM-O" flees the movie studio in panic after a film producer tries to sodomize him, thinking that he is a "pleasure model". The military capture "AWESOM-O" by shocking him, and abducts him into a secret base.

Cartman tries to explain that he's really a kid, but the military believes that Cartman is a robot with A.I. that made them think he was human. In addition, when Butters shows up to rescue him, he has to keep his disguise, allowing the military to kill a scientist (because he tries to stop the military from converting "AWESOM-O" into a weapon).

Butters pleads with the military to spare "AWESOM-O" and the general is touched. At this point, Cartman farts, causing Butters to suspect and finally reveals his true identity. Butters carries out his promise and shows the video of Cartman dressed as Britney Spears to the whole town, as well as the movie producers and the military (because they met "AWESOM-O" too). As everyone laughs and the general remarks that Cartman is a little faggot, all Cartman can muster up in response is the word "Lame!"

[edit] Production

On the creator's commentary, Matt Stone states that the idea for this show came from the idea of Cartman saying "lame" in a robot voice.

The crew had to go to Hawaii for a friend's wedding, which pushed back the production of this episode.

[edit] Cultural References

The scene in which "robot"-Cartman, bound to an upright operating table, asserts to the military that he is human is reminiscent of a similar scene involving the Puppet Master from the film Ghost in the Shell.
During the L.A. montage of clips, Butters and Awesom-O are seen in a log ride that looks exactly like the Yeti ride in Colorado's Funland. In the previous shot from the Season 5 episode, there are trees and bushes in a mountain-like atmosphere. In this episode, the tree (and one of the bushes) was changed into a dinosaur.

[edit] References to other South Park episodes

Ms. Cartman's reference to Cartman being grounded for "trying to exterminate the Jews two weeks ago" refers to "The Passion of the Jew" - which aired two weeks before "AWESOM-O".
Butters remembers the events from "Casa Bonita" where Cartman convinced Butters to hide in a bomb shelter, and "Jared Has Aides", where Cartman imitated Butters on the phone to his father, verbally bashing him.
AWESOM-O has been made into an action figure in the fourth series of South Park action figures by Mezco.

[edit] Goofs

When Cartman, in the robot suit, stated his name and where he lived; the scientist called him "an eight year old boy." Cartman had not disclosed this information to him nor is he eight years old, anymore.
In this episode is hinted that Butters may have encopresis, because he states that he has problems controlling his sphincter and that he has to wear diapers, but he was seen in many previous episodes and later ones going to the toilet without one on.
When Cartman is on the screen dancing and singing like Britney Spears, one of the hand actions he does is frighteningly similar to the hand actions that Stan, Kyle, Kenny and Cartman did in the season 4 episode, Fingerbang.