AWESOM-O

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“AWESOM-O”
South Park episode

AWESOM-O inserts Butters' suppository.
Episode no. Season 8
Episode 116
Written by Trey Parker
Matt Stone
Directed by Trey Parker
Original airdate April 14, 2004
Season 8 episodes
South Park - Season 8
March 17, 2004 – December 15, 2004
  1. Good Times with Weapons
  2. AWESOM-O
  3. Up the Down Steroid
  4. The Passion of the Jew
  5. You Got F'd in the A
  6. Goobacks
  7. The Jeffersons
  8. Douche and Turd
  9. Something Wall-Mart This Way Comes
  10. Pre-School
  11. Quest for Ratings
  12. Stupid Spoiled Whore Video Playset
  13. Cartman's Incredible Gift
  14. Woodland Critter Christmas
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"AWESOM-O" is episode 116 of the Comedy Central series South Park. It was originally broadcast on April 14, 2004. It holds the show record for being created in the shortest amount of time, taking only three days.[1]

[edit] Plot synopsis

Cartman disguises himself as a robot named "The A.W.E.S.O.M.-O 4000" and puts himself in a crate on Butters' doorstep as a gift from Japan, planning to befriend a gullible Butters and thereby discover Butters' embarrassing secrets (presumably so he can blab them to everybody at school). 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 of revenge, 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, he starves 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. Upon arriving, Cartman is so hungry and is feeling terrible (as travelling on a flight in a robot costume is obviously not pleasant) that he makes up an excuse to use the bathroom and proceeds to eat toothpaste and take off the disguise to cool off.

The Scientist from Awesom-o
The Scientist from Awesom-o

In Hollywood, movie producers hear about the "robot" and decide to hire him from Butters to create movie ideas; Cartman, as the robot, pitches over 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 captures "AWESOM-O" by shocking him, and abduct 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. A scientist attempts to save Cartman. Cartman is about to reveal that he is a human when Butters shows up to rescue him. Cartman has to keep his disguise, allowing the military to kill the scientist (because he tried 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 reveal his true identity. Butters carries out his promise of revenge and shows the video of Cartman dressed as Britney Spears to the whole town, as well as to the movie producers and the military (because they met "AWESOM-O" too). As Butters celebrates his victorious revenge on Cartman and everyone laughs (and the general says "wow kid you're a little faggot") on Cartman, all Cartman can unhappily muster up in response is the word "Lame!"

[edit] Production

This episode was advertised as "The Return of Lemmiwinks." However, no such episode exists. This (fictional) 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."

While the creators didn't mention the Lemmiwinks idea for the episode on the creator's commentary, they did mention that production on this and several episodes were halted due to the staff going to a wedding in Hawaii. Matt Stone states that the idea for this show came from the idea of Cartman saying "lame" in a robot voice.


[edit] Reception

In the recent UK poll Paramount Comedy's Top 10 Episodes, this episode was ranked number 5.


Preceded by
“Good Times with Weapons”		 South Park episodes Followed by
“Up the Down Steroid”