Cartman's Silly Hate Crime 2000

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“Cartman's Silly Hate Crime 2000”
South Park episode
The boys try to replace Cartman with a stack of bricks.
Episode no.	Season 4 Episode 50
Written by	Trey Parker
Directed by	Trey Parker
Production no.	401
Original airdate	April 12, 2000
Season 4 episodes
South Park - Season 4 April 5, 2000 – December 20, 2000
Cartman's Silly Hate Crime 2000 The Tooth Fairy Tats 2000 Quintuplets 2000 Timmy 2000 Pip Cartman Joins NAMBLA Cherokee Hair Tampons Chef Goes Nanners Something You Can Do with Your Finger Do the Handicapped Go to Hell? Probably 4th Grade Trapper Keeper Helen Keller! The Musical Fat Camp The Wacky Molestation Adventure A Very Crappy Christmas

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"Cartman's Silly Hate Crime 2000" (sometimes shortened to "Cartman's Hate Crime") is episode 50 of the Comedy Central series South Park. It originally aired on April 12, 2000. This episode begins a four-episode run of titles ending in "2000". As explained in the FAQ section on the official website: "When the year 2000 was coming up, everyone and their brother had "2000" in the titles of their products and TV shows. America was obsessed with 2000, so Trey Parker put "2000" in the titles to make fun of the overuse."^[1] Although this was the first episode to use the 2000 title, the previous episode World Wide Recorder Concert was the first episode to air in the year 2000.

1 Plot
2 Censorship
3 References to pop culture
4 References

[edit] Plot

In the beginning, the boys are doing a sled race, and Cartman and his team wins (the boys know that Cartman's weight makes the sled go faster). Once Token reminds everyone again about Cartman's fat ass, Cartman gets angry, swearing that he will smack Token's head with a rock if he calls him fat again. Kyle doesn't care and calls Cartman a fat-ass, but Cartman assumes the insult came from Token, and so throws the rock at him, much to Kyle's shock. Unfortunately Token is the only African American child at South Park Elementary, causing the town's adults to overreact to the situation. While not racially motivated (despite the fact that Cartman is clearly portrayed as a racist in other episodes), Cartman is charged with a "hate crime" and thrown in juvenile hall, because the jury refused to come to the fact that he threw the rock at Token for calling him fat, not because he's black. There, he tries to avoid being beaten up by the other, tougher inmates, and tries to smuggle in cigarettes to his cell mate, Romper Stomper, who promises to help him break out. To do this, Cartman has his friends bring said cigarettes, which he sneaks past the guards by putting them up his butt, but then accidentally flushes them after crapping them out. Unfortunately, when Cartman sneaks in a game of Tic Tac Throw the same way, Romper Stomper tells him there is no way out. Cartman bursts into tears and Romper Stomper, filled with remorse, decides to help Cartman.

Meanwhile, the boys are trying to deal with an upcoming sled race down Phil Collins hill with the South Park girls (led by Lizzy), and realize that, without Cartman's extra (and excessive) weight on the back of their sled, they cannot go as fast. They decide to break Cartman out, and ask Token to forgive Cartman so he can get out of juvenile hall. Token is perfectly willing to do this, and Token's father helps the boys make a presentation to show the governor. In their presentation, the boys declare that hate crime legislation is illogical and "a savage hypocrisy" since all crimes are based on some kind of hate, and inflicting worse punishments for crimes against certain groups simply works to promote the idea that these groups are separate and not the same.

Back at Juvie, Romper Stomper helps Cartman sneak out. While being chased by the guards, Romper Stomper falls over. He tells Cartman to keep going and Cartman gladly does so. An annoyed Romper Stomper calls him back and tells him to say, "I can't leave without you" and then tells him to take his Stompers. Cartman takes them, says thank you and walks away. An annoyed Romper without Stompers tells him to say, "No. I can't take these, they are too special." Cartman does so and keeps going, leaving an annoyed Romper Stomper to feel relieved.

The governor, confessing that the three eight-year-olds Stan, Kyle and Token (Kenny has already been killed at this point) had given the most logical presentation he had seen in years, agrees to pardon Cartman. Cartman appears just in time to help them win the sled race, and Lizzy is carried off by a bear. Cartman announces that he will never take his friends for granted-seconds before throwing a rock at an annoyingly cheery Pip.

At the end, Cartman goes back to jail to visit Romper Stomper, bearing Disneyland as a gift in his ass. He then complies with Romper's wish of going to Disneyland by literally crapping it out on the toilet.

[edit] Censorship

When Kenny is asking Cartman what he's done that means Kenny needs to help him, he says the word fuck so clearly it was bleeped in some syndications.

[edit] References to pop culture

This episode is a spoof of the HBO series Oz. It even borrows the theme music for the prison.
The name of Cartman's cell mate, Romper Stomper, is a reference to the 1992 Australian film Romper Stomper, which is also about hate crimes.
When Romper Stomper first meets Cartman he refers to him as "new fish", a possible reference to The Shawshank Redemption where new inmates are referred to as "fresh fish".
Cartman’s prisoner number is 24601, a tribute to Les Misérables, in which this is Jean Valjean’s prison number (although the number on Cartman's jumpsuit is different).
Cartman trying to run away from the police with Kenny's Go Go Action Bronco is a reference to O. J. Simpson’s famous low-speed chase with police through the Los Angeles area.
Cartman's cellmate has the same tattoo (a teardrop under his eye) as the main character of the musical Cry-Baby (1990). This is also a symbolic tattoo mostly referred to prisoners, but may indicate that the bearer in question had killed someone.