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Cartman tormenting Scott Tenorman, after Scott ate his own parents. |
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| Episode no. | Season 5 Episode 4 |
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| Directed by | Eric Stough | ||
| Written by | Trey Parker | ||
| Editing by | Keef Bartkus | ||
| Production code | 501 | ||
| Original air date | July 11, 2001 | ||
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Radiohead as themselves |
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"Scott Tenorman Must Die" is the fourth episode of the fifth season of the animated television series South Park, and the 69th episode of the series overall. "Scott Tenorman Must Die" originally aired in the United States on July 11, 2001 on Comedy Central. English rock band Radiohead guest star in the episode. It is widely considered by fans to be one of the best episodes of the series .
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Cartman excitedly brags to Stan, Kenny and Kyle that he is the first to reach puberty, since he has gotten his first pubic hairs. Cartman apparently did not know that you grow them yourself, and only has them because he bought the pubes from ninth-grader Scott Tenorman for $10. After being informed that he has been tricked, lied to, and laughed at, an angry Cartman tries various methods to get his money back. However, with each attempt to get his money back, Scott is one step ahead. And after a little while, Scott manages to steal even more of Cartman's money. After Scott makes Cartman sing that he is a "little piggy", Scott burns the money. After that happens, Cartman plots revenge. He attempts to train a pony to bite off Scott's penis, but Jimbo Kern later tells him that the best way to humiliate Scott is to find his weaknesses.
After learning that Scott's favorite band is Radiohead, Cartman has everyone see a poorly-dubbed movie of the members of Radiohead being interviewed, with Cartman dubbing in his voice as the band members' to say how much they hate Scott. However, Scott one-ups him by showing a video of Cartman being humiliated, an act so funny that Kenny dies laughing. Cartman is pushed to the edge, and writes a letter to Radiohead to get them to visit South Park, claiming that Scott has "cancer in his ass". Cartman tells Stan and Kyle of his plan to get Scott's penis bit off at a chili cookoff, which Radiohead would arrive at and see him crying, making them think he is not cool. Afterward, Stan and Kyle warn Scott, which prompts Scott to not only make a chili consisting of the pubes of all the teens in South Park, but tell his parents of a starving pony on an abandoned farm, which prompts his parents to go and save it that night.
The next day at the chili cookoff, both Scott and Chef bring chili for the competition, as does Cartman. After they sit down to eat, Scott eats some of Cartman's chili, while Cartman lavishly scarfs down Scott's. As Cartman is finishing Scott's chili, Scott prepares to tell him the secret ingredient, but Cartman then indicates that he already knew, and the chili he is eating is not Scott's, as he switched it with Chef's. Cartman tells Scott that he told Stan and Kyle about his plan because he knew they would rat him out. Cartman then announces that his actual plan was to get Mr. Denkins, the farmer who owns the pony, to shoot and kill Scott's parents, and while Denkins was busy with the police, steal the corpses, chop them up and place their body parts into the chili Scott was eating. Scott finds his mom's finger, and breaks down crying. Cartman's final stage of his plan occurs when Radiohead (who are unaware of what just happened to Scott) come along and make fun of Scott for crying. Finally, Cartman begins licking the tears from Scott's face and a horrified Stan and Kyle, now aware of what Cartman is truly capable of, agree to never again get on his nerves.
The ending parodies the Looney Tunes cartoons, with the iris common appearing and Cartman saying "That's all folks!".[1]
According to audio commentary by Trey Parker and Matt Stone on the South Park: The Hits DVD collection, this episode represented significant shifts for the show in two ways: The first reason is that it changed the characterization of Cartman from an annoying, spoiled kid to "the most evil kid in the world", though he remained likable to the audience because he had Scott's parents killed indirectly, without having to "pull the trigger himself". Secondly, prior to this episode, most episodes contained multiple storylines. By contrast, the creators could not come up with a subplot for this episode, but upon finishing, they realized that a single, strong plot worked well. Since then, most episodes have contained just one plotline, or two strongly related stories.
The events of this episode are given new meaning in the season fourteen episode "201", in which Scott returns as the leader of the Ginger Separatist Movement, revealing to Cartman that, while researching his revenge upon Cartman, he learned that his own father Jack Tenorman (a fictional Denver Broncos right tackle) had sired Cartman with Cartman's mother Liane. This means that, that in this episode, Cartman is responsible for his own father's death and feeds him to his half-brother.
Stone recalled recording with Radiohead in Santa Barbara, pointing out that Thom Yorke in particular had some difficulty performing lines.[2]
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