How Eric Cartman Manipulated Everyone in South Park

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Published 2024-06-12
This video essay analyzes Eric Cartman's psychopathically manipulative and selfish behaviour in South Park. The character is created, written and directed by Trey Parker and Matt Stone and has been the star of over 26 Seasons of South Park (Comedy Central). If you want to understand how Eric Cartman inflicts his wicked will upon the world, then this video explains every dirty trick in the book, and how far he's willing to go to fulfil his selfish desires.

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Timestamps:
0:00 Eric Cartman
2:00 Manipulating Mom
3:32 Lies
5:20 Weaseling Out of Trouble
7:30 Playing the Victim
9:55 Leading Movements
11:10 Sleazy Sales Tactics
13:05 Dirty Tricks
17:08 Butters
20:35 Revenge

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All Comments (21)
  • You forgot that he also invited Radiohead, Scott's favorite band, to witness him cry and be totally not cool.
  • @yggdrasil2
    "You don't even know anything about Christianity!" "I know enough to exploit it."
  • @CortexGrimuloid
    Cartman is one of those characters so unlikeable that he somehow becomes likeable
  • @qjames0077
    Eric Cartman might very well be the most psychopathic animated child on television
  • @guyr.6053
    I think that one of Cartman's most evil moments were with the Super Nanny - finding her deepest fear and shame of not having children, and being coy asking about it, then battering her with a metaphorical hammer and changing his tone to the most sinister psycho that he is.
  • @Yanis-bq6lt
    I saw cartman and immediately clicked I've never been so early
  • I think it's fair to say that Cartman may be the most evil fictional character ever created. This is a guy who killed another persons parents and fed them to him just to one up him for the sake of ego.
  • @LordHollow
    That part in the toilet paper episode where he simply cannot comprehend good is extremely telling. By far the best cartoon villain, imo.
  • Man, what a character. I'm always fascinated by him. I hate him so much, but at the same time... HE is 60% of South Park. Or more.
  • @howardron543
    23:10 "its not about the money, its about the principle" cartman would say
  • I wish Rabbi Cartman from the Post-Covid Special could’ve traveled back in time and tried to save his younger self’s soul and ‘Tegridy… but then again, we already know that Cartman won’t listen to ANYONE, even one of his possible future selves. It’s the closest we could get to him having a redemption arc, which is to say, not very close at all.
  • @katiewpg3400
    Would have made it all the better if you had mentioned the final dig at Scott by humiliating him in front of Radiohead.
  • @tomcurl8034
    It’s honestly ridiculous that he didn’t get in any trouble for the Scott Tenerman incident especially considering he explained exactly exactly what he had done in front of everyone
  • I always thought of a lot of these as nothing more than gags about the extremes of Cartman's selfishness, I never even considered that so many of them were actually active manipulations on his part. He's an extremely well written character.
  • @nananakeson
    The Scott Tenorman episode is genius, I love how in the reveal of how Cartman did it he explain things that where already introduced earlier in the episode