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“Cartman Gets an Anal Probe”
South Park episode
Cartman sets Pip on fire with his flaming fart.
Episode no.	Season 1 Episode 1
Written by	Trey Parker Matt Stone
Directed by	Trey Parker (uncredited)
Production no.	101
Original airdate	August 13, 1997
Season 1 episodes
South Park - Season 1 August 13, 1997 – February 25, 1998
Cartman Gets an Anal Probe Weight Gain 4000 Volcano Big Gay Al's Big Gay Boat Ride An Elephant Makes Love to a Pig Death Pink Eye Damien Starvin' Marvin Mr. Hankey, the Christmas Poo Tom's Rhinoplasty Mecha-Streisand Cartman's Mom Is a Dirty Slut
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This episode was ranked the #4 in the UK poll Paramount Comedy's Top 10 Episodes. The following is an episode list for the Comedy Central animated television series South Park. ...

Plot

As Kyle, Stan, Kenny, and Cartman wait for the school bus, they argue over the meaning of a Dildo, and Cartman tells them that he dreamed that he had been abducted by aliens who gave him an anal probe. The others try to convince him it was real, but Cartman dismisses them as just trying to scare him. Chef pulls up in his car and asks if they saw an alien spaceship, inadvertently confirming Cartman's "dream". After Chef leaves, the school bus shows up, driven by Ms. Crabtree, a scary-looking, loudmouthed, middle-aged woman who constantly tells the children to "sit down and shut up". As the bus is driving away, Kyle looks back and sees two aliens holding his brother, Ike. Kyle pleads with Ms. Crabtree to let him off the bus, but she yells at him to sit down or else he gets an office referral. Kyle Broflovski is a fictional character in the Emmy-award-winning animated series South Park. ... Stanley Stan Marsh is a fictional character in the animated television series South Park. ... Kenneth Kenny McCormick is a fictional character in the animated series South Park. ... Eric Theodore Cartman, commonly referred to by his family name, Cartman, is a fictional character in the animated series South Park. ... A 7-inch silicone dildo A dildo (or dildoe, a rare alternate spelling) is a sex toy, often explicitly phallic in appearance, intended for bodily interaction during masturbation or sexual intercourse. ... ... Jerome Chef McElroy was a recurring character on the Comedy Central series South Park. ... This article does not cite its references or sources. ... Ike Moishe Broflovski (born Peter Gints) is a fictional character on the animated series South Park. ...

Several other aliens try to lure away cows standing in a field by whistling and offering them straw. The cows are not taking the bait, and apparently as a result several of them have been turned inside out. Police officer Barbrady explains that cows turning inside out is not unusual, clearly revealing that he is incompetent. COW is an acronym for a number of things: Can of worms The COW programming language, an esoteric programming language. ... This page is a list of residents in South Park. ...

Kyle asks his teacher Mr. Garrison if he can be excused to find his brother. Mr. Garrison tells Kyle he has to ask Mr. Garrison's puppet, Mr. Hat, who uses Mr. Garrison's catch phrase of, "You go to hell! You go to hell and you die!" against Kyle. After class, the four are standing in the cafeteria line when Stan reveals his love for Wendy Testaburger by vomiting when she talks to him. When Chef is asked what to do when someone does not believe you, he breaks out into a sultry, erotic (but off-topic) song. Janet Garrison (born Herbert Garrison), voiced by Trey Parker, is a recurring character in the South Park cartoon series. ... A puppet is a representational object manipulated by a puppeteer. ... Janet Garrison (born Herbert Garrison), voiced by Trey Parker, is a recurring character in the South Park cartoon series. ... A catch phrase is a phrase or expression that is popularized, usually through repeated use, by a real person or fictional character. ... This article or section does not adequately cite its references or sources. ... Emesis redirects here. ...

When Chef learns that Kyle's brother was abducted by aliens, he freaks out and says, "What the hell do you think you're doing in school eating Salisbury steak? Go find him, damn it!" The boys explain that Mr. Garrison won't let them out of school, and Cartman farts again. This is when a cycloptic robot pops up from behind Cartman and quickly retreats to whence it came. To help the children find Kyle's brother, Chef pulls the fire alarm. This article is about the meat dish. ... For other uses, see robot (disambiguation). ...

To lure the aliens back, Stan, Kyle, and Wendy tie Cartman up to a tree. After Cartman farts flames several times, an 80-foot satellite dish protrudes from his butt. The alien spaceships show up, and Ike is behind a door on a ship. Kyle tries to get his brother to jump down by telling him to do his impersonation of David Caruso's career. The aliens apologize to the cows, explaining the inside-out thing was "Carl's fault," and give them a device that makes people sing.

The next morning, Cartman lands at the bus stop with pinkeye that was given to him by Scott Baio. Conjunctivitis is an inflammation of the conjunctiva (the outermost layer of the eye and the inner surface of the eyelids), often due to infection. ... Scott Vincent James Baio (born September 22, 1961 in Brooklyn, New York) is an American actor, who is perhaps best known for his work on the sitcoms Happy Days and Charles in Charge. ...

Production

According to various DVD commentaries and special features, this is the only episode Trey and Matt animated completely by themselves, along with a bit of help from Eric Stough (the current head of animation), which took three months to make using traditional cut paper stop-motion animation techniques.^[1] Almost all subsequent episodes, including the new scenes made exclusively for the pilot episode that aired on television, were fully computer animated using Power Animator or Maya. Randolph Severn Trey Parker III (born October 19, 1969) is an Academy Award nominated American animator, screenwriter, film director, voice actor, actor and musician. ... Matthew Richard Matt Stone (born May 26, 1971) is an American animator, screenwriter, film director, voice actor and actor. ... Eric Stough, born 1972, is the director of animation for the series South Park. ... Scene from Yuriy Norshteyns upcoming feature film, The Overcoat Cutout animation is a unique technique for producing animations using flat characters, props and backgrounds cut from materials such as paper, card, stiff fabric or even photographs. ... A stop motion animation of a moving coin. ... // Overview PowerAnimator and Animator, the precursor to what is now Maya (software) and StudioTools, was an expensive, complex, highly-integrated industrial 3D modeling, animation, and visual effects suite. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ...

Additionally, due to time constraints, the scenes had to be cut from the 30-minute pilot or be changed. For instance, instead of pulling the fire alarm, in the original, Chef gives the boys "special extra-hot tamales" to raise their body temperature to give them an excuse to go home. Also, a notable cut scene was the boys picking on Pip in the lunch line, which was later shown in An Elephant Makes Love to a Pig. A Fire-Lite BG-10 manual pull station. ... For the city in Ghana, see Tamale, Ghana A tamale or tamal (from Nahuatl tamalli) is a traditional Mexican foodstuff that begins with corn (maize) flour mixed with water and lard. ... An Elephant Makes Love to a Pig (or as it was originally intended to be called, An Elephant Fucks a pig) is the fifth episode of Comedy Centrals animated series South Park. ...

Differences from Original Pilot

This episode was the pilot episode of South Park, but the original pilot was edited and censored due to time constraints and company policy. The unaired pilot differs from the version shown on television in several ways, including:

• Instead of banjo riffs, the scene transition music is composed of pianos.
• The closing credits end with a clip of 6 naked men from Le Petit Package, a short film made by Stone and Parker during the making of the unaired pilot. The words "Braniff Airlines" obscure the actual nudity as the characters sing the words. Le Petit Package was shown at the alternative Utah film festival Lapdance in 1998. For the majority of the series, the Braniff Airlines animation happens as a few chords from Cannibal! The Musical play in the background.
• A sound clip of Cartman's third fart in the playground plays after the Comedy Central logo is shown.

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• Mr. Garrison berates Kyle longer; Mr. Hat refers to Kyle as a "little turd". Also Kyle says "Fuck Mr. Hat." Garrison replies "No, no. Fuck you!".
• Instead of Chef pulling the fire alarm, he gives the boys hot tamales.
• There is a scene on the playground where Pip hits his head on a pole and runs to the nurse. Wendy giving the note to Stan happens in this scene instead of in the cafeteria in the aired episode. The 6th Graders also make their first appearance here (ostensibly as 5th graders), where they intimidate Cartman into eating all of the tamales himself. This causes him to fart fire, which scares the boys off.
• The ensuing scene is in the nurse's office. Nurse McShwartz (replaced during the regular series with Nurse Gollum) thinks the boys are faking their illnesses until Cartman's flaming flatulence convinces her to let the boys out.
• In the scene where the boys try to convince Cartman that Kenny is dead after the visitors attack him and Officer Barbrady and the cows run him over, the music cuts off when Cartman first says, "No!" In the televised version, the music continues to play until Kyle pulls Kenny's head off.
• Cartman had a family in the original pilot, while in the rest of the series the boys makes fun of the fact Cartman has no father figure. A father and sister are shown at the table (along with Mr. Kitty with fire all over his fur, because Cartman farted fire on her). Both the father and the sister do not move at all except when Ms. Cartman goes to get the gravy and the sister moves as her mother passes by.
• Kyle promises to be good to Ike and not ever play "kick the baby" again, instead of mentioning David Caruso to entice Ike to jump.
• The ending was completely rewritten for the television premiere.

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Kenny's death

Kenny is zapped into the street by aliens and then gets trampled by cows and survives. Then he gets ran over by a police car and finally dies. Ford Crown Victoria Police Interceptor of the United States Federal Protective Service. ...

Pop culture references

• Mr Garrison tells his class that Christopher Columbus helped the Indians win their war against Frederick Douglass, and freed the Hebrews from Napoleon, and discovered France.
• When Kyle tells Ike to "do your impersonation of David Caruso's career", he refers to David Caruso's career after NYPD Blue - it took a dive and only recovered recently thanks to CSI: Miami. Ike takes a dive head first into the snow.
• The song "I Love to Singa" is from the 1936 Tex Avery cartoon of the same name.
• "I'm sure glad that's over with" was a line taken directly from The Spirit of Christmas.
• At the end of the episode, Cartman tells Stan and Kyle that Scott Baio gave him pinkeye.
• "ZOOP" is a beverage shown in this episode but is also a real drink.

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References

1. ^ FAQ Archive: July 2002. South Park Studios.