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Plot

Stan, Kyle, Kenny and Cartman wait in Stan's kitchen for his mom to come home with KFC. The boys are incredibly excited and are impatiently awaiting her arrival. When she shows up, she tells the boys before they can eat they must help her bring in the groceries. Instead of whining, Cartman suggests they all work together to bring in the groceries so that they can get to eat dinner faster. The other three boys agree and quickly head to the garage. Cartman doubles-back and begins to eat the skin of every piece of chicken in the bucket. When the boys return to eat they discover Cartman's betrayal. The boys are pissed but Cartman proclaims he didn't eat it all, he left them the meat -- however, everyone knows that the skin is the best part! Cartman leaves, telling the others that he's going home to sit on the toilet and read comic books. Stan, Kyle and Kenny stare at the remains of the chicken in shock. Kenny is so hurt he starts crying. KFC (full name Kentucky Fried Chicken) is a division of Yum! Brands, Inc. ...

The next morning at the bus stop, Stan, Kyle and Kenny are incredibly angry at Cartman for ruining their treat. Realizing that he thrives on the fact that they rip on him, they decide that the best way to deal with him is to completely ignore him. Cartman, however, discovering that nobody seems to see or hear him, believes that he has died and become a ghost. This seems confirmed when he goes home and sees a casket-like box coming out of his house, which the men carrying it mentioning that it was filled with chicken skins, when in reality, it is the toilet that Cartman destroyed with his last use of it. He also hears his mother crying, he thinks because he is dead, though she is actually moaning while having sex with the plumber. Eric Theodore Cartman, commonly referred to by his family name, Cartman, is a fictional character in the animated series South Park. ... For other uses, see Ghost (disambiguation). ...

While most of the kids in South Park soon join in Stan, Kyle and Kenny's resolution to ignore Cartman, Butters is unaware of the movement, and so greets Cartman as he passes by. They then both believe that Butters is somehow psychically able to see him, and set off to try to allow Cartman to go to Heaven (Cartman claims he can't go to hell because he is not black). First, Cartman has Butters apologize to everyone on his behalf; when that fails to allow Cartman to pass over, Butters makes a list of all of Cartman's sins, and they try making amends to various people Cartman has wronged via gift baskets. When this too fails, Cartman goes berserk, destroys Butters' room with a baseball bat, and ends up getting Butters thrown in an insane asylum, where Butters is anally probed by a machine for over 14 hours. Leopold Butters Stotch, voiced by Matt Stone, is a fictional character in the animated TV series South Park. ... Manifestations Slavery Racial profiling Lynching Hate speech Hate crime Genocide (examples) Ethnocide Ethnic cleansing Pogrom Race war Religious persecution Gay bashing Blood libel Paternalism Police brutality Movements Policies Discriminatory Race / Religion / Sex segregation Apartheid Redlining Internment Anti-discriminatory Emancipation Civil rights Desegregation Integration Equal opportunity Counter-discriminatory Affirmative action Racial... Four historically significant baseball bats showcased in the National Baseball Hall of Fames traveling exhibit Baseball As America. ... A psychiatric hospital (also called a mental hospital or asylum) is a hospital specializing in the treatment of persons with mental illness. ...

After breaking Butters out, the two consult a psychic, who suggests that God has kept Cartman on Earth to help with some kind of crisis. When they hear of a hostage situation at a Red Cross center, the two set off and Cartman manages to stop the criminals by moving things around. The robbers are merely befuddled at the child's behavior, which provides enough of a distraction for the police to end the hostage situation. Cartman is credited with saving the day, "armed only with the weapon of confusion," as a news reporter put it. After this, Cartman's classmates arrive and tell him they're willing to be his friend again, thinking he has truly changed. When they leave, Cartman — mortified and furious that he had apologized to everybody and been fooled — again goes berserk and inexplicably blames Butters. At the end of the episode, after Cartman has sworn revenge, it is suggested that Butters is sent back to the asylum. Edgar Cayce (1877 – 1945) was one of the best-known American psychics of the 20th century and made many highly publicized predictions. ... For other uses, see Hostage (disambiguation). ... Look up Confusion in Wiktionary, the free dictionary Confusion can have the following meanings: Unclarity or puzzlement, e. ...

Production

• The idea of having Cartman eat the skin off of an entire tub of fried chicken came from a similar script meeting one evening when Trey Parker, Matt Stone, and the remaining writing staff were sitting around a table having a bucket of KFC chicken for dinner while they discussed ideas and someone mentioned how terrible it would be if someone stole all the skins when everyone else was out of the room. ^[1]

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Cartman's sins

From the list Butters makes:

• Breaking Mr. Anderson's fence. (Possibly a reference to Mr. Anderson from Beavis and Butt-head)
• Crapping in the principal's purse seven times (never in an episode).
• Convincing a woman to have an abortion so Cartman can build his own Shakey's Pizza (from episode 513, "Kenny Dies").
• Pretending to be retarded to compete in the Special Olympics (from episode 803, "Up the Down Steroid").
• Trying to have all the Jews exterminated (from episode 804, "The Passion of the Jew").
• Tricking Scott Tenorman's parents into getting killed by Denkins, stealing the bodies and putting their remains into chili, which he then tricked Scott Tenorman into eating (from episode 501,"Scott Tenorman Must Die").

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• Miss Claridge (from episode 810, "Pre-School").

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• Sally Struthers incident (from episode 109, "Starvin' Marvin" and episode 311, "Starvin' Marvin in Space")

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Pop culture references

• When Butters hides under the sink, he says, "I'm like the kid in that movie. I can see dead people!" This is a reference to The Sixth Sense.
• The beginning of the episode has a strong resemblance to the beginning of The Twilight Zone episode "The Hunt".
• The scene where Cartman walks into the fields to "Rest in peace" is a reference from Field of Dreams.
• The NYC electronic act, Radioactive Sandwich[1], has a song named after Cartman's statement that upon reaching heaven, one will receive $10,000 cash.

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