Cartmanland (South Park)

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Cartmanland (South Park)
Making a theme park about Cartman was such a great idea.
Series: South Park Part of Season: 5 Episode Number: 6 (71th overral) Air Date: July 25, 2001 Previous episode: Terrance and Phillip: Behind the Blow Next episode: Proper Condom Use

Cartmanland is the sixth episode of season 5 of South Park.

Plot

Cartman inherits a million dollars from his grandmother and fulfills his lifelong dream of owning his own amusement park: Cartmanland!

Why It's A Great Park

1. For starters, Cartman is surprisingly likeable for most parts of the episode, at least when he is not selfish like he is in this episode. His selfishness also makes for a lot of funny moments and also for a really great episode.
   • Also, the only reason why he would let the people go to Cartman Land is for buying the manager and all, making him a bit less selfish, despite still being a bit selfish after that.
2. The idea of this episode was an excellent idea due to Cartman being a good character to do a theme park focused on him, and the idea of a theme park that is only for you alone was also a good idea, despite showing a bit of selfishness.
3. The scene of Cartman doing a commercial about his own theme park, but the fact that people cannot enter it  despite being mean-spirited, is actually very hilarious.
4. Kenny death in this episode was pretty funny, despite being the main reason why Cartman got his money taken away at the end.
5. Once again, the pacing of this episode is great, and there aren't any boring moments at any point in this episode.
6. The story is really great and very funny too, since it's about Cartman wanting to get a theme park only for him, and it's worked really well, despite Cartman being selfish in this episode.
7. The animation, even by the standards of season 5, is very good and better than some of the other South Park episodes, since it is very colorful and there aren't any animation errors.
   • This was also where the animation started to be a massive step up from the previous seasons, since the color palette started to be even better and the animation started to be more detailed, despite still keeping the intentionally bad animation of the characters movements.
8. There's a lot of funny moments, such as Cartman's selfishness, which is one of the few times where the selfish humor is done right, when Stan and Kyle are trying to enter Cartman Land but we're repaired by Cartman, or when Cartman vandals the park at the end and the security guard sprays Cartman.
9. Decent ending: Due to Cartman being sad, Kyle did end the hemorrhoid he had in the whole episode since he did get hope due to Cartman being sad and losing his theme park for a bad decision he took.
10. Despite mostly having funny moments, the episode manages to be both funny and sad, due to the fact that Kyle did get a hemorrhoids and that he did get butthurt to the point of being in the hospital for a long time, until he sees Cartman being sad about losing his park and that he gets hope again.
11. Stan, Kyle, and Kenny are likeable, as always, especially Stan since he was trying to end Kyle's hemorrhoids.
12. Cartmanland design is really good, and is one of the best looking theme park of the show.

Bad Qualities

1. Despite being a great episode, it is somewhat of a Kyle torture episode since he gets butthurt with his hemorrhoid and doesn't get any hopes to live his life anymore because of Cartman having one million dollars.
2. Cartman can still be unlikable (in a humorous way), such as when he did a commercial about Cartman Land but said that people could not go in it. Another moment where he is unlikable is when he is selfish.
   • This was also likely the reason why CartmanLand was a success, since he intentionally had an original idea for having a lot of people enter it.
     • Howewer, this did make Cartman want to end his park for no good reasons, and after that, he lost all of the money he got, making him have karma for being selfish.
   • Speaking about the previous sub-pointers, the reason he ended his park was for a really selfish reason, as he wanted it to be closed because there were way too many people, and it was a success compared to what he wanted in the first place, making him have a lot of karma due to his own decisions.

Reception

Cartmanland received positive reviews by critics, with a score of 8.9/10 on IMDb, making it one of the highest rated episode of the season 5.

Most critics praised the humor of the episode, in which they also said that it's manage to be both sad and funny.

Trivia

• In recent airings whenever the disclaimer for this episode is shown, suspenseful music is heard.
• Cartman states that owning a million dollars is a lifelong dream of his. However, on several previous episodes (mainly in Season Four), he is shown attempting to get ten million dollars (and what he intends to purchase with this is never made clear, perhaps his own theme park).
• Contrary to what is depicted in this episode, hemorrhoids in real life are not only very common and non-fatal, but highly treatable without a hospital. It should be noted however that Cartman to Kyle is a "pain in the ass" just like the hemorrhoid in a literal sense.
• Ike is not seen in the episode. This is noteworthy because the B-story in this episode is Kyle almost dying from a hemorrhoid. Kyle's parents are both in the hospital with him, but his brother is not.
• Stan disguises as a guy named "Mike Gainor".
• The story of Job told here is not entirely true or incomplete. It was Satan who took all of Job's wonderful things away, although God did give him permission. Once Satan is finished, Job's friends come to comfort Job and question God. In the end, God gives Job a new family and even more riches.
• One of the reasons given for Cartman's money and park being taken away is "the little boy who died in [his] park". To this, Cartman replies, "What, Kenny? He dies all the time!" This implies that Cartman is aware of Kenny's repeated deaths prior to Season Six.

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