Cartman Gets an Anal Probe

"Cartman Gets an Anal Probe" is the series premiere of the

American animated television series South Park. It first aired on "Cartman Gets an Anal
Comedy Central in the United States on August 13, 1997. The episode Probe"
introduces child protagonists Eric Cartman, Kyle Broflovski, Stanley South Park episode
"Stan" Marsh and Kenneth "Kenny" McCormick, who attempt to
rescue Kyle's adopted brother Ike from being abducted by aliens.

Part of a reaction to the culture wars of the 1990s in the United States,
South Park is deliberately offensive. Much of the show's humor, and
of "Cartman Gets an Anal Probe", arises from the juxtaposition of the
seeming innocence of childhood and the violent, crude behavior
exhibited by the main characters. At the time of the writing of the
episode, South Park creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone did not yet
have a series contract with Comedy Central. Short on money, they
animated the episode using a paper-cutout stop-motion technique,
similar to the short films that were the precursors to the series. Cartman flatulates fire as the anal
"Cartman Gets an Anal Probe" remains the only South Park episode
probe emerges. The episode was
animated largely without the use of computer technology.
criticized for being "self-conscious and
Despite South Park eventually rising to immense popularity and self-congratulatory in its vulgarity", with
acclaim, initial reviews of the pilot were generally negative; critics flatulence jokes like the one pictured
singled out the gratuitous obscenity of the show for particular scorn. here made examples.[1]
Regarding the amount of obscenity in the episode, Parker later
Episode no. Season 1

commented that they felt "pressure" to live up to the earlier shorts

Episode 1
which first made the duo popular. Critics also compared South Park
unfavorably with what they felt were more complex, nuanced Directed by Trey Parker[2]
animated shows, such as The Simpsons and Beavis and Butt-Head. Written by Trey Parker

Matt Stone
Featured music "I Love to Singa"

Contents by Norman Spencer

Plot Production code 101

Background Original air date August 13, 1997

Production
Themes
Broadcast and reception
Home media
See also
References
External links

Plot
As Kyle, Stan, Kenny, and Cartman wait for the school bus, Kyle's brother, Ike, tries to follow Kyle to school.
Kyle tells Ike he cannot come to school with him. Cartman tells the boys about a dream he had the previous
night about being abducted by aliens. The others try to convince him the events did happen and that the
aliens are called "visitors", but Cartman refuses to believe them. Chef pulls up in his car and asks if the boys
saw the alien spaceship the previous evening, inadvertently confirming Cartman's "dream", and relays stories
of alien anal probes (which Cartman denies he experienced throughout the episode). After Chef leaves, the
school bus picks up the boys, and (looking out the back window) they watch in horror as the visitors abduct
Ike. Kyle spends the rest of the episode attempting to rescue him.

At school, Cartman begins flatulating fire, and Kyle unsuccessfully tries to convince his teacher, Mr. Garrison,
to excuse him from class to find his brother. When Chef learns that Kyle's brother was abducted and sees a
machine emerge from Cartman's anus, he helps the boys escape from school by pulling the fire alarm. Once
outside, Cartman reiterates that his abduction was only a dream, when suddenly he is hit by a beam that
inexplicably causes him to begin singing and dancing to "I Love to Singa". Soon afterward, a spaceship
appears. Kyle throws a stone and the spaceship fires back, propelling Kenny into the road. As he gets back up,
he is trampled over by a herd of cows, but survives. A police car then runs Kenny over and kills him.

Stan and Kyle meet Wendy at Stark's Pond, where she suggests using the machine lodged inside Cartman to
contact the visitors. To lure them back, the children tie Cartman to a tree and, the next time he flatulates, a
massive satellite dish emerges from his anus. The alien spaceship arrives and Ike jumps to safety once Kyle
asks him to do an impression of "David Caruso's career". In the meantime, the visitors communicate with the
cows in the area, having found them to be the most intelligent species on the planet. Cartman is again
abducted by the aliens, but is returned to the bus stop the following day with pinkeye.

Background
The origins of South Park date back to 1992, when Trey Parker and Matt Stone, then students at the
University of Colorado, created a Christmas-related animated short commonly known as "Jesus vs. Frosty".
The low-budget, crudely made animation featured prototypes for the main characters of South Park. Fox
Broadcasting Company executive Brian Graden saw the film, and in 1995, he commissioned Parker and Stone
to create a second short that he could send to his friends as a video Christmas card. Titled The Spirit of
Christmas (also known as "Jesus vs. Santa"), the short more closely resembled the style of the later series.[3]
The video was popular and widely shared, both by duplication and over the Internet.

After the shorts began to generate interest for a possible television series, Fox hired Parker and Stone to
develop a concept based on the shorts for the network. The duo conceived the series set in the Colorado town
of South Park and revolving around the child characters Stan, Kyle, Kenny, and Cartman as main
protagonists, and included a talking stool character named Mr. Hankey as one of the minor supporting
characters. The inclusion of Mr. Hankey led to disputes between Fox and Parker and Stone, and further
disagreements caused the duo to part ways with the network. Later, Comedy Central expressed interests in
the series, and Parker and Stone created a pilot episode for the network.[4][5][6][7]

South Park was part of a reaction to the United States culture wars of the 1980s and 1990s, in which issues
such as Murphy Brown's motherhood, Tinky Winky's sexuality, and the Simpsons' family values were
extensively debated. The culture wars, and political correctness in particular, were driven by the belief that
relativism was becoming more relevant to daily life, and thus what were perceived as "traditional" and
reliable values were losing their place in American society. South Park, one scholar explains, "made a name
for itself as rude, crude, vulgar, offensive, and potentially dangerous" within this debate about values. Its
critics argued that Stan, Kyle, Cartman, and Kenny were poor role models for children while its supporters
celebrated the show's defense of free speech.[8]

Production
The pilot episode was written by creators Matt Stone and Trey Parker, the latter of whom served as director;
it was made on a budget of $300,000.[2] Similarly to Parker and Stone's Christmas shorts, the original pilot
was animated entirely with traditional cut-paper stop-motion animation techniques.[9] This laborious process
involved creating hundreds of construction paper cutouts—including individual mouth shapes and many of
the characters in several different sizes—and photographing every frame of the show with an overhead
camera, to the dialogue that had been recorded earlier.[9][10] Assistants helped with the cutting and pasting of
the cutouts, while the animation was primarily done by Parker, Stone and animation director Eric Stough.[9]
The episode took about three months to complete, with the animation done in a small room at Celluloid
Studios in Denver, Colorado, during the summer of 1996.[9][10]
Additional animation techniques involved creating the starry night sky
by putting holes into a black posterboard and illuminating it from
behind,[9] and having the pooling of Kenny's blood simulated by
drawing an initial dot with a red marker pen, and drawing more to it
with every frame.[11] The characters who are not speaking rarely move,
which was done to save time in the animation process.[9]

The finished pilot was 28 minutes long, which was too long to air, as
Parker and Stone did not realize that more time should be allowed for Trey Parker (left) and Matt Stone used
television commercials during the half-hour spot reserved for an cut-paper stop-motion animation over a
[9]
episode on Comedy Central. In order to shorten the episode to 22 three-month period to create "Cartman
minutes, the creators cut out about ten minutes' worth of material and Gets an Anal Probe"
added back another three minutes in order to tie up the changed
storyline.[10] For example, in the original pilot, Cartman flatulates fire
after some older kids feed him hot tamales, while in the shortened version, he does so because of the alien
probe implanted inside him.[9] Other scenes focused more heavily on the character Pip;[9] the scene in the
pilot where he is introduced was later reused for the series' fifth episode "An Elephant Makes Love to a Pig",
in its original cutout animation form.[12] The storyline additions were created with the use of computer
animation, and all subsequent episodes of the series have been computer animated.[9] While the creators' aim
was for the computer animation to visually simulate the cardboard cut-out animation, the techniques were
not perfected until later in the series, and as a result, the two styles of animation are easily distinguishable in
the pilot.[9][10]

The idea for the town of South Park came from the real Colorado basin of the same name, where the creators
said that folklore and news reports originated about "UFO sightings, and cattle mutilations, and Bigfoot
sightings".[13] Parker and Stone's original intentions were to have the alien presence feature more frequently
in the plots of subsequent episodes, but eventually they decided against this, as they did not want the show to
look like a parody of the popular television series The X-Files.[9] However, the crew started hiding aliens in
the background in many South Park episodes as Easter eggs for fans,[14] a tradition that goes back to their
first major collaboration, the 1993 independent film Cannibal! The Musical.[15][16]

Regarding the language in the episode, Parker has said that they "felt the pressure to live up to Spirit of
Christmas", which contains a lot of obscenities, and as a result, they "tried to push things ... maybe further
than we should".[17] In particular, Parker said that they felt the need "to put in dildo and every word we can
get away with."[18] In contrast, they allowed subsequent episodes to "be more natural",[18] saying that those
episodes are "more about bizarre happenings and making fun of things that are taboo[13] [...] without just
throwing a bunch of dirty words in there."[17]

"Cartman Gets an Anal Probe" received poor results from test audiences, and Comedy Central executives
were uncertain whether to order additional episodes of the show.[4] However, as the two original Christmas
shorts continued to produce Internet buzz, the network paid Parker and Stone to write one more episode. In
writing "Weight Gain 4000", the duo sought to give the network an idea of how each episode could differ
from the others. The network liked the script and agreed to commit to a series when Parker and Stone said
they would not write another individual episode until the network signed off on a season of at least six
episodes.[4]

Themes
Describing the general tone of the show, Teri Fitsell of The New Zealand Herald explains that "South Park is
a vicious social satire that works by spotlighting not the immorality of these kids but their amorality, and
contrasting it with the conniving hypocrisy of the adults who surround them."[19] Often compared to The
Simpsons and King of the Hill, South Park, according to Tom Lappin of Scotland on Sunday, "has a truly
malevolent streak that sets it apart" from these shows; he cites the repeated death of Kenny as an
example.[20]
The humor of the show comes from the "disparity" between the "cute"
appearance of the characters and their "crude" behavior.[21][22] However,
Parker and Stone said in an early interview that the show's language is
realistic. "There are so many shows where little kids are good and sweet,
and it's just not real  ... Don't people remember what they were like in
third grade? We were little bastards."[23] Frederic Biddle of The Boston
Globe notes how the show "constantly plays on its grade-school aesthetic
for shock value, with great success", arguing that at its height, it is "more 0:27
a profane 'Peanuts' than a downsized 'Beavis and Butt-Head.'" He points,
for example, to Kenny, who symbolically represents the voiceless Cartman, hit by a beam from the
underclass, which is eliminated in each episode.[24] Claire Bickley of the spaceship, sings "I Love to Singa".
Toronto Sun explains that "The show captures that mix of innocence and Cut-paper stop-motion animation is
viciousness that can co-exist in kids that age", that "the boys are conservatively used: the non-
fascinated by bodily functions", and that they "mimic adult behavior and speaking figures do not move.
language". For example, Kyle instructs Stan and Wendy to "make sweet
love down by the fire", a phrase he learns from Chef.[25] In a light-hearted
study of the humor of flatulence, Jim Dawson explains how the rise of adult animation in the 1990s allowed
television to indulge in such humor with The Ren & Stimpy Show, The Simpsons, and Beavis and Butt-Head.
Beginning with "Cartman Gets an Anal Probe", South Park builds on this tradition.[26]

The episode employs what literary theorist Mikhail Bakhtin calls the carnivalesque. As Ethan Thompson
explains in his article, "Good Demo, Bad Taste: South Park as Carnivalesque Satire", the style consists of four
crucial elements: humor, bodily excess, linguistic games that challenge official discourse, and the inversion of
social structures. Cartman's body—his obesity and his inability to control his farting—is supposed to
exemplify the grotesque. The boys swear throughout the episode, using words and phrases such as "fat ass"
and "dildo", challenging the boundaries of appropriate language. Finally, the social structure of the town is
inverted, as the episode focuses on the knowledge that the four boys have of the aliens as opposed to the
ignorant and incompetent adults. Moreover, the aliens perceive the cows as more intelligent than the
humans, inverting the species order.[27]

South Park tends to employ large-scale musical numbers in its episodes, often parodying 1930s cartoons. For
example, Cartman sings part of "I Love to Singa", from the cartoon of the same name, when he is struck by a
beam from the alien ship.[28]

Broadcast and reception

The episode was broadcast for the first time at 10 pm EDT in the United States on August 13, 1997 on Comedy
Central.[23] South Park was originally broadcast during prime time after Seinfeld on Canada's Global TV,
with objectionable material cut from the show.[29] The "dildo" jokes were removed from the pilot as well as
two scenes in which Kyle kicks his baby brother, Ike.[25] After complaints from viewers, the series was moved
to midnight on October 17, 1997 and the deleted material was restored.[29] Almost a year after its original air
date, the episode was broadcast for the first time in Britain (outside of satellite television) on July 10, 1998 on
Channel 4. A station representative said "It's for the audience coming back from the pub with a curry."[30]

"Cartman Gets an Anal Probe" initially earned a Nielsen rating of 1.3, translating to 980,000 viewers, which
is considered high for a cable program in the United States.[31] In April 2007, The New Zealand Herald
called the first episode "a huge success";[32] however, reviews at the time of the episode's broadcast were
generally negative, most focusing on the low, obscene comedy. Bruce Fretts of Entertainment Weekly
thought poorly of the writing and characters, stating that "If only the kids' jokes were as fresh as their
mouths" and "It might help if the South Park kids had personalities, but they're as one-dimensional as the
show's cut-and-paste animation".[33] Tim Goodman of The San Francisco Examiner acknowledged that
many viewers will find South Park "vile, rude, sick, potentially dangerous, childish and mean-spirited". He
argued that viewers "have to come into 'South Park' with a bent for irony, sarcasm, anger and an
understanding that cardboard cut-out animation of foul-mouthed third-graders is a tragically underused
comic premise."[34]
Calling the series "sophomoric, gross, and unfunny", Hal Boedeker of the Orlando Sentinel believed that this
episode "makes such a bad impression that it's hard to get on the show's strange wavelength."[35] Similarly,
Miles Beller of The Hollywood Reporter called it "a witless offering that wants to score as it seeks to be
pointedly outrageous and aggressively offensive but clocks in as merely dumb."[36] Ann Hodges of the
Houston Chronicle considered the show "made by and for childish grown-ups" and for "adults who enjoy kid
shows".[37] Seeing the show as the inheritor of The Simpsons and Beavis and Butt-Head, Ginia Bellafante of
Time noted its failure to cohere and considered the show "devoid of subtext".[38] Caryn James of The New
York Times commented that the series "succeeds best in small touches" but "seems to have a future".[39] In a
generally negative review of the first three episodes of the series, Tom Shales of The Washington Post wrote
that "Most of the alleged humor on the premiere is self-conscious and self-congratulatory in its vulgarity:
flatulence jokes, repeated use of the word 'dildo' (in the literal as well as pejorative sense) and a general air of
malicious unpleasantness."[1] In one of the few generally positive reviews, Eric Mink of the Daily News
praised the South Park universe and the "distinct, interesting characters" within it. He singled out Cartman,
calling him "the most vibrant of the bunch", and describing him as "a bitter old man living in an 8-year-old's
body".[40]

Home media
"Cartman Gets an Anal Probe" was first released on video on May 5, 1998, as part of the three-volume VHS
set, which included humorous introductions to each show by Parker and Stone.[41] The episode, along with
the other twelve from the first season, was also included in the DVD release South Park: The Complete First
Season, which was released on November 12, 2002.[42] Parker and Stone recorded commentary tracks for
each episode, but they were not included with the DVDs due to "standards" issues with some of the
statements; Parker and Stone refused to allow the tracks to be edited and censored, so they were released in a
CD completely separate from the DVDs.[43][44] Like some episodes of South Park, "Cartman Gets an Anal
Probe" is available to watch for free on the show's website, SouthParkStudios.com.[45]

The original, unaired version of the pilot had seen only limited release. It was released on a DVD in 2003,
which was made available by pre-ordering "South Park: The Complete Second Season" through Best Buy in
the United States. The back cover of this release features a description of the unaired pilot by South Park
animation director Eric Stough.[46] In 2009, the unaired pilot was made available for free online viewing for a
limited time of 30 days at the show's official website. During this time, the site also featured a version of the
pilot with audio commentary by Eric Stough and South Park Studios creative director Chris Brion.[47] The
unaired pilot has also been shown publicly at certain venues, such as The US Comedy Arts Festival (now
called The Comedy Festival) in Aspen, Colorado, in 1998,[48] and at Comic-Con in San Diego in 2011 as part
of the "Year of the Fan" 15th-anniversary promotion of South Park.[49]

See also
"Cancelled", an episode in the seventh season relating back to this episode

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External links
"Cartman Gets an Anal Probe" (https://www.southparkstudios.com/episodes/940f8z/south-park-cartman-g
ets-an-anal-probe-season-1-ep-1) Full episode at South Park Studios
"Cartman Gets an Anal Probe" (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0394893/) at IMDb

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