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Cartman Gets an Anal Probe

"Cartman Gets an Anal Probe"
South Park episode
A crudely animated cartoon image of an obese child with a red jacket, brown pants, black shoes and a blue hat. Flames appear from the rear of his body, as well as a tall vertically shaped machine with a single eye and two antennae. Standing next to him is another boy wearing an orange jacket, green pants, brown shoes, a green hat and gloves.
Cartman farts out fire and an anal probe. The episode was criticized for being "self-conscious and self-congratulatory in its vulgarity", with flatulence jokes like the one pictured here made examples.
Episode no. Season 1
Episode 1
Directed by Trey Parker
Written by Trey Parker
Matt Stone
Featured music "I Love to Singa"
by Norman Spencer
Production code 101
Original air date August 13, 1997 (1997-08-13)
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"Cartman Gets an Anal Probe" is the first episode of the American animated television series South Park. It first aired on Comedy Central in the United States on August 13, 1997. The episode introduces child protagonists Eric Cartman, Kyle Broflovski, Stan Marsh and Kenny McCormick, who attempt to rescue Kyle's younger brother Ike from being abducted by aliens.

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, the creators animated the episode using paper cutout stop motion technique, similar to the short films that were the precursors to the series. "Cartman Gets an Anal Probe" remains the only South Park episode animated largely without the use of computer technology.

Part of a reaction to the culture wars of the 1980s and 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. The episode also exemplifies the carnivalesque, which includes humor, bodily excess, linguistic games that challenge official discourse, and the inversion of social structures.

Despite South Park eventually rising to immense popularity and acclaim, initial reviews of the pilot were generally negative; critics singled out the gratuitous obscenity of the show for particular scorn. Regarding the amount of obscenity in the episode, Parker later commented that they felt "pressure" to live up to the earlier shorts which first made the duo popular. Critics also compared South Park unfavorably with what they felt were more complex and nuanced animated shows, such as Beavis and Butt-Head and The Simpsons.


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