South Park 9 Best Kyle & Cartman Episodes

South Park: 9 Best Kyle & Cartman Episodes

Kyle and Cartman are the dynamic duo of South Park… and these are the episodes that show their ‘friendship’ off at its best.

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Out of the four best friends that Trey Parker and Matt Stone’s biting satirical comedy South Park revolves around, Kyle Broflovski and Eric Cartman share the most vitriolic relationship. While all the others are the best of friends for the most part, Kyle and Cartman hate each other so much that one wonders why they even hang out together.

Throughout South Park’s more than two-decade run on Comedy Central, Parker and Stone have gotten plenty of comedic mileage out of Kyle and Cartman’s frenemies dynamic. From their disagreements over Family Guy to their disagreements over The Passion of the Christ, these are their best team-ups.

9 Crack Baby Athletic Association (Season 15, Episode 5)

Kyle is surprised to find Cartman volunteering to help crack-addicted babies at the hospital, but soon realizes it’s part of another deplorable scam when he finds out about the Crack Baby Athletic Association. Since Kyle is usually a moral counterpoint to Cartman, it was interesting to see him stoop to Cartman’s level with a wildly unethical get-rich-quick scheme.

The episode is broadly a lampoon of the NCAA’s policy on compensating student athletes, as Cartman visits the University of Colorado in the guise of a Southern plantation owner to see how their sports teams get away with not paying their players.

8 Imaginationland (Season 11, Episodes 10/11/12)

Arguably the closest thing to a second South Park movie, the “Imaginationland” trilogy begins with Cartman proving that leprechauns are real, so Kyle loses a ridiculous, juvenile bet to him. As the leprechaun discovery leads the boys into humanity’s collective imagination, where every villain ever created is attacking every hero ever created, Cartman desperately tries to get Kyle to keep his end of the bet.

Throughout the episode, Cartman seems concerned about Kyle’s safety, but it’s only because he can’t keep up his end of the bet if he dies. Cartman has always wanted this kind of control over Kyle (he even gets a court order), so he’s devastated when a crisis bigger than himself takes precedence.

7 Ginger Cow (Season 17, Episode 6)

In season 17’s “Ginger Cow,” Cartman responds to Kyle’s claim that there are no redheaded cows by putting a red wig on a cow and painting freckles on its face. Everyone in South Park is fascinated by the ginger cow and Kyle implores Cartman to reveal that it was just a prank.

However, when a ginger cow turns out to be the prophesized image that unites all religions and brings about world peace, Kyle changes his mind and wants Cartman to maintain the lie. To mess with Kyle, Cartman threatens to reveal the truth – supposedly out of the good of his heart – so Kyle will do anything he says. Any episode that indulges Cartman’s every despicable whim is a hilarious delight, but in this one, the character forced to indulge him is his mortal enemy.

6 Casa Bonita (Season 7, Episode 11)

Kyle plans a birthday party at Cartman’s favorite restaurant and then refuses to invite him in season 7’s “Casa Bonita.” Instead, he invites Butters, so Cartman does everything in his power to prevent Butters from going to the party, allowing him to take his spot.

At first, Cartman locks Butters in Stan’s uncle’s bomb shelter. However, when the police search expands to bomb shelters, he traps him in a discarded refrigerator in an abandoned gas station and snaps off the handle. The episode explores the extreme lengths that Cartman will go to in order to get what he wants. It’s a great one for fans of Kyle and Cartman’s dynamic, because it begs the question: are they really friends?

5 Cartmanland (Season 5, Episode 6)

Kyle questions his faith in season 5’s “Cartmanland” when Cartman inherits $1 million from his grandma and uses it to buy his own theme park, while Kyle himself develops a bad case of hemorrhoids. Cartman refuses to let anyone into his theme park so he never has to wait in lines, and Kyle pops his hemorrhoids when he and Stan try to sneak in.

Eventually, Kyle’s faith is restored when Cartman gets his comeuppance. Kyle revels in Cartman being even more miserable because he experienced happiness and lost it. The episode plays as a sort of fable assuring audiences that while the world may sometimes seem unjust, karma will eventually strike.

4 Margaritaville (Season 13, Episode 3)

Parker and Stone satirized the Great Recession in the classic season 13 episode “Margaritaville.” The episode posits that the economy is like a religion, and it only exists if people believe in it. Randy is the prophet of the episode’s religious satire, but Kyle and Cartman’s love-hate dynamic is used brilliantly in the Biblical allegory.

Kyle becomes the Jesus figure who sacrifices himself by getting into a mountain of credit card debt to save the town from financial ruin and Cartman becomes the Judas figure who betrays him. The twist here is that, while Jesus didn’t suspect Judas of betrayal, Kyle knows straight away that if there’s a traitor among his disciples, it’s definitely Cartman.

3 The Passion Of The Jew (Season 8, Episode 3)

Cartman encourages Kyle to watch Mel Gibson’s The Passion of the Christ, his new favorite movie, in the season 8 episode “The Passion of the Jew.” The episode satirizes the perceived anti-Semitic message of Gibson’s movie and its focus on Jesus’ pain and suffering.

While Cartman starts a Passion of the Christ fan club that turns into a white supremacist movement, Kyle is brainwashed by the movie’s framing of the crucifixion and briefly agrees with Cartman’s prejudices. The criticisms of The Passion gave Parker and Stone a perfect opportunity to dig deeper into Kyle’s relationship with his most ignorant friend.

2 Tonsil Trouble (Season 12, Episode 1)

When Kyle laughs uncontrollably after hearing Cartman has been accidentally infected with HIV in the season 12 premiere “Tonsil Trouble,” Cartman exacts revenge by injecting his blood into Kyle while he’s asleep to give him the virus. Kyle is understandably furious at Cartman, but reluctantly teams up with him to track down Magic Johnson in the hopes of finding a cure, in this episode that (in true South Park style), leaves no subject un-laughed-at.

It’s always fun to see Kyle and Cartman hating each other as usual, but their greatest adventures are their team-ups. In “Tonsil Trouble,” they team up to pursue a common goal – but the goal is only common because Cartman gave Kyle one of the deadliest diseases in the world just to get back at him. The show gets a lot of comedic mileage out of the kids acting like adults, but it’s also hilarious when they act like juvenile 4th graders who don’t consider the consequences of their horrible actions.

1 Cartoon Wars (Season 10, Episodes 3/4)

Parker and Stone took aim at Family Guy in the season 10 two-parter “Cartoon Wars.” When the boundary-pushing Seth MacFarlane cartoon announces that its next episode will feature the prophet Muhammad, Kyle and Cartman race down to Hollywood.

Kyle wants to defend the show’s right to free speech – a meta commentary on Parker and Stone’s own work on the episode – while Cartman just wants to have Family Guy taken off the air because he’s not a fan. Kyle and Cartman usually just insult each other, but in “Cartoon Wars,” they have real ideological discussions.

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