Roger Ebert Should Lay off the Fatty Foods

"Roger Ebert Should Lay Off the Fatty Foods" is the eleventh episode of the second season of South Park.

Synopsis
After a trip to the planetarium, the kids become hypnotized by it. Cartman auditions to sing on the Cheesy Poofs advertisement.

Plot
In school, Stan questions what Mr. Garrison is teaching. He asks why they can't be like normal kids and do stuff like field trips. Garrison answers that they are actually going on a field trip to the planetarium tomorrow.

At the planetarium, the kids watch a laser show involving stars, except for Cartman who spots the Cheesy Poofs van that is auditioning kids for the Cheesy Poofs advert. Cartman is successful and makes it to the next round.

In the planetarium, the laser show takes an unusual twist and begins to hypnotize everyone. As they leave the class say they want to visit the planetarium again; they have been successfully hypnotized to actually like the planetarium.

Next day, Cartman goes to his audition and makes it through to the finale and discovers he will be appearing on television.

Later, the kids go back to the planetarium to be hypnotized by the spinning stars again, and they're hypnotized so much that they all become volunteers there.

On the school bus, a crazed kid from the planetarium shows up. He has escaped from there and is sent to Nurse Gollum upon arrival at school.

In the nurse's office, Mr. Mackey tries a mind to mind technique (mind-meld) which helps Mr. Mackey discover what's going on.

Stan, Kyle and Kenny realize something isn't right - kids don't volunteer for things. Stan and Kyle work the laser machine and see how it effects Kenny. They begin by turning the dial to a lower setting, which doesn't affect Kenny at all. So they turn the dial up higher, and the stars begin to move; Kenny is hypnotized by the other boys into a helpless hypnotic trance and can't answer. They decide to turn the hypnotization dial to the highest point and it kills Kenny. His mind couldn't take the powerful hypnosis and his head exploded.

Stan and Kyle go to Officer Barbrady and ask him to arrest the owner of the planetarium, Dr. Adams. Barbrady is hypnotized by the laser machine and convinced he is Elvis Presley.

Cartman appears on TV but discovers that none of his friends watched it because they were at the planetarium--he doesn't realize that they are in a hypnotic trance.

Mr. Mackey shows up at the planetarium, himself and the boys are soon taken to be hypnotized. As they watch the lasers and are entranced into a hypnotic slumber, Cartman bursts in. An angry Cartman smashes the laser device and swings it round straight into the Dr. Adams' eyes. By the time Cartman unties everyone and turns off the machine, Adams' mind has been wiped by the machine. Stan and Kyle muse about the power of the machine that Dr. Adams built, but Cartman is just happy to be the hero for once.

Hidden Visitor(s)
Before Liane tells Cartman to not pick his nose you can see two glowing visitor eyes and around them, a visitor's body.

Mr. Garrison's Learning Plan

 * Barnaby Jones as Cultural Text
 * Taking the children to the planetarium
 * Haiku

Trivia

 * This is one of the few times Cartman saves the day. Although he was unaware at the time.
 * Cartman's grandmother, Mable Cartman appears for the first time on the phone to Cartman.
 * Mr. Mackey says for the only time "Drugs are good" in order to convince the kid from the planetarium that it was okay to let Nurse Gollum sedate him.
 * When Mr Garrison is absent from the hypnotising room, Dr Adams can be heard pronouncing planetarium correctly despite his disorder.