Cartman's Silly Hate Crime 2000

Cartman's Silly Hate Crime 2000 is the second episode of the Fourth Season of South Park.

Synopsis
Cartman throws a rock at Token after he insults him. He is then suspected of a Hate Crime and is thrown in jail, leaving the boys without their driving force for their sled team. Also Token got hurt very badly and even got a black eye.

Plot Line
The boys of South Park Elementary are challenged by the girls to a sledding race down Phil Collins Hill to see who the better racers are, and the boys are pretty confident they are going to win. Cartman gets agitated though when Token makes several references to his weight problem, and finally throws a rock at him. He is sent to Mr. Mackey's office, where he is set two weeks detention. Before they can wrap up though, two FBI agents interrupt, and tell them that the rock throwing incident is being considered a Hate Crime because the victim was black. Cartman goes to court where the media is proclaiming it the hate crime trial of the century and the practically label him a monster (which he may very well be), he is found guilty of commiting a Hate Crime, and is sentenced to go to Juvenile Hall until he is 21.

Cartman runs out of the Court Room, and to Kenny's house. Kenny takes him in his Go Go Action Bronco battery powered car and they try and flee to Mexico. They are able to avoid police, and even break through a barricade, until the battery power on the car runs out just by the Mexican border. Cartman is taken to Alamosa Maximum Security Juvenile Hall and is assigned to the same cell as a boy nicknamed Romper-Stomper.

Meanwhile, the boys replace Cartman with Clyde who is supposedly the second fattest kid in town. They are disheartened to learn that they don't even have enough weight to move. Cartman makes a deal with Romper-Stomper, that if he smuggles in cigarettes, he will tell him how to break out. The boys replace Clyde with a stack of bricks, nut the sled spins out of control and the bricks crush Kenny, making the boys team two team members short. They decide they have to bust Cartman out of jail, and put a nail filer in a cake for him to use in the bars on his windows. Their plan falls apart when Cartman informs them that they don't let them take food back to the cells, but they do bring the cigarettes Romper-Stomper wanted.

Kyle Broflovski and Stan Marsh decide to go to Token and try and get him to forgive Cartman for what he did. Cartman at the same time is still acting out his plan, and hides the cigarettes in his ass hole to sneak by the security guard. He craps them out, but flushes them on a reflex, and Romper-Stomper tells him he has to get him a gameboard. Kyle and Stan learn from Token's dad that getting Token to tell the jail he forgives Cartman will not get him out of prison, and that only the governor can do that. So they start to prepare a presentation about Hate Crimes to show the governor. They talk about how hate crimes are hypocritical, saying that all crimes are hate crimes and that punishment shouldn't be any more severe for crimes that involve two different kinds of people or not, because thats discrimination.

The govenor say's the proposel makes more sense than any presentation he's heard in years

Cartman is able to sneak in the gameboard, but discovers Romper-Stomper isn't going to help him out of jail. After Cartman starts to cry, Romper-Stomper decides to help him. Stan, Kyle, and Token's presentation goes over well with the Governor, and they pardon Cartman. Romper-Stomper and Cartman are also able to get out of prison, and go on the run. When Romper-Stomper trips, Cartman goes back to help him and they get captured again, but Cartman is allowed to go free. As a last gift, Romper-Stomper gives him the cup he always walks on.

Cartman makes it in time for the sled race, and after a slow start, Cartman uses Romper-Stompers cups to trip the girls sled. Their sled goes off a cliff, and the boys win the race.

Cartman then returns to visit Romper-Stomper, and craps out Disney Land from his ass for him, because that was what Romper-Stomper had always wanted to see.

Trivia

 * This episode marks the first time Pip used a Curse word. ("Let's hear it for Cartman's big fat ass!")
 * After Cartman goes to Kenny for help, Kenny says a curse word so clearly that it is bleeped.
 * The name of the hill the sled race is being held on is "Phil Collins Hill." This is a reference to Trey Parker losing the Oscar Category for Best song to Phil Collins.
 * It is revealed Clyde is the second fattest kid in South Park, even though he looks the same weight as the other boys.
 * Kyle's pig Latin rant is translated in to, "They don't? Why the hell not? It took us four hours to bake this goddamn cake, and now were totally screwed!"
 * Lizzy, the girl who insults the boys throughout the episode, may be a female version of Kenny. She wears a pink parka, has a developed sexual vocabulary and dies at the episode, and is seen later on in "Raisins."
 * The first major appearance of Token.


 * When Stan and Kyle keep on calling Clyde fat, he starts to sound like Cartman.

References to Popular Culture

 * This episode is a spoof of the HBO series Oz. The theme is used when Cartman is being sent to Prison.
 * Romper-Stomper uses the product made by Romper Room as stilts.
 * To be accepted, Cartman has to answer the questions, "Do you like Animaniacs, or you not?" Cartman doesn't like Animaniacs.
 * Kenny and Cartman's high speed chase is a reference to O.J Simpson's low speed chase.
 * Cartman's original prison number, 24601, is Jean Valjean's prison number in Victor Hugo's book Les Miserables, also made into a popular musical and several movies.

Goofs

 * In Mr. Mackey's office, there are two chairs that Token and Cartman are sitting on, but in one scene there are three chairs.
 * In Mr Mackey's office, when the FBI agents are taking Cartman out of the office, the agent's Trey does the voice for switched to the man on the voices are switched. ("We're sorry Ms. Cartman, but we must follow protocol. Your son will be taken into custody, and then tried in the federal court of law.")
 * The sled race is supposed to be on Saturday, but then it is said to be on Thursday later on in the show.
 * Cartman is referred to as a Hate Crime Suspect by a news anchor during the high speed chase, but he has already been sentenced which makes him a Hate Crime Culprit.
 * Cartman's prison number is '24601'. but on his back when he is escaping it is '26345.'
 * In the scene when Cartman is crying for his mother, Romper Stomper's tattoo disappears, then reappears.
 * Cartman's crime was a federal offense, meaning the Governor would not have the power to release him.
 * Stan mistakenly calls the Governor the mayor.
 * The boys don't have enough weight to go down the hill when they replace Cartman with Clyde, but the girls effortlessly fly past them.
 * When Clyde hugs Cartman, he is also in the crowd watching.
 * For a frame at the start of the episode, Sally Turner can be seen on one of the boys' sleds. Later in the episode, Millie is shown in the crowd of boys at one point.
 * When the boys were in the Governor's office doing their presentatoin to get Cartman out of juvinal hall, when they show the picture of the four boys Kenny is shown on the sledge with them, despite him being dead. However since Kenny always dies and comes back to life they may of thought he could of came back just in time for the race.
 * In the end when Kyle says We won! We won! he sounded like Pip
 * In Juvie Hall some people have 4 numbers on theirs shirts and some people have 5 numbers.
 * Cartman says he likes black people but in the episode Pee he hates them. He may have just said it to look inocent