Cartman Sucks

"Cartman Sucks" is the second episode of the eleventh season of South Park.

Synopsis
Cartman's latest trick results in him obsessing over a missing photo and gets Butters sent to a special camp where they attempt to pray away bisexuality.

Plot
Stan, Kyle and Kenny are visiting Cartman's house. He shows them all his latest work he has done on Butters. This time Butters comes over, he reveals he's going to pull the best trick ever.

The next day, Cartman explains he puts Butters' penis in his mouth and after showing a picture of it to his shock he is told he is gay. The only way to "cancel out the gay polarity" would be for Butters to put Cartman's penis in his mouth.

When Cartman tries to get Butters to put Cartman's penis in his mouth, he is caught by Stephen Stotch who informs Butters he is bicurious.

Butters is soon sent away to Camp New Grace on the advice of Priest Maxi where they "pray away the gay" by putting bicurious boys together and teaching them about the ways of Jesus Christ. However, it is clearly doing more harm than good, as there seem to be suicides on a regular basis.

Cartman finds out he isn't gay and that no one will ever know. Kyle then threatens to tell everyone else unless Cartman is "super-nice" to the others. He then explains he will digitally edit the picture to put Kyle's face on it instead of his own.

When Cartman gets home the picture is gone, and Kyle denies having it. He is then forced to inform his mom after getting no help from the police. Liane phones Kyle's mom and she says that Mrs. Broflovski assured her Kyle didn't have the picture. Cartman then realizes he has no choice but to show the picture himself in show and tell.

Butters is put in a room with a boy called Bradley who gets them both punished for having a men's underwear catalogue. Bradley realizes he "likes" Butters, who misunderstands and tells Bradley he likes him too. Bradley thinks he is 'unfixable' and runs away threatening to commit suicide.

In school, Ms. Garrison is about to start show and tell and allows Cartman to go. He begins to show off his 'artsy photographs' to the class.

Bradley is threatening to jump off a bridge and Camp New Grace try to stop him. After telling Butters he'll make things worse Butters announces he is sick of being told he's "confused", saying that he wasn't confused until people started telling him he was and that if he came from God, then God must be a little bicurious himself. Bradley comes down upon hearing this, to everyone's relief. Stephen then takes Butters home saying he likes being bicurious as well.

Back at South Park Elementary, Cartman shows the photo to the shock of everyone, after, Mr. Mackey enters with a message from Liane Cartman that the picture had just got lost in his room and had been found, to which Cartman replies; "lame..."

Trivia

 * Bradley's appearance and mannerisms are modelled after Brad Dourif's portrayal of the character Billy Bibbit in the 1975 film One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest.
 * Stephen Stotch says he is bi-curious, as shown in "Butters' Very Own Episode".
 * This is the first appearance of Priest Maxi since "Red Hot Catholic Love".
 * Also a parody of the movie "But I'm A Cheerleader"
 * Kenny McCormick only has one line in this episode; when Cartman shows him the penis photo, he can be clearly heard saying "(chuckle) That makes you totally fucking gay!" Bebe Stevens has a brief line upon seeing it as well(Ew!).
 * Cartman has sucked a penis before. It's how he got semen from a hose in "Simpsons Already Did It"
 * This is the ninth episode where Cartman's name is in the title
 * Pastor Phillips, the counsellor who was "cured" of his confusion, may be an allusion to Ted Haggard, who went to counselling to make him heterosexual after a man outed him
 * When Cartman comes to find the picture, Stan, Kyle, and Kenny are all seen playing Living which is an allusion to the popular board game, Life.
 * This is the second time Cartman has overreacted to getting hit by Kyle. The first was in "It's Christmas in Canada"
 * Butters blood type is "O"
 * Cyborg Bill makes a reappearance in this episode both as an action figure and in a poster that reads "Gi Bill Won't Run."
 * When Cartman takes a picture of himself with Butters' penis in his mouth he gives a thumbs-up sign and smiles as he says that the picture is against the Iraq war. This is a obvious reference to the controversy of Army Private Lynndie England who took pictures of herself torturing the prisoners of a Abu Ghraib prison while smiling and giving a thumbs-up sign.
 * A total of 3 people kill themselves at Camp New Grace during the course of the episode.