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 when he threatens to throw a rock at him, Kyle takes a jibe at Cartman, who throws a rock at Token. 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 automatically 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 committing 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, but 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 game board. 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 that's discrimination.

The governor say's the proposal makes more sense than any presentation he's heard in years

Cartman is able to sneak in the game board, 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 cups 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 Disneyland for him, because that was what Romper-Stomper had always wanted to see.

Kenny's Death
When Kyle and Stan experiment with bricks to replace Cartman's weight on the sleigh, they lose control and Kenny flies into a tree, and is subsequently crushed into the trunk by the bricks. Kyle and Stan then nonchalantly claim responsibility to each other.

Trivia

 * This episode marks the first two times Pip uses a curse word. Pip is seen yelling "Shut up, fat ass!" with the other kids, and again saying, "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 was also referenced two episodes later within more details.
 * 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 we're totally screwed!"
 * The first major appearance of Token.
 * When Stan and Kyle keep on calling Clyde fat, he starts to sound like Cartman.
 * This was the first of the four South Park episodes to have "2000" at the end of the title, spoofing the fact that, in early 2000, seemingly every piece of media had the year 2000 behind it.
 * This is the first time something Kenny said was bleeped even though it was muffled.
 * Instead of the traditional "Oh my god, they killed Kenny!" phrase, when Kenny is crushed by the bricks, Stan and Kyle say nonchalantly "Oh my god, we killed Kenny." "We killed Kenny?" "We killed Kenny, we're bastards".
 * The game that Cartman smuggles into prison, Tic Tac Throw, is not a real game.

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 do 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 Misérables, 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 another scene, there are three chairs.
 * In Mr. Mackey's office, when the FBI agents are taking Cartman out of the office, the agents Trey Parker 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 it is said to be on Thursday instead 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 and 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, even though they should weigh less.
 * The girls were never even seen near the boys at all during their practice runs with Clyde and the 'kid' made of bricks.
 * When Clyde hugs Cartman, he is also in the crowd watching himself hug Cartman.
 * 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.
 * In the end when Kyle says "We won! We won!" he sounded like Pip.
 * When Clyde is called onscreen, another Clyde can be seen onscreen in the background of kids.
 * Another Red(The pusher for Bebe's team) is also seen in the background as well.
 * Butters is shown in prison but later is seen out of prison with the other boys and talks to them which he didn't do in prison.
 * While Cartman and Kenny are driving and encounter the roadblock, 3 rows of police cars are shown on the TV broadcast but Kenny and Cartman only passed through one row of police cars.
 * While Kyle explains Cartman's weight giving them speed, his voice slowly cracks until he says "Cartman" at the end of his sentence.
 * The Trial TV announcer at the beginning accidentally refers to the channel as "Court TV", which was a real channel at the time until its name was changed to Tru TV.