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Fan Speculation[]

PLEASE NOTE: This is non-canon. This is merely a fan based list dealing with simple hints which occurred throughout the episode. It has not been verified by the shows producers or staff and should not be taken seriously.

This is a fan based version of the 4th grade girls "Cutest Boy in the Class" list from the episode "The List".

A fan on Facebook attempted to calculate the real list and came to this conclusion (the end result has been revised, concluded and explained):

The First 'Corrupted' List:

  1. Clyde
  2. Tolkien
  3. Stan
  4. Bradley
  5. Jason
  6. Leroy
  7. Kenny
  8. Tweek
  9. Kevin
  10. Jimmy
  11. Butters
  12. Craig
  13. Timmy
  14. Francis
  15. Cartman
  16. Kyle

Here's how this person figured it out:

1) The cop said that Kyle wasn't the ugliest kid in his class. Effectively removing Kyle from the last spot and from the list entirely (since we're not sure of his real position, he's taken off for now) and also leaving spot 16 blank at this point:

  1. Clyde
  2. Tolkien
  3. Stan
  4. Bradley
  5. Jason
  6. Leroy
  7. Kenny
  8. Tweek
  9. Kevin
  10. Jimmy
  11. Butters
  12. Craig
  13. Timmy
  14. Francis
  15. Cartman
  16. —

2) Lola (The girl in the green sweater) said, "Unfortunately, the members voted Clyde in the bottom five of the list. "

3) Bebe said, "To move Clyde meant that Craig had to be moved to number twelve, which moved Jimmy down and moved Jason up!", (meaning at this point they had to switch Craig from position number 1 to 12 so Clyde could take the number 1 spot) putting Craig back at 1 and Clyde to 12:

  1. Clyde - Craig
  2. Tolkien
  3. Stan
  4. Bradley
  5. Jason
  6. Leroy
  7. Kenny
  8. Tweek
  9. Kevin
  10. Jimmy
  11. Butters
  12. Craig - Clyde
  13. Timmy
  14. Francis
  15. Cartman
  16. —

4) Jason was 5 and Jimmy was 10 on the corrupted list, so if Jason was moved up, that means he was number 6 and Jimmy was moved down so he was number 9. When Jason was moved up to 6, it forced every boy from 5 - 15 (Jason - Cartman) to move up one spot and leaving spot 5 blank. The only person unaffected was Jimmy, who actually moved down from 10 - 9 skipping over Tweek and Kevin in the process:

  1. Craig
  2. Tolkien
  3. Stan
  4. Bradley
  5. —
  6. Leroy - Jason
  7. Kenny - Leroy
  8. Tweek - Kenny
  9. Kevin - Jimmy
  10. Jimmy - Tweek
  11. Butters - Kevin
  12. Clyde - Butters
  13. Timmy - Clyde
  14. Francis - Timmy
  15. Cartman - Francis
  16. Cartman

5) Since the cop said Kyle wasn't the ugliest boy in the class (removing Kyle from the list), and there is no where else to put him other than position 5 after every other boy moved up to their respective spots, it makes Kyle's official spot number 5:

Reviewed "Real List":

  1. Craig
  2. Tolkien
  3. Stan
  4. Bradley
  5. Kyle
  6. Jason
  7. Leroy
  8. Kenny
  9. Jimmy
  10. Tweek
  11. Kevin
  12. Butters
  13. Clyde
  14. Timmy
  15. Francis
  16. Cartman

So there you have it; Craig is the cutest boy in the class, Kyle's real spot is 5 and Cartman is the ugliest (further evidenced by an alternate ending in which Wendy says that before destroying the true list "she looked and it [the ugliest boy] was Cartman")

BUT! There could be another way. A way where. . . Kyle was first. . . I'm going to work backwards. Like how the girls changed it. So here we go!

Real List:

  1. Kyle
  2. Stan
  3. Bradley
  4. Kevin
  5. Jimmy
  6. Jason
  7. Leroy
  8. Kenny
  9. Tweek
  10. Butters
  11. Craig
  12. Tolkien
  13. Clyde
  14. Timmy
  15. Francis

16. Cartman

1. Now, Clyde was moved, forcing Craig to be 12th. So if you put switch Kyle and Clyde. . .

1. Clyde
2. Stan
3. Bradley
4. Kevin
5. Jimmy
6. Jason
7. Leroy
8. Kenny
9. Tweek
10. Butters
11. Craig
12. Tolkien
13. Kyle
14. Timmy
15. Francis
16. Cartman

2. So, if you put Kyle all the way last: Cartman, Francis, and Timmy will go up one.

1. Clyde
2. Stan
3. Bradley
4. Kevin
5. Jimmy
6. Jason
7. Leroy
8. Kenny
9. Tweek
10. Butters
11. Craig
12. Tolkien
13. Timmy
14. Francis
15. Cartman
16. Kyle

3. Now, you put Tolkien to number 2 and that pushes everyone that was over him (excpet Clyde) down one.

1. Clyde
2. Tolkien
3. Stan
4. Bradley
5. Kevin
6. Jimmy
7. Jason
8. Leroy
9. Kenny
10. Tweek
11. Butters
12. Craig
13. Timmy
14. Francis
15. Cartman
16. Kyle
1. Clyde
2. Tolkien
3. Stan
4. Bradley
5. Jason
6. Leroy
7. Kevin
8. Jimmy
9. Kenny
10. Tweek
11. Butters
12. Craig
13. Timmy
14. Francis
15. Cartman
16. Kyle

4. Now, remember. Jason up, Jimmy down. We've already moved Jason up. Now we need to move Jimmy down. So we will take 7-`10 and rotate them down 3 times:

1. Clyde
2. Tolkien
3. Stan
4. Bradley
5. Jason
6. Leroy
7. Kenny
8. Tweek
9. Kevin
10. Jimmy
11. Butters
12. Craig
13. Timmy
14. Francis
15. Cartman
16. Kyle

TA-DA!!! There is the fake list!!

Fake:

1. Clyde
2. Tolkien
3. Stan
4. Bradley
5. Jason
6. Leroy
7. Kenny
8. Tweek
9. Kevin
10. Jimmy
11. Butters
12. Craig
13. Timmy
14. Francis
15. Cartman
16. Kyle

Real:

1. Kyle
2. Stan
3. Bradley
4. Kevin
5. Jimmy
6. Jason
7. Leroy
8. Kenny
9. Tweek
10. Butters
11. Craig
12. Tolkien
13. Clyde
14. Timmy
15. Francis
16. Cartman

See, we moved Jason from 6 to 5 so that's up and Jimmy from 5 to 10 so that's down, Cartman is last in the real list like the deleted scene said, Clyde is in the bottom five in the real list, and Craig got moved to 12 for the fake list. So, it could go both ways!

One final note, while Craig is considered the cutest boy in the Reviewed Real List, he is also one out of two kids that we see (along with Tweek) who is gay. So there might be a higher chance that the girls would try to date Tolkien rather than Craig.

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