Scott Tenorman is the 9th grade head Ginger rival and half-brother of Eric Cartman. He makes his first apperance in "Scott Tenorman Must Die".
History
Scott on the SP-site
In his first appearance during "Scott Tenorman Must Die", Scott is established quickly as a manipulative high school freshman who unwisely chooses Cartman as his target, and ends up paying a heavy price.
When he first encountered Cartman, Scott tricked him by selling him his pubic hair for ten dollars, claiming that this meant Cartman had reached maturity. There was no financial motive for this, as Scott himself explains that his parents give him a hefty allowance. Instead Scott was just being cruel to a fourth grader for the sake of it.
Cartman soon learned he had been tricked, and resolved to get his money back at all costs. However Scott cheated him out of an additional $6.12, culminating in Scott making Cartman beg for his money back, then burning it in front of him. After more basic revenge plans failed, and after being further humiliated by Scott with the public display of a video of Cartman begging for his money back by oinking like a pig, Cartman finally had had enough. He devised an elaborate plan to have Scott's parents killed, then he ground the corpses into a chili, and fed them to an unaware Scott, who is traumatized. At that time, Scott gets mocked by his favorite band, Radiohead, for being a "crybaby," unaware that they don't know that he's crying over his parents' demise. He is now guilty of cannibalism, but he doesn't seem to fret over that. He only cares about the fact that his parents are gone.
In the episode "The Death of Eric Cartman" he is seen crying over his parents graves as Cartman and Butters placed a gift basket next to him as an apology. He is also mentioned when Butters and Cartman were writing a list of the bad things Cartman as done before his "death" and Cartman later briefly tells the story to Bart Simpson in "Cartoon Wars".
In Episode 201, Scott Tenorman makes a return as the leader of the revived Ginger Separatist Movement. Mentally deranged and now with more visible braces, he apparently spent time in a mental asylum. During his stay in said mental institution, he learned much more about Cartman, and was planned to torment Cartman with the name of his real father. But instead the shock was too great for Scott, and he developed a plan to force the town to present Cartman's real father to him. Apparently a Denver Bronco (right tackle) had an affair with Liane Cartman and produced an illegitimate child. The whole town covered it up because "the Broncos were having a good year and couldn't afford any distractions." Scott Tenorman's father, Jack Tenorman was a Denver Bronco... and his father was the only one who lived in South Park, thus Jack Tenorman was Cartman's biological father, which made Scott Tenorman Cartman's half brother. In the words of Scott, "You killed your own father, and you fed him to your half brother!"
This shocks Cartman a lot, and then to top it off, Scott then forced Cartman to eat tainted chili, but a moment before Cartman eats it, the Super Best Friends bust in battling a group of celebrities and the gingers. Not yet done with his insane schemes, Scott Tenorman escapes using a jet pack, with Jesus saying "Who's the creepy ginger kid?"
Scott's plan succeeded in hurting Cartman for murdering his parents, but not in the manner that he had hoped. Cartman did not seem to regret killing their father, but rather loathed the idea that he is in fact, half-ginger. However, Cartman managed to find a little bit of solace in the fact that Mitch Conner reminded him he was part Bronco as well.
Appearance
He has dark bushy red hair, freckles, large ears, and a piggish nose. He wears a grey sweater with a black T-shirt overtop. He also wears baggy orange pants.
Notable Appearances
Original artwork from Batman: The Killing Joke
South Park recreation of Batman: The Killing Joke
- "Scott Tenorman Must Die" - First appearance. He becomes Cartman's sworn enemy.
- "The Death of Eric Cartman" - Is seen crying at his parent's grave. Cartman gives him a fruit basket as a quick apology for having Mr. and Mrs. Tenorman killed.
- "201" - It is revealed that after the events of his first appearance, he was committed to a mental institution, becoming obsessed with revenge on Cartman. He eventually figures out that his father, a player on the Denver Broncos, had an affair with Cartman's mother, which resulted in her getting pregnant. Therefore, the major twist of the episode is that Tenorman and Cartman are half-brothers, and that Cartman killed his own father 9 seasons earlier.
Trivia
- Although Scott has red hair, he also lacks the aversion to sun that many of the other gingers have. This would make him and his father "Daywalkers" like Kyle Broflovski.
- He appeared in the background during Fat Butt and Pancake Head during the first scene when it pans to the audience.
- Scott revived the Ginger movement, which was started by his half-brother Eric Cartman in Ginger Kids.
- Cartman's hatred of gingers may have ignited with his feud with Scott.
- The scene in 201 where Scott confronts Cartman in the Chili Con-Carnival and the roller-coaster scene are made to look like an iconic sequence from the "Batman: The Killing Joke" comic, in which The Joker abducts Commissioner Gordon and psychologically tortures him after shooting and crippling his daughter, Barbara Gordon AKA Batgirl/Oracle.
- Scott's manipulative and somewhat sadistic nature is very similar to his half-brother's at times.
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