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"Cartman Gets an Anal Probe"
Cartman hypnotized by Alien Dancing Device
Episode no.	1
Airdate	August 13, 1997
South Park - Season 1 August 13, 1997 – February 25, 1998
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Cartman Gets an Anal Probe, the first episode of Comedy Central's animated series South Park, originally aired on August 13, 1997. It is the only South Park episode to be mostly produced by traditional animation using figures made of construction paper, which took three months to make. Almost all subsequent episodes were fully computer animated. The unaired episode was available in The Complete 2nd Season, so this episode will be on the DVD Recorder with "A Collection of Funny Episodes."

Contents 1 Plot 2 Kenny's Death 3 Unaired Pilot 4 Trivia 5 Goofs 6 External links

As Kyle, Stan, Kenny, and Cartman wait for the school bus, Cartman tells them that he dreamed that he had been abducted by aliens who gave him an anal probe. The others try to convince him it was real, but Cartman dismisses them as just trying to scare him. Chef pulls up in his car and asks if they saw an alien spaceship, inadvertently confirming Cartman's "dream". After Chef leaves, the school bus shows up, driven by Mrs. Crabtree, a scary-looking, loudmouthed, middle-aged woman who constantly tells the children to "sit down and shut up". As the bus is driving away, Kyle looks back and sees two aliens holding his brother, Ike. Mrs. Crabtree yells back at them to "sit down and shut up" and Stan answers "Yeah whatever you fat bitch." Mrs. Crabtree yells back "What did you say???" Stan answers, "I said I have a bad itch." Later on in the bus Stan says, "But the fat bitch won't let us." Mrs. Crabtree screams back "What did you say???" And Stan says "I said that rabbits eat lettuce."

Several other aliens try to lure away cows standing in a field by whistling and offering them straw. The cows are not taking the bait, and apparently as a result several of them have been turned inside out. Police officer Barbrady explains that cows turning inside out is not unusual, clearly revealing that he is incompetent.

Kyle asks his teacher Mr. Garrison if he can be excused to find his brother. Mr. Garrison tells Kyle he has to ask Mr. Garrison's puppet, Mr. Hat. This is when Mr. Garrison's catchphrase of, "You go to hell! You go to hell and you die!" is introduced.

After class, the four are standing in the cafeteria line when Stan reveals his love for Wendy Testaburger by vomiting when she talks to him. When Chef is asked what to do when someone does not believe you, he breaks out into a sultry, erotic, (but off-topic) song.

When Chef learns that Kyle's brother was abducted by aliens, he freaks out and says, "What the hell do you think you're doing in school eating Salisbury steak? Go find him, dammit!" This is when a cycloptic robot pops up from behind Cartman and quickly retreats from whence it came. To help the children find Kyle's brother, Chef pulls the fire alarm.

It is the first time Cartman says one of his famous catchphrases, "Screw you guys, I'm going home!"

To lure the aliens back, Stan, Kyle, and Wendy tie Cartman up to a tree. After Cartman farts flames several times, an 80-foot satellite dish protrudes from his butt. The alien spaceships show up, and Ike is behind a door on a ship. Kyle tries to get his brother to jump down by telling him to do his impersonation of David Caruso's career. The aliens apologize to the cows, explaining the inside-out thing was "Carl's fault," and give them a device that makes people sing.

The next morning, Cartman lands at the bus stop with pinkeye that was given to him by Scott Baio.

• Zapped by martians, then trampled by cows, then run over in officer Barbrady's police car, then devoured by rats.

The unaired pilot differs from the version shown on television in several ways.

• The animation was using construction paper in traditional and stop-motion cutout animation.
• The opening of this version is different, and the theme song is slower.
• Mary Kay Bergman did not provide any voices for the female characters.
• Mr. Garrison's nose was long, and his mouth was low; Mr. Hat's hat covers his eyes.
• Mr. Garrison berates Kyle longer; Mr. Hat refers to Kyle as a little turd. Also Kyle says "F*ck Mr. Hat." Garrison replies "No, no. F*ck you!".
• While standing in the lunch line, Wendy does not speak to Stan, so he does not vomit. Kyle gets mad at Cartman and Stan for talking about Wendy while his brother is missing.
• Instead of pulling the fire alarm, Chef gives the boys "special extra-hot tamales" to raise their body temperature to give them an excuse to go home.
• The robot does not appear from Cartman's rectum (nor does it appear in the rest of the episode).
• Cartman doesn't fart fire until he eats the "special extra-hot tamales".
• There is a scene on the playground where Pip hits his head on concrete and runs to the nurse. The 6th Graders also make their first appearance here (ostensibly as 5th graders), where they intimidate Cartman into eating all of the tamales himself. This causes him to fart fire, which scares the boys off.
• The ensuing scene is in the nurse's office. Nurse McGrath (replaced during the regular series with Nurse Gollum) thinks the boys are faking their illnesses until Cartman's flaming flatulence convinces her to let the boys out.
• During the climax where Cartman is tied to the tree, the satellite dish does not appear. Instead, Chef shows up and together with the boys yells at the sky until the visitors appear.

• Perhaps the biggest differences (canon-wise) is a scene showing the Cartman family at home sitting down to dinner, oblivious to Eric's absence. In addition to Ms. Cartman, a father and sister are shown at the table (along with Mr. Kitty with ash all over her fur, because Cartman farted fire on her). In the canon of the series, Eric has no siblings, and his "mother" is really his father because Ms. Cartman is a hermaphrodite.

• Kyle does not mention David Caruso to entice Ike to jump.
• The ending of the episode is completely different:

• Kenny reappears as if nothing happened; Kyle notes "You're lookin' pretty good, Kenny.".
• Officer Barbrady attempts to persuade the boys that nothing happened, but the boys tell him they know about the visitors.
• When Officer Barbrady asks about the missing cows, the boys point to the visitors, standing off to the side with a barbecue grill, surrounded by dead cattle (apparently they never intended to give the cows the mind-control device).
• Kyle kicks Ike through Ms. Cartman's window.
• Cartman falls from the sky, but does not have pinkeye and makes no mention of Scott Baio.
• Pip shows up and in a reference to a Tiny Tim says "God bless us, everyone."; Cartman indicates that once he heals, he will beat Pip up.
• The closing credits end with a clip of 5 naked men from Le Petit Package, a short film made by Stone and Parker during the making of the unaired pilot. Le Petit Package was shown at the alternative Utah film festival Lapdance in 1999.

• This is the only episode on Comedy Central of South Park not to be rated TV-MA. Instead, it is rated TV-14DV. On the syndicated series, it is just rated TV-14V.
• According to various DVD commentaries and special features, this is the only episode Trey Parker and Matt Stone animated themselves.
• The song Cartman spontaneously sings is I Love to Singa written by Harold Arlen and Yip Harburg. Cartman's rendition is sampled from the 1936 Merrie Melodies cartoon "I Love to Singa", about a crooner owl who disgraces his parents, who want their son to learn classical music, just like his brothers.
• Strangely, the PBS children's show, Arthur had an episode that had a scene which was a spoof on Cartman Gets An Anal Probe. The episode was about Arthur and his friends trying to win a contest to get their stories made on TV.
• The fact that Aliens do tests on cows and that they are killed may be a spoof on the X-Files episode "Eve" from season one as Fox Mulder shows Scully photographs of dead cows around the world.
• This is the one of the few episodes in which Wendy does not run away from Stan when he vomits, and also one of the few episodes in which she asks why he has this habit.
• In the lunch scene, a kid says "I have bad gas" resembling Kyle's cousin Kyle.
• This is the only episode where Officer Barbrady is shown without his sunglasses on.

• When Kyle yells, "Come down here, you stinkin' aliens!", Stan's voice comes out instead.
• When the boys get on the bus, they are shown as the only kids there, but then later more kids are shown on the bus, but they soon dissapear.

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