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Fat Butt and Pancake Head
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| South Park episode | |
| "Fat Butt and Pancake Head" | |
 "I don't come from no Mexico! I'm Puerto Rican!" |
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| Episode no. | 705 |
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| Airdate | April 16, 2003 |
| South Park - Season 7 March 19, 2003 – December 17, 2003 |
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"Fat Butt and Pancake Head" is episode 705 of the Comedy Central series South Park. It originally aired April 16, 2003. In October 2004, it was voted the best South Park episode through episode 907, "Erection Day". With its combination of absurdist humor and simultaneous commentary on current events, the episode is considered by many fans to be among the finest South Park episodes.[citation needed]
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South Park Elementary School is holding a cultural diversity day. Kyle gives a report on the role of Latinos in American technology. A board of Latino community leaders (who are the judges) seem pleased with Kyle's report.
Cartman goes on stage to report on the effect of Latino culture on the arts in America. He says he has a special guest, Jennifer Lopez. However, Jennifer Lopez does not show up; Cartman merely does a ventriloquist act with his hand acting as the head of Ms. Lopez. Despite the racism of his report (Ms. Lopez has a heavily caricatured Puerto Rican accent, is nearly incapable of pronouncing the "J" in her name (which Cartman tries to correct unsuccessfully), and constantly talks about eating tacos and burritos), the board of Hispanics give him first place for having the best report, and he wins a $20 gift certificate at the mall. This angers Kyle, as he thinks of Cartman's speech to be racist and immature.
Cartman further enrages Kyle by insisting that his hand has a mind of its own. When the children go to the mall, Cartman -- at the apparent behest of Ms. Lopez -- uses his gift certificate to record a music video (in which Ms. Lopez sings of her love of tacos and burritos, and of giving "taco-flavored kisses"). The video gets sent to the record company representing the real Jennifer Lopez. The executives decide to replace the more difficult human performer with the puppet because they cannot have two Jennifer Lopezes.
When Jennifer Lopez learns she's being fired, she gets angry (all throughout the episode she is shown as extremely mean and swears at random people). Jennifer Lopez and her husband-to-be, Ben Affleck, show up at South Park Elementary. Jennifer warns Cartman to stop his Ms. Lopez ventriloquist act, or else she will beat him up.
As the two celebrities leave, Ben catches sight of (Cartman's) Ms. Lopez. He immediately falls in love with her.
The rest of the episode focuses on Cartman and Ms. Lopez. Originally, Cartman is happy because he was right about Ms. Lopez and Kyle was wrong.
Cartman begins to become insane due to the tension between Lopez and Cartman fighting for control of her actions. He starts to suffer from insomnia because Ms. Lopez forces him to stay up all night (she is writing and recording songs for her album).
When not working with her music, Ms. Lopez becomes involved in an increasingly romantic relationship with Ben Affleck. Cartman hates the relationship; he doesn't like Ben Affleck. After waking up one morning to discover Ben naked in his bed (Ben apparently had sex with Ms. Lopez), Cartman learns that Ms. Lopez and Ben are planning to get married.
The news of the wedding angers the real Jennifer Lopez. At the end of the episode, Cartman decides to make a run for it. At a bridge, Jennifer Lopez, the police, Ben Affleck, the people from the recording company, Kyle, Kenny and Stan catch up with Cartman and Ms. Lopez.
Everyone (except the boys) starts to argue about Ms. Lopez. Ms. Lopez screams for everyone to be quiet. She then makes the confession that she is not Jennifer Lopez, but Mitch Connor, a con man who has been moving around from town to town. His voice is different from Ms. Lopez's, as well as identical to Cartman's, and he has no hair, unlike Ms. Lopez. He apologizes to Ben for playing around with his love and states that he will die, as he has recently consumed a cyanide pill.
The last thing Mitch does is look at the sunset and wonder if he will dream. He then "dies", and everyone goes away except for the boys. Kyle asks who Mitch Connor is. Cartman says, "Look, I don't care what you guys believe. But with all the crazy stuff that goes on in this town, isn't it possible, just possible, that something I don't understand happened here?"
When Kyle admits "All right, All right, I guess it's kind of possible...", Cartman starts happily screaming, "I got you, kind of!", revealing that the whole event has simply been a plot to make Kyle look foolish.
The episode ends with Jennifer Lopez working at a La Taco restaurant.
- In syndication, the scene where Ms. Lopez performs oral sex on Ben Affleck in the car and the scene where Cartman reacts to the statement that Ben and Ms. Lopez were "up all night making love" are removed.
- In the "VH-1 Goes Inside" special about South Park, there was a clip of the scene where Cartman wakes up and finds that his Jennifer Lopez hand puppet had had sex with Ben Affleck. When Cartman yells, "Ew, Ben Affleck spooge!", the word "spooge" was bleeped out.
- The episode was voted the best South Park episode by visitors of Comedy Central's website.
- There is a brief moment where Cartman is arguing with his hand and "they" are both shouting over each other at the same time. The closed captioning says "Both" when Cartman is arguing with his hand.
- This is the second time Ben Affleck has featured in South Park, the first being in "How To Eat With Your Butt", where he was the long lost son of a couple who had buttocks for heads. However, in that episode, his head was a photograph of the real person, like South Park's Saddam Hussein and Mel Gibson in Passion of the Jew.
- Jennifer Lopez's license plate reads "SPICY", while Ben Affleck's reads "AWESOME".
- This episode is a parody of Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck's relationship during their much publicized engagement. "Fat Butt and Pancake Head" is a reference to Jennifer Lopez's large buttocks and, according to episode commentary, Ben Affleck has a face that is as flat as a pancake.
- The character of Ms. Lopez is based on the characters of "Johnny" and "Pedro" in the ventriloquism of Señor Wences.
- The scene at the mall, where Cartman has Ms. Lopez kiss Kyle, is taken directly from the 1979 movie The In-Laws.
- The last spoken ventriloquist line of Cartman's hand ("I wonder, will I dream?") was an homage to the movie 2010: The Year We Make Contact, where the two computers HAL-9000 and SAL-9000 pose the same question at times when facing shutdown.
- At the end of the episode, Jennifer Lopez is working at "La Taco", a parody of Del Taco.
- According to Matt Stone, the man working with Jennifer Lopez at La Taco is former Latin sensation Gerardo famous for his hit song "Rico Suave."
- The revelation that Ms. Lopez is in fact Mitch Connor seems to be an homage to the film Tootsie, where Dustin Hoffman reveals that he has been working in drag as Dorothy Michaels and that he is in fact a man, as the manner in which the remove their wig and change tone and demeanor mirror each other.
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South Park episodes | Followed by "Lil' Crime Stoppers" |