Cartmanland

Template:Infobox South Park episode "Cartmanland" is episode 506 of the Comedy Central series South Park. It originally aired on July 25, 2001.

Plot synopsis

Upon the death of his grandmother, Cartman inherits $1,000,000 (bequeathed to him since he is the one member of his family who wouldn't waste it all on crack). Delighted with this money, Cartman makes an offer to buy an amusement park. The owner says he can't go through with the deal because the park doesn't make any money, but Cartman says he doesn't want to make money. Because he hates the long lines and noise, Cartman wants the amusement park all to himself so nobody but him can be allowed in it. Around the same time, Kyle comes down with a hemorrhoid, and his suffering combined with the perfidious Cartman's fortune causes him to lose faith in God; Mr. Broflovski's description of the trials of Job does little to assuage him.

Cartman initially enjoys his park, but as people try to sneak in, he is forced to hire a security guard, and, for money to pay him off with (he spent all his inheritance on the park itself), he agrees to let in two paying customers a day. More expenses begin to pile up, though, with broken rides, etc., and Cartman ends up having to let in hundreds of people per day. The park is successful, but Cartman becomes furious. He sells the park back to its original owner, but his money is then taken to pay off the IRS and Mr. and Mrs. McCormick, as Kenny died on one of the rides; he also owes an additional $13,000 which he cannot pay. He tries to buy the park back from the owner so he can pay off his additional debt, but the owner won't resell. Meanwhile, Kyle sinks into a state of misery and is dying, having lost the will to fight against his hemorroid.

Stan gets the idea to bring Kyle down to the park, where they observe that Cartman is miserable; more so than if he had never acquired the park in the first place. Observing this justice, Kyle regains his faith and desire to live, and his illness is put into remission. He awakens and, seeing Cartman's misery, realizes there is a God after all.

Kenny's Death

• Kenny dies at Cartmanland when his head is impaled on a low-hanging metal pipe. Cartman is later sued by Kenny's family for his death.

Trivia

• During Cartman's soliloquy about the lengthy lines in amusement parks, his speech resembles that of the Grinch when talking about the Whos in Whoville in How the Grinch Stole Christmas!
• This is the same amusment park used in the episode Cartman joins NAMBLA, and is used again through out the series.
• Cartmanland is a parody of Disneyland.
• The shot of Kyle's hemorrhoid shrinking (during the end when Cartman is upset over losing his park and Kyle begins to recover when he sees how miserable Cartman is) is cut in syndication.