'South Park' Tackles Occupy Wall Street: Cartman Is The 1%

The kids at South Park Elementary are about to do some occupying of their own.

Always twisted and topical, Trey Parker and Matt Stone's newsy cartoon is set to take on the Occupy Wall Street protests in Wednesday night's episode, and they're using a pretty heavy allegory to make their point. As always, Cartman is making his classmates' lives miserable, this time thanks to his weight -- he fails the gym class's physical fitness test, mandating that the rest of the class do more exercise, even though they all passed.

An allusion to fat cat bankers, anyone?

The rest of the class are the 99%; Cartman is the very sad 1%. We wonder if those in charge of banks are reacting the same way that Cartman does while alone in his room.

Oh, and another question: will they react the way the Church of Scientology reportedly did when "South Park" mocked them?

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Comments

[kramerboy4113]

10:32 PM on 11/02/2011

Could Eric Cartman be a fat little Rush Limbaugh????

[LMPE]

08:04 PM on 11/02/2011

My only addition would have been to make Cartman say "Why don't you hippies get jobs?", since that's the right wing's attitude.

[dbrett480]

03:18 PM on 11/02/2011

I knew Matt and Trey would have a fantastic take on the Occupy Wall Street movement.

[piercingeyes7]

12:36 PM on 11/02/2011

Is the point of the clip to say, the cronies of the 1% are placating their employers, and friends by laying the fault at the doorstep of Obama, or do the creators of South Park really think Obama is to blame?

[raanghaus]

11:58 AM on 11/02/2011

more cheesy poofs!!!

[kkdkdkdkdk]

11:09 AM on 11/02/2011

Funny.

[buminthesun421]

08:15 AM on 11/02/2011

Eric Cartman for President..!!

[Stephen Wolosowski]

03:16 AM on 11/02/2011

SP is brilliant in that it usually makes fun of everything, while still making totally valid points. Just as how all great art facilitates, people perceive their own interpretations through their personal lens.

[Morena]

07:21 AM on 11/03/2011

Precisely. Matt and Trey have said that a million times about the show.

[arcticshade]

02:33 AM on 11/02/2011

Occupy wall street knows the real people to blame. Obama is just the puppet of the banking system. We need to put down these banks that can not fail and the Federal reserve. This will stop the rich from stealing from the poor and calling it "bail outs"

[l1tilr]

06:54 AM on 11/02/2011

lol, not sure where you wanted to go with the Obama comment but, let's take a walk down the history road... http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-20013452-503544.html

[piercingeyes7]

02:07 PM on 11/02/2011

The first line : Nearly half of Americans incorrectly think President Obama started the the bank bailout program, otherwise known as the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP), a new poll shows.

Incorrectly, hmmmm, well maybe OWS is not misimformed

[kvanness]

02:29 PM on 11/02/2011

Boy, those darn FACTS sure have a nasty habit of being completely different from the TALKING POINTS.

[blurredmolly]

10:15 AM on 11/02/2011

idiot

[Lua Genoard]

07:04 PM on 12/01/2011

Intelligent....not.

[Ken Alan Lancaster]

01:35 AM on 11/02/2011

Absolute magic. South Park is one of my favorites.

[PebbleBeachBum]

12:10 AM on 11/02/2011

they should make a south park movie. i would RED BOX it for sure!

[Justin Koselke]

01:00 AM on 11/02/2011

They should make it Bigger, Longer, and Uncut too!

[PebbleBeachBum]

01:28 AM on 11/02/2011

thats what she said.

[Cory Barksdale]

01:29 PM on 11/02/2011

I blame canada for the fact that they don't.

[PebbleBeachBum]

12:07 AM on 11/02/2011

south park is one of the most original shows on television. cuts right to the truth and is so politically NOT CORRECT that it speaks the truth about what America thinks but are too scared to say. LOVE IT. Love that little guy that dies in every show. hilarious.

[PatrioticUSGlory]

11:31 AM on 11/02/2011

Well let's not go overboard. That's how we got Obama.

[Jacukel]

04:39 PM on 11/02/2011

Yeah, and abject stupidity got you the guy before him. Good fer yewwwwwww.

[Demarcus Jackson]

12:03 AM on 11/02/2011

Cartman is such a hilarious sociopath :-)

[americanalien]

10:01 PM on 11/01/2011

My poor stomach... this is too funny. Cartman should be the mascot for the Republican party.

[RecreationalPilot]

11:50 PM on 11/01/2011

Especially when he dons his Brown Shirt.

[PatrioticUSGlory]

11:33 AM on 11/02/2011

Ankle-biters amuse me.

[Druid Priest]

06:59 AM on 11/02/2011

And Kenny, with his family on welfare, is the mascot of the Democrat party.

[Abena in Africa]

09:36 AM on 11/02/2011

Aww, it's ok. You tried.

[PatrioticUSGlory]

11:33 AM on 11/02/2011

Perpetually on welfare. So they're not just mascots.

[KingHuff]

09:18 PM on 11/01/2011

Cartman crying makes me laugh everytime....

[RecreationalPilot]

11:48 PM on 11/01/2011

I'm not cooooooooool.

His funniest was when Wendy beat him up. I think that was last week.