
Trey suddenly blurted out, "Cartman! That’s the perfect name for The Fat Kid." Karpman's retorts against that further convinced Trey that "The Fat Kid" had to be named Cartman. Trey was sitting in a corner quietly watching Karpman and their other friends trash talk during the game when one person said, "Shut up Karpman". Frosty had been completed back in 1992 and "The Fat Kid" needed a name. According to their mutual friend Jonathan Korty, Trey came up with the name Cartman during a Super Bowl party on 29 January 1995. Karpman was known for being slightly overweight, short, very obnoxious and skilled with his verbal comebacks.

Ĭontrary to popular belief that Cartman's name was derived from German war-pilot Erich Hartmann (which would reflect his love of Hitler and the Nazis), Cartman's name and personality are based on Matt Karpman, a friend of Matt Stone and Trey Parker. But then they came up with the idea that it might be allowed if the character were an animated nine (formerly eight) year-old boy living in the mountain town of South Park, Colorado.

However he is usually Kyle's first choice when he breaks his friendship with Stan. None of the other three main children really consider Cartman their friend and do not know why they started hanging out with him in the first place, but a certain form of unstable friendship ends up being born between them. Cartman is sometimes the main antagonist of an episode, for example " Trapper Keeper". " Cartman Gets an Anal Probe" For other uses, see Eric (Disambiguation).Įric Theodore Cartman, usually referred to as just Cartman, is one of the main characters, along with Stan Marsh, Kyle Broflovski, and Kenny McCormick. His first name is shown on his name tag.The Spirit of Christmas: Jesus vs. He looked upset on the one occasion he did appear, but he did not seem to fully understand the situation. He wears a swamp green cap that says "Yo♥ TACO" on it, a cleaner's outfit, and he is armed with a mop and bucket. He is portrayed as a stereotypical foreign immigrant with stubble and a mustache.

He spoke on one occasion in " The Death Camp of Tolerance". Venezuela wears a green jacket and cap and has blue trousers with a black belt with a gold buckle.

He has been replaced with an unnamed female bus driver in South Park: The Streaming Wars. Venezuela to guilt the perpetrator to confess, telling the children he has to clean up puke with sawdust and only earns six dollars an hour at best with 3 kids at home and a car that barely works. He worked as a janitor at South Park Elementary as seen in " Mystery of the Urinal Deuce", where Mr. He was shown to be the new school bus driver in Ginger Kids since the death of Veronica Crabtree the previous season. He was shown sleeping on the job with a mop and bucket, making Randy Marsh think he was a wax statue and part of the racial stereotype tour until he woke up. Venezuela debuted as a janitor at the Museum of Tolerance exhibit of wax statues.
