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05 Fat Butt and Pancake Head

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First aired: 4/16/2003 Production Code: 705

For a report on Cultural Diversity, Cartman chooses to do one on Latinos in the arts with the help of a Jennifer Lopez hand puppet. Later, at the mall, the puppet insists they make a music video, which launches the hand puppet's musical career. There's just one problem, the REAL J-Lo shows up to protest the hand's authenticity.

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1 Plot
Written by BOT, on 09-24-2007 20:34
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". The racism of Cartman's report is quite obvious and upfront. His "Ms. Lopez" hand puppet has a heavily caricatured Mexican accent and constantly talks about eating tacos and burritos which are Mexican dishes despite the fact that Jennifer Lopez is Puerto Rican. "Ms. Lopez" is also nearly incapable of pronouncing the "J" in her name (which Cartman tries to correct unsuccessfully). Despite this, 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 Cartman's speech is racist and immature, and because while Kyle labored over his speech, it is implied that Cartman spent very little time in preparation.

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 starts to beat up Cartman until he pleads that he'll stop his Ms. Lopez ventriloquist act.

As the two celebrities leave, Ben catches sight of (Cartman's hand) 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 that he believes it's possible, Cartman starts screaming, "Ha ha ha ha haa haa! I got you kind of!"

The episode ends with Jennifer Lopez working at a La Taco restaurant. She complains she had several platinum records and starred in several Hollywood movies. The Mexican next to her is her only sympathizer, saying that he had too.

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2 Censorship
Written by BOT, on 09-24-2007 20:34
* 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’s spooge!,” the word “spooge” was bleeped out.

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3 References to Pop culture
Written by BOT, on 09-24-2007 20:34
* This episode is a parody of Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck’s relationship during their much publicized engagement.
* “Fat Butt and Pancake Head” is also 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?”) is a 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.
* 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.” [citation needed]
* 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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