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South Park: AWESOM-O

Cartman disguises himself as a robot to fool Butters into revealing embarrassing secrets, but he discovers that Butters also has some embarrassing information about him. Cartman’s disguise is good enough to fool several movie producers and the military, and they all want to use him for personal or political gain.


9.8/10 (8 Votes cast)

Episode Info


Episode number: 8x5
Production Number: 802
Airdate: Wednesday April 14th, 2004



Main Cast
Trey Parker (1)Trey Parker (1)
voiced Stan Marsh, Eric Theodore Cartman, Herbert Garrison, Officer Barbrady, Terrance, Timmy, Ned Gerblanski, Satan, Randy Marsh, Various
Matt StoneMatt Stone
voiced Kyle Broflovski, Kenny McKormick, Gerald Broflovski, Pip Pirrup, Jesus, Jimbo Kearn, Phillip, Saddam, Various
April StewartApril Stewart
voiced Liane Cartman, Wendy Testaburger, Shelly Marsh, Sharon Marsh, Various
Mona MarshallMona Marshall
voiced Sheila Broflovski, Linda Stotch, Various

Recap

Butters is at home when a large, mysterious box is delivered to his doorstep. He opens it, and out steps AWESOM-O 4000, a robot with Cartman’s voice, who says he was sent to Butters from Japan to be his new best friend. AWESOM-O tells Butters that he should share all his secrets with him. Butters tells AWESOM-O that he has to wear a diaper and take anal suppositories because of a medical condition, and that he gets bullied by Cartman at school. ..

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Episode Notes
The much-anticipated episode of Lemmiwinks was announced for this date but was delayed to a later date. Trey Parker stated:

"Due to this week's tragic events in Hawaii, the Lemmiwinks episode of South Park will not be shown tonight. Instead, we present the all-new and slightly better episode, AWESOM-O."



Episode Quotes
Movie President: Are you a pleasure model?
AWESOM-O: What? Does not compute.
Movie President: Do you help out the urges of humans?
AWESOM-O: AWESOM-O does not understand.

Boy: Hey, Mr. Robot, how much wood would a woodchuck chuck, if a woodchuck could chuck wood?
AWESOM-O: ...17.



Cultural References
Title: AWESOM-O

The episode title is similar to the Trey Parker directed film Orgazmo (1997).

Visual: Catamount Pictures

The movie company that AWESOM-O writes ideas for is Catamount Pictures, a parody of Paramount Pictures.

Studio Executive: We can call it 'Punch-Drunk Billionaire.'

This movie title is similar to the Adam Sandler film Punch-Drunk Love (2002).

Butters: (singing) If you leave me now, you'll take away the biggest part of me.

These are lyrics from the song "If You Leave Me Now" by Chicago.

Title: AWESOM-O

AWESOM-O is a parody of the humanoid robot, ASIMO, created by the Honda Motor Company.



Episode References
Ms. Cartman: Eric is still supposed to be grounded for trying to exterminate the Jews two weeks ago.

Cartman's mother is referring to the episode "The Passion of the Jew," which had aired 2 weeks prior to this episode.

Butters: If you leave me now, you'll take away the biggest part of me.

Butters sings these same lyrics in "Casa Bonita."



Other Episode Crew

CreatorTrey Parker (1)  |  Matt Stone
 

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