The Secrets of
"Cartmanland"

by Wild Willie Westwood, with sources from all over the Web


We learn Grandma Cartman's name too late: Mabel Louise Cartman. Yet Great-Grandma lives on. But where is Grandpa Cartman?

Cousin Elvin has no fudgecicles to lick this time.

$14.12? That's $2 less than Cartman lost to Scott Tenorman!

What happened to Cartman's quest to get or make $10 million?

Jennifer Lopes dolls? Indeed, there are various celebrities Barbie can pose as. Jennifer Lopez could be the latest one. I've seen Munster Barbie and Ken.

What happened to Frans Bank?

At the bank, from behind the desk one sees three stacks of the same height, with the most recent stack on the left side. From before the desk, only the most recent stack is shown at its height, with the other stacks being taller.

Maybe Wendy and Cartman are meant for each other after all? They both can get quite vengeful when pushed too hard. She's in the group of people waiting for Cartman to receive his million dollars, and Stan doesn't say a word about it when the boys run into the group.

"The constant smell of aspirin and pee?!" — So Grandma smelled like aspirin and pee, while Great-Grandma smells like vitamins and pee.

Two of the fifth graders — sixth graders now — are with the group as they walk down the street.

This North Park Funland is quite different from the one seen in "Cartman Joins NAMBLA." Let the pictures tell the tale:

This explains why some of the rides in the other Funland are not in this one.

When Cartman complains of his dislike of lines of people, he borrows from "The Grinch Who Stole Christmas," in which the Grinch complains of "All the noise, noise, NOISE, NOISE!" kids make when they open their Christmas toys. Cartman's experience in "Cow Days" must have turned him off to waiting in line, as that was the ride.

FASTPASS is a feature in Disney theme parks this summer of 2001.

Well, there's a synagogue in South Park now. There thus must be more Jews than the Broflovskis and Jesus in town now, and the Broflovskis have no further need to appear in church.

"I'm nine years old..." — indisputable proof that all four boys will be nine this year. Even Kenny will be nine when he returns every week. It has to be this way if they are in fourth grade. Earlier, Ike turned three. And Cartman turned nine way back in the first season. Stan should be nine by Halloween, as his birthday in on October 19.

Adventure Island = Tom Sawyer Island + Adventureland.
Tom Sawyer Island is in Frontierland, but there are shades of the Jungle Cruise on Adventure Island. The Jungle Cruise can be found in Adventureland.

The senior South Park Mall cop shows up as the theme park's security guard. That means the pepper spray is back, as well as his tactics in dealing with troublemakers.

Where is Dr. Doctor?

"Ogh, finally, work is over. Now I can get back to riding my rides." — How are Butters and Clyde to ride their rides, unless they operate them themselves, as Cartman did before?

How could Kyle possibly have a crisis of faith about God's existence now when God appeared in all his strange glory before all the people gathered in Las Vegas for New Year's Eve 2000 in "Are You There, God? It's Me, Jesus?" Kyle was there with the others, and even talked to God in person.

The Rest Of The Story: Job got back everything he lost, and sometimes double that, because he never wavered in his faith in God. Oh, he did question why God took it all away in the first place, but he never lost his faith.

"Michael Bay gets to keep making movies." — He was in Pearl Harbor in late Spring, 2001.

Sometimes, barbed wire is shown atop the fences of Cartmanland, sometimes not.

Matt voices the fat business commentator, Trey the thinner one.

GRACY'S = MACY'S

The girl in pink parka taken away by the bear in "Cartman's Silly Hate Crime 2000" is in the second car at the Mine Shaft Ride. She is seen again waiting for a picture from the ride to take home. She is seen once more in the crowd watching Cartman throw stones at the theme park.

The kids shown in the picture with Kenny at the end of the Mine Shaft Ride are not the ones who were with him when he was impaled. Nor is the car.

"I'm afraid that the hemorrhoid has spread to his lungs." — Cancer may spread this way, but hemorrhoids do not. Cancer can go into remission, but hemorrhoids don't.

Cartman bought the park for $1 million, so how could he make the commercial for the park? On credit. And the amount of credit he used for it could be the $13,000 he still owes after the Feds took the million away.

Kyle's parents are next to Kyle for quite a while at the end of the episode, but when he begins to recover, after Cartman was maced, they aren't there, and enter the scene.

The "You Can't Come" technique Cartman inadvertently started came from Studio 54's opening night, according to Paul Wein, South Park Digest moderator.