Fat Butt and Pancake Head
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Fat Butt and Pancake Head is the name of the fifth episode of the seventh season of South Park. It aired on April 15, 2003.
Synopsis
South Park Elementary School is holding a cultural diversity day. Kyle gives a report on the role of Hispanics in American technology. A board of Hispanic people, who seem to be judging, 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. Despite the fact that his report could be considered racist (Ms. Lopez has a heavy Mexican accent, is nearly incapable of pronouncing the "j" in her name and constantly talks about eating tacos and burritos), the board of Hispanics give him first place for having the best report, and he wins a twenty dollar gift certificate at the mall. This angers Kyle because he spent hours working on his project.
At the mall, the boys pass by a store which allows people to make their own music videos. Ms. Lopez says she wants to go in. None of the boys (including Cartman) want to go in, but Ms. Lopez makes them. She makes a music video called "Taco Flavored Kisses".
The man at the store thinks the video was so good that he decides to give it to his friend, who works at a major record company. The people at the company like the video and decide to give Ms. Lopez a record deal. The problem is that this is the same company the real Jennifer Lopez is signed to. Since they can't have two artists named Jennifer Lopez working for their company, they decide to fire the real Jennifer Lopez.
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 warns Cartman to stop his Ms. Lopez ventriloquist act, or else she will beat him up.
As the two celebrities leave, Ben catches sight of 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; he realizes he controls everything Ms. Lopez does, but is unable to control 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 a confession: she is not Jennifer Lopez; she is...Mitch Connor.
Mitch Connor is a con man who has been moving around from town to town. His voice is different from Ms. Lopez's, and he has no hair, unlike Ms. Lopez. He apologizes to Ben for playing around with Ben's love. But it will all be over soon; Mitch 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. 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 it's possible, Cartman starts happily screaming, "I got you, kind of!", revealing that the whole thing was just a plot to make Kyle look stupid.
Parodies
- The character of Ms. Lopez is based on the characters of "Johnny" and "Pedro" in the ventriloquism of Seņor Wences.
- The scene at the mall, where Cartman has Ms. Lopez kiss Kyle, is taken directly from the 1979 movie The In-Laws.
- The entire premise of the episode is similar to an earlier episode of The Simpsons where a man claiming to be Michael Jackson lives with the Simpson family after meeting Homer in a mental institution. In the third act, distraught over the attention the rest of the town is giving him, Jackson reveals himself as an unemployed ex-construction worker from New Jersey.