History Recap / SouthParkS5E10HowToEatWithYourButt

** When Kenny gets run over by a truck, Cartman finds this "very funny".

* ElephantInTheLivingRoom: Butters' school picture. Despite that his hair looking weird, Ms. Choksondik and Butters' parents believe that he made a goofy face. Butters himself doesn't see anything wrong with it.

* FunnyBackgroundEvent: The Thompsons are sitting around having a conversation with the [=McCormicks=], while in the background, more and more people are crowding round the window to stare in and laugh at them.

'''Stuart, Carol, Kenny and the Milk Company Employee:''' NO!

* NotSoAboveItAll: Stan and Kyle chide Cartman for prank and find the following events to be too mean-spirited to be funny. However, when they see the Thompsons, they can't help themselves from laughing a bunch and bringing along other kids to witness the couple.

** The Thompsons' missing son Billy turns out to be Creator/BenAffleck[[note]]Although, if real life factored in, Affleck would have been '''ten''' years old when the Thompsons lost him, not six as they claim[[/note]].

* UncannyValleyMakeup: Bebe sports very heavy makeup for picture day, in two blink-and-you-miss-it shots in the beginning.

* BlackComedy: When Kenny gets run over by a truck, Cartman finds this "very funny".

* NonIndicativeTitle: "[[Recap/SouthParkS6E8RedHotCatholicLove Red Hot Catholic Love]]" actually had people eating through their butts, not this episode.
* NoSympathy: At the end of the episode, [[TheyKilledKennyAgain a motorbike runs Kenny over]]... and Cartman just laughs.

* AluminumChristmasTrees: Believe it or not, [[https://www.chocolateweapons.com/ chocolate guns are real]]!

* BlackComedy: When Kenny gets run over by a track Cartman finds this "very funny".

'''Original airdate:''' November 14, 2001

* SarcasmFailure: The same situation triggers both types - Kyle thinks that Cartman is genuinely remorseful, but is such a sociopath that he doesn't recognize the feeling, while Cartman believes that he'd "blown a funny fuse" from just how goddamned hilarious the entire situation was.

* SuicideAsComedy: Cartman decides to commit suicide because he can no longer laugh and writes a goodbye letter, also sticking a gun in his mouth... Which turns out to be a chocolate gun that is edible. On his P.S., he writes to buy the chocolate guns with marshmallows instead of ones with peanut butter.

** The Thompsons' missing son Billy turns out to be Creator/BenAffleck.[[note]]Although, if real life factored in, Affleck would have been '''ten''' years old when the Thompsons lost him, not six as they claim.[[/note]]

** The Thompsons' missing son Billy turns out to be [[spoiler:Creator/BenAffleck]].[[note]]Although, if real life factored in, Affleck would have been '''ten''' years old when the Thompsons lost him, not six as they claim.[[/note]]

* SelectiveEnforcement: Kenny gets off scot-free for showing his butt in his school picture, whereas Butters gets scolded by Ms. Choksondick and punished by his parents for having his hair stick out. in his school picture. n

* TakeThat: The Thompsons' missing son Billy turns out to be [[spoiler:Creator/BenAffleck]].[[note]]Although, if real life factored in, Affleck would have been '''ten''' years old when the Thompsons lost him, not six as they claim.[[/note]]

* AbusiveParents: Butters gets grounded for the trivial reason of "making a face" (Which was just a piece of his hair sticking up). This is actually the first time we see him get grounded.

** BaitAndSwitchSuicide: See AteHisGun above.

* NoSympathy: At the end of the episode, [[TheyKilledKennyAgain a motorbike runs Kenny over]]... And Cartman just laughs.

* BaitAndSwitch: See AteHisGun above.
** Also earlier in the episode, Ms. Choksondik reprimands someone in the class for abusing school picture privileges, and Kenny assumes it's him until it turns out Ms. Choksondik was talking about '''Butters'''.

'''NOTE''': This episode is not to be confused with the season six episode, "[[Recap/SouthParkS6E8RedHotCatholicLove Red Hot Catholic Love]]", which had a sub-story about Cartman winning a bet about eating from your butt and defecating out of your mouth, which leads to a new way to eat, just as everyone is turning atheist to keep their kids from being [[PedophilePriest molested by Catholic priests]].

* CharacterisationClickMoment: Butters' parents had been established since [[Recap/SouthParkS4E16TheWackyMolestationAdventure "Wacky Molestation Adventure"]], but it's here where the key aspects of their characters who [[AbusiveParents punish Butters]], often for ridiculous reasons completely out of his control, is firmly set in stone.

* ElephantInTheLivingRoom: Butters' school picture. Despite that his hair looking weird, the teacher and Butter's parent believe that he made a goofy face. Butters himself doesn't see anything wrong with it.

* FunnyBackgroundEvent: The Thompsons are sitting around having a conversation with the [=McCormicks=], while in the background more and more people are crowding round the window to stare in and laugh at them.

-->'''Mrs. Thompson''': Yes, I'm so grateful, I just want to cry again. \\
'''Stuart, Carol, Kenny and the Milk Company Employee''': NO!

* NeverBareHeaded: This is the first time in the series where Stan and Kyle are shown without their hats. Kyle, in particular, is forced to take off his hat for his picture against his will.

* NonIndicativeTitle: [[Recap/SouthParkS6E8RedHotCatholicLove "Red Hot Catholic Love"]] actually had people eating through their butts, not this episode.

* PrematureEncapsulation: While the episode features a couple with butts for faces and does indeed show them eating at one point, it doesn't move the plot along at all and is a minor visual gag at most. The later episode "[[Recap/SouthParkS6E8RedHotCatholicLove Red Hot Catholic Love]]" devotes its entire B-plot to the idea of people eating food through their butts (and defecating from their mouths). Because of that, it's easy to confuse the title of this episode for that one.

* TakeThat: The couple's missing son turns out to be [[spoiler:Creator/BenAffleck]].

* AteHisGun: {{Subverted|Trope}} by having Cartman do this literally, followed up with writing into his "suicide note" to ask for more "Chocolate Guns" (with marshmallow filling instead of peanut butter).

* FunnyBackgroundEvent: The Thompsons are sitting around having a conversation with the McCormicks, while in the background more and more people are crowding round the window to stare in and laugh at them.

"How To Eat With Your Butt" is a 2001 episode of ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark''. Cartman's latest prank (putting Kenny's school photo where only his butt is exposed on a milk carton) backfires when an actual couple with butts for faces comes to South Park searching for their missing child and Cartman suddenly blows a "funny fuse," which he thinks is from seeing something so funny that he can never laugh again (but others think is from guilt).

'''NOTE''': This episode is not to be confused with the season six episode, [[Recap/SouthParkS6E8RedHotCatholicLove "Red Hot Catholic Love,"]] which had a sub-story about Cartman winning a bet about eating from your butt and defecating out of your mouth, which leads to a new way to eat, just as everyone is turning atheist to keep their kids from being molested by Catholic priests.

* FunnyBackgroundEvent: The Thompsons are sitting around having a conversation with Kenny's family, while in the background more and more people are crowding round the window to stare in and laugh at them.
* HellIsThatNoise: Martha Thompson's crying makes ''everyone'' who hears it very uncomfortable, in large part because the sounds she makes while sobbing and blowing her nose sound like she's letting out a continuous series of disgusting wet farts.
-->'''Martha Thompson''': Yes, I'm so grateful, I just want to cry again. \\
'''Stuart, Carol, Kenny, and the Milk Company Employee''': NO!

* TakeThat: The couple's missing son turns out to be [[spoiler:Ben Affleck.]]

* MilkmanConspiracy: The South Park Milk Company is an almost literal but also entirely benign example. Even though their business is in producing milk, they also have an extensive database for missing persons, which they are able to use to track down the Thompsons' long-lost son.