History Recap / SouthParkS9E6TheDeathOfEricCartman

* SeriousBusiness: Stan, Kyle, and Kenny consider Cartman eating the skin off all of their KFC fried chicken to be the worst thing he's ever done and decide to shun him. Kenny actually started crying when he saw what Cartman did.

* AchievementsInIgnorance: Cartman and Butters manage to prevent a hostage crisis thanks to the former attempting to scare the criminals, when they're just distracted by his behavior, while the latter frees the hostages.

* PoorCommunicationKills: While the boys can be excused since they were purposely ignoring him, ''nobody else'' acknowledges Cartman's presence, none of the adults, the people he wronged, or even his own mother, and some of them even elect to ignore, disturbed by his weird behavior.

* RuleOfThree: Cartman when he attempts to make his way to Heaven. It takes the third time to realise that he didn't die.

* JerkWithAHeartOfJerk: Cartman decides to atone for his sins not out of guilt, but so he could reach the afterlife. When he finds out he was never a ghost, he clearly regrets every single moment of it.

* ApopheniaPlot: When Cartman sees that nobody is responding to him, he convinces himself that he's died and become a ghost, a thought further "proven" when he sees men seemingly carrying away his dead body in a box (actually plumbers having replaced his toilet) and hears his mother sobbing (actually her [[TheImmodestOrgasm having sex with one of the men]]). However, [[LockedOutOfTheLoop nobody told Butters about the pact]], so when he greets him like always, Cartman assumes that he can see him and talk to ghosts.

* PetTheDog: The entire “Make it Right” montage has Cartman and Butters giving fruit baskets to people the former did bad things to. The biggest is Scott Tenorman [[Recap/SouthParkS5E4ScottTenormanMustDie because of what happened earlier]]. [[Recap/SouthParkS14E6TwoHundredOne Things will be bad much later, though]].

* PetTheDog: The entire “Make it Right” montage has Cartman and Butters giving fruit baskets to people the former did bad things to.
** The biggest is Scott Tenorman [[Recap/SouthParkS5E4ScottTenormanMustDie because of what happened earlier]]. [[HarsherinHindsight Things will be bad]] [[Recap/SouthParkS14E6TwoHundredOne much later]].

* AluminumChristmasTrees: Mr. Stotch warns Butters about Super AIDS... [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HIV_superinfection which, as it turns out, is real]].

* AnalProbing: Butters gets anally probed for 14 hours straight at the South Park Institute for Mental Health.

* BaitAndSwitch: A particularly [[BlackComedy disturbing]] example: After Cartman awakes and believes that he's dead, he overhears his mother apparently crying loudly over him. Turns out, her "grief" was in actuality [[TheImmodestOrgasm her receiving the business from the man who replaced her broken toilet away]].

'''Air date:''' April 13, 2005

* AluminumChristmasTrees: Mr. Stotch warns Butters about Super AIDS... [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HIV_superinfection#:~:text=HIV%20superinfection%20(also%20called%20HIV,often%20of%20a%20different%20subtype. which, as it turns out, is real]].

* AluminumChristmasTrees: Mr. Stotch warns Butters about Super AIDS... which, as it turns out, is real.

* NotSoImaginaryFriend: Since Butter's parents never see Cartman (and he isn't a ghost anyway), they are left convinced Butters is hallucinating an imaginary ghost and acting up.

* MisplacedRetribution: Stephen sends Butters to the mental institution after Cartman made a mess in the house.
* MistakenForAfterlife: Cartman thinks he's a ghost after the other boys at school ignore him and he sees a kid-sized box leaving his home with people sympathizing with how stuffed with chicken skins it was (in reality, it was the toilet Cartman clogged). [[invoked]]

* MistakenForAfterlife: Cartman thinks he's a ghost after the other boys at school ignore him and he sees a kid-sized box leaving his home with people sympathizing with how stuffed with chicken skins it was (in reality, it was the toilet Cartman clogged).
* MoralEventHorizon: PlayedForLaughs; after all the terrible things Cartman has done, eating the skin off everyone's fried chicken is what finally makes his friends abandon him. [[invoked]]

* MisplacedRetribution: Stephen sends Butters to the mental institution after Cartman makes a mess in the house.

* MisplacedRetribution: Stephen sends Butters to the mental institution for making a mess in the house, even though it was Cartman's doing.

-->'''Cartman:''' How stupid are you?! So help me God, Butters! I'm gonna get you back for this! I'm going to get you back!

* JerkWithAHeartOfJerk: Cartman decides to atone for his sins not out of guilt, but so he could reach the afterlife. When he finds out he was never a ghost, he regrets every single moment of it.