presence Cartman's extreme disdain for hippies (based on his voice actor's real life hatred of hippies[18]), his desire to appear on television, and his avarice are other traits the show has customarily depicted. He has shown an initiative in taking a businesslike approach to earning money, starting his own "hippie control", and "parental revenge" operations Cartman has also proven a knack for bargaining, serving as negotiator for his and his friends' snow-shoveling venture, and mediating relentlessly with potential buyers of fetuses he intended to sell for stem cell research In the season five episode "Scott Tenorman Must Die", Cartman, feeling cheated out of $16.12 by a local ninth-grader named Scott Tenorman, successfully executed an elaborate scheme to publicly humiliate Scott in front of his favorite band, but not before tricking him into eating his own recently deceased parents
sneer at this my city, and I give them back the sneer and say to them: Come and show me another city with lifted head singing so proud to be alive and coarse and strong and cunning. Flinging magnetic curses amid the toil of piling job on job, here is a tall bold slugger set vivid against the little soft cities; Fierce as a dog with tongue lapping for action, cunning as a savage pitted against the wilderness, Bareheaded, Shoveling, Wrecking, Planning, Building, breaking, rebuilding, Under the smoke, dust all over his mouth, laughing with white teeth, Under the terrible burden of destiny laughing as a young man laughs, Laughing even as an ignorant fighter laughs who has never lost a battle, Bragging and laughing that under his wrist is the pulse. and under his ribs the heart of the people, Laughing! Laughing the stormy, husky, brawling laughter of