Lights: On Off
On The Insider: Britney's Bikini-Clad Top 10
Wednesday 10:00 PM on Comedy Central

Episode Score

 
8.9 Great
437 votes

Your Score

Air Date

Wednesday November 9, 2005

Production Code

911

Episode Summary

After giving a presentation on 'Ginger Kids' in class, Cartman gets the other students to discriminate against them. To teach him a lesson, Stan, Kyle, and Kenny sneak in to his room and use makeup to give him the appearance of a Ginger. Their lesson is not realized when Cartman begins to rally his fellow Gingers against the other kids.

Read Full Recap » (warning: possible spoilers!)
  •  
    10 Perfect

    By far my favourite episode hide show

    In 'Ginger Kids' episode Cartman makes a presentation on Ginger Kids which influences other kids to admit there secret resentment for Ginger Kids. This then encourages the children to take action against the Ginger Kids and shun them from activities around the school. Cartman is then horrified the next morning to discover that he has become a Ginger kid (a secret prank pulled by Stan, Kyle and Kenny). This episode of South Park was one definitely the funniest episodes ever. My favourite part being Cartmans presentation on Ginger Kids, I can't help but quote it all the time. I encourage anyone who is a fan of South Park to watch it or just anyone whose up for a laugh.

    Do you agree?
      0 0
    Report Abuse
  •  
    10 Perfect

    cartman tries to basically destroy the gingers until he becomes one hide show

    this was one of the fuinniest things i have ever seen cartman is so funny and because of him i am kinda scared of gingers now i know its just a tv show but what matt and trey have done is great and they should win awesoemness awards for what they do. I mean gingervitis how the hell do you come up with something that funny i just love matt and trey and they hopefully can make it to 15 seasons + that would be great. I still laugh at that episode and i have seen it countless numbers of times i can never get sick of it

    Do you agree?
      1 0
    Report Abuse
  •  
    8.7 Great

    Cartman shows his leadership skills again! hide show

    I thought this episode had some allusions to race relations with its talk of race supremacy and domination but in reality this is just a plain silly episode. On the DVD commentary, I waited for some inspired political commentary from Matt Stone and Trey Parker, but then just found that Trey Parker was just really freaked out by Ginger Kids! In fact he puts in a line about Asians not having ginger children which he believes in (or so he said on the commentary). It is well-written and funny esp. at the end when Cartman is told that he is not ginger but somehow still turns it around. Kyle's pissed-off reaction is genius as once again Cartman gets away with it.

    Do you agree?
      0 0
    Report Abuse
  •  
    10 Perfect

    Cartman at his best (or worst) hide show

    This episode was the difinitive reason why I watch Cartman in South Park, along with the episode where he tries to get back at Scott Tenerman. He is the most conniving and manipulating person that I know. If not in real life then at least in South Park. It wasn't drop-to-the-ground funny but it was just such a fantastic story line that I loved the entire episode.

    Do you agree?
      0 0
    Report Abuse
  •  
    10 Perfect

    Dawn of the Redheads hide show

    Of all Cartman’s racial moments, this one is definitely hysterical. He said that ginger kids are hideous, evil, disgusting creatures that have ever walked the Earth. Some who are half-ginger are also known as daywalkers. Kyle wanted to teach the fat ass a lesson Cartman will never forget. By completely disguising him as a ginger kid, Cartman assumes he is suffering from gingervitus. The fat ass has decided to form a huge band of redheads to stand up against the crimination. He starts by sending the gingers after the non-gingers. After the capture, he was about to exterminate Kyle first, but the Jewish boy told Cartman the truth. And then he realizes now it was a big joke just to teach him a lesson. So Cartman has chosen to tell the ginger kids to get along with the non-gingers. Once again, he’s being such a manipulative a**hole.

    This is one of the funniest Cartman episodes of South Park ever. I’m glad that I’m not a ginger or half-ginger. The part where someone said that some guy dated a Asian women. I’m also Asian, and I’m proud to be one, too.

    Do you agree?
      1 0
    Report Abuse
 
See All Reviews

Episode Cast and Crew

View All
  • In the scene where the couple is walking down the sidewalk as the ginger kids corner them, you can see in the background a huge city, when South Park is supposed to be a small mountain town. []
  • In the birds eye view in the back of the Hilton meeting scene, some of the kids have hair that looks brown, some of them kind of dark. []
  • The last person in Cartman's slideshow was Carrot Top. []
  • In November 2008, this episode gained some controversy after a Facebook account named "National kick a Ginger Day" surfaced on the web where hundreds of redheads were bullied because of their hair color. This episode is often considered the influence for the event. []
  • A man in this episode said that he knew someone who is marrying an Asian woman so they wouldn't have ginger kids. This is a little inside joke about Trey Parker who is marrying an Asian woman. []
  • Reporter: Tom, I'm standing outside the Denver Center for the Performing Arts, where the new production of 'Annie' has just premiered to cries of outrage! A rapidly growing organization, called the Ginger Separatist Movement, is furious that the lead role of Annie is being played by a girl who isn't actually red-haired and freckled. Joining me now is the gingers' head spokesperson, Eric Cartman.
    Cartman: That's right. This is bullshit! We true gingers are fearless that the role of Annie is being minimalized!
    Reporter: What harm do you believe this actress is doing to the true red-haired community?
    Cartman: The bitch isn't ginger. She's just using makeup to look ginger. And pretending to be ginger with makeup is the worst thing anybody can do! []
  • Cartman: Ginger people go on to do amazing things in society. We need to let everyone in this school know that we are not inferior. That we are, in fact, beautiful, totally awesome, and super smart. It's time for us to take back our pride! []
  • Cartman: Hey dudes, what's going on? (coughs) How's everything with you guys?
    Kyle: Wow, Cartman, you look... different.
    Cartman: Yes, well, it's interesting you should point that out, Kyle. I went to the doctor yesterday, and apparently I suffer from a small skin pigment deficciency.
    Stan: You mean, you're a ginger?
    Cartman: Actually, Ginger-vitis is the medical term.
    Kyle: Is that an umbrella you're using?
    Cartman: Yes, Kyle. The sun's rays are bad for my skin, so I need to be protected when I'm outside. Well, I'm glad we've gotten all that out of the way, and now we can just go on with our lives as normal.
    Kyle: Wow, that's a little ironic, isn't it?
    Cartman: What do you mean, Kyle?
    Kyle: Well, I mean, all last week you were ripping on ginger kids and now you are one.
    Cartman: Hm. I don't really see the irony in that, Kyle. []
More Quotes
  • Salem's Lot:

    The ginger kids appearing at a window is a reference to the TV adaptation to the Stephen King novel, Salem's Lot. []
  • Nightmare on Elm Street:

    The scene where the ginger girl is outside the others house singing is a reference to Freddy Krueger, who is a murder movie killer. In the 1984 film A Nightmare On Elm Street, he sings a creepy song similiar to this.

    One two: Freddy's coming for you. Three four: Better lock the door. Five six: Grab your crucifix. Seven eight: Better stay up late. Nine ten: He's back again.
    []
  • The Witches:

    The Ginger Kids meeting which they will secretly exterminate non-ginger kids is similar to the Roald Dahl book and 1990 movie The Witches.

    In The Witches, witches who were in fancy disguises were in a hotel where they had a meeting in which they planned to secretly turn little kids into mice and then eliminate them with mouse traps. []
More Allusions
advertisement

Top Contributors

  • drewshack Editor
    User Score 5279 , Last Online 7 hrs, 43 mins ago
  • DennisKytasaari Trusted
    User Score 4032 , Last Online 3 days ago
  • Tweekfan323
    User Score 1996 , Last Online Jul 3, 2009
  • HilljaFuFu
    User Score 685 , Last Online Nov 11, 2008
  • TinnieMaster
    User Score 519 , Last Online Jan 6, 2010
What is a TV.com Contributor?