South Park, S16E07
A new girl named Nichole came to their school, and Cartman was determined to hook her up with Token, since they were both black. He went through a lot of trouble to make that happen, including telling Nichole that Kyle (her initial crush) was his boyfriend and locking Token and Nichole in the boys' locker room together. After wondering if they were just together because they were the only two black kids at school and worried about people looking at them as if it was a given they were together, they split up. Kyle tried to date Nichole after that (despite all the rumors that he was dating Cartman in secret), but Cartman ruined their date with a big confession to Kyle over the megatron. In the end, Nichole and Token decided to get back together simply because they liked each other and nothing else mattered.
I guess if you consider the kind of person that Cartman is, his actions in this story could be considered sweet. If only he wasn't focusing matches on race, you might think that Cartman had a shred of decency in him. Besides him forcing the hand of fate with people's love lives based on color of skin, he took away Kyle's chance to ever get together with Nichole. He wouldn't even consider the idea that they might be a better couple because he was too concerned with skin color. Felt bad for Kyle because he was getting excited about have some female attention, but all of that was due to Cartman lying about them being Kyle's boyfriend.
What I find really funny about Cartman spreading that lie is the ease in which he declared his love and ownership of Kyle. He wasn't just convincing enough for Nichole who didn't know him any better than any other boy at school, but he convinced me. Cartman is pretty obsessed with Kyle in general, even if it is always in a negative way. Maybe the reason why he is always giving Kyle a hard time and trying to make him look like a fool is because he has a secret crush on Kyle. I'm just saying--Cartman may be a psycho and a pathological liar, but he's not that good of an actor. Also, the rest of his schoolmates must have thought Kyle and Cartman have some kind of chemistry because there seemed to be few who didn't believe it (Token even thought Kyle was trying to hit on him).
Regarding Cartman's imaginary friend, Cupid Cartman, it only shows that Cartman is never playing with a full deck of cards. He wasn't just talking and playing with it, but he imagined it taking a dump in the toilet and thought he had its dead body in a shoe box in his closet. I liked when he beat the crap out of it when he lost his faith in love after Token and Nichole broke up. He really commits to his delusions, I'll give him that. However, the best thing that Cupid Cartman did was suggest that the poster girl for halitosis was his perfect match. I thought Kyle would be the one to give Cartman a little payback for all of his meddling, but once again, Cartman is his own worst enemy. I thought it was an appropriate ending to a good episode.
I don't have any complaints really for this episode. It was nice to see a story about how even dating within your own race could make people judge you on terms of race. It was mostly a Cartman-centered episode, but that was a good thing because he needed to be alone in his insanity so that it could fester to a comedic point. Even if he was doing things for his own twisted reasons, I'm fairly sure that he has some unresolved feelings for Kyle that he isn't being honest about. Not sure that Kyle is on board for that, but it's still pretty funny to think about it.
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