How to Eat with Your Butt

"How to Eat with Your Butt" is episode 510 of the Comedy Central series South Park. It originally aired on November 14, 2001.

Plot

The episode begins with the South Park children having their class pictures taken; it is here that we see Stan and Kyle's hair for the first time (and with a full head of hair, rather than shaved, as in "Super Best Friends"). We see that Kyle has an auburn "Jew-fro" and Stan has a plain mop of black hair, like his dad. (In the season four Christmas episode, Stan's black hair can partially be seen when they're walking through the sewer.) During the course of this, Kenny wears his parka upside down and stands on his head with his feet through the sleeves so that his "ass shows through his hood."

Ms. Choksondik says that one boy spoiled his photo and will not get it back. However, the photo is of Butters, who made a normal face, and not Kenny. His parents ground him for making silly faces, and are convinced that his normal face is a silly face. Butters becomes a recluse and starts self-loathing his face.

To compound this trick, Cartman then turns in Kenny's photo to a missing children's center, which places it on a milk carton. Cartman's description of him includes that he has a "winking brown eye", "blonde hair", and "full cheeks."

Astoundingly enough, the photo draws a response from a couple, Martha and Stephen Thompson, who lost their son some years earlier. They suffer from a fictitious congenital condition known as "torsonic polarity syndrome" or "TPS" which has them born with their faces replaced with human buttocks. With the syndrome, however, they still retain all normal functionality of their faces (including noses, eyes, etc.).

When the Thompsons appear looking at Cartman's house for Kenny, he is stunned and can no longer laugh, believing he has seen something so incredibly funny, that nothing else will ever be able to make him laugh again.

At the end of the episode, the South Park milk company officially announces that Ben Affleck was the missing son of the Thompsons. When Cartman finds out, he starts to laugh again. Stan and Kyle decide that he couldn't laugh before because he actually felt guilty for making the Thompsons believe their son had been found – which Cartman vehemently denies, of course.

Kenny's Death

After finding out Ben Affleck was the son of the people with TPS, Cartman makes joke about calling him "Ben Assfleck", he gets his sense of humor back. He tells Kenny to come home with him, and while they are crossing the street, Kenny is hit by a motorcycle and Cartman laughs again (there was a news report earlier in the episode about people being run over by motorcycles).

Trivia

• Ben Affleck's actual face is used in this episode, unlike in "Fat Butt and Pancake Head" where he is animated.
• This episode is not to be confused with the season 6 episode "Red Hot Catholic Love", which contains scenes of people literally eating using their butts.
• When Cartman made the joke about Ben Affleck saying "Ben Assflek", it was taken from the movie Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back when Jay said it in Mooby's.

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