Top 20 Times South Park Characters ROASTED Each Other
You can't live in South Park and not expect the occasional roast! For this list, we’ll be looking at wisecracks, insults, jabs, and other great potshots aimed at fellow characters from this show.
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00:00 I mean, we would tell your parents to shop at nicer places, but your mom is so poor she
00:03 can't even pay attention.
00:06 Welcome to WatchMojo, and today we're counting down our picks for the top 20 times South
00:11 Park characters roasted each other.
00:13 "Butters, where did you get that kind of smart mouth?"
00:16 For this list, we'll be looking at wisecracks, insults, jabs, and other great pot shots aimed
00:21 at fellow characters from this show.
00:24 We're only including roasts aimed at specific individuals and excluding insults towards
00:29 celebrities as well as from the feature-length movie.
00:33 Which burn gave you the most laughs?
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00:48 Number 20.
00:51 Cartman's mom laughs at the boys' insults.
00:55 It's all too common for good friends to rib each other all in good fun, but on more than
01:00 one occasion, as we'll come to see, Cartman has been the butt of the joke.
01:05 And as much as his mom thinks he's the perfect little boy, even she succumbs to laughter once
01:10 in a while.
01:12 Such was the case during season 3's Halloween-themed episode.
01:16 After claiming Eric isn't fat, just big-boned, Kyle comes around with a real zinger that
01:21 puts Leigh-Anne in stitches.
01:26 As often as she comes to his defense, we love seeing her join in on the laughter.
01:36 Number 19.
01:37 Kyle calls Stan a Cartman.
01:40 Despite the occasional ups and downs of South Park, two characters have remained the best
01:44 of friends throughout the show's run, Stan and Kyle.
01:48 Yet during season 19's ad story, Stan becomes suspicious of Kyle and the two end up in a
01:54 heated argument in the cafeteria.
02:03 With Butters, Kenny and Cartman all watching, Kyle turns the dial up to 11 by comparing
02:08 Stan to Cartman, to which Eric responds with "Hood as love."
02:13 From there, we're treated to Stan literally sounding like Cartman as a fistfight breaks
02:18 out.
02:19 Not only is the insult a low blow for Kyle, but the fact that Cartman agrees with him
02:23 makes it even better.
02:24 Number 18.
02:26 Butters torches the Goths.
02:28 When Stan and Butters both have their hearts broken, we get to watch how two very different
02:32 characters deal with breakups.
02:34 Stan joins the Goth kids and talks about pain all day, where Butters accepts the reality
02:40 that sometimes bad things just happen.
02:43 So when Stan and the Goths find him crying on the street, Michael, yes, that is the tall
02:48 Goth kid's name, offers to let Butters join their gang.
02:56 And just as he always is, Butters is ever so polite as he declines but manages to get
03:01 a fantastic, albeit highly inappropriate jab at Stan's new friends.
03:06 It's a surprise roast after such a heartfelt confession from the sweetest kid in town.
03:14 Number 17.
03:15 Butters goes after everyone.
03:18 Speaking of Butters, did you know he's Hawaiian?
03:21 Neither did we until he went full-on Hulk against his classmates.
03:31 Forever depicted as the nicest and most innocent character in town, he beats up a fellow classmate
03:36 apparently for no reason.
03:38 When the boy tries to talk to him, we get one of the best teardowns the show has ever
03:43 seen.
03:50 He rips into Kyle, Stan, Cartman, and even Jimmy in a back-and-forth hallway rant.
03:55 He even rhetorically tells his dad to shove it when hauled into the principal's office.
04:01 We love angry Butters.
04:03 But we also love how even when he's berating people, he never uses even the smallest piece
04:08 of profanity.
04:09 How considerate.
04:11 Number 16.
04:12 Cartman and people who are less fortunate.
04:15 For those who've watched the show long enough, you'll know how often Cartman makes fun
04:19 of poor people.
04:21 It started as far back in season one when he cracked jokes about Kenny's family living
04:25 in a cardboard box.
04:27 Since then, he's made countless jabs at Kenny's expense, only to find himself in
04:31 a similar situation.
04:33 Season 15's The Poor Kid gives audiences countless cracks about people in financial
04:38 distress, but with a twist.
04:46 With Kenny's family in foster care, Eric is now the poor kid in town.
04:51 And how does he cope with it?
04:53 By relentlessly mocking himself until he can find a new target.
04:56 It's entertaining to hear him faux insult himself and his mom.
05:00 While we all know he has something else in mind.
05:10 Number 15.
05:12 Cartman roasting the nanny.
05:14 The first mistake Leigh-Anne made was thinking a reality TV nanny was going to tame Cartman
05:19 down.
05:25 The next one was thinking Eric was ever going to be even remotely civil to her.
05:30 After the nanny takes his Xbox, he insults her, spits in her mouth and keeps on trucking.
05:35 Yet it's when she starts her heart to heart that we really see how bad Cartman can get.
05:45 What starts as a polite conversation between them quickly nosedives as Eric quietly roasts
05:50 her social and maternal relationships to the point where she's disgusted and leaves.
05:56 No wonder it took a dog trainer to get him under control.
05:59 Number 14.
06:00 "Screw you guys, I'm going home."
06:02 Okay, so we know this is more of a catchphrase than a roast, but come on.
06:07 In the earlier days of South Park, Cartman would often utter this phrase as a way of
06:11 flipping off just about anyone.
06:13 Whether it was his friends, the teachers, or even Jennifer Aniston's Miss Stevens.
06:23 When Eric has had enough, he blows them off with one simple sentence, turns his back,
06:28 and is on his way.
06:30 Far more polite than some of the other entries on this list.
06:33 It cuts through everything else and just gets to the point.
06:36 "Screw you guys, we love this roast."
06:39 "Okay, that does it.
06:40 Screw you guys, I'm going home."
06:42 Number 13.
06:43 "Girls Volleyball."
06:44 Sometimes, a good jab is a finely crafted joke that builds up over the course of a conversation.
06:52 Then just at the right moment, you deliver the punchline and all the waiting becomes
06:56 worth it.
06:57 Other times, we're presented with a fast quip that comes out of nowhere and surprises
07:02 everyone.
07:03 The latter was the case when Stan poked fun at girls volleyball, giving Cartman and the
07:07 other boys a great laugh.
07:14 What makes this even better, however, is Stan's reaction when he realizes his girlfriend Wendy
07:19 is the butt of the joke.
07:21 Looks like Stan forgot the golden rule of comedy, "Know your audience."
07:30 Number 12.
07:31 "Butters and Sports."
07:33 Butters doesn't get football, and he tells this to his friends, proclaiming that's
07:38 why he's terrible at playing it.
07:40 In a quick retort, Stan makes it clear that Butters just outright sucks at all sports.
07:50 This alone is a fantastic little jab, but it's Stotch's comeback that we never saw
07:56 coming.
07:57 Unlike how other characters would react, Butters agrees with Stan and makes the insult even
08:02 worse.
08:03 Clearly oblivious to its real meaning, he refers to Cartman's suggestion about working
08:08 in a massage parlor.
08:10 It's one thing to get roasted by a friend, but something else entirely when you pile
08:14 on with him.
08:16 Number 11.
08:17 "Kyle Insults His Mother."
08:19 What would you do to sustain peace in the Middle East?
08:22 When a prank of Cartman's inadvertently unites Christianity, Judaism, and Islam, Kyle
08:27 is forced to endure whatever Eric wants of him all in the name of peace.
08:33 So when Cartman asks him to insult Sheila to her face, poor Kyle has to face his worst
08:38 fear.
08:39 Not only does he already have issues standing up to his mother, but now he has to rag on
08:43 her at Cartman's whim.
08:51 Kyle drops some pretty brutal descriptive language about his mother.
09:00 It's not just funny, but we can't help but wonder if after everything she's put him through,
09:05 somehow Kyle actually enjoyed the rare moment.
09:10 Number 10.
09:11 "I Wish Jaden Smith Was My Son."
09:14 If you were to pick the most random insult to say to your own kid, this line is the last
09:18 thing anyone would have ever thought of.
09:21 The whole thing comes from the fact that Stan has locked out all of the true crime programming
09:26 on television with a code his parents can't figure out.
09:29 Randy shows up at Stan's door, begging him to give him the answers.
09:33 All while trying to explain why these crime shows aren't harmful.
09:42 Only someone like Stan's father could come up with the most ridiculous of insults.
09:46 All in the name of wanting to watch documentary TV.
09:53 Number 9.
09:54 "Butters Roasting His Grandma."
09:57 Butters roasts his grandmother in an episode called "Butterballs."
10:00 Is it just us, or does anyone else smell turkey?
10:03 Either way, our beloved stocks boy once again shows how he's probably one of the most
10:07 profound children in this town.
10:10 After having been repeatedly assaulted both physically and psychologically by his grandmother,
10:15 Butters finally gets his say.
10:17 Thinking she's asleep, Butters delivers a brutal but chillingly truthful takedown of
10:22 his grandmother's actions.
10:32 As he describes how she's eventually going to die angry at the world, Butters will still
10:37 be there.
10:38 It strikes fear into her eyes with nothing more than the real, unadulterated truth.
10:53 Number 8.
10:54 "Stan's Band Moop."
10:56 Take four nine-year-olds with no real musical talent and throw them in a band.
11:00 Unless you've got some prodigies in there, odds are you're not going to hear Grammy-worthy
11:05 music without some practice.
11:07 Such was the case for Stan, Kenny, Kyle and Cartman with their band, Moop.
11:13 Like other kids their age, they just want to play and have fun.
11:16 So when Randy hears all the racket, instead of trying to help or support their efforts,
11:21 all they get is a sarcastic retort.
11:32 Suggesting that the sounds of human torture were comparable to Moop's music, however,
11:37 might be going a little too far.
11:39 Number 7.
11:40 "Something to Suck On."
11:42 Eric has been using this catchphrase as a means of insulting anyone who crossed his
11:46 path unfavorably.
11:48 He said it to Garrison in the movie.
11:50 He spouted it off to his impersonator when he tried to extort him for more money.
11:54 He even tries the line on his new teacher, only to have her respond in a positive nature,
11:59 shocking both him and the rest of the class.
12:09 What makes this a great roast is how Cartman seems to find new and interesting ways to
12:13 deliver it to those who have it coming.
12:15 Number 6.
12:16 "A Large Beehive."
12:18 Having won a contest, Cartman's going to appear on TV along with Kathie Lee Gifford.
12:27 Wanting to get in shape, he starts eating copious amounts of a bodybuilding supplement,
12:31 triggering massive weight gain.
12:33 Eric is of course proud of how bulky he's become, but Kyle isn't having any of it.
12:41 While first referring to him as a "wide load", it's what follows next that's
12:45 the real burn.
12:46 Inspired by a scene from the original "The Spirit of Christmas" short, Kyle insinuates
12:51 that casual pedestrians would exclaim profanities at him for being so large.
13:02 Not only is it funny, but it's a great nod to the original.
13:07 Number 5.
13:08 "Christmas Ham."
13:09 Fun fact, George Clooney apparently sent out hundreds of copies of the original South Park
13:14 short "The Spirit of Christmas".
13:24 Not only did this short serve as the inspiration for our previous entry, but it also gave us
13:29 another awesome burn at Cartman's expense.
13:32 Just as Stan is trying to deliver his speech about the true meaning of Christmas, Eric
13:36 piles on and insists it's all about ham.
13:39 Without even blinking, Stan yells back at him reciting the exact same insult Kyle had
13:43 used earlier.
13:45 It's yet another variation on a standing theme around Eric, but that doesn't make
13:53 it any less of a jab.
13:55 Number 4.
13:56 "Sand in Places."
13:57 Have you ever been to a beach and returned home only to feel like you've brought all
14:03 the sand back with you?
14:04 Depending on where it sticks, you can find yourself itchy, scratching, or even outright
14:09 irritated at it getting everywhere.
14:15 This becomes a running gag throughout the South Park season 5 premiere, as Cartman blames
14:20 Kyle's recent irritability on him having sand stuck somewhere.
14:25 Each time Eric delivers the line, Kyle becomes even more infuriated, spurring Cartman to
14:30 come up with even better ways to make the roast cook.
14:47 Number 3.
14:48 "Cartman's Butters Impression."
14:51 An otherwise middle-of-the-road episode, fans are treated to one of the best moments
14:55 of the entire series.
14:57 After being grounded for having illegal liposuction, Butters sneaks out with the boys while Cartman
15:01 promises to impersonate him if his parents call.
15:10 Inevitably, they do, and Cartman, as Butters, delivers what is arguably the funniest impersonated
15:16 lines of dialogue ever spoken on the show.
15:21 Butters' dad gets a roaring insult about his sexuality and bodily functions, while
15:26 he implies Linda enjoys the company of livestock.
15:29 The crudeness of the insults is one thing, but when delivered as faux Butters, it brings
15:34 the laugh to a whole new level.
15:42 Number 2.
15:43 "Leanne's Magazine Appearance."
15:46 It's Halloween time in South Park, and Kyle is arguing with Cartman about him having dressed
15:51 up as Hitler.
15:55 As the two exchange insults, Kyle makes a rather disparaging remark about Cartman's
16:00 mother being on the cover of an adult-themed publication.
16:04 Kids poking fun at each other's moms is nothing new, but Cartman is taken aback by
16:08 the insult.
16:09 If that had been it, the crack would have been funny enough.
16:13 But the real punchline comes later, when the boys end up at the morgue.
16:17 Kyle finds an adult magazine featuring Leanne Cartman on the cover.
16:25 Cut, game, and match.
16:43 Number 1.
16:44 "Larger Than Life."
16:46 For a film that is barely over five minutes long, it certainly has its own share of quotable
16:51 moments.
16:56 Serving as the inspiration for our number six entry, the original replaces much of the
17:01 TV-friendly dialogue for words we won't repeat here.
17:05 We get to see the first inklings of the ongoing feud between Cartman and Kyle.
17:09 Using language unfit for an eight-year-old, Kyle claims passerby's would be shocked at
17:14 how large Cartman is.
17:20 It's our number one, not just because it's funny, but because it was the first of so
17:24 many roasts the show would come to be known for.
17:35 "Larger Than Life" is available now.