Cartters

Cartters (also known as Cutters and humorously Buttman)

is the romantic pairing of Butters Stotch and Eric Cartman.

Origin
Some fans say that this ship started in the early seasons, when Butters was a minor character. In "Cartman's Silly Hate Crime 2000" (S4 E2), Butters says that "Cartman's ass is unique and magical", and besides those on the sled, he is the only one of the rest of the boys who is happy when Cartman returns from jail.The pairing has received several nods in canon from Butters' side, but not generally from Cartman, because Cartman tends not to show much affection, but even so there are several times when Cartman is concerned and affectionate with Butters. The foundation of Butters and Cartman’s relationship has largely been driven by Butters’ kind, earnest desire to listen to his problems, comfort him after his failures, help him with any scheme he suggests and allow himself to be manipulated in unspeakable ways. Butters has a willingness to believe and trust everything Eric says. ("this is literally said in Rehash" ) At the beginning of the series, Cartman, like the other boys, didn't like Butters very much. However, over time, Butters ceases to be the target of jokes, and becomes Cartman's most important ally. Full episodes revolve around the partnership of the two characters, with Butters as Cartman's right hand man, or just showing up to console him and give him advice, at times like Butters going to Eric's house or the Hospital for that, or Cartman himself going to Butters' house to let off steam. Can be said that Cartman was the only one who maintained a closer friendship with Butters, with Eric being the one who highlights Butters in most situations, while the rest of the group maintained a much more distant relationship. Butters is one of the only child characters who refers to Cartman as "Eric" which can be another sign of affection. According to the official South Park Studios website, "Gradually the two boys have developed a genuine friendship over the years and Butters’ naivete seems to have invited Cartman to trust and confide in him in ways he rarely has with the other boys." According to the official South Park Twitter account, Cartman and Butters is Matt Stone and Trey Parker's favorite duo on the show.

The duo are often used in publications celebrating best friend's day on the show's social media, and also to represent on South Park's official website the "best friends" category of episodes.

Interactions
Moments from the show fans cite as evidence of the pairing are as follows:


 * "The Cissy": Butters explains to Stan, how Cartman felt about his gender, and says "He's not a woman, he's not a man. He's something that you would never understand. But he would die for me."


 * "Tonsil Trouble": Cartman is sick with AIDS. Butters kisses Cartman on the cheek and promises he won't treat him any differently;Cartters gif (47).gif


 * "Proper Condom Use": Cartman is caught looking at Butters penis while Butters puts on his condom.


 * "Casa Bonita: After Cartman "saves him from cannibals", Butters thanks him and says, "I love you." Cartman responds by saying that he loves him too.


 * "The Return of Chef": Eric cries about Chef leaving and Butters consoles him.


 * Cartmanland: Butters is the first person that Cartman lets into his private amusement park.


 * "Crack Baby Athletic Association" Butters and Cartman work together.


 * Fatbeard: Butters is the only one who gets excited about Cartman’s idea even without knowing what it was about, and he joins Cartman, who names him vice-captain, on a trip to Somalia. They choose seats together on the plane where they have fun together and then they sit together on the bus where Butters sleeps on Cartman's shoulder. At first, they think about giving up, but Butters supports Cartman and convinces the others to continue. Butters is far more enthusiastic about Cartman's plans than the other boys.Cartters h.gif


 * "Britney's New Look": When Britney shoots himself, Butters runs off with Cartman, leaving Stan and Kyle alone.


 * "Poor and Stupid" Cartman goes to ask Butters for help and when he arrives at his house Butters is very excited to participate in another Cartman plan, he is motivated by Eric, who is fell happy to see Butters' animation. Cartman needs to get rid of his money, and chooses Butters give all your money. Butters becomes the "team leader" for Cartman, who was a "professional runner". Butters cheers him up after leaving the runners debate, and helps him record videos in which the two pretended to be prejudiced rednecks. During the race, another team member offends Cartman and Butters defends him by saying that Eric is a "champion".


 * "The Magic Bush": Cartman and Butters play with Stephen's drone, but Eric ends up inviting Kenny. An angry Butters didn't want Eric to tell anyone else about the drone. Throughout the episode, Cartman covers for Butters, and Butters reluctantly thanks him for his help at the banquet.


 * "Ass Burguers": Butters helps Cartman sell his burgers.Cartters c.gif


 * "Super Fun Time": Cartman and Butters are partners for a tour of Pioneer Village and Butters refuses to let go of Cartman's hand, because Mr. Garrison told them not to let go until they get to the bus. He keeps holding on,Even as the two sneak away from the group, Butters refuses to let go. The end up at an amusement center, where an employee thinks that they’re a couple. The two share an ice cream and a couple walks by and looks, much to Butters' annoyance with the couple.


 * "Eat, Pray, Queef": Cartman makes a joke and Butters loudly laughs at it, even after the others stop laughing.


 * "Bass to Mouth": Butters happily helps Cartman spread the news about Pete Melman, even though the other boys said it was wrong;


 * Christian Rock Hard: Cartman forms a band in order to win a platinum album and the first person he recruits is Butters.


 * "Fishsticks": Butters is very excited about Cartman's joke and as he does in other episodes, he laughs very exaggeratedly at the things Cartman talks about. Butters pulls Cartman close to help him find more people to tell the joke.


 * "It's A Jersey Thing": Cartman tells Butters that Kyle hit him and convinces Butters and other boys to arrest Kyle.


 * "Cartman Finds Love": Cartman asks Butters for help to get Token and Nichole together. Cartman puts his hand on Butters' shoulder and gives him love advice. Later, Token ends up breaking up with Nichole and Butters holds a distraught Cartman's hand and comforts him.Cartters gif (38).gif


 * "AWESOM-O": They spend a lot of time together, because Cartman discovered that Butters had a tape of him dressed as Britney Spears and making out with a cardboard cutout of Justin Timberlake. Cartman disguises himself as robot and Butters feels comfortable very quickly with him to tell his secrets, but he doesn’t say where the tape is, and Cartman remains in disguise to find out. During that time, Cartman learns a lot about Butters and never makes fun of his embarrassing secrets, nor does he ever reveal them to anyone else. Cartman has a lot of fun with Butters and is hugged by him while they're sleeping (although Butters doesn't know that the robot is Eric), and the their parents fell very happy with the close proximity of the two;


 * "Obama Wins!": Butters defends Cartman after Kyle speaks ill of him.


 * My Future Self 'n' Me: Cartman helps Butters get revenge on his parents.


 * Raisins Butters defends Cartman as the latter argues with Bebe.




 * Butters learns a lot from Eric and likes to repeat things Eric says to him, such as "Kenny Dies", where he imitates Cartman's way of talking on the phone;


 * Miss Teacher Bangs a Boy: Cartman busts Butters for not having a hall pass, but soon apologizes and asks Butters not to hold grudges. Butters is later Cartman's cameraman.


 * "Go God Go": Cartman trusts Butters to help himfreeze himself. Butters is horrified when he learns that Cartman could die and attempts to save him.Cartters gif (55).gif .  "The Ungroundable": Butters thinks he's a vampire and tries to bite Cartman's neck. Cartman thinks that he's trying to give him a hickey. The Stotches ask him if he "got gay with" Cartman and Cartman tells his mother that he thinks Butters is gay and finds him sexually attractive.


 * Proper Condom Use": Cartman gives Butters the speaker, because he trusts Butters is the best with words.  .  "Canada on Strike", show Butters and Cartman's closeness, and Butters praises Cartman for going to save Kyle in San Francisco, where Cartman entrusted his life to Butters, who depended on Butters pull him if something went wrong;


 * "Taming Strange" After Cartman explains the joke about Kyle, Butters is the only one who laughs;


 * Jewpacabra Cartman and Butters are in line together to sign up for Easter eggs, and he is the only one who really believes in Eric's "Jewpacabra" story, later Cartman goes to Butters' house and asks for his help, says he can't do it without Butters, and Butters faces his fear and helps Eric, later Butters protects Cartman with other armed boys;


 * "Eat, Pray, Queef" Cartman shows compassion for Butters after one of the girls farted in Butters' face and Butters gets home sick, Cartman visits Butters along with other boys and Cartman gives Butters a gift and participates in a statewide attempt to ban female gases, with Butters as a symbol, suggesting some affection and concern for Butters, as in the end no secret reason behind was revealed, as usually happens in relation to Cartman and other characters, as in “ kenny dies” Where after several scenes showing concern and affection for Kenny, he later revealed that he just wanted to build a pizzeria;


 * Faith Hilling During classes on the dangers of memes, Cartman and Butters choose to sit together and soon after, Butters seems concerned that Eric will continue to make memes even after the danger warnings;


 * "The Magic Bush" Butters is fiddling with the computer in his room and Cartman arrives in his room and Butters the length smiling at Eric, soon after Cartman lies on Butters bed, Cartman says that he is very bored and Butters tries to cheer him up by showing his newhobby;


 * "Pee" Cartman sings in the car and Butters is the only one who likes, and he dance to cartman music;Cartters gif (62).gif


 * "W.T.F." The professor of Olympic Fight, put Cartman and a very strange position with Butters, where he makes everyone in the class think they were doing obscene things (as if Butters have sex cartman) the boys think the teacher is a pedophile because of that, and Butters threatens to denounce the teacher for pedophilia, later Butters and Cartman set up a wrestling group with the other boys;


 * "Cartman Sucks" it is shown that Cartman invites a lot of Butters to sleep with him at night, and is taking pictures of Butters for pranks, and in one of these pranks Cartman puts Butters' penis in his mouth and takes a picture, and shows it to the other boys, but then of being criticized by the boys, Cartman comes back and tries to put his penis in Butters' mouth, but his father arrives and catches the scene, and takes Butters to the "Bissexual center", Cartman in the end showing the photo to the whole room class;


 * In Imaginationland Episode III Cartman is overjoyed and congratulates Butters for saving everyone and says he learned a lesson from him, then makes his imagination do obscene things with Kyle because of his bet, and while everyone approves of Cartman, Butters and Stan are the only ones who are horrified by the scene;


 * "Super Fun Time" Cartman tries to calm Butters by talking about his life lesson and Butters agrees with him, but the police are there because of a kidnapping and Butters thinks it's because they ran away and starts to cry, Eric feels bad and consoles Butters;


 * The two are eventually seen walking and talking together in the background in some eps, as in Douche and Turd that they are seen watching school lectures together and went to watch together debates of the new mascots;


 * Cartman most often tells things first to Butters, and in several eps like "Kenny Dies", "With Apologies to Jesse Jackson" etc, Butters is the spokesman of Cartman;


 * in "Coon vs. Coon and Friends" Cartman after being defeated is locked up in prison with Butters;


 * "Reverse Cowgirl" Cartman scoffs at what happened to Clyde, and the room doesn't find it funny, except Butters, he likes and laughs a lot despite not understanding part of the joke, "Butters is willing to laugh at anything Eric says, even without understanding";


 * In Butters' Bottom Bitch when Butters arrives to celebrate, Eric is waiting with open arms and Butters hugs him, Cartman is the only one Butters hugs, the others he just shakes hands with;


 * The Snuke Cartman jumps and breaks Butters window to stop a boy he thinks is a terrorist, even that Cartman break his window, Butters looks at Cartman and smiled and gently greets him, "some fans say that cartman implies more than usual with the islamic boy, out of jealousy because the boy was making friends with Butters;"Cartters gif (6).gif


 * In "Guitar Queer-O" Butters will give the message to the boys, but he only makes the announcement after to side with Cartman, in the episode only Cartman and Butters share the couch for most of the episode;


 * In "Kenny Dies" we see one of the first times that Butters is Cartman's right-hand man, where he helps Cartman manage his business and Butters learns Cartman trading techniques;


 * In "Guitar Queer-O" When Kyle and Stan finish the game, Cartman shyly invites Butters to play with him, who happily accepts (before that the game said that whoever finishes him is a fag);


 * "The Poor Kid" When Cartman sings"I m not the Poor Kid in Schoooool" song, Butters is the only one who is not fell angry with him and smiles at Eric;


 * "Coon" While Eric talks about his hero, Butters was one of the only ones who was paying attention to what Cartman was saying;


 * Douche and Turd Cartman defends Butters' friendship and opinion, and hugs and cheers him up, Butters fell very happy, and then help Eric with his campaign, even dress up as a Hawaiian wearing a coconut bra and dancing to win for votes for Eric;


 * Ginger Kids after Cartman is "ginger", when he gets on the bus he sits next to Butters because he believes he would be the only one who wouldn’t laugh at him because they are closest friends, but Butters ends up laughing;


 * "Margaritaville" Butters accuses Kyle of being the reason they are in that situation and, questioning why Butters thinks so, he says it was because Eric said;


 * "T.M.I" Cartman when measuring Butters penis size, is surprised and praises Butters;Cartters gif (59).gif


 * "Poor and Stupid" Butters visits Cartman at his home, Eric was upside down on the couch and Butters smiles and tries to help with his plan, then afterwards they go to the store, where Butters is covering Cartman eating medicine, later Butters pick it up and steal it for Cartman some of the remedies;


 * "Obama Wins!" Cartman only trusts Butters to tell his plan, and Butters is willing to stop at the hospital to keep Cartman's secret, but later at the hospital after being threatened by the other boys Butters ends up telling, and Cartman is very disappointed;


 * The List Butters is the only one who is excited about Cartman while explaining the plan, and when the list is revealed, Butters mocks the ugliest boy (Kyle), but not Cartman (who was the second ugliest);


 * "Ginger Cow" Cartman "assumes he was wrong" and Butters praised him for it and Cartman thanks;


 * The Ungroundable Butters felt honored to receive a mission from Cartman;


 * Ginger Kids Cartman captures all the children who are not redheads to kill them, except Butters;


 * "Woodland Critter Christmas" Kyle wants to interrupt Cartman's story, but Butters defends Cartman and protests to let him finish the story, which motivates the other boys to protest too;


 * "Jared Has Aides" when the Chef’s idea of one of the boys marrying Butters, the first person Butters looks at is Cartman, the two look at each other at the same time, and in the same ep Cartman is seen trying to offer motivational helps Butters to lose weight;


 * Quest for Ratings Cartman sets up a newspaper with Butters and the other boys, and in celebrations Cartman and Butters are seen hugging each other;Cartters even eric (16).gif


 * In The Death of Eric Cartman Butters helps Cartman to apologize to people, and in a moment Butters moved by Eric's sadness he cries at him, when Cartman apologizes for everything he did to Butters, he gets very shy and forgives him easily, and then Butters helps Cartman to pay for their sins, and together they have fun making presents and giving them away, they sing and dance together, but then it causes problems for Butters because of a misunderstanding, because Cartman was not really dead, towards the end of the episode, Butters shows concern for Cartman and shyly tells Eric to be careful, and then the two together save the hostages;


 * You Got F'd in the A Cartman was feel very happy with Butters' victory and, together with Stan, they lift him up to celebrate;


 * "Smug Alert!" show Butters and Cartman's closeness, and Butters praises Cartman for going to save Kyle in San Francisco, where Cartman entrusted his life to Butters, who depended on Butters pull him if something went wrong;


 * "Coon Professor Chaos (Butters) says Coon (Cartman) makes meetings with him just to tighten his nipples, (which is "a little weird";)


 * "Dances with Smurfs" Butters is the only one who pays attention and trusts what Cartman says in the warnings, then creates and leads a protest movement in favor of Cartman's ideas, where he wears T-shirts with Eric's face. at the end of the episode Butters is the only one who celebrates that Cartman became the new classroom representative;




 * Hell on Earth 2006, Cartman is the only one who is concerned about Butters about "being tormented by a spirit";Cartters (363).png


 * Last of the Meheecans Cartman is the only one who remembers Butters who had been forgotten in the forest;


 * "Coon 2: Hindsight", Cartman's plan to blackmail Captain Hindsight involves taking sexy photos of Butters dressed as Courtney Love. Mosquito and Mintberry Crunch find this suspicious;


 * "Cash for Gold" Cartman and Butters team up to become jewelry sellers;




 * "Cartman Sucks" after sleeping at Cartman's house, Eric goes to the house Butters the next morning and Butters is singing " help me, i think i'm fallin in love witch you ";


 * "1%" Butters agrees with Eric and creates a "99%" movement to get Eric out of those assessed on the physical exam, so the other students at the school don't fell angry at Cartman;


 * "Lice Capades" Cartman wonders what the boys would do to get rid of the charges, and Butters was not commented, feeling excluded by Cartman Butters shyly asked what Eric would think he would do;


 * "Go Fund Yourself" Cartman and Butters together with the other boys start a company, the members end up in a fight and separate, Butters stay on Cartman's side;


 * "A Nightmare on Face Time" Cartman praises Butters halloween costume;


 * "Reverse Cowgirl" Butters and Cartman apparently went to eat alone at "IHOP", and are seen together in line for the bathroom;Tumblr 30c916332b4cee4a8b6231e7d3537ef8 ad94d12a 1280.jpg


 * "The Poor Kid" Butters does advanced research to help Cartman know who the poorest child is, and ends up discovering it is Cartman, Butters tells Eric that he won't tell anyone and comforts Cartman;


 * "Truth and Advertising" While the boys investigated Jimmy, Cartman makes comments aimed only at Butters, then the boys go for ice cream and Cartman and Butters together tell a joke to the boys,then they go shopping for shoes and Cartman and Butters sit together opposite the other boys, where they have fun finishing the joke;




 * "Black Friday" Butters is on Cartman's side in choosing the video game, and is one of his closest allies who accompanies Cartman during recruitments;


 * "A Song of Ass and Fire" Butters is doing a training fight with Scott Malkinson, while Cartman sees the fight,and Butters was losing, Cartman intervenes and gives a fighting lesson, Eric hits Scott by dropping him to Butters attack, Butters smile showing that he liked it and goes and attacks Scott Malkinson, Later, Cartman takes Butters to a garden to talk to him and gives Butters a flower and Butters smells the flower, Eric asks Butters for help in defeating Kenny and asks him to go after RR Matin, (Butters is the only one of the close allies that Cartman doesn't talk about cheating on him with the other boys);


 * "World War Zimmerman" Cartman performs a singing performance with Butters who sings the background music;


 * "Let Go, Let Gov" Butters, as always, is the only one who takes what Cartman says seriously, keeps an eye on the government that is watching him, and say: "please watch over Mommy and Daddy and my friends Stan and Kyle, Craig, Token.... And even ol' Eric Cartman. I Know he can be a meanie sometimes, but please watch over him, too.", Cartman ends up failing in his plan and Butters goes to Eric home to comfort and say that Eric does not need to run away, and gives him a solution and calls he to be part of his "new religion" where he presents him together;Cartters on butters house (30).gif


 * "Butterballs" Butters is being bullied but is afraid of getting a bad name and Cartman supports his decision, and then Eric participates in an anti bullying video to help Butters, Cartman even dresses up as a girl to participate in the video;


 * "Stunning and Brave" Butters informs the boys that Cartman has been detained for 4 days and finds Eric's behavior strange for not complaining, and then joins the other boys to motivate Cartman to be himself again;Cartters (452).png


 * "Cartman's Silly Hate Crime 2000" Butters agrees with the boys that Eric's ass was not valued, Butters says that "Cartman's ass is unique and magical", and besides those on the sledge, he is the only one of the rest of the boys who is feel happy with Cartman's return from jail;


 * "Canada on Strike", Butters is seen supporting himself on Cartman to get out of the taxi;


 * "Poor and Stupid" Cartman goes to a race and Buttes helps him get in a car and supports him in the race through the "walk talk", but cartman suffers an accident and Butters feels very worried, at the hospital, Butters consoles Cartman by placing his hand on him and supports Eric's dream, Cartman says he is going to kill himself and Butters scolds him and says "Eric! Never talk like that!", after a long time insisting and cheer Cartman, Butters finally succeeds and opens a big smile when he sees Cartman getting determined again;


 * "Truth and Advertising" Cartman and Butters investigating together about Jimmy, and they are going to tell the other boys together what they discovered;


 * "Fishsticks", in the perfect imaginary world of cartman, Butters is the first to notice and comment on his incredible accomplishments, according to fans possibly showing that he cares what Butters thinks of him, and in the second version of Cartman’s perfect imaginary world, Butters asks for Cartman's help and is very happy to have been saved by Cartman, possibly showing that Cartman likes that Butters needs him;


 * "Truth and Advertising" Stan and Kyle are fighting and Butters encourages the fight and Cartman says he is "loving this",and Eric and Butters watch the fight between the two smiling together;


 * In most episodes, Butters sits next to Cartman in the classroom, even when they go to different classrooms, as in Faith Hilling;


 * Butters always supports for cartman in fights, as in "With Apologies to Jesse Jackson", "Breast Cancer Show Ever", "Doubling Down" etc;Cartters butters cry.png


 * "Le Petit Tourette" Butters feel happy to see Cartman in the bathroom, Cartman asks Butters for advice and accidentally telling Butters that he and his cousin once made "sausages touched", and Butters seems very curious about it;


 * "Grounded Vindaloop" inside Stan's head, in his virtual reality, he imagines that Cartman and Butters would be "playing together", and Butters boasts to the other boys, because he was playing and keeping a secret with Cartman, showing how Stan sees Cartman's relationship and Butters;


 * "Raising the Bar" While the boys speak ill of Cartman, Butters is the only one who feels sorry for Cartman;


 * "Sarcastaball" the boys are felling sad because they don't have a coach, but Cartman says "who needs one? we have Butters" and praises him for being the best in the game, the other day cartman goes to Butters' house and asks to enter, which he usually no does, and Butters looks at he very happily and says "sure, Eric", and Cartman get your feelings out to Butters and Butters comforts him and tries to help him by giving him "goo" (sperm) and Cartman ends up drinking Butters' sperm, and then Butters changes Eric's way, making him a good and more positive person;


 * "T.M.I" Cartman feel very angry and complaining to the boys, who don't react, except Butters who greets him and smiled sweetly at Eric;


 * "Ginger Cow" We can see one more example of how the personality of one influences the other, in this case when Kyle was called to the principal's office, Cartman says nothing, and it is Butters who implies and makes fun of Kyle;


 * "Member Berries" cartman looks scared and Butters is the only one who is very concerned about him and asks what happened;


 * "The Cissy" Butters confronts Stan because he allegedly "harassed Cartman" and was intolerant of "Eric", Butters curses him and later forbids him from using the bathroom;Tumblr 5251a68fb391a8f64bfe19c976262737 e493efc4 500.gif


 * "Skank Hunt", the boys fear the girls and under the influence of Stan, Kyle, Clyde and Craig decide to destroy Eric's things because they think he's cursing people on the internet, and in "Wieners Out" Butters gets tired of the ideas of Kyle blames him and the girls for what happened to Cartman, Butters uses what he learned from Cartman and makes a speech to "manipulate the boys" and starts a movement against the girls, Kyle then asks Eric for help saying that Cartman is the only one who can stop Butters, but Cartman refuses to do anything against Butters, because "Eric is now a changed person" But Butters doesn't like Cartman has changed and feel very angry and disappointed with him (in Oh, Jeez) he also looks fell very angry with Eric's girlfriend and calls her a "bitch" several times, and Butters says that Cartman has become the girlfriend's toy, "Oh God, listen to you, you've changed, Eric, you've really changed"; showing that Butters likes Cartman the way he is, and doesn't want him to change, (in "Stunning and Brave" " we see Butters celebrate the return of the "old cartman" with a bounce of joy). Butters pretends to have changed too and joins Cartman "on the trip to Mars", but there he talks to Cartman and ends up pitting Eric against Heidi, Butters fills Eric's head with ideas against Heidi, saying that Cartman gett duped, and Eric lets himself be manipulated by him, Cartman asks Butters what he should do and, in the end, Butters influencing Cartman makes back to being the old "bad" cartman and consequently leads Eric to break up with Heidi later.Ih.png


 * "The End of Serialization as We Know It" Cartman easily believed everything Butters told him about women and Heidi, and Cartman says he saw the future and Butters easily believes in him too and the two come together to convert more people,(in fact, Eric dreamed of what happened, where Cartman dreamed of "Butters talking to him") and the two support each other to convince more people, Cartman ends up confused and asks what he should do and asks Butters for advice, Kyle calls Butters, and Butters feel angrily at Kyle for getting in the way of him and Eric. Later they start a plan together to destroy the place and they succeed, then we see that Eric no longer feels what he felt for Heide because of the things Butters said to him;


 * "Fort Collins" Cartman doesn't like a movie and the first thing he does is send an email to Butters, telling him what he thought of the movie;


 * "Stunning and Brave" CCartman asks for Butters' underpants and Butters delivers his underwear very happily, being the only one not to be surprised by the order, after, Cartman tries to intimidate the "Main PC" with Butters' underpants, and Eric smells of Butters' underpants and says that recognizes Butters' underwear by the smell, Cartman ends up being beaten and ends up in the hospital, and while Cartman had nightmares he wakes up scared calling Butters name, and Butters was there holding Eric's hands and says "i'm here, Eric", when seeing that Butters was there, Cartman is reassured, Butters stayed at the hospital caring Eric, Cartman started talking to Butters about how he felt, and Butters comforts him, but then Butters manages to cheer up Cartman, who decides to go back and make one of his big plans with Butters as his ally, and Butters fell very happy with the return of Cartman and takes a leap of happiness;Cartters canon.gif


 * "Put It Down" Butters seems to be the only one who is "upset" because Heidi and Eric are dating again, and asks "why did you take her back";


 * "You're Not Yelping" Cartman takes advantage of his privileges as a gastronomic appraiser to get a special snack for Butters, and Butters fell very happy with the gift;


 * "PC Principal Final Justice" Cartman does a pose on the side of Butters, and Cartman ask "do i look sweet, Butters?" and Butters answers "Yes" smiling to Eric; later, we can see that Cartman and Butters are together watching the Gun Show (and next to Cartman were also Token and Kenny);


 * "Holiday Special" Cartman talks about a movie and Butters is the only one who likes the movie too and smiles saying "I love that movie!" for Eric;


 * "Informative Murder Porn" Butters is crying at school and Cartman is comforting Butters;


 * "Hummels & Heroin" Cartman and Butters play video games together while the other boys watch, after Stan wants the boys to help him, but Butters, Cartman and Kyle refuse, so Butters only agrees to help when Cartman takes the initiative and creates a plan;


 * "South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut" Cartman asks "who wants to touch me" and Butters is the only boy who goes and touches him, and keeps passing the hand on hand of cartman's hand, later when the kids sing with Mr Mackey, The two were sitting together, they look at each other and smile at each other while they sing;


 * "Super Hard PCness" When Cartman fights Heidi, Butters is the only boy who seems to be rooting for Cartman, the others wanted to see Eric being beaten;Cartters (103).jpg


 * "Sons a Witches" the boys are talking at the table and Cartman ignores the boys, but Butters insists on talking to him and asks for his opinion on what Cartman thinks the boys should do, and Cartman undoes his evil face to hear him, and with an evil- understood Cartman ends up understanding that Butters is claiming that Eric should get rid of Heide, and Cartman ends up agreeing with Butters' idea, later the boys are trying to think of something, and Cartman comes up with a plan. Butters, excited, says "I knew Eric would come up with a plan!";


 * "Rehash" Butters but once is the only one who agrees with Eric and defends Eric in front of Mr. Garrison, Cartman then says "Butters will support me in anything" and ends up saying that Butters is his bitch, and Butters smile and agrees that he is bitch of Eric;


 * "Dead Kids" Butters is being the hall monitor and is very scared, but when he is called and sees that it is Eric he fell very happy, and Cartman says he needs his help, and Butters agrees to help him and offers to help Cartman study, then a school shootout takes place and Butters defends Cartman


 * "A Boy and a Priest" Cartman defends Butters, because Clyde was angry at Butters for bringing the priest;


 * "Tegridy Farms" Cartman and Butters are together selling "vape" to the kids, and Kyle ends up finding out and Butters and Eric trying to reason with him, but Kyle is not convinced and says "" you're such penises", the two manage to convince him later, Eric and Butters at the table with the other boys, initiate a dialogue between them to try together to convince the other boys to use Vaper, so Kyle tries to help the two who owe money, but Butters and Eric make a plan between them and carry a body to try to frame the dealer, and while Cartman called the police Butters hit the dealer, then Cartman and Butters are seen together talking to Mr. Mackey about "about some college opportunities" and Kyle arrives and Cartman and Butters again try to convince him, and then they will together destroy the vape factory, but Kyle ends up handing Cartman and Butters to Stan dad;Cartters (322).png


 * "The Scoots" Butters is in the classroom, looking mean to everyone, but he and Cartman suddenly look at each other, and Butters immediately smiles after looking at Eric and fell very happy;


 * "Band in China" Butters fell happy to see Cartman returning from migrant detention camp, later Cartman agrees with Butters about supporting Stan against China;


 * they're neighbors, you can see, when showing their houses in different angles, or realize by some things that they speak, but it is much more noticeable in games "The Fractured But Whole" and "Stick of Truth";


 * "Shots!!!" Cartman only tells Butters about being banned from school, and Butters says Eric called and told about how he felt;


 * "Season Finale" The boys are playing football together, and Cartman is swearing and the other boys are all bothered by Eric taking time, except Butters, he is smiling at Cartman, later at "Randy's prison party" the two are playing together with Stan running around the house, "the Whites" arrive and make a speech, and Butters laments to Eric, and Eric agrees with Butters, and is saddened by what Butters said, decides to help "the whites";Cartters gif (33).gif


 * "Board Girls" Butters is next to Cartman playing with other table rpg boys, but they are hindered by thegirls, and Butters goes with Cartman to complain to Mr. Mackey and the two together try to argue with him, Scott Malkinson accompanies them, at cafeteria Butters and Eric complain together about the girls, then Cartman and Butters have an idea of playing violent games but without math and they are fell very happy with the idea together and look at each other smiling, then they are playing together again with other boys, but their plan goes wrong, and the two together with Scott, went to a court to give a speech to stop the girls, Butters in the middle of the speech ends up embarrassed Eric and Cartman just looks at Butters and Butters already realizes that he wavered;


 * "Let Them Eat Goo" Butters and Eric are together in the cafeteria line and sing and dance to a song they did to celebrate "Sloopy Joe Day", which is Eric's favorite day, Butters says it's his favorite day too, and the two stop and start to dancing again and singing together, very happy, but the school changed the food, and Cartman and Butters are very disappointed, and furious fight with the girls, Butters realizes that Eric is getting nervous and feels worried about him, Butters tries to calm him down saying that everything is fine and placing your hand on Eric's shoulder. Cartman starts to feel bad and Butters is very worried about him, Eric passes out and is taken to the hospital, when Cartman goes back to school, gets in a wheelchair, and Butters takes care of Eric and pushes him in the wheelchair, Butters says "Get started! Make way!" while pushing Cartman through the school, then other protesters confront Eric but Butters tells Mr Mackey stop them;Cartters butters falando que odei mentir para eric.gif


 * "Let Them Eat Goo" Wendy starts a speech away in the cafeteria and Cartman gets fell angry again and goes to bicker with Wendy, and Butters runs and tries calm him and reassure Eric several times, and gets very worried about Eric, Cartman asks Butters for help "don't let me die Butters" and Butters starts screaming for help from other people, Cartman falls and Butters tries to hold him in his arms, when Cartman returns from the hospital, the school tries to trick Cartman with "fake meat", but Butters fell really bad about lying to Eric, and Butters ends up telling the truth, "Eric, I .... I just hate lying to you", and takes Cartman to the origin for the new flesh, and Butter fell very concerned about Cartman's reaction, but Cartman is not fell angry and apologizes to everyone;


 * "Let Them Eat Goo" In this ep we can see that Cartman and Butters have a special dance and music between them for each day of the week, that they always dance and sing together in the cafeteria, which surprises Eric when Butters seems not very excited, because of that Cartman feel worried about him, and asks Butters if something is going on, and Butters says he is sad to be hiding something from Eric, "because he hates lying to Eric";5mJL08nw6iUszXWQvM.gif


 * "Basic Cable" Scott Malkinson asks Cartman for help with a girl, and Cartman tells Scott the same thing Butters said to Cartman in "The End of Serialization as We Know It" ;


 * "Apecial Pandemic", Cartman is the only one who supports Stan with the idea of helping Butters, to get things "back to normal", Stan was holding Butters, but Cartman withdraws Stan, so he can hold Butters.;


 * "Special Vaccination" Cartman to defend Butters, Cartman confronts Butters' father and threatens him (in promotional scenes) Cartman makes a joke with the teacher that most of the class doesn't like, but when the boys pass in front of Butters house, Cartman tells him what happened and Butters finds it very funny;



Stick of Truth

 * Cartman is the Wizard King, and his closest ally is Butters (paladin), at the beginning of the game Butters will introduce Eric to the "new boy", and Butters upon seeing Eric greets him saying "all hail the Grand Wizard!";


 * Butters fights elves who were trying to steal the "stick of truth" and injured he runs after Eric, and Cartman protects him;


 * Cartman was the one who taught Butters to fight, and Cartman says he had to be very patient for teaching Butters;Cartters lauch.gif


 * In Giggling Donkey Cartman is captured and injured, Butters heals his "wounds" and comforts him, holding Cartman in his arms;


 * At the "Human and Elf meeting", Cartman in the middle of the meeting, makes jokes for Butters, and the two laugh together, Stan gets angry and attacks Cartman, but Butters defends Cartman and attacks Stan, and helps Eric to argue with the Elves, and Cartman thanks "Yeah, you-you tell 'em, Butters";Cartters medicine.gif


 * Butters sees Cartman's wardrobe, and there are things like the robot costume that Cartman wore when he spent several days "being Butters' best robot friend" Butters seeing eric's things praises them "wow, Eric has a lot of cool stuff";


 * In Butters' closet we can see that he keeps the statue he made of Eric in the episode "Casa Bonita";


 * Butters is losing the fight against an Elf and Cartman feel worried and says "you are losing Butters, stop losing" but butters responds "I don't want them to feel bad";


 * Butters often leaves the character and ends up saying "twitter" instead of "messenger crow", at first Cartman gets angry, but later then he becomes tolerant, and just kindly corrects him;

The Fractured But Whole



 * In combat when Coon is falls in the fight, Butters thinks Cartman is cute and says: "Aww, the Coon looks like a sleepy kitten."


 * Butters, seeing Cartman's attacks, praises "" You hit like my grandma. "Although Cartman doesn't understand;Cartters cat 2.jpg


 * When Butters defeats an enemy, Cartman praises him "Savor my begrudging respect, old nemesis" and Butters is very happy with the compliment " Oh boy, begrudging respect! That's the nicest thing you've ever said to me."Cartters (2).jpg


 * looking at Cartman's closet, we see that he keeps a bottle of Butters' semen;


 * Cartman has a secret notebook featuring various drawings of Butters involved in sexual acts;


 * In a fight Cartman is concerned that Butters will use all his power and run out of: " Don't blow all your Chaos in one load, Professor! "and Butters replies "Don't worry. Lots more Chaos where that came from!"


 * Cartman notices Butters' speeches during the fights and answers them, which results in moments like these:

Butters: " Muwahahaha !! Remember this day, for it is the day you die! " Cartman: "How can they remember it if they're dead?"

Butters: "They ... uh ... Oh darnit."


 * Butters praises Cartman in the fights but calls him a temporary ally, "very well my temporary ally", but while Cartman gives something to Butters in the battle, he asks Butters to remain his ally "Stay with us, professor"Cartters fight game.gif


 * When the boys accuse Cartman of kidnapping the parents of the "new kid", everyone gets angry at Eric except Butters, who still believes in his innocence;


 * When Cartman is captured and tortured, Butters is the only one who is saddened by the situation


 * In the fight against Mitch/Eric, Butters defends Cartman's innocence "Maybe Mitch Conner really has taken the Coon captire" and Cartman says "See? Professor Chaos gets it."


 * When Butters is grounded with the "new Kid", Butters plays a song that Cartman invented in the episode "Jakovassaurs";

Deleted Scenes

 * “You have 0 friends” Kyle confronts Butters because he is no longer his friend on Facebook, Butters says he watches Cartman's Podcast and following Cartman's advice, he is no longer Kyle's friend on Facebook;Cartters (671).png


 * "The End of Serialization as We Know It" ;Cartman dreams that Butters is with him and Heidi in space, but in Cartman's dream Butters has a giant penis, Butters says it's because of the gravity regulator, and Butters offers to regulate Cartman's regulator to leave him with a giant penis as well;


 * "Reverse Cowgirl" the boys are making a joke to cheer up Clyde, and when it comes to Butters' turn he makes an “insensitive joke”, and looks at Eric to see if he would laugh at his joke (or looked at Eric waiting for his approval), but Eric sees it wasn't the time for that, and Butters feels bad too;


 * “naughty ninjas” cartman sits next to the Butters on the couch and puts his hand on Butters' shoulder, and tells him how he think cool ninjas, waiting for Butters to confirm;Cartters (667).png


 * "The Tale of Scrotie McBoogerballs" The boys are writing something and each has to make jokes, Butters is laughing a lot, feeling very happy with the idea of Eric, Cartman says super excited that it is Butters' turn, but Butters only responds "rainbow" and no one laughs, Cartman trying to alleviate the situation turns to Ike, that makes a good joke and everyone laughs again.

Toxic/abusive?
Cartters is 100% healthy?

We have to keep in mind the evolution of their relationship, remembering how the situation was at the beginning of the series where all the boys, Kyle, Stan, Kenny, Cartman, etc. They ignored, mistreated and used Butters as a guinea pig for fun, this was undoubtedly something extremely toxic, but over the seasons the evolution of the characters and the relationships between them, especially in relation to Eric and Butters, who are currently best friends a from the other.

Regarding Butters, there is nothing toxic in how he sees Cartman, the respect and admiration he has for Eric is evident, Butters likes to be with Cartman and to support everything Eric does, as he says himself, in the ep "Rehash";

The really controversial issue is Eric, does he act healthily towards Butters? not 100%, although he treats Butters pretty well these days compared to how he treats most people, (Eric trusts him blindly, protects him in some situations, it's Eric's safe harbor etc.) But we're talking about South Park and Eric Cartman, we still have situations where Eric loses patience with Butters talking too much and looks at him with an angry look, repressing him, so that's a toxic attitude he still has between them;

But it's probably never going to change 100%, because it's part of the mood of the show, and all of South Park's relationships are full of problems and toxic stuff. Part of Fandom thinks such complaints about toxicity in South Park, in a show where giant toxic things happen all the time like humor and social criticism, are unnecessary.

Although their relationship is much healthier these days, we can see how Eric treats Butters these days and things he does for Butters, things Eric has never done for another character, which are listed on the wiki, but giving some examples we have: when Butters asks for Cartman a special snack and Eric finds a way to get and give Butters to please him (ep You're Not Yelping), at another point Eric sees Butters is feeling sad and asks if it's okay if anything happened, Eric became concerned for Butters when he realized he wasn't so excited about the daily dancing and singing that the two sang together every day (ep "Let Them Eat Goo") Eric expresses to Butters all his feelings by asking Butters for advice, which Eric takes seriously (You're Not Yelping), etc.

In short, It is undeniable how the relationship is very healthy in several points, but not 100% healthy, it has its problems, Cartman is still in a dominant relationship over Butters (although Butters demonstrates and says he likes it). But Eric acts much healthier with Butters with each passing season. Never quite the same Cartman from "Pretty House" and "Awesome-o", their relationship is going on a pretty good path of steady evolution, but apparently there's no permanent change over Eric's domination domination, Eric's already happened to try to become 100% healthy with Butters and everyone else, but Butters didn't like it one bit, Butters felt very angry and disappointed with Cartman (s 20 ep 7 - Oh, Jeez) and in "Stunning and Brave" " we see Butters celebrate the return of the "old cartman" with a bounce of joy, and later Butters convinced the return of the "old Cartman" at the end of season 20;

Not being able to confuse their relationship with the cliché of Mimsy and Nathan's relationship, Butters is not stupid, he doesn't easily believe the words of other boys, as already said he submits to everything Eric says because he likes

Fatphobia
A lot of people just hate the shipp because Cartman is fat and "Butters wouldn’t be okay with fat boy", and they simply prefer "skinny pretty" couples, this is clearly a very sad thing, showing the problems of fatphobia, we get to see many (even among those who ship the couple) drawing Cartman in lean versions or much less fat than what is actually shown in the series;

Sexual Preference
this is one of the few Slash shipps from South Park that the sexual orientation of the two characters combine, but Eric and Butters are confirmed or hinted as Bisexual at various times in the universe of the series, as in "Le Petit Tourette" Cartman without wanting to tell Butters that made out with his cousin, and in "Tweek x Craig" Eric is confused by his sexuality and masturbates imagining being in gay sex; In "Awesom-O", Cartman was videotaped making out with a Justin Timberlake cutout, etc. Butters in episodes like "Cartman Sucks" he is suggested as bisexual (bi-curious) after being caught by his father, nearly putting Eric's penis in his mouth, then at the end of the episode he declares himself "bi-curious" although he doesn't seem to understand what he's saying, and in "The F Word" he is also suggested as bisexual, where he joins the "fags" movement and declares himself a "Bike-curious", the official South Park account makes jokes about this game of words.

, In "The Stick of Truth" Butters flirts with the new boy (your character in the game)