"The Death of Eric Cartman" is the sixth episode in the ninth season of the American animated television series South Park. The 131st episode overall, it originally aired on Comedy Central in the United States on April 13, 2005. In the episode, the other boys begin ignoring Cartman, leading to him concluding that he must be a ghost. Cartman tries to get into heaven by doing "good deeds", but fails in the end. Plot Cartman, Kyle, Stan and Kenny wait at Stan's house for Stan's mom to come home with Kentucky Fried Chicken for dinner. When she arrives, the boys help her unload her groceries, but Cartman remains behind, eats all the chicken skins, and goes home to sit on the toilet and read comic books, making Kenny cry. Enraged, Stan, Kyle, and Kenny decide Cartman has finally crossed the line and start to ignore him. The other kids in their class go along. Cartman’s mother has a new toilet installed after Cartman destroys it with his chicken skin defecations. Cartman mistakenly believes that the toilet is his body. Cartman, unable to conceive that anyone would ignore him, thinks he has died and become a ghost. He goes home and hears his mother cry, and believes that she is crying over his death. However, she is actually having sex with the plumber. Butters, however, is not privy to the plan and greets Cartman as he passes by in a state of despair. Cartman convinces Butters that he is a ghost, terrifying him. Cartman threatens to haunt Butters unless he helps his soul achieve peace. Cartman first has Butters apologize to everyone on his behalf, which fails to impress his ex-friends but gets his mother crying. Cartman makes emotional goodbyes to Butters, believing that he will now be permitted to go to Heaven. When this fails, Butters suggests he might need to atone for all the terrible things he has done. Cartman draws up a long list and delivers gift baskets to all his victims, including Sally Struthers, Scott Tenorman, and Kyle's synagogue. When this, too, fails, Cartman destroys Butters' room with a baseball bat and leaves Butter's house before his parents turn up. A doctor is called and decides that Butters might suffer from a deep trauma. To make sure, Butters is taken to a mental institution and subjected to a series of tests (one of which includes a violent