8. Poor and Stupid
🎞️ S14 E8 🚫 Hard pass

South Park

Is South Park S14 E8 OK for kids?

8. Poor and Stupid

Cartman's dream to become a NASCAR driver comes true, with Butters as his pit boss.

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Netflix, HBO or Disney+ — catalogs differ by country.

🛒 Where to buy

Digital seasons or a box set to keep.

Content guide

👊 Violence
💋 Sex
🙊 Language
⭐ Overall

Heavy — skip for under 16

South Park S14 E8, “8. Poor and Stupid”, scores 2/5 for violence, 4/5 for sex and 5/5 for language, for an overall kid-rating of 5/5 — Heavy — skip for under 16. Cartman's dream to become a NASCAR driver comes true, with Butters as his pit boss.

Across the episode we counted 18 flagged moments in 5 themes: Nudity & bodies (2); Violence & injury (2); Suicide & self-harm (1); Swearing (12); Racism & slurs (1). Every moment below is either a direct quote from the episode transcript or a short description of what happens on screen, so you can decide before you press play.

Watch for — every moment, theme by theme

Nudity & bodies 2 moments

How Nudity & bodies shows up in South Park S14 E8:

  • Explicit body / sex-act language appears in dialogue.
  • Her vagina, on the other hand, clears the room and makes it uninhabitable for weeks.

Violence & injury 2 moments

How Violence & injury shows up in South Park S14 E8:

  • I'm getting all the blood to rush to my head and watching a marathon of "Two and a Half Men.
  • You can't bring a sniper rifle onto the track.

Suicide & self-harm 1 moment

How Suicide & self-harm shows up in South Park S14 E8:

  • Don't you get it, Butters? It's never going to happen for me! Those people are way more poor and stupid than I'll ever be! I might as well kill myself.

Swearing 12 moments

How Swearing shows up in South Park S14 E8:

  • Fucking gross! All those ladies have stinky vaginas? If you develop an allergic reaction, see your doctor.
  • Let's go Nascar! It looks like Dale Evans' car is going the wrong way! Cool, Nascar! Sweeet! Oh fuck my ass! Eric? All that work, all the effort I put in, I still wasn't poor and stupid enough to win.
  • Oh that fucking asshole! Oh hey, Kenny! Dude, what the fucking are doing.
  • …no payments for two years! That's how you people stay poor forever! Am I right? That's it, right? Dude, fuck you!
  • Hey Eric! - Ah, Butters! Did you give away all my money? You don't have a penny left! You're poor as shit.
  • We both love Nascar and we're both poor as shit.
  • …sometimes! Can we just get back to the subject of racing, please? Oho, bring it aw-n Danica, you dumb bitch.
  • God damn it, Butters! All right, just just keep a lookout.
  • All right, what's up Nascar fans? I don't know about ya'll but this President Obama is pissin' me off.
  • So I'm pretty pissed off at what I found out.
  • Pisses me off.
  • Obama's gay as hell! Well, if you ask me, that's all the proof we need that Nascar really is just for the poor and the stupid.

Racism & slurs 1 moment

How Racism & slurs shows up in South Park S14 E8:

  • People who weren't sure what to think of Nascar are more sure today after a Nascar driver released bigoted and ignorant statements on his podcast.

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