Up the Down Steroid
Up the Down Steroid is an episode of the television series South Park. It was first broadcast on March 24, 2004. It was originally episode 8.02, however was moved in the episode order to 8.03 prior to the airing of AWESOM-O.
Timmy and Jimmy, two disabled children, are due to star in the Special Olympics in the town of South Park.
Eric Cartman decides to enter, with the hope that he can fake being disabled and beat all the handicapped children in the events.
To pretend to be handicapped, Cartman undergoes a rigerous training regime of sitting on the Special Education bus whilst taking notes of how "retards" act, cutting his hair badly, modifying his shoes so it looks like he has a club foot and putting on a bycicle helmet too tight so his face is badly deformed.
Cartman's plan works, at least to a point. He gets into the Special Olympics but he fails to win any events because, even though he is obviously not handicapped (apart from being obese), he is still unable to beat the handicapped children in the various events.
Meanwhile, Jimmy – the boy with the stutter who is on crutches – takes steroids and ends up being very violent to the point of attacking his girlfriend and his mother (with Adagio for Strings playing as the atmospheric soundtrack as he loses his mind.) Jimmy's training partner and best friend Timmy frowns on Jimmy's behaviour, but being unable to say any words other than Timmay!!, he is not in a position to fully explain the situation to his teachers.
Cartman eventually comes last in the Special Olympics. Jimmy learns his lesson, namely that taking steroids is cheating, on a par with pretending to be "retarded" in order to participate in the Special Olympics, as Cartman did.
Throughout the episode, Kyle Broflovski tries to talk Eric Cartman out of his plans. Kyle hates Cartman and has always seen him as a thoroughly ruthless boy, but Kyle see's Cartman's plans as so horrible that he seriously worries that Cartman will go to hell for his antics in this episode. Cartman doesn't pay Kyle any attention, believing that Kyle is not in a position to preach morality because he is Jewish.
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| Preceded by: AWESOM-O | South Park episodes | Followed by: The Passion of the Jew |
Categories: South Park episodes