The Cartman Story: Psychology analysis and background

This page is dedicated to Liane Cartman and Eric Cartman of South Park, their backrgound story and how they became the people they are.

The Life of Liane Cartman
Liane Cartman was born on February 12, 1963 in Beaverton, Oregon to Harold Cartman and Madelyn "Mabel" Ryland. Liane's parents divorced while she was an embryo, and Mabel took custody of the girls, so Liane only had her sister Pearl. From a young age, Liane always had an impulse to scratch her private area when around people, particularly around boys. She initially thought herself as straight, until her teenage years when she learned that she was attracted to everyone. When she was six, one of her clasmates started a kissing company, which Liane joined early and was one of the most dedicated members. The kissing company went out of bussiness a few months later. In between her third and fourth grade years, Liane joined a street gang called "The Punky Bruisers", a group of young folks ranging from the age of 7-21 who were low-level thugs. Liane's mother, who was often at work, was not aware of this until Liane was an adult. Pearl was also not aware of this, as Liane convinced her that she got a job for a fourth grade girl. As one of the younger members, Liane did some of the more simple errands like picking up drugs or selling them, stealing items, and did cleaning around the lair. When Liane was fourteen she had her first taste of alcohol and smoked for the first time, this would soon become an addiction. She also saved her money from the time she spent in the gang, and by the time Liane was seventeen, she had at least $3,000.

As Liane had become an adolescent, her sex drive became even stronger, and she lost of virginity when she was thirty. Her lover was a boy named Phineas Goldstein. Liane gave birth to her first child, a son named Elijah "EJ" Goldstein, in the beginning of her freshman year of high school, on September 7, 1977. She later gave birth to triplets, two boys and a girl right before her last day, their names are Johnathan, Nathan, and Jessie, born June 18, 1978. Liane broke up with Phineas while they were in their junior year. Liane's mother disapproved of her sexual activity, but remained supportive of her anyway. While on winter break in her senior year, Liane gave birth to quadruplets, Hudson, Jacob, Bishop, and Griffin, born December 23, 1980, their father was John Esposito, who was Italian. Following her high school graduation, Liane departed from the Punky Bruisers and attended University of Washington, taking her children with her. Liane kept her sex drive mostly under control while in college, but she did have a fling once, which resulted in a daughter being born, her name is Marie Johnson, fathered by Marcus Johnson. She was born October 16, 1984. She graduated with a degree in anthropology in 1985. After graduation, Liane moved to South Park, Colorado, where she became a prostitue. Liane's main attire was a black tank top, tight blue jeans, her hair was let down, and she did not wear lipstick. She rented an apartment with one bedroom. Liane also proceeded to have more children, septuplets Addison, Madison, Amanda, Miranda, Alvaro, Apollo, and Adonis, born January 15, 1986, to strip club owner Joseph Walters, later that year she had an affair with Italian mob boss Giovanni D'Alessandro, they had one one, Giovanni D'Alessandro Jr, born December 15, 1986. At a Christmas party, a couple weeks after Giovanni's birth, Liane met Jack Tenorman, they quickly began a relationship. Jack fathered octuplets, Blaise, Julien, Paola, Amiah, Cathleen, Sheri, Zosia, and Africa (they are all background sixth graders) they were born prematurely, on August 30, 1987. Jack visited Liane almost every day and would often show up with lavish gifts. Jack made it a point not to stay the night though, as he was married and had a son. Liane has also been dubbed as "Mouse Woman" and "Rabbit Girl" by some porn magazines because of how many children she has birthed at once and how quickly she can get impregnated after recently giving birth.

Several months prior to the Drunken Barn Dance, Liane attended a cocktail party in Conifer around Thanksgiving, 1987. Nearly the entire town of South Park was there. As usual, Liane would go on to have sex with a majority of the attendees, but she had penetrative sex with Randy Marsh, Gerald Broflovski, Stephen Stotch, and Dr. Alphonse Mephesto. It was then when Liane discovered that she was pregnant with a remarkable amount of children, 16 to be exact, eight boys and eight girls. Their names are Luis, Luigina, Absko, Louise, Mason, Phineas, Isabetta, Verona, Rachel, Alya, Leon, Aleph, Simona, Thomasina, Blaze, and Angelo. Randy fathered Absko, Mason, Isabetta, and Thomasina, Gerald fathered Rachel and Alya, Stephen fathered Luis, Luigina, Louise, Leon, Simona, and Blaze, and Dr. Mephesto fathered the rest of them. They were born on September 4, 1988. The Drunken Barn Dance occured in October 1988. Liane had sex with Jack, who she already knew, and Jack's cousins another Denver Broncos member. A paternity test later confirmed that Eric is the only boy that Jack fathered, while Drew fathered the rest of the boys, Jack is also the father of the three girls. Jack was aware of the pregnancy, but was having a good year so he could not afford to spend time with his infant children. On October 11, 1990, Liane gave birth to sextuplets, their names are Gwen, Ruby, Max, Dylan, Evangeline, and Lucas. Liane also voluntered to be a surrogate for two gay couples, and both couples wanted four children. Liane did not really care about helping them out, but was more interested in the money. Via IVF, Liane was impregnated, with eight babies, girls, Ariana, Briana, Bernice, and Denise were fathered by the first couple, while boys, Leonardo, Raphael, Donatello, and Michelangelo were fathered by the second couple. They were given to their respective fathers.

All the while Liane was giving birth, she was still a prostitute and dominatrix, she would sometimes exploit her own children, particularly the girls to participate in some of her sexual activities, though she would occasionally do this to some of the boys as well. Liane would also frequently bring home men from her job while they would have sex and do drugs together. The men and sometimes Liane herself, would physically abuse the kids and make them dance for them while they dress in something random. This did not go unnoticed by child protective services, and shortly before Eric began kindergarten, the Department of Children and Family Services (DCFS) and a search warrant by the police was issued on Liane's apartment. Given a heads up about the impending search, Liane hid all the evidence and made her children wear long-sleeved shirts and long pants. The police did not find anything. The abuse continued, until Eric was in first grade when he told Principal Victoria of all the abuse and torture he and his siblings were facing. Victoria called the police, and yet another warrant was issued. This time, they did find evidence, drugs, broken glass, and sex toys were everywhere, and they even found two men sleeping in a closet in their underwear. Physical examinations on the children showed, black eyes, cigarette burns on their arms and neck, as well as multiple cuts and bruises coherent with physical beatings. Two of Liane's associates later admitted that they did indeed torture and beat the children with cigarettes and hit them with belts and electrical cords, as well as burn them with a tea kettle. Liane and her associates were arrested and the DCFS removed the children from the home, where they would be placed with various different families throughout South Park. Eric chose to stay with his friend Stan. Eric actually lost weight, while living with the Marsh family. About a year later, Liane was bailed out of jail by one of her old colleagues from the Punky Bruisers, and she was given $400,000 so she could buy a new house. Liane continued her work where she left off, and heard through the grapevine that all of her children were happy with their new families. Liane and Stan's mom Sharon, who are cousins, attended a funeral of one their cousins in December 1996. Liane asked Sharon about Eric, and Sharon informed her that he was in good hands. Liane then asked Sharon if she could have Eric back, but Sharon vehemently denied, being aware of all the abuse that Eric had sustained, and fearing for his safety Sharon assumed that Liane would just continue her work. After being refused to be given her son back, Liane went to the authorities to inform them about how Sharon was "kidnapping her son". The police actually did not do anything and were on Sharon's side, it was not until Liane baked them all cookies and offered to give them lap dances they complied, and the Marsh family were given a cease and desist order to give up Eric. Randy and Sharon hesistantly obeyed. Eric was given back to Liane and just as Sharon predicted, Liane had just gone back to where she left off, but this time in a bigger house.

The fact that Liane had all her children taken away from her, and the fact that she did not have many friends besides her street grang group, made her feel lonely and her words it caused her to spoil her son rotten. She also had strong urges to masturbate when around people, which eventually grew stronger as she got older, which explains her sex drive. And also, how she had her first taste of coccaine and marijuana when she was ten, and her first taste of alcohol and smoked for the frist time when she was fourteen, explaining her other addictions.

Eric Cartman's story
Eric Cartman was born on July 1, 1989 to Jack Tenorman and Liane Cartman in South Park, Colorado. He spent his early years in a one-bedroom apartment with many other siblings. Eric's biological father was present in his life when he was a toddler, but he is too young to remember that. He was also given stuffed animals from him, which Eric grew very fond of. Eric slept in various different places in the small apartment, sometimes he slept in the bed with Liane, using her butt, belly, or arm as a pillow depending on what position she was sleeping in, other times he would sleep on the floor, a drawer, or even sometimes the bathroom. Eric's mother brought many strange men into their home as that was part of their job, and they would often a abuse the children, sometimes even Liane would chime in on it. But there were also times when Liane was away for hours, leaving her children at home by themselves, so Eric really learned how to cook at a young age. At school, Eric was generally a friendly kid, although he would make some ignorant comments here and there, particularly about minorities, but he was often bullied for his weight and having a slut of a mom by the other kids, included his friends Stan, Kyle, and Kenny. Eric has been very insecure about his weight, and would often use the excuse that he is just "big boned". Eric eventually told the principal at South Park Elementary about the abuse he and his siblings had been facing, and child protective services had them removed from the home. A year later, Eric had lost weight and was living happily with his friend Stan and his family, but Liane had the police force the Marsh family to give him up. Eric was returned to his mother, and he gained weight quickly, and he was still abused.

Eric Cartman is a rather complex character and it is quite difficult to pinpoint a specific diagnosis. Eric does appear to be extremely egocentric and thinks of himself as better than other people, and as Kyle explained in "Fishsticks", Eric's ego is so out of whack, that he will do mental gymnastic to convince himself that he is awesome. This appears to be Narcissistic Personality Disorder, or NPD. This must be due to environmental factors, as he had been abused from his mother and her many strange lovers, and how he was often picked on by his friends in earlier seasons, that it really gave him the impression that he had to fight back and think of them as lower than him.