South Park - Season 2 Episode 2:"Cartman's Mom is still a Dirty Sl*t" - エイ

[You can watch this episode for free at www.southparkstudios.com]

South Park - Season 2 Episode 2:"Cartman's Mom is still a Dirty Sl*t"
エイ
エイ - 映画（えいが）movie. America's Most Wanted makes a movie out the South Park's shooting!

16 characters

eternity
永
Kenny reappears back from eternity for another episode!

swim
泳
Kenny (a.k.a. Team B) swims through sewage and snow to get to the power activation area.

recitation
詠
Cartman needs to recite all of "come sail away" after hearing the opening line.

England
英
The Dr. in this episode sounds rather campy. And English? (tho if so it's a terrible attempt at it)

reflect
映
The people of South Park deciding to eat Eric Roberts doesn't reflect well on their morals.

occupation
営
The Hells Pass Hospital in South Park is an "Equal Opportunity Employer" - hence their quadriplegic nurse. (Image: Remember when she hands the doctor the needle with her mouth. Despite her handicap, she does great at her occupation!)

defense
衛
Mrs. Cartman sleeps with every politician in defense of her beliefs about abortion! (or was it adoption...)

pointed
鋭
Cartman's pointed attitude when it comes to finding out who his father is! Or the quadriplegic nurse holding the long, pointed needle in her mouth.

shadow
影
Mephesto is shot in shadow... or when the power goes out, putting the town and hospital in
shadow.

flourish
栄
After the fetus has flourished to the "40th" trimester, it's too late to get an abortion! Poor Mrs. Cartman!

**RTK3**

sucking infant
嬰
crystal stone
瑛
brush tip
穎
drag
曳
dribble out
洩
sapience
叡

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Notes: I decided to go ahead and make this episode be my template for エイ; If I find it confusing (in correlation with the previous episode, which I don't think I will since they're pretty different in plot besides a running gag) I'll redo it later.

There are some good examples in here of stories that I personally don't even need. I already know 英語 (English) and 映画 (movie) and you probably do too, it's beginner's material. I'm putting them in for the sake of completion and, perhaps, readers of this blog, assuming it builds some kind of following. But I know those two stories are lame (connecting England with this episode was tough), so if anyone has any better/alternative ideas please submit them. A few of the other characters in this group I'm familiar with, such as 栄養 (えいよう nutrition) or 水泳 (すいえい swimming) but could definitely use the reinforcement on them. And the rest are brand new to me, as far as on-yomi goes.

I've been itching to get started on this project for a while, and the momentum is full speed for now! Work should keep me busy but I will try to get another movie template done this week. I want to crank out a lot of these this summer, before I'm bogged down with JLPT2 studying in the fall.

South Park - Season 1 Episode 13:"Cartman's Mom is a Dirty Sl*t" - エ

This next template is an example of what I'll be doing for on-yomi groups with too few kanji to make a whole movie template. I was 13 when I saw this episode, and I remember being extremely annoyed when they opened the next season with Terrence and Philip instead of the legitimate sequel. (there was actually a huge, unanticipated surge of complaints to Comedy Central as a result) If the show aired in Japan, perhaps there would have been one loud, resounding え？！？

[You can watch this episode for free at www.southparkstudios.com]

South Park - Season 1 Episode 13:"Cartman's Mom is a Dirty Sl*t"
エ
" エ! Kitty, that's my corn-beef cabbage! That's a bad kitty!"

favor
恵
Mr. Mackey asks a favor of the boys, to videotape Cartman's strange behavior.

meeting
会
Mrs. Cartman's infamous meeting with Eric Cartman's... father(s)?! (Chef, Chief, Mr. Garrison, pick your favorite)

picture
絵
The end of this episode is the picture of suspenseful cliffhangers. (this one was a bit difficult)

-times
回
How many different times does Cartman's Dad's identity change in this episode?!

garment - reliant
衣 依
Cartman is reliant on his "Naive American" garments to understand his "father." And his hip hop garment when he thinks Chef is his father. ("Oh my God! I'm a black African American!)

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Notes: 回向 (えこう), Buddhist memorial service is the only compound with 回 using that pronunciation (which I could find in my Nelson's Kanji Dictionary); かい is MUCH much more common. However, since it's a valid pronunciation it's included in the list. This is a problem - the problem of multiple 音読み - we'll run into time and again, and it really can't be helped - しょがない as the saying goes. If there is any way to mentally link the two or three movie templates which share a kanji reading, that might be a good strategy. For example, assuming I used 回(かい) for, say, Die Hard - "how many times does Bruce Willis almost die in this movie?" Imagine Eric Cartman thinking John McClain is his father. It's a bit of a stretch, but from what I've read (and my own imaginative experiences learning kanji) this kind of thing does work - I will report on how it works for me, anyhow.

The real conundrum here is, should I use the sequel to this episode (Cartman's Mom is still a Dirty Sl*t) as a template for エイ, the elongated version of this reading? Or would it be too confusing? Looking for feedback, thanks.