@.fullsouthparkepisodes: "Freak Strike," the episode where Cartman discovers that people with disfigurements or unusual conditions can make significant money on talk shows, remains one of the show's most cynical examinations of media exploitation. Cartman’s scheme involves dressing up as a disfigured person to land a spot on a talk show, eventually escalating his plan by recruiting other people with actual medical conditions to perform for an audience that views them as nothing more than sideshow attractions. The satire hits hard by focusing on how daytime television programs manipulate vulnerable individuals for ratings, treating human suffering as a commodity to be packaged and sold to a desensitized public.#southpark