User blog comment:John Breasly/Since I've Been Gone/@comment-3152785-20120412001416/@comment-2040576-20120412140843

Posting again:

Yesterday I was watching an episode of South Park I had never seen before, and the morale and lesson in the episode describes Pearson perfectly! The episode is called Fishsticks. In the episode Jimmy writes a brilliant new joke whil Cartman is at his house and Cartman slowly starts taking over and claiming they both wrote it, eventually Cartman actually convinces himself that this is true. The shows main lasson is about ego issues. Cartman's is so bad that it convinces him that he did in fact write the joke and Kanye West doesn't understand the joke and takes major offense to it, thinking it is directed mainly at him, giving his ego a major blow.

Here is an extract from the script which I believe describes Pearson:

Kyle: ( To Cartman ) Yes, I believe that you believe you helped write that joke. That's how people like you work! Your ego is so out of whack that it will do whatever it can to protect itself. And people with a messed up ego can do these mental gymnastics to convince themselves they're awesome, when really, they're just ( not going to post it even though it isn't too bad )!