"World War Zimmerman" is the third episode in the seventeenth season of the American animated television series South Park.
Eric Cartman draws attention by acting unusually nice to Tolkien Black, and having nightmares while asleep in class.
With Mackey's encouragement, Cartman reads a poem to Tolkien, and later performs a musical adaptation of it at a student assembly, disavowing any involvement with the Zimmerman case.
When Mackey demands that the two apologize to each other in order to resolve their "feud", Tolkien angrily denounces the stand-your-ground law for not also applying to black people.
They originally intended the episode to consist almost entirely of the dream sequence and reveal this at the end by having Cartman wake up.
Parker felt this would have been worsened if they had remained with their original idea, concluding that his father disliked the episode because he had not seen World War Z.
[1] In its original American broadcast, "World War Zimmerman" was watched by 2.056 million overall households, according to Nielsen Media Research.
He described it as featuring "classic Cartman" and concluded by saying "when South Park took an extended hiatus, we dreamed it would pay off in well-thought out, precisely executed performances like these.