History Recap / SouthParkS15E14ThePoorKid

* EvilIsPetty: Cartman gets his mom arrested just so he won't have to be "[[TitleDrop the poor kid]]" at school anymore.

** Mr. Adams keeps telling Jerry Sandusky jokes, which nobody finds funny...Except for Cartman at the last one, which, ironically, Mr. Adams didn't want anyone to laugh at.

* EvilIsPetty: Cartman gets his mom arrested just so he won't have to be "[[TitleDrop the poor kid]]" at as school anymore.

* DudeNotFunny: None of the people Mr. Adams meets up with are amused by his Penn State jokes. Even [[FatBastard Cartman]] seems to find them unamusing.

* ThisIsGonnaSuck: Kenny, when he sees the police on TV, are actually right outside his house.

* BerserkButton: A blink-and-you-miss-it moment, but when Mr. Weatherhead is preparing to take the kids to the [[AbusiveParents "Punishment]] [[TheDreaded Room"]] for talking about Karen's Guardian Angel (Mysterion), Kenny immediately shoots a DeathGlare at Mr. Weatherhead [[spoiler: before suiting up to take him and his wife down.]]

** Mr. Adams keeps telling Jerry Sandusky jokes, which nobody finds funny... Except for Cartman at the last one, which, ironically, Mr. Adams didn't want anyone to laugh at.

* DepartmentOfChildDisservices: Zigzagged. See AdultsAreUseless.

* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: Kenny's mom is clearly worried about her children as she's being dragged away from the police.

* {{Expy}}:
** Mr. Adams is closely based on ''Film/DueDate'''s Ethan Tremblay, who regularly thinks of himself as a comedian and gives his audience signed photographs of himself.
** Mr. and Mrs. Weatherhead are both a parody of highly religious and abusive foster parents seen in the narrative cliché and an exaggerated caricature of agnosticism.

* ItsBeenDone: Cartman points out that the jokes Mr. Adams keeps telling are just old Catholic priest jokes with Jerry Sandusky/Penn State subbed in. Mr. Adams fires back by saying that "Yo Mama" jokes have been around since the 50's.

* ItsBeenDone: Cartman points out that the jokes Mr. Adams keeps telling are just old Catholic priest jokes with Jerry Sandusky/Penn State subbed in. Mr Adams fires back by saying that "Yo Mama" jokes have been around since the 50's.

* ItsBeenDone: Cartman points out that the jokes Mr. Adams keeps telling are just old Catholic priest jokes with Jerry Sandusky/Penn State subbed in.

* AbusiveParents: Kenny's parents, per usual. This time they get arrested not only for domestic abuse, but also for having a meth lab.
** Mr. and Mrs. Weatherhead (the fundamentalist agnostics) are even more so.

* CannotTellAJoke: Mr. Adams keeps telling Jerry Sandusky jokes, which nobody finds funny... Except for Cartman at the last one, which, ironically, Mr. Adams didn't want anyone to laugh at.

* {{Expy}}: Mr. Adams is closely based on ''Film/DueDate'''s Ethan Tremblay, who regularly thinks of himself as a comedian and gives his audience signed photographs of himself.

* ItsAllAboutMe: Cartman was upset Kenny left because he can't make fun of him for being poor anymore and is now the poor kid.
** And at the end Cartman only cares that he's not the poorest kid at South Park Elementary and after Kenny's killed starts crying because he's the poor kid again until Kenny comes back to life.

* LaserGuidedKarma: Cartman frames his mother for running a meth lab, leading to her arrest. Near the end of the episode, Cartman himself is arrested for filing a false police report. This episode wasn't the first time both of them got arrested.

* RealityEnsues: On Cartman's first day at a new school, he discovers that just because his old school tolerated his bullying of poor people doesn't mean his new school will too.
** Also it is quickly revealed the agnostic parents aren't as submissive and passive as Cartman's mom.
** He also assumed he could pick where he could go. Cartman, despite wanting to go to Hawaii, is sent to Greeley.

Kenny and his siblings are put in foster care after Stuart and Carol get arrested for domestic abuse, and end up with fundamentalist agnostic parents. Meanwhile, Cartman scrambles to find a new poor kid to tease, since Kenny's absence now makes him the new poor kid.

Kenny and his siblings are put in foster care after Stuart and Carol get arrested for domestic abuse and end up with fundamentalist agnostic parents. Meanwhile, Cartman scrambles to find a new poor kid to tease, since Kenny's absence now makes him the new poor kid.

* AbusiveParents: Kenny's parents, per usual. This time they're being arrested not only for domestic abuse but also for having a meth lab.
** Mr. and Mrs. Weatherhead (the fundamentalist agnostics) even more so.
* AdultsAreUseless: ''Subverted''. Mr. Adams is a dimwitted man who tells jokes about the Jerry Sandusky/Penn State scandal more often than he should be helping children, but when he sees how bad the Weatherheads are, he is ''very'' ashamed for having put them there, which is more than can be said about the other adults on the show. He does put the children back into their original homes, but only because he felt the system couldn't help them.
* AppleOfDiscord: Pabst Blue Ribbon, which according to ''White Trash in Trouble'' [[spoiler:which is sponsored by Schlitz]] turns whoever drinks it into white trash. Mysterion uses it to his advantage to bring down the already-abusive Weatherheads.
* BerserkButton: A blink if you miss moment, but when Mr. Weatherhead is preparing to take the kids to the [[AbusiveParents "Punishment]] [[TheDreaded Room"]] for talking about Karen's Guardian Angel (Mysterion). Kenny immediately shoots a DeathGlare at Mr. Weatherhead [[spoiler: before suiting up to take him and his wife down.]]

* CannotTellAJoke: Mr. Adams kept telling Jerry Sandusky jokes, to which no one laughed at. Except for Cartman at the last one which ironically Mr. Adams didn't want anyone to laugh at.

* MrExposition: Butters reveals to have some computer knowledge when he helps Cartman research who's the poorest kid in school after Kenny.

* NiceGuy: Although he's not very ''good'' at it, Mr. Adam's is a very nice guy who tries to be comforting to the foster kids and make them feel safe.

** The foster parents Mr. and Mrs. Weatherhead exhibit abusive and strict behavior similar to [[ResentfulGuardian horrible caregivers]] in ''Literature/JamesAndTheGiantPeach'' and ''Literature/HarryPotter''.
* TheyKilledKennyAgain: Kenny is killed by a [[ChekhovsGun reptilian bird]] that smacks him against the lockers then eats him.

* WouldHitAGirl: Mysterion had no problem beating up Karen's bully and then pulling her up by the hair and warns her that Karen is off-limits.

* {{Expy}}: Mr. Adams is closely based on ''Due Date'''s Ethan Tremblay, who regularly thinks of himself as a comedian and gives his audience signed photographs of himself.

* JustJokingJustification: When Cartman is sent to the principal's office and admonished for mocking Jacob Hallery's home life, Cartman defends his behavior by claiming he was only being humorous.

* {{Foreshadowing}}: The ending with the reptilian bird was foreshadowed by the agnostic parents motto.

* ItsAllAboutMe: Cartman was upset Kenny left, because he can't make fun of him for being poor anymore and is now the poor kid.

* ShoutOut: ''White Trash in Trouble'' parodies programs like ''{{Series/Cops}}'' and ''Campus PD''.

* ThisIsGonnaSuck: Kenny when he sees the police on TV are actually right outside his house.

* OhCrap: The look on Kyle's and Stan's face when Kenny dies. They didn't even bother to recite their CatchPhrase when Kenny dies.

** And at the end Cartman only cares that he's not the poorest kid at South Park Elementary and after Kenny's killed starts crying because he's the poor kid again until Kenny's back.

** The Girl that was about to beat up Karen also [[NoHoldsBarredBeatdown got what was coming to her]] by Mysterion.

** Mr. and Mrs. Weatherhead (the fundamentalist agnostics) also count.

* RememberTheNewGuy: Kenny has a little sister? Uh, okay. She had been briefly seen in "Best Friends Forever" and mentioned in early press releases for the show, but aside from that Kenny's family had always just consisted of him, his parents and a brother.

** The Girl that was about to beat up Karen also [[NoHoldsBarredBeatdown]] got what was coming to her by Mysterion.

Kenny and his sister (but not his other brother who was seen in the earlier episodes) are put in foster care after Stuart and Carol get arrested for domestic abuse and end up with fundamentalist agnostic parents. Meanwhile, Cartman scrambles to find a new poor kid to tease, since Kenny's absence now makes him the new poor kid.

* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Kenny's older brother Kevin appears in the early part of the episode but then vanishes; there's not even a throwaway line saying that he went to a different foster home than his siblings.

-->'''Principal:''' [[RefugeInAudicity "A 20-minute song and dance number featured with 47 "Yo Mama So Poor" jokes directed at Jacob Hallery, which ended in a finale with fireworks."]]

* EvilerThanThou: Mr. and Mrs. Weatherhead make it clear to Cartman that he isn't dealing with Liane anymore, and quickly prove to be much worse than he is.

-->'''Principal:''' "A 20-minute song and dance number featured with 47 "Yo Mama So Poor" jokes directed at Jacob Hallery, which ended in a finale with fireworks."