History Recap / SouthParkS16E3FaithHilling

* TooDumbToLive: The problem isn't that memeing is dangerous, it's that these people don't have the sense to ''move'' when the train is still ''miles away from them''. In certain cases, though, the oncoming train has struck people from unusual/impossible places.

* WouldHitAGirl: During the Boys' beat-down on the "Taylor Swifters", Kenny targets the two female members.

* TakeThat: Professor Lamont is meant to be every hyperbolic {{Moral Guardian|s}} who try using scare-tactics to dissuade kids from doing things, the comparison to the use of loaded guns being a common simile used for drug-use drug use. At best, the kids see through the fear-mongering and ignore him, at worst they scar kids for life.

* TakeThat: Professor Lamont is meant to be every hyperbolic {{Moral Guardian|s}} who try using scare-tactics to dissuade kids from doing things, the comparison to the use of loaded guns being a common simile used for drug-use drug use. At best, the kids see through the fear-mongering and ignores him, at worst they scar kids for life.

* WouldHitAGirl: During the Boys' beat-down on the "Taylor Swifters", Kenny targets the two female members.

Parker and Stone turn their satirical eye to the absurdity of, and rapid turnover in popularity of, Internet memes.

The episode opens at a Republican presidential candidates' debate in Colorado; Stan, Kyle, Cartman, Kenny, and Butters are in various parts of the convention hall co-ordinating a "Music/{{Faith Hill}}ing", an Internet meme in which a person is photographed while pulling the chest of their shirt out to look like female breasts. Cartman invades the stage mid-debate and is photographed "Faith Hilling" by Stan before the boys flee security guards. Their public display attracts the ire of Professor Lamont, who makes a special visit to South Park Elementary to warn about the dangers of memes - namely, the risk of being hit by a train while posing. Butters is put off by the scare tactics, while the other four boys are stunned to see a front page article describe their stunt as passé compared to "Music/{{Taylor Swift}}ing", in which a person pulls their pants down and drags their bare backside along the ground "like an old dog". Such is their anger at seeing their favourite meme discredited that they beat up a group of kids staging a "Taylor Swifting", sparking another visit from an enraged Professor Lamont.

But in the middle of Lamont's lecture, he is pulled aside by two men who draw his attention to a proliferation of "cat breading" photos, in which cats are photographed with their faces in the middle of slices of bread... except ''the cats'' are the ones posting the photos. Lamont says that this represents a landmark moment in cats' cultural evolution; they have now joined humans in creating trends. Cat-created memes soon turn deadly for humans with the rise of "Oh Long Johnsonning", in which the subject is filmed in a dangerous situation repeating "Oh Long Johnson" as many times as they can before they need to get to safety; the cat who began the trend is arrested and interrogated, and purportedly claims that this marks the beginning of a war between humans and cats.

Meanwhile, Stan and Kenny decide to abandon "Faith Hilling" in favour of the newer memes, and even Kyle and Cartman are forced to admit that their favourite meme's time is up. The four boys decide to crash the next Republican candidates' debate - in which Ron Paul has been replaced by the "Oh Long Johnson" cat - to stage a combination of "Taylor Swifting" and "cat breading", but just as Cartman and Mr. Kitty get into position for Stan's photo, Cartman declares that he's better than this, and, to his friends' delight, goes back to "Faith Hilling" - singing a Faith Hill FilkSong for good measure - joined in by Mitt Romney, Newt Gingrich, and Rick Santorum.

'''Original air date:''' 3/28/1992

* CatsAreMean: A cat came up with a particularly dangerous meme that gets a bunch of people killed.

* TooDumbToLive: The problem isn't that memeing is dangerous, it's that these people don't have the sense to ''move'' when the train is still ''miles away from them''. To their defense, sometimes the train can strike from unusual places.

Parker and Stone turn their satirical eye to the absurdity and rapid turnover in popularity of Internet memes.

The episode opens at a Republican presidential candidates' debate in Colorado; Stan, Kyle, Cartman, Kenny, and Butters are in various parts of the convention hall coordinating a "Music/{{Faith Hill}}ing", an Internet meme in which a person is photographed while pulling the chest of their shirt out to look like female breasts. Cartman invades the stage mid-debate and is photographed "Faith Hilling" by Stan before the boys flee security guards. Their public display attracts the ire of Professor Lamont, who makes a special visit to South Park Elementary to warn about the dangers of memes - namely, the risk of being hit by a train while posing. Butters is put off by the scare tactics, while the other four boys are stunned to see a front page article describe their stunt as passé compared to "Music/{{Taylor Swift}}ing", in which a person pulls their pants down and drags their bare backside along the ground "like an old dog". Such is their anger at seeing their favorite meme discredited that they beat up a group of kids staging a "Taylor Swifting", sparking another visit from an enraged Professor Lamont.

Meanwhile, Stan and Kenny decide to abandon "Faith Hilling" in favor of the newer memes, and even Kyle and Cartman are forced to admit that their favorite meme's time is up. The four boys decide to crash the next Republican candidates' debate - in which Ron Paul has been replaced by the "Oh Long Johnson" cat - to stage a combination of "Taylor Swifting" and "cat breading", but just as Cartman and Mr. Kitty get into position for Stan's photo, Cartman declares that he's better than this, and, to his friends' delight, goes back to "Faith Hilling" - singing a Faith Hill FilkSong for good measure - joined in by Mitt Romney, Newt Gingrich, and Rick Santorum.

* TooDumbToLive: The problem isn't that memeing is dangerous, it's that these people don't have the sense to ''move'' when the train is still ''miles away from them''. To their defense sometime the train can strike from unusual places.

Parker and Stone turn their satirical eye to the absurdity of, and rapid turnover in popularity of, Internet memes.

The episode opens at a Republican presidential candidates' debate in Colorado; Stan, Kyle, Cartman, Kenny, and Butters are in various parts of the convention hall co-ordinating a "Music/{{Faith Hill}}ing", an Internet meme in which a person is photographed while pulling the chest of their shirt out to look like female breasts. Cartman invades the stage mid-debate and is photographed "Faith Hilling" by Stan before the boys flee security guards. Their public display attracts the ire of Professor Lamont, who makes a special visit to South Park Elementary to warn about the dangers of memes - namely, the risk of being hit by a train while posing. Butters is put off by the scare tactics, while the other four boys are stunned to see a front page article describe their stunt as passé compared to "Music/{{Taylor Swift}}ing", in which a person pulls their pants down and drags their bare backside along the ground "like an old dog". Such is their anger at seeing their favourite meme discredited that they beat up a group of kids staging a "Taylor Swifting", sparking another visit from an enraged Professor Lamont.

Meanwhile, Stan and Kenny decide to abandon "Faith Hilling" in favour of the newer memes, and even Kyle and Cartman are forced to admit that their favorite meme's time is up. The four boys decide to crash the next Republican candidates' debate - in which Ron Paul has been replaced by the "Oh Long Johnson" cat - to stage a combination of "Taylor Swifting" and "cat breading", but just as Cartman and Mr. Kitty get into position for Stan's photo, Cartman declares that he's better than this, and, to his friends' delight, goes back to "Faith Hilling" - singing a Faith Hill FilkSong for good measure - joined in by Mitt Romney, Newt Gingrich, and Rick Santorum.

* DiscreditedMeme: Used in-universe; the rapid turnover in popularity of Internet memes is taken to absurd extremes, with memes skyrocketing and subsquently plummeting in popularity in a matter of days.

* TooDumbToLive: The problem isn't that memeing is dangerous, it's that these people don't have the sense to ''move'' when the train is still ''miles away from them''. To their defense sometime the train can strike from unusual places.

Meanwhile, Stan and Kenny decide to abandon "Faith Hilling" in favour of the newer memes, and even Kyle and Cartman are forced to admit that their favourite meme's time is up. The four boys decide to crash the next Republican candidates' debate - in which Ron Paul has been replaced by the "Oh Long Johnson" cat - to stage a combination of "Taylor Swifting" and "cat breading", but just as Cartman and Mr. Kitty get into position for Stan's photo, Cartman declares that he's better than this, and, to his friends' delight, goes back to "Faith Hilling" - singing a Faith Hill FilkSong for good measure - joined in by Mitt Romney, Newt Gingrich, and Rick Santorum.

The episode opens at a Republican presidential candidates' debate in Colorado; Stan, Kyle, Cartman, Kenny, and Butters are in various parts of the convention hall co-ordinating a "Music/{{Faith Hill}}ing", an Internet meme in which a person is photographed while pulling the chest of their shirt out to look like female breasts. Cartman invades the stage mid-debate and is photographed "Faith Hilling" by Stan before the boys flee security guards. Their public display attracts the ire of Professor Lamont, who makes a special visit to South Park Elementary to warn about the dangers of memes - namely, the risk of being hit by a train while posing. Butters is put off by the scare tactics, while the other four boys are stunned to see a front page article describe their stunt as passé compared to "Taylor Swifting", in which a person pulls their pants down and drags their bare backside along the ground "like an old dog". Such is their anger at seeing their favourite meme discredited that they beat up a group of kids staging a "Music/{{Taylor Swift}}ing", sparking another visit from an enraged Professor Lamont.

Internet memes become SeriousBusiness, and the boys are torn between trying to keep up with the trends and sticking to the tried and true.

* RealLifeWriteThePlot: The original idea was an episode satirizing planking, but it went out of style so quickly that it became an episode about memes in general and how quickly the trends come and go.

* TooDumbToLive: The problem isn't that memeing is dangerous, it's that these people don't have the sense to ''move'' when the train is still ''miles away from them''.

A look at memes and how they are SeriousBusiness.