History Recap / SouthParkS17E9TittiesAndDragons

After a [[PreviouslyOn recap of the previous two episodes]] (plus [[Recap/SouthParkS17E5TamingStrange a random scene of the Canadian Minister of Health]]), we see Princess Kenny, in full MagicalGirl mode, breaking the Microsoft blockades of shipments of UsefulNotes/{{Playstation 4}}s. With their options running out, Sir Kyle tells Grand Wizard Cartman that he has an idea, and the UsefulNotes/XboxOne army go to the Playstation 4 camp and tell Sir Stan and the other warriors they have decided to switch their allegiance. Knowing that the Creator/{{Sony}} armies are planning to enter the mall through Red Robin to avoid the hordes of shoppers at the front doors, Kyle tells them the restaurant can be rented for wedding parties, and suggests they pool their funds for a down payment to host a Red Robin wedding (they tell the staff that the bride and groom are Music/{{Beyonce}} and Creator/TomHanks).

Cartman makes one final excursion through the betrayal garden, this time with Stan, whereupon the owner of the garden shouts to Stan that Cartman is planning to betray him, and has said as much to several other people in the garden in the previous few days. Cartman is forced to admit that the betrayal is Kyle's idea; Stan flees, and an enraged Cartman threatens to defecate in the man's garden. And, as part of his betrayal of Stan, he does exactly that and frames Stan for it, leading Sharon to ground him. When Kyle hears the news during preparations for the Red Robin wedding, he runs to the Marsh house and tries to make amends with Stan, but Stan wants nothing to do with him.

Creator/GeorgeRRMartin arrives in South Park on horseback with Paladin Butters and a now unconscious Scott Malkinson to cut the red ribbon and signal the start of Black Friday... but first, he insists on giving a long speech on his obsession with male genitals. Meanwhile, the Red Robin wedding gets under way (with the conspicuous absence of the supposed bridal couple), but takes a shocking turn when Kyle betrays the Xbox One army to Princess Kenny and the Playstation 4 army... and another even more shocking turn when both Bill Gates and the Sony president show up, accompanied by Stan, who insists that the console wars need to end right now. And so they do, with a violent fistfight between Gates and the Sony president that ends with Gates triumphant, and the kids visibly traumatised by the spectacle.

The Black Friday shoppers lose patience with Martin's speech, and one of them castrates him and then uses the same knife to cut the ribbon. Intercut with actual footage of Black Friday riots, the shoppers storm the mall, but are massacred to a man. Randy, having heard from Sharon that Stan is at the Red Robin wedding, misses the carnage as he runs to Red Robin and unlocks the doors, allowing the kids into the mall. Eleven of them -- Stan, Kyle, Cartman, Kenny, Butters, Craig, Clyde, Token, Jimmy, Tweek, and Timmy -- make their way past the piles of dead bodies and pools of blood to [[BlandNameProduct EVGames]], where they all buy Xbox Ones. (And Randy makes good on his decision to get a flatscreen TV.)

But the boys -- now rejoined by Scott, whose blood sugar has returned to healthy levels -- take no pleasure in the fruits of their victory, and realise that they enjoyed themselves far more while engaging in their {{LARP}} than they have enjoyed video games. As they file into Cartman's back yard, Cartman says they only need the simplest things to create entertaining games, and he picks up a nearby stick to illustrate his point.

Cue an advertising spot for ''VideoGame/SouthParkTheStickOfTruth'', coming soon! ("Yeah, and if you believe that I've got a big floppy wiener to dangle in your face!" says Butters.)[[labelnote:Though actually...]]The game released a mere four months later in March 2014.[[/labelnote]]

Cue an advertising spot for ''VideoGame/SouthParkTheStickOfTruth'', coming soon! ("Yeah, and if you believe that I've got a big floppy wiener to dangle in your face!" says Butters.)

* WasItReallyWorthIt: The result in the end. After seeing Bill Gates smash the head of Sony's CEO, the boys go through the bloody mall and the scene is filled with melancholy. Furthermore, the boys are unable to enjoy playing the UsefulNotes/XboxOne due to the ordeal and '''Cartman''' of all people ends up being the one to point out that he is unable to unsee the trauma before leading the kids to realize they don't need video games - they have their imaginations to play with, pointing out they spent the last 3 weeks not playing video games and just playing.

The Black Friday shoppers lose patience with Martin's speech, and one of them castrates him and then uses the same knife to cut the ribbon. Intercut with actual footage of Black Friday riots, the shoppers storm the mall, but are massacred to a man. Randy, having heard from Sharon that Stan is at the Red Robin wedding, misses the carnage as he runs to Red Robin and unlocks the doors, allowing the kids into the mall. Eleven of them - Stan, Kyle, Cartman, Kenny, Butters, Craig, Clyde, Token, Jimmy, Tweek, and Timmy - make their way past the piles of dead bodies and pools of blood to [[BlandNameProduct EVGames]], where they all buy Xbox Ones. (And Randy makes good on his decision to get a flatscreen TV.)

But the boys - now rejoined by Scott, whose blood sugar has returned to healthy levels - take no pleasure in the fruits of their victory, and realise that they enjoyed themselves far more while engaging in their {{LARP}} than they have enjoyed video games. As they file into Cartman's back yard, Cartman says they only need the simplest things to create entertaining games, and he picks up a nearby stick to illustrate his point.

** To illustrate the violent madness of Black Friday, the scenes of the shoppers killing each other is intersped with live-action StockFootage from actual Black Fridays.

* GroinAttack: Creator/GeorgeRRMartin gets his weiner sliced off by an enraged shopper after stalling the crowd gathered for Black Friday for too long.
-->'''Shopper''': You're not delaying this any longer, you weiner-loving bitch!

* TakeAThirdOption: After Kyle makes the plan to unite the two groups to hide out in Red Robins, only later to betray them and finally realized what all this did to his friendship with Stan, Kyle attempted to betray Cartman. However, Stan comes (having snuck off from being grounded) and locks everyone in. Both the heads of Microsoft and Sony were led in there by Stan. Stan states that everything has gone out of hand and that they are all being turned against each other for money by the two corporations, who Stan then tells to resolve the fight themselves. Bill Gates ends up winning.
** Also the ultimate resolution of the conflict. Rather than UsefulNotes/XboxOne or UsefulNotes/{{PS4}}, the kids play outside

** The brutality of Black Friday is parodied with various murders are injuries, at point point showing live footage of actual Black Friday shoppers rushing into stores. After that, the boys are seen trekking the corpse-ridden mall, at one point literally walking through a sea of blood.

* WasItReallyWorthIt: The result in the end. After seeing Bill Gates smash the head of Sony's CEO, the boys go through the bloody mall and the scene is filled with melancholy. Furthermore, the boys are unable to enjoy playing the UsefulNotes/XboxOne due to the ordeal and '''Cartman''' of all people ends up being the one to point out that he is unable to unsee the trauma before leading the kids to realize they don't need video games, they have their imaginations to play with, pointing out they spent the last 3 weeks not playing games and just playing.

* SelfDeprecation: At the end of Cartman's speech about playing outside rather than playing video games, an ad for ''VideoGame/SouthParkTheStickOfTruth'' appears and a joke about its delayment is made once more.

After a [[PreviouslyOn recap of the previous two episodes]] (plus a random scene of the Canadian Minister of Health), we see Princess Kenny, in full MagicalGirl mode, breaking the Microsoft blockades of shipments of UsefulNotes/{{Playstation 4}}s. With their options running out, Sir Kyle tells Grand Wizard Cartman that he has an idea, and the UsefulNotes/XboxOne army go to the Playstation 4 camp and tell Sir Stan and the other warriors they have decided to switch their allegiance. Knowing that the Creator/{{Sony}} armies are planning to enter the mall through Red Robin to avoid the hordes of shoppers at the front doors, Kyle tells them the restaurant can be rented for wedding parties, and suggests they pool their funds for a down payment to host a Red Robin wedding (they tell the staff that the bride and groom are Music/{{Beyonce}} and Creator/TomHanks).

* {{Animesque}}: Kenny's is written in the style and visualised as a MagicalGirl anime, all down to the GratuitousJapanese.

* CurbstompBattle: Though the Sony executive is shown getting in a couple of hard blows, he is ultimately beaten to a bloody pulp by Bill Gates, who is shown only to be somewhat exhausted by the end of the duel.

* GroinAttack: Creator/GeorgeRRMartin gets his groin sliced off by an enraged shopper after stalling the crowd gathered for Black Friday for too long.

* ShaggyDogStory: The boys finally get the [[XBoxOne XBox Ones]], but the whole ordeal, especially the violent duel between the heads of Sony and Microsoft has traumatized them and realize that they had greater fun with their ''Series/GameOfThrones'' style of playing. Hence, instead of playing it, they just play outside, not wanting to do with the console anymore, making the entire thing pointless.

* WasItReallyWorthIt: The result in the end. After seeing Bill Gates smash the head of Sony's CEO, the boys go through the bloody mall and the scene is filled with melancholy. Furthermore, the boys are unable to enjoy playing the XboxOne due to the ordeal and '''Cartman''' of all people ends up being the one to point out that he is unable to unsee the trauma before leading the kids to realize they don't need video games, they have their imaginations to play with, pointing out they spent the last 3 weeks not playing games and just playing.

** GeorgeRRMartin, like in the previous episode, is seen as a penis-obsessed nut job, which results in an irate shopper castrating him.

** Besides all the ''Series/GameOfThrones'' references, the scenes of the Black Friday shoppers killing each other cutting to live-action footage parodies ''Film/AnyGivenSunday'', where the comparisons of football to gladiators is illustrated with cuts from football players to clips from ''Film/BenHur''.

** Some background characters during Anime-styled Kenny's MagicalGirl parody, are remniscient of [[Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion Ghendo and Misato]].

* SoundtrackDissonance: The scene of the kids walking through the blood-filled mall in the aftermath of the Black Friday rush is accompanied by the piano rendition of "O Tannenbaum" from ''ACharlieBrownChristmas''.

** Also the ultimate resolution of the conflict. Rather than XboxOne or PS4, the kids play outside

* Animesque: Kenny's is written in the style and visualised as a MagicalGirl anime, all down to the GratuitousJapanese.

** Some background characters during Anime-styled Kenny's MagicalGirl parody, are remniscient of [[NeonGenesisEvangelion Ghendo and Misato]].

* TheBadGuyWins: [[spoiler: The news reporter who concocted Black Friday gets no punishment for the onslaught of thousands and even gets the hyped up story he intended. Bill Gates also wins his war against Sony, even if the kids are too warped to really appreciate the Xboxes they bought.]]

* FlatJoy: [[spoiler:After Bill Gates wins the final duel.]]
-->'''Cartman:''' Yay, [[spoiler:Xbox]] wins.\\

* MoodWhiplash: [[spoiler: The kids are walking through the mall, traumatized by all the chaos, death and destruction caused by the Console War, when suddenly a [[Series/SesameStreet Stop Touching Me Elmo]] doll blurts out "[[MemeticMolester Can Elmo smell your genitals]]?".]]
* PyrrhicVictory: [[spoiler:Bill Gates wins the deciding battle between Xbox One and [=PlayStation=] 4, but the kids become too traumatized from the whole thing to enjoy their Xbox Ones.]]

* SecondPlaceIsForWinners: [[spoiler: Randy is the last person to buy anything at the mall on Black Friday. He is also completely unharmed, walking with his new TV through piles of corpses of those who tried to be first.]]

* ShaggyDogStory: [[spoiler:The boys finally get the [[XBoxOne XBox Ones]], but the whole ordeal, especially the violent duel between the heads of Sony and Microsoft has traumatized them and realize that they had greater fun with their ''Series/GameOfThrones'' style of playing. Hence, instead of playing it, they just play outside, not wanting to do with the console anymore, making the entire thing pointless.]]

* SpannerInTheWorks: [[spoiler: The old man who owns the garden Cartman keeps taking everybody to reveals to Stan that Cartman and Kyle are gonna betray him because he's sick of Cartman trespassing in his backyard.]]

* TakeAThirdOption: [[spoiler: After Kyle makes the plan to unite the two groups to hide out in Red Robins, only later to betray them and finally realized what all this did to his friendship with Stan, Kyle attempted to betray Cartman. However, Stan comes (having snuck off from being grounded) and locks everyone in. Both the heads of Microsoft and Sony were led in there by Stan. Stan states that everything has gone out of hand and that they are all being turned against each other for money by the two corporations, who Stan then tells to resolve the fight themselves. Bill Gates ends up winning.]]
** [[spoiler: Also the ultimate resolution of the conflict. Rather than XboxOne or PS4, the kids play outside]]

* [[spoiler:WasItReallyWorthIt: The result in the end. After seeing Bill Gates smash the head of Sony's CEO, the boys go through the bloody mall and the scene is filled with melancholy. Furthermore, the boys are unable to enjoy playing the XboxOne due to the ordeal and '''Cartman''' of all people ends up being the one to point out that he is unable to unsee the trauma before leading the kids to realize they don't need video games, they have their imaginations to play with, pointing out they spent the last 3 weeks not playing games and just playing.]]

* ShaggyDogStory: [[spoiler:The boys finally get the [[XBoxOne XBox Ones]], but the whole ordeal, especially the violent duel between the heads of Sony and Microsoft has truamatized them and realize that they had greater fun with their ''Series/GameOfThrones'' style of playing..]]

* TakeThatFanbase: The anime version of Princess Kenny might be an exaggerated parody of the sector of the ''South Park'' fanbase that [[SelfFanservice draws the characters in "kawaii" anime style]]. The crossdressing is just part of the whole package.

* TheyKilledKennyAgain: Subverted, it seems Kenny died when he fell out of a window, but he just shrugs it off.

* ShoutOut: Besides all the ''Series/GameOfThrones'' references, the scenes of the Black Friday shoppers killing each other cutting to live-action footage parodies ''AnyGivenSunday'', where the comparisons of football to gladiators is illustrated with cuts from football players to clips from ''BenHur''.