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* BerserkButton: Butters refusing a gift sets the mummy off.

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Butters refusing a gift sets the mummy off.



* DisproportionateRetribution: The mummy goes on a rampage all because Butters wouldn't accept a gift from it.

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The mummy goes on a rampage all because Butters wouldn't accept a gift from it.
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%%* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: The divorce allegory with Butters and the mummy is unsubtly a metaphor for series co-creator [[Creator/TreyParkerAndMattStone Trey Parker’s]] failed second marriage, which ended in an acrimonious divorce earlier this year.

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%%* * DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: The divorce allegory with Butters and the mummy is unsubtly a metaphor for series co-creator [[Creator/TreyParkerAndMattStone Trey Parker’s]] failed second marriage, which ended in an acrimonious divorce earlier this year.



* SeriousBusiness: Randy treats Shelley's disdain for marijuana with the same gravitas as a teenager who has become addicted to drugs.

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* SeriousBusiness: Randy treats Shelley's Shelly's disdain for marijuana with the same gravitas as a teenager who has become addicted to drugs.
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* CurseOfThePharaoh: Butters visits a museum and collects stamps for his sticker book. He comes across a mummy in a sarcophagus, with a museum employee warning Butters not to put it's sticker in his book or a "love curse" will befall him. Butters ignores the warning and does it anyway, causing the mummy to awaken and rampage through South Park and pin the blame on him.

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* CurseOfThePharaoh: Butters visits a museum and collects stamps for his sticker book. He comes across a mummy in a sarcophagus, with a museum employee warning Butters not to put it's its sticker in his book or a "love curse" will befall him. Butters ignores the warning and does it anyway, causing the mummy to awaken and rampage through South Park and pin the blame on him.
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** Shelly saying she hates weed and wishes it was still illegal gets her father to convince the police to put her in jail to scare her straight.
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** During an assembly, PC Principal makes it very clear he doesn't want to see any kids wearing costumes depicting ethnic stereotypes, as well as skimpy WesternAnimation/{{Moana}} costumes.
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* CurseOfThePharaoh: Butters visits a museum and collects stamps for his sticker book. He comes across a mummy in a sarcophagus, with a museum employee warning Butters not to put it's sticker in his book or a "love curse" will befall him. Butters ignores the warning and does it anyway, causing the mummy to awaken and rampage through South Park and pin the blame on him.

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* KarmaHoudini: After all the damage the mummy did to the town and Butters, [[spoiler:he simply breaks up with Butters, claiming "he can't fix it" and casually leaves the area]].
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: A downplayed example. Randy hallucinates an undead Winnie the Pooh and the cows he killed in the season so far, implying he has felt guilty over his deeds.

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* KarmaHoudini: After all the damage the mummy did to the town and Butters, [[spoiler:he he simply breaks up with Butters, claiming "he can't fix it" and casually leaves the area]].
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* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: A downplayed example. Randy hallucinates an undead Winnie the Pooh Winnie-the-Pooh and the cows he killed in the season so far, implying he has felt guilty over his deeds.



* YouAreGrounded: Surprisingly averted. Despite everything, Butters' parents never ground him, likely due to how much they TookALevelInKindness the past few years.

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* YouAreGrounded: Surprisingly averted. Despite everything, Butters' parents never ground him, likely due to how much they TookALevelInKindness the past few years.years.
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* PlayingTheVictimCard: Randy and the Mummy does this to Shelly and Butters respectively with the latter calling Butters a passive-aggressive abusive narcissist.

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* PlayingTheVictimCard: Randy and the Mummy does this to Shelly and Butters respectively with [[PsychologicalProjection the latter calling Butters a passive-aggressive abusive narcissist.narcissist]].
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* KarmaHoudini: After all the damage the mummy did to the town and Butters, [[spoiler:he simply breaks up with Butters, claiming "he can't fix it" and casually leaves the area]].
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* PlayingTheVictimCard: Randy and the Mummy does this to Shelly and Butters respectively with the latter calling Butters a passive-aggressive abusive narcissist.
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I don't think this was meant to be a criticism of people who get outraged at offensive costumes. That's just in-character for him.


* TakeThat: PC Principal's rant about kids wearing sombreros and dressing as Disney/{{Moana}} for Halloween can be a jab at those who voice outrage over kids wearing said stuff.
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* ShoutOut:
** Some of the music in the episode was taken from ''Film/{{Creepshow}}''.
** Butters' subplot with the mummy's "curse" is weirdly similar to the early ''WesternAnimation/AquaTeenHungerForce'' episode "Love Mummy".
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* {{Gaslighting}}: The mummy's entire modus operandi is to cause as much ruckus as possible and make everyone believe Butters did it. At one point, Butters says that the mummy has gone so much inside his head he thinks he's going crazy.

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* {{Gaslighting}}: The mummy's entire modus operandi is to cause as much ruckus as possible and make everyone believe Butters did it.is at fault. At one point, Butters says that the mummy has gone so much inside his head he thinks he's going crazy.
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* DoubleMeaningTitle: The "Halloween Special" normally refers to the episode being a [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Halloween special episode]], but in the actual episode, it refers to both Randy's promotional Halloween party and his new brand of weed, Halloween Special.
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* OnlySaneMan: Kyle and Stan are the only ones who side with Butters instead of the mummy, and suggest that Butters just cut the mummy out of his life.
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Debatable.


* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: The divorce allegory with Butters and the mummy is unsubtly a metaphor for series co-creator [[Creator/TreyParkerAndMattStone Trey Parker’s]] failed second marriage, which ended in an acrimonious divorce earlier this year.

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* %%* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: The divorce allegory with Butters and the mummy is unsubtly a metaphor for series co-creator [[Creator/TreyParkerAndMattStone Trey Parker’s]] failed second marriage, which ended in an acrimonious divorce earlier this year.
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* BlackComedyRape: Randy is [[AmbiguousSituation maybe]] raped by Harvey Weinstein while high out of his mind.
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* {{Yandere}}: The mummy is shown to be very obsessed with Butters. This obsession leads to the mummy to stalk Butters, send selfies of himself to Butters, and go berserk when Butters didn't accept his gift.

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* {{Yandere}}: The mummy is shown to be very obsessed with Butters. This obsession leads to the mummy to stalk Butters, send selfies of himself to Butters, and go berserk when Butters didn't accept his gift.gift.
* YouAreGrounded: Surprisingly averted. Despite everything, Butters' parents never ground him, likely due to how much they TookALevelInKindness the past few years.
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* {{Gaslighting}}: The mummy's entire modus operandi is to cause as much ruckus as possible and make everyone believe Butters did it. At one point, Butters says that the mummy has gone so much inside his head he thinks he's going crazy.
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* ADayInTheLimelight: One of the rare episodes where Shelly has a prominent role.
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* UnusuallyUninterestingSight: Much to the annoyance of Butters, everyone treats the mummy as a mundane relationship problem that he needs to deal with.

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* UnusuallyUninterestingSight: Much to the annoyance of Butters, everyone treats the mummy as a mundane relationship problem that he needs to deal with.with.
* {{Yandere}}: The mummy is shown to be very obsessed with Butters. This obsession leads to the mummy to stalk Butters, send selfies of himself to Butters, and go berserk when Butters didn't accept his gift.

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* BerserkButton: Butters refusing a gift sets the mummy off.
* DisproportionateRetribution: The mummy goes on a rampage all because Butters wouldn't accept a gift from it.



* {{Foreshadowing}}: The fact that things looked normal when the police arrive at Tegridy Farms is a big hint that [[spoiler: all the horrific stuff going on at there (with the possible exception of Harvey Weinstein raping Randy) were all hallucinations that Randy and Towelie while under the influence of the Halloween Special]].
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: A downplayed example. Randy [[spoiler: hallucinates an undead Winnie the Pooh and the cows he killed in the season so far, implying he has felt guilty over his deeds]].

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* {{Foreshadowing}}: The fact that things looked normal when the police arrive at Tegridy Farms is a big hint that [[spoiler: all the horrific stuff going on at there (with the possible exception of Harvey Weinstein raping Randy) were all hallucinations that Randy and Towelie while under the influence of the Halloween Special]].
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* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: A downplayed example. Randy [[spoiler: hallucinates an undead Winnie the Pooh and the cows he killed in the season so far, implying he has felt guilty over his deeds]].deeds.
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* OrWasItADream: After listing the things he saw while high and asleep for days, Randy expresses relief that he didn't have sex with Harvey Weinstein. Then he finds a used condom on the floor.



* SelfDeprecation: When it's all over, Randy asks the family if they enjoyed Halloween. Sharon says no and that only he had fun, which Randy says is fine because he's his own target audience.



* TakeThat: PC Principal's rant about kids wearing sombreros and dressing as Disney/{{Moana}} for Halloween can be a jab at those who voice outrage over kids wearing said stuff.

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* TakeThat: PC Principal's rant about kids wearing sombreros and dressing as Disney/{{Moana}} for Halloween can be a jab at those who voice outrage over kids wearing said stuff.stuff.
* UnusuallyUninterestingSight: Much to the annoyance of Butters, everyone treats the mummy as a mundane relationship problem that he needs to deal with.
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* NeverMyFault: The mummy blames all of its numerous rampages on Butters, and everyone else actually sides with the mummy.
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* SeriousBusiness: Randy treats Shelley's disdain for marijuana with the same gravitas as a teenager who has become addicted to drugs.
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* {{Foreshadowing}}: The fact that things looked normal when the police arrive at Tegridy Farms is a big hint that [[spoiler: all the horrific stuff going on at there (with the possible exception of Harvey Weinstein raping Randy) were all hallucinations that Randy and Towelie while under the influence of the Halloween Special]].
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* PoliceAreUseless: When the mummy goes on a rampage and kills five people, the police write Butters a ticket for the damages and don't try to do anything about the mummy.
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* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: A downplayed example. Randy [[spoiler: hallucinates an undead Winnie the Pooh and the cows he killed in the season so far, implying he has felt guilty over his deeds]].

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* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: A downplayed example. Randy [[spoiler: hallucinates an undead Winnie the Pooh and the cows he killed in the season so far, implying he has felt guilty over his deeds]].deeds]].
* TakeThat: PC Principal's rant about kids wearing sombreros and dressing as Disney/{{Moana}} for Halloween can be a jab at those who voice outrage over kids wearing said stuff.
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* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: The divorce allegory with Butters and the mummy is unsubtly a metaphor for series co-creator Trey Parker’s failed second marriage, which ended in a acrimonious divorce earlier this year.

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* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: The divorce allegory with Butters and the mummy is unsubtly a metaphor for series co-creator [[Creator/TreyParkerAndMattStone Trey Parker’s Parker’s]] failed second marriage, which ended in a an acrimonious divorce earlier this year.
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It’s Halloween and Randy is dealing with his daughter’s marijuana problem. Butters gets an unexpected surprise when he visits the Egyptian Artifact exhibit at the Denver Museum.

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* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: The divorce allegory with Butters and the mummy is unsubtly a metaphor for series co-creator Trey Parker’s failed second marriage, which ended in a acrimonious divorce earlier this year.
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: A downplayed example. Randy [[spoiler: hallucinates an undead Winnie the Pooh and the cows he killed in the season so far, implying he has felt guilty over his deeds]].

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