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* PetTheDog: Clyde might be a crappy boyfriend to Bebe, but he gets ChatGPT to write him a poem for her to show in class. Unlike with her text messages, he had nothing to gain from doing this.
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* PetTheDog: Clyde might be a crappy boyfriend to Bebe, but he gets ChatGPT [=ChatGPT=] to write him a poem for her to show in class. Unlike with her text messages, he had nothing to gain from doing this.
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* RuleOfFunny: Apparently, ''none'' of the fourth-graders know how to write acceptable essays, despite many of them being shown to be great extemporaneous public speakers and competent writers (Wendy, Kyle, Tolkien, and even Stan himself) and otherwise being the best in specific subjects that most South Park kids struggle with (Heidi and Butters are shown to be the strongest science and math students, respectively). Given this is [[ApatheticTeacher Mr. Garrison]], though, he may have just forgotten to actually teach them the midterm material and just didn't bother to [[NeverMyFault take accountability.]]
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* BookDumb: It's reinforced through Mr. Garrison's surprised reaction to their well-written essays that Clyde, Butters, and Cartman, and to a lesser degree, Stan, are far from the best students in the fourth grade.
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* BookDumb: It's reinforced through Mr. Garrison's surprised reaction to their well-written essays that Clyde, Butters, Clyde and Cartman, whose essays are both about world history, something Cartman especially is shown to have a very poor grasp of (outside of [[PoliticallyIncorrectVillain the expected]] WWII and to a lesser degree, Stan, biblical knowledge) are far from the best students in the fourth grade.
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* BookDumb: It's reinforced through Mr. Garrison's surprised reaction to their well-written essays that Clyde, Butters, and Cartman, and to a lesser degree, Stan, are far from the best students in the fourth grade.
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** Stan doesn't seem to grasp why texting is so important to Wendy, which is why he doesn't see anything wrong with responding to Wendy's texts with thumbs-up emojis or PlayingCyriano with [=ChatGPT=]. In fact, he stops doing it after his conversation with her at the ice cream store, though by then he's in too deep.
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** Stan doesn't seem to grasp why texting is so important to Wendy, which is why he doesn't see anything wrong with responding to Wendy's texts with thumbs-up emojis or PlayingCyriano PlayingCyrano with [=ChatGPT=]. In fact, he stops doing it after his conversation with her at the ice cream store, though by then he's in too deep.
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** Though we don't actually see him utilize it [[ItMakesSenseInContext due to him initializing reality]], Stan apparently knows about the GPT language-models, since he refers to it as just GPT at one point and [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARM_architecture_family#Thumb the Thumb]] is based on the AI technician's pretty flowery dialogue.
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** Though we don't actually see him utilize it [[ItMakesSenseInContext due to him initializing reality]], Stan apparently knows about the GPT language-models, since he refers to it as just GPT at one point and seems to know what [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARM_architecture_family#Thumb the Thumb]] is based on the AI technician's pretty flowery dialogue.
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* InnocentlyInsensitive:
** Stan doesn't seem to grasp why texting is so important to Wendy, which is why he doesn't see anything wrong with responding to Wendy's texts with thumbs-up emojis or PlayingCyriano with [=ChatGPT=]. In fact, he stops doing it after his conversation with her at the ice cream store, though by then he's in too deep.
** While Clyde doesn't seem to care about Bebe's feelings, his incredibly misguided relationship advice to Stan seemed to come out of a genuine desire to help a brother out.
* JerkassBall: Clyde grabs a hold of it big time in this episode, being incredibly dismissive of Bebe's texts and treating them like a chore. When his actions are about to be discovered, Clyde only seems to care about Bebe's retaliation instead of how she would feel.
** Stan doesn't seem to grasp why texting is so important to Wendy, which is why he doesn't see anything wrong with responding to Wendy's texts with thumbs-up emojis or PlayingCyriano with [=ChatGPT=]. In fact, he stops doing it after his conversation with her at the ice cream store, though by then he's in too deep.
** While Clyde doesn't seem to care about Bebe's feelings, his incredibly misguided relationship advice to Stan seemed to come out of a genuine desire to help a brother out.
* JerkassBall: Clyde grabs a hold of it big time in this episode, being incredibly dismissive of Bebe's texts and treating them like a chore. When his actions are about to be discovered, Clyde only seems to care about Bebe's retaliation instead of how she would feel.
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** Stan gets off scot-free for [[PlayingCyrano his use of [=ChatGPT=]]], with Wendy either [[EasilyForgiven completely forgiving him]] or remaining completely oblivious to what he was doing.
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** Stan gets off scot-free for [[PlayingCyrano his use of [=ChatGPT=]]], with Wendy either [[EasilyForgiven completely forgiving him]] or remaining completely oblivious to what he was doing. Clyde also doesn't get caught by Bebe for doing the same thing.
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* PetTheDog: Clyde might be a crappy boyfriend to Bebe, but he gets ChatGPT to write him a poem for her to show in class. Unlike with her text messages, he had nothing to gain from doing this.
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* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom:
** Clyde [[LooseLips telling Stan about [=ChatGPT=]]] when he was supposed to keep it a secret causes the School to send a Board Technician after they overuse it. It's a Downplayed example, as Garrison found out about the app by himself, so it might not have mattered much in the grand scheme of things. That doesn't stop Cartman from giving him hell for it.
** Stan's use of the app to text Wendy almost gets her arrested when the technician finds traces of the AI on her phone.
** Clyde [[LooseLips telling Stan about [=ChatGPT=]]] when he was supposed to keep it a secret causes the School to send a Board Technician after they overuse it. It's a Downplayed example, as Garrison found out about the app by himself, so it might not have mattered much in the grand scheme of things. That doesn't stop Cartman from giving him hell for it.
** Stan's use of the app to text Wendy almost gets her arrested when the technician finds traces of the AI on her phone.
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* StealthPun: Cartman complains about how women ruined slavery, ''then'' complains about how he somehow can't explain what he means because he can't use [=ChatGPT=] anymore when Butters calls him on it. What Cartman's refusing to admit is that both women and [=ChatGPT=] have him by the balls, while Cartman wants it to be the other way around. ([[DontExplainTheJoke It's shown several times that he thinks girls have literal balls.]])
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* StealthPun: Cartman complains about how women ruined slavery, ''then'' complains about how he somehow can't explain what he means because he can't use [=ChatGPT=] anymore when Butters calls him on it. What Cartman's refusing to admit is that both women and [=ChatGPT=] have him by the balls, while Cartman he wants it to be the other way around. ([[DontExplainTheJoke It's shown several times that he Cartman thinks girls have literal balls.]])
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** Shadowbane, the AI technician, is a reference to Marc Singer's title role in ''Film/TheBeastmaster'' [[MilkingTheGiantCow strange gestures]] and all. Bonus points in that Singer had previously starred in a videotaped version of Cyrano de Bergerac in 1974.
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** Shadowbane, the AI technician, is a reference to Marc Singer's title role in ''Film/TheBeastmaster'' ''Film/TheBeastmaster'', [[MilkingTheGiantCow strange gestures]] and all. Bonus points in that Singer had previously starred in a videotaped version of Cyrano de Bergerac in 1974.
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* ComicallyMissingThePoint: When Mr. Garrison learns about [=ChatGPT=] from Rick, he realizes that now he has an easy way to grade the students' papers instead of realizing the students have been using the app to write their essays.
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* BrilliantButLazy: A major hang-up that people (both in and out-of-universe) have with [=ChatGPT=] is that genuinely thoughtful and talented individuals allow themselves to get sucked into it, with Stan brushing off how much Wendy's apprehension about him not being closer to her is directly related to her clearly valuing his personality and what he has to say otherwise, and Stan seamlessly multitasking with the app without even looking at his phone, doing pretty non-mundane things like playing video games and briefly exploring AI-detection technology before just using [=ChatGPT=] to overwrite reality itself (the technology exploration was just so that Wendy couldn't find him out, but still...)
* ComicallyMissingThePoint: When Mr. Garrison learns about [=ChatGPT=] from Rick, he realizes that now he has an easy way to grade the students' papers instead of realizing the students have been using the app to write theiressays.essays, though he was probably just so desperate to get his job done as fast as possible that he didn't really stop to think about it.
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* EveryoneHasStandards: Mr. Garrison is perfectly fine with using [=ChatGPT=] to grade assignments, and is also fine with students using them to cheat on said assignments. But he's absolutely livid at the idea of using [=ChatGPT=] to create text messages to romantic partners.
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* EveryoneHasStandards: Mr. Garrison is perfectly fine with using [=ChatGPT=] to grade assignments, and is also fine with (at least for now) doesn't really care about his students using them to cheat on said assignments. But he's absolutely livid at the idea of using [=ChatGPT=] to create text messages to romantic partners.partners.
* HiddenDepths:
** Wendy indicates throughout this episode that she's going through a self-hatred phase, although it's not clear what her exact struggles are beyond being noticeably more passive than usual.
** Though we don't actually see him utilize it [[ItMakesSenseInContext due to him initializing reality]], Stan apparently knows about the GPT language-models, since he refers to it as just GPT at one point and [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARM_architecture_family#Thumb the Thumb]] is based on the AI technician's pretty flowery dialogue.
* HiddenDepths:
** Wendy indicates throughout this episode that she's going through a self-hatred phase, although it's not clear what her exact struggles are beyond being noticeably more passive than usual.
** Though we don't actually see him utilize it [[ItMakesSenseInContext due to him initializing reality]], Stan apparently knows about the GPT language-models, since he refers to it as just GPT at one point and [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARM_architecture_family#Thumb the Thumb]] is based on the AI technician's pretty flowery dialogue.
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** Butters, Cartman, Clyde, and Mr. Garrison also get away unpunished for using [=ChatGPT=] for writing essays and texts.
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** Butters, Cartman, Clyde, and Mr. Garrison also get away unpunished for using [=ChatGPT=] for writing essays and texts. [[DownplayedTrope Though in Butters' case]], there isn't any indication that he was doing much worse than ''just'' having essays written for him (which, given how sucky Mr. Garrison's teaching style tends to be, is understandable on some level).
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* NoodleIncident: We never learn what incident six-year-old Wendy experienced was.
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* NoodleIncident: We never learn what incident six-year-old Wendy experienced was.experienced.
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* ShoutOut:
** As mentioned above, "Every Letter" from ''Film/{{Cyrano}}'' plays over Wendy basking in the AI texts.
** Shadowbane, the AI technician, is a reference to Marc Singer's title role in ''Film/TheBeastmaster'' [[MilkingTheGiantCow strange gestures]] and all. Bonus points in that Singer had previously starred in a videotaped version of Cyrano de Bergerac in 1974.
* StealthPun: Cartman complains about how women ruined slavery, ''then'' complains about how he somehow can't explain what he means because he can't use [=ChatGPT=] anymore when Butters calls him on it. What Cartman's refusing to admit is that both women and [=ChatGPT=] have him by the balls, while Cartman wants it to be the other way around. ([[DontExplainTheJoke It's shown several times that he thinks girls have literal balls.]])
** As mentioned above, "Every Letter" from ''Film/{{Cyrano}}'' plays over Wendy basking in the AI texts.
** Shadowbane, the AI technician, is a reference to Marc Singer's title role in ''Film/TheBeastmaster'' [[MilkingTheGiantCow strange gestures]] and all. Bonus points in that Singer had previously starred in a videotaped version of Cyrano de Bergerac in 1974.
* StealthPun: Cartman complains about how women ruined slavery, ''then'' complains about how he somehow can't explain what he means because he can't use [=ChatGPT=] anymore when Butters calls him on it. What Cartman's refusing to admit is that both women and [=ChatGPT=] have him by the balls, while Cartman wants it to be the other way around. ([[DontExplainTheJoke It's shown several times that he thinks girls have literal balls.]])
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* ADayInTheLimelight: Wendy is the main character in an episode for the first time at least since Season 20.
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* ADayInTheLimelight: Wendy is the main character receives one of her most prominent appearances in an episode for the first time at least since Season 20.recent seasons in this episode.
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Misuse. This trope is for when there's a specific set-up for a The Reveal moment that never happens. This would be The Noodle Incident (that's already listed)
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** Mr Garrison points out that it wouldn't necessarily be a bad thing if [=ChatGPT=] were to infiltrate Hollywood, as their best screenwriters already churn out uninspired crap. He even goes as far as to say that [=ChatGPT=] might ''improve'' cinema.
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** The StylisticSuck resolution can be seen as one towards people who fear that AI is going to steal jobs from aspiring writers and artists, as it demonstrates some of the flaws of AI technology (i.e. stilted dialogue, obvious errors).
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** The StylisticSuck resolution can be seen as one towards people who fear that believe AI is going to steal jobs from aspiring can be used as a substitute for writers and artists, as it demonstrates some of the flaws of AI technology (i.e. stilted dialogue, obvious errors).
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* OutOfFocus: Matt Stone's characters rarely speak in this episode. All we get are a few lines from Butters and Rick and a single line from Kyle.
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Rick is voiced by Matt Stone.
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** Stan gets off scot-free for [[PlayingCyrano his use of [=ChatGPT=]]], with Wendy either [[EasilyForgiven completely forgiving him]]or remaining completely oblivious to what he was doing.
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* OutOfFocus: None of Matt Stone's characters speak in this episode, except a few lines from Butters and a single line from Kyle.
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** Stan gets off scot-free for [[PlayingCyriano his use of [=ChatGPT=]]], with Wendy either [[EasilyForgiven completely forgiving him]]or remaining completely oblivious to what he was doing.
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** Stan gets off scot-free for [[PlayingCyriano [[PlayingCyrano his use of [=ChatGPT=]]], with Wendy either [[EasilyForgiven completely forgiving him]]or remaining completely oblivious to what he was doing.
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** Stan gets off scot-free for his use of [=ChatGPT=], with Wendy remaining completely oblivious to what he was doing.
** Butters, Cartman, Clyde, and Mr. Garrison also get away unpunished for using [=ChatGPT=] for writing essays and texts.
** Butters, Cartman, Clyde, and Mr. Garrison also get away unpunished for using [=ChatGPT=] for writing essays and texts.
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** Stan gets off scot-free for [[PlayingCyriano his use of [=ChatGPT=], [=ChatGPT=]]], with Wendy either [[EasilyForgiven completely forgiving him]]or remaining completely oblivious to what he was doing.
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** Butters, Cartman, Clyde, and Mr. Garrison also get away unpunished for using [=ChatGPT=] for writing essays and texts.
** Butters, Cartman, Clyde, and Mr. Garrison also get away unpunished for using [=ChatGPT=] for writing essays and texts.
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** Stan has one earlier in the Ice Cream store when he realizes just how important texting is for Wendy, and how crushed she's going to be if she finds out his texts were all a lie.
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* AnAesop: Using AI-based applications can help you, but you shouldn't use them to the point of overreliance. They can't solve everything, and they definitely can't replace human thinking.
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* AnAesop: Using AI-based applications can help you, but you shouldn't use them to the point of overreliance. They can't solve everything, and they definitely can't replace human thinking. There are things that only a person can do, not a program on your digital device.
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** The picture of Clyde in Bebe's phone has him wearing a varsity jacket as he did in [[Recap/SouthParkS11E14TheList The List]].
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** The picture of Clyde in Bebe's phone has him wearing a varsity jacket as he did in [[Recap/SouthParkS11E14TheList "[[Recap/SouthParkS11E14TheList The List]].List]]".
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* AbsenteeActor: None of Matt Stone's characters speak in this episode, except a few lines from Butters and a single line from Kyle.
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This might be the aesop of this episode, but if anyone thinks it's something else, feel free to change it.
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* AnAesop: Using AI-based applications can help you, but you shouldn't use them to the point of overreliance. They can't solve everything, and they definitely can't replace human thinking.
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