History Recap / SouthParkS26E5DikinBausHotDogs

* CatSmile: What people think the scrotum drawn on every [=DikinBaus=] plate is supposed to be.

** Liane briefly breaks from her ToughLove stance to ask Cartman in vain to stop reinnovating the house, anxious about her livelihood being further sabotaged by his scheming.

** Butters has spent the majority of the show being the ButtMonkey with countless people getting away with taking advantage of him, especially Cartman. Butters is finally given a win here when he gets all of his money back and make Cartman pay by selling the latter's dream house to new investors, all while Butters gets to profit off of Cartman's well-deserved karma.

* TranquilFury: Butters is very calm and professional when discussing selling Cartman's restaurant to new investors. However, Butters' wrath is made clear through his actions when he has the new investors remove Cartman from his dream home, which devastates Cartman to the point of tears.

** Ever since the previous season's "City People", Liane's had to suffer because of Cartman, with him sabotaging her career thanks to his selfish desire for her to be his stay-at-home mom and forcing them to live in the run-down hot dog, not to mention blaming her for it and refusing to let her solve the very problem he keeps blaming her for. At the end of this episode, the hot dog is built up into a successful restaurant, which Butters sells off. He arranges for them to return to their original home - a move that has Cartman throwing a tantrum, but leaves Liane quite satisfied with the outcome.

* AllTakeAndNoGive: Cartman convinces Butters to invest in Cartman's restaurant on the pretense that he'll give it all back to Butters once the restaurant is a success. Sure enough Cartman spends all of his money for luxuries on himself while barely making any effort on opening his restaurant for business and paying back Butters. Butters learns of this, where he decides to open Cartman's restaurant and earn back all the money himself, while forcing Cartman out of his dream house and back to his old house as payback.

** When Butters learns Cartman is the one responsible for his paycheck being empty, he looks like he is about to say "Son of Bitch" but replaces the last word with "Gun".

* BecomingTheMask: Cartman originally starts off getting a 'job' to help get money to return back home, but he gets carried away when he manages to set up his own business at the hot dog place causing him to become greedy and selfish to the point he doesn't want to return home.

** In ''VideoGame/SouthParkTheFracturedButWhole'', Butters accidentally gives away the New Kid's house due to poor bank investment. Here he kicks Cartman from the hot dog stand because he knew how to play his cards this time.

* TheChessmaster: Surprisingly, Butters shows himself to be one towards the end. Butters makes sure that he has received all of his money back before he collaborates with Liane in arranging for Cartman's restaurant to be sold to overseas investors while using his knowledge of business to be prepared when the banker attempts to scare Butters from selling his business. Butters also waits until Cartman is happy with his business and new home before selling it off without the latter's knowledge, knowing that this would completely devastate Cartman. Sure enough, Butters' plan works perfectly and he's able to profit off of Cartman's misery.

* TheDogBitesBack: After everything Cartman put him through, Butters ultimately decides to sell the hot dog stand to new ownership while buying the Cartman's old house for them to live in, robbing Eric of another one of his dreams.

* {{Futureshadowing}}: Butters' competence with working in the restaurant industry and his anger at Cartman for taking advantage of him all foreshadow his future as a restaurant manager and eventual hatred for Cartman.

* {{Irony}}: Cartman started the hot dog business to return to his old home, but ends up turning the hot dog restaurant into the place of his dreams. However, Liane and Butters end it by returning him back to the Cartman's old home, leaving him crying and bawling, wishing to return to the very place he once hated.
* ItsAllAboutMe: As usual, Cartman only thinks about himself such as being lazy and taking all the credit for the work that other people did which then later bites him back.

* KarmaHoudini: Unlike Cartman, Kenny is never shown to receive any punishment for his role in scamming Butters out of his money other than he most likely is still stuck living in poverty because he refused to do any hard work at the hot dog restaurant himself.

** When Cartman pushes his luck with Butters by spending all of his money for his own benefit, Butters decides to raise enough of it to buy Cartman's old house back, robbing the selfish brat of his dream house.

* RippedFromTheHeadlines: As per usual with this show. This time it's about how around the time this episode aired in early 2023 some states like New Jersey and Arkansas have begun rolling back child labor restrictions.

** Cartman acting lousy during his shift such as taking 'breaks' and not doing his fair share of the work.

* VillainousBreakdown: Cartman has one where he is forced to move back into his old home, spending the end crying hysterically about wanting to go back to his dream home with his mother paying no mind.

** In ''[[VideoGame/SouthParkTheFracturedButWhole]]'', Butters accidentally gives away the New Kid's house due to poor bank investment. Here he kicks Cartman from the hot dog stand because he knew how to play his cards this time.