History Recap / SouthParkS26E5DikinBausHotDogs

* HypocriteHasAPoint: Cartman has made sitting on his fat ass and doing less than the bare minimum the official norm, even more than he previously has, in this episode, but unlike Willy's Ice Cream Parlor, [=DikinBaus=] is just debuting, and Darryl completely brushes over the former (and Kenny) thinking he has enough qualifications and hiring him just to ask for mental health days and an escape from "toxicity," so Cartman being mad at him and seeming to think he's ungrateful definitely has some level of reasonability to it.

* HypocriteHasAPoint: Cartman has made sitting on his fat ass and doing less than the bare minimum the official norm, even more than he previously has, in this episode, but unlike Willy's Ice Cream Parlor, [=DikinBaus=] is just debuting, and Darryl completely brushes over the former thinking he has enough qualifications and hiring him just to ask for mental health days and an escape from "toxicity," so Cartman being mad at him and seeming to think he's ungrateful definitely has some level of reasonability to it.

** Darryl complains about being fired from multiple other places and bemoans that all he wants is a job. The moment he's offered one, he immediately begins making unreasonable demands to work from home (despite it being a restaurant) and have days off "to deal with the toxic environment". When the employer (understandably) rescinds the offer, Darryl gets angry and accuses him of "taking his job" that he hadn't even technically got yet.

* PyrrhicVictory: Cartman does get back his old home like he initially wanted. However, it becomes meaningless to Cartman since he had just converted the hot dog stand into his dream home. Even if Cartman gets his old home back, he'll still be very likely to end up homeless and alone in the [[WesternAnimation/SouthParkPostCovidTheReturnOfCovid future]], given that he destroyed his relationship with his mother in Season 25, screwed his friends over in both the previous season and this season, and has proven that he's incapable of working for a living in this episode.

* WhamEpisode: At the end, Butters sells [=DikinBaus=] and arranges for the Cartmans to move back into their old house.

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

** Then there's Cartman refusing to work in the jobs he is given which ties in to how he did nothing in his life resulting in becoming a homeless drunk. The music that plays when Cartman's fate is revealed in the good future is even reused in the end.

** Then there's Cartman refusing to work in the jobs he is given which ties in to how he did nothing in his life resulting in becoming a homeless drunk.

* BrokenTears: After getting forced out of his dream home and having to move back to his old house by Butters, the episode ends with Cartman crying and screaming that he wants to go back to [=DikinBaus=] over and over in despair.

** Butters' anger towards Cartman for taking advantage of him alludes to the eventual contempt he'll have towards Cartman in the future.

* 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.

** Cartman and the various other people who work from home, despite the fact that by definition of being service industry jobs, ''need'' employees to be there.

** Every 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.

* HypocriticalHumor: Cartman doesn't take his job at the ice cream shop seriously, goofs off on the job, tries to "work from home", and takes days off unauthorized, but later gets frustrated when his own employees and applicants pull the same tricks on him.

** Cartman still blames his mother for their predicament of living in a hot dog stand and when she tells them that this is the result of Cartman forcing her to quit her job, Cartman makes the excuse that he should be the one getting the job being "the man of the family", while Liane should take care of him.

* {{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.

* ADayInTheLimelight: The only episode of Season 26 where Kenny is one of the focuses.

* 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.

** Liane's recently had to suffer, with Cartman 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. At the end of the 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.

* ThrowTheDogABone: 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.

* 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 his dream house to back to his old house as payback.

* UnconfessedUnemployment: Butters's parents assume that his $0 bank balance means that he is doing this -- though his father's description of just ''how'' it is happening is suspiciously specific.