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* NeverMyFault: The seniors refuse to acknowledge that many of them have caused a lot of bloodshed with their poor driving and lash out when any proposals of limiting their driving come up.
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** The entire second half of the episode is one to RedDawn.''Film/RedDawn1984''.
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* MassOhCrap: Anytime people see seniors driving.
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* HypocriteHasAPoint: While the seniors try in vain to [[NeverMyFault deny any of the damage they have caused]], they make the argument that punishing ''all'' of them isn't precisely fair, and by revoking their licenses some of them are unable to provide their means to live properly. Stan lampshades in the end that it was probably more the uncompromising and patronising way the town handled things that made them so stubborn about it in the first place.
* HypocriticalHumor: Randy tells his father that he isn't going to treat him like a child after getting arrested. Randy then says that he thinks someone owes Mr. Police Officer an apology.
* HypocriticalHumor: Randy tells his father that he isn't going to treat him like a child after getting arrested. Randy then says that he thinks someone owes Mr. Police Officer an apology.
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* HypocriteHasAPoint: While the seniors try in vain to [[NeverMyFault deny any of the damage they have caused]], they make the argument that punishing ''all'' of them isn't precisely fair, and by revoking their licenses some of them are unable to provide their means to live properly. Stan lampshades in the end that it was probably more the uncompromising and patronising patronizing way the town handled things that made them so stubborn about it in the first place.
* HypocriticalHumor: Randy tells his father that he isn't going to treat him like a child after gettingarrested. Randy arrested, then says that he thinks someone owes Mr. Police Officer an apology.
* HypocriticalHumor: Randy tells his father that he isn't going to treat him like a child after getting
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* RippedFromTheHeadlines: This episode was produced after a string of elderly drivers killed people in the summer of 2003, with one managing to kill about 10 people in Santa Monica.
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* DrivesLikeCrazy: The seniors become a serious danger to themselves and everyone around them when they get behind the wheel. One of them ends up on the second floor of a house.
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* ShoutOut: [[Film/{{Aliens}} Mostly hippies go to farmer's markets. Mostly.]]
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* ShoutOut: ShoutOut:
** [[Film/{{Aliens}} Mostly hippies go to farmer's markets. Mostly.]]
** [[Film/{{Aliens}} Mostly hippies go to farmer's markets. Mostly.]]
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* BeyondTheImpossible: One senior's car ends up in a closet on the second floor of a house Randy and [[FanNickname the boys]] were hiding in. It's even lampshaded by the driver.
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* BeyondTheImpossible: One senior's car ends up in a closet on the second floor of a house Randy and [[FanNickname the boys]] boys were hiding in. It's even lampshaded by the driver.
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-->'''Driving Senior''': How the hell did we get up here?
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-->'''Driving Senior''': [[NoodleIncident How the hell did we get up here?here?]]
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* NotWhatISignedUpFor: Grandpa Marsh becomes increasingly disturbed by the AARP's extreme methods, which includes ''murdering'' hostages and putting them in prison camps. He notes the seniors only wanted their licenses back and to be treated fairly.
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* NotWhatISignedUpFor: Grandpa Marsh Marvin becomes increasingly disturbed by the AARP's extreme methods, which includes ''murdering'' hostages and putting them in prison camps. He notes the seniors only wanted their licenses back and to be treated fairly.fairly.
-->'''AARP Leader:''' Heck no! This is goin' too well. We're gonna take the whole country back. Wipe out everyone below the age of sixty five!
-->'''Marvin:''' Wipe 'em out?? What are you? Senile?
-->'''AARP Leader:''' Heck no! This is goin' too well. We're gonna take the whole country back. Wipe out everyone below the age of sixty five!
-->'''Marvin:''' Wipe 'em out?? What are you? Senile?
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* NotWhatISignedUpFor: Grandpa Marsh becomes increasingly disturbed by the AARP's extreme methods, which includes ''murdering'' hostages and putting them in prison camps. He notes the seniors only wanted their licenses back and to be treated fairly.
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* CassandraTruth: Defied. No one in South Park pays heed to Randy's terrified ramblings...until he specifically notes that ''old people driving'' are involved, upon which ''everyone'' panics and makes a break for it.
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* HypocriteHasAPoint: While the seniors try in vain to [[NeverMyFault deny any of the damage they have caused]], they make the argument that punishing ''all'' of them isn't precisely fair, and by revoking their licenses some of them are unable to provide their means to live properly. Stan lampshades in the end that it was probably more the uncompromising and patronising way the town handled things that made them so stubborn about it in the first place.
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* WhenEldersAttack: They take over the country.
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* WhenEldersAttack: They take over the country.country.
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* JerkassHasAPoint: Kyle thinks Cartman's idea of shutting down Country Kitchen Buffet to render the seniors helpless is ridiculous, but it works like a charm.
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* BothSidesHaveAPoint: Stan sums it up in the end. Grampa ''is'' a killing machine every time he stepped behind a wheel. However, grampa is an adult and had the right to be angry with his own son for treating him like a child.
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* BothSidesHaveAPoint: Stan sums it up in the end. Grampa ''is'' a killing machine every time he stepped steps behind a wheel. wheel and needs to accept he can't do all the things he used to when he was younger. However, grampa Grampa is still an adult that deserves respect and had the right to be angry with his own son for treating him like a child.
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* BothSidesHaveAPoint: Stan sums it up in the end. Grampa ''is'' a killing machine every time he stepped behind a wheel. However, grampa is an adult and had the right to be angry with his own son for treating him like a child.
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* AllUpToYou: [[PlayedForLaughs The boys are the only ones who can help.]] However only because the adults are too lazy to do it themselves.
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* AllUpToYou: [[PlayedForLaughs The boys are the only ones who can help.]] However However, it's only because the adults are too lazy to do it themselves.
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* AssholeVictim: The clerk at the DMV who callously dismisses the seniors' protestations at having their licenses taken away, suggests they should all be in nursing homes and when one of them comments that he'd rather die, the clerk says "Well, we can certainly help with that, too." [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nGGcS3p1yHo When the seniors take the entire town hostage]], he laughs at them, asking if they all have Alzheimer's and that no one's going to listen to "a bunch of whacked-out senior citizens." When the AARP leader responds that they'll start killing hostages if their demands aren't met, the clerk goes "[[TooDumbToLive Right, they're really gonna believe that?]]" The senior next to him [[LaserGuidedKarma immediately]] [[InstantDeathBullet shoots him in the head.]]
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* {{Foreshadowing}}: When one senior kills a hostage, Marvin thinks that it's a little extreme. He ends up being the one to point out how insane the AARP's plan is (to wipe out everyone who isn't 65 or older).
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** Needless to say, this prompts Randy to tell everyone in South Park to get inside, explaining that the seniors' meeting is about to get out, and they're rightfully terrified.
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'''Randy''': At the same time. [[OhCrap Oh My God!]]
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'''Randy''': At the same time. [[OhCrap Oh My Oh, my God!]]
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* ExplainExplainOhCrap: When Randy and Sharon realize what'll happen after the seniors' meeting...
-->'''Randy''': Sharon, have you seen Dad?\\
'''Sharon''': He's not here, hun. He's having a meeting with all the seniors in town at the community center.\\
'''Randy''': Oh. Wait a minute... If all the seniors in town are at a meeting, that means that when the meeting gets out...\\
'''Sharon''': Every senior in town will be driving home...\\
'''Randy''': At the same time. [[OhCrap Oh My God!]]
-->'''Randy''': Sharon, have you seen Dad?\\
'''Sharon''': He's not here, hun. He's having a meeting with all the seniors in town at the community center.\\
'''Randy''': Oh. Wait a minute... If all the seniors in town are at a meeting, that means that when the meeting gets out...\\
'''Sharon''': Every senior in town will be driving home...\\
'''Randy''': At the same time. [[OhCrap Oh My God!]]
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* CarMeetsHouse: Seniors driving cars chase the boys like in a SlasherMovie (or, more accurately, a zombie movie).
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* TemptingFate: What did Grandpa Marsh think Officer Barbrady would do after daring Barbrady to arrest him and calling him a scrotum head while breaking the law?
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** The entire second half of the episode is one to RedDawn.
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* AllUpToYou: [[PlayedForLaughs The boys are the only ones who can help.]]]] However only because the adults are too lazy to do it themselves.
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* StatingTheSimpleSolution: The boys realize that shutting down Country Kitchen Buffet will leave the senior citizens powerless. Cartman details an elaborate plan including disguising themselves as black people and strapping explosives to Kyle while he goes inside. Stan then points out that they could just lock the store from the inside so they can't get in. Cartman admits they could do just that.
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* StatingTheSimpleSolution: The boys realize that shutting down Country Kitchen Buffet will leave the senior citizens powerless. Cartman details an elaborate plan including disguising themselves as black people and strapping explosives to Kyle while he goes inside. Stan then points out that they could just lock the store from the inside so they can't get in. Cartman admits they could do just that.that but still keeps trying to push the idea of using Kyle with a bomb.
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** Becomes a BrickJoke when after they have fixed everything their parents are just waking up.
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* WhenEldersAttackWhenEldersAttack: They take over the country.
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* BeyondTheImpossible: One Senior's car ends up in a closet on the second floor of a house Randy and [[FanNickname the boys]] were hiding in. It's even lampshaded by the driver.
-->'''Driving Senior''': How the hell did we get up here?
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After several people are killed by cars driven by senior citizens, their licenses are revoked. The seniors decide to fight back and take over the town.
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* AllUpToYou: [[PlayedForLaughs The boys are the only ones who can help.]]
-->'''Stan''': Dad, why is everyone letting old people do this? Why doesn't somebody stop them?\\
'''Randy''': They've tried to stop them, son, but... the seniors get up so early in the morning they... get everything done before everyone else is even awake!\\
'''Kyle''': They're saying something about taking over the entire country.\\
'''Randy''': Yes. And now seeing how early they get up, I don't see how anyone can stop them. Wait a minute. You boys! You get up almost as early as they do! You can fight them!\\
'''Stan''': No. Come on, Dad. Can't you guys do it?\\
'''Randy''': No, son. We... like to sleep in.
* CarMeetsHouse: Seniors driving cars chase the boys like in a SlasherMovie.
* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: The seniors put the other adults into a prison camp.
* EverybodyLaughsEnding: Before leaving, Stan adds that he hates his family.
* GodIsEvil: "...God's sense of humor is very different from our own. He does not laugh at the simple "man walks into a bar" joke. No, God needs complex irony and subtle farcical twists that seem macabre to you and me. All that we can hope for is that God got his good laugh and [[TemptingFate a tragedy such as this will never happen again]]."
* HypocriticalHumor: Randy tells his father that he isn't going to treat him like a child after getting arrested. Randy then says that he thinks someone owes Mr. Police Officer an apology.
* ShoutOut: [[Film/{{Aliens}} Mostly hippies go to farmer's markets. Mostly.]]
* StatingTheSimpleSolution: The boys realize that shutting down Country Kitchen Buffet will leave the senior citizens powerless. Cartman details an elaborate plan including disguising themselves as black people and strapping explosives to Kyle while he goes inside. Stan then points out that they could just lock the store from the inside so they can't get in. Cartman admits they could do just that.
* WhenEldersAttack
After several people are killed by cars driven by senior citizens, their licenses are revoked. The seniors decide to fight back and take over the town.
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* AllUpToYou: [[PlayedForLaughs The boys are the only ones who can help.]]
-->'''Stan''': Dad, why is everyone letting old people do this? Why doesn't somebody stop them?\\
'''Randy''': They've tried to stop them, son, but... the seniors get up so early in the morning they... get everything done before everyone else is even awake!\\
'''Kyle''': They're saying something about taking over the entire country.\\
'''Randy''': Yes. And now seeing how early they get up, I don't see how anyone can stop them. Wait a minute. You boys! You get up almost as early as they do! You can fight them!\\
'''Stan''': No. Come on, Dad. Can't you guys do it?\\
'''Randy''': No, son. We... like to sleep in.
* CarMeetsHouse: Seniors driving cars chase the boys like in a SlasherMovie.
* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: The seniors put the other adults into a prison camp.
* EverybodyLaughsEnding: Before leaving, Stan adds that he hates his family.
* GodIsEvil: "...God's sense of humor is very different from our own. He does not laugh at the simple "man walks into a bar" joke. No, God needs complex irony and subtle farcical twists that seem macabre to you and me. All that we can hope for is that God got his good laugh and [[TemptingFate a tragedy such as this will never happen again]]."
* HypocriticalHumor: Randy tells his father that he isn't going to treat him like a child after getting arrested. Randy then says that he thinks someone owes Mr. Police Officer an apology.
* ShoutOut: [[Film/{{Aliens}} Mostly hippies go to farmer's markets. Mostly.]]
* StatingTheSimpleSolution: The boys realize that shutting down Country Kitchen Buffet will leave the senior citizens powerless. Cartman details an elaborate plan including disguising themselves as black people and strapping explosives to Kyle while he goes inside. Stan then points out that they could just lock the store from the inside so they can't get in. Cartman admits they could do just that.
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