History Recap / SouthParkS7E13ButtOut

* NoSympathy: Neither Stan, Kyle, or Kenny care when [[{Jerkass}} Cartman]] tells them that Rob Reiner wanted to kill him.

-->"My goo! My precious goo!"

* BrokenAesop: The episode makes the point that smoking is a personal choice and you shouldn't shame people for it, while taking plenty of shots at Rob Reiner for his own unhealthy lifestyle choices.

* BrokenRecord: The message that Rob Reiner is wrong for trying to force his views on other people is stated and re-stated constantly.
* CluelessAesop: In-universe. The anti-smoking group Butt Out comes to the school and puts on a presentation against tobacco usage which is so lame, so unimaginably childish, painfully outdated by at least two decades at the time, and poorly thought-out that all it does is make the kids utterly miserable, while simultaneously giving no ''actual'' reasons whatsoever why smoking is bad. Worse still, they end on the message "If you don't smoke, you can grow up to be just like us", which of course prompts the kids to ''begin'' furiously smoking to avoid ending up anything like the thing they just saw up on stage.

* GodwinsLaw: Kyle and Stan call Rob Reiner a fascist because he uses his influence to try to make people agree with his views on smoking. The viewer is clearly expected to agree with this statement but it's incorrect, as fascism is a specific political ideology that emphasizes nationalism, and while Reiner does have an authoritarian personality he does not express any views consistent with fascism.

* ProperlyParanoid: Cartman reads the lines for the commercial and is concerned about the part saying he'll already be dead by the time it airs. One of Reiner's people then offers him a special cupcake, which Cartman immediately refuses.

* RecycledSoundtrack: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fG4TcxXShj4&t=150s A scene at Rob Reiner's headquarters]] uses [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R67Xhv6U02Y a track]] from the ''Manga/{{Monster}}'' anime.

* RecycledSoundtrack: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QP6SMNIVYgg&t=127s A scene at Rob Reiner's headquarters]] uses [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R67Xhv6U02Y a track]] from the ''Manga/{{Monster}}'' anime.

** Which is TruthInTelevision. Who ''didn't'' have to sit through one of these things at school?

** When the boys try to tell Stan’s dad that the anti-smokers are trying to kill Cartman, Randy says that the “kind, caring, intelligent” anti-smoking groups are trying to prevent their minds from being corrupted by the tobacco companies.

* OneSteveLimit: Subverted, two of the "Butt Out!" members are named Kyle and Randy, which are also the names of two main characters in the series. Quite fittingly, Kyle (Broflovski) and Randy Marsh's son Stan are shown cringing when the respective "Butt Out!" members are introduced.

* OneSteveLimit: Subverted, two of the "Butt out!" members are named Kyle and Randy, which are also the names to two main characters in the series.

* PlotHole: Rob Reiner is obsessed with all issues relating to smoking and stays on top of news stories on the subject, so he should have already known that Colorado allows smoking in bars.
** On the other hand, Reiner is portrayed as such an out of touch [[BourgeoisBohemian Limousine Liberal]], he finds it hard to believe the unwashed masses haven't simply adopted the anti-smoking laws he finds so obvious.

-->'''Stan:''' At least we learned something here today.\\
'''Kyle:''' ''(disdainfully)'' No we didn't, Stan. No we didn't.

* BrokenRecord: The message that Rob Reiner is trying to force his views on other people is stated and re-stated constantly.

'''Airdate:''' December 3, 2003

* DoNotDoThisCoolThing: [[InvertedTrope Inverted]]. The members of Butt Out, at the of their presentation, enthusiasmatically scream "If you don't smoke, you can grow up to be just like us". SmashCut to the boys desperately trying to smoke a cigarette on the school's parking lot.

* DoNotDoThisCoolThing: [[InvertedTrope Inverted]]. The members of Butt Out, at the of their presentation, scream "If you don't smoke, you can grow up to be just like us". SmashCut to the boys desperately trying to smoke a cigarette on the school's parking lot.

* MissingTrailerScene: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nxvKEimE4q8 A scene]] from the episode’s preview shows Butters being peer pressured from the members of "Butt out!" during the assembly. This doesn’t occur in the episode.

* MissingTrailerScene: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nxvKEimE4q8 A scene]] from the episode’s preview shows Butters being peer pressured from the members of "Butt out!" during the assembly doesn’t occur in the episode.