History Recap / SouthParkS8E5AWESOMO

* TakeThat: Plots for Adam Sandler movies are considered so threadbare and interchangeable that a 9-year-old can come up with dozens of them off the top of his head.

* CharacterCatchphrase: Whenever things go south for Cartman in this episode, he shouts ''Lame!'', both in and outside of costume.

* AdultsAreUseless: Zigzagged. Butters' family knows immediately that AWESOM-O is just Cartman in disguise. The military, on the other hand, fall for the disguise completely, even as Cartman tells them repeatedly that he's not a robot.

* AdultsAreUseless: Zigzagged. Butters's parents, aunt and uncle know immediately that AWESOM-O is just Cartman in disguise. The military, on the other hand, fall for the disguise completely even as Cartman tells them repeatedly that he's not a robot.
* AgentMulder: The military. A robot designed to be a war machine against terrorists and make movie ideas right on the spot? Makes perfect sense. This same robot being able to make farts that smell? Preposterous.

* DidntThinkThisThrough: Cartman has a pretty major one. In order to try to learn embarrassing secrets about Butters, he pretends to be the titular robot, who is supposed to be Butters’ very own servant. What Cartman doesn’t realize, is that being a robot is ''very'' different from being human. Since Butters knows an embarrassing secret about ''him'' and will tell the school if he does anything mean to him again, Cartman is forced to keep up the charade. This means that he can’t eat, and he can’t take off his hot robot costume, making him extremely sweaty. HilarityEnsues, and eventually the military tries to ''dissect'' him. Of course, Butters eventually finds out the truth, and just to add insult to all of Cartman’s suffering, the entire school, as well as the military, learn all about his secret.

* HumiliationConga: The entire episode is this to Cartman, especially at the end. To maintain his facade, he is forced to stick his hand up Butters' butt, do all his chores, nearly dies of heatstroke and starvation in a plane, is forced to give over 2300 movie ideas to Hollywood with Butters keeping all the money and donating it all away to needy children (and with being paid $100 per idea Butters made $230,500), accosted by a {{Robosexual}}, captured by the military, and almost cut into and experimented on. Finally, after revealing the ruse, a video of him dressed like Britney Spears and dancing with a Justin Timberlake cutout is exposed to the school, the whole town, and the military. Compared to most examples, he deserved every bit of it.

* KarmaHoudiniWarranty: Implied for Cartman. After getting away with humiliating Butters in previous episodes, he is forced to pretend to be the boy's robot slave to avoid humiliation, only for Butters to get his revenge anyway after discovering he was tricked again.

* NoSympathy: Everything Cartman went through surely should have made up for everything he did to Butters right? Wrong. Despite rescuing Cartman from almost being killed, Butters still reveals his secret.

* OutOfCharacterMoment: Liane surprisingly had grounded Eric for trying to restart the Holocaust [[Recap/SouthParkS8E3ThePassionOfTheJew two weeks ago (two episodes earlier)]], and Butters' parents are fully aware that AWESOM-O is really just Cartman in a costume when most times, the adults of South Park would fall for the trick.

* ShoutOut: The studio executive asks AWESOM-O if [[Film/BladeRunner he's a "pleasure model"]].

* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: While Cartman does his best under the guise of AWESOM-O, he begins to struggle when it comes to breathing and eating as the costume is hot and he can't take it off without revealing the deception to Butters. At one point, he desperately consumes toothpaste for sustenance after a flight of several hours to Los Angeles that included a three-hour delay where he couldn't eat in Butters' presence.

* StoppedCaring: After everything he went through. Cartman just watches the embarrassing video of himself with a bored expression while everyone laughs.

* ThrowTheDogABone: Butters finally gets back at Cartman for years of bullying and makes over $230,000 -- most of which he donates to charity.

Cartman dresses up as a robot from Japan, sent to Butters. He tricks him into believing it and can't give away his identity because he finds out Butters has a video of him dancing to Britney Spears while dressed as her, and grinding on a Justin Timberlake cardboard cutout! It gets even more out of hand as the military decide to try to capture 'the robot' to make it a weapon.

* AssholeVictim: Cartman clearly had it coming for what he did to Butters in previous episodes and was planning to do in this one.

DidntThinkThisThrough: Cartman has a pretty major one. In order to try to learn embarrassing secrets about Butters, he pretends to be the titular robot, who is supposed to be Butters’ very own servant. What Cartman doesn’t realize, is that being a robot is ''very'' different from being human. Since Butters knows an embarrassing secret about ''him'' and will tell the school if he does anything mean to him again, Cartman is forced to keep up the charade. This means that he can’t eat, and he can’t take off his hot robot costume, making him extremely sweaty. HilarityEnsues, and eventually the military tries to ''dissect'' him. Of course, Butters eventually finds out the truth, and just to add insult to all of Cartman’s suffering, the entire school, as well as the military, learn all about his secret.

* AllForNothing: Cartman is forced to maintain his robot disguise for days, subject himself to all sorts of discomfort and humiliation, is sexually assaulted, and nearly dies of everything from starvation to being impaled by a giant drill, and he ''still'' isn't able to prevent Butters from showing the Britney Spears tape to everyone.

* AllForNothing: Cartman is forced to maintain his robot disguise for days, subject himself to all sorts of humiliation, and nearly dies of everything from starvation to being impaled by a giant drill, and he ''still'' isn't able to prevent Butters from showing the Britney Spears tape to everyone.