History WesternAnimation / SouthParkNotSuitableForChildren

** Also played straight: all the bags Sharon bought thanks to her [=OnlyFans=] money sport the logos of real life brands like Louis Vuitton.

** Heidi Turner and Daniel Tanner have a ShipTease moment in this special long after the end of their respective relationships [[Recap/SouthParkS21E10SplattyTomato Eric Cartman]] and [[Recap/SouthParkS20E2SkankHunt Annie Knitts]].

* ContrastingSequelAntagonist: Janice is a KnightTemplarParent like Sheila Brovlofski in ''WesternAnimation/SouthParkBiggerLongerAndUncut'', but while Sheila wanted to eliminate media she deemed a corrupting influence on children, Janice enabled BadInfluencer's to incite riots and push addictive substances on children in order to subtly influence Clyde without him knowing. Also Janice was a {{Pushover Parent|s}} who enabled Clyde's temper tantrums while Sheila is very strict and authoritative with her children.

'''Clyde:''' Fuck you, Mom

* BigBad: Clyde’s stepmother Janice is the main antagonist of this special, being the one who is responsible for the creation and distribution of Cred, while paying influencers like [=LoganLeDouche=] to peddle and advertise it, because [[WellIntentionedExtremist she wanted to try and reach Clyde and positively influence him as a mother]] but felt that she couldn’t do it face to face because being a stepmother meant that she wasn’t his “real mother”.]]

* KarmaHoudini: Clyde's stepmother, Janice, gets away with having Logan [=LeDouche=] KilledToUpholdTheMasquerade.

* NutritionalNightmare: Cred is implied to be this. While it contains zero sugar, it has numerous ingredients and chemicals that don't make it very safe for consumption. A kid even outright mentions in the commercial that he can't feel his face anymore after drinking so much. It is however stated to not be meant for children, not that it stops them from drinking it anyway.

* NutritionalNightmare: Cred is implied to be this. While it contains zero sugar, it has numerous ingredients and chemicals that don't make it very safe for consumption. A kid even outright mentions in the commercial that he can't feel his face anymore after drinking so much of it.

* ShadyScalper: Nathan sells Cred behind the school temp building for ridiculously high prices, with some of his cheapest stuff being ''sixty-five'' dollars. When Clyde isn't able to afford any of it, Nathan gives him an empty bottle for three dollars and suggests that he can just fill it with something else to make it look like the real thing. Unfortunately for Clyde, said bottle used to contain a discontinued flavor that attracts everybody's attention and exposes the ruse almost immediately.

* AnAesop:
** Children are prime targets of influencers on social media and need to be careful of who they follow. They could end up doing some ''really'' dumb things in the name of the person they got it from.
** Alternatively, you shouldn't jump on any trend that's going on at the time just because some person on [=YouTube=] or whatever is doing it.

* ShadyScalper: Nathan sells people bottles of Cred behind the school temp building for ridiculously high prices, with some of his cheapest stuff being ''sixty-five'' dollars. When Clyde isn't able to afford any of it, Nathan gives him an empty bottle for three dollars and suggests that he can just fill it with something else to make it look like the real thing. Unfortunately for Clyde, said bottle used to contain a discontinued flavor that attracts everybody's attention and exposes the ruse almost immediately.

** The scene showing hundreds of children violently fighting for Cred bottles at a CVS Pharmacy is a swipe at artificial scarcity.

** During the auction, the representatives of the Russian government look like peasants if compared to the government members from other countries, probably a jab at Russia's situation caused by their war against Ukraine and the subsequent sanctions from the international community.

* TooDumbToLive: Honestly, with Logan's compulsion to update his social media even when he's supposed to be in hiding, it's a wonder he wasn't assassinated sooner than he was.

* ProductPlacement: {{Deconstructed}}. Randy learns that the influencer culture encourages people to follow popular trends to get more viewers, so he gets in on the Cred craze. It's later revealed that Logan was not sponsored by Cred but was doing the same thing. Then when their viewership gets high enough to get noticed that's when actual sponsors will court you, but this is portrayed as an auction where the Influencer is bought out by any number of companies or even countries and they have no idea what they are actually promoting.

** The entire episode is one big fat jab at influencers, ''especially'' those who have children as part of their audience, showing them as obnoxious idiots who only care about views and money.

** The South Park parents refusal to take responsibility for the consequences of spoiling their kids and expecting the school to raise them to be well behaved is one towards permissive parenting.

** Hundreds of children violently fighting for Cred bottles at a CVS Pharmacy is a swipe at artificial scarcity.