Line #36 Recap/SouthParkS22E5TheScoots


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2	'''Original air date:''' 10/31/2018
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4	The kids plan to use the latest revolution in mobility to get more candy on Halloween than they have ever gotten before. Meanwhile, the adults are hoarding emergency supplies and hoping to survive until morning.
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7	!!Tropes:
8	* ADayInTheLimelight: After being DemotedToExtra for two seasons, Kenny gets to be the focus of this episode. Mr. Mackey also shares the leading role alongside Kenny.
9	* AllOfTheOtherReindeer: Because he doesn't have a smartphone required for this e-scooter scheme, Kenny is shunned by every group in school that he approaches.
10	* BaitAndSwitch: When Kenny decides to go on the cellphone tower to hook it up to Mackey's car, it seems like he'll die once it falls. Instead, he winds up surviving the tower's collapse and gets his happy ending.
11	* ContinuityNod:
12	** Stan is not only still wearing his Tegridy Farms shirt but the Marsh family still live there as well.
13	** The sign for Mr. Hankey's Holiday Pageant is seen, with the words "Cancelled" spray painted on.
14	** Then there's the girls looking at Kenny with confusion when he asks to go trick-or-treating with them, signifying that while the Gender War is winding down (mainly due to Gerald ceasing his trolling activities), the girls are still wary of the boys.
15	* ContinuitySnarl: Apparently Kenny lacks a smartphone in this episode, despite using a smartphone to text in previous episodes and in the video game series.
16	* EarnYourHappyEnding: After everything he's gone through, Kenny gets to do what he wanted most: go trick-or-treating with his friends.
17	* EasilyForgiven: When it's all over, Kenny invites Stan, Kyle, and Cartman to go trick-or-treating with him.
18	* {{Egging}}: The adults of the town fear this will happen to their houses if they run out of candy for the trick-or-treaters.
19	* TheEndOrIsIt: Parodied. The final scene has an e-scooter get up on its own and drive off.
20	* {{Greed}}: The trick-or-treaters don't care about getting 'enough' candy, just 'more than everybody else'.
21	** When Stan, Kyle and Eric's candy bags get completely filled rather than calling it a successful night and going home they all start stuffing themselves in the middle of the street so they have more room in their bags for candy, and judging from Butters they weren't the only ones to have the idea.
22	* HalloweenEpisode: The seventh Halloween-themed episode in the series, after "Pinkeye", "Spookyfish", "Korn's Groovy Pirate Ghost Mystery", "Hell on Earth 2006", "A Nightmare on Facetime", and "Sons a Witches".
23	* HeroicBSOD: Kenny spends much of the episode depressed. When he finally bottoms out, he goes to Mr. Mackey for counseling, which is how they team up to take down the smartphones.
24	* HiddenDepths: Mr. Mackey notes that Kenny is pretty smart and compassionate. The narration twist also demonstrates how eloquent he can be when his voice isn't muffled.
25	* JerkassBall: Stan and Kyle decide getting more candy with e-scooters is more important than keeping Kenny included in the group and shun him.
26	* LaserGuidedKarma: All the kids who forbade Kenny go trick-or-treating with them for not having a smartphone to access the e-scooters lose their smartphone signal, and therefore their access to e-scooters, after Kenny destroys the cell tower. A special mention goes to Stan, Kyle, and Cartman, who were the first to ban Kenny from trick-or-treating with them, only to get stuck trick-or-treating with him in the end.
27	* LeaningOnTheFourthWall: Mr. Mackey does this when he mentions how Kenny became obscured until this episode.
28	* MythologyGag: Timmy's costume is his Mecha Timmy outfit from ''VideoGame/SouthParkPhoneDestroyer''.
29	* NarratorAllAlong: Kenny was narrating the entire episode.
30	* OutOfFocus: Mr. Mackey lampshades how people tend to forget about Kenny sometimes.
31	* ProperlyParanoid: Randy correctly guesses that Stephen and Linda only came to his farm in the hopes of having a distant place to hide from trick-or-treaters.
32	* ShoutOut:
33	** The security guard that Kenny and Mr. Mackey talk to is dressed like [[Franchise/Fridaythe13th Jason Voorhees]].
34	--->'''Mackey:''' Jason, I'm a counselor. You need to trust me.
35	** Many characters, including Stan, Kyle, and Cartman, are dressed as characters from ''{{VideoGame/Fortnite}}''.
36	** The scene where Mr. Mackey steals all the e-scooters is one to the ''Literature/HowTheGrinchStoleChristmas''
37	* SpeakingLikeTotallyTeen: Kenny does this when he's trying to convince the girls to let him go trick-or-treating with them.
38	* TheyKilledKennyAgain: Subverted, despite seemingly being crushed underneath a cell phone tower, Kenny is able to then trick-or-treat unscathed.
39	* TheUnreveal: It's never shown where the scooters came from.
40	* WholePlotReference: The title and plot of this episode is one for ''Film/TheBirds''.

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