Original air date: 11/6/2019
Mayor McDaniels has Randy sent to prison after Tweek's parents provide footage of him blowing up local weed farms. The rest of the family celebrates, but Randy consults president Garrison for advice on how to get out. Meanwhile, Jason White dies, and his parents adopt (and abuse) a Mexican child named Alejandro to fill the void.
Tropes:
- Abusive Parents: The Whites treat Alejandro like a dog and try to force him to act like a member of their family; they even adopt another immigrant child like a pet for him. This ends up being too much for Alejandro, and when Mr. White forces sunscreen on him, he finally snaps, goes on a rampage, and becomes Mexican Joker.
- An Aesop: Systematic abuse and racism instills so much anger in its victim that it will inevitably turn them into the threat you assumed that they already were, and you will have no one to blame but yourself when it happens.
- And There Was Much Rejoicing: Stan, Shelly and Sharon are positively gleeful at the idea that Randy might be locked up for good and they can sell the farm to get back to South Park and their old lives. When people start coming by their house to "Show support," the Marshes are essentially having a party celebrating how Randy might finally be out of their lives. Unfortunately for them, Randy's back at the end.
- Back for the Dead: Jason White makes a return, only to be unexpectedly run over by a police cruiser.
- Bait-and-Switch:
- At the beginning of the episode, it appears Rudy was giving oral sex to Garrison... only to reveal he was picking up pistachio shells.
- Once he confronts Randy in the visiting room, Rudy pulls his own pants down, reaches behind him... and takes out a smuggled joint.
- Bilingual Bonus: Barring the awkward pronunciation, Alejandro's Spanish is for the most part accurate.Alejandro: ¡Abajo los Estados Unidos!note
- Brick Joke: Mexican Joker.
- The Bus Came Back:
- President Garrison gets his first speaking role since the end of Season 21, having escaped police custody since the bike parade and returned to Washington. He is now facing impeachment.
- The White family also returns from the Season 21 finale, as do the ICE personnel from the beginning of the season, now adopting out kids whose parents were deported,but they got to stay because they were born in the United States and thus have birthright citizenship (with the entire process treated like it's an animal shelter).
- Call-Back:
- The Mayor mentions Randy blowing up home-grown marijuana crops, making business deals with the Chinese Government, throwing parades for himself, slaughtering dozen of cows, and nearly poisoning the town with his Halloween Special, leading to her decision to arrest Randy.
- Randy almost addresses the President of the United States as "Mr. Garrison", which the show made a point to
avoid doing since Season 20.
- Captain Oblivious: The Whites believe in Randy's innocence,despite the overall recorded evidence against him as well as he less than subtitle self promotion of the stuff he WAS proud of, mostly because they want to buy his weed. Their delusion was fueled even more with how President Garrison and Rudy Giuliani are in support of Randy too.
- Cassandra Truth: Subverted. The townspeople believe Randy was right about the existence of Mexican Joker when Alejandro goes on his rampage, but it was just a Contrived Coincidence; Randy really did blow up everyone's backyards.
- Continuity Nod: The ICE detention facility from "Mexican Joker" reappears.
- Death of a Child: Jason White gets run over by a police car, much to the grief of his family.
- Department of Child Disservices: The ICE Detention facility has pretty much went from being indifferent prison to an animal shelter, still making migrant children suffer, especially ones with legal citizenship.
- Didn't Think This Through: A retroactive example. Randy not doing anything to disguise himself or check for and disable any home security cameras before committing his bombings in "Mexican Joker" comes back to bite him here.
- Dropped a Bridge on Him: Jason gets hit by a police car shortly after backing up into the street while playing football.
- Foil: The Whites can be seen as the Stotch parents, being both physically and emotionally abusive towards their children. However, Robert and Mrs. White are way worse than Stephen and Linda, since the latter two have toned down a bit over the seasons.
- Forgotten Fallen Friend: The students have to be reminded by Jason's dad that he was killed in an accident.
- Freudian Excuse: During a group therapy session at the prison, Randy confesses that part of the reason behind his crappy behavior and Never My Fault attitude throughout the season was because ever since Garrison became president, Randy has been comparing his scruples to that of the president's, and that as long as his values are somewhat better than those of the president's, he should be okay.
- Gag Echo: Through out this episode, Jeff and the Whites respond to the Spanish they hear from the migrant children is "Bien. Gracias. ¿Y tú?" note
- Heel Realization: Without any access to weed, Randy starts to sober up for the first time in months and starts to realize what he's been doing has made him a pretty crappy person.
- Hypocrite: Randy says that he forgot about his family and that he wouldn't forget them anymore. The thing is, he only mentioned Sharon and Stan, leaving Shelly out.
- Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy: Despite managing to get Mexican Joker in the arm during his Roaring Rampage of Revenge, the police fail to land any more bullets on him.
- Insane Troll Logic: Alejandro is believed to be responsible for Randy's acts of terrorism against home-growers, despite Alejandro being in a detention facility until after Randy's arrest. Not to mention the fact that there is video evidence of Randy blowing up a homegrown weed. However, this stupidity is pretty par for the course in South Park.
- It's All About Me: The Whites think their plight is more important than Randy's. They also want him freed from prison simply because he provides them with their weed.
- "It" Is Dehumanizing: When Mr. White tells Alejandro to be nice to his "mother" (Mrs. White), Alejandro answers by saying "¡Eso no es mi madre!", which is, roughly, "That thing is not my mother!" in Spanish.
- Jerkass Realization: Randy finally realizes how much of a jerk he's been the entire season and decides to just accept his punishment. Even when the charges are dropped, he vows to stick to small scale weed harvesting.
- Karma Houdini Warranty: After all the crap he pulls through the season, Randy is finally arrested. Too bad the charges got dropped.
- Kick the Dog: Randy basically forgets that Shelly exists, much to her disbelief.
- Killed Off for Real: Jason White.
- Lack of Empathy: Play straight with Jeff at the ICE facility and The Whites overall. Jeff seem to gotten over the fear of Mexican Joker, he still shows no concern how he treats the kids still in his care. And while the Whites did lost Jason and are upset that no one cares for their lost, their adoption and treatment of Alejandro was just awful.
- Laser-Guided Karma: Randy is finally arrested for all the bullshit he's pulled just for the sake of his farm, which everyone is getting tired of at this point.
- Leaning on the Fourth Wall:
- The Mayor telling Randy everyone is sick of him and Tegridy Farms as well as Randy's protests that South Park is nothing without them is a clear reference to the fan complaints of the Tegridy Farms arc taking up most of Season 23's screen time.
- Randy, after getting home and announcing that it’s the Season Finale (as in the end of harvesting season), looks like he’s speaking directly to the audience before the camera pans out and reveals he’s speaking into a camera for a show about the farm.
- My God, What Have I Done?: Randy, once he's sobered up from a lack of weed, realizes the severity of his actions and experiences intense guilt over what he’s done during the season, confessing during a prison therapy session.
- Never My Fault: Per usual, Randy believes that he's being arrested because everyone in town is jealous of his success, not for the litany of crimes he's committed. Thankfully, he gets over it once he's sobered up from a lack of weed.
- Non-Indicative Title:
- Despite the episode title, this is not the final episode of Season 23.
- However, it does get inverted by the end of the episode: When Randy remarks how the season is over, he clarifies that the marijuana season is over; the first snow has begun falling, meaning he can't grow new crops until the spring.
- Not So Stoic: While trying to tell the kids the 'bad news' that their father might be going away for a long time and they will probably have to sell the farm and move back to South Park, Sharon is very clearly trying to keep her face straight and not smile.
- Only Sane Man: The doctor in jail explains that the way Randy's feeling is because, since he hasn't done marijuana in a while, reality is setting in and he's finally starting to feel guilty for all the horrible stuff he's done. He also adds this is a sign Randy needs to cut back on marijuana use because of how it's affected him. When Randy tries to turn it around and act like a victim (the way President Garrison suggested), instead of the doctor falling for it he bluntly tells Randy that won't work because he's not the President.
- Outliving One's Offspring: Mr. and Mrs. White when their son Jason gets run over by a police car, with neither of them taking this very well.
- Pet the Dog: Cartman is sympathetic to the Whites for their loss, so he offers his condolences, says Jason would've wanted them to help a new child, and tells them where they can adopt one.
- Playing the Victim Card: Just like in "Splatty Tomato" the Whites and President Garrison play this card once more when justifying their actions, the latter of which even has a system based entirely on this trope whom he coaches Randy to use.
- Reality Has No Subtitles: Alejandro's Spanish dialogue doesn't have subtitles.
- Replacement Goldfish: The Whites adopt Alejandro to replace their recently deceased son.
- Season Fauxnale: Despite the episode literally saying "Season Finale", there's still 4 more episodes left before season 23 officially ends.
- Sequel Episode: To "Mexican Joker".
- Shout-Out: The conversation between Randy and President Garrison strongly echoes the Trump impeachment hearings, and Trump's Implausible Deniability.
- Small Role, Big Impact: Jason White was a very minor character, though his death kickstarts the rise of Mexican Joker due to how his parents treated their Replacement Goldfish Alejandro.
- Suspiciously Similar Substitute: Alejandro is one to David Rodriguez being a Mexican boy that recently moved to South Park.
- Take That!:
- Asked if he knows a good lawyer, President Garrison says no, but he adds that he does know Rudy Giuliani. Later during a news report, Rudy is called a treasonous pig.
- Randy, while in prison therapy and having sobered up admits that what he did was terrible but says he could justify it to himself because it still wasn’t as bad as what the President did.
- Take That, Audience!: The Mayor, after criticizing what Randy has been doing throughout the season so far, has Randy arrested and states that South Park can finally get back to normal. Cuts to the kids playing football, seeming like the episode will be about the kids again, then has Jason killed and the episode immediately segues back to the Tegridy Farms subplot with the kids back in the back burner for the remainder. You can tell it’s the creators' way of saying to us “It’s our show, we can do what we want”.
- Throw the Dog a Bone: The end of the episode sees Randy sincerely thanking The Whites for their support, to their surprised happiness. While their behavior makes them rather easy to dislike, it’s still nice to see them feel appreciated after they’ve felt their grief was ignored and belittled.
- Title Drop: Randy says the episode's title while speaking to the viewers.
- Unwitting Instigator of Doom: Twice from Cartman. Ironic considering how it's two genuinely good-intentioned Pet the Dog moments.
- Trying to pass the ball to Jason winds up with Jason getting hit by a police car.
- Cartman is the one to suggest to the White family to adopt a child to help them move on. However, Alejandro, the adopted child gets abused by the White family, leading him to become Mexican Joker, wreaking havoc throughout South Park and allowing Randy to get away with his crimes.
- White Man's Burden: Subverted with how the Whites "help" Alejandro.
- Bob White keeps yelling and forces Alejandro "to be a White" and corrects him how one would do a dog.
- Mrs. White, while constantly crying for her dead son, just lets Bob bullies Alejandro and gets all teary with how Alejandro does things that "Jason would never do".
- Crystal just continually tattles on Alejandro, leading him getting punished by Bob.
- They pretty get another child for Alejandro to look after and take care of himself, so can learn appreciation for what they do for him.... and add more Whites to their causes, according to Bob.
- Would Hurt a Child: The police start shooting at Alejandro when he becomes Mexican Joker.
- Yank the Dog's Chain: Sharon and the kids thought Randy might be gone for good if he was sent to prison, but he's set free at the end of the episode.
