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* {{Foreshadowing}}: [[spoiler:A hawk-eyed viewer might notice a discriminatory sign in the sushi restaurant saying management has the right to deny service to Chinese people, but the owner is initially happy to serve Lu Kim. Sure enough, it turns out Lu Kim isn't actually Chinese.]]
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* SkewedPriorities: The police are okay with leaving Dr. Janus' mental illness untreated as long as City Wok, the only Asian restaurant in town, remains in business.
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'''Lu Kim:''' I am speaking English! Why don't you speak a fucking English, you sofa eating fuck!
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'''Lu Kim:''' I am speaking English! Why don't you speak a fucking English, you sofa soba eating fuck!
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* TheCobblersChildrenHaveNoShoes: Dr. Janus misdiagnosed Butters with multiple personality disorder, yet unaware that he suffers the disorder himself.
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* ADayInTheLimelight: Notably for Butters. None of the main boys have lines in this episode.
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* UnintelligibleAccent: Spoofed. Lu Kim and Junichi Takiyama both speak English, but have a Chinese and Japanese accent respectively, meaning neither of them can understand the other one.
-->'''Lu Kim:''' What's the big idea putting your City Sushi right next to my City Wok?!\\
'''Mr. Takiyama:''' I'm sorry I do not understand your accent. You want a city tuna roll?\\
'''Lu Kim:''' No I don't want city tuna roll! I want you to go find another shitty town to open your City Sushi please!\\
'''Mr. Takiyama:''' Why don't you please just speak English? Maybe I can understand you!\\
'''Lu Kim:''' I am speaking English! Why don't you speak a fucking English, you sofa eating fuck!
-->'''Lu Kim:''' What's the big idea putting your City Sushi right next to my City Wok?!\\
'''Mr. Takiyama:''' I'm sorry I do not understand your accent. You want a city tuna roll?\\
'''Lu Kim:''' No I don't want city tuna roll! I want you to go find another shitty town to open your City Sushi please!\\
'''Mr. Takiyama:''' Why don't you please just speak English? Maybe I can understand you!\\
'''Lu Kim:''' I am speaking English! Why don't you speak a fucking English, you sofa eating fuck!
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-->'''Lu Kim:''' They wanna take over my City Wok?!Wok?!
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* {{Gaslighting}}: Dr. Janus does this (perhaps inadvertently) to Butters, convincing him that he's going through a personality disorder.
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* NeverMyFault: Stephen doesn't know what is wrong with his son, but he know knows it isn't him because he believes his parenting skills are awesome.
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* {{Gaslighting}}: Dr. Janus does this Butters, convincing him that he's going through a personality disorder.
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* ShoutOut: The ending of the episode is a South Park ShotForShotRemake of the end of Alfred Hitchcock's [[Film/{{Psycho}} Psycho]].
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* ShoutOut: The ending of the episode is a South Park ShotForShotRemake of the end of Alfred Hitchcock's [[Film/{{Psycho}} Psycho]].''[[Film/{{Psycho}} Psycho]]''.
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* SkewedPriorities: The townspeople are willing to allow Dr. Janus to think he's Lu Kim so they can keep City Wok in town.
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* SkewedPriorities: The townspeople police are willing to allow okay with leaving Dr. Janus to think he's Lu Kim so they can keep Janus' mental illness untreated as long as City Wok Wok, the only Asian restaurant in town.town, remains in business.
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* StatusQuoIsGod: The police wonder if the town really needs another therapist and decide to just let him keep believing he's a Chinese man.
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* StatusQuoIsGod: The police wonder if the town really needs another therapist and decide to just let him Dr. Janus keep believing he's a Chinese man.
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* MisplacedRetribution: Stephen and Linda ground Butters twice for the actions of Lu Kim and Dr. Janus[[note]]who are both the same person[[/note]], both when [[BadCopIncompetentCop Sergeant Yates]] convinced them that Butters was the one responsible.
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* MisplacedRetribution: Stephen and Linda ground Butters twice for the actions of Lu Kim and Dr. Janus[[note]]who are both the same person[[/note]], Kim/Dr. Janus, both when [[BadCopIncompetentCop Sergeant Yates]] convinced them that Butters was the one responsible.
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* MisplacedRetribution: Stephen and Linda ground Butters twice for the actions of Lu Kim/Dr. Janus, Kim and Dr. Janus[[note]]who are both the same person[[/note]], both when [[BadCopIncompetentCop Sergeant Yates]] convinced them that Butters was the one responsible.
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* {{Gaslighting}}: Dr. Janus does this Butters, convincing him that he's going through a personality disorder.
-->'''Dr. Janus:''' Butters, what are you doing? What is that? A blowtorch? Put that down! You're having another episode!
-->'''Dr. Janus:''' Butters, what are you doing? What is that? A blowtorch? Put that down! You're having another episode!
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* BadCopIncompetentCop: Sergeant Yates convinces Linda and Stephen to ground Butters [[MisplacedRetribution when Lu Kim beats up Takiyama]] [[ItMakesSenseInContext and when Dr. Janus kidnaps him and forces him to rob a jewelry store]].
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* WhamShot: Butters seeing the wall in Dr. Janus' room covered with articles on City Sushi and vandalism of anti-Japanese rhetoric, signifying that "the mean man" personality inside of Janus that was said to be mysteriously getting stronger and more dominant lately is in fact Lu Kim, which gets revealed immediately after.
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* WhamShot: Butters seeing the wall in Dr. Janus' room covered with articles on City Sushi and vandalism of anti-Japanese rhetoric, signifying that "the mean man" personality inside of Janus that was said to be mysteriously getting stronger and more dominant lately is in fact Lu Kim, which gets revealed immediately after.after.
-->'''Lu Kim:''' They wanna take over my City Wok?!
-->'''Lu Kim:''' They wanna take over my City Wok?!
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* BreadEggsMilkSquick: Butters decides to discard his extra identities, noting: “No more Postman Butters, no more Inspector Butters, no more Porn Star Butters…”
* DrivenToSuicide: [[spoiler:Takayama]] jumps off a tower to his death out of shame after [[spoiler:mistaking a Caucasian man for a Chinese man.]]
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* BreadEggsMilkSquick: Butters decides to discard his extra identities, noting: “No "No more Postman Butters, no more Inspector Butters, no more Porn Star Butters…”
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* StatusQuoIsGod: The police wonder if the town really needs another therapist and decide to just let him keep believing he's a [[spoiler: Chinese man]].
* StatusQuoIsGod: The police wonder if the town really needs another therapist and decide to just let him keep believing he's a [[spoiler: Chinese man]].
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* SplitPersonalityTakeover: The police allow [[spoiler:Dr. Janus]] Dr. Janus to keep on thinking he's [[spoiler: Lu Kim]], Kim, since [[spoiler: Lu Kim owns the only Asian restaurant in town]].
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* WhamShot: Butters seeing the wall in Dr. Janus' room [[spoiler: covered with articles on City Sushi and vandalism of anti-Japanese rhetoric, signifying that "the mean man" personality inside of Janus that was said to be mysteriously getting stronger and more dominant lately is in fact Lu Kim, which gets revealed immediately after.]]
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* DrivenToSuicide: [[spoiler:Takayama]] jumps off a tower to his death out of shame after [[spoiler:mistaking a Caucasian man for a Chinese man.]]
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* StopBeingStereotypical: The City Sushi owner commits ritual suicide out of his great shame for being naive and being fooled into thinking a Caucasian person pretending to be Chinese was actually Chinese so easily. As he's falling to his death, he berates ''himself'' for being stereotypical.
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* StopBeingStereotypical: The City Sushi owner commits ritual suicide out of his great shame for being naive and being fooled into thinking a Caucasian person pretending to be Chinese was actually Chinese so easily. As he's falling to his death, he berates ''himself'' for being stereotypical.stereotypical.
* WhamShot: Butters seeing the wall in Dr. Janus' room [[spoiler: covered with articles on City Sushi and vandalism of anti-Japanese rhetoric, signifying that "the mean man" personality inside of Janus that was said to be mysteriously getting stronger and more dominant lately is in fact Lu Kim, which gets revealed immediately after.]]
* WhamShot: Butters seeing the wall in Dr. Janus' room [[spoiler: covered with articles on City Sushi and vandalism of anti-Japanese rhetoric, signifying that "the mean man" personality inside of Janus that was said to be mysteriously getting stronger and more dominant lately is in fact Lu Kim, which gets revealed immediately after.]]
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'''Air date''': June 1, 2001
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Butters is misdiagnosed with multiple personality disorder, while Mr. Lu Kim takes on a sushi restaurant that opens next door to City Wok.
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* BreadEggsMilkSquick: Butters decides to discard his extra identities noting “No more Postman Butters, no more Inspector Butters, no more Porn Star Butters…”
* InterchangeableAsianCultures: A Japanese sushi restaurant opens next door to City Wok. The residents of the town refer to both restaurants as "Chinese" — and to the area where both restaurants are situated as "Little Tokyo" — much to the frustration of the owners.
* JapaneseRanguage: Mr. Lu Kim and the City Sushi owner each complain about not being able to understand the accent of the other.
* MeaningfulName: Butters is diagnosed with multiple personality disorder by the psychiatrist Dr. Janus, named for the two-faced Roman god of transitions.
* NeverMyFault: Stephen doesn't know what is wrong with his son, but he know it isn't him because he believes his parenting skills are awesome.
* PsychoPsychologist: The psychiatrist turns out to be both insane and abusive to Butters.
* RoomFullOfCrazy: Butters finds a room covered with pictures of the sushi chef (Tuong Lu Kim's "enemy") with the word "Kill" scrawled in red paint over them.
* SplitPersonalityTakeover: The police allow [[spoiler:Dr. Janus]] to keep on thinking he's [[spoiler: Lu Kim]], since [[spoiler: Lu Kim owns the only Asian restaurant in town]].
* StatusQuoIsGod: The police wonder if the town really needs another therapist and decide to just let him keep believing he's a [[spoiler: Chinese man]].
* StopBeingStereotypical: The City Sushi owner commits ritual suicide out of his great shame for being naive. As he's falling to his death, he berates ''himself'' for being stereotypical.
Butters is misdiagnosed with multiple personality disorder, while Mr. Lu Kim takes on a sushi restaurant that opens next door to City Wok.
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* BreadEggsMilkSquick: Butters decides to discard his extra identities noting “No more Postman Butters, no more Inspector Butters, no more Porn Star Butters…”
* InterchangeableAsianCultures: A Japanese sushi restaurant opens next door to City Wok. The residents of the town refer to both restaurants as "Chinese" — and to the area where both restaurants are situated as "Little Tokyo" — much to the frustration of the owners.
* JapaneseRanguage: Mr. Lu Kim and the City Sushi owner each complain about not being able to understand the accent of the other.
* MeaningfulName: Butters is diagnosed with multiple personality disorder by the psychiatrist Dr. Janus, named for the two-faced Roman god of transitions.
* NeverMyFault: Stephen doesn't know what is wrong with his son, but he know it isn't him because he believes his parenting skills are awesome.
* PsychoPsychologist: The psychiatrist turns out to be both insane and abusive to Butters.
* RoomFullOfCrazy: Butters finds a room covered with pictures of the sushi chef (Tuong Lu Kim's "enemy") with the word "Kill" scrawled in red paint over them.
* SplitPersonalityTakeover: The police allow [[spoiler:Dr. Janus]] to keep on thinking he's [[spoiler: Lu Kim]], since [[spoiler: Lu Kim owns the only Asian restaurant in town]].
* StatusQuoIsGod: The police wonder if the town really needs another therapist and decide to just let him keep believing he's a [[spoiler: Chinese man]].
* StopBeingStereotypical: The City Sushi owner commits ritual suicide out of his great shame for being naive. As he's falling to his death, he berates ''himself'' for being stereotypical.
