History Recap / SouthParkS15E9TheLastOfTheMeheecans

'Work, Mexican, work!\|

-->''"All week long, boss man say//
'Work, Mexican, work!//
Sing your song, earn your pay!'//
Mexican, Mexican, Mexican,//
It's your lot in life, while othets play in the sun all day,//

* MythologyGag: While narrating the chase between Cartman and Butters, the radio announcer refers to Cartman as "chico gordo" which translates to "fat boy" a common insult thrown Cartman's way.

* MistakenEthnicity: Butters dresses up like a Mexican for a border-themed CowboysAndIndians kind of game. He gets hit by a car, and due to him still playing the game, the couple thinks the white boy actually is Mexican and tries to "return" him to the real Mexican border.

** The title is a parody of the film Film/LastOfTheMohicans.

'''Airdate:''' October 12, 2011

* CondescendingCompassion: The wealthy couple who take in Butters genuinely believe they are helping him by making him their servant. When he states he wants to go home, they drop him off at an El Pollo Loco staffed by Mexicans believing they are bringing him home to his people

** Randy's BigNo when he realizes he has to rake the leaves himself is that of Darth Vader's from ''Film/RevengeOfTheSith''.

* BaitAndSwitch: The wealthy couple who take in Butters bring him to their guest room, decorated with inspirational Christian quotes. It appears they are letting him stay with him out of compassion, but then they make him start cleaning the windows in the room, beginning his life as an indentured servant.

* CondescendingCompassion: The wealthy couple who take in Butters genuinely believe they are helping him by making him their servant. When he states he wants to go home, they drop him off at an El Pollo Loco staffed by Mexicans believing they are bringing him home to his people.

* ShoutOut: The scene with Butters waking up in a Mexican town is a reference to ''Film/MontyPythonsLifeOfBrian''.

* BilingualBonus: "Mantequilla" is Spanish for "Butter".

* ShoutOut: The scene with Butters waking up in a Mexican town is a reference to ''Film/MontyPythonsLifeOfBrian''.

* ArtisticLicenseEconomics: The episode is premised on the idea that low-income Mexican immigrants in the USA (and particularly around South Park) want to return to Mexico because it's better there. In truth, the annual median income for a worker in Mexico (adjusted for cost of living and then converted to US currency) is [[https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disposable_household_and_per_capita_income#Median less than $6,000]], meaning even a two-earner household where both are earning Colorado's minimum wage of $12/hour would be significantly better off. Most Mexican immigrants in the USA make well over minimum wage,[[note]]In fact, even narrowing this down to undocumented immigrants, their median household income back in 2007 (at the start of the recession) was [[https://www.pewresearch.org/hispanic/2009/04/14/a-portrait-of-unauthorized-immigrants-in-the-united-states/ $27,000]] - or $35,000 adjusted for inflation in 2020. As of 2020, Mexico's PPP conversion factor is 9.31, and the peso-to-dollar exchange rate is 21.61:1, meaning it's about x2.32 more expensive to live in the USA than Mexico. Apply that to the $35,000 figure and you still get the average undocumented immigrant household in the USA earning over fifteen thousand dollars.[[/note]] and most Mexican immigrants to the USA made substantially less than the median income back in Mexico.

* LazyBum: After the Mexicans start returning to their home country, the Americans show absolutely no willingness to do the menial tasks themselves, having become incredibly lazy and complacent.