History Recap / SouthParkS18E2GlutenFreeEbola

* RealityEnsues: Subverted. After someone eats gluten and is fine, it seems like it will be proven gluten really isn't that bad for you, resolving the crisis; instead, he is just having a delayed reaction to gluten's effects, so it is still considered dangerous.

Mr. Mackey is now gluten free and everyone is annoyed when he won’t quit preaching about how great he feels -- but, after witnessing a disturbing demonstration of what happens to your body when you do eat gluten, South Park becomes the first town in America to go gluten free. This is an inconvenience for the boys, who planned a party to win back the crowd for abandoning school in favor of a start-up company.

* AsYouKnow: Pricipal Victoria says this phrase twice regarding Butters and the gymnasium.

* CrossingTheBurntBridge: The boys have to face the kids at school after [[CallBack blowing them off to start their own company]]. Except for Butters, who got himself [[BewareTheNiceOnes suspended for burning down the gym]].
** This is the sign that from now on, South Park is no longer a series of stand alone episodes with little to no continuity but it's now it has a continuous episode to episode storyline throughout each season. The A.V. Club noted this as an experimentation with episode-to-episode continuity, in which the episodes "explore the consequences of the boys' actions [week to week], allowing the plots to be motivated in part by their attempts to dig themselves out of a hole"

** The Boys throwing the party gets them forgiven without any further mention of their actions.,

* HopeSpot: One of the quarantinees at Papa John's starts eating pizza dough with no apparent ill effects, and proclaims that gluten is safe after all. Then his dick flies off.
* InsaneTrollLogic: Randy claims that ice cream since it doesn't have any gluten must be good for you, despite how ice cream contains sugar, fat, lactose which is just as bad for you as gluten.

* RealityEnsues: Subverted. After someone eats gluten and is fine, it seems like it will be proven gluten really isn't that bad for you which will resolve the crisis only for him to just be having a delayed reaction to gluten's effects and it really is a danger.

* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: The previous episode's DownerEnding is not acknowledged.

* ContinuityNod: Randy drinks Pabst Blue Ribbon, which was introduced in "The Poor Kid" and turns out to include gluten and gets him put in lockdown.

* HopeSpot: One of the quarantinees at Papa John's starts eating pizza dough with no apparent ill effects, and proclaims that gluten is safe after all. Then his dick flies off.

* ShoutOut: Aunt Jemima appears in Cartman's dreams, sitting on a porch in a rocking chair like Mother Abagail from Series/TheStand.

* EasilyForgiven: At the end Wendy gives up on chastising Stan for his JerkAss behavior and gets back together with him.

* TakeThat: Stan asks Wendy if she still wanted to see "that stupid ''Film/{{The Maze Runner|2014}}'' movie".

* NotHyperbole: The FDA representative starts his demonstration by stating that people have probably heard of all sorts of things gluten is supposedly responsible for, including "having your dick fly off". After he explains his audience what gluten is while using some lab equipment to distill some gluten-heavy foodstuffs into a beakerful of pure gluten, Mr. Mackey shouts at him to drink the contents of the beaker if he's so sure that gluten isn't harmful. He hesitats a bit, decides it can't be that bad and drinks it, but shortly afterwards he's in great pain, his veins start turning black and sure enough, his dick starts flailing around rapidly before flying off like a rocket.

* EngineeredPublicConfession: Wendy gets Stan to admit live on radio that real reason their cancelling the party is to avoid ridicule again.

* WhamLine: Downplayed, but this is the episode where South Park started having episode-to-episode continuity.

* NotHyperbole: The USDA representative starts his demonstration by stating that people have probably heard of all sorts of things gluten is supposedly responsible for, including "having your dick fly off". After he explains his audience what gluten is while using some lab equipment to distill some gluten-heavy foodstuffs into a beakerful of pure gluten, a member of the audience shouts at him to drink the contents of the beaker if he's so sure that gluten isn't harmful. He hesitats a bit, decides it can't be that bad and drinks it, but shortly afterwards he's in great pain, his veins start turning black and sure enough, his dick starts flailing around rapidly before flying off like a rocket.

* CrossingTheBurntBridge: The boys have to face the kids at school after [[CallBack blowing them off to start their own company]]. Except for Butters, who got himself [[BewareTheNiceOnes expelled for burning down the gym]].

* TakeThat: Stan asks Wendy if she still wanted to see "that stupid ''Film/TheMazeRunner'' movie".

* TakeThat: Stan asks Wendy if she still wanted to see "that stupid ''[[Literature/TheMazeRunner Maze Runner]]'' [[TheFilmOfTheBook movie]]".

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* TheUnfairSex: Following their breakup when Stan attempted a start-up company, Wendy gives Stan a lengthy TheReasonYouSuckSpeech about how selfish, fickle and unreliable he is. Fair enough, but this is the same girl who coldly got her best friend to inform Stan he was dumped after getting bored of him and continuously attacked him verbally due to misplaced jealousy and a lack of trust over Facebook.

* TheUnfairSex: Following their breakup when Stan attempted a start-up company, Wendy gives Stan a lengthy TheReasonYouSuckSpeech about how selfish, fickle and unreliable he is. Fair enough, but this is the same girl who coldly got her best friend to inform Stan he was dumped after getting bored of him.

* TheUnfairSex: Following their breakup when Stan attempted a start-up company, Wendy gives Stan a lengthy TheReasonYouSuckSpeech about how selfish, fickle and unreliable he is. Fair enough, but this is the same girl who coldly got Bebe to inform Stan he was dumped after getting bored of him.

* TemptingFate: The FDA representative assures the townspeople that gluten is completely safe for consumption. Mr. Mackey dares him to drink a vial of concentrated gluten.

Mr. Mackey is now gluten free and everyone is annoyed when he won’t quit preaching about how great he feels -- but, after witnessing a disturbing demonstration of what happens to your body when you do eat gluten, South Park becomes the first town in America to go gluten free. This is an inconvenience for the boys, who plan to have pizza for a party planned to win back the crowd for abandoning school for a start-up company.

Mr. Mackey is now gluten free and everyone is annoyed when he won’t quit preaching about how great he feels -- but, after witnessing a disturbing demonstration of what happens to your body when you do eat gluten, South Park becomes the first town in America to go gluten free.