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** A JerkWithAHeartOfGold variant with Lola but she is portrayed as an AlphaBitch with what little screen time she usually gets but here she is one of the leading volunteers to help raise awareness in distracted driving.



* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Lola portrayed as an AlphaBitch with what little screen time she gets is shown here as one of the leading volunteers to help raise awareness in distracted driving.

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* BeyondTheImpossible: Several of Garrison's tweets exceeds the 140 character limit on Twitter posts

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** It's physically impossible to run over people with bumper cars.

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* HiddenDepths:
** Tweek is shown to be a good piano player when he's not freaking out.
** Lola one of the minor students usually portrayed as an AlphaBitch is shown as one of the leading volunteers in helping raise awareness in distracted driving.

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HiddenDepths: Tweek is shown to be a good piano player when he's not freaking out.
** Lola one of the minor students usually portrayed as an AlphaBitch is shown as one of the leading volunteers in helping raise awareness in distracted driving.
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* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Lola portrayed as an AlphaBitch with what little screen time she gets is shown here as one of the leading volunteers to help raise awareness in distracted driving.

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* HiddenDepths: Tweek is shown to be a good piano player when he's not freaking out.

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** Lola one of the minor students usually portrayed as an AlphaBitch is shown as one of the leading volunteers in helping raise awareness in distracted driving.
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* BrickJoke: When Cartman tells PC Principal he wants to stage a grandiose performance to raise suicide awareness, one of the things he says he needs is a group of singers in robes. Later on during the "Put It Down" number, the student chorus members are all wearing them.
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* BullyingADragon: Garrison constantly taunts North Korea with petty insults, despite knowing what kind of weaponry they have.



** The member berries serve as this to an extent. While they haven't appeared in this episode at all, they are still [[TheCorrupter corrupting]] Garrison into making those racial and derogatory tweets.

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** The member berries Member Berries serve as this to an extent. While they haven't appeared in this episode at all, they are still [[TheCorrupter corrupting]] Garrison into making those racial and derogatory tweets.


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* {{Irony}}: When Craig finally has enough of Tweek's paranoia, he tells him "Well, I'm sorry that I'm actually in control of my goddamned emotions, ya baby!" He says this while yelling.


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* RightForTheWrongReasons: Tweek is right to be paranoid at the amusement park. Not because North Korea is going to launch a missle at him there, but because some dumbasses can't keep their phones down while on the car themed rides.
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Try it without the commentry on Real Life people


** Hillary Clinton is among those who takes the pledge not to use Twitter if elected, to which the background music chants "NO ONE CARES". In the weeks leading up to this episode Clinton, despite having fallen out of favor as a politician after her 2016 election loss, had been making several media appearances voicing her opinions as well as publishing a book where [[NeverMyFault she blamed Trump, the FBI, Bernie Sanders, Jill Stein, the Russians, and everyone involved in her campaign except herself for her loss]], much to the exasperation of most of the public who were getting sick of her behavior.

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** Hillary Clinton is among those who takes the pledge not to use Twitter if elected, to which the background music chants "NO ONE CARES". In the weeks leading up to this episode Clinton, despite having fallen out of favor as a politician after her 2016 election loss, had been making several media appearances voicing her opinions as well as publishing a book where [[NeverMyFault she blamed Trump, the FBI, Bernie Sanders, Jill Stein, the Russians, and everyone involved in her campaign except herself for her loss]], much to the exasperation of most of the public who were getting sick of her behavior.
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* {{Bookends}} The episode begins and ends with Tweek playing a song on the piano in the school auditorium. While the first is a panicked mess about North Korea, the second is an uplifting song about not looking at your phone while driving.

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* {{Bookends}} The episode begins and ends with Tweek playing a song on the piano in the school auditorium. While the first is a panicked mess about North Korea, the second is an uplifting song about not looking at your phone while driving.driving or [[ItMakesSenseInContext being a president]].
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* {{Bookends}} The episode begins and ends with Tweek playing a song on the piano in the school auditorium. While the first is a psychotic-sounding mess about North Korea, the second is an uplifting song about not looking at your phone while driving.

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* {{Bookends}} The episode begins and ends with Tweek playing a song on the piano in the school auditorium. While the first is a psychotic-sounding panicked mess about North Korea, the second is an uplifting song about not looking at your phone while driving.
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* HiddenDepths: Tweek is shown to be a good piano player when he's not freaking out.
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** Hillary Clinton is among those who takes the pledge not to use Twitter if elected, to which the background music chants "NO ONE CARES". In the weeks leading up to this episode Clinton, despite having fallen out of favor as a politician after her 2016 election loss, had been making several media appearances voicing her opinions as well as publishing a book where [[NeverMyFault she blamed Trump, the FBI, Bernie Sanders, Jill Stein, the Russians, and everyone involved in her campaign except herself for her loss]], much to the exasperation of most of the public.

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** Hillary Clinton is among those who takes the pledge not to use Twitter if elected, to which the background music chants "NO ONE CARES". In the weeks leading up to this episode Clinton, despite having fallen out of favor as a politician after her 2016 election loss, had been making several media appearances voicing her opinions as well as publishing a book where [[NeverMyFault she blamed Trump, the FBI, Bernie Sanders, Jill Stein, the Russians, and everyone involved in her campaign except herself for her loss]], much to the exasperation of most of the public.public who were getting sick of her behavior.

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* ADayInTheLimelight: Tweek and Craig are the subject of the A-Plot.



* SpaceWhaleAesop: The entire theme of the ending song.

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* SpaceWhaleAesop: The entire theme ending song preaches the message that if you are elected President of the ending song.US, you should stop tweeting so that people driving won't get distracted by your posts and accidentally run over people.
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* SpaceWhaleAesop: The entire theme of the ending song.
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More complete list.


** Hillary Clinton is among those who takes the pledge not to use Twitter if elected, to which the background music chants "NO ONE CARES". In the weeks leading up to this episode Clinton, despite having fallen out of favor as a politician after her 2016 election loss, had been making several media appearances voicing her opinions as well as publishing a book where [[NeverMyFault she blamed Trump, the FBI, Bernie Sanders, and everyone involved in her campaign except herself for her loss]], much to the exasperation of most of the public.

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** Hillary Clinton is among those who takes the pledge not to use Twitter if elected, to which the background music chants "NO ONE CARES". In the weeks leading up to this episode Clinton, despite having fallen out of favor as a politician after her 2016 election loss, had been making several media appearances voicing her opinions as well as publishing a book where [[NeverMyFault she blamed Trump, the FBI, Bernie Sanders, Jill Stein, the Russians, and everyone involved in her campaign except herself for her loss]], much to the exasperation of most of the public.
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* {{Bookends}} The episode begins and ends with Tweek playing a song on the piano in the school auditorium.

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* {{Bookends}} The episode begins and ends with Tweek playing a song on the piano in the school auditorium. While the first is a psychotic-sounding mess about North Korea, the second is an uplifting song about not looking at your phone while driving.
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* GreaterScopeVillain: While Mr. Garrison never appears in person nor has any lines, its his tweets that drives the whole plot of this episode.
** The member berries serve as this to an extent. While they haven't appeared in this episode at all, they are still [[TheCorrupter corrupting]] Garrison into making those racial and derogatory tweets.
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* To fidget spinners. People keep giving them to Tweek to calm him down, but they're shown to be completely ineffective.

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* ** To fidget spinners. People keep giving them to Tweek to calm him down, but they're shown to be completely ineffective.
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* To fidget spinners. People keep giving them to Tweek to calm him down, but they're shown to be completely ineffective.
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* BeyondTheImpossible: Several of Garrison's tweets exceeds the 140 character limit on Twitter posts
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*** Also to those who who blame Donald Trump for things he's not even at fault for. Mr. Garrison is blamed at the end for the distracted drivers hitting people rather than, the people who can't stay off their phone and watch the road
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* CharacterDevelopment: While PC Principal used to bend over backwards in order to make Cartman feel good, here he's shown to be somewhat fed up with his complaints.
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* EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep: Mr Garrison's name is never actually said during the episode. Everyone just refers to him as "The President".
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* HeelFaceDoorSlam: Garrison apparently learned nothing from the previous season and remains the only member of Season 20's BigBadEnsemble to still be an active threat.



** Hillary Clinton is among those who takes the pledge not to use Twitter if elected, to which the background music chants "NO ONE CARES". In the weeks leading up to this episode Clinton, despite having fallen out of favor as a politician after her 2016 election loss, had been making several media appearances voicing her opinions as well as publishing a book where [[NeverMyFault she blamed Trump, the FBI, Bernie Sanders, and everyone involved in her campaign except herself for her loss]], much to the exasperation of most of the public.

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** Hillary Clinton is among those who takes the pledge not to use Twitter if elected, to which the background music chants "NO ONE CARES". In the weeks leading up to this episode Clinton, despite having fallen out of favor as a politician after her 2016 election loss, had been making several media appearances voicing her opinions as well as publishing a book where [[NeverMyFault she blamed Trump, the FBI, Bernie Sanders, and everyone involved in her campaign except herself for her loss]], much to the exasperation of most of the public.public.
* TheyKilledKennyAgain: Kenny died from getting run over offscreen.
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* ShoutOut: Cartman's rap performance is an allusion to Logic's performance at the 2017 MTV Music Video Awards.
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* {{Bookends}} The episode begins and ends with Tweek playing a song on the piano in the school auditorium.


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* GilliganCut: After Heidi shows Stan the voicemail where Cartman threatened to kill himself, she asks him not to let anyone else know about it. Stan tells her he won't, but then it cuts to him playing the message for Kyle, Kenny, Butters, Token, and Jimmy in the bathroom while they all laugh.
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** Hillary Clinton is among those who takes the pledge not to use Twitter if elected, to which the background music chants "no one cares". The only politician more hated than Trump right now is, of course, Hillary, due to the e-mail scandal and perceived corruption.

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** Hillary Clinton is among those who takes the pledge not to use Twitter if elected, to which the background music chants "no one cares". The only "NO ONE CARES". In the weeks leading up to this episode Clinton, despite having fallen out of favor as a politician more hated than Trump right now is, of course, Hillary, due after her 2016 election loss, had been making several media appearances voicing her opinions as well as publishing a book where [[NeverMyFault she blamed Trump, the FBI, Bernie Sanders, and everyone involved in her campaign except herself for her loss]], much to the e-mail scandal and perceived corruption.exasperation of most of the public.
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* ItsAllAboutMe: Cartman openly admits his suicide awareness is only to keep him from killing himself not other students.

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* ItsAllAboutMe: Cartman openly admits his suicide awareness is only to keep him from killing himself not other students. He also gets back together with Heidi due to his crippling need for attention.



** Hilary Clinton is among those who takes the pledge not to use Twitter if elected, to which the background music chants "no one cares". The only politician more hated than Trump right now is, of course, Hilary.

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** Hilary Hillary Clinton is among those who takes the pledge not to use Twitter if elected, to which the background music chants "no one cares". The only politician more hated than Trump right now is, of course, Hilary.Hillary, due to the e-mail scandal and perceived corruption.

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* ItsAllAboutMe: Cartman openly admits his suicide awareness is only to keep him from killing himself not other students
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: PC Principal. He tells Cartman he doesn't have the resources to help his cause but gives Cartman all the help he can assure him.

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* ItsAllAboutMe: Cartman openly admits his suicide awareness is only to keep him from killing himself not other students
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* KickTheDog: Garrison repeatedly escalates the situation with North Korea, and encourages them to threaten Tweek, knowing full well his former student's [[NervousWreck personality]], and there [[ForTheEvulz doesn't seem to be any reason for him to do this]].
* KilledOffscreen: [[TheyKilledKennyAgain Kenny]] is one of the kids in the ReallyDeadMontage, but was never shown run over by a distracted driver.
* MetaphoricallyTrue: During the montage, all of the kids killed by distracted drivers are shown with the caption, "Killed by a president on his cell phone." Considering that every one of the actual distracted drivers had been reading news websites reporting on Garrison's escalation of the North Korean crisis...
* MoodWhiplash: It is kind of weird for Craig to tell Tweek to calm down and list all of the logical reasons why North Korea will not start a war, when the previous season had nuclear Armageddon come within a hair's breadth of actually happening.[[note]]And by a country that in the real world is a First World democracy, no less![[/note]]
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: PC Principal. He tells Cartman he doesn't have the resources to help his cause but gives Cartman all the help he can assure him.him.
* TakeThat:
** To Trump's deliberate brinksmanship, the clickbait "news" sites that report on it, and the people who are expecting the worst from it.
** Hilary Clinton is among those who takes the pledge not to use Twitter if elected, to which the background music chants "no one cares". The only politician more hated than Trump right now is, of course, Hilary.
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* Foil: Cartman & Heidi serve as this to Tweek & Craig. Cartman only cares about himself and uses the threat of killing himself to keep Heidi with him despite their issues driving them further apart. While Tweek & Craig, despite fighting, work through Tweek's issues together realizing they were both being selfish.

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* Foil: {{Foil}}: Cartman & Heidi serve as this to Tweek & Craig. Cartman only cares about himself and uses the threat of killing himself to keep Heidi with him despite their issues driving them further apart. While Tweek & Craig, despite fighting, work through Tweek's issues together realizing they were both being selfish.
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!This episode contains examples of:
* Foil: Cartman & Heidi serve as this to Tweek & Craig. Cartman only cares about himself and uses the threat of killing himself to keep Heidi with him despite their issues driving them further apart. While Tweek & Craig, despite fighting, work through Tweek's issues together realizing they were both being selfish.
* ItsAllAboutMe: Cartman openly admits his suicide awareness is only to keep him from killing himself not other students
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: PC Principal. He tells Cartman he doesn't have the resources to help his cause but gives Cartman all the help he can assure him.

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