History Recap / SouthParkS8E8DoucheAndTurd

* DramaticallyMissingThePoint: Everyone seems to think that Stan is saying that merely the act of voting is stupid, ignoring Stan whenever he tries explaining that it's the specific candidates that he thinks are stupid.

* OhCrap: The PETA member after seeing P. Diddy wasn't intimidated after being splashed with blood.

** Kyle has P. Diddy threaten Stan so he can vote for Giant Douche, and goes along with the town in exiling him when he tries to vote for Turd Sandwich.

* LandslideElection: The end results of the election are 36 votes for Turd Sandwich and 1,410 votes for Giant Douche.

* ShaggyDogStory: By the end of the episode, all of PETA is dead, South Park Elementary can easily go back to being the Cows, and the election is called off, meaning all the grief the town put Stan through was for nothing, and neither was his caving to them with his last-minute vote.
-->'''Randy:''' ''Now'' your vote didn't matter.

* AllForNothing: After Stan spends the episode ''exiled from the town'' for not voting, he outright asks if all his struggles were this when his vote is revealed to have no impact as the result was a landslide. Randy attempts to admit it was the effort that counted... and that moment is when the news of the PETA massacre hits them and, knowing they won't protest anymore, choose to keep the Cows nickname anyway, rendering the election pointless.

* AllForNothing: After Stan spends the episode ''exiled from the town'' for not voting, he outright asks if all his struggles were this when his vote is revealed to have no impact as the result was a landslide. Randy attempts to admit it was the effort that counted... and that moment is when the news of the PETA massacre hits them and, knowing they won't protest anymore, choose to keep the Cows nickname anyway.
-->'''Randy''': ''(to a [[TranquilFury silent, but visibly infuriated]] Stan) '''Now''' your vote doesn't matter.\\

** Everyone in South Park. They bully and eventually banish Stan just because he refuses to vote (his family and best friend included), never answer for it, eventually get what they want when Stan gives in to vote, and even get to use their old mascot again once PETA is killed off. Though it wasn't until a few episodes to give Kyle what he deserves.

* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: When not talking about protecting animals or trying to convince Stan to have a relationship with his 'niece', the PETA leader is the only adult who actually talks with Stan about why he should vote, rather than just tell him that he 'has' to.

* UngratefulTownsfolk: The South Park citizens ostracize Stan, treat him like dirt, and exile him from town all because he wouldn't partake in the school election.

* UngratefulTownsfolk: The entire town of South Park ostracize Stan, treat him like dirt, and exile him from town all because he wouldn't partake in the school election.

* UngratefulTownsfolk: The entire town of South Park ostracize Stan and treat him like dirt when he refused to vote for either candidate.

* AluminumChristmasTrees: P. Diddy's "Vote or Die" campaign was real, [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizen_Change seriously, though it is no longer active.]]

** Everyone in South Park. They bully and eventually banish Stan just because he refuses to vote (his family and best friend included), never answer for it, eventually get what they want when Stan gives in to vote, and even get to use their old mascot again once PETA is killed off.

** Sharon also [[AbusiveParents willingly goes along with the town in deporting her son from South Park]] because he refused to vote.

* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome:
** What do the animals that PETA was ferociously protective of do when the PETA members are killed? Continue to eat grass, walk around, and defecate without any concern for what just happened.
** Stan's vote does not determine the winner. The Giant Douche was winning by a landslide before he arrived, and a single vote at the end for the Turd Sandwich doesn't change that at all.

* WithFriendsLikeThese: Kyle, like everyone else, gives Stan endless shit for not voting, then refusing to let him vote for Turd Sandwich and trying to force him to vote for Giant Douche. He even goes so far as to bring P. Diddy in to intimidate Stan into voting for his candidate, and goes along with banishing him.

* AluminumChristmasTrees: P. Diddy's "Vote or Die' campaign was real, [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizen_Change seriously, though it is no longer active.]]

* ArtisticLicenseLaw: It doesn't take a lawyer to explain that "the right to vote" doesn't translate to "vote in an election or suffer judicial consequences" in real life, especially in a democratic election that has no governmental impact like a student-election over a school mascot.

* HybridsAreACrapshoot: PlayedForLaughs when it is revealed that members of PETA frequently have intercourse with animals, resulting in {{Half Human Hybrid}}s; one of them, which seems to be part-ostrich, [[DeathSeeker pleads to passersbies to kill him]].

* AluminumChristmasTrees: P. Diddy's "Vote or Die' campaign was real, [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizen_Change seriously, though it is no longer active]]

* AnimalWrongsGroup: PETA of course.

* HalfBreedAngst: PlayedForLaughs when it is revealed that members of PETA frequently have intercourse with animals, resulting in {{Half Human Hybrid}}s; one of them, which seems to be part-ostrich, [[DeathSeeker pleads to passersbies to kill him]].

* NotHyperbole: In real life, "Vote Or Die" was a metaphor about how not using your right to vote could result in bad things happening in the future. In South Park, it's not a metaphor, P. Diddy ''will'' kill people who don't vote.