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* InsaneTrollLogic: Cartman is excited when he sees that you can buy three [=DVDs=] of ''Film/{{Timecop}}'' for $18. Kyle asks why he would want three copies the same movie and Cartman tells him that one copy is $9.89, so you save money. Kyle points out you only need one copy, grabbing a single copy to make his point... and then realizes he doesn't even ''want'' a copy of Timecop.
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* InsaneTrollLogic: Cartman is excited when he sees that you can buy three [=DVDs=] of ''Film/{{Timecop}}'' for $18. Kyle asks why he would want three copies of the same movie and Cartman tells him that one copy is $9.89, so you save money. Kyle points out you only need one copy, grabbing a single copy to make his point... and then realizes he doesn't even ''want'' a copy of Timecop.
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* HardTruthAesop: Ultimately, it is the ''customers'' that are responsible for the power of large retail businesses. If people just accept the inconveniences that come with smaller businesses and stop giving the giants their patronage, they will lose their influence.
** Furthermore, Just boycotting a single business for a single competitor will ultimately just result in that business becoming just as big and capable of corruption as the business it replaced. They are still a business after all, all businesses, regardless of size, are motivated by profit, and power itself corrupts. The episode ends with Wall Mart "defeated" but in it's absence everyone decides to simply shop at Jim's Drugs. [[FullCircleRevolution It expands to the same scope as Wall Mart did, and likely committed the same bad business practices they did, and the citizens of South Park burn down a Jim's Drugs franchise, not realizing their own involvement in how their blind consumerism allowed it to become just as bad as Wall Mart was]].
** Furthermore, Just boycotting a single business for a single competitor will ultimately just result in that business becoming just as big and capable of corruption as the business it replaced. They are still a business after all, all businesses, regardless of size, are motivated by profit, and power itself corrupts. The episode ends with Wall Mart "defeated" but in it's absence everyone decides to simply shop at Jim's Drugs. [[FullCircleRevolution It expands to the same scope as Wall Mart did, and likely committed the same bad business practices they did, and the citizens of South Park burn down a Jim's Drugs franchise, not realizing their own involvement in how their blind consumerism allowed it to become just as bad as Wall Mart was]].
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* HardTruthAesop: Ultimately, it is the ''customers'' that are responsible for the power of large retail businesses. If people just accept the inconveniences that come with smaller businesses and stop giving the giants their patronage, they will lose their influence.
**influence. Furthermore, Just just boycotting a single business for a single competitor will ultimately just result in that business becoming just as big and capable of corruption as the business it replaced. They are still a business after all, all businesses, regardless of size, are motivated by profit, and power itself corrupts. The episode ends with Wall Mart "defeated" but in it's absence everyone decides to simply shop at Jim's Drugs. [[FullCircleRevolution It expands to the same scope as Wall Mart did, and likely committed the same bad business practices they did, and the citizens of South Park burn down a Jim's Drugs franchise, not realizing their own involvement in how their blind consumerism allowed it to become just as bad as Wall Mart was]].
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** Furthermore, Just boycotting a single business for a single competitor will ultimately just result in that business becoming just as big and capable of corruption as the business it replaced. They are still a business after all, all businesses regardless of size are motivated by profit, and power itself corrupts. The Episode ends with Wall Mart "defeated" but in it's absence everyone decides to simply shop at Jim's Drugs. [[FullCircleRevolution It expands to the same scope as Wall Mart did, and likely committed the same bad business practices they did, and the citizens of south park all go to burn down a Jim's Drugs franchise in South Park, not realizing their own involvement in how their blind consumerism allowed it to become just as bad as Wall Mart was]]
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** Furthermore, Just boycotting a single business for a single competitor will ultimately just result in that business becoming just as big and capable of corruption as the business it replaced. They are still a business after all, all businesses businesses, regardless of size size, are motivated by profit, and power itself corrupts. The Episode episode ends with Wall Mart "defeated" but in it's absence everyone decides to simply shop at Jim's Drugs. [[FullCircleRevolution It expands to the same scope as Wall Mart did, and likely committed the same bad business practices they did, and the citizens of south park all go to South Park burn down a Jim's Drugs franchise in South Park, franchise, not realizing their own involvement in how their blind consumerism allowed it to become just as bad as Wall Mart was]]was]].
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* GhostTown: The main street becomes this as Wall-Mart drives the smaller stores out of business. Butters wanders the street and pretends to be a monster to parody this trope.
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* WimpFight: Kenny engages Cartman in a slap fight to stop him from interfering with the raid on Wall-Mart.
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** Furthermore, Just boycotting a single business for a single competitor will ultimately just result in that business becoming just as big and capable of corruption as the business it replaced. They are still a business after all, all businesses regardless of size are motivated by profit, and power itself corrupts. The Episode ends with Wall Mart "defeated" but in it's absence everyone decides to simply shop at Jim's Drugs. [[FullCircleRevolution It expands to the same scope as Wall Mart did, and likely committed the same bad business practices they did, and the citizens of south park all go to burn down a Jim's Drugs franchise in South Park, not realizing their own involvement in how their blind consumerism allowed it to become just as bad as Wall Mart was]]
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* BaitAndSwitchComment: Randy's response when Stan asks him how Wall-Mart can afford to price their goods so low.
--> '''Randy''': It's simple economics, son. I don't understand it at all, but God I love it.
--> '''Randy''': It's simple economics, son. I don't understand it at all, but God I love it.
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* ShoutOut: Wall-Mart's human form evokes The Architect from ''Film/TheMatrixReloaded.''
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* AdaptationalAbomination: UsefulNotes/{{Walmart}} in RealLife is just a store-chain. Here it's the vessel of a corrupting eldritch horror from beyond.
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* BlatantLies: When Cartman pretends that he wants to help his friends stop Wall-Mart, Kyle calls him out for his lies every step of the way, only for Cartman to deny it every time.
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* GenreSavvy: Kyle knows Cartman too well and sees his inevitable betrayal coming when he suddenly switches gears and decides to help them undermine Wall-Mart. The only reason why he even lets Cartman tag along is because Stan doesn't want them to waste time bickering over it.
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* HardTruthAesop: Ultimately, it is the ''customers'' that are responsible for the power of large retail businesses. If people just accept the inconveniences that come with smaller businesses and stop giving the giants their patronage, they will lose their influence.
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* InsaneTrollLogic: Cartman is excited when he sees that you can buy three [=DVDs=] of ''Film/{{Timecop}}'' for $18. Kyle asks why he would want three copies the same movie and Cartman tells him that one copy is $9.89, so you save money. Kyle points out you only need one copy... and then realizes he doesn't even want a copy of Timecop.
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* InsaneTrollLogic: Cartman is excited when he sees that you can buy three [=DVDs=] of ''Film/{{Timecop}}'' for $18. Kyle asks why he would want three copies the same movie and Cartman tells him that one copy is $9.89, so you save money. Kyle points out you only need one copy... copy, grabbing a single copy to make his point... and then realizes he doesn't even want ''want'' a copy of Timecop.
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* TakeThat: After the argument listed under InsaneTrollLogic occurs, Cartman mockingly tells Kyle to buy a single copy of ''Timecop'' instead of three. Kyle goes to do so, but then realizes he doesn't even want ''one'' copy.
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* TakeThat: After the argument listed under InsaneTrollLogic occurs, Cartman mockingly tells Kyle to buy a single copy of ''Timecop'' ''Film/{{Timecop}}'' instead of three. Kyle goes to do so, but then realizes he doesn't even want ''one'' copy.''a'' copy of it.
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'''Original air date:''' 11/10/2004
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'''Original air date:''' 11/10/2004
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