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* InsideAWall: During his inspection of the old woman's house at the beginning of the episode, Cartman finds a hippie inside one of her walls. Even the hippie isn't sure how he got in there.
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* SuddenlyAlwaysKnewThat: Cartman says he'll need a team of three people for his drill: a scientist, an engineer, and a [[BlackDudeDiesFirst "Black person to sacrifice himself in case something goes wrong."]] While Randy's been a scientist since the show's beginning and Chef is one of the only Black people in the town, there seems to be no one to fill the second position--until Linda Stotch suddenly announces that ''she's'' an engineer and can thus complete the group. There'd never been any indication that Linda was an engineer before this moment.

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* SuddenlyAlwaysKnewThat: Cartman says he'll need a team of three people for his drill: a scientist, an engineer, and a [[BlackDudeDiesFirst "Black person to sacrifice himself in case something goes wrong."]] While Randy's been a scientist since the show's beginning and Chef is one of the only Black people in the town, there seems to be no one to fill the second position--until Linda Stotch suddenly announces that ''she's'' an engineer and can thus complete the group. There'd never been any indication that Linda was an engineer before this moment.moment.
* TakeThat: The entire episode is a giant middle finger towards hippies, portraying them as lazy and incompetent slackers who prefer to get stoned at jam band festival instead of actually doing something productive against the corporations and environmental damage they claim to be against.
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* KnowNothingKnowItAll: The "know-it-all college" hippies. Their commune proposal basically amounts to a normal town.

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* KnowNothingKnowItAll: The "know-it-all college" "college know-it-all" hippies. Their commune proposal basically amounts to a normal town.
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* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: The band on stage at Hippie Jam Fest are caricatures of the members of Music/{{Phish}}, particularly the red-headed, bearded, and bespectacled lead singer, who resembles Phish's own singer and guitarist Trey Anastasio.

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* FormerTeenRebel: Randy and Sharon were hippies in the 60s and went to Woodstock. They both have a flashback of them as crazy stoners screaming and vomiting from acid overdose and having sex in public. They become worried that Stan will become that if he stays at the festival.

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* FormerTeenRebel: Randy and Sharon were hippies in the 60s and went to Woodstock. They both ''both'' have a the same flashback of them as crazy stoners screaming and vomiting from acid overdose and having sex in public. They public... and both immediately [[ExplainExplainOhCrap become worried that Stan will become that if he stays at the festival.]]


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** Randy and Sharon have a simultaneous one when flashing back to their time at Woodstock [[FormerTeenRebel puking from too much acid, then having sex in it]]... and immediately realized that was ''the very environment'' they now know Stan went to. Randy, in a [[PapaWolf surprising display of care for his family]], ''immediately'' runs off to save him.
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* IgnoredExpert: Cartman knows everything about hippies and correctly predicts that they'll take over the town unless he deals with them immediately. No one believes him...and then everything he warned them about starts coming true.



* StrawmanU: The main group of hippies has a University of Colorado-Boulder bumper sticker.

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* StrawmanU: The main group of hippies has a University of Colorado-Boulder bumper sticker.sticker.
* SuddenlyAlwaysKnewThat: Cartman says he'll need a team of three people for his drill: a scientist, an engineer, and a [[BlackDudeDiesFirst "Black person to sacrifice himself in case something goes wrong."]] While Randy's been a scientist since the show's beginning and Chef is one of the only Black people in the town, there seems to be no one to fill the second position--until Linda Stotch suddenly announces that ''she's'' an engineer and can thus complete the group. There'd never been any indication that Linda was an engineer before this moment.

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* DidNotThinkThisThrough: Mayor [=McDaniels=] signs off on the hippies' music festival thinking such a large event would bring in some money for the town's economy. Cartman points out that hippies don't ''have'' any money to spend and she's effectively doomed the town. She later realizes her error.



* JerkassHasAPoint: Cartman turns out to be right about the hippies being a threat to the town's existence and that they need to get rid of them.



* PleasureIsland: Stan, Kyle, and Kenny are at first interested in the hippie lifestyle, and they take up marijuana-smoking and guitar-playing. But then, they start to get bored, become sick from all the smoke, and realize that the views espoused by the hippies are total bullshit, and when they try to talk the hippies into actually doing something about the multinational corporations and capitalism they claim to hate, all they can get out of them is an enthusiastic agreement to try to change the world via the power of song.

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* PleasureIsland: Stan, Kyle, and Kenny are at first interested in the hippie lifestyle, and they take up marijuana-smoking and guitar-playing. But then, they start to get bored, become sick from all the smoke, and realize that the views espoused by the hippies are total bullshit, and when they try to talk the hippies into actually doing something about the multinational corporations and capitalism they claim to hate, all they can get out of them is an enthusiastic agreement to try to change the world via the power of song. They try to leave right then, but the concert crowd has become so large and dense that they can't move.
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* StrawmanU: The main group of hippies has a University of Berkeley bumper sticker.

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* StrawmanU: The main group of hippies has a University of Berkeley Colorado-Boulder bumper sticker.
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* ADayInTheLimeLight: Chef, whose role in the show had been [[DemotedToExtra increasingly diminishing]] for the past few seasons, gets one last big role in this episode before being KilledOffForReal in the Season 10 opener.

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* ADayInTheLimeLight: ADayInTheLimelight: Chef, whose role in the show had been [[DemotedToExtra increasingly diminishing]] for the past few seasons, gets one last big role in this episode before being KilledOffForReal in the Season 10 opener.
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* EndOfAnAge: This was the last episode of the show to feature Isaac Hayes recording original dialogue as Chef. He had been there since the series began, despite his character slowly getting DemotedToExtra at that point and he left after the episode "Trapped in the Closet", due to it mocking Scientology with Hayes himself being a Scientologist. Chef was then killed off in the next season premiere using Isaac Hayes’s earlier recordings. While Chef does appear in a few more Season 9 episodes, he doesn't speak in them.

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* EndOfAnAge: This was the last episode of the show to feature Isaac Hayes recording original dialogue as Chef. He had been there since the series began, despite his character slowly getting DemotedToExtra at that point and he left after the episode "Trapped in the Closet", due to it mocking Scientology with Hayes himself being a Scientologist. Chef was then killed off in the next season premiere using Isaac Hayes’s earlier recordings. While Chef does appear in a few more Season 9 episodes, episodes after this, he doesn't speak in them.

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* ADayInTheLimeLight: Chef, whose role in the show had been [[DemotedToExtra increasingly diminishing]] for the past few seasons, gets one last big role in this episode before being KilledOffForReal in the Season 10 opener.



* EndOfAnAge: This was the last episode of the show to feature Isaac Hayes recording original dialogue as Chef. He had been there since the series began, despite his character slowly getting DemotedToExtra at that point and he left after the episode "Trapped in the Closet", due to it mocking Scientology with Hayes himself being a Scientologist. Chef was then killed off in the next season premiere using Isaac Hayes’s earlier recordings.

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* EndOfAnAge: This was the last episode of the show to feature Isaac Hayes recording original dialogue as Chef. He had been there since the series began, despite his character slowly getting DemotedToExtra at that point and he left after the episode "Trapped in the Closet", due to it mocking Scientology with Hayes himself being a Scientologist. Chef was then killed off in the next season premiere using Isaac Hayes’s earlier recordings. While Chef does appear in a few more Season 9 episodes, he doesn't speak in them.

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