History YMMV / SouthParkS21E7DoublingDown

* HarsherInHindsight: Kyle gives a speech to Heidi about how Cartman is always PlayingTheVictimCard, how he [[NeverMyFault always makes his problems the fault of other people]], never acknowledges that he could be in the wrong, and will likely never change because of this. This is proven 100% true at the end of "The Return of COVID"; Cartman's toxic behavior eventually reached the point that absolutely everyone cut him out of their lives, resulting in Cartman ending up as a drunken hobo who did nothing with his life, while still screaming insults at people on the street, content to blame everyone else for his problems so that he could be a victim forever.

*** If you look at Heidi's face when Cartman revealed to her "Beyond KFC", you can see she is somewhat ProperlyParanoid by it... but still goes through with it, chosing to still trust Cartman.

* {{Tearjerker}}: Heidi is doubtful of the "Beyond KFC" that Cartman is showing her is the real thing. She doesn't question him even when she eats it, or even that Beyond Arby's seem to upset her. And keep in mind: She can easily look those things up and find them to NOT be real (at the time), this means that Heidi trusts Cartman SO much she can't even bare to question or fact check him when he is messing up her diet... that HE asked HER to teach HIM to be on.

* Tearjerker: Heidi is doubtful of the "Beyond KFC" that Cartman is showing her is the real thing. She doesn't question him even when she eats it, or even that Beyond Arby's seem to upset her. And keep in mind: She can easily look those things up and find them to NOT be real (at the time), this means that Heidi trusts Cartman SO much she can't even bare to question or fact check him when he is messing up her diet... that HE asked HER to teach HIM to be on.

* Heartbreaking: Heidi is doubtful of the "Beyond KFC" that Cartman is showing her is the real thing. She doesn't question him even when she eats it. This means that Heidi trusts Cartman SO much she can't even bare to question him when he is messing up her diet... that HE asked HER to teach HIM to be on.

*** If you look at Heidi's face when Cartman revealed to her "Beyond KFC", you can see she is somewhat ProperlyParanoid by it... but still goes through with it. Meaning she KNOWS he is lying to her, but she can't dare to bring it up because that might mean he IS as bad to her as everyone seems to make them out to be.

** Again Heidi poor, ''poor'' Heidi. Not only is she constantly being kept into a toxic relationship with Cartman, but now he is tricking her, a vegan, into eating KFC and Arby's. If that wasn't enough, her friends keep on pressuring her to break up with Cartman, but when she does break up with him [[WithFriendsLikeThese all they do is demean her for ever dating him in the first place]], causing her to go back to him again so she won't feel stupid in front of her friends. She's also starting to veer into JerkassWoobie territory as she is now following Cartman's anti-Semitic beliefs.

%%* SomeAnvilsNeedToBeDropped: The episode provides two morals:
%%** People in abusive and toxic relationships should not be mocked for their mistakes; otherwise, they would end up back with their "protector" like Cartman and continue the ViciousCycle, which can increase the victim's sympathy for the abuser against their best interests. Since this portrayal is rare in media, despite it being common in reality, this makes the message more serious.
%%** The second moral involves [[PresidentEvil Mr. Garrison/Donald Trump]], giving an uncommon message on not treating regretful voters like morons or sub-humans, mirroring the above message. This message indirectly criticizes the media for being too harsh on Trump voters, which could cause them to dig in their heels and refuse to leave his voter base.

** Again Heidi poor, ''poor'' Heidi. Not only is she constantly being kept into a toxic relationship with Cartman, but now he is tricking her, a vegan, into eating KFC and Arby's. If that wasn't enough her girlfriends keep on pressuring her to break up with Cartman, but when she does break up with him all they do is demean her for ever dating him in the first place, causing her to go back to him so she won't feel stupid in front of her friends. She's also starting to veer into JerkassWoobie territory as she is now following Cartman's anti-Semitic beliefs.

** Again Heidi poor, ''poor'' Heidi. Not only is she constantly being kept into a toxic relationship with Cartman, but now he is tricking her, a vegan, into eating KFC and Arby's. If that wasn't enough her girlfriends keep on pressuring her to break up with Cartman, but when she does break up with him all they do is demean her for ever dating him in the first place causing her to go back to him so she won't feel stupid in front of her friends. She's also is starting to veer into JerkassWoobie territory as she is now following Cartman's anti-semitic beliefs.
** Kyle doesn't fare much better in this episode either. He is the only one who knows Heidi is an unfortunate victim of a toxic relationship and genuinely wants to help her get out of it, [[RightForTheWrongReasons even if a good chunk of that reason is so he can date her himself.]] In the end Kyle gets dumped by Heidi because she is being manipulated by Cartman into supporting his anti-semitic views.

** Cartman also crosses it by tricking the vegan Heidi into eating KFC and Arby's, and has begun molding her into what he views as the perfect girlfriend.

** Kyle doesn't fair much better in this episode either. He is the only one who knows Heidi is an unfortunate victim of a toxic relationship and genuinely wants to help her get out of it, [[RightForTheWrongReasons even if a good chunk of that reason is so he can date her himself.]] In the end Kyle gets dumped by Heidi because she is being manipulated by Cartman into supporting his anti-semitic views.

* UnexpectedCharacter: More like Unexpected ''Reference''--no one was expecting the show to give a ShoutOut to ''WesternAnimation/CatsDontDance''.

** Garrison loses all the sympathy he had acquired in the previous episode, when he abuses and rapes Paul Ryan and his Cabinet, and also rapes a Russian diplomat to death simply because he isn't American.

** Garrison loses all the sympathy he had acquired in the previous episode, when he abuses and rapes Paul Ryan and his Cabinet.

** Any sympathy for the Fourth Grade girls during the Gender War was lost after the way they treated Heidi in this episode. Though they unintentionally took the mocking too far, it still qualifies as this trope.

** Cartman also crosses this since the infamous Scott Tenorman incident, by tricking the vegan Heidi into eating KFC and Arby's, and has begun molding her into what he views as the perfect girlfriend.

** People in abusive and toxic relationships should not be mocked for their mistakes; otherwise, they would end up back with their "protector" like Cartman and continue the ViciousCycle, which can increase the victim's sympathy for the abuser against their best interests. Since this portrayal is rare in media, despite it being common in reality, this makes the message more serious.
** The second moral involves [[PresidentEvil Mr. Garrison/Donald Trump]], giving an uncommon message on not treating regretful voters like morons or sub-humans, mirroring the above message. This message indirectly criticizes the media for being too harsh on Trump voters, which could cause them to dig in their heels and refuse to leave his voter base.

* SomeAnvilsNeedToBeDropped: The episode provides two morals:

** Cartman also crosses this for what seems like the billionth time by tricking the vegan Heidi into eating KFC and Arby's, and has begun molding her into what he views as the perfect girlfriend.

* {{Anvilicious}}: This episode keeps on spouting that if you treat people who made a '''''huge''''' mistake like idiots and mock them for it, they'll just dig their heels deeper and not fix it, or just go right back to doing it again.

* SomeAnvilsNeedToBeDropped: The episode provided two morals.
** People in abusive and toxic relationships should not be mocked for their mistakes; otherwise, they would end up back with their "protector" like Cartman and continue the ViciousCycle, which can escalate to the abused's further sympathy to the abuser against their interest. Consider this type of portrayal is rare despite it being common in reality, this made the episode more serious in its message.
** On the reflection to another scenario, which involved [[PresidentEvil Mr. Garrison]], it also tells an uncommon message towards how not to treat the regretful voters as morons or sub-humans that actually reflected the above message. Due to the tendency for many political satires against the current administration and their supporters ended up as ShallowParody on conflating everyone as morons and ended up as a biased insult that is NotSoDifferent from the message of their candidates in the eyes of many regretful voters' (particularly on genuine disdain for corruptions and warts of America) beliefs, this message is one of the uncommon lessons in the political pillarisation and unintentional alienation.

** People in abusive and toxic relationships should not be mocked for their mistakes; otherwise, they would end up back in their "protector" like Cartman and continue the ViciousCycle, which can escalate to the abused's further sympathy to the abuser against their interest. Consider this type of portrayal is rare despite it being common in reality, this made the episode more serious in its message.

** On the reflection to another scenario, which involved [[PresidentEvil Mr. Garrison]], it also tells an uncommon message towards how not to treat the regretful voters as morons or sub-humans that actually reflected the above message. Due to the tendency for many political satires against the current administration and their supporters ended up as ShallowParody on conflating everyone as morons and ended up as a biased insult that is NotSoDifferent in the eyes of many regretful voters' (particularly on genuine disdain for corruptions and warts of America) beliefs, this message is one of the uncommon lessons in the political pillarisation and unintentional alienation.