Line #18 Recap/SouthParkS20E4WienersOut


1	'''Original air date:''' 10/12/2016
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3	Kyle tries to bring the boys and girls together, but Butters ruins it with his own approach. Meanwhile, Gerald is getting paranoid about being outed for his trolling.
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5	!!''Wieners Out'' contains examples of:
6	* AnAesop: Gender politics can lead to a cycle of mutual resentment when not handled maturely or handled diplomatically. The girls were right to be concerned about the troll but their tactics only push away support from the boys as they harshly condemn them for failing to stop the troll despite the boys' attempt to do so.
7	* AngryWhiteMan: Butters genderflips feminist tactics (most prominently the practice of slutwalks) and manages to get all the other boys rallying for male pride. Over time, Stan and Kyle join him.
8	* BaitAndSwitch: After an earlier episode subverted the stereotypical depiction of online trolls as sad, lonely and miserable people with Gerald, this episode depicts the rest of the trolls exactly as you expect them to be.
9	* BilingualBonus: The Danish man in charge of the anti-troll website's name is Lennart Bedrager. His surname is the Danish word for "fraud," which may be foreshadowing that he's not all that he seems to be.
10	* BoomerangBigot: Butters accuses Kyle of hating his own gender during his impassioned speech, even calling him "Uncle Kyle" much like how black conservatives are often refered to as "Uncle Tom."
11	* BothSidesHaveAPoint: The boys' argument is that they shouldn't be victimized by collective guilt and that there's nothing wrong with being male, and the girls' argument is they shouldn't be getting victimized by this troll and need to stand together. They both have perfectly valid points, but are arguably letting their emotions get the better of them and escalating the situation's negativity.
12	* CallBack: Jenkins, the griefer from "Make Love, Not Warcraft", re-appears as one of the trolls.
13	** Gerald mentions [[Recap/SouthParkS19E4YoureNotYelping he was a Yelp reviewer]].
14	** Butters refers to [[Recap/SouthParkS19E6TweekXCraig Craig and Tweek as a gay couple]].
15	** The scenes with Gerald getting cut off by a cyclist and having a car drive up behind him parallel the "Steal My Sunshine" sequence in "Skank Hunt".
16	** We've previously seen that Gerald and Sheila have a fetishistic sex life in Insecurity and Chef Aid, neatly mirroring her willingness to go along with Gerald's fake pee fetish in this episode.
17	** The J.J. Abrams reboot of the national anthem from "Member Berries" is mentioned.
18	* CategoryTraitor: Butters refers to Kyle as "Uncle Kyle," a reference to black people being called an "Uncle Tom" for supposedly betraying their own kind.
19	* DidntThinkThisThrough: Denmark failed to realize that by creating a service that automatically gives the address and name of people online, that people can do that to anyone whether they're a troll or not. Though when it's pointed out, they don't change anything about how their product works.
20	* DiggingYourselfDeeper: After Gerald lies about having a urination kink, Sheila offers to cater to it, resulting in her feelings being hurt when he turns down the offer. He's ultimately forced to let her piss on him to maintain the lie.
21	* ElNinoIsSpanishForTheNino: At the end of the BBC's report on the upcoming Troll Trace internet service:
22	-->'''Bedrager:''' ''(heavily accented)'' Come out, troll. Come out and die.\
23	'''Dick:''' I Google Translated the last part. He says, "Come out, troll. Come out and die."
24	* EmbarrassingCoverUp: Rather than confess to trolling, Gerald tells Sheila he's been watching piss porn. HilarityEnsues.
25	* FromBadToWorse: The gender war escalates as of this episode due to the "Wieners Out" movement.
26	* GirlsVsBoysPlot: After the mass breakup in the previous episode, an angry Butters forms the "Wieners Out" movement as retaliation because the girls convinced his girlfriend to dump him as punishment for not outing the troll. The girls, on the other hand, believe the movement is gross for displaying their penises in public.
27	* GivenNameReveal: The Danish man who announced his plan to retaliate against trolls in the previous episode is identified as Lennart Bedrager.
28	* GodzillaThreshold: Kyle wanted to use Cartman as this to stop Butters, but he eventually changed his mind.
29	* HeelFaceDoorSlam: Gerald is willing to give up trolling after realizing he went too far, but goes back when Denmark threatens to expose him.
30	* HoistByHisOwnPetard: Gerald has no one to blame but himself for getting literally pissed on by Sheila.
31	* HopeSpot: It looked like Kyle's plans to bring the girls and boys together at the Girls Volleyball game, was actually working. [[YankTheDogsChain Then Butters starts the "Wieners Out" protest]], and things go FromBadToWorse.
32	* TheHorseshoeEffect:
33	** The boys' protests and hostility towards the girls mirror historical feminist actions.
34	** Denmark is fully willing to knowingly risk the privacy and safety of millions of people for the sake of hunting down a single troll.
35	* {{Hypocrite}}: The girls are mad at the boys protesting their rights and being hostile towards the girls, even though they had been doing the same thing all season.
36	* {{Irony}}: That after Cartman TookALevelInKindness, he is among the few boys that aren't protesting the girls, despite usually being the most misogynistic character himself.
37	* JerkassHasAPoint: During his rant on the playground, Butters makes quite a few good points.
38	## The girls kept telling the boys to do something about Cartman and they complied. It wasn't the boys' fault it turned out he wasn't the troll and the girls refused to acknowledge the boys did try to put a stop to it.
39	## The girls punishing all of the boys because of the actions of one troll is unfair.
40	## He accurately points out the double standard in a society of praising females when they express pride for their gender, but viewing males as bigots when they do the same.
41	* LoopholeAbuse: Discussed in the BBC interview. The reporter points out anyone could be tracked through Troll Trace whether they are a troll or not. The man behind Troll Trace then exploits this by looking into the camera and telling people not to do that - while not actually changing the service at all.
42	* LoveMakesYouDumb: After Cartman gets with Heidi. While he's not as abrasive as before, he's also stopped seeing the big picture.
43	* MaleFrontalNudity: When Butters starts the titular "Wieners Out" movement at the girls' volleyball game during the National Anthem for the purpose of rallying for male pride, the rest of the males join the movement. The result is a load of uncensored wieners.
44	* MoralMyopia: After spending the last three episodes taking doing drastic things to fight for their gender, the girls complain when the boys do something drastic to fight for their gender.
45	* NeverMyFault:
46	** The boys, led by Butters who was one of the people who actually committed the act, decide that Cartman's devices getting destroyed was actually the girls' fault because they were the ones who kept demanding something be done about skankhunt42.
47	** The girls are angry and disgusted at the boys for the "Wieners Out" movement, but refuse to acknowledge that it was their actions against the boys that spurred it in the first place.
48	* NiceJobFixingItVillain: The girls of South Park, believing that one of the boys is [=Skankhunt42=], and upset at Gerald's actions, organize a mass break-up. This later extends to Charlotte up in Canada. The result? Butters [[BewareTheNiceOnes grows a damn spine for the first time in a good while]], and proceeds to [[TookALevelInBadass start a gender protest group]], unofficially beginning it at the girls' volleyball game and also [[TookALevelInJerkass completely]] ''[[TookALevelInJerkass rips]]'' [[ShutUpHannibal Kyle a new one]] as he ''officially'' kicks off the movement shortly after the girls' volleyball game. The girls have spent a good long while demonizing the boys. The reaction of Butters and the other boys in the school leaves the girls flabbergasted and horrified at what they've unintentionally set in motion.
49	* NightmareFace: Gerald at one point.
50	* OfficialCouple: Cartman and Heidi are officially a couple now.
51	* OhCrap: When Gerald realizes he could be exposed as skankhunt42.
52	* PoliticalOvercorrectness: Part of the reason PC Principal doesn't reprimand the boys for showing their genitalia is because he believes that doing so would be "body shaming."
53	* PrecisionFStrike: When Kyle brings up the idea to attend a girls' volleyball game to show support for the girls, an embittered Butters drops an F-bomb as he tells Kyle to shut up.
54	* PrimalScene: Ike and Kyle both walk in on Sheila pissing on Gerald. The former acts [[UnusuallyUninterestingSight very nonchalant about it]]. The latter on the other hand…
55	* PunnyName: Dick's troll alias, "[=DildoSchwaggins=]", is a pun on [[Literature/TheHobbit Bilbo Baggins]].
56	* RealLifeWritesThePlot: Gerald referring to his trolling as "harmless locker room humor" was a reference to UsefulNotes/DonaldTrump's comments about [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Trump_and_Billy_Bush_recording a leaked Access Hollywood video]] in which he made lewd comments about the fact that many female groupies would allow celebrities to get away with quite a bit, up to and including grabbing women's genitals; while he acknowledged the video, Trump dismissed his comments as "locker room talk".
57	* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Surprisingly, PC Principal. When the girls complain about what the boys did during the national anthem, he tells them the boys have just as much right to protest it as they do and he can't disallow one protest while allowing another because the students' genders are different.
58	* RightForTheWrongReasons: Butters is right about the boys being treated unfairly, but he's just bitter over Charlotte dumping him. Though, in Butters' defense, Charlotte dumped him ''because'' of the girls from South Park elementary. Meaning that, bitter about it or not, Butters is completely justified in his actions and reactions after the actions of the girls.
59	* {{Seers}}: Cartman seeing Heidi's vagina gives him a vision that introduces a new subplot for this FourLinesAllWaiting season:
60	--> '''Cartman:''' She stood six feet away and flashed it really fast, but in that instant, you know what I saw? I saw that humandkind could colonize Mars. I saw the potential of our species to terraform other planets and reach the infinite.
61	* ShipSinking: Charlotte finds out about the South Park girls' protest and dumps Butters in solidarity during their Skype date. This leads to Butters becoming the leader of the "wieners out" movement in direct response to the girls' actions.
62	* ShoutOut: Towards the "Dicks Out for Harambe" fad.
63	* StartOfDarkness: Butters noticeably TookALevelInJerkass after Charlotte dumped him.
64	* TakeThat:
65	** Towards slutwalks and other radical feminist movements, like Free the Nipple, showing how even if they're legally protected under law, they're still incredibly inappropriate. At the [[http://ew.com/article/2016/07/23/comic-con-south-park-panel-pokemon-kill-kenny/ 2016 San Diego Comic-Con]], Trey Parker and Matt Stone stated that they would do an episode based on the Free the Nipple movement.
66	** Denmark thinking they solved the possibility of their service being abused by telling people not to abuse it may be a joke at people who think issues like rape can be solved by simply telling people not to.
67	* TeachHimAnger: Kyle tried to be diplomatic during the argument between the boys and the girls, insisting that the boys should show support during the game to win back their trust. Butters points out that the girls have gone too far and the boys are right to be mad at them, the boys did try to help by destroying Cartman's equipment but got their facts wrong as he wasn't the troll, something the girls overlooked and refused to acknowledge as they still broke up with them. Going over the situation, Kyle ultimately sides with the Wieners Out Movement after thinking about the issues.
68	* TeamSwitzerland: Cartman and Heidi decide not to help Kyle in the gender war because they enjoy not having to deal with the ugliness of social media.
69	* ThenLetMeBeEvil: Stan didn't join the "Wieners Out" movement until Wendy dismissed him as one of them.
70	* TheUnfairSex: Deconstructed. After days of being attacked and vilified by the girls, the boys decide to take a stand by protesting. When the girls go to PC Principal to complain, [[JerkassHasAPoint he states that the boys have every right to protest as much as they do]].
71	* TookALevelInBadass: [[TookALevelInJerkass Even while he took a level in Jerkass as well]], Butters managed to lead the "Wieners Out" movement, rather than be the ButtMonkey he usually is.
72	* TookALevelInJerkass:
73	** After getting dumped by Charlotte, Butters becomes a lot angrier and abrasive and leads a movement to fight back against the girls.
74	** Gerald displays difficulties in being nice and polite around others without using his trolling as an outlet for the impulses to be mean.
75	** Kyle may have joined Butters' pro-boys movement with the intent to destroy it from the inside, which makes him one step closer to the old Cartman, who did things exactly like that all the time.
76	* TookALevelInKindness:
77	** PC Principal, of all people. He maintains a neutral stance in the gender war, and tells the girls the boys have as much right to protest the national anthem.
78	** Cartman continues to become a better person, now made even more explicit by his conversation with Kyle - or at least he's trying to make things seem this way.
79	* TropaholicsAnonymous: Gerald comes across a support group for Member Berry addiction, and ends up telling them off in a manner similar to when he was trolling the internet.
80	* WeWantOurJerkBack: Kyle knows Cartman well enough to see that he is the only person that can take down Butter's Wieners Out movement. Unfortunately, [[TookALevelInKindness Cartman has changed]].
81	* YankTheDogsChain:
82	** Charlotte dumped Butters after it seemed like he would be the only one with a girlfriend.
83	** Kyle's idea to have the boys attend the girls' volleyball match to ease the tensions seems to work at first. Then Butters leads the boys in showing their wieners and raising their right fists, which angers the girls more.
84	* YouNeedToGetLaid: Played with. After Cartman sees Heidi's vagina, he claims to be inspired by humanity's potential, and becomes a good boyfriend for her, but is still shown to be quick to irrational anger, and a little pushy.

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