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  • In "Free Hat", the townspeople declare Hat McCullough deserves to be freed from prison in spite of murdering twenty-three babies because "he killed them in self-defense."
    Skeeter: Hat was attacked maliciously and unprovoked by a gang of babies in West Town Park. When that many babies get together, they can be like piranha.
  • In "Child Abduction Is Not Funny", the South Park parents grow increasingly afraid of their children being kidnapped, to the point that when they learn that most children get abducted by one of their parents, they start fearing that they will abduct their own children. Therefore, they send them all away to live in the woods, where they join a horde of Mongolians determined to tear down the wall the parents made the Chinese guy build.
  • In "The Mystery of the Urinal Deuce" Cartman uses this to blame Kyle for 9/11: 11 has two 1's, 1 + 1 = 2, if you add 9 and 2, you get 92 which is how much Kyle got on a spelling test shortly after 9/11. Therefore, Kyle planned 9/11.note  Most likely intended to parody The Number 23. The entire movie is composed of such calculations.
  • In "Dances With Smurfs" Cartman uses Glenn Beck's method of choosing a bunch of keywords, taking the first letter of each and using them to spell something out. Keywords he associates with Wendy are Integrated, Leftist, Liberal, Socialist, Modern, Utopian, Reformed, Farce and School. Therefore, Wendy Testaburger wants to KILL SMURFS. Which is extremely ironic once you remember that "SMURF" itself has been proposed to be an acronym for Soviet Men Under Red Father. So, in short, Wendy's a leftist for wanting to kill Communists!
  • In "Cancelled", there is a scientist who correctly determines what he should do in a given situation using association gone so far it delves straight into Insane Troll Logic. This is presumably inspired by heavily exaggerating the "Eureka!" Moment Jeff Goldblum's character has in Independence Day and running with it.
  • In "Fatbeard", in order to convince Butters to run away to Somalia with him to become pirates Cartman reminded him how horrible his life in South Park was, namely how he was harassed and ridiculed in school daily... mostly by Cartman.
  • And of course, "Chef Aid":
    Johnnie Cochran: ...ladies and gentlemen of this supposed jury, I have one final thing I want you to consider. Ladies and gentlemen, this is Chewbacca. Chewbacca is a Wookiee from the planet Kashyyyk. But Chewbacca lives on the planet Endor. Now think about it; that does not make sense!
  • "A History Channel Thanksgiving" parodies the ITL of Ancient Aliens.
  • Cartman relies on drinking Mountain Dew in order to stay awake and not die of boredom during "I Should Never Have Gone Ziplining". This combined with his usual diet causes all kinds of bowel mishaps. When he resorts to drinking "Double Dew", a drink with twice the caffeine and sugar as regular Mountain Dew, Kyle points out the aforementioned harmful effects. Cartman points out that what he's drinking is actually Diet Double Dew, with only half the caffeine and sugar as regular Double Dew. Which, if you "dew the math", means he's drinking regular Mountain Dew.
  • "Goobacks": People from a Bad Future replacing everyone at their jobs because they work for pretty much no pay? According to the people of South Park, the logical choice of action is to start a protest wherein men publicly jump on a huge pile of testosterone and attempt to convince as many men as possible to become homosexual so as to destroy humanity's future and prevent the future immigrants from existing in the first place.
  • In "Britney's New Look", the paparazzi are convinced the only way to save their crops is to kill Britney Spears. Then when she's finally dead, they turn to Miley Cyrus...
  • In “The Cissy”, “Erica” (who is just Cartman pretending to be Transgender) tells Stan that “Wendell” (who is Wendy pretending to be trans) is attracted to girls, yet she’s dating him. By Erica’s logic, that means that Stan is a girl.
  • "Dead Kids":
    • Randy and the others believe the actual reason Sharon is so anxious about the school shootings is because she is experiencing her period or, even worse, menopause.
    • Cartman believes Tolkien not letting him cheat off his math test has something to do with Tolkien apparently disliking Black Panther (2018).

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