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=== [[Fridge Brilliance]] ===
* "Tsst" was really very clever. Take into account that by that point the writers admitted Cartman had become a kind of sub-human monster. They couldn't top him any more, so they took him back down. The Super-Nannies treated him as a normal child, but of course Cartman had become like a hybrid of Hitler and Skeletor. Treating him as a child didn't work as he saw it as insulting to his intelligence. Cartman knows that a lot of people don't like him and he doesn't particuarly care most of the time. Being friendly is a sign of weakness, punishments are just another way of saying he's done something that bothers you. The answer? Bring in a ''dog trainer'' who gives him a taste of what it's like to be treated as less than human. If you refuse to act like a human being, you can't expect to be treated like one.
** The ''[[Altered States]]'' part at the end jokes that for a while it's been some sort of sick demonic force controlling Cartman, rather than him. Oh, he's still spoiled and selfish and a [[Jerkass]] afterwards because [[Status Quo Is God]], but most of his episodes after that have used his leadership abilities slightly more humanely - patrolling the halls like a mercenary cop, manipulating kids into giving him blood samples to test for nits, saving the World of Warcraft from a jerk, helping Mexican kids get into college by teaching them that cheating isn't so bad. Good deeds are now an option for his character, as well as selfish ones.
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=== [[Fridge Horror]]: ===
* The ending of Red Sleigh Down, where Santa brings Christmas to Iraq, a predominantly Muslim country. Because nothing says happiness like forcing your religious holidays on other cultures. By bombing them with it, no less.
* After Chef was reconstructed into Darth Chef, everyone expected his return. But he never came back. What does that mean? The rebuilt remains of Chef, our beloved Chef, is still with the Super Adventure Club raping little boys.
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** Think ''that's'' bad? It gets worse. Kenny is reborn through a {{spoiler|spontaneous childbirth through his mother whenever he dies, and his parents take the soon-to-be-completely-sentient Kenny to his bed, with a new parka.}} Alright. That's fine. But what happens after {{spoiler|she}} ''dies?'' Will Kenny still be reborn when she's buried six-feet-under? [[Nightmare Fuel|And if that happens forever-]][[And I Must Scream|Oh god.]]
*** Umm... the same episode being discussed shows Kenny waking up in his bed after he dies. So that bit of Fridge has been [[Retcon|retconned]] away. I mean, yes, there was the one episode that ends with Kenny getting born, but.
*** Not necessarily true, all we know is that he woke up in his bed. Doesn't say how he [[Does This Remind You of Anything?|got into bed fully dressed in his parka.
*** Another episode showed him just appearing out of nowhere. All Stan says about this is [[Unusually Uninteresting Sight|"Oh, hey Kenny."]]
*** It's a good thing that ''[[South Park]]'''s inhabitants [[
*** As brilliant as that episode was, now this troper will never be able to hear the words "Oh my God! They killed Kenny!" "You bastards!" the same way again, as the beloved running gag has been twisted into something much darker...
** With the revelation that Kenny is an immortal, "Cartman Joins NAMBLA" becomes disturbing when you realize that Kenny was trying to murder his mom's unborn son (which turns out to be him).
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*** ...which also explains why Imaginary Jesus doesn't recognise the boys who he's met several other times through the series, if only in passing.
** What if Imaginary Jesus isn't actually based on the Jesus who once existed, but the Jesus people believe will [[Second Coming|return?]] Now consider the fact that the scientists have been creating a portal that opens up a doorway into Imaginationland, [[Fluffy Cloud Heaven|a world of wonder and joy gated off]] from [[Hell|a world of intense evil]]. How they [[Half Life|opened that portal]] and [[The End of the World as We Know It|caused the nightmare world to flood into ours,]] and while I'm on a roll, how about the fact that Imaginationland's entrance song is '''[[Hallelujah Chorus|ONE WORD REPEATED OVER AND OVER AGAIN WITH VARYING EMPHASIS!!]]''' Unbelievably well done!
*** And I'll do you one more, after the whole thing is over and {{spoiler|Imaginationland is effectively gone, who recreates the entire world and everyone in it? [[God|Butters...]]}}
*** This is probably a coincidence, but in [[Stargate (film)|the movie that they're parodying]], the name of the portal was originally mistranslated (in-universe) as a "Doorway to Heaven."
* Speaking of imaginary characters, Freddy Krueger is an evil imaginary character in the ''Imaginationland'' trilogy, but he is shown as a real person, complete with wife and kids, in "Insheeption".
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