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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.

** Actually, they all had said that Mysterion ran away before they were sent to Cthulu's universe. Even though he killed himself when he was there, they don't remember him getting sent there with everyone else.

*** That means that everyone else thought he ran away, but Cartman says he sent Kenny to the AU when Kenny goes to confront him.

** At the end of Ep03S03 "Succubus" Cartman uses Kenny's eyes for a transplant in order to fix his deteriorating eyesight. It could be that this is what later enabled Cartman to remember Kenny's deaths. Also, what's even more strange is that [[wikipedia:Eye transplantation|the surgery itself]] is not only possible, but also quite common as the cornea, the only transplantable part of the eyeball, is also the part responsible for most cases of bad eyesight.

*** What about the time when Cartman drank Kenny's ashes?

* Cartman wasn't around for any of Kenny's immortal angst. It is possible that Cartman is the only one of the boys that is aware of Kenny's deaths, but is just too selfish to care.

* There is an episode where Stan is worried Kyle is going to die and mentions aloud that he can't handle this. Kenny then makes angry eyes at Stan, further proving that Kenny remembers his own deaths (can't remember which episode this was but it is NOT Cartmanland). Also- the first Christmas special, Kenny knowing he's supposed to die and the celebration at the end when he doesn't. Finally it makes sense!

* The parody of Inception was based on a College Humor parody, so that it means it's a parody of a parody, which really fits.

 

=== [[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.

** 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.

*** Another episode showed him just appearing out of nowhere. All Stan says about this is [[Unusually Uninteresting Sight|"Oh, hey Kenny."]]

*** 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).

=== [[Fridge Logic]]: ===

* The ''[[South Park]]'' episode ''Butt Out'' appears at first to be a strange [[Aesop]]: cigarette companies aren't that bad, while the anti-smoking lobby is full of arrogant, [[Manipulative Bastard|manipulative]] [[Jerkass|jerks]] who are ready to go to any lengths to make people believe in the evils of smoking. It wasn't until recently that this Troper realized that the makers of the show were just reversing the classic cartoon cliché of "Evil Cigarette Companies trying to hide the truth about Tobacco and brainwash people into buying cigarettes". It's this kind of clever metahumor that makes Matt Stone and Trey Parker the comedic geniuses they are, in this Troper's opinion. - lonewolf23k

*** "If you ask me, your show has become so preachy and full of morals that you have forgotten how to be funny!". This and another similar quote appear in Cartoon Wars Part II, yet a lot of people still complain about how Stone and Parker can't make fun of themselves while making fun of Family Guy.

*** Everybody does "Evil Cigarette Companies". There's nowhere to really go with it. On the other hand, we all know smoking is bad for us but Matt and Trey are pointing out that despite this, people still smoke. They also point out that politicians are as usual a bunch of hypocrites; they put taxes on cigarettes under the ruse of discouraging people from smoking, when they could just flat out ban them like Marijuana or LSD.

** For me, the fridge brilliance kicked in the moment I realized that Jesus would've fit in Imagination land one way or another, because Imaginary Jesus is based on a modern highly-fictionalised stereotype of how people think of Jesus rather than a real human being Jesus would've been. 'Just because it's imaginary doesn't mean it's not real' indeed, Trey & Matt.

*** ...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.

*** 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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