History Recap / SouthParkS10E2SmugAlert

** After Stan leaves Cartman "Going Away Party" for Kyle, Wendy attempts to follow him, likely to comfort him, but stops herself short. This hints towards Wendy having feelings for Stan and them [[Recap/SouthParkS11E14TheList becoming an item again]].

* NonIndicativeName: Cartman didn't invite Kyle for his going away party and just threw the party to celebrate the latter's move. Craig calls him out for calling it that when Kyle isn't there.

* RunningGag: The adults of San Francisco sniffing their own farts.

* AnAesop: Driving an environmentally conscious car doesn't give you the [[JustForPun license]] to be smug.

* DeconReconSwitch: While this episode mercilessly lampoons people driving hybrid cars as smug, arrogant assholes, Kyle delivers a speech at the end saying that the cars themselves may save the planet in the future and that people should just stop being smug about driving hybrids. Unfortunately, none of the adults are unwilling to do the last part and just stick with driving gas-guzzlers.

* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: Stan writing a song to convince South Park denizens to drive hybrid cars lead to the town being nearly destroyed, the Midwest being devastated, and San Francisco's complete destruction.

* DeconReconSwitch: While this episode mercilessly lampoons people driving hybrid cars as smug, arrogant assholes, Kyle delivers a speech at the end saying that the cars themselves may save the planet in the future and that people should just stop being smug about driving hybrids. Unfortunately, none of the adults are unwilling to do the last part and just stick with gas-guzzlers.

** After Stan leaves Cartman "Going Away Party" for Kyle, Wendy attempts to follow him, likely to comfort him, but stops herself short. This hints towards Wendy having feelings for Stan and them[[Recap/SouthParkS11E14TheList becoming an item again]].

* {{Foreshadowing}}: When chastising Gerald for his smugness, Randy remarks that Gerald probably loves the smell of his own farts now. Later in the episode, the people of San Francisco literally smell their own farts as a form of pleasurable stimulus.

* {{Foreshadowing}}: When chastising Gerald for his smugness, Randy remarks that Gerald probably loves the smell of his own farts now. Later in the episode, the people of San Francisco literally smell their own farts as a form of pleasurable stimulus.

* PetTheDog: Cartman saves Kyle and his family from dying in San Francisco during the smug storm, because he needs Kyle around to banter with. He's privately relieved when Kyle fights back after being called a sneaky Jew.

* StatusQuoIsGod: The Brofloski family are back in South Park and by the next episode the town's fully rebuilt and back to normal.

* AbsenteeActor: Kenny does not appear in this episode.

* AbusiveParents: Randy verbally abuses Stan for his song and the smug that it produced. He then has zero sympathy for Stan when he's afraid that Kyle died with San Francisco.

* {{Jerkass}}: Every adult in this episode.
** Gerald is a holier then thou asshole who forces his family to move to San Francisco because people don't want to tolerate his fake tickets on their [=SUVs=].
** The adults in South Park all immediately turn on Stan as soon as they know about the smug and blame him for it, when they're to blame.

* BitchInSheepsClothing: Ranger Mcfriendly initially comes off as a nice ranger for a few seconds, then he assaults Stan and leads the other adults in blaming Stan for the smug and treating him like shit.

--> '''Kenan:''' Did you hear it? He talked about how people in Hollywood are ahead of the curve on social matters. He even took credit for the UsefulNotes/CivilRightsMovement!
* TookALevelInJerkass: Gerald becomes a smug holier then thou asshole due to buying a hybrid and spends the first part of the episode giving fake tickets to [=SUVs=] in the hardware store parking lot.

Gerald buys a hybrid car, which causes problems for Kyle when they move to San Francisco.

** People who drive hybrid cars (specifically the Toyota Prius, which allegedly owes much of it's popularity to the fact that it's the most recognizable one of it's kind and, therefore, a greater status symbol) are depicted as smug jerks who act like the simple act of driving a low-emission car is the most noble act of environmentalism.

** George Clooney's 2005 Oscar acceptance speech ends up producing a smug cloud strong enough to start a huge smug storm when colliding with the ones from South Park and San Francisco.

* VictoryIsBoring: Initially Cartman is ecstatic that Kyle's moved away and denies Stan's claim that he'll find life boring without Kyle to rip on, because he's got Butters. He quickly grows bored when Butters doesn't fight back and apologizes when Cartman calls him on it.

* TheScapegoat: Stan gets all the blame and heat for everything the adults did. Even after Kyle point-blank tells them that everything could have been avoided if they stopped being smug while driving hybrids, the adults decide they "aren't ready".

* OnlyTheLeadsGetAHappyEnding: Kyle and his family are saved, Stan has his best friend back, Cartman has someone he can banter with. But thousands are left homeless and the Midwest is devestated and San Francisco is completely destroyed along with it's entire population.

** Gerald is a holier then thou asshole who forces his family to move to San Francisco because people don't want to tolerate his fake tickets on their SUVs.

* TookALevelInJerkass: Gerald becomes a smug holier then thou asshole due to buying a hybrid and spends the first part of the episode giving fake tickets to SUVs in the hardware store parking lot.

* TheScapegoat: Kyle gets all the blame and heat for everything the adults did. Even after Kyle point-blank tells them that everything could have been avoided if they stopped being smug while driving hybrids, the adults decide they "aren't ready".

* AnAesop: If you drive a hybrid car, don't be a smug dick about it.

** George Clooney gets this for his 2005 Oscar acceptance speech, to the point that it produced a smug cloud strong enough to start a huge smug storm when it came into collision with South Park and San Francisco's smug clouds.
** Towards hybrid cars and the people who develop a holier then thou attitude because of it.
** San Francisco is portrayed as hipster paradise and with almost every adult having a smug attitude to the point that people there love the smell of their own farts.