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That's not what Big Bad is about at all. While Stan was selfish, he's not a villain in the slightest and the Big Bad trope is about "the main villain of the story".


* BigBad: Stan was the one who got him and the other boys on the trip in the first place.



* {{Padding}}: The episode plays a lot with the excessive graphics and time wasting elements done with TV documentary shows, including a CGI render and narration of Kyle's facial muscles forcing a half-hearted smile.

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* {{Padding}}: InUniverse. The episode plays a lot with the excessive graphics and time wasting elements done with TV documentary shows, including a CGI render and narration of Kyle's facial muscles forcing a half-hearted smile.
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* LongTitle: At one point, the documentary is renamed "I Should Have Never Thought Horseback Riding Would Be Any Better Than Ziplining".
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'''Airdate:''' April 18, 2012

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'''Airdate:''' April 18, 2012
'''Original air date:''' 4/18/2012
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* WhatTheHellHero: When the rest of the boys learn than Stan sold them out for an iPod Nano, they are ''not'' happy.

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* WhatTheHellHero: When the rest of the boys learn than that Stan sold them out for an iPod Nano, they are ''not'' happy.
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** In the montage at the end, the narrator explains that Stan held a seminar about boredom and when it failed, once agaon jacked off in San Diego, a nod to the previous episode "Butterballs".

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** In the montage at the end, the narrator explains that Stan held a seminar about boredom and when it failed, once agaon again jacked off in San Diego, a nod to the previous episode "Butterballs".
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* {{Gashole}}: Cartman's poor diet and excessive drinking of Diet Double Dew has him farting all episode long.

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* {{Gashole}}: {{Gasshole}}: Cartman's poor diet and excessive drinking of Diet Double Dew has him farting all episode long.

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* BaitAndSwitch: Stan, tearfully recalling Kenny's death and using his friends to get an iPod Nano: "The hardest part about it is knowing you can't take it back. I mean, it was a fifth-generation Nano, so I can't trade it in anywhere."



* ComicallyMissingThePoint: Stan, tearfully recalling Kenny's death and using his friends to get an iPod Nano: "The hardest part about it is knowing you can't take it back. I mean, it was a fifth-generation Nano, so I can't trade it in anywhere."

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* ComicallyMissingThePoint: Stan, tearfully recalling Kenny's death and using his friends to Cartman just doesn't get an iPod Nano: "The hardest part about it that Diet Double Dew is knowing you can't take it back. I mean, it was a fifth-generation Nano, so I can't trade it in anywhere." just regular Mountain Dew.



** In the montage at the end, the narrator explains that Stan held a seminar about boredom and when it failed, jacked off in San Diego, a nod to the previous episode "Butterballs".

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** In the montage at the end, the narrator explains that Stan held a seminar about boredom and when it failed, once agaon jacked off in San Diego, a nod to the previous episode "Butterballs".



* {{Gashole}}: Cartman's poor diet and excessive drinking of Diet Double Dew has him farting all episode long.



* HypocriticalHumor: Cartman mocks Kenny for having herpes and saying it's a cold sore. At the end of the episode, after being treated for herpes, he obviously says the same.

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* HypocriticalHumor: Cartman mocks Kenny for having herpes and saying it's a cold sore. At the end of the episode, after being treated for herpes, he obviously says winds up saying the same.same thing.



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%%* WhereAreTheyNowEpilogue* WhereAreTheyNowEpilogue: Kyle spends several weeks in a hospital getting all of Cartman's fecal matter out of his nose, Stan gives a seminar tour on boredom, only to go insane again and start jacking it in the streets of San Diego, and Cartman continues to drink Diet Double Dew because he refuses to do the math.
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* AffectionateParody: The episode as a whole plays off ''Series/IShouldntBeAlive'', to the point of [[ParodyAssistance getting some of the same crew to help with the joke]].


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* DawsonCasting: [[invoked]] The real life segments have the ten year olds played by actors clearly in their 20's. The narration never hesitates to keep calling them "These fourth graders..."


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* DeusExMachina: Mr. Hankey arrives as the last hope to get the kids back to town safely, complete with a poop themed helicopter, plane and train.


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* {{Padding}}: The episode plays a lot with the excessive graphics and time wasting elements done with TV documentary shows, including a CGI render and narration of Kyle's facial muscles forcing a half-hearted smile.

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Crosswicking.


!!"I Should Have Never Gone Ziplining" contains examples of:

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* PoopingWhereYouShouldnt: Cartman has an upset stomach, so Kyle suggests [[NatureTinkling crapping in the woods]]. Cartman turns this down, saying that it'll attract beavers. Later, when the boys are on a boat, [[PuttingThePeeInPool Cartman defecates off the side and into the water]], and [[BrickJoke it indeed attracts beavers]].

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* ArtShift:
** As the boys go further on their adventure, the show becomes a "dramatization" with the boys being portrayed by live actors.
** The scenes inside the boys' bodies are rendered in CGI.

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* ArtShift:
** As the boys go further on their adventure, the show becomes a "dramatization" with the boys being portrayed by live actors.
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ArtShift: The scenes inside the boys' bodies are rendered in CGI.


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* LargeHam: The live-action actors for the boys all heavily overact their roles, with sole exception being Kenny's who portrays him as a ColdHam.


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* MediumShiftGag: As the boys go further on their adventure, the show becomes a "dramatization" with the boys being portrayed by live actors.
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* TheMillstone: One same irritating camper is constantly halting the group, arriving half an hour late to the trip and constantly asking questions to the guides. The narration makes clear the boys are really holding themselves from telling this guy to go fuck himself.

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* TheMillstone: One The same irritating camper is constantly halting the group, arriving half an hour late to the trip and constantly asking questions to the guides. The narration makes clear that the boys are really seriously holding themselves back from telling this guy to go fuck himself.

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* {{Foreshadowing}}: Kenny is the only boy to not be interviewed. The third act reveals why.

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* {{Foreshadowing}}: {{Foreshadowing}}:
** It's easy to miss but the scene of Cartman saying that ziplining is a great idea, he's looking at Stan.
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Kenny is the only boy to not be interviewed. The third act reveals why.

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The boys go to the Colorado Mountains to go ziplining, and find themselves fighting for survival when they discover that ziplining causes literal death from boredom.



* ArtShift: As the boys go further on their adventure, the show becomes a "dramatization" with the boys being portrayed by live actors.

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As the boys go further on their adventure, the show becomes a "dramatization" with the boys being portrayed by live actors.



* BigBad: Stan was the one who got them on the trip in the first place.

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* BigBad: Stan was the one who got them him and the other boys on the trip in the first place.



* ComicallyMissingThePoint: Stan, tearfully recalling Kenny's death and using his friends to get an iPod: "The hardest part about it is knowing you can't take it back. I mean, it was the fifth-generation Nano, so I can't trade it in anywhere."

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* ComicallyMissingThePoint: Stan, tearfully recalling Kenny's death and using his friends to get an iPod: iPod Nano: "The hardest part about it is knowing you can't take it back. I mean, it was the a fifth-generation Nano, so I can't trade it in anywhere."



* FakeOutOpening: The opening scene makes it seem like the boys would get into bloody ziplining accidents. As the episode continues, it becomes clear that there were no accidents -- [[FelonyMisdemeanor the ziplining was just made significantly less fun due to an insufferable tour group.]]

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* FakeOutOpening: The opening scene makes it seem like the boys would get into bloody ziplining accidents. As the episode continues, it becomes clear that there were no accidents -- [[FelonyMisdemeanor the ziplining was just made significantly less fun due to an insufferable tour group.]]group]].



* WhamLine: "You sold us out for ''an iPod Nano''?"



* WhamLine: "You sold us out for ''an iPod Nano''?"



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[[caption-width-right:350:"Fuck you, Cartman."]]

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* HeroicBSOD: "You sold us out for ''an iPod Nano''?"

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* HeroicBSOD: "You sold us out for ''an iPod Nano''?"The group eventually succumbs to this after they learn why the ziplining trip was suggested.



* WhatTheHellHero[=/=]WhamLine: See HeroicBSOD.
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* WhatTheHellHero[=/=]WhamLine: See HeroicBSOD.
WhamLine: "You sold us out for ''an iPod Nano''?"
* WhereAreTheyNowEpilogueWhatTheHellHero: When the rest of the boys learn than Stan sold them out for an iPod Nano, they are ''not'' happy.
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* {{Foreshadowing}}: Kenny is the only boy to not be interviewed. The third act reveals why.
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'''Airdate:''' April 18, 2012

!!"I Should Have Never Gone Ziplining" contains examples of:
* ArtShift: As the boys go further on their adventure, the show becomes a "dramatization" with the boys being portrayed by live actors.
** The scenes inside the boys' bodies are rendered in CGI.
* BigBad: Stan was the one who got them on the trip in the first place.
* BigDamnHeroes: The boys are saved by Mr. Hankey at the end.
* ComicallyMissingThePoint: Stan, tearfully recalling Kenny's death and using his friends to get an iPod: "The hardest part about it is knowing you can't take it back. I mean, it was the fifth-generation Nano, so I can't trade it in anywhere."
* ContinuityNod:
** In the montage at the end, the narrator explains that Stan held a seminar about boredom and when it failed, jacked off in San Diego, a nod to the previous episode "Butterballs".
** One of Mr. Hanky's rescue vehicles is the Poo-Choo Express, referencing the Poo-Choo Train from "[[Recap/SouthParkS6E17RedSleighDown Red Sleigh Down]]".
* DespairEventHorizon: The boys are stranded at sea, Kenny dies of boredom and herpes and it's revealed Stan took them on the trip so he can get an iPod Nano.
* FakeOutOpening: The opening scene makes it seem like the boys would get into bloody ziplining accidents. As the episode continues, it becomes clear that there were no accidents -- [[FelonyMisdemeanor the ziplining was just made significantly less fun due to an insufferable tour group.]]
* FelonyMisdemeanor: All the small (but admittedly relatable) annoyances that befall the boys on the trip are treated as serious dramatic tragedies by the narrative.
* HeroicBSOD: "You sold us out for ''an iPod Nano''?"
* HypocriticalHumor: Cartman mocks Kenny for having herpes and saying it's a cold sore. At the end of the episode, after being treated for herpes, he obviously says the same.
* LongTitle: At one point, the documentary is renamed "I Should Have Never Thought Horseback Riding Would Be Any Better Than Ziplining".
* TheMillstone: One same irritating camper is constantly halting the group, arriving half an hour late to the trip and constantly asking questions to the guides. The narration makes clear the boys are really holding themselves from telling this guy to go fuck himself.
* RunningGag: Every utterance of "To make a long story short...", which the zipliners and horseback riders flippantly say as an indication that their story is actually going to go on ''even longer.''
* ShoutOut: The whole episode is a parody of the reality show ''I Shouldn't Be Alive,'' complete with [[ParodyAssistance the same narrator]].
* SnapBack: Cartman's back to insulting Kyle for being Jewish.
* TheyKilledKennyAgain: Kenny dies of boredom on a slow boat in a live-action sequence.
* ToiletHumor: Most of Cartman's scenes. Especially the live-action version of him crapping on the side of the boat.
* WhatCouldPossiblyGoWrong: Stan says this line when he decides to go on a boat ride instead of enduring horseback riding any longer. This also cues the switchover to the dramatized footage.
* WhatTheHellHero[=/=]WhamLine: See HeroicBSOD.
* WhereAreTheyNowEpilogue
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