History Recap / SouthParkS4E16TheWackyMolestationAdventure

* FalseRapeAccusation: Most of the kids do this to their parents, but the ones who don't flee town.

* NotEvenBotheringWithAnExcuse: Kyle's parents say he can attend a Raging Pussies concert if Kyle cleans out the garage, shovels the driveway, and [[TheLastOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers brings democracy to Cuba]]. [[AchievementsInIgnorance Kyle does all three]], accomplishing the final task by writing a letter so moving that it touches the heart of UsefulNotes/FidelCastro. However, [[MovingTheGoalposts Kyle's parents still refuse to let him go to the concert]], this time on the grounds of "because we don't want you to go", tacitly admitting that [[TheCakeIsALie they were never going to let him go to the concert]]. This ultimately kicks off the TeenageWasteland plot when Kyle calls child services on his parents as revenge.

* WithFriendsLikeThese: Cartman getting ''Chef'' of all people arrested by lying about being molested by him (although it may have just been because he was in bed with Liane at the time).

* KarmaHoudini: Most of the children get no punishment for getting their parents and other adults arrested for child molestation as the parents get brainwashed into believing they did it. The only kids that do suffer are the ones sacrificed to the statue.

** Gerald and Sheila should've cut their losses and let Kyle go to the concert instead of trolling him with an ImpossibleTask [[AchievementsInIgnorance that he ended up accomplishing anyway]]. But they did all this in the first place because [[ParentsAsPeople they're parents]] and they didn't want him to go to a concert that he was too young for, and to their credit, they admit that they were wrong for trolling him. It doesn't help their case that they didn't think to offer Kyle an alternative reward to compensate for not going to the concert.

* DisasterDominoes: Kyle being honest with his parents about the concert instead of lying like Stan and Cartman did ultimately leads to a bunch of adults being sent to prison, young children being left to fend for themselves, and the town descending into total anarchy.

!Wacky Molestation Adventure contains examples of:

** Gerald and Sheila should’ve cut their losses and let Kyle go to the concert instead of trolling him with an ImpossibleTask [[AchievementsInIgnorance that he ended up accomplishing anyway]]. But they did all this in the first place because [[ParentsAsPeople they’re parents]] and they didn’t want him to go to a concert that he was too young for, and to their credit, they admit that they were wrong for trolling him. It doesn't help their case that they didn't think to offer Kyle an alternative reward to compensate for not going to the concert.
** Kyle had ''every'' right to be angry with his parents for their sarcastic request, something he ended up doing despite its impossibility, and also had the right to go to the concert since it wasn’t gonna affect him in the way they thought it might. But he needed to realize they did that out of {{tough love}}, and getting them arrested for false charges of molestation was absolutely wrong. Luckily, he figures that out in the end.

'''Originally aired:''' December 13, 2000

When Kyle isn't allowed to go to the Raging Pussies concert, Cartman tells him to tell the cops his parents molested him. Eventually South Park is left without parents and the city devolves to anarchy

-->'''Mark:''' Is that what happened to the adults here? You lied to the police and said they molested you? My God, they were your parents!\\

** The children selfishly squabble over leadership of the town rather than figuring out a way to get their parents back or find food, water and power.
** The police of South Park are also quick to arrest any adults for molestation charges (without any evidence for that matter) but take no interest at all in caring for the unsupervised children afterwards. Whatever police authority is left in South Park is shown "rehabilitating" the persecuted parents while leaving the children reduced to their desolate situation.

* TooDumbToLive: The children turn out to be this as because they expatriated their own parents to prisons, they no longer had anyone to buy food and utilities for them so they succumb to a suicidal path of sacrificing one of themselves each night to a statue they dub The Provider.

** Gerald and Sheila should’ve cut their losses and let Kyle go to the concert instead of trolling him with an ImpossibleTask [[AchievementsInIgnorance that he ended up accomplishing anyway]]. But they did all this in the first place because [[ParentsAsPeople they’re parents]] and they didn’t want him to go to a concert that he was too young for, and to their credit, they admit that they were wrong for trolling him.

* AchievementsInIgnorance: Kyle manages to bring democracy to Cuba by writing a letter that touches the heart of Fidel Castro. Gerald and Sheila are equal parts dumbfounded that Kyle managed to do it, and horrified because they now have to let him go to the Raging Pussies concert. That is, until they decide that they're NotEvenBotheringWithAnExcuse and refuse to let Kyle go anyway because they don't want him to go.
* AnAesop: Parents can be controlling and heavily regulating, but they do it out of love. Also, reckless accusations of sexual abuse do have severe consequences.

* BaitAndSwitch: The job opportunity of Mark's life, turned out to be as a manager of Denny's in Breckenridge

** Gerald and Sheila should’ve cut their losses and let Kyle go to the concert instead of trolling him with an impossible task that he ended up accomplishing anyway, but they did all this in the first place because [[ParentsAsPeople they’re parents]] and they didn’t want him to go to a concert that he was too young for, and to their credit, they admit that they were wrong for trolling him.
** Kyle had ''every'' right to be angry with his parents for their sarcastic request, something he ended up doing despite its impossibility, and also had the right to go to the concert since it wasn’t gonna affect him in the way they thought it might, but he needed to realize they did that out of tough love and getting them arrested for false charges of molestation was absolutely wrong. Luckily, he figures that out in the end.

* CallingTheOldManOut: Kyle is absolutely livid when he finds out Shelia and Gerald were never going to let him see the Raging Pussies after they admit they weren't being serious about the "Bring democracy to Cuba" chore. While Shelia and Gerald admit they didn't handle this correctly, by the time they explain why they really don't want Kyle going to that concert, he's too pissed at how his parents trolled him to listen.

* MovingTheGoalposts: Gerald and Sheila say that Kyle can only go to the Raging Pussies concert if he does three things, the last of which is an ImpossibleTask. When Kyle [[AchievementsInIgnorance manages to do all three anyway]], Gerald and Sheila then decide that Kyle still can't go to the concert, this time outright admitting to Kyle that it's because [[NotEvenBotheringWithAnExcuse they're just flat out refusing to let him go no matter what he does, and that's that]].

* NotEvenBotheringWithAnExcuse: Kyle's parents say he can attend a Raging Pussies concert if Kyle cleans out the garage, shovels the driveway, and [[TheLastOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers brings democracy to Cuba]]. [[AchievementsInIgnorance Kyle does all three]], accomplishing the final task by writing a letter so moving that it touches the heart of UsefulNotes/FidelCastro. However, [[MovingTheGoalposts Kyle's parents still refuse to let him go to the concert]], this time on the grounds of "because we don't want you to go". This ultimately kicks off the TeenageWasteland plot when Kyle calls child services on his parents as revenge.

* ImpossibleTask: Kyle's parents tell him he can't go to a concert unless he cleans out the garage, shovels the snow out of the driveway, and brings democracy to Cuba. Of course he succeeds at all three (hilariously, he considered the second task the one that would be most difficult).

** Gerald and Sheila should’ve cut their losses and let Kyle go to the concert instead of trolling him with an impossible task that he ended up doing anyway but they did all this in the first place because [[ParentsAsPeople they’re parents]] and they didn’t want him to go to a concert that he was too young for, and to their credit, they admit that they were wrong for trolling him.
** Kyle had ''every'' right to be angry with his parents for their sarcastic request, something he ended up doing, and also had the right to go to the concert since it wasn’t gonna effect him in the way they think it might but he needed to realize they did that out of tough love and getting them arrested for false charges of molestation was absolutely wrong. Luckily, he figures that out in the end.

* PoliceAreUseless: Played with, since the police are actually quick to act upon allegations of child abuse. ''Too'' quick for that matter, they quickly arrest all the parents in town with no real evidence, and then take no action afterwards to protect the now parentless children. When questioned on this, one official just makes the offhand assumption Kyle and Ike can just live with their Grandma (ignoring Shiela's protests she's been dead for years) and then carts the parents away, leaving the two kids to their own devices.

** The police of South Park are also quick to arrest any adults for molestation charges (without any evidence for that matter) but take no interest at all in caring for the unsupervised children afterwards. Whatever unarrested authority is left in South Park is shown "rehabilitating" the persecuted parents while leaving the children reduced to their desolate situation.

* WithFriendsLikeThese: Cartman getting ''Chef'' of all people arrested by lying about being molested by him.

** Before the prison bus arrives to return the parents home, the boys wonder if they'll be mad about all this. Stan reasons they can't be too mad since they made them an apology banner. [[spoiler: They aren't mad, but this is because in their time off they ended up believing that they really molested their kids and are trying to apologize for it, despite the kids trying to explain it was a lie]].

* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Liane's ex-boyfriend who Cartman got arrested three months prior is not mentioned after the boys confess they lied, which means [[FridgeHorror he could still be locked up for a crime he didn't commit]].

* WithFriendsLikeThese: Cartman getting Chef of all people arrested by lying about being molested by him (unless the cop arresting Chef was some kind of commentary about white police officers racially profiling black people).

* WithFriendsLikeThese: Cartman getting Chef of all people arrested by lying about being molested by him.

** Before the prison bus arrives to return the parents home, the boys wonder if they'll be mad about all this. Stan reasons they can't be too mad since they made them an apology banner.

* AnAesop: Parents can be controlling and heavily regulating, but they do it out of love.

* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Liane's ex-boyfriend who Cartman got arrested 3 months prior is not mentioned after the boys confess they lied which means [[FridgeHorror he could still be locked up for a crime he didn't commit.]]

* WholePlotReference: This episode is a parody of ''Film/ChildrenOfTheCorn1984''. There are also {{homage}}s to ''Film/MadMax'' (the outfits the children wear), ''Literature/LordOfTheFlies'' (children operating without adult supervision), Army of Darkness (the MacGuffin book) and Logan's Run (the Carousel, human sacrifices). The climax is also a nod to the ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries'' episode "[[Recap/StarTrekS1E8Miri Miri]]" where Captain Kirk delivers a speech to the children that they need supervision; Mark just about does the same thing at the end.