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* AdultsAreUseless: None of the adults want to help the boys out with their cause against Steven Spielberg and George Lucas, and instead only want to free ''a child serial killer'' from prison.
* AnAesop: Don't try to fix what isn't broken.
* AnAesop: Don't try to fix what isn't broken.
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* AdultsAreUseless: None of the adults want to help the boys out with their cause against Steven Spielberg and George Lucas, and instead only want wanting to free ''a child serial killer'' from prison.
* AnAesop: Don't try to fix what isn't broken.prison.
* AnAesop: Don't try to fix what isn't broken.
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* RunningGag: The use of walkie-talkies as actual firearms, serving as an extended TakeThat towards the edited version of ''Film/ETTheExtraTerrestrial.''
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* WhatCouldPossiblyGoWrong: Cartman says exactly this about the gang's planned TV appearance. [[TemptingFate It goes very wrong]].
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Quoting the Lethally Stupid page: "Not to be confused with Too Dumb To Live, when the character's stupidity causes their own death." Hat is only a danger to babies.
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* DevilInPlainSight: Hat makes no attempt to hide what a psychopath he is, but the TooDumbToLive townspeople believe otherwise.
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* DevilInPlainSight: Hat makes no attempt to hide what a psychopath he is, but the TooDumbToLive LethallyStupid townspeople believe otherwise.
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* LethallyStupid: Despite Hat confessing to killing twenty-three babies, the [[TooDumbToLive adults]] still have no problem ''giving him a baby when he asks for one to hold''.
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* LethallyStupid: Despite Hat confessing to killing twenty-three babies, the [[TooDumbToLive adults]] adults still have no problem ''giving him a baby when he asks for one to hold''.
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* TooDumbToLive: The townspeople have no problem releasing an obviously dangerous serial killer from prison.
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* BrickJoke: Spielberg's mooks carrying walkie-talkies in place of guns.
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* BrickJoke: BrickJoke:
** Spielberg's mooks carrying walkie-talkies in place ofguns.guns.
** Warming a person's cold heart with a cool island song ''actually frees Hat from prison''.
** Spielberg's mooks carrying walkie-talkies in place of
** Warming a person's cold heart with a cool island song ''actually frees Hat from prison''.
* ComicallyMissingThePoint: The protestors believed that "Free Hat" in the advertisement poster meant that the boys wanted to free a convicted murderer from jail and not that the boys were offering ''free paper hats'' to attendees.
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* SuckinessIsPainful: The re-edited version of ''Raiders of the Lost Ark'' is so bad that it kills the entire audience in the manner similar to said movie's climax, the boys only surviving by keeping their eyes shut.
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* SuckinessIsPainful: The re-edited version of ''Raiders of the Lost Ark'' is so bad that it kills the entire audience in the a manner similar to said movie's climax, the boys only surviving by keeping their eyes shut.
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* TheDogBitesBack: After dealing with Cartman's abuse throughout the episode, Tweek attempts to leave him with the directors while trying to bargain for Stan and Kyle's release.
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* ObviouslyEvil: Hat [=McCullough=].
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* ObviouslyEvil: Hat [=McCullough=]. He even starts spouting about wanting to harm innocents and immediately asks to hold a baby. [[EvilDetectingBaby Said baby desperately trying to keep away from him.]]
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* SuckinessIsPainful: The re-edited version of ''Raiders of the Lost Ark'' is so bad that it kills the entire audience in the manner similar to said movie's climax, the boys only surviving by keeping their eyes shut.
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* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: Cartman's simple idea of offering free hats to entice people into joining the film preservation group eventually resulted in a convicted child-murderer being released from prison.
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Up To Eleven is a defunct trope
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* GeorgeLucasAlteredVersion: Parodied. The referenced variations made to ''Film/ETTheExtraTerrestrial'' were based on real life, but the ones for ''Film/SavingPrivateRyan'', ''Film/TheEmpireStrikesBack'', and the show's own first episode are deliberately silly. The boys hope to prevent a similar fate befalling ''Film/RaidersOfTheLostArk''. UpToEleven at George's house, where the boys find digitally enhanced versions of his own home movies.
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* GeorgeLucasAlteredVersion: Parodied. The referenced variations made to ''Film/ETTheExtraTerrestrial'' were based on real life, but the ones for ''Film/SavingPrivateRyan'', ''Film/TheEmpireStrikesBack'', and the show's own first episode are deliberately silly. The boys hope to prevent a similar fate befalling ''Film/RaidersOfTheLostArk''. UpToEleven at At George's house, where the boys find digitally enhanced versions of his own home movies.
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* CharacterisationClickMoment: Stan and Kyle's role as the sympathetic [[OnlySaneMan Only Sane Men]] of the four-boy group is set around here. It is established here that only Cartman is particularly cruel and manipulative towards Tweak, while Stan and Kyle are relatively nice to him and are largely dealing with the obstacle that AdultsAreUseless. This carries over into their handling of Kenny and Butters within the dynamic in later episodes, both characters they were generally as antipathetic towards as Cartman beforehand.
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* CharacterisationClickMoment: Stan and Kyle's role as the sympathetic [[OnlySaneMan Only Sane Men]] of the four-boy group is set around here. It is established here that only Cartman is particularly cruel and manipulative towards Tweak, Tweek, while Stan and Kyle are relatively nice to him and are largely dealing with the obstacle that AdultsAreUseless. AdultsAreUseless. This carries over into their handling of Kenny and Butters within the dynamic in later episodes, both characters they were generally as antipathetic towards as Cartman beforehand.
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* HorribleJudgeOfCharacter: The protesters who want Hat freed from prison, even though he murdered over twenty babies (which he claimed was in "self defense"). After he's released, the crowd sees nothing wrong with giving the clearly homicidal and unrepentant Hat a baby to hold.
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* HorribleJudgeOfCharacter: The protesters who want Hat freed from prison, even though he murdered over twenty babies (which he claimed was in "self defense")."self-defense"). After he's released, the crowd sees nothing wrong with giving the clearly homicidal and unrepentant Hat a baby to hold.
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''[Tweak screams]''\\
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* SustainedMisunderstanding: The protesters misunderstood the advertising saying "Free hat" as wanting to free Hat [=McCullough=] from prison not that free hats would be given to those attending the rally. The boys decide not to correct them because of how much support they can get to stop classic films from being digitally edited, but the Hat supporters aren't that useful for the boys' original goal and only care about Hat's release.
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* SustainedMisunderstanding: The protesters misunderstood the advertising saying "Free hat" as wanting to free Hat [=McCullough=] from prison prison, not that free hats would be given to those attending the rally. The boys decide not to correct them because of how much support they can get to stop classic films from being digitally edited, but the Hat supporters aren't that useful for the boys' original goal and only care about Hat's release.
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* PoliticalCorrectnessGoneMad: Parodied. Kyle says they changed the word "terrorist" to "hippie" in ''E.T.'' to be more politically correct. The trailer for the altered of ''Saving Private Ryan'' then notes that "Nazi" has been changed to "Person with political differences," while the altered ''Empire'' changed "Wookie" to "Hair-challenged animal." Also, both had the guns replaced with walkie-talkies.
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* PoliticalCorrectnessGoneMad: Parodied. PoliticalOvercorrectness: Kyle says they changed the word "terrorist" to "hippie" in ''E.T.'' to be more politically correct. The trailer for the altered of ''Saving Private Ryan'' then notes that "Nazi" has been changed to "Person with political differences," while the altered ''Empire'' changed "Wookie" to "Hair-challenged animal." Also, both had the guns replaced with walkie-talkies.
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'''Air date:''' July 10, 2002
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