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AluminumChristmasTrees : While not precisely a hybrid of the two animals--more like a taxonomic third or fourth cousin of the elephant and rhinocerous--a creature that looks like a small piglike pachyderm '''does''' exist: behold, [[https://www.google.com/search?q=tapir&rlz=1CAXGER_enUS782US783&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8 the tapir]].

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* AluminumChristmasTrees : While not precisely a hybrid of the two animals--more like a taxonomic third or fourth cousin of the elephant and rhinocerous--a creature that looks like a small piglike pachyderm '''does''' exist: behold, [[https://www.google.com/search?q=tapir&rlz=1CAXGER_enUS782US783&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8 the tapir]].
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AluminumChristmasTrees : While not precisely a hybrid of the two animals--more like a taxonomic third or fourth cousin of the elephant and rhinocerous--a creature that looks like a small piglike pachyderm '''does''' exist: behold, [[https://www.google.com/search?q=tapir&rlz=1CAXGER_enUS782US783&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8 the tapir]].
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** Cartman [[PetTheDog caring about Fluffy and treating her in this episode]] well becomes this in ''[[Recap/SouthParkS4E6CherokeeHairTampons Cherokee Hair Tampons]]'' where [[TookALevelInKindness he will hit her after she wakes him at night]]. What makes it worse is that she never makes an appearance again after season 5, whereupon Cartman crosses the MoralEventHorizon. So much for his MoralityPet.

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** Cartman [[PetTheDog caring about Fluffy and treating her well in this episode]] well becomes this in ''[[Recap/SouthParkS4E6CherokeeHairTampons Cherokee Hair Tampons]]'' where [[TookALevelInKindness he will hit hits her after she wakes him at night]]. What makes it worse is that she never makes an appearance again after season 5, whereupon Cartman crosses the MoralEventHorizon. So much for his MoralityPet.

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* EnsembleDarkhorse: Despite only having a speaking role in this episode, Terrence Mephesto is arguably more popular than [[BaseBreakingCharacter his father]], due to his haughty and over-the-top demeanor serving as a foil to the boys' more crude and immature attitude. Fans weren't pleased when ''VideoGame/SouthParkTheFracturedButWhole'' showed that he got KilledOffscreen by Mecha-Streisand during the events of ''[[Recap/SouthParkS1E12MechaStreisand Mecha-Streisand]]''.

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Despite only having a speaking role in this episode, Terrence Mephesto is arguably more popular than [[BaseBreakingCharacter his father]], due to his haughty and over-the-top demeanor serving as a foil to the boys' more crude and immature attitude. Fans weren't pleased when ''VideoGame/SouthParkTheFracturedButWhole'' showed that he got KilledOffscreen by Mecha-Streisand during the events of ''[[Recap/SouthParkS1E12MechaStreisand Mecha-Streisand]]''.Mecha-Streisand]]''.
** Fluffy is also very popular, and appears in a lot more fanart than Kyle's elephant.
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* BrokenBase: The DeletedScene of Shelley setting Stan on fire and dousing him with a bucket of water [[RuleOfThree three times]]. It's either too brutal for its own good (regardless of the ExecutiveMeddling) and the episode is better off without it, or does it make the second beating look tame in comparison to the first one, with Shelley only throwing Stan unto the ground. The fact that a puddle of water appears out of nowhere in the revised scene doesn't help, even if it was edited out in the remaster.

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* BrokenBase: The DeletedScene of Shelley setting Stan on fire and dousing him with a bucket of water [[RuleOfThree three times]]. It's either too brutal for its own good (regardless of the ExecutiveMeddling) and the episode is better off without it, or does it it's removal make the second beating look tame in comparison to the first one, with Shelley only throwing Stan unto the ground. The fact that a puddle of water appears out of nowhere in the revised scene doesn't help, even if it was edited out in the remaster.

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* HilariousInHindsight: In this episode, Cartman repeatedly says that he wouldn’t let a girl kick his ass. Come ''[[Recap/SouthParkS12E9BreastCancerShowEver Breast Cancer Show Ever]]'', Cartman gets his ass beaten by Wendy.

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* HilariousInHindsight: HilariousInHindsight:
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In this episode, Cartman repeatedly says that he wouldn’t let a girl kick his ass. Come ''[[Recap/SouthParkS12E9BreastCancerShowEver Breast Cancer Show Ever]]'', Cartman gets his ass beaten by Wendy.Wendy.
** During a discussion, Cartman tells Kyle to "go back to San Francisco with all the Jews", and Kyle angrily replies that there are no Jews in San Francisco. In ''[[Recap/SouthParkS10E2SmugAlert Smug Alert]]'', Kyle would actually move to San Francisco against his will, and it will be Cartman who gets him out and back into South Park. It could count as HeartwarmingInHindsight if it weren't for the fact that Cartman did it only because he gets off on fighting with Kyle.
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* BrokenBase: The DeletedScene of Shelley setting Stan on fire and dousing him with a bucket of water [[RuleOfThree three times]]. It's either too brutal for its own good (regardless of the ExecutiveMeddling) and the episode is better off without it, or does it make the second beating look tame in comparison to the first one, with Shelley only throwing Stan unto the ground. The fact that a puddle of water appears out of nowhere in the revised scene doesn't help, even if it was edited out in the remaster.
* CrossesTheLineTwice: Shelley beating Stan and giving him a black eye isn't funny. Her ''dropping a TV'' on him, throwing him out a window and down a flight of stairs, and ''running him over with a lawnmower'' can be. The boys' reaction to him being thrown out of the window being "[[UnusuallyUninterestingSight ready to go, Stan?]]" with him [[AngstWhatAngst snapping back in an instant and joining them]]? Hilarious.
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* CryForTheDevil: Stan's clone getting his brains blown off by Mephesto, especially since he was the most sympathetic antagonist of the episode. It doesn't help that [[HateSink the more detestable]] Shelley and Terrance Mephesto are all [[KarmaHoudini Karma Houdinis]]
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* FridgeBrilliance: Cartman's StayInTheKitchen remarks in regards to Shelley makes sense when you remember the effect his teacher [[ApatheticTeacher Mr. Garrison]] had on Stan [[Recap/SouthParkS1E4BigGayAlsBigGayBoatRide the previous episode]]. TheMovie will show that Garrison himself is a StrawMisoynist, and several episodes show the two of them [[StrangeMindsThinkAlike having bizarrely similar mindsets on some topics]], such as [[InsaneTrollLogic dolphins living in igloos]] and [[CassandraTruth Scuzzlebutt being real]].
* FridgeHorror: Is Stan's TroublingUnchildlikeBehavior and LackOfEmpathy in the early episodes a product of his abuse at the hands of Shelley, or is it the origin of it? Is it a SelfFullfillingProphecy? [[Recap/SouthParkS8E4YouGotFdInTheA Future episodes]] will show Shelley having a bigger reaction to death than Stan himself, and Shelley seems to get especially angry when Stan acts nice (like when he says he loves her or thanks her for sticking up to him), implying she may view him as a BitchInSheepsClothing, which is ironically how ''he'' sees her.

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* FridgeBrilliance: Cartman's StayInTheKitchen remarks in regards to Shelley makes sense when you remember the effect his teacher [[ApatheticTeacher Mr. Garrison]] had on Stan [[Recap/SouthParkS1E4BigGayAlsBigGayBoatRide the previous episode]]. TheMovie will show that Garrison himself is a StrawMisoynist, StrawMisogynist, and several episodes show the two of them [[StrangeMindsThinkAlike having bizarrely similar mindsets on some topics]], such as [[InsaneTrollLogic dolphins living in igloos]] and [[CassandraTruth Scuzzlebutt being real]].
* FridgeHorror: Is Stan's TroublingUnchildlikeBehavior and LackOfEmpathy in the early episodes a product of his abuse at the hands of Shelley, or is it the origin of it? Is it a SelfFullfillingProphecy? SelfFulfillingProphecy? [[Recap/SouthParkS8E4YouGotFdInTheA Future episodes]] will show Shelley having a bigger reaction to death than Stan himself, and Shelley seems to get especially angry when Stan acts nice (like when he says he loves her or thanks her for sticking up to him), implying she may view him as a BitchInSheepsClothing, which is ironically how ''he'' sees her.
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* FridgeBrilliance: Cartman's StayInTheKitchen remarks in regards to Shelley makes sense when you remember the effect his teacher [[ApatheticTeacher Mr. Garrison]] had on Stan [[Recap/SouthParkS1E4BigGayAlsBigGayBoatRide the previous episode]]. TheMovie will show that Garrison himself is a StrawMisoynist, and several episodes show the two of them [[StrangeMindsThinkAlike having bizarrely similar mindsets on some topics]], such as [[InsaneTrollLogic dolphins living in igloos]] and [[CassandraTruth Scuzzlebutt being real]].
* FridgeHorror: Is Stan's TroublingUnchildlikeBehavior and LackOfEmpathy in the early episodes a product of his abuse at the hands of Shelley, or is it the origin of it? Is it a SelfFullfillingProphecy? [[Recap/SouthParkS8E4YouGotFdInTheA Future episodes]] will show Shelley having a bigger reaction to death than Stan himself, and Shelley seems to get especially angry when Stan acts nice (like when he says he loves her or thanks her for sticking up to him), implying she may view him as a BitchInSheepsClothing, which is ironically how ''he'' sees her.

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* BaseBreakingCharacter: Shelley, Stan's BigSisterBully. While she's intended to be hated, fans are split on whether her abuse of Stan is too extreme to be funny or if it's brutality makes the subversion of the DoubleStandardAbuseFemaleOnMale trope all the more effective. Her exaggerated lisp and the fact that she's a KarmaHoudini doesn't make her any more likeable, but then again [[HateSink that was the intention]].



* TheWoobie: Stan. He's beaten senseless by his sister, and unlike Ike, doesn't have the privilege to be MadeOfIron, leaving him with injuries that he later tries to hide from his friends out of shame. As if that wasn't enough, his friends and even ''his teacher'' either laugh or dismiss him for being beaten by a girl. The scene when he tries to save his face from being beaten into a pulp by telling Shelley that he loves her, only for her to torture him anyway (and in such a horrific fashion that it had to be cut from the final version) solidifies him as this instead of the usual JerkassWoobie.

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* TheWoobie: Stan. He's beaten senseless by his sister, and unlike Ike, doesn't have the privilege to be MadeOfIron, leaving him with injuries that he later tries to hide from his friends out of shame. As if that wasn't enough, his friends and even ''his teacher'' either laugh or dismiss him for being beaten by a girl. As if ''that'' wasn't enough, he's also blamed for the destruction his clone caused, with the entire town wanting him killed, which finally drives him to tears. The scene when he tries to save his face from being beaten into a pulp by telling Shelley that he loves her, only for her to torture him anyway (and in such a horrific fashion that it had to be cut from the final version) solidifies him as this instead of the usual JerkassWoobie.
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* JerkassWoobie: Clone Stan, who is disowned by his creator the moment he's born and then unleashed upon a town he doesn't know anything about, only to get shot in the head by his creator as he was starting to show some humanity. The fact that he shares memories with [[TheWoobie Stan]] doesn't help.


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* TheWoobie: Stan. He's beaten senseless by his sister, and unlike Ike, doesn't have the privilege to be MadeOfIron, leaving him with injuries that he later tries to hide from his friends out of shame. As if that wasn't enough, his friends and even ''his teacher'' either laugh or dismiss him for being beaten by a girl. The scene when he tries to save his face from being beaten into a pulp by telling Shelley that he loves her, only for her to torture him anyway (and in such a horrific fashion that it had to be cut from the final version) solidifies him as this instead of the usual JerkassWoobie.

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* HilariousInHindsight: Cartman says that he wouldn’t let a girl kick his ass. Come ''[[Recap/SouthParkS12E9BreastCancerShowEver Breast Cancer Show Ever]]'', Cartman gets beaten by Wendy.

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** Cartman [[PetTheDog caring about Fluffy and treating her in this episode]] well becomes this in ''[[Recap/SouthParkS4E6CherokeeHairTampons Cherokee Hair Tampons]]'' where [[TookALevelInKindness he will hit her after she wakes him at night]]. What makes it worse is that she never makes an appearance again after season 5, whereupon Cartman crosses the MoralEventHorizon. So much for his MoralityPet.
* HeartwarmingInHindsight: Shelley shrugging off Stan's attempt to appeal to their brotherly bond and beating him up again becomes this after they reach their 40s in the revised future in ''WesternAnimation/SouthParkPostCovidTheReturnOfCovid'', when [[TookALevelInKindness she will finally mature]] into a better person and a better sister to him.
* HilariousInHindsight: In this episode, Cartman repeatedly says that he wouldn’t let a girl kick his ass. Come ''[[Recap/SouthParkS12E9BreastCancerShowEver Breast Cancer Show Ever]]'', Cartman gets his ass beaten by Wendy.
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* HarsherInHindsight:
** When prompted by Garrison, Stan maintains that neither his father or his mother abuses him, as it's her sister Shelley who beats him. As the show went on, Randy became a massive AbusiveDad of the verbal sort, eventually [[WesternAnimation/SouthParkPostCovid having a bigger impact on his psyche than Shelley ever had]].
** Stan here tries to get his unstable clone to beat up Shelley as revenge for all the torture she puts him through, but fails since she beats ''him'' instead. The movie ''WesternAnimation/SouthParkPostCovid'' will finally see Stan exact his revenge on Shelley, in the form of accidentally burning her alive while she was locked inside the Tegridy Farms barn, which will leave him completely wracked with guilt.

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* HilariousInHindsight: Cartman says that he wouldn’t let a girl kick his ass. Come "[[Recap/SouthParkS12E9BreastCancerShowEver Breast Cancer Show Ever]]", Cartman gets beaten by Wendy.

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* EnsembleDarkhorse: Despite only having a speaking role in this episode, Terrence Mephesto is arguably more popular than [[BaseBreakingCharacter his father]], due to his haughty and over-the-top demeanor serving as a foil to the boys' more crude and immature attitude. Fans weren't pleased when ''VideoGame/SouthParkTheFracturedButWhole'' showed that he got KilledOffscreen by Mecha-Streisand during the events of ''[[Recap/SouthParkS1E12MechaStreisand Mecha-Streisand]]''.
* HilariousInHindsight: Cartman says that he wouldn’t let a girl kick his ass. Come "[[Recap/SouthParkS12E9BreastCancerShowEver ''[[Recap/SouthParkS12E9BreastCancerShowEver Breast Cancer Show Ever]]", Ever]]'', Cartman gets beaten by Wendy.

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* HilariousInHindsight: Cartman says that he wouldn’t let a girl kick his ass. Come [[Recap/SouthParkS12E9BreastCancerShowEver Breast Cancer Show Ever]], Cartman gets beaten by Wendy.

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* HilariousInHindsight: Cartman says that he wouldn’t let a girl kick his ass. Come [[Recap/SouthParkS12E9BreastCancerShowEver "[[Recap/SouthParkS12E9BreastCancerShowEver Breast Cancer Show Ever]], Ever]]", Cartman gets beaten by Wendy.Wendy.
* ValuesResonance: When this episode aired in 1997, society discouraged male victims of DoubleStandard [[DoubleStandardAbuseFemaleOnMale abuse from females]] from speaking out. In the decades that followed, Stan's experiences became relevant as people became more sympathetic to male abuse victims.
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