Line #9 Recap/SouthParkS11E4TheSnuke


1	'''Original air date:''' 3/28/2007
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3	Cartman's suspicions of a new Muslim student lead him to a terrorist plot with unexpected perpetrators.
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5	!!The Snuke contains examples of:
6	* AddedAlliterativeAppeal: "Mrs. Clinton, it appears that terrorists have snuck a snuke up your snizz."
7	* BittersweetEnding: The terrorist attack was thwarted and the British were defeated, but Bahir and his family move out of town thanks to Cartman's prejudice, which he proceeds to [[RefugeinAudacity take credit for]].
8	* BlatantLies: In order to save his own ass, Cartman passes off Muslims invading America as something he's totally fine with.
9	* BrokenAesop: Discussed. Kyle gives his AnAesop speech, this time about not automatically assuming a group of a people are terrorists. Cartman then points out that his suspicions of Bahir in the first place are what led them to discovering the plot.
10	* ContrivedCoincidence: A Muslim student Cartman suspects to be a terrorist comes the same day actual terrorists are in South Park.
11	* CoolAndUnusualPunishment: Cartman ties up Bahir's parents, [[ItMakesSenseInContext injects himself with apple juice]], then farts on them until they reveal Bahir's location.
12	* CurbStompBattle: The British invasion fleet with wooden ships and muskets facing off American jets with missiles, [[SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome with the former completely decimated.]]
13	* DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment: "Everyone in South Park is going to die... forever!"
14	* DirtyCoward: Cartman immediately tries submitting to "Muslims invading America" when his life is threatened by the Russian mercenaries.
15	* DrivenToSuicide: When the Queen of England receives a call from one of the soldiers that the plot to recolonize the United States failed, she pulls out a gun and shoots herself.
16	* EvilBrit: The true villains turn out to be the British, who plot to take the United States back as a colony.
17	* FateWorseThanDeath: To many, sticking their hand up Hillary Clinton's "snizz".
18	* HoistByTheirOwnPetard: How does Kyle force all the SWAT agents who are trying to take over the snizz-removal mission out of his room? By saying "Not anymore you're not" to the last one that tries getting in, the same harebrained tactic ''all'' of the agents were using.
19	--> '''Final agent''': Aw, snap. (''leaves dejectedly'')
20	* HonorAmongThieves: Vladimir thanks all the other terrorists for willing to collaborate with him, even saying that the whole experience will always be an honor for him.
21	* {{Irony}}: The entire episode was spent calling Bahir's family Muslims, yet the family themselves never said they were. While they were clearly Arabian, Islam is a religion and the two aren't necessarily concurrent.
22	* JerkassHasAPoint: At the end, Cartman points out that his Islamophobia is what triggered all the events that helped stop the terrorist attack. Even Kyle, who adamantly refused to accept that, has trouble with arguing.
23	* TheMole: One of Hillary Clinton's aides; unlike most cases he doesn't appear much outside of one scene- though he ''is'' a case of SmallRoleBigImpact.
24	* NewKidStigma: This trope is {{lampshaded}} when Mrs. Garrison urges the students to be nice to the new Muslim student Baahir; subverted when Butters quickly befriends him while the other kids stay neutral but consider him an okay kid, while [[PoliticallyIncorrectVillain Cartman]] is the only one who dislikes Baahir because [[MistakenForTerrorist he thinks his family are terrorists]].
25	* OutOfCharacterMoment: While Mrs. Garrison was right to chastise Cartman for assuming all Muslims are terrorists, it seems a little weird for Mrs. Garrison of all people to scold Cartman for saying something like that.
26	* RightForTheWrongReasons: Cartman was right when he suspected terrorists were gonna attack Hilary Clinton's campaign, but what he got wrong was that the attack was planned by The British, not Muslims.
27	* SchizoTech: The British are Redcoats straight out of the 1700s, but still use a modern cell phone to communicate with Queen Elizabeth.
28	* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: After all they been through thanks to Cartman's racist paranoia and Cartman's farting to get information, Bahir's parents finally decide to move away, taking their son with them.
29	* ShortDistancePhoneCall: When Cartman is talking to the FBI agents on the phone, the split screen disappears to reveal them standing right next to each other.
30	* SkewedPriorities: The Russian mercenaries are willing to die, as long as they get paid.
31	* SoftGlass: Subverted. Cartman is temporarily disoriented after crashing through Butters window, though he still got off a lot easier than he could've.
32	* SpannerInTheWorks: The snuke inside Hilary Clinton was supposed to be detonated when she traveled to Boston, but thanks to Cartman's racist paranoia, the Russians end up having to attempt to detonate it in South Park and ultimately find both themselves and their British employers killed by the CIA and the Air Force.
33	* SpoofAesop: Racism ultimately saved the day, because Cartman's paranoia towards the new kid Bahir set in motion the chain of events that ultimately foiled the terrorists' plot, even if Bahir wasn't connected to them. Cartman lampshades this when Kyle's giving his speech at the end.
34	* StageWhisper: Cartman uses one when talking to Barbrady about Bahir, he even admits to using it intentionally.
35	* TakeThat:
36	** Several cracks are made at Hillary Clinton, particularly towards her [[UnusualEuphemism snatch.]]
37	** One towards racial profiling and the idea that all Muslims and Arabians are terrorists.
38	* TemptingFate: Mayor [=McDaniels=] says Hillary Clinton deserves nothing but respect, but Clinton receives nothing but ridicule for the whole episode.
39	* UnderestimatingBadassery: The British invasion fleet was completely annihilated, since they were only armed with wooden ships and muskets straight from UsefulNotes/TheAmericanRevolution and the Americans have modern jets.
40	* UnusualEuphemism: Snizz and snatch are used as euphemisms for vagina.
41	* VaginaDentata: There's ''something'' inside Mrs. Clinton's snatch. [[FridgeBrilliance This may be why Bill had an affair, since he couldn't touch his own wife.]]
42	* VillainsWantMercy: Vladimir, rather quickly, becomes less concerned about trying not to be spotted by the agents and more concerned about being killed by them, desperately shouting about how he doesn't want to die without getting reimbursed for his efforts.
43	* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: We never find out if the snuke inside Hillary Clinton's snatch is successfully disarmed or not; the last we see of the plot the agent who attempted to disarm it was eaten alive after going inside. Given ''24'''s infamy for pulling this trope repeatedly however, this may have been intentional. (The fate of TheMole working for Clinton is also left unresolved.)
44	* WholePlotReference: To ''Series/TwentyFour''.
45	* XanatosSpeedChess: Played straight with Vladimir Stolfsky, who was (going to be) paid by the British to set up the titular Snuke, up until the agents find him and he just decides to hide up on the roof of his hideout in order to blow up his weapons by putting what ''looks'' like the head of a [[{{Hammerspace}} dynamite detonator box]] in his shirt pocket, likely planning to empty it in the gutter to trick them into thinking he's dead- which is cut short when a SWAT member ''[[RuleOfCool immediately]]'' breaks from the group and somehow shoots ''[[GunsDoNotWorkThatWay an auto-exploding rifle round in his hip]].'' Hilarously subverted with the other agents in Kyle's room, though, who the latter easily outranks by saying the same thing they've been saying ("Not anymore you're not.")
46	* YankTheDogsChain: Butters finally found a friend who didn't insult him or think he's a pussy, only for him to be taken away by his family at the end.

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