Original air date: 3/28/2007
Cartman's suspicions of a new Muslim student lead him to a terrorist plot with unexpected perpetrators.
The Snuke contains examples of:
- Added Alliterative Appeal: "Mrs. Clinton, it appears that terrorists have snuck a snuke up your snizz."
- Bittersweet Ending: 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 take credit for.
- Blatant Lies: In order to save his own ass, Cartman passes off Muslims invading America as something he's totally fine with.
- Broken Aesop: Discussed. Kyle gives his An Aesop 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.
- Contrived Coincidence: A Muslim student Cartman suspects to be a terrorist comes the same day actual terrorists are in South Park.
- Cool and Unusual Punishment: Cartman ties up Bahir's parents, injects himself with apple juice, then farts on them until they reveal Bahir's location.
- Curb-Stomp Battle: The British invasion fleet with wooden ships and muskets facing off American jets with missiles, with the former completely decimated.
- Department of Redundancy Department: "Everyone in South Park is going to die... forever!"
- Dirty Coward: Cartman immediately tries submitting to "Muslims invading America" when his life is threatened by the Russian mercenaries.
- Driven to Suicide: 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.
- Evil Brit: The true villains turn out to be the British, who plot to take the United States back as a colony.
- Fate Worse than Death: To many, sticking their hand up Hillary Clinton's "snizz".
- Hoist by Their Own Petard: 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.Final agent: Aw, snap. (leaves dejectedly)
- Honor Among Thieves: 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.
- 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.
- Jerkass Has a Point: 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.
- The Mole: One of Hillary Clinton's aides; unlike most cases he doesn't appear much outside of one scene- though he is a case of Small Role, Big Impact.
- New Kid Stigma: 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 Cartman is the only one who dislikes Baahir because he thinks his family are terrorists.
- Out-of-Character Moment: 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.
- Right for the Wrong Reasons: 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.
- Schizo Tech: The British are Redcoats straight out of the 1700s, but still use a modern cell phone to communicate with Queen Elizabeth.
- Screw This, I'm Outta Here: 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.
- Short-Distance Phone Call: When Cartman is talking to the FBI agents on the phone, the split screen disappears to reveal them standing right next to each other.
- Skewed Priorities: The Russian mercenaries are willing to die, as long as they get paid.
- Soft Glass: Subverted. Cartman is temporarily disoriented after crashing through Butters window, though he still got off a lot easier than he could've.
- Spanner in the Works: 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.
- Spoof Aesop: 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.
- Stage Whisper: Cartman uses one when talking to Barbrady about Bahir, he even admits to using it intentionally.
- Take That!:
- Several cracks are made at Hillary Clinton, particularly towards her snatch.
- One towards racial profiling and the idea that all Muslims and Arabians are terrorists.
- Tempting Fate: Mayor McDaniels says Hillary Clinton deserves nothing but respect, but Clinton receives nothing but ridicule for the whole episode.
- Underestimating Badassery: The British invasion fleet was completely annihilated, since they were only armed with wooden ships and muskets straight from The American Revolution and the Americans have modern jets.
- Unusual Euphemism: Snizz and snatch are used as euphemisms for vagina.
- Vagina Dentata: There's something inside Mrs. Clinton's snatch. This may be why Bill had an affair, since he couldn't touch his own wife.
- Villains Want Mercy: 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.
- What Happened to the Mouse?: 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 The Mole working for Clinton is also left unresolved.)
- Whole-Plot Reference: To 24.
- Xanatos Speed Chess: 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 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 immediately breaks from the group and somehow shoots 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.")
- Yank the Dog's Chain: 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.
