Original air date: 4/7/2010
Cartman, Kyle, and Kenny make Stan a Facebook profile without his knowledge. Of course, Stan objects to this and so doesn't use his but everyone around him pressures to add them as "friends". Meanwhile, Kyle befriends kid named "Kip Drordy" and things start going downhill from there.
Tropes:
- All of the Other Reindeer: Kip is a victim of this episode, as he has no friends at all. When Kyle befriends him on Facebook, he ends up losing his own friends.
- Anticlimax: The final fight between Stan and his profile is a game of Yahtzee, which Stan immediately wins.
- Bait-and-Switch: Stan's adventure in the TRON-like world of Facebook seemed to be leading up to the obligatory light cycle race... only for the vehicle to suddenly be replaced with Yahtzee, to his surprise.
- Butt-Monkey: Stan, Kyle, and Kip, all because of Facebook. Stan gets harassed by everybody because of his disinterest in Facebook, including random strangers on the street, one of whom even spits on him. Kip has no friends and is considered bad friend stock because he's ugly, and when Kyle decides to add him as a friend out of pity, he loses all of his friends and ends up having to unfriend Kip.
- Clingy Jealous Girl: Wendy, when she believes Stan not updating his relationship status means he's planning on breaking up with her and when his grandma's friend likes a picture of him in a bunny costume.
- Disproportionate Retribution: After Stan ignores his profile, a man he doesn't know angrily accuses him of ignoring his friend request spits on Stan and drives away.
- Here We Go Again!: Stan's story begins when his father asks him to start making friends on Facebook. Once he deletes his account near the end, he asks this again. Stan defies this by responding with "fuck off, Dad".
- The Internet Is for Porn: Turns out Chat-Roulette is invested with guys eager to show off their wieners.
- Jerkass Ball: Wendy is bitchier in this episode, where she jealously believes Stan is single due to his relationship status without giving him a chance to explain, even going so far as to say, "Fuck you!", in his face over a friend of his grandma liking a picture of him in a bunny costume.
- Magnetic Hero: Against his own will, Stan amasses nearly a million friends on Facebook.
- Mistaken for Cheating: Wendy harasses Stan twice in this episode, thinking that Stan is making plans to break up with her. The first time this happens is because she saw Stan's relationship status being set to single, and the second time is because of a comment a woman made about him in a bunny costume, which was actually a comment from his grandmother. Both times, Stan tries to reason with her, but Wendy isn't convinced.
- Only Sane Man: As usual, Stan is the only one who isn't caught up with the Facebook hype and is frustrated with how everyone else is either acting like complete jackasses over the smallest details on their profiles, freaking out about how many friends they have, or both.Stan: Friends shouldn't be some kind of commodity for a person's status!
- Properly Paranoid: Stan worries how Facebook can suck people in if they become obsessed with it. When he starts using it after being pressured by everyone, he literally gets sucked in Tron-style.
- Serious Business: Everybody but Stan treats Facebook far more seriously than he does, to the point that random strangers harass Stan on the streets for not being on Facebook, and Facebook pulls him into the internet for trying to delete his profile.
- Shout-Out: Stan's plot is a Whole-Plot Reference to TRON, complete with parodies of locations, characters and story moments ripped right from the movie.
- Social Media Is Bad: The episode is about the entire town becoming obsessed with Facebook, to the detriment of Stan.
- Take That!:
- Towards Facebook and people who treat social media far more seriously than it really is, including Facebook itself.
- Towards Yahtzee, which Stan is forced to play when he's trapped inside Facebook.
- According to Kip, Kyle wondered if The Hurt Locker really deserved the Oscar for Best Picture.
- Team Dad: At the beginning of the episode, Stan scolds his friends for wasting time on Facebook, similarly to how a parent would scold their children, but they dismiss his criticism while also trying to get him to join them by creating a profile for him. Later, Kyle asks Stan to take care of his farm on Facebook since Kyle has no other Facebook friends; therefore, he has nobody else that would take care of his farm. At first Stan refuses, but then Kyle cries and begs him to, even sitting on his knees and grabbing Stan by his coat, just like a small child would do it. After this, Stan begrudgingly accepts.
- Throw the Dog a Bone: After Stan deletes his Facebook account, Kip ends up with his friends (all 845,323 of them!)
