Original air date: 11/6/2013
Cartman's latest prank (painting a cow to look like a ginger) brings about peace among the Jews, Muslims, and Christians (as a red heifer in all three religions is believed to be a sign of the end of days).
This episode contains examples of:
- All for Nothing: Kyle ate a ton of Cartman's farts for the sake of the Middle East but, thanks to Stan, the peace is broken and war resumes.
- Aren't You Forgetting Someone?: Stan and Kenny interrupt the ceremony in Israel to reveal the truth of the cow when Kyle calls Stan and explains the whole situation. Stan calls out Kyle for his Holier Than Thou attitude for putting up with Cartman's farts. Kyle admits to being a jerk and apologizes to Stan. Stan tells him to apologize to Kenny too, which he does.
- Art Shift: During the Van Halen concert, the crowds of Jews, Muslims, and Christians are replaced by live-action Stock Footage of religious crowds.
- Artistic License – Religion: Despite the majority of Japan not being Christian, the two Japanese newscasters kill themselves as they hear a ginger cow is a sign of the apocalypse. Odds are they were both coincidentally a part of the religious minority.
- Belief Makes You Stupid: Double Subverted. The plot is kicked off when the Christians, Jews and Muslims of the world see the cow Cartman made to look ginger and think that it's the prophesied red heifer. While at first they think this means The End of the World as We Know It, they eventually conclude that it represents World Peace. When Stan claims that it was a miracle, they all stop being peaceful, disappointed that it wasn't dressed up by a fat kid with a Teeny Weenie like the prophecy says. The Christians, Jews and Muslims then proceed to wage war on each other business as usual.
- Captain Obvious: When Cartman tells Kyle that the ginger cow was fake, Kyle replies "No shit.".
- Christianity is Catholic: Clearly averted for once with showing a lot of Protestant, Oriental Orthodox and Eastern Orthodox leaders in the debate room and for rest of the episode using Ecumenical Patriarch (de jure Eastern Orthodox head) to represent Christianity.
- Downer Ending: The peace between the three religions breaks and Kyle is deeply depressed that he endured Cartman's farts for nothing.
- Dramatically Missing the Point: Cartman's only reason to believe the real prophecy didn't come true was because he doesn't think he has a Teeny Weenie.
- Driven to Suicide: International newscasters kill themselves while reporting on the "ginger cow".
- Evil Is Petty: When his attempt at trolling Kyle with the ginger cow accidentally causes world peace, Cartman threatens to tell the truth under a faux-honesty message unless Kyle cow-tows to his cruel whims for the rest of his life. When he finds out that the prophecy is contingent on him having a Teeny Weenie, Cartman tries disproving the "miracle" anyway.
- Extreme Doormat: Kyle. Played for Drama, big time. He is forced by Cartman to call his mom a "fat skank" and lets Cartman humiliate him by farting on him.
- Gilligan Cut: Stan tells Kenny he's worried all the farts he's been smelling are going to Kyle's head. Cut to Kyle apparently being awoken from sleeping by God commending him for taking those farts for religious peace.
- Happiness in Slavery: Kyle begins to take Cartman's demands seriously and with pride when God comes to him in a dream to commend him on taking it all for the sake of world peace.
- Heroic Sacrifice: Played for Laughs. Kyle decides to deal with doing whatever Cartman wants for the rest of his life on the condition that Cartman does not spill the beans about the cow being fake, to ensure peace in the Middle East.
- Karma Houdini: Cartman decides to disprove the prophecy and let the Middle East become a warzone again, due to not wanting to admit he has a Teeny Weenie, and gets absolutely no punishment for this.
- Lactating Male: Discussed. Cartman keeps referring to the ginger cow as a 'he', yet also makes a joke about how its milk could be used to make ginger cheese. Cartman is either mistaken about its gender, or mistakenly thinks its udder is functional.
- Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane: It's never confirmed if the voice Kyle heard at night was actually God commending him for his sacrifice or if it was just his martyrdom getting to his head.
- Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: Stan ends up accidentally disproving the ginger cow prophecy by saying it miraculously came down from the sky, much to the chagrin of the religious crowd present.
- Peace Conference: The argument between the Jews, Muslims, and Christians ends up turning into this.
- Poor Communication Kills: If Kyle had told Stan why he was acting weird before he appeared on the live screen, he wouldn't have accidentally "disproved" their prophecy.
- Running Gag: Cartman making Kyle eat his farts and the latter lying about how tasty they are.Kyle: "Yummy yummy yummy..."
- Selective Obliviousness: The adults in South Park seem to think that the Israeli rabbis speak exclusively a language that other Jewish people know instinctually. Even when they hear them speak perfect English, they act as though they can't understand them.
- "Shaggy Dog" Story: By the end, everything goes back to square one.
- Sophisticated as Hell: The spirit who congratulates Kyle for eating Cartman's farts talks like this.
- Took a Level in Jerkass: Kyle once he lets his martyrdom get to his head.Craig: Well now you sound like a self-righteous asshole!
