"I Googled South Park before I came here, and I cannot believe the shit you're getting away with! People claiming to be advocates of transgender rights, but really just wanting to use the women's bathroom... A white man who thinks he's Chinese and built a wall to keep out Mongolians... What the fuck is this?! Are you fucking kidding me?! I'm telling you all, this is done! Like it or not, PC is back, and it's bigger than ever!" (mimics police siren) "You hear that?! That's the sound of 2015 pulling you over, people! Suck it!" (Mic Drop)
— PC Principal
Original air date: 9/16/2015
After Principal Victoria is fired, a new person, PC Principal, takes her place and is determined to make South Park a more "politically correct" environment.
Stunning and Brave includes examples of:
- Angry White Man: PC Principal and the PC bros are an inversion. They're perpetually angry, hang out in a circle-jerk group and cry about oppression, but instead of being outraged over women, ethnics and minority groups having any privilege they're angry over straight white cis-gendered men having the privilege.
- Animesque: Kyle's Battle-Interrupting Shout.
- Asian Drivers: Weaponized by Cartman during his attack on the PC guys.
- Asshole Victim: Cartman: he was beaten up, though not for his attempted frame of PC Principal, but for being politically incorrect.
- As You Know: When Mr. Mackey mentions an incident the previous week where a student referred to rape as a "hot Cosby".
- The Bad Guy Wins: PC Principal ends up staying as the principal of South Park Elementary and Kyle is forced to comply with him.
- Bathroom Brawl: PC Principal attacks Cartman in the faculty bathroom when the latter uses the term "spokesman" instead of "spokesperson". Though it's less of a brawl and more of a No-Holds-Barred Beatdown.PC Principal: Did you just say "spokesman" instead of "spokesperson", when women are just as capable of selling sandwiches as ANYONE!? (shoves Cartman into the mirror)
- Battle-Interrupting Shout: Cartman attacks the PC fraternity with 200 pregnant Mexican women, tacos, an untold number of Syrian refugee children, Jared Fogle, and Chinese drivers to "avenge" Kyle for their horrible treatment of him and his views of Caitlyn Jenner, (although this is really just a cover in order for Cartman to use stereotypes to "start a dialogue") until Kyle runs in screaming "STOP!" so loudly it echoes throughout town.
- Bring the Anchor Along: After Kyle gets tied to a tree by Randy and the PC fraternity, he shows up at Stan's house to complain, the tree still tied to his back.
- Call-Back: When PC Principal tells Randy and the last pledges about checking one's privilege, he rants about Brett Favre's limp clap when everyone cheered for Caitlyn Jenner at the ESPY Awards. When Kyle finally capitulates to the public opinion of Caitlyn Jenner, we see a clip of the ESPY Awards, complete with Favre's limp clap.
- Chickification: Cartman of all people gives up and decides to go PC because he was beaten up by PC Principal. Remember, this is the same kid who fed a kid his dead parents for humiliating him. Though it has justification, as PC Principal had beaten him bad enough to hospitalize him, whereas Scott Tenorman only made fun of him thus giving him little reason to try and retaliate out of a fear of an equally brutal beatdown. He snaps out of it in the end.
- Comically Missing the Point:
- When PC Principal brings up that Liu Kim is a white guy who thinks he's Chinese and built a wall against the Mongolians, his only reaction is that of complaining against the Mongolians.
- PC Principal is completely oblivious to the fact that Cartman is trying to frame him.
- Continuity Nod: During PC Principal's rant towards South Park, he references The Return of Chef, City Sushi, Child Abduction Is Not Funny, The Cissy and any episode they've used the word "retarded".
- Downer Ending: By the end of the episode, Kyle is mentally broken and the town has conformed to PC Culture.
- Evil Is Petty: VERY much so. PC Principal gives Kyle two weeks detention just for saying Caitlyn Jenner is not a hero to him. He starts going even more apeshit when Gerald refers to her as her deadname. He also gives Butters and Mr. Mackey (the school counselor) detention just for trying to correct him about Chef and Token.
- Frat Bro: PC Principal is characterized as this. When he meets like-minded individuals who act just like him, they form a fraternity called "Rho Omega Delta". note
- George Lucas Altered Version: During the episode's original airing, when the PC guys stop Jared Fogle, Cartman exclaims, "All right! The Syrian refugees are trying to protect their children!" followed by two cars crashing into each other. One of the PC guys falls off the balcony, leading Cartman to observe, "There's still too many PC guys on the balcony and— oh..." as he notices Kyle. In subsequent airings, the latter line is removed, the first line is placed after the PC guy falls, and a new line was put in to bring context to the cars: "Jared needs backup. Send in the Chinese drivers!" Yes, once again the Aesop of "Free Hat" is
broken. - Gory Discretion Shot: This may be the worst time that Cartman has ever been beaten up. Though it technically occurs just below the screen, there are still fists flying and his blood splattering. Also, his injuries stay during the rest of the episode.
- Hair-Trigger Temper: Almost everything pisses PC Principal off and any perceived act of prejudice sends him into a violent rage, to the point that he beats the shit out of Cartman for using the word "capisce" in an intimidating context.
- Hypocrite: Since the PC fraternity are based off SJWs, this was bound to occur. The biggest example would include checking Kyle's white/male privilege, conveniently ignoring the fact that he's Jewish, and thus would know a bit about being historically oppressed. Not to mention the entire fraternity is made up of college white men despite all their talk about diversity.
- Initiation Ceremony: At the end of the episode, Randy becomes a PC Bro, due to the other PC Bros mistaking Cartman's attack on the fraternity as Randy's attempt to check Kyle's privilege. He becomes a full-fledged PC Bro and receives a pair of Oakleys.
- In Medias Res: Principal Victoria has already been fired when the episode starts.
- Ironic Echo: At the beginning of the episode, when Kyle learns that Cartman got detention for four days for his un-PC behavior, he comments that he's glad that Cartman isn't doing anything about it. "These things do matter, and I already feel better to be at a school where we can start to have a dialogue and talk about this stuff." At the end of the episode, after Cartman's attack on the PC guys forces Kyle to change his opinion on Caitlyn Jenner, Cartman says, "At least we showed [PC Principal] that sometimes joking about un-PC things can actually be important because it starts a dialogue."
- Irony: Kyle, one of the most politically correct characters on the show, gets the brunt of the PC Bros' wrath.
- Jerkass: PC Principal, BIG TIME.
- Jerk Jock: PC Principal and all of the other "PC Bros" are this.
- Karma Houdini: In the end, PC Principal gets away with beating Cartman half to death, intimidating the whole school, and handing out detentions for petty reasons.
- Malicious Slander / "The Reason You Suck" Speech: PC Principal's speech to South Park Elementary is a massive rant about how politically incorrect the town (or, in a meta example, show) is. Even though he did have a few good points (such as faking being transgender in order to use a different bathroom), a large chunk of the stuff he said was exaggerated, if not outright lies. Things such as claiming that the events of "Child Abduction Is Not Funny" was being racist against Mongolians (it was to keep out child abductors) and that they forced Chef to sing soul songs to the point that he committed suicide (which anyone who's seen Chef and the episode "The Return of Chef" would know is not true. Which Butters even points out before getting slapped with 2 days of detention).
- Mandatory Line: Kenny only has one line of dialogue in this episode: "Really?"
- Moral Myopia: PC Principal puts Caitlyn Jenner on a pedestal and tells random people to check their privilege, ignoring the fact that Caitlyn Jenner has fame, fortune, and is adored by the media while the majority of South Park's populations are complete nobodies with modest lives.
- No-Holds-Barred Beatdown: Cartman receives his second one since Breast Cancer Show Ever. It's arguably worse than with Wendy here since PC Principal is an adult.
- No-Sell: Cartman tries to have PC Principal framed for child molestation as payback for the unjust detentions. It gets turned on him just because he said "capisce" and "spokesman", and he got the shit kicked out of him.
- Opinion-Changing Dream: Cartman has a nightmare where he's Tom Brady, his coach, and his commissioner, all talking about breaking the rules. He wakes up and declares that he's changing his ways. Of course, by the end of the episode, he's back to his usual self.
- Person as Verb: When the boys inspire Cartman to stand up against PC Principal, he responds, "You're right, guys. I'm gonna Tom Brady this thing!"
- Political Overcorrectness: It's an episode focused on taking the piss out of social justice warriors, this trope was a given! What's noteworthy is that the PC crowd aren't composed of any groups that have a history of oppression, making it clear that it's not their message that needs to be attacked, but the way it's executed.
- The entire fraternity was so desperate to be politically correct to the point of bullying Kyle for having the "wrong" opinion.
- Ripped from the Headlines: Let's see... Deflategate, the Bill Cosby sexual assault charges (again), the Jared Fogle child molestation and child porn charges, the European migrant crisis, the anchor baby controversy...this tends to happen at the beginning of new seasons, as Trey Parker and Matt Stone try to parody everything they've missed in the last ten months.
- Skewed Priorities:
- PC Principal could not give less of a shit that Cartman is trying to frame him for child molestation... but immediately flies into a rage and gives Cartman a No-Holds-Barred Beatdown when he says "capisce" at the end of his threat, thus committing the "microaggression" of associating Italians with intimidation tactics. He gets even angrier when Cartman calls Jared from Subway a "spokesman" instead of "spokesperson".
- Kyle saying that Caitlyn Jenner isn't a hero is not only enough for PC Principal to give him weeks of detention, but it devolves into what amounts to a harassment campaign by the PC Frat House as part of their hazing rituals.Randy: You want me to shame Brett Favre?
PC Principal: No. Cause there's somebody even worse now.
- Stock Footage: When the town cheers Kyle for finally saying that Caitlyn Jenner is a hero, there is brief live-action footage of the audience cheering for Caitlyn Jenner from the ESPY Awards.
- Take That!:
- Mainly against social justice warriors and their go-to tactic of "no bad tactics, just bad targets" bullying to get what they want. Like their real-life counterparts, they succeed too.
- And their habit of ignoring real issues such as child molestation charges, and focusing on perceived ones such as not calling Jenner a hero.
- Tom Brady and the whole "Deflategate" debacle, especially the fact that he came out of that shitstorm a winner.
- Brady's wife, Gisele Bündchen, saying she looks like a man.
- Caitlyn Jenner over the fact that she killed someone in a car wreck and was justifiably vilified by the press for practically getting away with it, only for it to get swept under the rug when she came out as a male-to-female transgender woman and regaled as "a hero".
- Bill Cosby's reputation has fallen so hard that his name is now synonymous with rape.
- Mainly against social justice warriors and their go-to tactic of "no bad tactics, just bad targets" bullying to get what they want. Like their real-life counterparts, they succeed too.
- Title Drop: While the fathers are hanging out at Crunchy's Micro Brew, and Gerald mentions the Caitlyn Jenner incident at school, Stephen comments, "Oh, Caitlyn Jenner. She's a hero. She is Stunning and Brave."
- Token Minority: Discussed during PC Principal's introduction, when he notes the lack of Hispanic kids and other racial and ethnic minorities. Mr. Mackey argues that they do have a black student named Token... and is immediately sentenced to two days of detention by PC Principal.
- Verbal Tic: Whenever seen with a microphone, PC Principal always holds it close enough to his mouth that he "pops" all of his consonants just to sound extra-annoying.
- White Guilt: Randy after joining the fraternity. What makes it funnier is that he's nursing a hangover and trying not to puke. He actually does at one point.
- Would Hurt a Child: PC Principal puts Cartman in the hospital after brutally assaulting him in the faculty bathroom.
