Original air date: 4/21/1999
Chef hasn't been in the school cafeteria lately, and it turns out that he's engaged to a woman named Veronica. When the boys tell Mr. Garrison about it, he believes that Veronica is a succubus (a demon that seduces and destroys men. The opposite of an incubus). Meanwhile, Cartman develops astigmatism and is forced to go to the eye doctor, who he hates because the doctor cracks fat jokes.
"Succubus" contains the following examples:
- Bait-and-Switch:
- Thomas' first story about encountering the Loch Ness Monster. It builds up as some harrowing experience, until he says the monster asked him for money. Specifically $3.50.
- Thomas tells Randy and Sharon the story of his Alien Abduction, but the twist is that the Loch Ness Monster faked it to get more money from him.
- At the pre-wedding dinner, Thomas tells a story about a young Chef, which seems like it will be a heartwarming story, but it immediately trails off into yet another Loch Ness Monster story, who pretended to be Chef's imaginary friend to badger Thomas for money.
- Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: Veronica disguises herself as a friendly woman to seduce Chef and when the boys try to expose her, she plays innocent.
- Brick Joke: At the end, the doctor asks Cartman for $3.50, implying he's the Loch Ness Monster in disguise.
- Combat Medic: Of sorts. Cartman's optometrist Dr. Lott doesn't take any of Cartman's crap about being "big boned" and doesn't knuckle under to his whining or threats.
- *Cough* Snark *Cough*: When Veronica is being walked down the aisle at the wedding, Stan and Kyle both cough into their hands to cover up that they were calling her a bitch.
- Crocodile Tears: Veronica fakes crying stating that the boys have hurt her feelings when they accuse her of being a succubus at Chef's rehearsal dinner.
- Dr. Jerk: Cartman's eye doctor, who makes fun of him for being fat and even staples glasses to his head when he threatens to take them off.
- Evil Cannot Comprehend Good: Veronica's fatal mistake is to out herself as a succubus for an Implied Death Threat seconds after the boys had accepted that Chef should be with the woman he loves.
- Failed a Spot Check: There's a Running Gag of Chef's parents telling stories of the Loch Ness Monster's increasingly ridiculous attempts to get them to give him tree-fiddy note . One such story involves the monster dressing up as a Girl Scout selling cookies. Chef's parents don't recognize him... at first.Chef's Dad: Well it was about that time that I noticed this "Girl Scout" was about eight stories tall and was a crustacean from the Paleolithic Era.
- Fan Disservice: Veronica's true form.
- Groin Attack: Cartman promises the optometrist that if he calls him piggy one more time he would "rip his goddamn nuts off" with his bare hands.
- Love Makes You Dumb: The typically savvy Chef loses his common sense when in love with Veronica.
- Love Makes You Uncreative: Chef's rich baritone singing voice turns into that of a high-pitched dweeby white guy when he becomes engaged to Veronica.
- Magic Music: Veronica uses a Hollywood Tone-Deaf cover of "The Morning After" as a hypnosis catalyst. Singing it backwards is enough to banish her back to hell.
- Near-Villain Victory: Veronica would've gotten away with everything if she'd just left well enough alone. Then again, she's a demon and probably didn't realize that appealing to the boys' empathy was sufficient.
- Nightmare Face: Veronica makes one at the boys when she tells them that she's going to marry Chef regardless of what they think.
- No Sympathy: Stan, Kyle, and Kenny laugh at Cartman when they see him with his new glasses. They then tell him to just take them off, but when Cartman says the glasses are stapled on, they laugh even harder.
- Not-So-Imaginary Friend: One of the Loch Ness Monster stories had the beast pretending to be Chef's imaginary friend, Goo Goo the Dinosaur.
- Paper-Thin Disguise: Apparently, the Loch Ness Monster was able to fool Chef's parents into thinking it was an adorable girl scout with pigtails, despite being an "80-foot tall crustacean from the Paleolithic Era." Although, if Cartman's doctor is any indication, it's possible that the Loch Ness Monster is better at disguises than it first sounds.
- Pet the Dog: After the succubus is killed, a blinded Cartman asks if Kenny is alright, whose crushed body is beside him. Quickly subverted when he takes Kenny's cryogenically frozen but now otherwise intact head back to his eye doctor so he can harvest Kenny's eyes and transplant them on Cartman.
- Rambling Old Man Monologue: Chef's parents, who like to tell long stories about their various encounters with the Loch Ness Monster.
- Replacement Scrappy: Mr. Derp is this to the boys, with Cartman being the only one who's even slightly amused by him.
- Running Gag: Chef's dad's stories always end with the Loch Ness Monster asking him for "tree-fiddy" ($3.50).
- Seasonal Rot: Brought up In-Universe, which has Mr. Garrison discussing The Facts of Life going through this during class.
- Stock Ness Monster: One reportedly keeps bothering Chef's parents, always asking for $3.50. Rather than its usual plesiosaurian design, they describe it as an 80-foot-tall crustacean.
- Succubi and Incubi: Veronica - just look at the episode title. Subverted in that, despite wanting to feed on the eternally horny Chef, she does so by brainwashing him into taking a more traditional social role, e.g. taking a corporate job, and switching out his Soul Music flavor for nasally white-guy romantic ballads (essentially erasing most of Chef's identity).
- Take That!: Mr. Derp and his wacky antics are Matt and Trey venting their frustrations with staring in Baseketball and having to appeal to its
Lowest Common Denominator humor (it's also where the word "derp" originated). - They Killed Kenny Again: Kenny dies twice in this episode. The first time was at the bus stop, where he is shown dead of unknown causes. He is shown alive again seconds later during the next step of the Time-Passes Montage, and is then subsequently crushed by the succubus at the end of the episode.
- Toilet Humor: Kenny thinks that the reason Cartman didn’t show up for school is that he took a dump and got sick.
- Unwanted Glasses Plot: Cartman's eye doctor gives him huge Nerd Glasses, and because he's fully aware of this, has them stapled to Cartman's head so he can't remove them. The Reset Button is pressed when Cartman has an eye transplant, donated from the recently deceased Kenny.
- Villain Ball: Right after Veronica has started convincing the boys that her being a succubus is nonsense and they begin to accept the idea that maybe it is okay if Chef got married to her, she then shows her true face to them, which reveals that she really is a succubus which simply gets them to try to stop her again.
- What the Hell, Hero?: Chef calls out the boys for accusing Veronica of being a succubus. But after Veronica's identity is revealed, he later apologizes to the kids.
