Original air date: 11/21/2001
The boys have to put up with Kyle's stereotypically Jewish cousin (also named Kyle) for a week. Meanwhile, Mr. Garrison decides to invent a new mode of transportation after getting fed up with the incompetence and delays with airlines.
Tropes:
- All for Nothing: Mr. Garrison invents the “It” as a way for people to get around having to deal with incompetent airlines. This causes the government to bail out the airlines by banning Its.
- Kyle and his friends want his cousin out of town ASAP, and try to convince him to leave by showing more negative aspects of the town. He finally does so at the end... and reveals he got a significant settlement from the airlines because he invested in the Its. Not only did he refuse to give his cousin or their friends one cent, their plan convinces him to stay away from the town, convinced everyone are redneck hicks.
- Ass Shove: How you activate Mr. Garrison's transport device, "It".
- Bait-and-Switch: At the airport, the Broflovski's are waiting for Cousin Kyle. Kyle doesn't know what his cousin looks like but sees a fairly normal looking kid and assumes it's him, only for the kid to walk away revealing the nerdy cousin behind him.
- Cousin Kyle overhears Kyle talking to Cartman about bribing him $40 so he won't make fun of him. He seems upset at Kyle but not because of the bribe, but because he felt Kyle could have done it for less money.
- The Cat Came Back: Kyle and the boys make multiple attempts to get rid of Cousin Kyle (first via bus to Connecticut, then by plane to Antarctica, and finally trying to ditch him in the woods) but he comes back every time.
- Character Catchphrase: Kyle Schwartz gives an enthusiastic "I'm baaack!" whenever he enters a room.
- Cluster F-Bomb: Mr. Garrison drops one of these after the government shut down his business to bail out the airlines.Mr. Garrison: AAAAAARGH! Airline motherfuckerrrs! You pieces of shiiit! Cocksucking son of a bitch airlines!
- Cold Turkeys Are Everywhere: After Cartman takes Kyle's deal to not tease his cousin in exchange for forty dollars, Cousin Kyle immediately begins asking him how much his jacket cost, causing Cartman to sigh heavily. Later, Ms. Choksondik has Cousin Kyle introduce himself to the class, and he lists off one Jewish stereotype after another. Cartman is shown literally vibrating with the effort to keep from making anti-Semitic comments: "Oh my God. I'm not gonna make it." Finally, Ms. Choksondik's repeatedly saying "concentration" breaks Cartman down—"Maybe we'll have to send him to concentration camp!...DAMN IT!"
- Continuity Nod: Bill Gates is among the investors attending Mr. Garrison's unveiling of the "It" machine, and he's sporting a scar from the time he got shot in the head during South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut. How he recovered from a clearly fatal injury is never explained, but he was most likely revived by Kenny's wish at the end of the movie.
- Contrived Coincidence: Invoked at the very end of the episode. After spending the entire episode attempting to drive him out of town, the boys scramble to deliver an Aesop about accepting individuals, in a way that all-but-telegraphs they only want the legal settlement he announced just as he's ready to leave. Cousin Kyle, surprisingly, doesn't buy it for a second.
- Cutting the Knot: Kyle realizes that his cousin will be a walking target for Cartman's anti-Semitism (and indeed, Eric's first line upon seeing Cousin Kyle is a blunt "What's that thing?"), so he decides to simply bribe the bully with forty dollars to not tease him. Cartman, to his credit, manages to last an entire bus ride and the first few minutes of class with Ms. Choksondik before breaking.
- Disproportionate Retribution: Kenny gets shot in the head by airport security...for having a toenail clipper on him.
- Do Wrong, Right: When Cousin Kyle discovers that Kyle tried to pay Cartman to not tease him, he tells Kyle that he's more upset with how much money he offered than the whole "bribery" thing.
- Early-Installment Weirdness: Donald Trump briefly shows up in this episode— his only actual appearance on the show to date. Later on, when South Park devoted an entire multi-episode arc to satirizing Trump, they didn't actually portray him at all, instead using Mr. Garrison as an expy of him.
- Earn Your Happy Ending: Poor Cousin Kyle goes through a lot in this episode; having to deal with his mother being ill, being ridiculed by Cartman, and his own cousin not wanting him around to where they constantly tried to send him away through some very comfortable bus and plane trips. In the end he managed to make five million dollars thanks to a bailout after investing in Mr. Garrison's "It" where he said he's now able to go home and use that money to help out his family.
- "Eureka!" Moment: Mr. Garrison struggles to invent a new vehicle until Mr. Hat comments, "Boy, that Enrique Iglesias can sure gyrate his hot ass around" and decides on a gyroscope.
- Explain, Explain... Oh, Crap!: The boys, upon hearing Cousin Kyle is finally ready to leave, initially laugh when he reveals his $5 million settlement, before immediately realizing just how much he got. Cue the quickest Heel–Face Turn in South Park history.
- The Friend Nobody Likes: Cartman's status as this in the main group is lampshaded by Kyle, who introduces him as "My sort-of friend."
- Hoist by His Own Petard: The boys only succeed in driving Cousin Kyle out of town just before he reveals he got a decent lump sum from the Its' legal settlement. Their attempts to get him to leave are thrown in their face as they try to convince him to stay, only for Cousin Kyle to declare the town is full of a bunch of redneck hicks and leave.
- I'm Standing Right Here: Kyle says that having Kyle Schwartz living with them is going to be like having a brother. Cue a Death Glare and some angry Baby Talk from Ike.
- Kyle Schwartz walks behind Kyle while the former talks to Cartman about bribing him to not bully the latter.
- Laser-Guided Karma: The boys doing everything to drive Cousin Kyle out of town ends up screwing them out of his legal settlement, and when they try to convince him to stay, their plan to show the more negative aspects of town bite them as well, as Cousin Kyle is convinced everyone in the town are redneck hicks.
- Obstructive Bureaucrat: Airport security (which in South Park seems to consist of one moronic guy) is definitely this.
- Oh, Crap!: One segment in the commercial for "It" has a woman trying to put her baby in a baby-sized "It". Said baby has a horrified reaction during the attempt and struggles to break away.
- One-Steve Limit: Kyle's cousin is also named Kyle. Sheila gets around this by calling her nephew "Kyle" and her son "Kyle 2".
- Stop Being Stereotypical: Kyle's frustration with Cousin Kyle is the latter is a walking Jewish stereotype; he's a Sickly Neurotic Geek, he complains a lot, and he frequently talks about saving money.Kyle: I've spent five years in this town making a good name for Jews and this stereotype comes in and wrecks it all! You know what my biggest fear is? That I'll become him, that somehow is mannerisms will rub off on me and I'll become a stereotype. I mean I'm a Jew and he's making me hate Jews!
Stan: Dude, a self-hating Jew? You are becoming a stereotype!
Kyle: You see?!- Cousin Kyle decides to leave South Park because he considers Kyle and his friends to be a bunch of stereotypical "Redneck Douchebags."
- Suspiciously Specific Denial: After making a concentration camp joke in class, Cartman (who was offered forty bucks not to tease Cousin Kyle) tells Kyle that he only just learned about real concentration camps from Craig. Considering that this is Cartman we're talking about, Kyle immediately sees through the lie.note
- Take That!:
- The episode takes a lot of potshots at the airline industry, calling it out on the inefficiency, incompetence, and corruption that caused its economic downturn. During the investors meeting for "It", Bill Gates questions whether customers will accept the way the vehicle functions. Steve Forbes says it's still preferable to how the airports operate, which everyone else agrees with.
- The hype for "It" was a jab at the tremendous hype for the Segway, which promised to revolutionize travel but ended up being a niche item.
- They Killed Kenny Again: Kenny's shot in the head by airport security for carrying a toenail clipper.
- This Is Gonna Suck: Cartman agrees to not tease Cousin Kyle in exchange for forty dollars. Upon returning to meet him, Cousin Kyle immediately starts asking about how much Cartman's jacket cost, and Eric realizes that he's in for a terrible time.
- You Have to Believe Me!: Kyle doesn't believe Cartman's claims that he didn't know about the Nazis and concentration camps after Cartman's insult in class.note
