Original air date: 4/7/2004
After getting "served" by 5 professional young dancers, Stan is forced to get into a match with these kids so he rounds up the best dancers he can to beat them.
You Got F'd In The A includes examples of:
- Big-Lipped Alligator Moment: An in-universe example that sets off the episode. The boys are minding their own business when the Orange County kids randomly show up and "serve" them for absolutely no discernible reason before leaving. When it's over, the boys are just left wondering what the hell happened.
- Censored Title: Also called "You Got Served" or simply, "You Got..."
- Cheese-Eating Surrender Monkeys: Stan tells Butters that if he doesn't face up to life's challenges, "...you might as well move to France with all the other pussies." It was enough for Butters to reverse his stance against dancing and join the contest.
- Cultural Rebel: The Goths refuse to join Stan's dance troupe, seeing it as a sign of conformity. Michael ends up joining because he refuses to conform to his friends' nonconformist stance on the situation.Pete: We just got Goth-served.
- Cruel and Unusual Death: The victims of Butters' accident are crushed by falling lights, impaled, sliced in half, electrocuted and more.
- Dancing Is Serious Business: Everyone treats getting served as though it's some kind of traumatic event or debilitating injury. Randy ends up in the hospital after being served by the Orange County coach.
- Does This Remind You of Anything?: Because of how absurdly serious everyone takes getting served, you'd be hard pressed to find the allegories to bullying.
- Eat the Camera: The episode ends this way after Butters is traumatized when his dance killed the rival team, causing his team to win. The kids cheer for him and carry him towards the camera, while he screams a Big "NO!" as his open mouth fills the screen.
- 11th-Hour Ranger: One member of Stan's dance troupe, a dancing duck named Jeffy, had sprained its ankle right before the big event, and the contest requires five dancers per team to participate, so Stan's team was on the verge of forfeiting when Butters arrives to join.
- Half the Man He Used to Be: Two victims of the dancing tragedy in a Shout-Out to Ghost Ship.
- Heroic BSoD: Butters when Stan asks him to join the dance troupe.
- History Repeats: Butters is too scared to dance again after killing eight people (Nine if you count the fact that one of the female victims was pregnant and eleven if you include two family members who committed suicide later) in his last performance. Butters ends up inadvertently killing six people in his next one.
- Impaled with Extreme Prejudice: One victim of the tap dancing massacre goes this way.
- Karmic Death: In all fairness, the rival dancers only died because of their harassment towards the boys.
- Limited Lyrics Song: The song the Orange County kids dance to at the beginning of the episode only has the repetitive lyrics, "Let's see you dance, sucker! You've got nothing on me!"
- Minor Injury Overreaction: Not even an injury. Randy ends up in the hospital as a result of being "served" by the Orange County coach. They even have X-Rays "showing" that Randy got served on his left ribs, his left forearm, but the worst serving is in his pelvic region.Doctor: He got served; worst I've ever seen.
- No Sympathy: Everyone's so busy celebrating the fact South Park won, that they don't seem to care six people died, except Butters who is retraumatized.
- Not Helping Your Case: Stan telling Butters that the final death toll of the dancing tragedy was 11 and not 8 as he originally believed (apparently one female victim was pregnant and two family members of the victims committed suicide afterwards) was hardly going to convince him to join the troupe.
- Ragtag Bunch of Misfits: Stan recruits a Goth kid, an arcade dancer, a Raisins girl, and a duck to dance against the Orange County kids.
- Revenge Myopia: Parodied. The Orange County dance troupe walk up to the group and "serves" them unprovoked twice. When Stan (having been coached into it by his dad) retaliates with some dance moves of its own the second time around, the dance troupe takes this is a full-on feud. With the exception of the group, everyone else treats this like Serious Business.
- The Smurfette Principle: The Orange County dance troupe only has one female member. Likewise, Mercedes is the only girl in Stan's dance troupe. According to Michael, dance troupes must always have at least one girl because otherwise people will think they're "fags".
- Take a Third Option: Chef, when trying to tell Stan's troupe what they need to work on for their dance routine.Chef: You have the heart, but you don't have the soul. No, wait, you have the soul, but you don't have the heart. No, wait, wait, you have the heart and the soul, but you don't have the talent.
- Title Drop: Cartman tells the Orange County kids that they got "F'd in the A" after Stan serves them.
- Whole-Plot Reference: To the urban dance film You Got Served, which was wildly popular at the time the episode was made.
- World Limited to the Plot: Chef tells them dancing back means he has to dance against them at the contest, even though it was only South Park vs. Orange County.Chef: Because, if you got served and served them back, then it's on! Don't you know anything?
