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The use of music this episode stood out. Usually music is completely irrelevant in sp (aside from an occasional original song or montage), this time there were a few songs that dominated scenes. An interesting change of pace.
The music in the show has always been frequently used for humor - like they will always play certain musical cues or "serious" sounding songs over events they are making fun of.
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Originally Posted by RollWave
also the use of breaking or destroying a cell phone as meaning quitting social media was also confusing. throwing a cell phone in a river keeps you offline for like a day or two i guess. But their attack on Cartman, while supposed to be funny, was just sort of confusing. they broke his stuff....do they not realize that social media is not tied to any particular device and he can get online again with a new device?
remember that commercial with the grandma taping photos to the wall of her house and telling people 'i unfriend you'?
the episode just made me want to yell at matt and trey, "thats not how it works. that's not how any of this works!"
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i get that part of the joke is that this isn't how it works. I'm saying that the joke isnt funny because that's not how it works.
shirley, they could have come up with a better way to resolve that.
If they had just tied him up and left him in the cabin, that has the same effect of keeping him offline, resolves the storyline of showing that cartman couldnt have been the troll, and maintains the idea of being sad and regretful and maybe possibly sort of killing him (or at least endangering him).
but now, like what, is cartman's mom going to buy him a new phone or isn't she? is that the new storyline now?
Cartman even said in the episode something like "that's like 2 birthdays and a christmas worth of stuff guys" when trying to convince them not to go through with breaking his devices. The implication being that his mom isn't just going to buy him another laptop and iPad the next day. Also, in universe Cartman is the second poorest kid in town and the son of a single mother who works as a crack whore so it makes sense.
Now that I'm done nitpicking the nitpicks, I actually thought this episode was pretty funny. Surprised everyone here disliked it. The montage at the end with the little kindergarten kid getting a note saying "I BRAKE UP" made me lol.