Doubling Down (South Park)

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Episode no.Season 21
Episode 7
Directed byTrey Parker
Written byTrey Parker
Featured music"Unfaithful" by Rihanna
"Doubling Down"
South Park episode
Episode no.Season 21
Episode 7
Directed byTrey Parker
Written byTrey Parker
Featured music"Unfaithful" by Rihanna
Production code2107
Original air dateNovember 8, 2017 (2017-11-08)
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"Doubling Down" is the seventh episode in the twenty-first season of the American animated television series South Park. The 284th overall episode of the series, it first aired on Comedy Central in the United States on November 8, 2017. This episode parodied the decreasing popularity of the Donald Trump administration by loosely comparing it to suffering from Stockholm syndrome.

Eric Cartman's abusive treatment of Heidi Turner is straining their relationship. He blames his anger issues on his poor diet, so Heidi convinces Cartman to try a vegan diet with her in an attempt to reconcile. The next day at lunch, Cartman continues to degrade Heidi to the rest of the boys, but treats her kindly when she shows up. When Kyle Broflovski talks to Heidi after school about her relationship with Cartman, she gets defensive and avoids the subject. At Heidi's home, Cartman states that he now enjoys Beyond Meat and presents her with a bucket of KFC to try, claiming that it is actually "Beyond KFC" and vegan. Back at school, she feels bloated and ill, while Cartman insults her behind her back and tells the boys that she is getting fat. Kyle goes to a girls' volleyball practice to ask them to stop mocking Heidi, and they question if Kyle is doing so because he has feelings for Heidi himself. He decides to back off his attempts to break up Cartman and Heidi, but later talks to Heidi in the school gymnasium. The two bond as Kyle tells Heidi that Cartman is an expert at playing the victim and will never change.

Cartman goes to Token Black's house claiming that he and Heidi have broken up again and asks to move in with Token and participate in any acts of disrespecting the American flag or other forms of social protesting that their family may do. While there, Token's parents reveal to Cartman that Heidi has been seen holding hands with Kyle. Cartman has a brief vision of Kyle dancing around with imagery and music that evokes the song "Pink Elephants on Parade" from Dumbo. Enraged, Cartman confronts Kyle at school and starts a fight which Kyle wins with one punch. The girls take Heidi out to dinner to celebrate while also belittling her for ever having a relationship with Cartman, which makes Heidi question her feelings. Heidi visits Cartman to apologize and complete their break-up, but Cartman decides to tell her more information. Soon afterwards, Heidi blames Kyle for manipulating her and breaks up with him, returning to Cartman again.

Meanwhile, at the White House, President Garrison is warned by Mitch McConnell, Paul Ryan, and Mike Pence of the general discord against him and his administration as he is keeping on his campaign promise to "fuck them all to death". Garrison then locks the trio in his office after they threaten to stand up against him. When Ryan is questioned by reporters about his support of Garrison, he is shown with a semen-stained black eye and only voices support for Garrison out of fear. Ryan finds a poll which shows Garrison's approval ratings to be very low, and he and the others plan to use it against Garrison, but Garrison finds them and states he knows how to handle societal psychology. When they bring Garrison a cake to celebrate his one-year anniversary of becoming president, Garrison promises that the next three years will be even better, as he walks out from behind his desk wearing a large strap-on dildo.

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