Doubling Down

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Season	s21
Episode	e07
Written By	Trey Parker
Production Code	2107
Original Air Date	2017-11-08

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Official Description[edit]

Kyle is playing with fire when he gets in the middle of Cartman and Heidi’s relationship.

Full Description[edit]

Cartman calls Heidi in tears, as their relationship is strained with Cartman abusing her. 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 when Heidi shows up he reverts to acting nice with her. Kyle talks to Heidi after school about her relationship with Cartman, but she gets defensive and avoids the subject. At the Turner Residence, 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, Heidi is not feeling well due to these foods and feels bloated, while Cartman states to the boys that she is getting fat and teases her behind her back. 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 Tolkien's house claiming that he and Heidi have broken up again and asks to move in with Tolkien and participate in any acts of disrespecting the American flag or other forms of social protesting that their family may do. While there, Tolkien's parents reveal to Cartman that Heidi has been seen with Kyle holding hands together. At school, Cartman confronts Kyle 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. Heidi visits Kyle and states that she now understands that Kyle was the one at fault for manipulating her. Echoing Cartman's own anti-Semitic beliefs, Heidi insists that Kyle is sneaky because of his "heritage" and breaks up with him, before walking off with Cartman once more.

Meanwhile, at the White House, President Garrison is warned by his staff of the general discord against him and his administration as he is keeping on his campaign promise to "fuck them all to death", a view supported by his member berries. Garrison then locks them in his office after the staffers threaten to stand up against him. When Paul Ryan is questioned about his support of Garrison, he is shown with a black eye and only supports Garrison in a fearful tone of voice. Ryan finds a poll which shows Garrison's approval ratings to be very low, and he and the other staffers plan to use it against Garrison, but Garrison finds them and states he knows how to handle societal psychology. When the staffers 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.