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Just random thoughts and speculations, all utterly meaningless really. ᐅ The Club Sports "thing" was probably on the writer's room KANBAN board since they started working on the season. ᐅ While they do not necessarily involve themselves in SP Fandom that much (due to various professional reasons I won't go into), there are no doubt SP production team staff that keep a general eye on what the fan art/fan fic writers do. (There are different types of SP fandoms. The 'shipping fandom is very different from any broad "normie" fandom. It is important to always make this distinction.) ᐅ The outcry from the Creek fandom over the past few weeks about there needing to be an anniversary episode and some such did get seen, but not by Trey and Matt and such, but someone else. ᐅ During a writer's planning room meeting, the idea came up (based on fandom talking about the anniversary) and they decided after the fact to take the Club Sports idea and broaden it into a Creek episode (the core of that idea could easily have been Stan and Kyle, or any other kids really other than Cartman or Kenny.) The Heated Rivalry connection just works given the gay angle and the sports angle and it having had a huge moment in recent pop culture. ᐅ The entire opening of Cartman realizing that the whole school forgot the anniversary is the production fan service acknowledgement, and working it into the episode as they did works very well. ᐅ Craig forgetting the anniversary makes 100% sense for Craig to me. (I don't buy all the fanon autism and such about him. He's just into his things and hell, I forget my anniversary all the time.) ᐅ Matt Stone performing Tweek trying to mimic Craig in both monotone and phrasing was THE BEST THING given that he voices both of them! ᐅ Tweek's reaction to Craig freaking out was shocking to me. That is so NOT Craig and yet, freaking out is something Tweek inherently knows more than anyone. ᐅ The whole clubs sports thing, while I did not partake of with my son, seems on par for the general enshittification of everything. ᐅ The hilarious moment when Craig was freaking out and his hair actually appears outside of the chullo! Talk about a small tiny nod to fanon Craig!!! ᐅ I've seen many parents use their children's athletic or other activities as a dick wagging challenge with other parents. All of that tracked for me. ᐅ While not familiar with that needle drop, the continued use of music (needle drop or internal to the show) remains consistent with how we've seen them show the Tweek / Craig relationship. Songs have been key to their episodes (and hence, why it is so key to my live action Everything Will Change versions of them.) ᐅ I think they were very much commenting on the election outcomes without commenting on the election outcomes, regardless of if you consider it a positive or negative. Trey and Matt, while very libertarian in many ways, are extremely conscious of much of the the hypocriticalness of the MAGA Republicans and their masters/cult leaders. ᐅ I do believe that the election results are in many ways also positive for those people who identify as traditional Republicans, but have watched their own party be taken over by the cultish MAGA movement, and abandoning most actual historical conservative views (especially on the matters of global involvement, definitely financial expenditure, as well as the intense corruption already seen during the Trump 2.0 era.) The traditional Republicans have been just as fucked over as the traditional Democrats and especially those with a more balanced approach to policy, such as myself and all of us who basically feel politically homeless. ᐅ Tweek and Craig remain the bastion of wholesomeness that they've been. ᐅ The club sports thing was also used as a metaphor to some degree for the US political system as it exists. Breaking people up into A Tier, B Tier, etc. but taking as MUCH MONEY from them as possible under the guise that it is somehow the right thing to do. (The always grand political chestnut of "Won't something think of the children???" trope.) ᐅ We got more than the crumbs we've had. So now we have to wait until 2036 for the next episode. (Or South Park Studios reaches out to me to greenlight Everything Will Change!) 🙂