Dramatic Irony: Kenny also dies in nearly every episode prior to this, yet it is suddenly being treated dead (no pun intended) serious here.Unlike his other deaths, this one is played straight. Death of a Child: Kenny dies from muscular dystrophy. ![]() ![]() Cartman, however, ends up zigzagging this he weeps over the possibility that Kenny may be Killed Off for Real and initially uses aborted stem cells to save him, but he ends up using the stem cells to build a second Shakey's. Children Are Tender-Hearted: When Kenny is terminally ill, all his friends show varying degrees of concern for him, especially Stan, who can't bring himself to visit Kenny because he can't stand to see Kenny in such a state.The episode ends with him indeed creating his own Shakey's using stem cells. Chekhov's Gag: Early in the episode, when Cartman is told how stem cells could be used to replicate any adjacent cell in the body, he wonders aloud if he could replicate his own Shakey's Pizza that way.Breaking Bad News Gently: Randy tries this with Stan, saying that Kenny will be "in heaven soon.".Break the Cutie: Happens to Stan at the end when he realizes it's too late to see Kenny, since the latter is already gone.The creators have gone on record to say that they "wanted to see how long they could go without telling a single joke." ![]()
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