Danny Dog: "The captain takes the ball and throws it over there."
Peppa Pig: "No, I know the rules and-"
Everyone: *Argues*
Peppa Pig: "No, I know the rules and-"
Everyone: *Argues*
Two or more kids are setting out to play, but an argument ensues over how to play the game correctly. They might argue over who plays what role in a game of make-believe, or what characters do or say, what to wear, and what toys to play with.
If characters are Playing House, they might argue because they want there to be a baby in the "family", but none of them actually want to play a baby. If they're playing at being doctors, they might argue over who will be the nurse, doctor, and patient, and what the diagnosis and treatment should be. If they're playing Cowboys and Indians, they might argue because one kid always insists on winning and skews the game in their favour, such as by claiming to have dodged the imaginary bullets.
This might serve to showcase the kids' personalities. A bossy kid might want to always be in a leadership role. A warlike kid might want the game to be aggressive while a nicer or shyer kid wants it to be more pacifistic. A studious, pedantic, Comically Serious, unimaginative, or boring kid might want the game to be more grounded while a nutty, cheerful, or imaginative kid might want to play it in a sillier way. Sometimes there might be issues of age (an older kid thinks that the game the younger kid, often an Annoying Younger Sibling, wants to play is babyish) or gender (a boy or a tomboy doesn't want to be put in a traditionally feminine role, or a boy doesn't want to play with a girl or vice versa).
In children's shows, it might span the whole plot and become a Feud Episode with a lesson on how to either compromise by combining the ideas, or find some third option they can both agree on.
Compare The Dreaded Pretend Tea-Party and Scrabble Babble. Might overlap with I Don't Think That's Such a Good Idea if one kid has safety-related reservations about a game.
Examples:
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Comic Books
- Asterix: In one issue, set when the villagers were kids, the other boys are frustrated that Vitalstatistix is always the one who plays the chief, but he insists he has to because his father is the real chief.
Comic Strips
- Baby Blues: One strip has Zoe and Hammy playing "school bus", with Zoe being the bus driver and Hammy being the kid going to school. It starts off well, but as soon as Wanda turns her back, Hammy starts crying because Zoe drove past the school without letting him off.
- Calvin and Hobbes:
- Calvin and Susie are Vitriolic Best Buds, and so they often argue whenever they play house. In one strip, Susie wants to pretend her stuffed bunny Mr. Bun is a baby, but Calvin insists that it's a rabbit.
- Calvin and Hobbes have had plenty of arguments about their pretend play and competition - especially when it comes to Calvinball (a game Calvin made up). Case in point:
Calvin: Ha ha ha! I stole your flag!Hobbes: But I hit you with the Calvin Ball! You have to put the flag back and sing the "I'm Very Sorry" Song!Calvin: I don't have to sing the song! I was in the "no song" zone!Hobbes: No you weren't. I touched the opposite pole, so the "no song" zone is now a song zone!Calvin: I didn't see you touch the opposite pole! You have to declare it!Hobbes: I declared it oppositely by not declaring it. Start singing.
- In another comic where Calvin and Susie play house together, Susie is acting as the president while Calvin is playing as her husband. However, Calvin doesn't want to do this, so he claims that he's actually a Tarzan-like king of the jungle and goes home in his underwear to find Hobbes instead.
Fan Works
- In Bandit's Belt, trouble ensues when Bingo and her classmates play a game called "Wolf Hunt" where whoever's "it" pretends to be a savage wolf hunting the other kids. They argue over whether Bingo (who, being a Troubled Child, commits to the bit a little too much) is being too scary whenever she's the one being the wolf.
- In Don't Say, "Dannit", Lily and another baby argue over a block, eventually ending up in Lily yelling, "Dannit!" (a mispronunciation of "dang it"), that gets her suspended from daycare.
- In this
piece of TMNT fan art, young Leonardo and Raphael end up arguing over whether or not Raph made a foul play during a game. The fight escalates, with Michelangelo asking repeatedly that they stop fighting. Donatello ends up finishing the fight by grabbing a foam training bat and literally knocking some sense into his brothers.
Films — Animation
- In Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole, siblings Soren and Eglantine are roleplaying at being Lyze of Kiel (one of the eponymous Guardians, who they idolize) and his rival, Metal Beak, but they argue because both want to be Lyze.
Literature
- The Book That Almost Rhymed: The story is about a boy wanting to tell a traditional story told in rhyme while his younger sister inserts random words that end up messing up the story, which frustrates the boy.
- Diary of a Wimpy Kid:
- In one book, Greg's teachers crack down on safety on the playground a bit too much, and among other things, they ban the students from touching one another. Greg says that the kids began playing a game called "Air Tag", which is like tag except they touched the air around each other rather than actually touching one another, but it led to them arguing over whether they'd actually been tagged.
- In another book, Greg and Rowley are playing a Mad Libs-esque game, but when Rowley asks Greg to name a sport, and Greg says volleyball, Rowley insists it's called bolleyball. Then, when Rowley reads the entire "B" section of the dictionary and can't find it, he thinks the dictionary must've been printed before the sport was invented, so the boys have another argument, this time about what year volleyball was invented.
- Dino Life Guides: In "How to Be a Friend", it says that one thing not to do with your friends is to be bossy. This is illustrated with three girls playing house, and two of them are berating the third, Annie, for always insisting on playing the mom.
- Jeremy James:
- Timothy Smyth-Fortescue is Jeremy James’s neighbour, is from a wealthy family, and considers himself very superior. When they play cowboys and Indians, Timothy always wins, and always gets to cut off Jeremy James’s head, because it’s in his house, which is much better than Jeremy James’s. Because of this, Jeremy James does not enjoy playing with Timothy, and they disagree every time.
- In Do Goldfish Play The Violin, Jeremy James and Melissa play “Freezing”, in which one person hides something, and tells the other whether they are hot or cold. Jeremy James hides something, and Melissa is “hot” when she comes to the garden pond, and says she’s won because she’s found it in the pond; but she cannot say what it is, and they have a massive argument. Only later does daddy casually ask Jeremy James what he hid in the pond: Melissa’s violin.
- Henry Huggins: In "Henry and the Clubhouse", Henry keeps coming to blows with the Quimby sisters on whether they should play in the eponymous clubhouse with him, since he doesn't want to allow girls.
- Hetty Feather: In the first book, Hetty wants to play house with her brother Saul, with her as the mother, him as the father, and dolls made out of dirt for the babies. However, he doesn't want to, because he thinks the makeshift dolls look like "pigeon poo".
- In My Big Shouting Day, one of the things that made Bella shout was when she, her brother, and her friend all wanted to be princesses during a make-believe game, but Bella thought there should only be one princess.
- In She Rex, two siblings named Ed and Maisy argue when playing dinosaur-related games, because Maisy wants there to be female T. Rexes, but Ed thinks Girls Have Cooties.
- Warrior Cats: This happens occasionally in the books, with kits arguing that the other is cheating, or unhappy that their denmate was the Clan leader the last time they played. One more extreme example was in Leopardstar's Honor where, during a game of hide-and-seek, Leopardkit climbs on a warrior's back to escape (Sedgekit accuses her of cheating), and then she reveals Skykit's hiding spot. Skykit is so angry that she holds Leopardkit's head underwater in the river afterward, instilling in her a fear of water that takes her many moons to overcome.
Live-Action TV
- Sesame Street:
- In one episode, Big Bird and Snuffy play cowboy, but argue over whether to say two or three "Yee-ha!"s.
- In "Baby Bear's Baby Doll", Baby Bear wants to play with his baby doll (albeit feeling a bit embarrassed about it because he thinks dolls are for girls), but Telly wants to play with his toy dinosaur, so they argue over which toy should "drive" the toy bulldozer. Then, when they finally agree on the baby doll, Telly makes the bulldozer drive erratically, but Baby Bear, feeling protective of his "baby", thinks this is "too rough". Then, when Baby Bear pretends the doll is a superhero saving a kangaroo, but Telly makes the kangaroo toy "attack" the baby doll, Baby Bear again thinks this is too rough.
- In a skit called "Preschool Musical", two preschoolers have an Argument of Contradictions in song over whether to play in the block corner or the dress-up corner. A girl named Kelly Burns plays the peacemaker and suggests doing both in succession, which they do.
- In "Don't Get Pushy", Telly is playing at being a teacher, with Baby Bear and Rosita pretending to be students. However, Rosita pushes Baby Bear three times (twice because she's excited, and once because she's mad at him for helping her think of words when she doesn't want help). This makes Baby Bear angry and he decides to stop playing, so Rosita is told to "hug" herself to prevent herself from pushing.
- Whenever Zoe tries to bring Elmo into the games with her pet rock Rocco, the two kids usually end up arguing, since Zoe claims that Rocco is alive, but Elmo thinks it's ridiculous, and whenever he says anything bad about Rocco, she pretends that Rocco is offended.
- In one episode, Telly argues with several of his female friends, since he wants to join their club, but they say it's for girls only.
- In another episode, Big Bird wants to join a club called the Good Birds Club, but an obnoxious blue jay keeps telling him that he shouldn't be in the club because his feet are too big, then he himself is too big, then because he is yellow.
- In "Maria the Cowgirl", several kids act out the eponymous story, but both Big Bird and Elmo want to play the bad guy, then both want to play Amigo (Maria's horse) leading to them arguing until Gordon decides who plays whom.
Web Videos
- Dark Simpsons: Played for Black Comedy in "Bart and Milhouse Fight", where Bart and Milhouse have a scuffle over a cup-and-ball, leading to Bart accidentally killing Milhouse.
- Make Some Noise: One prompt is "A Child's Lore Dump Before Their Friend Joins Playtime," during which a kid (played by Jess) explains her overly-complicated backstory and rules for her imaginary world to her friend (played by Anna). This results in an epic meltdown when the friend steps into the backyard and, according to the kid, accidentally crushes some of the magical creatures living there. The scene is capped off by the kid's mom (played by DJ) coming outside to see what the commotion is.
Jess: [in tears] MOM! SHE CRUSHED THE QUEEN!Jess: Yes...
- SuperMarioLogan: In the earlier episodes, Bowser Junior had very particular ways about how his toys should be played with whenever his friends came over to play with him. Whenever they played with dinosaurs, he would keep many of the bigger dinosaurs for himself and make his friends play with one tiny dinosaur. Whenever they played with trains, he would insist that only he gets to play with Thomas, even if he had more than one, and would make his friends play with other trains, especially "The Ugly Red One". Whenever his friends dared to play these games outside his rules, he would throw a big temper tantrum.
Western Animation
- 3rd & Bird:
- "To Play or Not to Play" is all about Samuel and Rudy arguing over what game to play, with Samuel wanting to play subdued, or as he puts it, "thoughtful" games, and Rudy thinking those games are boring and wanting to play something more exciting.
- In one episode, Samuel and Rudy build a playhouse, and Muffin wants the three of them to play in it together, but Samuel and Rudy insist their playhouse is "for two" and she's not allowed. Quinn cheers Muffin up by making her a playhouse "for one", but then Samuel and Rudy want it for themselves when they see she has a slide and trampoline, leading to the three of them arguing. Mr. Beakman settles the argument by having the three kids go with Muffin's initial suggestion of having all of them in the same playhouse.
- Arthur:
- In "Buster's Breathless", Arthur, Buster, and D.W. play a game called "Dangerous Snig", in which she pretends to be a monster called a snig and the boys pretend to be the good guys. D.W. complains about having to be the villain, and the boys tell her she needs to act scarier.
- In "D.W. Bossyboots," D.W. discovers that the other kids in her kindergarten class don't like playing with her because she's "bossy," giving orders and directions as to how a game should be played or how to do things. When she tells Arthur this, he advises that maybe the other kids don't like her telling them what to do all the time, and she responds that it's the other kids' faults for not knowing how to play. When D.W. dozes off, she has a dream where she's surrounded by an army of clones that give her orders and criticize her every move. When she gets together with the other kids in her class, she's determined to not be so "bossy" anymore.
- In the opener for "D.W. Goes to Washington", Arthur plays at discovering Atlantis (using a box as the submarine). He has trouble because he wants D.W. to "steer", but she doesn't want to play.
- In one episode, some of the kids play baseball, but they argue over whether Buster had been safe or out, with him thinking he was safe, but Arthur declaring, "You're out!" during the game. Some of their friends agree with Buster and think Arthur was premature.
- In "Mom and Dad Have a Great Big Fight", D.W. wants to play a boardgame called "Confuse the Goose", but Arthur doesn't want to, partly because he thinks the game is too kiddie, and partly because he's busy with homework, which results in an argument between the two of them.
- The Berenstain Bears Show: In "The Trouble with Friends", Sister Bear and Lizzie Bruin argue over a game where they pretend to be in school, since both girls want to play the teacher. It ends on them saying rude rhymes to each other and leaving in a huff, until Mama Bear tells Sister Bear to be patient with Lizzie since even though Lizzie was being bossy, Sister was too.
- Bluey:
- In Magic Xylophone, When Bingo notied that Bluey is taking all the turns and not giving Bingo one after coming out of the bed and thinking Bandit left, they begin to squabble and have a tug of war over the xylophone. Bandit was actually hiding up in the closest and then jumped down to surprise the kids and take the xylophone.
- In "Hotel", Bandit and his two daughters play a game where he plays the hotel guest and they play the crazy staff that wake him up at night. However, an argument ensues because Bingo wants to play a "crazy pillow", but Bluey doesn't want her to. Eventually, Bandit convinces Bluey to let Bingo play a "crazy pillow" for the sake of her feelings.
- In "Spy Game", the Heeler sisters and their friends Mackenzie, Honey, and Chloe play a game where they spy on their parents and then make a "potion" which they use to pretend to brainwash them. However, the Heeler sisters begin arguing because Bluey wants Bingo to get "potion grass" for the other kids, but Bingo doesn't want to. Bluey bans Bingo from the game, but this proves to have been a bad choice when neither Honey nor Chloe wants to take Bingo's "job", and then the kids have trouble making the "potion". Eventually, the sisters reconcile and Bluey lets Bingo "control" the parents.
- In "Charades", Bluey plays the eponymous game with her sister Bingo, her cousins Muffin and Socks, and their grandmother. Muffin gets upset when she doesn't get the ballerina card she wants, so Bluey has to get the card for her, as well as bring her a tutu and a music box, to make her happy.
- In "Library", Bluey pretends that her living room is a library and that she is the librarian. When Muffin comes to visit, she insists on playing the game her own way, rather than by Bluey's rules. Muffin spends the majority of the episode disrupting her cousins' game on the grounds of being "special" (because her father Stripe called her that), making Bluey and Bingo miserable for it. Once Muffin comes back with a humbler attitude that she's not special and asks for a redo of the game, the three of them play Library again. This time, thanks to Muffin following the rules, play time is more harmonious, and the girls have a great time.
- In "Shadowlands", some of the kids play a game in which they can only walk on the shadowed areas, pretending the sunlit areas are bodies of water in which there are crocodiles. Coco, however, keeps changing the rules and trying to make it so that they can repel the "crocodiles" or put them to sleep, which frustrates her friends.
- In "Shops", Bluey, Mackenzie, Honey, and Chloe play at being shopkeepers, but the girls keep changing the rules, for instance, suddenly pretending to be cats. Mackenzie keeps getting frustrated with this and eventually wanders off in a huff, until Bluey apologises.
- In "Butterflies", the Heeler sisters and the neighbour girl Judo play a game that involves pretending to be caterpillars that turn into butterflies and get caught. However, Bluey and Judo argue because Judo thinks Bingo is too young and takes too long. Eventually, Judo ropes Bluey into running away from Bingo, but then Bluey feels guilty and doesn't want to play anymore, so they argue again over whether to play at talking on the phone.
- Carl the Collector:
- In "The Lint Dino Collection", Carl and Nico come into conflict when Nico, unable to get the hang of crafting lint dinosaurs, starts making lint monsters instead, which upsets Carl, who believes it goes against the spirit of 'Lint Dino Mondays'.
- In "The Pet Rock Collection", after allowing his friends to each have a pet rock from the titular collection, he gets frustrated when they don't play with it the same way he would, which mostly involves dusting them and having staring contests with the rocks, and insists that his way of playing is the right way. He eventually comes around after seeing his friends enjoy playing with the rocks in their own way.
- The Casagrandes:
- In one episode, Carl and Adelaide are playing with action figures, but are arguing because Carl wants them to fight, but Adelaide wants them to kiss.
- In another episode, Carl and Adelaide play house using her pet frog Froggy 2 as the baby, but they argue over who should "change his diaper", with Adelaide claiming to be "tired from work".
- Charlie and Lola:
- In one episode, the siblings get a new kit set to build a play town called My Little Town, but they argue over how to put it together.
- In "Oops! But it Wasn't Me", Lola argues with Soren Lorenson over whether to use Charlie's model rocketship as a vehicle for her toy elephant.
- Craig of the Creek: In "Council of the Creek", the Creek kids get caught up in "the circle game", where you show a circle made with one's fingers and blow a raspberry at them. While at first fun, the game soon gets out of hand, so Craig forms a council to discuss rules and regulations to keep the circle game fair for everyone. After the rules are agreed upon, the council votes to approve them, but Paintball Mike votes against, believing that the game is fine the way it is. It takes Craig tricking Mike into losing the game to agree on the new rules.
- Daniel Tiger's Neighborhood: In one episode, Daniel and O argue during a game because O thinks that Daniel is being "too loud", but Daniel disagrees.
- Harry and His Bucket Full of Dinosaurs:
- In "I Win", Harry and the dinosaurs try to play games, but he's a Sore Loser, so he keeps adding extra rules for the dinosaurs so that they always lose, leading to them falling out and him learning a lesson about sportsmanship.
- In one episode, Harry and the dinosaurs try to have a race, with the first one to "the ugly tree" winning, but argue over who won as they each think different trees are ugly.
- In "Yo Ho Ho", Harry, Charley, and the dinosaurs are playing pirates. However, things start going awry when Harry takes his role as the captain too seriously and begins bossing Charley and the dinosaurs around. Then, they demand he apologise but he refuses since he still insists on staying in-character and thinks apologising is too friendly for a pirate. Thus, Charley and the dinosaurs maroon Harry on a Deserted Island as punishment.
- In "Goal!", Harry, Charley, and the dinosaurs play soccer, but Harry gets frustrated with Charley for being bad at the game, and eventually kicks her off the team. The ball comes to life and gives him A Taste of His Own Medicine by refusing to let him play, leading to a Sportsmanship Aesop.
- Invader Zim: In the episode "Megadoomer", two kids are seen playing with toy robots in a sandbox. They have a fake fight with their toys, which culminates in one of the kids screaming, "I’M NOT PLAYING WITH YOU ANYMORE!" Their fight turns out to be All for Nothing when the Megadoomer crushes the sandbox and GIR eats their toy robots.
- Little Princess: In "I Mustn't Be Bossy", the Princess and Algie are running a pretend cafe, but Algie doesn't like the Princess making him the waiter, then she gets angry when he spills the food and stops playing with him. However, he sets up his own play cafe, leading to a rivalry between the two kids. Eventually, they patch things up and go back to running the same pretend cafe together.
- The Loud House: In "Baby Steps", the twins start arguing because Lola wants Lana to protect her play castle, but Lana started attacking it instead. Lincoln solves the problem by pretending to be a troll, so that both twins can attack him.
- Maggie and the Ferocious Beast: A common setup in multiple episodes is Maggie suggesting a game to play, with Beast wanting to put his own variation on the game, and Hamilton wanting to play the game the proper way.
- Martha Speaks: In "Myth Me?", Helen and her friends argue a little over which book they should reenact to pass the time. Eventually, they settle on a book of Greek myths, but T.D. is still sulky since he hates how all the myths seem to either have a sad ending or end on "forever".
- My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic: In "A Flurry of Emotions", the Cake twins start fighting over a toy. Flurry Heart tries to help by breaking it in half, not realising that this would make it unplayable, and this gets the twins mad at her.
- Peppa Pig:
- In "My Cousin Chloe", Chloe, Peppa, and George are playing tag, but when Chloe starts carrying George, Peppa gets angry at her because she thinks it's cheating. Chloe thinks it's fine to help George as he's so young. Peppa tries to keep playing tag, but can't keep up, so she declares it a "silly" game. Then, the three kids play a game called Sly Fox, where they have to move while one of them isn't looking, but when Chloe wins, Peppa insists that she wasn't "ready", then that Chloe looked for too long.
- Subverted in ''Mandy Mouse". During outdoor playtime, Peppa and her team (With Mandy Mouse included) try to play ball against Danny and his team, but the two teams begin to argue over what the rules should be. It was solved once Mandy spoke up and said that whichever team gets the ball in their hoop wins.
- Rugrats:
- In "The Odd Couple", Tommy stays at Chuckie's house for the weekend when his parents go to a cheese festival. Chuckie has very particular ways about how his toys should be played with and put away, and at one point, he has a meltdown when he discovers the way Tommy played with his Bogo Block village.
Chuckie: [upon entering his bedroom] No, Tommy, no!Tommy: [holding a Bogo Block person] What's wrong, Chuckie?Chuckie: What's wrong? What's wrong? Look what you did! It's all ruined!Tommy: What's all ruined, Chuckie?Chuckie: The Bogo Block Village! [shows a police car parked at the fire department] The police car's at the fire station... [shows a fire truck parked at the airport terminal] the fire truck's at the airport... [shows an airplane on the roof of a building] the airplane's on top of the restaurant! [shows a Bogo Block person on its side halfway out a door and another through a window] People are hanging out of windows... [shows two buildings askew on their foundations] buildings are moved... [Chuckie waves a Bogo Block building in each of his hands] and you've completely taken apart City Hall!Tommy: Chuckie, in my house, we do stuff like this all the time.Chuckie: "My house, my house, my house!" Let me tell you something, Tommy, this isn't "my house", it's my house! And when you're in my house, sometimes you gotta do things my way!
- In "Imagine That", Angelica wants to play The Cynthia Team with the babies, and she casts them in the roles of the show's characters, with Kimi and Lil as her sidekicks, Chuckie as a baker, Tommy as the evil Dr. Doomsbake, and Phil as Mr. Really Really Big. However, the babies' inabilities to stay in character complicates things for her; Kimi is supposed to be the not-very-smart sidekick and Lil is supposed to be the funny one, but the former keeps pointing out simple solutions while the latter doesn't say anything funny (not that it stops Angelica from giving her pity laughs). Tommy tries to tell Angelica that he's very bad at being evil, but she doesn't listen to him, and sure enough, he uses his laser beam to return the world's supply of cookies rather than steal them. Angelica angrily tells him he's supposed to be the bad guy, and when she shows him what he's supposed to do by using the beam to steal the cookies, Tommy tells her that since she did that, she's the bad guy now, and Lil and Kimi arrest her while Phil praises them and Tommy for saving the world.
- In "The Odd Couple", Tommy stays at Chuckie's house for the weekend when his parents go to a cheese festival. Chuckie has very particular ways about how his toys should be played with and put away, and at one point, he has a meltdown when he discovers the way Tommy played with his Bogo Block village.
- The Simpsons:
- In one episode, Bart and Milhouse have an argument, that then spirals into a fistfight, because both want to play with a cup-and-ball.
- In "Marge Be Not Proud", Milhouse gets a new video game. Bart wants to play it with him, but Milhouse says no, and at first lies that it's single-player, then when Bart catches him, lies that Bart swore to get him in trouble.
- South Park: Whenever Stan, Kyle, Cartman, and Kenny decide to pretend-battle one another, expect bickering to start because Cartman insists on having his way every time:
- In "Clubhouses", the boys play "Americans vs. Bosnians" with Cartman being the sole kid on the Bosnian side. The moment he's play-ambushed by the American side, Cartman immediately declares himself Immune to Bullets, leading Stan and Kyle to ditch him in frustration.
Cartman: It will take more than your weak American weapons to destroy me!Stan: Cartman, we shot your Bosnian fat ass!Kyle: Yeah! You're dead!Cartman: I have Class 4 armor on, that, uh, ih-ih—Stan: No, you don't!Cartman: —special armor, that's impenetrable to American bullets.Kyle: Dude! Every time we play Americans vs. Bosnians, you cheat!Stan: Yeah, Cartman, you suck! If you want to play Americans vs. Bosnians any more, you can just play with yourself!
- In "Good Times with Weapons", the boys pretend to be superpowered, shonen-esque ninjas, and Cartman — in his Bulrog persona — tries to make up powers for himself solely to one-up Kyle, leading to an argument that ends with Cartman banned from having any powers at all.
Kyle: God dammit, Cartman! You can't keep making up new powers!Stan: Yeah, dude, that's like the fifth power you've come up with!Cartman: I am Bulrog and I have lots and lots of powers.Kyle: No, asshole! From now on you only get to have one power! So what is it?![Beat]Kyle: That doesn't count, fatass!
- In the same episode, Stan play-shoots Butters — in his Supervillain persona of Professor Chaos — with a fiery stream of energy from his tonfas. Butters simply "blocks" the attack with his cape, leading to this exchange.
Stan: Hey, kid, that knocks you down.Butters: Nuh-uh!Stan: Yeah-huh, I got you!Butters: Nuh-uh! Because my cloak is made of a... titanium alloy that shields me from heat!
- In "Clubhouses", the boys play "Americans vs. Bosnians" with Cartman being the sole kid on the Bosnian side. The moment he's play-ambushed by the American side, Cartman immediately declares himself Immune to Bullets, leading Stan and Kyle to ditch him in frustration.
