You Have 0 Friends

"You have 0 Friends" is the 199th episode of Comedy Central's series South Park. It aired on Comedy Central on April 7, 2010.

Synopsis
Kyle adds Kip Drordy on Facebook and now all of his old friends are deserting him because Kip Drody is the only person in South Park to have not have any friend requests, despite having been a member for six months. Kyle's situation is desperate so he looks for help from the one person who has always been there for him, Stan who ends up adding 845,000 "friends" gets sucked into Facebook after trying to delete his Facebook account.

Plot
At Kyle's house, Cartman mockingly states that he has more Facebook friends than Kyle does, which Kyle is stunned by, as does the fact that Kenny has 62 friends while he only has 37. Stan arrives causing Kyle to ask how many friends he has, only to be told that Stan disliked Facebook and wants nothing to do with it. Kyle attempst to convince Stan of how great Facebook is by talking about its assorted features like a Farming game and Yahtzee. However, Stan continues to firmly state he doesn't want a Facebook page. As such he finds himself infuriated to discover that Kyle and Cartman made him one. Cartman advises Stan to get with it or suffer as someone who has no Facebook friends, like a kid named Kip Drody. Stan becomes fed up at last and leaves to play Xbox, while Kyle feeling bad for Kip, decides to add him as a friend. Kip who is a pathetic and lonely boy is over-joyed to have his first friend.

When Randy discovers Stan's page, he begins to pester Stan with a pathetic whining of "So... We're not friends?" causing Stan to add him, if only to shut up his father. Kyle meanwhile rapidly starts to lose friends as a result of adding Kip. When Wendy discovers Stan's Facebook, she become furious that Stan lied to her about having one, didn't add her as a friend and that his relationship status is single, despite Stan's attempts to explain the situation to her, fueling his already existing hatred for Facebook. While updating his profile, he finds that Cartman has a podcast on Facebook that tells people how to get friends, which friends people should add, and that people should stop being friends with Kyle because Kyle is friends with Kip. As a result, Kyle's only friend is Kip, and he then proceeds to beg Stan in the most pathetic manner possible to be his Facebook friend.

Although Kyle is miserable, Kip is overjoyed at having his first and only friend, and apparently views it as something far more. He begins to address Kyle as his best friend, and repeats all of Kyle's facebook status to his parents, who share his excitement that their son has friend, though appear to be unaware this friend of his is only online.

When Stan doesn't pay attention to his Facebook status, it results in people getting mad at him for ignoring them, even spitting on him. All the friends of his friends add him. Wendy in particularly becomes furious because one of his female friends saw pictures of him in a bunny costume despite the woman being a friend of his grandmas and 92, while Randy bully's Stan into adding and checking Grandma Marsh's status more often. Stan eventually gets 845,000 friends, without trying, and he continues to tired of dealing with Facebook. It gets so bad that he final decides to try to delete his account only to find that his computer won't let him and he literally gets sucked into his computer, via the web camera. He finds himself in a digital world similar to the movie Tron. He finds himself unable to talk to random people who can either ignore him or request him to be their friend. Stan gets angry that he's done exactly what he warned everyone about, he got sucked into facebook.

Meanwhile in the real world, eager to get friends Kyle goes to Cartman for help to get more Facebook friends. Cartman seems more than happy to help Kyle (even calling him his friend later on), and suggests that Kyle unfriend Kip. Kyle is reluctant to do so out of guilt for Kip's lack of friends, and so Cartman then tells Kyle about Chat Roulette. Together the pair of them go on "Chatroulette" to get friends, but it only shows guys masturbating on their webcams.

Back in the digital world of Facebook, Stan is 'arrested' by Facebook avatars, who pit him in battle against another user. However, rather doing anything cool, he ends up having to play Yahtzee with some random person. Stan wins in one throw with Yahtzee causing his opponent to apparently be killed via digital deletion. Stan then escapes the Avatar in charge and goes in search of answers.

Meanwhile after many more hours of searching "Chat Roulette", Cartman finds someone who isn't jacking off on Facebook. The guy happens to be a Jewish boy who agrees to become Kyle's new Facebook friend. All the while, Kip continues to try and maintain his 'friendship' with Kyle, by taking his computer around with him, such as to the movies, where he laughs obnoxiously and takes photos of himself with his computer.

Kyle, enjoying his new Facebook friend, plays on his Facebook farm and is shocked to see Stan appear. After calling him an asshole, Stan demands that Kyle help him by pulling up his Facebook status. Apparently Stan's Facebook page is holding a online chat with all his friends. As Stan goes off to figure out what's going on, Kyle discovers that his new Jewish friend from Chat Roulette has removed him from his friend's list due to Kyle's friendship with Kip. The forces Kyle to finally decides to remove Kip from his friend's list or else risk being a permanent Facebook outcast. He sends Kip a 'good-bye' message, that causes Kip to become deeply depressed.

Stan finally arrives at the 'chat party' and finds that his profile has become a giant sentient monster of a being and appears to working without him. Stan's profile then challenges him to a game of Yahtzee in which again Stan wins only one roll. The win results in Stan being returned to the real world, and he immediately deletes his page. Randy is disappointed that Stan is not friends with him and attempts whining again in the hopes that Stan will re-friend him. Stan however tells him to fuck off and that he sent all of his friends to Kip, who upon seeing his new 845,323 friends is over-joyed.

Trivia

 * First appearance of Grandma Marsh
 * Throughout most of the last two acts, Stan along with everyone else on Facebook is dressed as Tron from the film Tron.
 * Cartman acts like Jim Cramer, the host of CNBC's Mad Money.
 * This is one of the few times this series has actually used the real name of a company, usually coming up with parody nicknames (ie:Wall-mart instead of Walmart or YouToob instead of YouTube). However, Facebook is spelled as FaceBook in this episode, probably due to copyright issues.
 * This entire episode is focused on the fact many people seem literally to be sucked into Facebook.
 * Kip's official Facebook can be found by clicking here (this was set up by a member of South Park Studios).
 * Some of the boys' birth years are revealed here but they are only valid for most of 2010. For example, it's stated that Stan's birthday is on October 19, 2001. However if we go back to Season 1, it would've been approximately 1989ish (eight years before 1997, when the first episode aired, All boys were eight at this time).
 * Season 2 = would've been approx. 1990.
 * Season 3 = would've been 1991 or so.
 * Season 4 = would've been 1991-1992 (They were entering fourth grade so they all were eventually turning nine by now).
 * Season 6 = 1993ish
 * Season 8 = 1995ish
 * Season 10 = 1997ish
 * Season 13 = 2000 and so forth. Generally, you just go nine or so years before the year the episode aired (eight if it's the first three seasons). As this episode aired in 2010, it would've been 2001-2002 (For characters who are 8), and 2000-2001 for characters who are 9.
 * The farm game Kyle was playing is a parody of the game, FarmVille.
 * Kenny received his laptop through the One Laptop per Child foundation.
 * When Stan's profile is about to be deleted, there are 3 comments on there by Randy "Where my Friends at?", "Having some cereal and TV.." and "Man this bacon is good."
 * Right above Cartman's podcast he wrote "Butters--u better check out my new podcast! u need all the help you can get." Due to efforts for social status and being cool.
 * Clyde's profile status was "is da man, and you're not!" as shown on Cartman's podcast.
 * Randy acts like Bill Lumbergh, the boss from the movie 'Office Space', along with other characters taunting and repetitively asking Stan if he has noticed their facebook requests.
 * On Clyde's profile it says that he likes Towelie's Status.
 * Kip is still Kyle's Facebook friend, since Stan had Kyle on his friends list.
 * Kip Drordy shares a resemblance to Rocky Dennis of the film Mask.
 * A few pictures of a dog, in this episode resembles, one of Paris Hilton's Dogs.
 * Stan is using a 386 computer - a beige box straight out of the '90s - but he has the latest in monitors.
 * When Kip got Stan's list, Big Gay Al is on the end of his friends profile.
 * Clyde's birthday is revealed to be April 10th.

Goofs

 * Contrary to Stan having 845,000+ friends on Facebook, the social networking website currently limits each user to just 5,000 friends at a time in real life.
 * When Kip Drordy is added as a friend by Kyle the Friend Request box says: "Confirm Kyle as your Friend?" Then when the shot goes to Kip and back to the Friend Request box it says: "Accept Kyle as your Friend?"
 * Facebook requires all subscribers to be at least 13 years of age. However profile pages are shown with birthdays in 2001 and 2003. However, all the boys would've most likely changed their birthdays after joining.
 * "Uhhh, I'm gonna count five in my five box." - the dice on the table are three 3s, a 1, and a 4. There is no 5 he should be writing on his game pad.
 * When playing Yahtzee with Stan, his profile claimed to have a "large flush" although it is actually a "large straight".
 * When Kyle is playing on Farmville and Stan's digitial form appears on the screen, he is shown ot have 14 friends. However, by this point he is supposed to only have Kip, Stan and the Jewish boy he met on Chat Roulette as his friends.
 * On Mad Friends, Cartman mentions that Kyle had 55 friends on Facebook before he added Kip, but in a scene where Kyle sees his number of friends ignoring him, he had 30 friends, although it is possible that his friends ignored him before he noticed. In the beginning Kyle said he had only 37 friends.
 * Stan's birth year is revealed to be 2001, but because he's 9 and his birthday is in October and this episode aired in April 2010, his birth year should be 2000.

Continuity

 * Cartman once again mentions Casa Bonita, where Clyde's birthday party is taking place.
 * This is the second episode in which Wendy has behaved erratically and unbalanced in regards to her relationship with Stan. The first time was in Tom's Rhinoplasty.