Scottsdale is a city northeast of Phoenix, in Arizona. In The Ungroundable, Scottsdale is described unanimously by the Goth Kids as “the most horrible, most miserable place on Earth”, in which they were considering appropriate places to FedEx Mike Makowski. Transylvania was suggested before by Michael, but was mentioned by Pete Thelman as “[a place in which Mike Makowski]'d probably see it as something to brag about someday to his little vampire buddies”.
Scottsdale was also afterward mentioned in Basic Cable as the place that Sophie Gray moved from to South Park, and in response Pete Thelman replied, “I love it there.”. This response is widely considered to be hypocritical[1], considering that he before considered Scottsdale to be “the most horrible, most miserable place on Earth” in The Ungroundable.