Having spent time at the McCormick residence, Kyle wonders if one of their obligations as the Jewish faith is to give part of their earnings to Kenny's family.
While Gerald did not suggest doing harm to the McCormicks; when he reads Kyle's essay titled "The Final Solution"; he realizes the callousness of the earlier lecture.
The parents find the children and bring them back to the hospital; Kyle finally falls ill and passes out on the floor.
Club gave the episode mixed reviews, praising the fact that in addressing the economic disparity between the adults, the writers "brought up something troubling and irreconcilable in order to wring laughs from it, and they weren’t about to cheapen that with some half-assed little scene based on the lie that it might really be reassuring and easy to settle after all".
[1] In 2024, MovieWeb listed it as number 16 on its list of "17 Underrated South Park Episodes That Got Better with Age", describing it as "a great episode for showing early South Park's ability to make the boys' fundamental misunderstanding of a situation simultaneously provide a lesson for all involved".
[4] Digital Spy listed the episode on its "13 times South Park totally nailed video games", noting the presence of "an ageing ColecoVision in the corner of Kenny's living room",[5] which serves as a means of highlighting the character's lower economic status.