Stephen's co-worker, Josh Carter, is accidentally grabbed by a sorting robot and compressed into a small package, which Amazon blames on "human error."
Jeff Bezos, the founder and CEO of Amazon, appears at South Park City Hall, where he is depicted similarly to the lead Talosian from the original 1965 Star Trek pilot "The Cage".
Butters' friends, Kenny McCormick, Eric Cartman, Stan Marsh and Kyle Broflovski, are initially dismissive of his interest in the bike parade.
When the strike impedes their ability to buy accessories for their bikes, however, they go to the local mall, but find it dilapidated and populated solely by zombie-like employees who cannot provide the diverse inventory that online merchants offer.
Club gave the episode a grade of A-, and said of the political themes of the story, "Perhaps Trey and Matt realized the arguments they were making were more left-wing than what they had been previously known for".