History Creator / TreyParkerAndMattStone

** In addition to a noted dislike of the ''South Park'' video games made early in the show's run (one of which, for the UsefulNotes/{{Nintendo 64}}, managed to make a 2003 G4 list of "most spectacular failures"), Trey and Matt were [[http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/04/22/south-park-creators-respond/ not happy]] about the "201" censorship. Trey even threatened to quit the show afterward.

** They enjoy throwing in musical numbers into their works, due to their love of musical theater (similar to Creator/SethMacFarlane doing the same on his three animated sitcoms).

* CreatorBacklash: In addition to a noted dislike of the ''South Park'' video games made early in the show's run (one of which, for the UsefulNotes/{{Nintendo 64}}, managed to make a 2003 G4 list of "most spectacular failures"), Trey and Matt were [[http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/04/22/south-park-creators-respond/ not happy]] about the "201" censorship. Trey even threatened to quit the show afterward.

* OldShame:
** Trey and Matt feel this way about the show's first three seasons, as noted in an interview for ''Entertainment Weekly'', "it's just embarrassing to watch." In one of the commentaries on the season 3 [=DVDs=], the duo mentioned that they considered season 2 to be particularly bad.
** They're not too proud of their involvement with ''[=BASEketball=]''. Not only did they feel that [[LowestCommonDenominator its brand of humor]] was beneath them, but they only agreed to under the assumption that it was just something you did once you "made it" in show business, and that ''South Park'' would have been canceled by then anyway (it wasn't, resulting in very little sleep during production).

* PlayingAgainstType: Given [[Theatre/TheBookOfMormon their]] [[Film/TeamAmericaWorldPolice usual]] [[Franchise/SouthPark work]], Trey Parker taking up the role of Balthazar Bratt in a family-friendly movie like ''Film/DespicableMe3'' is a far cry from the duo's BlackComedy shtick.

** They like reasons to include UsefulNotes/{{Mormonism}} in their works. This includes a Mormon missionary as the main character in ''Orgazmo'', a ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'' episode ("All About Mormons") dedicated to the religion, and ''Theatre/TheBookOfMormon''.

** Trey Parker is an admitted Japanophile and actually knows the language, so you can pretty much expect any use of the Japanese language in their work to be some kind of BilingualBonus.

** Being big fans of Series/MontyPythonsFlyingCircus they have referenced the show and its style often in their work.

* AuthorTract: Much like how Creator/SethMacFarlane is an atheist liberal, Parker and Stone’s work often have themes of agnostic libertarianism.
* BadImpressionists: They deliberately put no effort in their celebrity voice impersonations, let alone the characterizations. Celebrities will appear in a way that is grossly exaggerated and often has little to do with their public image. As the famous "disclaimer" that prefixes every episode of South Park puts it: "All celebrity voices are impersonated.....poorly."

** Barbra Streisand once insulted the duo's home state of Colorado in an interview. They responded by depicting her as a robot destroying South Park in "Mecha-Streisand", and even her very name is a swear word in of itself in BLU. Bottom line: don't mess with Colorado!

* BigEater: In the behind-the-scenes ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'' documentary, Parker reveals that, when writing, he eats copious amounts of [=McDonald's=] food... [[AndADietCoke and a Coke Zero]].

* BreakthroughHit: It's because of ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'' that you know their names.
* TheCastShowoff: Both of them are capable singers, as seen in ''WesternAnimation/SouthParkBiggerLongerAndUncut'' and ''Film/CannibalTheMusical''. Trey can speak fluent Japanese, and on occasion Matt and Trey will speak Spanish.
* CloudCuckooLander: Parker and Stone are Real-Life examples as far as their writing goes. Seriously, many of the plots of various ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'' episodes simply [[ItMakesSenseInContext have to be seen to be believed.]]

* CreatorBacklash: In addition to a noted dislike of the ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'' video games made early in the show's run (one of which, for the UsefulNotes/{{Nintendo 64}}, managed to make a 2003 G4 list of "most spectacular failures"), Trey and Matt were [[http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/04/22/south-park-creators-respond/ not happy]] about the "201" censorship. Trey even threatened to quit the show afterward.
* CreatorBreakdown: Trey Parker had a hard time forgiving his ex for cheating on him and it shows in a lot of his work:

** ''Raisins'' (the season seven ''South Park'' episode where Stan turns Goth after Wendy breaks up with him and Butters thinks a waitress at a Hooters-style restaurant for kids actually likes him) may have been an indicator that Trey has since learned to let go and laugh about it... then ''The Ring'' (the season 13 premiere in which Kenny dates a fifth grader with a seedy reputation who gets Kenny to join a purity ring program after seeing The Jonas Brothers in concert) happened.

* CreatorsPest: Parker and Stone are noted as disliking the following characters:
** [[TheyKilledKennyAgain Kenny]] was KilledOffForReal because they were getting sick of him and finding new ways to kill him off. After a season of Butters, and later Tweek, filling his place, Kenny was brought back, though with a reduced role.[[note]]Which was Parker and Stone's [[WriterRevolt way of getting back]] at Creator/ComedyCentral for forcing them to reinstate the character; his death was originally meant to stick.[[/note]] They originally considered killing Kyle off, because they felt that he and Stan were interchangeable, but the pair have since undergone DivergentCharacterEvolution.
** [[MadScientist Dr. Mephisto]] was phased out because Parker and Stone stopped finding him funny. They felt that they should have got rid of him in "[[Recap/SouthParkS4E5CartmanJoinsNAMBLA Cartman Joins NAMBLA]]".
** Pip existed simply because Parker and Stone hated reading ''Literature/GreatExpectations''. Eventually, they realized that Butters fulfilled [[ThePollyanna his role]] better, and Pip was [[ChuckCunninghamSyndrome phased out]]. They brought him BackForTheDead in "201," mostly so that fans would stop asking what happened to him.

* HereWeGoAgain: They lost the Academy Award for Best Song to Music/PhilCollins at the 1999 Oscars (Collins won it for his songs in Creator/{{Disney}} Animation's newest [[Franchise/DisneyAnimatedCanon animated classic]], ''WesternAnimation/{{Tarzan}}''), then had to go up against [[Music/{{U2}} Bono and The Edge]] in the 65th Tony Awards, with Trey especially despising the idea of losing to both Phil Collins and Bono in one lifetime. They didn't, and won '''nine''' Tonies.
* HeterosexualLifePartners: The two have been friends since college. Stan and Kyle's relationship in ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'' makes this trope evident even more, considering the two are based on their creators (Stan being Trey and Kyle being Matt). It got to the point where, early on in their careers, people [[MistakenForGay assumed they were gay]], which was one of the factors in them not getting much work in Hollywood.
* MagnumOpusDissonance: Despite their hate for the show's first three seasons (with season 2 as so hated that they didn't even do audio commentary for it on the DVD set), Parker and Stone also state the second season episode "Not Without My Anus" (the episode that centered on Terrence and Phillip getting their child back from UsefulNotes/SaddamHussein) to be the only episode they liked from said era, because it was "something weird and different." Even stranger considering the episode generated a ''lot'' of fan backlash, and that the first three seasons are home to many of the show's most memorable episodes according to critics and fans.

** Trey and Matt feel this way about the show's first three seasons, as noted in an interview for Entertainment Weekly, "it's just embarrassing to watch." In one of the commentaries on the season 3 [=DVDs=], the duo mentioned that they considered season 2 to be particularly bad.
** They're not too proud of their involvement with ''Film/BASEketball''. Not only did they feel that [[LowestCommonDenominator its brand of humor]] was beneath them, but they only agreed to under the assumption that it was just something you did once you "made it" in show business, and that ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'' would have been canceled by then anyway (it wasn't, resulting in very little sleep during production).

* RefugeInAudacity: They are [[WordOfGod "Equal opportunity offenders"]] after all.
* RunningGag: Back in the early seasons when they introduced each episode of ''South Park'' at the beginning, they would refer to each episode as their favorite episode.
* SelfPlagiarism: Trey & Matt wrote the gag song "Montage" for an episode of ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'', but the same song was used in their completely unrelated movie ''Film/TeamAmericaWorldPolice''.

** Subverted with ''Theatre/TheBookOfMormon'', which looks just as professional as any other broadway musical.

** Apparently, Parker and Stone were at one point asked to write the sequel to ''Film/DumbAndDumber''. They were apparently so unsatisfied with their work [[ScrewTheMoneyIHaveRules they wrote a check to the production company so they could return the money they were paid]].
** They were also set to write a film called "My All-American" at one point, as well as one titled "Giant Monsters Attack Japan!". Both projects fell through, as they remembered how burnt out they got on ''Team America'', as well as wanting to focus more on ''South Park'' and (eventually) ''The Book of Mormon''.
*** Interestingly, "Giant Monsters Attack Japan!" would've been the first production of theirs that would've been [[SoMyKidsCanWatch appropriate for children]], as they were aiming for a PG-rating.

* NotSoAboveItAll: They've actually been involved in celebrity causes (notably the [=WM3=] case involving three teenagers falsely convicted of murder); though in fairness, it later turned out that the kids ''were'' innocent.

* BadImpressionists: They deliberately put no effort in their celebrity voice impersonations, let alone the characterizations. Celebrities will appear in a way that is grossly exaggerated and often has little to do with their public image.

* ''Theatre/TheBookOfMormon''
* ''Princess'', a very explicit web cartoon that lasted two episodes around the life of a dog
* ''Sassy Justice'', [[https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCi38HMIvRpGgMJ0Tlm1WYdw a webseries]] starring a deepfake of UsefulNotes/DonaldTrump as the titular consumer reporter, featuring deepfakes of other politicians like UsefulNotes/AlGore

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* "Even If You Don't" music video by Music/{{Ween}}

* ''WebVideo/SassyJustice'', [[https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCi38HMIvRpGgMJ0Tlm1WYdw a webseries]] starring a deepfake of UsefulNotes/DonaldTrump as the titular consumer reporter, featuring deepfakes of other politicians like UsefulNotes/AlGore