History Fanfic / TheBalladOfStootAndArgyle

* NewMediaAreEvil: Terrance apparently only owns a cell phone. Cartman's extremely bothered by his lack of a {{Facebook}}, among other social media.

* RefugeInVulgarity / ToiletHumor: It's heavily implied that Terrance and Phillip's cable access show is fueled by this, the two of them playing the role of MrFanservice, and {{Squick}}. The show is likened in-text to {{Series/Jackass}}.

* HoldMe: Phillip's attempts to comfort Terrance after the party.

[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/7824372/1/The_Ballad_of_Stoot_and_Argyle The Ballad of Stoot and Argyle]] is a WesternAnimation/SouthPark HighSchoolAU fanfiction written by Satine89 (aka Tropers/LargoQuagmire), focusing on an alternate universe where Terrance Stoot and Phillip Argyle are teenaged students at South Park High preparing for their senior year of schooling. Jump-starting the story is a giant party being thrown by the most popular girl in school, Bebe Stevens, which ends with Terrance confessing to Phillip that he's gay after Cartman plays a rather nasty prank on him. The pair's life quickly starts going haywire, with Terrance convinced that Eric is trying to do something horrible to him, and Phillip torn between [[HeterosexualLifePartners playing the part of a friend]] and [[BiTheWay acting on his romantic emotions.]] [[LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters And that's not counting how Eric's prank has affected the other students at the school...]]

* AlternateCharacterInterpretation: {{Invoked}}. [[spoiler: The page quote is Terrance weighing an alternate character interpretation of Cartman in the aftermath of agreeing to a "trial dating period" with him.]]

* CantActPervertedTowardALoveInterest: [[spoiler: Terrance made this, essentially, one of the three rules for his trial relationship with Cartman.]]

* FromBadToWorse: Terrance's last week of school, [[spoiler: until the trial relationship comes about.]]

* {{Gayngst}}: Terrance gets hit with this hard. None of the other gay characters [[spoiler: (Phillip, Cartman)]] are even remotely close to his level of Gayngst.
* GoodIsNotNice: The Goths embody this in differing ways. [[spoiler: And as Terrance finds out, Cartman [[TheAtoner has a bad reputation because of his past]], and is still extremely rough around the edges because of it.]]

* HeterosexualLifePartners: Terrance and Phillip. Except they're both gay. [[spoiler: And Phillip is unsure if he wants more from the relationship or not. And Terrance is in an iron closet.]]

* HorribleJudgeOfCharacter: Terrance definitely was in Canada, judging from his thoughts; judging from the page quote and his [[spoiler: burgeoning relationship with Cartman]], he might still be.

* JerkJock: Cartman. [[spoiler: Terrance comes to view it more as [[JerkWithAHeartOfGold Jerk Jock with a Heart of Gold]].]]

* MasterOfTheMixedMessage: Terrance. Justified; [[spoiler: this is Cartman he's dealing with, in addition to [[BrokenBird working through his past being abused in Canada.]]]]

* [[spoiler: OppositesAttract: Introverted, nerdy, mysterious Terrance... with loud, open, creepy Eric Cartman.]]

* StalkerWithACrush: [[spoiler: Cartman is really, REALLY bad at dating.]]
* StraightGay: [[spoiler: Cartman.]]

--> [[spoiler: '''Cartman''': Kiss me.]]

** In-universe, [[spoiler: Terrance's "...I think I'm falling for you" counts as one for Cartman.]]

* PhraseCatcher: Any time Terrance tries out a new expletive-laden insult, the recipient (usually Terrance or Eric) will invariably say "That's a new one" or something similar.

* [[JewsLoveToArgue Jews Love To Argue With Cartman]]

* ShoutOut: A CriticalResearchFailure on Terrance's part about WesternAnimation/BeavisAndButthead leads him to believe the duo is from [[AcceptableTargets Newfoundland]]. Music/FleetwoodMac is also extensively discussed during a pivotal scene, and Cartman apparently [[WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender mastered Firebending at some point in the past.]]

* ExtrovertedNerd: Phillip. Terrance has a harder time with it.

* DoorStopper: The eighteen chapters available cover about a month in time.

* OnlySaneMan: Wendy thinks that Dylan might be this for the Goths.

* ShoutOut: The aforementioned CriticalResearchFailure on Terrance's part about WesternAnimation/BeavisAndButthead. Music/FleetwoodMac is also extensively discussed during a pivotal scene, and Cartman apparently [[WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender mastered Firebending at some point in the past.]]

* DoorStopper: The seventeen chapters available cover, at most, a month in time.

* DidNotDoTheResearch: Terrance apparently thinks WesternAnimation/BeavisAndButthead are [[AcceptableTargets Newfoundlanders]]. Phillip doesn't call him out on it, so he might think the same.

* ParentalIssues:

* DoorStopper: The sixteen chapters available cover, at most, a month in time.

* DoorStopper: The fourteen chapters available cover, at most, a month in time.

* NoAccountingForTaste / [[WhatDoesSheSeeInHim What Does He See In Him?]]: Kenny invokes these two after the party. [[spoiler: In an inversion what everyone on earth would assume, he thinks Terrance is too crazy for Cartman.]]

* TroubledButCute: Basically the entire male cast, excepting Stan. Taken UpToEleven with Cartman, Terrance, and Kenny.

* TroubledButCute: [[BeyondTheImpossible Basically the entire male cast,]] excepting Stan. Taken UpToEleven with Cartman, Terrance, and Kenny.

* LoveDodecahedron: With the two title characters alone, [[spoiler: Terrance is unknowingly being chased after by Cartman, Karen McCormick, and Phillip. Phillip has a large fan contingent with the females at the school, and is himself in love with Bebe Stevens.]] In addition, Wendy thinks she might be stuck in one involving her and the Goth Kids, though Stan and Adam assure her that's just her own paranoia.

* CantActPervertedTowardsALoveInterest: [[spoiler: Terrance made this, essentially, one of the three rules for his trial relationship with Cartman.]]