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** Jesus as well. He used to be featured a lot more in the earlier seasons and had his own talk show. In fact, he used to be the star of the early shorts. Although he still appears occasionally from time to time, he isn't as prominent as before and his talk show disappeared. Satan also became less prominent.
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*** The punchline is that he probably really meant it since [[spoiler: he'd just wake up in bed a little later anyway.]]
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* CreditsGag: In "Trapped in the Closet", after Stan [[LeaningOnTheFourthWall challenges [Happy]ology to sue him]], the credits come up, identifying every single person who worked on the episode as John Smith or Jane Smith.
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* ClapYourHandsIfYouBelieve: Spoofed. When "CartmanBrah" is trending so much he might take over the world, Ike and the other little kids beg us to trend "I Believe In Him", to summon the one who can save us all - PewDiePie.
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* TheBet: Kyle and Cartman have made several bets over the course of the series over whether or not certain outlandish things are real (like being able to crap out your mouth, or that people shit themselves when they die, or if leprechauns are real). [[ArbitrarySkepticism Kyle]] usually loses these bets when they do turn out to be true.
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** In "The Poor Kid", the Agnostic foster parents make an offhand mention of a giant reptilian bird that could be an omnipotent being (complete with a poster expressing its potential existence). It shows up at the end of the episode [[BigLippedAlligatorMoment tearing a hole in the school,]] [[TheyKilledKenny eating Kenny,]] [[BigLippedAlligatorMoment and then disappears]].
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** In "The Poor Kid", the Agnostic foster parents make an offhand mention of a giant reptilian bird that could be an omnipotent being (complete with a poster expressing its potential existence). It shows up at the end of the episode [[BigLippedAlligatorMoment tearing a hole in the school,]] [[TheyKilledKenny [[TheyKilledKennyAgain eating Kenny,]] [[BigLippedAlligatorMoment and then disappears]].
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* CrushParade: [[TheyKilledKenny Kenny's first ever death]] on ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'' sees him blasted onto a road by an alien raygun, trampled by a herd of stampeding cows, and the killing blow comes when he's run over by Officer Barbrady's police cruiser. After that, his body is eaten by rats.
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* CrushParade: [[TheyKilledKenny [[TheyKilledKennyAgain Kenny's first ever death]] on ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'' sees him blasted onto a road by an alien raygun, trampled by a herd of stampeding cows, and the killing blow comes when he's run over by Officer Barbrady's police cruiser. After that, his body is eaten by rats.
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* AllegedlyFreeGame: The Terrence and Phillip game app in "Freemium Isn't Free". Stan becomes addicted to it and spends several thousand dollars on in-game currency.
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Art Shift=temporary art change. The opening sequence has been in 3D since the start of season 17 (and is therefore not specific to \"A Song of Ass and Fire\").
** The opening sequence in particular changed a lot over the years, and since season 17 is shot entirely in 3D.
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** The best example would probably have to be from one of the newest episodes "A Song of Ass and Fire" where the opening sequence is shot entirely in 3D. It is glorious especially considering South Park has not attempted anything of that magnitude ever!
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** The best example would probably have to be from one of the newest episodes "A Song of Ass and Fire" where the opening sequence is shot entirely in 3D. It is glorious especially considering South Park has not attempted anything of that magnitude ever!
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* ArtStyleDissonance: You wouldn't expect a paper-cutout show to be like this...
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* AbsenteeActor: None of the main boys appear at all in "Not Without My Anus", "Pip", and "A Million Little Fibers". There have also been a few episodes were one or some of the boys are absent throughout.
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* AbsenteeActor: None of the main boys appear at all in "Not Without My Anus", "Pip", and "A Million Little Fibers".Fibers", and "Handicar". There have also been a few episodes were one or some of the boys are absent throughout.
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** Season 18 seems to be pushing[[note]]Ya ya ya, I am [[Music/{{Lorde}}]][[/note]] for this, with each episode referencing events of previous episodes of the season, but not strongly enough to be a true multi-episode story arc so far.
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** Season 18 seems to be pushing[[note]]Ya ya ya, I am [[Music/{{Lorde}}]][[/note]] Music/{{Lorde}}[[/note]] for this, with each episode referencing events of previous episodes of the season, but not strongly enough to be a true multi-episode story arc so far.
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** Season 18 seems to be pushing[[note]]Ya ya ya, I am [[Music/{{Lorde}}]][[/note]] for this, with each episode referencing events of previous episodes of the season, but not strongly enough to be a true multi-episode story arc so far.
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* DarkIsEvil{=/=]DarkIsNotEvil: Satan is a bit of both. Although he's a physical embodiment of evil, his persona is far from it under most circumstances, and he's a rather [[AffablyEvil friendly]], sensitive PunchClockVillain.
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* DarkIsEvil{=/=]DarkIsNotEvil: DarkIsEvil[=/=]DarkIsNotEvil: Satan is a bit of both. Although he's a physical embodiment of evil, his persona is far from it under most circumstances, and he's a rather [[AffablyEvil friendly]], sensitive PunchClockVillain.
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* DeceptivelyHumanRobots: NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell in "Go Fund Yourself".
-->'''Dan Snyder:''' Is the league just going to sit by while my team and my players are compared to ISIS? You have to do something, Commissioner Goodell! What are you going to do about this?!\\
'''Goodell:''' ''(voice obviously sampled)'' I will get it right, and do whatever is necessary to accomplish that.\\
'''Snyder:''' What?\\
'''Goodell:''' We will continue to identify and add expertise to our team.\\
'''Snyder:''' That's the most ridiculous nothing answer I've ever heard! What are you gonna do now?!\\
'''Goodell:''' Everyone will participate in education sessions starting in the next month.\\
'''Snyder:''' Ugh, this thing is broken.\\
'''Goodell:''' We can add... and we will [[BrokenRecord do more... do more... do more...]] ''(breaks down)''\\
'''Snyder:''' Get all the NFL owners on Skype -- this thing is broken again!
-->'''Dan Snyder:''' Is the league just going to sit by while my team and my players are compared to ISIS? You have to do something, Commissioner Goodell! What are you going to do about this?!\\
'''Goodell:''' ''(voice obviously sampled)'' I will get it right, and do whatever is necessary to accomplish that.\\
'''Snyder:''' What?\\
'''Goodell:''' We will continue to identify and add expertise to our team.\\
'''Snyder:''' That's the most ridiculous nothing answer I've ever heard! What are you gonna do now?!\\
'''Goodell:''' Everyone will participate in education sessions starting in the next month.\\
'''Snyder:''' Ugh, this thing is broken.\\
'''Goodell:''' We can add... and we will [[BrokenRecord do more... do more... do more...]] ''(breaks down)''\\
'''Snyder:''' Get all the NFL owners on Skype -- this thing is broken again!
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*** However this was lifted as of "The F Word" and so characters straight AND gay can say "fag" without being bleeped... but it still doesn't answer if Jimbo's gay or not.
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* AchievementsInIgnorance: In "The Wacky Molestation Adventure", Kyle's mother tells him he can only go to the [[FakeBand Raging Pussies]] concert if he takes out the trash, shovels the driveway, and brings democracy to Cuba. Taking it literally, Kyle writes a heartfelt letter to Fidel Castro (complete with song), and Castro is so touched he ends the communist dictatorship. Kyle gets ''pissed'' when his parents still forbid him to go to the concert because they deliberately gave him a task that they thought was impossible.
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* AchievementsInIgnorance: In "The Wacky Molestation Adventure", Kyle's mother tells him he can only go to the [[FakeBand Raging Pussies]] concert if he takes out the trash, shovels the driveway, and brings democracy to Cuba. Taking it literally, Kyle writes a heartfelt letter to Fidel Castro (complete with song), and Castro is so touched he ends the communist dictatorship. Kyle gets ''pissed'' when his parents still forbid him to go to the concert because they deliberately gave him a [[SnipeHunt task that they thought was impossible.impossible]].
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* DarkIsEvil{=/=]DarkIsNotEvil: Satan provides a bit of both; although he's a physical embodiment of evil, his persona is far from it under most circumstances; usually he's a rather [[AffablyEvil friendly]], sensitive PunchClockVillain.
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* DarkIsEvil{=/=]DarkIsNotEvil: Satan provides is a bit of both; although both. Although he's a physical embodiment of evil, his persona is far from it under most circumstances; usually circumstances, and he's a rather [[AffablyEvil friendly]], sensitive PunchClockVillain.
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* BreadEggsMilkSquick: The stuff Trent Boyett had on his person when he first arrived in juvenile hall: a pack of crayons, safety scissors, a marble, [[KnifeNut and a knife.]]
* BreakTheMotivationalSpeaker: Cartman with just about every reality show nanny type in "Tsss"
** Stan does this in "The Biggest Douche in the Universe" by calling out the trick behind the trick.
* BreakingTheFourthWall: "This is just like when we got our money back for ''Baseketball''."
* BreakTheMotivationalSpeaker: Cartman with just about every reality show nanny type in "Tsss"
** Stan does this in "The Biggest Douche in the Universe" by calling out the trick behind the trick.
* BreakingTheFourthWall: "This is just like when we got our money back for ''Baseketball''."
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* BreadEggsMilkSquick: The stuff Trent Boyett had on his person when he first arrived in juvenile hall: hall after being framed by Stan, Kyle, Kenny and Cartman for a fire that horribly injured their pre-school teacher: a pack of crayons, safety scissors, a marble, [[KnifeNut and a knife.knife]] [[OhCrap with "Kill All Betrayers" written on the blade.]]
* BreakTheMotivationalSpeaker: Cartman with just about every reality show nanny type in"Tsss"
"Tsst".
** He literally causes a motivational speaker to lose his cool (read: flip shit) on him after laughing at him and cracking jokes at his expense because he happened to be a dwarf in "With Apologies to Jesse Jackson".
** Stan does this in "The Biggest Douche in the Universe" bycalling out the trick behind the trick.
exposing how psychics work...and somehow [[SpringtimeForHitler winds up with his own show because people think he's a psychic as well]].
* BreakingTheFourthWall: "This is just like when we got our money back for''Baseketball''.''BASEketball''."
* BreakTheMotivationalSpeaker: Cartman with just about every reality show nanny type in
** He literally causes a motivational speaker to lose his cool (read: flip shit) on him after laughing at him and cracking jokes at his expense because he happened to be a dwarf in "With Apologies to Jesse Jackson".
** Stan does this in "The Biggest Douche in the Universe" by
* BreakingTheFourthWall: "This is just like when we got our money back for
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** In "The Poor Kid", the Agnostic foster parents make an offhand mention of a giant reptilian bird. It shows up at the end of the episode to deliver some [[LaserGuidedKarma Karmic]] [[TheyKilledKenny (In)]][[LaserGuidedKarma Justice]].
** In "The Biggest Douche in the Universe" Stan insults John Edward, telling him he nominates him [[ExactlyWhatItSaysontheTin biggest douche in the universe]]. The conclusion of the story is a DeusExMachina where aliens take away John Edward.
** In "Chef's Chocolate Salty Balls", upon learning that a film festival only screens independent movies, Cartman stands by his viewpoint that independent movies are about nothing else than "gay cowboys eating pudding". It seems as though this goes unheeded, as the first movie Stan and Wendy attend for their paper is about lesbians, but around twelve minutes in, there is a big gathering at the Bijou theater for what the director calls a "visionary new motion picture". Said visionary motion picture is about, and is [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin titled]], "Gay Cowboys Eating Pudding." Though, due to plot conveniences, this movie is never shown.
** In "The Biggest Douche in the Universe" Stan insults John Edward, telling him he nominates him [[ExactlyWhatItSaysontheTin biggest douche in the universe]]. The conclusion of the story is a DeusExMachina where aliens take away John Edward.
** In "Chef's Chocolate Salty Balls", upon learning that a film festival only screens independent movies, Cartman stands by his viewpoint that independent movies are about nothing else than "gay cowboys eating pudding". It seems as though this goes unheeded, as the first movie Stan and Wendy attend for their paper is about lesbians, but around twelve minutes in, there is a big gathering at the Bijou theater for what the director calls a "visionary new motion picture". Said visionary motion picture is about, and is [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin titled]], "Gay Cowboys Eating Pudding." Though, due to plot conveniences, this movie is never shown.
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** In "The Poor Kid", the Agnostic foster parents make an offhand mention of a giant reptilian bird. bird that could be an omnipotent being (complete with a poster expressing its potential existence). It shows up at the end of the episode to deliver some [[LaserGuidedKarma Karmic]] [[BigLippedAlligatorMoment tearing a hole in the school,]] [[TheyKilledKenny (In)]][[LaserGuidedKarma Justice]].
eating Kenny,]] [[BigLippedAlligatorMoment and then disappears]].
** In "The Biggest Douche in the Universe" Stan insults John Edward, telling him he nominates him for the [[ExactlyWhatItSaysontheTin biggest douche in theuniverse]]. universe award]]. The conclusion of the story is a DeusExMachina where aliens take away John Edward.
Edward for an award ceremony for the "Biggest Douche in the Universe"(where he winds up competing with a literal giant douche, natch).
** In "Chef's Chocolate Salty Balls", upon learning that a film festival only screens independent movies, Cartman stands by his viewpoint that independent movies are about nothing else than "gay cowboys eating pudding". It seems as though this goes unheeded, as the first movie Stan and Wendy attend for their paper is about lesbians, but around twelve minutes in, there is a big gathering at the Bijou theater for what the director calls a "visionary new motion picture". Said visionary motion picture is about, and is [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin literally titled]], "Gay Cowboys Eating Pudding."Though, due Due to plot conveniences, this movie is never shown.shown, however Stan winds up vomiting at least twice upon watching it.
** In "The Biggest Douche in the Universe" Stan insults John Edward, telling him he nominates him for the [[ExactlyWhatItSaysontheTin biggest douche in the
** In "Chef's Chocolate Salty Balls", upon learning that a film festival only screens independent movies, Cartman stands by his viewpoint that independent movies are about nothing else than "gay cowboys eating pudding". It seems as though this goes unheeded, as the first movie Stan and Wendy attend for their paper is about lesbians, but around twelve minutes in, there is a big gathering at the Bijou theater for what the director calls a "visionary new motion picture". Said visionary motion picture is about, and is [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin literally titled]], "Gay Cowboys Eating Pudding."
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* DoubleMeaning: [[spoiler:Principal Victoria uses the metaphor of her own fight with breast cancer]] to encourage Wendy to [[NoHoldsBarredBeatDown give Cartman what he has coming]] during ''The Breast Cancer Show Ever''.
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** Cartman himself has quite a big one in "1%".
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** Cartman himself has quite a big one in "1%"."1%", which is [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] by his mother, who is watching:
--> Eric always has been a bit... dramatic... (Uneasy laugh)
--> Eric always has been a bit... dramatic... (Uneasy laugh)
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* BannedEpisode: ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'''s MilestoneCelebration episodes "200" and "201" only aired once, and cannot be accessed on the South Park Studios site either, especially in the wake of a death threat by a small Islamist group towards Creator/TreyParkerAndMattStone after the former aired. For 201, Creator/ComedyCentral censored even mentions of Muhammad, as well as Kyle's entire monologue relating to giving in to fear, while Parker and Stone were not allowed to disclose the details of said monologue. The censors still remain for DVD versions of the episode, and the two episodes never aired on syndication since then. Relatedly, although it never stirred controversy when it aired, "Super Best Friends" can no longer be syndicated for similar reasons.
** The ban on "200"/"201" also extends to several foreign language adaptations of the series. In particular, the director of the French dub had stated that it is highly unlikely they'd be translated due to requiring even more dialogue censorship.
** At least seven episodes have been banned in the Japanese version to date (the dub has yet to get to "200"/"201"):
*** "Terrance and Phillip in: Not Without My Anus" was skipped in the second season. [[TheOtherWiki A Japanese version of the Other Wiki]] had speculated it was due to Saddam Hussein's appearance, although the fact that the episode caused controversy on its original airing (due to delaying the reveal of Cartman's father) and is mostly seen as a gag/filler episode could have also played a part. It was later included on the DVD box sets.
*** "Chinpokomon" was completely banned (and thus not available on DVD) due to mockery of the Japanese and Emperor Hirohito, including a plot point where the Japanese were brainwashing the children to bomb Pearl Harbor.
*** "Do the Handicapped Go to Hell?" and "Probably" were not dubbed by WOWOW for season 4. While the official reasons were not stated, the popular theory is that the references to Christianity and the Western concepts of the afterlife would have been considered too confusing for viewers. The episodes did later make it on to the DVD releases, but were left in the original English version with Japanese subtitles.
*** "A Ladder to Heaven" was banned when WOWOW began broadcasting of season 6, as it contained more mockery of the Japanese and had again included heavy references to Christianity. Even so, a clip from the episode was retained in their dub of "Casa Bonita".
*** "Krazy Kripples" was to be aired in the dub of season 7, but was pulled from broadcast due to the death of Christopher Reeve (who had been the villain in the episode).
*** "Two Days Before the Day After Tomorrow" was banned in FOX Japan's broadcast of season 9, due to the fact that it would have come after the 2011 earthquake and tsunami and would be TooSoon for it parodying disasters.
*** Expect this treatment of the episode "Whale Whores" for the depiction of the Japanese being fooled by post-war Americans by a picture of a whale and dolphin flying the Enola Gay, implying that the marine creatures were responsible for the nuclear destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. [[spoiler: The Japanese completely buy it, which is the reason they have been hunting whales and dolphins despite international condemnation.]]
** The Spanish-language dub aired in the Latin American markets has had its own cases of banned episodes. Aside from "200" and "201" (which were already banned for international adaptations and DVD box sets), there are at least eight other cases to date:
*** "Rainforest Schmainforest" was banned late in the game in 2011 (several years after it was dubbed), due to its mockery of Costa Rica. A toned-down redub was produced as a way of getting the ban lifted for it to air again.
*** "Free Willzyx" and "The Last of the Meheecans" were initially left completely banned and untranslated due to their mockery of Mexicans, although these bans would wind up lifted for the DVD releases for each season.
*** "Pinewood Derby" would have been aired on MTV, but the portrayal of Felipe Calderon wound up getting the episode banned before it was broadcast.
*** A few episodes of season 6 have been banned by MTV Latinoamerica in reruns of the series (with the season having originally aired on Locomotion). The official reasons remain unstated, but the episodes include "Freak Strike", "Child Abduction Is Not Funny", "A Ladder To Heaven", and "The Death Camp of Tolerance".
** The original Italian dub by SEFIT-CDC Group banned and left three season 4 episodes untranslated: "Cartman Joins NAMBLA" (due to Kenny attempting to force an abortion on his mother, as well as references to pedophilia with NAMBLA), "Do The Handicapped Go To Hell?", and "Probably" (both due to mockery of Catholicism).
** The ban on "200"/"201" also extends to several foreign language adaptations of the series. In particular, the director of the French dub had stated that it is highly unlikely they'd be translated due to requiring even more dialogue censorship.
** At least seven episodes have been banned in the Japanese version to date (the dub has yet to get to "200"/"201"):
*** "Terrance and Phillip in: Not Without My Anus" was skipped in the second season. [[TheOtherWiki A Japanese version of the Other Wiki]] had speculated it was due to Saddam Hussein's appearance, although the fact that the episode caused controversy on its original airing (due to delaying the reveal of Cartman's father) and is mostly seen as a gag/filler episode could have also played a part. It was later included on the DVD box sets.
*** "Chinpokomon" was completely banned (and thus not available on DVD) due to mockery of the Japanese and Emperor Hirohito, including a plot point where the Japanese were brainwashing the children to bomb Pearl Harbor.
*** "Do the Handicapped Go to Hell?" and "Probably" were not dubbed by WOWOW for season 4. While the official reasons were not stated, the popular theory is that the references to Christianity and the Western concepts of the afterlife would have been considered too confusing for viewers. The episodes did later make it on to the DVD releases, but were left in the original English version with Japanese subtitles.
*** "A Ladder to Heaven" was banned when WOWOW began broadcasting of season 6, as it contained more mockery of the Japanese and had again included heavy references to Christianity. Even so, a clip from the episode was retained in their dub of "Casa Bonita".
*** "Krazy Kripples" was to be aired in the dub of season 7, but was pulled from broadcast due to the death of Christopher Reeve (who had been the villain in the episode).
*** "Two Days Before the Day After Tomorrow" was banned in FOX Japan's broadcast of season 9, due to the fact that it would have come after the 2011 earthquake and tsunami and would be TooSoon for it parodying disasters.
*** Expect this treatment of the episode "Whale Whores" for the depiction of the Japanese being fooled by post-war Americans by a picture of a whale and dolphin flying the Enola Gay, implying that the marine creatures were responsible for the nuclear destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. [[spoiler: The Japanese completely buy it, which is the reason they have been hunting whales and dolphins despite international condemnation.]]
** The Spanish-language dub aired in the Latin American markets has had its own cases of banned episodes. Aside from "200" and "201" (which were already banned for international adaptations and DVD box sets), there are at least eight other cases to date:
*** "Rainforest Schmainforest" was banned late in the game in 2011 (several years after it was dubbed), due to its mockery of Costa Rica. A toned-down redub was produced as a way of getting the ban lifted for it to air again.
*** "Free Willzyx" and "The Last of the Meheecans" were initially left completely banned and untranslated due to their mockery of Mexicans, although these bans would wind up lifted for the DVD releases for each season.
*** "Pinewood Derby" would have been aired on MTV, but the portrayal of Felipe Calderon wound up getting the episode banned before it was broadcast.
*** A few episodes of season 6 have been banned by MTV Latinoamerica in reruns of the series (with the season having originally aired on Locomotion). The official reasons remain unstated, but the episodes include "Freak Strike", "Child Abduction Is Not Funny", "A Ladder To Heaven", and "The Death Camp of Tolerance".
** The original Italian dub by SEFIT-CDC Group banned and left three season 4 episodes untranslated: "Cartman Joins NAMBLA" (due to Kenny attempting to force an abortion on his mother, as well as references to pedophilia with NAMBLA), "Do The Handicapped Go To Hell?", and "Probably" (both due to mockery of Catholicism).
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** The ban on "200"/"201" also extends to several foreign language adaptations of the series. In particular, the director of the French dub had stated that it is highly unlikely they'd be translated due to requiring even more dialogue censorship.
** At least seven episodes have been banned in the Japanese version to date (the dub has yet to get to "200"/"201"):
*** "Terrance and Phillip in: Not Without My Anus" was skipped in the second season. [[TheOtherWiki A Japanese version of the Other Wiki]] had speculated it was due to Saddam Hussein's appearance, although the fact that the episode caused controversy on its original airing (due to delaying the reveal of Cartman's father) and is mostly seen as a gag/filler episode could have also played a part. It was later included on the DVD box sets.
*** "Chinpokomon" was completely banned (and thus not available on DVD) due to mockery of the Japanese and Emperor Hirohito, including a plot point where the Japanese were brainwashing the children to bomb Pearl Harbor.
*** "Do the Handicapped Go to Hell?" and "Probably" were not dubbed by WOWOW for season 4. While the official reasons were not stated, the popular theory is that the references to Christianity and the Western concepts of the afterlife would have been considered too confusing for viewers. The episodes did later make it on to the DVD releases, but were left in the original English version with Japanese subtitles.
*** "A Ladder to Heaven" was banned when WOWOW began broadcasting of season 6, as it contained more mockery of the Japanese and had again included heavy references to Christianity. Even so, a clip from the episode was retained in their dub of "Casa Bonita".
*** "Krazy Kripples" was to be aired in the dub of season 7, but was pulled from broadcast due to the death of Christopher Reeve (who had been the villain in the episode).
*** "Two Days Before the Day After Tomorrow" was banned in FOX Japan's broadcast of season 9, due to the fact that it would have come after the 2011 earthquake and tsunami and would be TooSoon for it parodying disasters.
*** Expect this treatment of the episode "Whale Whores" for the depiction of the Japanese being fooled by post-war Americans by a picture of a whale and dolphin flying the Enola Gay, implying that the marine creatures were responsible for the nuclear destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. [[spoiler: The Japanese completely buy it, which is the reason they have been hunting whales and dolphins despite international condemnation.]]
** The Spanish-language dub aired in the Latin American markets has had its own cases of banned episodes. Aside from "200" and "201" (which were
*** "Rainforest Schmainforest" was banned late in the game in 2011 (several years after it was dubbed), due to its mockery of Costa Rica. A toned-down redub was produced as
*** "Free Willzyx" and "The Last of the Meheecans" were initially left completely banned and untranslated due to their mockery of Mexicans, although these bans would wind up lifted for the DVD releases for each season.
*** "Pinewood Derby" would have been aired on MTV, but the portrayal of Felipe Calderon wound up getting the episode banned before it was broadcast.
*** A few episodes of season 6 have been banned by MTV Latinoamerica in reruns of the series (with the season having originally aired on Locomotion). The official reasons remain unstated, but the episodes include "Freak Strike", "Child Abduction Is Not Funny", "A Ladder To Heaven", and "The Death Camp of Tolerance".
** The original Italian dub by SEFIT-CDC Group banned and left three season 4 episodes untranslated: "Cartman Joins NAMBLA" (due to Kenny attempting to force an abortion on his mother, as well as references to pedophilia with NAMBLA), "Do The Handicapped Go To Hell?", and "Probably" (both due to mockery of Catholicism).
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* DawsonCasting
** The episode "I Should Have Never Gone Ziplining" features a live action segment with all four boys portrayed by actors clearly in their mid-twenties.
** All children, excluding Ike and similarly aged toddlers, are portrayed by Trey Parker, Matt Stone, and other adult voice actors with their voices sped up or simply imitating child like voices.
** The episode "I Should Have Never Gone Ziplining" features a live action segment with all four boys portrayed by actors clearly in their mid-twenties.
** All children, excluding Ike and similarly aged toddlers, are portrayed by Trey Parker, Matt Stone, and other adult voice actors with their voices sped up or simply imitating child like voices.
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* BreakoutCharacter: Butters, Randy and Jimmy.
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* BreakoutCharacter: BreakoutCharacter:
** Cartman has pretty much become the most prominent character in the show thanks to his sociopathic JerkAss tendencies (similar to [[WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy Stewie Griffin]] and [[WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}} Bender]]).
** Butters, Randy andJimmy.Jimmy were minor characters that got a bigger role due to their popularity.
** Cartman has pretty much become the most prominent character in the show thanks to his sociopathic JerkAss tendencies (similar to [[WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy Stewie Griffin]] and [[WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}} Bender]]).
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* AbhorrentAdmirer: In "Cartman Finds Love," this is Cartman's LaserGuidedKarma for conspiring to [[TheMatchmaker set up]] a TokenMinorityCouple because "people who look the same belong together".
* AbsenteeActor: None of the main boys appear at all in "Not Without My Anus", "Pip", and "A Million Little Fibers". There have also been a few episodes were one or some of the boys are absent throughout.
* AbsurdlyIneffectiveBarricade: In Butt Out. Believing Kyle is going to sneak behind his back to steal the commercial position for the Anti-Smoking team, Cartman sneaks into Kyle's house to nail his bedroom door at night. It turns out not only was Kyle just getting back to his room after getting a glass of water, but the door opened the other way. This still didn't stop Cartman from boarding up the door once Kyle went into his room.
** The Shitty Wall built to keep outsiders out of South Park because they will kidnap their children. Goddamn Mongorians!
*** Which is another poke at history: The townspeople hire the only Chinese member of their town to build the wall to keep out Mongolians, because they have so much experience doing so.
* AbsurdlyPowerfulStudentCouncil: Subverted and parodied in "Dances With Smurfs", and played straight in some episodes.
* AbusiveParents:
** Butters's parents, who will ground him for ''anything,'' including looking silly in his school pictures, even though he wasn't doing anything wrong. Once he was locked in the basement at the end of one episode, and was tellingly absent from the next episode, suggesting he may have been kept down there for up to a week. He sees his father as a kind of grounding-monster, suggesting that the beatings he has mentioned on occasion are more frequent than he lets on. Oh, and there was that whole bit about his mother [[spoiler: [[MoralEventHorizon attempting to murder him]] ]] in his very own episode. With the reveal that even [[spoiler: his grandmother bullies him]], it appears that Child Abuse runs in the Stoch family.
** {{Subverted|Trope}} with Mr. Garrison in "World Wide Recorder Concert": he's shown to have issues with his father for reasons of sexual molestation, but it turns out that he's upset because his father ''didn't'' abuse him.
** The [=McCormick=] kids' ''[[spoiler:strictly]]'' agnostic foster parents in "The Poor Kid".
** Clyde's mother according to "Reverse Cowgirl". Her public humiliation of her son over the toilet seat makes you have to rethink Kyle's mom as the biggest bitch in the whole wide world. Lucky for him, [[spoiler:[[KarmicDeath she dies near the end of the first act by falling into the toilet, because he left the seat up]].]]
** SouthParkTheStickOfTruth revealed that the Tweaks send their ten year old son [[spoiler:to a meth lab]] frequently for deliveries, and constantly have him drink the coffee that they've [[spoiler:put meth into]].
* AccidentalArt: "The Tale of Scrotie [=McBoogerballs=]" was a deliberate TakeThat at this along with TrueArtIsIncomprehensible.
* AccidentalMisnaming:
** One of the teenage skiers in the "Asspen" episode kept referring to Stan Marsh as [[IncrediblyLamePun "Stan Darsh"]]. Even his friends eventually found it annoying.
** One of the rare occasion where the german dub is better - it's Stan ''Arsch''.
*** [[BilingualBonus ...Stan Ass?]]
** His grampa also always calls him "Billy".
** My name's not Kenny!
-->'''Stan:''' "Come on, Kenny."
-->'''Butters:''' "Well I've had about enough of this! My name's not Kenny."
-->'''Kyle:''' "C'mon, Not Kenny"
-->'''Butters:''' "My name's not Not Kenny.'"
-->'''Cartman:''' "Okay, Not Not Kenny."
** From "The Poor Kid":
-->'''Cartman:''' "Laugh it up, people! Carman's mom is so poor that when she goes to KFC she has to lick other people's fingers. Ha! I beat you to it "Keeyal"!"
-->'''Kyle:''' "My name... is not... 'Keeyal'."
*** Done again with Cartman's foster mom.
---->"My name... is not... 'Meeeeym'"
* AchievementsInIgnorance: In "The Wacky Molestation Adventure", Kyle's mother tells him he can only go to the [[FakeBand Raging Pussies]] concert if he takes out the trash, shovels the driveway, and brings democracy to Cuba. Taking it literally, Kyle writes a heartfelt letter to Fidel Castro (complete with song), and Castro is so touched he ends the communist dictatorship. Kyle gets ''pissed'' when his parents still forbid him to go to the concert because they deliberately gave him a task that they thought was impossible.
* AcquiredSituationalNarcissism: "The List", when Clyde becomes a tool when he thinks the girls in school think he's the hottest looking boy.
** There are many episodes where Cartman thought he was living this trope, except what he thought made him "better" than the other kids was completely incorrect.
** Butters, who is usually the NiceGuy in the show, has this happen in one episode where he gets his first kiss, which leads to him [[ItMakesSenseInContext becoming a pimp]]. Stan and Kyle, who stuck up for him at the beginning of the episode, become concerned with his new attitude, but Butters brushes Kyle off.
--->'''Kyle:''' Butters, can't you see this is wrong? You've got little boys all over school spending all their lunch money on kisses. Boys shouldn't be paying for kisses. It's wrong.
--->'''Butters:''' Kyle, every boy pays for kisses. Do you know what I am saying? If you've got a girl, and she kisses you, sooner or later you're paying for it. You've gotta take her out to lunch, take her to a movie, and then spend time listenin' to all her stupid problems. Look, look at Stan right there. Why he's gotta sit there and listen to her stupid [[PrecisionFStrike motherf**kin']] problems 'cause she kisses him. If you ask me, that's a lot more than the five dollars my company charges.
--->'''Kyle:''' [[LampshadeHanging Butters, what's happened to you?]]
--->'''Butters:''' What happened is that I became a man! I'm sorry I'm not your little buddy anymore, but there's a time people have to grow up! [[RunningGag Do you know what I am saying?!]]
* AcronymConfusion: "Cartman Joins NAMBLA" involves confusion between the North American Man/Boy Love Association and National Association of Marlon Brando Look-Alikes.
* ActBreak: During Seasons 1-4 the show had four acts to each episode, though the fourth one was usually TheTag. The TV pilot had a weird case, with ''five'' acts (the additional break occurring during the forest scene, right before Chef appears). From "The Death Camp of Tolerance" onward, it switched to the usual three acts.
* ActionGirlfriend: Based on her fight with Cartman in season 12, Wendy might grow up into one.
* ActivistFundamentalistAntics: One episode ended with a ban on secular Christmas as well as religious Christmas, all thanks to Kyle's mother. The only song left for the kids to sing for Christmas was "Kyle's Mom is a Big Fat Bitch" (in D minor, no less).
* ActuallyPrettyFunny: From "Imaginationland Part 1": "Say what you want about Creator/MelGibson, but the son-of-a-bitch knows story structure!" (After [[{{Squick}} their]] [[FullFrontalAssault previous]] [[AxCrazy portrayal]] of Mel, very sporting indeed.)
* AdBreakDoubleTake: Stan aiming a gun at a disguised Cartman in "Volcano".
** The bus splitting in two and falling off a cliff in "City on the Edge of Forever".
* AddedAlliterativeAppeal:
** The "Allied Atheist Alliance" from "Go God, Go!"
--->"That way it has three "A"s! That is the logical choice!"
** The "Secret Society of Cynics" in "Ass Burgers". Since their name never appears in written form (aside from non-canonical closed captions), it's possible to [[SpellMyNameWithAnS spell "Cynics" with an "S"]].
** Bucky Baily's Bully Buckers, {{trade|snark}}mark.
* AddictionPowered: Subverted. Towelie thinks that marijuana makes him smarter and more creative. On at least one occasion, WesternAnimation/{{Popeye}}'s ThemeMusicPowerUp plays while Towelie is lighting up. But once Towelie gets high...he does what every pot-head does while high, which is to say absolutely nothing.
* AdmiringTheAbomination: Cartman only works with Cthulhu because of his ability to strike terror and misery into people he hates... and his friends.
* AdultsAreUseless: Every adult in South Park and then some is a moron, even when they're ''not'' holding the IdiotBall. [[http://www.southparkstudios.com/clips/104377/i-learned-mongolian-in-college This clip]] pretty well sums it up. (You can skip the first minute of the clip.)
** Most of the kids are either too scared of their parents to tell them the truth about anything (Kyle and Butters), are pretty good at manipulation (Cartman and to a lesser extent Stan) or are completely ignored most of the time (Kenny).
** Randy Marsh. He is practically the king of this trope.
** Zig-zagged with Mr. Adams. He was the caseworker for the McCormick siblings when they are taken away from there parents, but he was obsessed with telling them bad Penn State jokes rather than help them adjust. When he learns of the foster family's abuse, he not only pulls the foster children out, but is [[HeroicBSOD deeply distraught]] for putting children in a bad environment. He does end up sending them back to their original homes, but only because he felt the system was too incompetent for people to want to use.
* AdventurerOutfit: Worn by the Super Adventure Club.
* AnAesop: many episodes end with a character delivering an aesop. Often this is Kyle or Stan starting with, "I learned something today..." Often times the aesop delivery is subverted in some way.
** In "Chinpokomon," Stan delivers an aesop to Kyle to stop him from bombing Pearl Harbor, saying he shouldn't conform. Kyle uses the aesop to justify going ahead with the bombing, so Stan delivers a second aesop completely contradicting his earlier speech.
** Another subversion is "The Entity", where the kids try to pull their usual "I've learned something today..." Aesop speech, only for it to die out several times when they realize that, no, they actually haven't learned anything this time.
** {{Defied|Trope}} in RealLife in "201" when the entire Aesop, spoken by three people, was bleeped out by the network prior to airing, which may be some of the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/201_%28South_Park%29#Statements_to_the_media saddest irony in the history of the show]].
** Intentionally rose to the same level of irony when Stan began with the usual opening, only for Kyle to interrupt with "No, no we didn't," and walk away.
* AffablyEvil: Satan is portrayed as this. He's certainly less evil than Cartman.
* AffectionateParody:
** "Osama Bin Laden Has Farty Pants" is a paean to the classic {{Wartime Cartoon}}s, especially Bugs Bunny's.
** In the "Coon and Friends" trilogy, this is done twice between Cartman and Cthulhu: one, a tribute to MyNeighborTotoro, and the other is a nod to the Chuck Jones cartoon "Feed the Kitty". The original "Coon" episode also parodies ''Film/TheDarkKnight'' in the beginning.
** The [[ArtShift "anime"]] episode "Good Times With Weapons". Someone had to have been an anime fan to be able to mock such GratuitousEnglish.
** A meta-example: the 20+ minute animation "Trey Gets Stoned" is one of both the show itself (seriously, the animation is indistinguishable) and Creator/TreyParkerAndMattStone. Not surprising, since it was made by several fans.
* AesopAmnesia: At the end of "Jewpacabra", Cartman had finally decided to get over his anti-semitism. Six episodes late he becomes half-traumatized when Kyle tells him the Jewish population is growing.
* AgeInappropriateDress: Mocked in a few episodes, "Stupid Spoiled Whore Video Playset" in particular.
* AgelessBirthdayEpisode: The episode "Damien" does this with Cartman's birthday (although we can probably assume that he turned 9 in this episode, as the show subtly suggests that he's a little older than the three other SP boys).
* AliensMadeThemDoIt: The "wizard alien" from "Sexual Healing." In this episode, the American government is trying to figure out what caused the "recent" trend of successful men having affairs with lots of women. Instead of just admitting that this kind of thing has happened throughout history and that most men have similar urges, the government blames it on a wizard alien living in Independence Hall. [[spoiler:When a soldier calls BS on this, the other soldiers take him away to the RunningGag of "There's a turd in the punchbowl", dress him up as a wizard alien, and have Kyle and Butters shoot him dead.]]
* AliensStealCattle: One of the first tropes used in the show. The aliens actually consider cows to be the most intelligent species on the planet (it helps they communicate in "moo"s). When one cow asks about the abductions and mutilations:
-->'''Alien 1''': Oh, that was Carl. He's new.\\
'''Alien 2''': Yeah, my bad.
** If you have seen more then one or two episodes, it becomes clear that aside from Stan, Kyle and maybe Kenny, the cows ''are'' probably the most intelligent species on the planet. And that includes the Crab People, talking turds, and whatever the hell Towlie is.
*** However, in the original version of that episode, the aliens mutilate the cows because [[spoiler:they like [=BBQs=]]].
* AllergicToLove: Stan vomits every time Wendy talks to him. Though when they started dating as the show progressed (after TheMovie), Stan stopped vomiting completely around her. However, in "The List", when [[spoiler: they discover feelings for each other again (after having been broken up for some time)]], Stan vomits in front of her once more [[spoiler: before they can kiss]].
* AllCGICartoon: Switched to this format after the first episode. It, ''WesternAnimation/BeastWars'' (released around the same time) and ''ReBoot''[[note]]that series' third season ''premiered'' in 1997[[/note]] were the notable ones that were airing on American television during the mid-late 90s.
** Initially, the aim was to emulate the stop-motion cardboard of the pilot and prior "Spirit of Christmas" shorts in a way that was actually practical and could be done in a timely fashion (the pilot took 3-4 months to produce). This approach was eventually scrapped in favor of [[ArtEvolution doing anything that they could fit within the show's art style]].
** The practical problems of the original method were lampshaded in an episode where the boys try using stop-motion cardboard animation to make a Christmas animation of...themselves.
* AllElectionsAreSeriousBusiness: Shown in how serious the kindergarten elections are taken in "Trapper Keeper" and taken [[UpToEleven to the extreme]] in "Douche vs. Turd" over the school mascot election.
* AllGaysArePedophiles: Big Gay Al becomes a victim of this trope when he is fired as the boys' scoutmaster due to concerns from the parents that he will try to molest them. His replacement is, of course, an actual pedophile whom nobody suspects since he's not gay.
* AllHailTheGreatGodMickey: In the episode "The Wacky Molestation Adventure", the children of South Park manage to send of all adults on false molestation charges. Later, in the ruins of the town, they are seen worshiping a statue made of trash that is supposed to represent "The Great Provider", a supreme being that provides them food and shelter (as a faint memory of what their parents did for them). PlayedForLaughs when we find out it's been only one week since all adults have left.
** The Provider is a statue of John Elway that they appeased with human sacrifice. As shown by Butter's great disappointment when the Aesop is delivered and he is brought down, saying, "I was going to give myself to Mr. Elway."
* AllJewsAreCheapskates:
** Kyle's parents and his cousin. And to Cartman's delight, sometimes Kyle falls prey to it too.
** Parodied ''viciously'' in "Two Days Before the Day After Tomorrow", where it seems that Cartman and Kyle are going to die, and Cartman demands Kyle's "Jew Gold". Kyle, appalled, tries to convince him that this is a Jew stereotype, but Cartman doesn't relent, and Kyle pulls out a small sack of gold that had been tied around his neck. Cartman proceeds to insist that all Jews carry a spare sack of Jew Gold, which is really fake, and demands that Kyle ''hands over an identical sack also tied around his neck''. Kyle didn't hand over the real Jew gold either, he threw it into a fire rather than let Cartman have it.
** Subverted in "Night of the Living Homeless" when Kyle gives a homeless man $20. Because of that, all of the homeless invade South Park. [[spoiler:But it turns out that it wasn't Kyle's fault, but the fault of the neighboring town of Evergreen, who evicted the homeless.]]
** And then subverted majorly in "Margaritaville" when he uses his American Express credit card (with no spending limit) to pay off the debts [[TheParagon of all of South Park]], much to the dismay of his mother Sheila, who say he's ruining himself. This is all to make a point of the nature of the economy.
** In "Good Times with Weapons" Cartman mocks the fact that Kyle can't throw away his weapons because he paid money for them.
* AllJustADream: Sometimes played straight, but often subverted.
* AllMenArePerverts:
** The plot of "Sexual Healing." More specifically, the extreme lengths men will go to to prevent women from finding this out.
** In the ''LordOfTheRings'' episode, all the boy's fathers are very knowledgeable when it comes to porn, much to their wives' disgust. [[spoiler: Subverted somewhat by Mrs. Broflofski and Mrs. Cartman describing a sexual act from the titled movie with unusual accuracy]]
* AllOfTheOtherReindeer: While Butters is the most obvious victim, more recent seasons (especially Craig in "Pandemic") claim that not very many people beyond their clique like Stan, Kyle, Kenny or Cartman.
* AllTakeAndNoGive: Cartman to everyone, ''especially'' his mom. In Season One, you had to give him rather expensive toys to attend his party (who everyone only comes to because Cartman's Mom cooks ''damn good'').
* AllThereInTheManual: [[ArtisticLicenseGeography Impossibly close proximity to Canada aside]], VideoGame/SouthParkTheStickOfTruth has the official layout to the titular town. On top of that, it also shows that (spoiler tagged for people who want to find out themselves through exploration) [[spoiler: Cartman's mom is a drug addict, and the Tweaks get their blend from a meth lab that's based in the [=McCormicks=]' garage]], among other things.
* AllWomenAreLustful: All little girls want to get in the JonasBrothers' pants, [[RefugeInAudacity even if they're kindergarten age]]. Possibly TruthInTelevision, seeing as the line "My giney tickles" was something the young daughter of one of the members of the production crew actually said at one of their concerts.
* AllWomenLoveShoes: "The List".
* AManIsNotAVirgin: Or at least, a man has gotten his first kiss already, in "Butters' Bottom Bitch".
* AmazinglyEmbarrassingParents: AdultsAreUseless, including the parents.
** Sheila Broflovsky is take on {{Moral Guardian}}s, as she's overprotective, judgmental and prone to hysterical reactions. TheMovie made this a large part of its theme.
** Randy embodies typical adult stupidity in western culture starting around season 6.
** The [=McCormick=] parents joined a doomsday cult of Cthulhu for free beer and are crackheads. They also have a meth lab in an open shed in their backyard.
** Ms. Cartman is apparently a famous enough porn star to end up on the cover of Crackwhore Magazine.
* AmbiguouslyGay:
** A running gag with Mr. Garrison for several seasons. He's virulently anti-gay, yet sports a stereotypical gay lisp. Several characters state outright that they thought he was gay, but he insists that he just acts that way to "get chicks". In one episode he writes erotic fiction and focuses on penises, seeming to get very aroused by his own writing, but then insists that he's just writing to what his audience, women, want to read. In later seasons he comes out of the closet.
** Cartman.
*** He constantly says that girls are disgusting and vile, and he seems to have an ''extremely'' [[AnatomicallyImpossibleSex inaccurate idea of what sex with a woman even entails]]. [[labelnote:Curious?]][[ComicallyMissingThePoint "Get a boner, slap her titties around, stick it inside her and pee. If you don't want to get her pregnant you pull it out and pee on her leg."]][[/labelnote]]
*** He's also engaged in sexual acts with men several times, thinking NAMBLA is an innocent organization. He presumably gave Creator/BenAffleck a hand job as part of a bizarre plot to convince Kyle that his hand was a sentient con man named Mitch Connor (who turned out to actually ''exist'' in "200") who was impersonating a woman named Jennifer Lopez (much to the chagrin of the "real" JenniferLopez).
*** In "Imaginationland,", a subplot is based entirely around Cartman's obsession with making Kyle suck his balls. Jimmy even points this trope out to him in part 1 of the trilogy. He ''says'' it's solely for humiliation purposes, but we all know Cartman's [[BlatantLies track record with the truth...]]
*** "Cartman in Love" gives us [[spoiler: Cartman telling the new girl, Nicole, that he and Kyle are a gay couple, so that Nicole will be more likely to go out with Token.]] Cartman puts a ton of effort into convincing the town that his lie is true, to the point where it's hard to tell if he's just really committed or playing out some sort of wish-fulfillment exercise.
*** In "Sarcastaball", he has no reservations about drinking Butters' [[ItMakesSenseInContext creamy goo]]. Although Randy has him beat in this particular case, as he's the only one who [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything actually recognizes it]].
*** In "Le Petit Tourette" when [[spoiler:Cartman is unable to filter what he says and what he thinks, he admitted that he and his cousin touched each others wieners together.]]
** Jimbo and Ned. They're unrelated, live together, evidently have hospital visitation rights worked out. And then, [[NWordPrivileges Jimbo can say "fag" without getting bleeped]], which according to Mr. Garrison (at the time it was Mr.) means that he is one. All the other guys at the bar except for Garrison are bleeped when they say "fag". After an awkward silence, Mr. Garrison says "Well, we've certainly learned something about you today, Jimbo, you friggin' fag. Wanna make out or somethin'?"
** Butters. He has been shown crossdressing, he's feminine, innocent, submissive, polite, and fits TheTwink status. While he has shown affection toward girls, it's mostly blocked by his naivety. Oh, and [[spoiler:he's more than willing to share his "creamy goo" with all the boys.]]
* AnalProbing: Eric Cartman was probed by TheGreys in the {{Pilot}} episode, appropriately titled [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin "Cartman Gets An Anal Probe."]] By "Anal Probe", we mean he eventually grows a satellite out of his bum.
* AnatomicallyImpossibleSex: For the boys themselves, we have these gems: [[FreudWasRight Circumcision is castration.]] Urine is semen.
* AndThatsTerrible: The antagonists in "Super Fun Time" robbed a Burger King.
* AndThereWasMuchRejoicing: Done a few times when the usual "They killed Kenny!!"-"Bastards!!" routine was subverted and Kenny's death was met with amusement.
--->Kyle: (laughing) That was a good one!
** This is pretty much Cartman's reaction to arranging Scott Tenorman's parents to be killed and ground into chili to get even for being swindled out of $16.12
* AnimalAthleteLoophole: The parody of ''You Got Served'' (and similar movies) had Stan's RagtagBunchOfMisfits dancing team include a dancing duck. [[spoiler:The duck gets injured, forcing Butters to finally join the crew, with disastrous results.]]
* AnimalWrongsGroup: PETA is so insistent on paralleling vegetarianism with civil rights that they promote InterspeciesRomance.
* AnimationAnatomyAging
* AnswersToTheNameOfGod: In just about every South Park episode that features Jesus, some character will exclaim "Jesus!", prompting Jesus to inquire, "Yes?"
* TheAntichrist: Damien, though [[AntiAntiChrist apparently he just wants friends and not to move around so much]].
** Also there is Porcupiney's immaculate child, who was supposed to be the woodland critters' lord and savior, [[spoiler: but fortunately this [[WhatCouldHaveBeen never came to be]] because Stan [[ItMakesSenseInContext taught three talking mountain lion cubs how to perform an abortion.]]]]
*** [[spoiler: None of this actually happened though, as it all just came from the demented imagination of Eric Cartman. They become terrifyingly real though in the Imaginationland arc.]]
* AntiHero: All main characters verge on anti-heroism on occasion, though Cartman often verges on VillainProtagonist. Usually they learn their lesson at the end, however, and often are shown to be morally superior to the adults in town.
* AntiHumor: "Kenny Dies"
* AntiVillain: Satan, though his antivillainy isn't really of the WellIntentionedExtremist variety so much as the loser variety. His [[CardCarryingVillain expressed pride in his role in the world]] is always watered down [[RefugeInAudacity by the way his gay lover, Saddam Hussein, treats him]]. (See the movie, where Saddam interrupts his "my time to rise" speech to say "I love when you get all biblical, you know how to turn my crank!") This show takes SympathyForTheDevil to a {{literal|Metaphor}} extreme. In addition, Hell is a decent place, besides the torture, and far better than the alternative (spending eternity with overexcited Mormons).
* APlanetNamedZok: Marklar, from "Starvin' Marvin in Space!". [[{{Smurfing}} This is also the name of every noun on Marklar.]]
* ApocalypseCult: The leader of the Anti-Semetic Jews captures Moses in order to ready the world for the return of Haman.
** The cult of Blaintology in "Super Best Friends."
** And of course, the Cthulhu cult featured in the three-episode "Coon and Mysterion" arc.
* ApocalypticLog: Parodied in 'Pandemic', as Randy's incessant camcordering of the disaster gets on Sharon's nerves. And it turns out [[spoiler:[[NotWithTheSafetyOnYouWont he didn't have a tape in it]]]].
* AppliedMathematics: Underpants Gnomes. Step 1: Collect underpants. Step 2: '''[++[[color:red:?]]++]''' [[MissingStepsPlan Step 3: Profit!]]
** Cartman's formula for gold.
* ArentYouGoingToRavishMe: In "Towelie," Garrison is ambushed by a squad of towel-destroying soldiers. He assumes that they're going to rape him and says, "Have your way with me, if you must! Go on, fulfill your sick pleasures! ...Where are you going?" Garrison was also traumatized because his father didn't molest him when he was a child, because he associated being molested with being loved.
* AreYouPonderingWhatImPondering: In "Worldwide Recorder Concert", Stan and Kyle are thinking of a way to get back at the New Yorkers, when Cartman announces that he found the "[[BringMyBrownPants brown noise]]" and demonstrates it on Kenny and a deliveryman.
-->'''Stan:''' ''(to Kyle)'' Dude, are you thinking what I'm thinking?\\
'''Cartman:''' That they should bring back ''Series/ChicagoHope'' for another season? Totally.
* ArsonMurderAndJaywalking:
** Cartman in the episode "Scott Tenorman Must Die", where he [[spoiler:has Scott's parents killed, grinds their corpses into chili which he then feeds to Scott and causes Scott to cry in front of [[{{Radiohead}} his favorite band]].]] [[NoSympathy Who then call him a "crybaby".]]
** In ''The Death of Eric Cartman'': "What awaits each person in heaven is eternal bliss, divine rest, and $10,000 cash."
** Shoe the Chinpokomon. ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin.
* ArtEvolution: The difference between first season episodes and recent episodes is like night and day, even though they have kept the simplistic cutout style. Early on, the show had incredibly crude character and background designs and the animation was very shaky and choppy, while today the animation can be very sophisticated, the backgrounds are rich in detail (actually having perspective and shading), the characters are much more detailed, and animals being realistic (compared to, say, the game in the first season episode "Volcano").
** Early on, the show tried to imitate some side effects of using construction paper, such as the aforementioned shaky animation and shadows under objects. Later on, it was dropped.
* ArtShift: The art has shifted between its standard 'cutout' style and other styles on various occasions. Backgrounds often contain pictures of real life places or real art, and there are many cases of deliberately conspicuous CGI.
** The best example would probably have to be from one of the newest episodes "A Song of Ass and Fire" where the opening sequence is shot entirely in 3D. It is glorious especially considering South Park has not attempted anything of that magnitude ever
* AnAssKickingChristmas: A few times, but especially "Red Sleigh Down".
* AsLongAsThereIsEvil: The core of the evil Wall-Mart turns out to be a mirror, with the explanation that the citizens of the town empower it. [[spoiler:Subverted as smashing the mirror destroys the whole Wall-Mart]].
* AshesToCrashes: Cartman drinks Kenny's ashes, believing them to be chocolate milk mix. As a result of this, Kenny's soul becomes trapped inside Cartman, providing a story arc for the next few episodes.
* AshFace: "Summer Sucks" ends with the town covered in ash. Chef arrives from vacation to find everyone in what looks like {{blackface}} and orders everyone to get in line for a butt kicking.
* AsianHookerStereotype: On the episode "Cow Days", Cartman starts acting and talking like the Vietnamese prostitute of ''FullMetalJacket'' after a TapOnTheHead.
* AsianSpeekeeEngrish:
** Every single Asian character. Honorable mention goes to "''fucking Mongoriansh!''" Funnily enough, both creators are fluent in Japanese.
** Taken to extremes in one episode where a Japanese man and Chinese man argue with each other with the nearly the exact same accent and can't understand each other.
** Cartman's attempts to disguise himself as Chinese consist of little more than saying "herro prease".
* AssholeVictim: [[spoiler:Clyde's mother, Betsy Donovan]] in "Reverse Cowgirl", to the point she's still one beyond the grave.
* AssimilationBackfire: One episode has Cartman's super high-tech Trapper Keeper begin assimilating all technology (beginning with a calculator, then a computer, then a lamp, then Cartman). "Trapper Keeper ready to ensorb." Eventually it goes on a rampage and heads for Cheyenne Mountain to ensorb the NORAD command center there, but on the way it eats Rosie O'Donnell, weakening it enough for Kyle to turn it off.
* AssShove: Happens to Cartman. A '''lot.'''
** The premiere episode, "Cartman Gets an Anal Probe," culminates with a 50-foot satellite dish emerging from Cartman's ass.
** Another episode has Cartman smuggling all of Disneyland into a juvenile hall inside his ass.
** Then there was the time Cartman tried to eat through his butt to see if he would then crap through his mouth. It works! In fact, it becomes quite a trend and even leads to Martha Stewart shoving a Thanksgiving turkey up her bum.
** One word: Lemmiwinks.
** The episode that aired after the 2008 US Presidential Elections has Barack Obama shove the Hope Diamond up his ass in order to steal it.
** The NoCelebritiesWereHarmed version of [[Series/CrocodileHunter Steve Irwin]] was always sticking his thumb up some poor animal's butthole. And let's not forget Cartman being shoved up a cow's butt at the end of that episode.
** "The Death of Eric Cartman": Cartman (who think he's dead) trashes Butters's room, which gets Butters sent to an insane asylum where he's examined by a questionable doctor whose methods included having a machine anally probe him for hours on end ([[http://southpark.wikia.com/wiki/File:906_butters-about-to-be-probed.jpg the probe itself]] was about the size of a football and rotated).
* AssumedWin: Inverted when the boys bring in [[JewishAndNerdy Kyle's cousin]], [[OneSteveLimit Kyle]] as a ringer to make sure they lose and thus no longer have to play baseball.
** Stan figures this when coaching pee wee hockey. Unfortunately he was WrongGenreSavvy.
* AteHisGun: They ''love'' this trope.
** Parodied in "How to Eat With Your Butt", in which Cartman [[spoiler:does it with what turns out to be a gun-shaped piece of chocolate after writing an apparent suicide note, then adds a request for more of said chocolate guns.]]
** When a line of pedophiles find out they've been lining up to see Chris Hansen, they immediately begin shooting themselves, one after another.
** Butters is told to do this by a meme-hating teacher in "Faith Hilling". He ends up frozen in his seat with the gun in his mouth for nearly the entire episode's length.
** Parodied in "Night of the Living Homeless." A scientist tries to eat his gun, only to live through the attempt. He then goes on to try again several times, each one unsuccessful, until finally making it.
* AttackOfThe50FootWhatever: Played for laughs with Scott the Dick in "Royal Pudding." At first, it appears to be played straight, but a change in the camera angle reveals that he's actually seven feet tall.
* AttractiveBentGender: In the ''Series/GameOfThrones'' parody trilogy and ''The Stick of Truth'', Kenny dresses up as a princess. Some characters react as if he actually ''was'' a pretty girl, especially [[ArtShift during]] the {{Animesque}} segments of "Titties and Dragons".
* AuthorAvatar: Stan and Kyle were originally Author Avatars for Trey and Matt, respectively, but they slowly grew out of it as the show progressed. In one interview, they said something along the lines of "He's supposed to be Stan, and I'm supposed to be Kyle... but really we're both Cartman."
** Terrance and Phillip also occasionally serve as author avatars for the duo, reflecting the reactions Trey and Matt expected their show to get from parents, most notably in TheMovie. Terrance has black hair, as does Matt, while Phillip has blond hair, as does Trey - likely deliberate.
* AuthorAppeal: This explains why a bunch of eight year old boys (in 1997) are gushing over [[TheCure Robert Smith]].
* AuthorTract: Particularly in later seasons.
* AxCrazy:
** Cartman, most famously in "Scott Tenorman Must Die".
** Saddam Hussein.
** The Woodland Critters, Mickey Mouse and Mel Gibson.
** Russell Crowe's obsession with fighting leads him to berating and almost beating up a little girl merely for looking at him. In the same episode, he ''physically brutalizes a man with terminal cancer'' (hooked up to IV and looking as frail as can be) because he thought it was a good idea, since he (Crowe) discovered that he couldn't literally "beat up cancer" like he wanted to. Might be a good example of WellIntentionedExtremist if it weren't such a ridiculous idea.
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* BackForTheDead: [[spoiler:Pip is crushed to death]] in "201".
* {{Badass}}: {{Jesus|WasWayCool}}.
-->My children, I must warn you... [[PreAsskickingOneLiner I'm packing.]]
* BackToSchool: Officer Barbrady goes back to school—and the third grade no less—after it's revealed that he's illiterate.
* BadassAdorable: Ike.
* BadBadActing: The [[ArtShift live action reenactment sequence]] in "I Should Have Never Gone Ziplining" uses very deliberately awful, over the top acting by actors about [[DawsonCasting 15 years too old to play 10 year olds]].
* BadBoss: Cartman in many episodes. Craig, too, in "South Park is Gay!".
* BadFuture: In "Trapper Keeper," "Goobacks," and the "Go God Go" {{two part|episode}}er.
* BadGuysDoTheDirtyWork:
** South Park is saved from hostile takeover by the Jersey Shore by [[spoiler: ''Al-Qaeda'']].
** In ''Insheeption'', [[spoiler:[[Franchise/ANightmareOnElmStreet Freddy Krueger]] kills [[PublicServiceAnnouncement Woodsy Owl]] after the latter goes OneWingedAngel]].
** In TheMovie, [[spoiler:it's [[AntiVillain Satan]] who finishes Saddam off after he gets zapped by ten thousand volts of profanity courtesy of Cartman.]]
* TheBadGuyWins: The ending of "Stanley's Cup" and "Scott Tenorman Must Die".
* BadImpressionists: This is a staple of Jimmy's standup routine.
* BadassSanta: He's {{pals with|Jesus}} KungFuJesus.
* BailEqualsFreedom: In "The Losing Edge," Randy is constantly getting in fights at his son's little league games. After he's been released, Gerald asks him how much bail was and Randy casually replies, "Like two hundred dollars, no big whoop." This is played for comedy as he keeps on assaulting people over and over and presumably keeps getting let back out for chump change. The inevitable trial for twelve counts of assault never happens.
* BaitAndSwitch: If there is an episode where the preview involves anything that will get a large portion of the fanbase going "Ha ha, they're making fun of X" the actual episode will likely portray X in a much more endearing manner, while those that see it as a cheap, {{acceptable target|s}} will be the ones on the receiving end of a TakeThat. These episodes typically center around [[ThisLoserIsYou Cartman]] The most recent notable example is "Poor and Stupid", with regard to NASCAR and its fanbase.
** Part 2 of [episode title]... WILL NOT BE SHOWN TODAY to bring you this special showing of [[StylisticSuck Terrance And Philip!]]
** In "You Have 0 Friends", the whole sequence of Stan trapped inside the world of Facebook is a homage of ''Film/{{Tron}}'', and it appears that everything is all set for the inevitable [[CoolBike Lightcycle]] race... [[spoiler:when the bikes are abruptly replaced with a game of ''TabletopGame/{{Yahtzee}}'']].
* BannedEpisode: ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'''s MilestoneCelebration episodes "200" and "201" only aired once, and cannot be accessed on the South Park Studios site either, especially in the wake of a death threat by a small Islamist group towards Creator/TreyParkerAndMattStone after the former aired. For 201, Creator/ComedyCentral censored even mentions of Muhammad, as well as Kyle's entire monologue relating to giving in to fear, while Parker and Stone were not allowed to disclose the details of said monologue. The censors still remain for DVD versions of the episode, and the two episodes never aired on syndication since then. Relatedly, although it never stirred controversy when it aired, "Super Best Friends" can no longer be syndicated for similar reasons.
** The ban on "200"/"201" also extends to several foreign language adaptations of the series. In particular, the director of the French dub had stated that it is highly unlikely they'd be translated due to requiring even more dialogue censorship.
** At least seven episodes have been banned in the Japanese version to date (the dub has yet to get to "200"/"201"):
*** "Terrance and Phillip in: Not Without My Anus" was skipped in the second season. [[TheOtherWiki A Japanese version of the Other Wiki]] had speculated it was due to Saddam Hussein's appearance, although the fact that the episode caused controversy on its original airing (due to delaying the reveal of Cartman's father) and is mostly seen as a gag/filler episode could have also played a part. It was later included on the DVD box sets.
*** "Chinpokomon" was completely banned (and thus not available on DVD) due to mockery of the Japanese and Emperor Hirohito, including a plot point where the Japanese were brainwashing the children to bomb Pearl Harbor.
*** "Do the Handicapped Go to Hell?" and "Probably" were not dubbed by WOWOW for season 4. While the official reasons were not stated, the popular theory is that the references to Christianity and the Western concepts of the afterlife would have been considered too confusing for viewers. The episodes did later make it on to the DVD releases, but were left in the original English version with Japanese subtitles.
*** "A Ladder to Heaven" was banned when WOWOW began broadcasting of season 6, as it contained more mockery of the Japanese and had again included heavy references to Christianity. Even so, a clip from the episode was retained in their dub of "Casa Bonita".
*** "Krazy Kripples" was to be aired in the dub of season 7, but was pulled from broadcast due to the death of Christopher Reeve (who had been the villain in the episode).
*** "Two Days Before the Day After Tomorrow" was banned in FOX Japan's broadcast of season 9, due to the fact that it would have come after the 2011 earthquake and tsunami and would be TooSoon for it parodying disasters.
*** Expect this treatment of the episode "Whale Whores" for the depiction of the Japanese being fooled by post-war Americans by a picture of a whale and dolphin flying the Enola Gay, implying that the marine creatures were responsible for the nuclear destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. [[spoiler: The Japanese completely buy it, which is the reason they have been hunting whales and dolphins despite international condemnation.]]
** The Spanish-language dub aired in the Latin American markets has had its own cases of banned episodes. Aside from "200" and "201" (which were already banned for international adaptations and DVD box sets), there are at least eight other cases to date:
*** "Rainforest Schmainforest" was banned late in the game in 2011 (several years after it was dubbed), due to its mockery of Costa Rica. A toned-down redub was produced as a way of getting the ban lifted for it to air again.
*** "Free Willzyx" and "The Last of the Meheecans" were initially left completely banned and untranslated due to their mockery of Mexicans, although these bans would wind up lifted for the DVD releases for each season.
*** "Pinewood Derby" would have been aired on MTV, but the portrayal of Felipe Calderon wound up getting the episode banned before it was broadcast.
*** A few episodes of season 6 have been banned by MTV Latinoamerica in reruns of the series (with the season having originally aired on Locomotion). The official reasons remain unstated, but the episodes include "Freak Strike", "Child Abduction Is Not Funny", "A Ladder To Heaven", and "The Death Camp of Tolerance".
** The original Italian dub by SEFIT-CDC Group banned and left three season 4 episodes untranslated: "Cartman Joins NAMBLA" (due to Kenny attempting to force an abortion on his mother, as well as references to pedophilia with NAMBLA), "Do The Handicapped Go To Hell?", and "Probably" (both due to mockery of Catholicism).
* BarrierMaiden: Terrence and Philip in the movie. Although theoretically ''any'' Canadian living south of the 49th parallel.
* BatmanGambit: Cartman's plot in "Scott Tenorman Must Die" hinges upon him understanding Stan and Kyle's and Scott's personalities, and predicting their actions perfectly (with a lot of assuming).
* BeardOfEvil: {{Inverted|Trope}} with Cartman in ''Spookyfish'' since he was already evil, his alternate universe counterpart was the good one. Played straight with everyone else.
* BeautyIsBad: Subverted in "The List."
* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: "Ass Burgers" has Stan wishing everything in his life would go back to the way it was before he was depressed, which includes his life with his family before his parents got divorced. The ending of the episode has Stan getting over his depression and learning that change can be good, only to have his life get hit with the ResetButton where his parents get back together and having his daily routines reverting back to the way they were.
* BecomingTheMask: In "Butters' Bottom Bitch", Officer Yates assigns an undercover agent for a series of prostitution busts: himself. During the operations, he makes his arrests ''after'' [[spoiler:performing the sex act]], each one becoming [[SerialEscalation more and more elaborate]], to the point of [[spoiler:gangbanging a college fraternity.]] He even [[spoiler:marries the BigBad pimp]] at the end of the episode, [[spoiler:[[HappilyMarried living with him in a Swiss chateau]] before finally deciding to place him under arrest on their anniversary.]]
* BeethovenWasAnAlienSpy: Slash is really a mythological character based on the legend of Vunter Slaush. It was just one of their parents that actually played at Cartman's party.
** [[FridgeLogic But, who was the guitarist for Guns N' Roses?]]
** ''One of their parents.''
* BelievingTheirOwnLies: Cartman works himself into quite the frenzy over his own fabricated mythos of Jewpacabra.
** Not to mention that this was the main storyline between Cartman and Jimmy in "Fishsticks".
* BerserkButton: In "Conjoined Fetus Lady", Pip is one of the players on the dodgeball team. When he's called "French", he beats the world's best dodgeball team (who [[RunningGag are Chinese]]) singlehandedly.
** Scott Tenorman doomed himself the moment he burned Cartman's money.
** ''Never'' call Bono #2, no matter how true it is.
** Cartman is not fat, he's [[InsistentTerminology big boned]]. He also does not like to be compared to ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy''.
** Kyle isn't [[spoiler: from {{Jersey|Shore}}]]. Don't suggest that he is.
*** Or make fun of him being Jewish, or cross the line with Ike, or call his mum a bitch, or say something stupid within earshot. Kyle is built on this trope.
*** Cartman is quite possibly the ultimate BerserkButton for Kyle.
** "Are you looking at my [[BracesOfOrthodonticOverkill headgear]]?"[[note]]It is the speaking of these words, not the action described, that is the actual button.[[/note]]
** Tom Cruise goes crazy when anyone says that he's a fudge packer, even if he is packing fudge at the time, wearing a fudge packing uniform in a fudge packing factory.
*** And never, ''ever'' compare him to the guy from ''Film/NapoleonDynamite''.
** Kenny (as Mysterion) gets one when he tries to tell the rest of the kids that he can't die, and Kyle says it'd be pretty cool to be immortal. Kenny, [[WhoWantsToLiveForever who knows better,]] flips out just a little bit.
*** He gets another one in "The Poor Kid". Don't mess with his little sister.
** If you don't want to piss off Mr. Mackey, don't take a dump in the urinal. Or ruin the tooth decay play he worked on for six years, whether it's by accident or not. Or touch any part of the overwhelming trash and paper hoard that [[OutOfCharacterMoment suddenly materialized in his traditionally clean office]].
** As for Wendy, don't be Cartman and don't get between her and Stan. You've been warned.
* BestialityIsDepraved:
** Several episodes and TheMovie reference or, God forgive, portray zoophilia [[PlayedForLaughs for comic effect]].
** In a strange variation, Cartman attempts to train a pony to bite Scott Tenorman's penis off. He builds an effigy of his enemy, and attaches a hotdog to represent the pe--well, you can picture it. Cartman is dismayed when, instead of biting the hotdog, the horse fellates it. It becomes a FunnyBackgroundEvent while Cartman has a conversation with Jimbo and Ned.
* BewareTheNiceOnes:
** As proven in Season 1 - Don't fuck with Wendy Testaburger!
** Subverted with Butters, who adopts a secret evil identity and attempts to plunge the world into chaos by switching restaurant orders, hiding chalkboard erasers at school, running the water hose in his front yard non-stop, and using ineffective spray cans to destroy the ozone layer.
** Butters can be pretty badass if he wants to grow a spine. He's the ChosenOne of Imaginationland, a national hero in Mexico, and in "Butters' Bottom Bitch", he is temporarily the most successful pimp in Colorado. Yes, ''Butters.''
* BigBad: Cartman is sometimes this, mainly in the trilogy "Coon & Friends". Satan and Sheila Broflovski are this in TheMovie.
** BiggerBad: Saddam Hussein. He is more or less, the Satan's evil head in TheMovie. Moreover, him represents an evil far more threatening than the war between the U.S. and Canada.
** TheDragon: Satan, to Saddam in TheMovie.
** TheHeavy: Cartman as The Coon in "Coon & Friends".
* BigBrotherInstinct: Most prominent in the relationship of Kyle and Ike as demonstrated repeatedly.
** You DO NOT want to fuck with Karen [=McCormick=]. You will invoke Kenny's wrath.
** Let it be understood that only Shelley has the right to torture little brother Stan.
* BigDamnHeroes: [[spoiler:Al-Qaeda]] of all people in "It's a Jersey Thing".
* BigDamnMovie
* BigOMG: Generally used whenever Kenny died OncePerEpisode. A notable example outside of that context (when Stan's parents accidentally send a porno to Butters's house):
-->'''Sharon:''' Wow, the production values are really good in this porno.\\
'''Randy:''' Yeah, it almost looks like... the ''Film/{{Lord of the|Rings}}''... OH MY GOD!
* BilingualBonus: Largely because co-creator Trey Parker is fluent in Japanese.
** The Japanese part of the song "Let's Fighting Love" is grammatically correct and translates into [[VulgarHumor something befitting South Park]].
** The name of the [[{{Crossdresser}} Okama]] Gamesphere.
** "Chinpokomon." Sounds like just a play on Pokémon, right? It's not. In Japanese, it means [[spoiler: "penis monster"]], or more figuratively [[spoiler:"dickimon"]].
** The running commentary of Butters crossing the border in Last of the Meheecans refers to Cartman primarily as [[FatBastard gordo]].
*** 'Mantequilla', Butters' pseudonym in the episode, is Spanish for 'butter'.
** In "Funnybot", Cartman speaks in German without subtitles, and says some...interesting things about Kyle:
*** Cartman: Duerfen wir dir Kind dort ... geboten. Er ist Jude. Ein schoener saftig Jude. Er ist frisch und wunderhuebsch. Wunderhuebsch. Translation: Can I offer you instead this child? He is Jew. A nice, juicey jew. He is fresh and beautiful. Beautiful"
* BillyElliotPlot: [[InvertedTrope Inverted]] with Brighton in the episode ''Elementary school musical''. He wants to play basketball, but his father forces him to sing.
* BitchInSheepsClothing: Don't fuck with Wendy Testaburger.
** A lot of the other elementary girls can be this, to different extents. Don't get in the way of their love for shoes.
** Barbra Streisand in "Mecha-Streisand", at first.
* BittersweetEnding: "Lice Capades", "Over Logging" (hilariously).
* BlackAndGrayMorality
* BlackComedy
* BlackComedyRape: The Indiana Jones episode, "Worldwide Recorder Concert," arguably a lot of episodes.
** Arguably subverted in-series, while absolutely hilarious to the audience ([[BlackComedy most of the time...]]). In the Indiana Jones episode, everyone is absolutely terrified and traumatised by witnessing the rape of Indy, to the point of Kyle BreakingTheFourthWall and saying "I can't do this anymore." In fact, the episode wasn't just PlayedForLaughs, but PlayedForDrama at the exact same time.
** The Christmas Critters also gang-rape a platoon of US soldiers and Kurt Russell to death in "Imaginationland". (Which was arguably horrifying.)
** The idea that Chef thought the boys took turns raping Ms. Choksondik and then murdering her afterward is played for laughs.
* TheBlank: During woodworking class in "Tweek vs. Craig", Clyde informs Mr. Adler that some kid named Tommy got his face stuck to a belt-sander, and Tommy shows up with no face.
* BlessedWithSuck: Mysterion's ([[spoiler:Kenny]]'s) power. [[spoiler:He reveals to Captain Hindsight that he has the power to never die, even if he sees Heaven or Hell. Every time he does die, he later just wakes up in bed, in his regular clothes. The worst part is that no one has any recollection of his deaths. They always think he ran away or something, despite the fact that they saw him die with their own eyes.]]
** Captain Hindsight. He knows instantly how a bad situation could've been prevented.
* BookAndSwitch: when Randy goes on a Food Network frenzy, he hides a cookbook under a Playboy magazine
* BloodyHilarious: ''South Park'' arguably wouldn't be half as funny without all the gratuitous gore - I mean, ''really'' gratuitous gore.
* BoomerangBigot: In "The Entity", Kyle exclaims in horror that the presence of his cousin Kyle Schwartz has turned him into a self-hating Jew.
* BornUnlucky: Butters has a birthday of September 11th and is constantly grounded for little to no reason.
** Kenny. Again and again and again.
* BorrowedCatchphrase: Stan and Kyle do this to ''themselves'' in "Wing".
-->'''Kyle:''' Kenny?... Kenny! Don't worry, Kenny. You didn't die for nothing. We're gonna get Wing back as our client and and make a ton of money, I swear it to you! ''(returns to the other boys)'' They killed Kenny!\\
'''Stan:''' You bastards!
** In "Going Native", Cartman borrows Butters' "Fellas! FELLAS!"
* {{Bowdlerise}}:
** The DVD release of the [[ScrewedByTheNetwork banned-from-the-network]] episode "201", which resulted in all references to Mohammad being removed (there were quite a lot).
** Seasons 1-10 have fallen victim to this; see the EditedForSyndication entry in the '''[[Trivia/SouthPark Trivia]]''' section.
* BrainsAndBrawn: Nathan and Mimsey.
* BrainyBaby: Ike.
* BrakeAngrily: The TropeNamer
* BrattyHalfPint: Most of the boys in earlier seasons, with Cartman being most obvious.
** Then there is Ike, who runs away to Somalia because he was already bored with life. He's about 4 years old.
* BreadEggsBreadedEggs: when the boys are doing the school news and want to give it higher viewership. They realize they need to add lots of sex and lots of action, and wind up renaming it Sexy Action News.
* BreadEggsMilkSquick: The stuff Trent Boyett had on his person when he first arrived in juvenile hall: a pack of crayons, safety scissors, a marble, [[KnifeNut and a knife.]]
* BreakTheMotivationalSpeaker: Cartman with just about every reality show nanny type in "Tsss"
** Stan does this in "The Biggest Douche in the Universe" by calling out the trick behind the trick.
* BreakingTheFourthWall: "This is just like when we got our money back for ''Baseketball''."
* BreakoutCharacter: Butters, Randy and Jimmy.
* BrickJoke:
** Throughout the pilot episode, Eric keeps calling everyone he comes into a contact with "a dildo". During the beginning of the second act of the same episode, Eric yells for his mother, telling her that "Kitty's being a dildo!" Eric's mother delightfully responds with:
--> '''Well, I know a certain kitty-''kitty'' 's who's sleeping with mommy tonight!'''
** In TheMovie, the boys use the promise of [[IWasToldThereWouldBeCake punch and pie]] to get other kids to join LaResistance. Way later, in "Super Best Friends", a Blaintologist hands out pamphlets for the Blaintology cult during a David Blaine performance. [[http://www.spscriptorium.com/Season5/BlaineWorkshop.jpg Guess what the pamphlet promises?]]
** In "Jared Has Aides", Cartman pretends to be Butters and gets his parents angry by swearing at them over the phone. Later at the end of the episode, Butters' parents come to [[AbusiveParents beat the stuffing out of him]]. Butters later refers to this very incident in "AWESOM-O", including somehow-realized knowledge of the setup.
** In "The Poor Kid", the Agnostic foster parents make an offhand mention of a giant reptilian bird. It shows up at the end of the episode to deliver some [[LaserGuidedKarma Karmic]] [[TheyKilledKenny (In)]][[LaserGuidedKarma Justice]].
** In "The Biggest Douche in the Universe" Stan insults John Edward, telling him he nominates him [[ExactlyWhatItSaysontheTin biggest douche in the universe]]. The conclusion of the story is a DeusExMachina where aliens take away John Edward.
** In "Chef's Chocolate Salty Balls", upon learning that a film festival only screens independent movies, Cartman stands by his viewpoint that independent movies are about nothing else than "gay cowboys eating pudding". It seems as though this goes unheeded, as the first movie Stan and Wendy attend for their paper is about lesbians, but around twelve minutes in, there is a big gathering at the Bijou theater for what the director calls a "visionary new motion picture". Said visionary motion picture is about, and is [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin titled]], "Gay Cowboys Eating Pudding." Though, due to plot conveniences, this movie is never shown.
** In "Osama Bin Laden Has Farty Pants", when Officer Barbrady is searching students entering the bus, due to the paranoia from 9/11, he confiscates a pair of safety scissors from Cartman. Two episodes later in "The Entity", an Airport Security Guard finds the same type of scissors on Kenny, yells "Die Terrorist!" and shoots Kenny in the head.
* BridalCarry: Jimmy and the prostitute in ''Erection Day''.
* TheBrideWithAPast: In the episode "The Succubus", the womanizing Chef has finally found his one and only...but, as the episode title suggests, she has a secret. The boys know, but no one listens, until the actual ceremony is underway and Veronica is forced to reveal her true nature.
* BringMyBrownPants: Matt and Trey are quite fond of their poop humor and thus this mentioned repeatedly. "Hell on Earth 2006" and "Le Petit Tourette" come to mind.
* BrokenAesop: Comes with the territory when your primary goal is to offend everyone. See examples under AnAesop, AesopAmnesia, GreenAesop. Or AllJewsAreCheapskates, Anvilicious, ChildrenAreInnocent, CorruptCorporateExecutive, CountryMatters... Just look anywhere on this page.
* BrownNote:
** "World Wide Recorder Concert" involves Cartman trying to discover the ''actual'' Brown Note.
** ''The Tale of Scrotie [=McBoogerballs=]'' makes people throw up if they read just two seconds of it.
** The porno "Back Door Sluts 9" from ''The Return of the Fellowship of the Ring to the Two Towers.''
* BrutalHonesty: Craig in "Pandemic", but Kyle also frequently veers in this territory.
* TheBully: In "Butterballs" Butters is secretly bullied and beat up by his own grandma. She even follows him to school and bullies him in the bathroom. It's a running gag in the episode where people go to the bathroom to find a bully there waiting there for them.
** [[spoiler: Even more so when Butters attempts to find inner strength by donning the costume of Professor Chaos, only to have Grandma show up in a costume of her own, complete with black cape.]]
** Cartman seems to be the most evident in South Park Elementary, once even spearheading a tirade of abuse on a kid until he committed suicide. [[CharacterizationMarchesOn In earlier episodes]], Stan and Kyle also had shades of this, it's implied even Cartman suffered heavily from them.
* BunniesForCuteness: Subverted (in a non-HairRaisingHare way) in the episode "Pip" (parodying ''Great Expectations''). Pip tries to prove to Estella that she is not an unfeeling monster, because an unfeeling monster wouldn't hurt a cute little bunny rabbit (which Pip pulls from {{Hammerspace}}).
-->ESTELLA: I told you, Pip. I have no heart.
-->PIP: But you do! And I shall prove it to you once and for all! Look at this adorable little bunny.
-->ESTELLA: Oh my. 'E's very cute.
-->PIP: You see that? A heartless person wouldn't care at all about this bunny. They'd just as soon break its neck. ''Estella breaks its neck'' ...Oh. But look at ''this'' bunny. There. You see that? You have too big a heart to kill two baby bunnies.''Estella kills bunny #2''...Right...
::Estella ends up killing 25 baby bunnies.
* BunnyEarsLawyer: "Say what you will about Creator/MelGibson, but the son of a bitch knows story structure!"
** Mr Garrison and Mr. Mackey. However the fuck they keep their jobs despite at LEAST [[ObfusticatingStupidity appearing]] completely stupid and acting like fools, they somehow keep their jobs. Subverted briefly for Mr Garrison since he was fired but that was quickly remedied and he was brought back on.
** Randy has been Flanderized into this. In earlier seasons, he was a competent, if slightly doofy, geologist. Unfortunately as the seasons wore on, he continually got himself in increasingly stupid situations (some of which involved quitting his Geology job, going into VERY risky business ventures, or being a complete dipshit around the office). However it's been implied that Randy's litearlly the only scientist in town (no mention of Dr. Mephisto during that episode oddly enough).
* BumblingDad: Randy Marsh. ''Dear God Randy Marsh.'' He makes [[TheSimpsons Homer Simpson]] look like [[LeaveItToBeaver Wally Cleaver]]. Some of his brilliant exploits include:
** Attending Little League games for the express purpose of getting into fights with competing team members' dads.
** Driving drunk, then after attending Alcoholics Anonymous [[spoiler:shaving his head chemo-style and residing himself to a wheelchair under insane delusions of disease.]]
** Listening to music he literally perceives as shit, then performing said music in order to be "cool" and "in tune with" the "kids today".
** Trying to stop his 13 year old daughter from attending a musical and killing her 'boyfriend'.
** Saying a certain n word on national television.
* BuriedAlive: Cartman in ''Go God Go'', necktie variant.
* ButThouMust: In the episode ''Woodland Critter Christmas'', after Stan [[spoiler:kills the mountain lion and finds out that the animals he had helped to build a manger are actually Satan worshipers]] he repeatedly refuses to [[spoiler:take her now-orphaned cubs to learn how to perform abortions. With a forceful "[[PunctuatedForEmphasis YES. HE. DID!]]" the scene jump-cuts to an abortion doctor, with Stan and the mountain lion cubs there.]] Stan is not amused.
** Earlier than that, Stan attempted to stay home after learning the Critters' true nature.
--->He tried to forget all about it by watching TV,\\
but his conscience caught up with him and to the forest he did flee.\\
''(Stan stays put.)''\\
He thought he could hide from his problems - not true!\\
He knew in his heart the thing he had to do!\\
''(Stan is getting annoyed by the persistent narration.)''\\
He knew that only by going to the forest could he--\\
''(Stan finally gives in and leaves the house.)''
* ButtMonkey: Kenny filled the role due to his constant deaths. Pip was the other buttmonkey who is constantly humiliated until his spot was taken by Butters.
** Clyde in some episodes.
* BuxomIsBetter: Parodied in "Bebe's Boobs Destroy Society". Being an early blooming third-grader, her "breasts" are practically nonexistent (she first mistakes them for mosquito bites), but even they're enough to first make every boy in her grade fall head-over-heels for her and eventually transform into lustful, breast obsessed cavemen. [[spoiler: They all grow out of it just in time for Wendy, who's spend the entire episode jealous of Bebe's newfound popularity, to get ridiculously large breast implants, which of course immediately turn her into a subject of mockery instead of adoration.]]
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* CainAndAbel: Lemmiwinks and [[spoiler:Wikileaks]] in "Bass to Mouth". [[spoiler:In this case, it's the good brother killing the evil brother.]]
* TheCakeIsALie: Sorry if you came to LaResistance hoping for [[IWasToldThereWouldBeCake punch and pie]].
* CallBack: In the first Halloween episode, Wendy wins the school costume contest with a [[StarWars Chewbacca]] mask. In the third, Kenny enters the contest with an insanely elaborate HumongousMecha costume and seems a shoo-in to win... only for Wendy to win again with the ''exact same'' mask. They might even have relooped Mr. Garrison's announcing her winner for that one.
** Also in the first Halloween episode was a conversation where Cartman [[ChewbaccaDefense got confused about what planet Wookies come from...]]
** In the season 3 episode ''Starvin' Marvin' in Space'', Cartman blames Kyle for a turd in the urinal. Season 10 makes an episode [[note]] ''the Mystery of the Urinal Deuce''[[/note]] out of finding out who took a crap in the urinal. Cartman blames Kyle, obviously. After a purposefully convoluted plot, it turns out to have been [[spoiler:Stan.]]
** In the Season 8 episode "AWESOM-O", a disguised Eric Cartman asks Butters to reveal private aspects of his life. After mentioning a particularly embarrassing bowel condition, he mentions a bully named—you guessed it—Eric Cartman who likes to play tricks on him. The two incidents he names are from previous episodes: "Jared Has Aides" and "Casa Bonita".
** In the [[WesternAnimation/SouthParkBiggerLongerAndUncut theatrical movie]], General Plymkin shoots Bill Gates in the head after what he believes is a glitch in Windows '98. Gates later appears in "The Entity" (airing two years after the film was released), only this time, with a band-aid poorly covering a hole in his head.
** In "Elementary School Musical", the boys are asked rhetorically "where have you been" when they say they don't know anything about ''HighSchoolMusical.'' [[DeadpanSnarker Craig]] replies "Peru", a CallBack to "Pandemic" earlier in the season.
** In "The Coon", Cartman holds a failed rally for his eponymous superhero alter-ego, where the attendant asks him if he's the same kid that held the "Ginger Pride" rally from "Ginger Kids" and the AIDS benefit from "Tonsil Trouble", to which Cartman angrily denies.
* {{Calvinball}}: Randy's idea of "Sarcastaball". The players wear bras and tinfoil hats.
* CameBackStrong: Parodied when Cartman throws himself off a roof and wakes up from a coma in the hospital, and the cops who have the IdiotBall believe he has precognition. Kyle later does the same thing at the end of the episode so people will believe him about the serial killer and Cartman. Eerily, the lights flicker violently when he gets frustrated.
* CameBackWrong: When Butters fakes his death, his dad buries the mutilated pig remains he thinks is Butters in an Indian burial ground - when Butters goes back home his parents assume this is what's happened, and chain him up in the basement.
* CanadaEh: Canadians are usually portrayed as having floppy PacMan esque heads and black beady eyes.
** All Canadian anatomy and technology is shown to be rather, uh, odd. Terrance and Phillip seem to have square testicles—yes we've [[VulgarHumor seen them]] on screen. Canadian automobiles are shown to have square wheels.
** Averted with some actual Canadian celebrities who have been caricatured on the show, including Alanis Morrisette, Music/JustinBieber, SarahMcLachlan, and professional wrestler Wrestling/{{Edge}}.
* TheCanKickedHim: The fate of [[spoiler: Clyde's mom]] in "Reverse Cowgirl."
* CaptainErsatz: TheMovie featured an assortment of original songs that were obvious tributes to numbers from classic American musicals. ''Oklahoma!'' got quoted quite a bit ("Mountain Town"/"O What a Beautiful Morning"; "Uncle Fucka"/the title song; and "It's Easy, Mmmkay?"/"The Farmer and the Cowman"), but there were others. "Kyle's Mom's a Big Fat Bitch" was a pretty generic tribute to early 1900s musicals in general, complete with a "showstopper" climax followed by a "Good evening, friends!" finale. "La Resistance" is structured after "One Day More" from ''Theatre/LesMiserables'' and the Quintet from ''Theatre/WestSideStory''; "La Resistance (Reprise)" is more specifically derived from "A Little Fall Of Rain" from ''Theatre/LesMiserables''.
** In terms of characters, the [[AddedAlliterativeAppeal Secret Society of Cynics]] from "Ass Burgers" is heavily based on Morpheus's gang from ''Film/TheMatrix''.
* CaptainObvious: Captain Hindsight is a hop and a skip away from this.
* CaptainSuperhero: Captain Hindsight.
* CaptivityHarmonica: In TheMovie, by Ike. Also in "Whale Whores" by Eric Cartman and in the season three episode "Jakovasaurous".
* {{Card Carrying Villain}}s: The Woodland Critters.
* CarloadOfCoolKids: There's one episode where people from the future repeatedly come to live in their own enclave, called Little Future. A bunch of futurists drive by in a hovercar and wordlessly start jumping the car up and down (as if it were a lowrider).
* CarMeetsHouse: Played with in the episode that covered the dangers of elderly drivers. Said old people chase the boys through the house serial-killer style, using their cars. Lampshaded when [[spoiler: the boys and Randy take cover on the ''second'' story of a house, only to flip on the lights and reveal another car with elderly drivers. Cue driver: "How the hell did we get up here?"]]
* CassandraTruth: Often happens, somewhat justified as some of what the boys say is hard to believe, but this is ''South Park'' after all. Sgt. Yates never seems to listen to Kyle. Stan trying to prove that John Edward is only conducting a parlor trick, or that there is a fish that is out for blood.
** "I broke the dam"
* TheCastShowoff: Trey Parker. So very much. Pick an episode and it will usually have him singing or it will have something spoken or written in Japanese (for those who don't know, Trey Parker is the lead singer of the band, DVDA, and majored in Japanese in college)
** Isaac Hayes before he left. In almost every appearance, he's singing.
* CatapultNightmare: ''South Park'' loves this trope.
* {{Catchphrase}}: Stan and Kyle's "Oh my God, they killed Kenny!" "You bastards!" exchange, Cartman's "[[ScrewThisImOuttaHere Screw you guys, I'm going home]]!", "Respect mah authoritah!" and "Goddamn it!" with [[CharacterTic cocking head and squinted eyes]].
** They also [[PlayingWithTropes toyed with]] the "They killed Kenny" line a lot; one of the best was when it became a version of "Marco! Polo!" to let Stan find Kyle in "Super Best Friends". Then there was the "I found a penny!" bit from "Chef's Chocolate Salty Balls".
** The classic Butters catchphrase: "Oh, hamburgers!"
*** In "Butters' Bottom Bitch", he learns a new one off the pimps, with it becoming increasingly natural for him to say...
--> '''Butters:''' Do you know what I am saying?
*** Butters also has "Fellas! FELLAS!"
** Randy Marsh: "Well, ''that'' sucks."
** Stan has "Goddammit!", "Oh, ohhhhhh!", and in the earlier seasons, a simple "Dude", or "That right there, that was fucked up".
** Everyone from New Jersey: "It's a Jersey thing!"
* CatchphraseInterruptus
* CaughtWithYourPantsDown: In "Overlogging", Stan's dad Randy has gone for weeks without masturbating to internet porn, (which he needs, as normal porn is now too tame) eventually near the end he sneaks into the camp's computer room, looks at a bunch of perverted things, and [[spoiler: in a moment of Squick ejaculates all over the room and himself. He tells the people who come to investigate the strange noises that "a ghost was attacking him and slimed him with ectoplasm". He asks several times if anyone else "saw the ghost."]]
* CelestialParagonsAndArchangels: There are three of them in "Best Friends Forever": ArchangelMichael, ArchangelGabriel, and ArchangelUriel.
* CensoredTitle:
** The episode "Chicken Lover"—the name of the villain is actually "Chicken Fucker", but the name of the episode was changed.
*** The term "Chicken Lover" ''was'' used in the episode, to be fair— three times by Officer Barbrady and once by Cartman.
--->'''Officer Barbrady:''' Uh, Mayor, please. When we're around children we prefer to call him the "Chicken ''Lover''".
** The episode "You Got Fucked in the Ass" as well, usually switched to "You Got F'd in the A" or just "You Got...".
** Also, in the newspaper's TV sections, "Make Love, Not Warcraft" became just "World of Warcraft", and "Miss Teacher Bangs a Boy" had the word "Bangs" removed, making the title just "Miss Teacher ... a Boy".
** "The Biggest Douche in the Universe" is truncated in TV listings to just "The Biggest". The two-parter that closes Season 1 ("Cartman's Mom is a Dirty Slut") and [[AprilFoolsDay "officially"]] opens Season 2 ("Cartman's Mom is Still a Dirty Slut") has "(is) a dirty slut" replaced by ellipses. The "bitch" in "Butters' Bottom Bitch" is replaced with a "B".
** "An Elephant Fucks a Pig" was toned down to "An Elephant Makes Love to A Pig", which Parker and Stone found ridiculous.
* {{Cephalothorax}}: The "girl born without a midsection" on the Maury Povich show.
* CerebusRetcon: [[spoiler: Kenny's recurring deaths]] and [[spoiler: the explanation behind the subsequent {{Snap Back}}s given in "Cartman Joins NAMBLA"]] are given a '''dark''' twist in "Mysterion Rises".
** And it's not about Kenny's dad [[spoiler:getting raped by the 30 or so middle aged men in that episode]] either.
** You know all those wacky activities that Randy hilariously takes as SeriousBusiness? Well, it turns out... [[spoiler:that Randy was trying to distract himself from the fact that he's unhappy with his life.]]
** It might have always been there but "Cash For Gold" revealed that [[spoiler: Stan's grandpa has Alzheimer's disease, making him calling Stan "Billy" all those times a little less funny]].
* CerebusSyndrome: While the show is still very much a comedy, its tone has changed significantly over its run. Early seasons were silly and sitcom-like, with a sense of humor reminiscent of ''Series/MontyPythonsFlyingCircus'' and ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons''; later seasons became increasingly topical, with most episodes featuring recent political or social issues, while the BlackComedy became even blacker to the point of becoming a {{Dramedy}} with a DownerEnding or two and increasingly common and [[{{Squick}} graphic]] [[FamilyUnfriendlyViolence violence]].
* CharacterAsHimself: In the movie, the end credits read, "And Saddam Hussein as Himself" in the "Cast" section, though the voice was actually done by Matt Stone.
* CharacterDevelopment: In "Coon 2: Hindsight", Liane actually puts her foot down and disciplines Eric. Borders on an OutOfCharacterMoment. This development continues in season 15, though.
** Cartman has developed both ways. At first he was just a spoiled brat who got worse and worse. He evolved into a ManipulativeBastard capable of rounding up a lynch mob with a stirring speech, and rose to the point where the writers had trouble thinking up how to top himself. "Tsst" suggests an attempt to take him back down to sane levels. He's still spoiled, selfish and agressively dominant, but a few of the demons have been exorcised.
** "1%" appears to have furthered this development.
** The town of South Park itself has undergone development over the years, gaining more businesses and residents, becoming more of a medium-sized town, to the point of having a mall. The sole South Park policeman, Officer Barbrady, has been marginalized over the years in favor of a county police force (though Barbrady now seems to be more competent than in the earlier seasons). This development is best shown in the new season 17 intro, where many more houses and businesses (many of which are from past episodes) are shown to populate the town.
* CharacterizationMarchesOn: The children characters were generally more childish and {{bratty|HalfPint}} early on. Stan and Kyle were generally lower scale bullies (compare their treatment of Butters in early and later episodes) while Cartman was less calculating and sociopathic and more just a {{Jerkass}}. That said, they can still be immature at times in later seasons.
** Stan went from your run-of-the-mill kid and low-grade bully to a cross between the OnlySaneMan and [[KnightInShiningArmor The Knight]].
** Kyle went from your average [[PetTheDog occasionally-caring-occasionally-kind]] young boy to a cross between TheParagon and TheConscience (except when it comes to [[ArchEnemy Cartman]]). Much of his initial childish traits, such as in "Are you there God? It's me, Jesus" seemed to be transferred over to Butters.
** Cartman went from a cross between BrattyHalfPint and {{Jerkass}} to [[EnfantTerrible a complete psychopath]].
** Kenny went from TheWorldsExpertOnGettingKilled to TheHedonist
*** And that change may be [[JustifiedTrope justified]] as him trying to live his life to the fullest, because he dies all the time, and really has no reason to avoid potentially life-threatening activities. (That and the fact that the creators have stated that the "Kenny dying every episode" trope had gotten stale and/or they had reached the point where they had trouble thinking of original deaths (almost) every episode. This was one of the reasons for [[MoodWhiplash the episode "Kenny Dies"]].)
** Randy underwent a huge change. Compare his very first scene—where he casually sips coffee after learning of a volcanic eruption—to his main character trait later on, i.e. freaking out over every little thing, including non-existent threats.
* CheatingWithTheMilkman: The episode "Insecurity" suggests this trope had been modernized with UPS deliverymen in place of milkmen.
* ChekhovsBoomerang: In the episode "200," every celebrity/famous figure that has been on South Park is back in this episode. Tom Cruise, Barbara/Mecha Streisand, Mel Gibson, Bono, Paris Hilton, R. Kelly, Sally Struthers, you get the point. They're ALL back to sue the town..
* ChekhovsGag: In "You're Getting Old", there's a joke where Stan can't tell the difference between a turd in a microwave and an ad for Kevin James's ''Zookeeper''. In the following episode, at the very end, Stan's friends ask him to come watch a movie together. Guess which one it is a sequel of.
--> '''Cartman:''' ''Zookeeper 2: Zookeepier''!
* ChekhovsGun: The "goo" that came out of the Rob Reiner at the end of "Butt Out" becomes a plot point in the episode "200".
** "The Death of Eric Cartman" establishes that the boys love KFC. After the boys decide to [[DisproportionateRetribution start ignoring him after eating all the chicken breading]], he becomes convinced that he is actually dead, confirming it to himself when hearing reports about what he ate clogging the toilet as referring to [[NauseaFuel rupturing his colon]].
*** The plot of a latter episode, "Medicinal Fried Chicken" revolves heavily around KFC.
** [[spoiler:The V-Chip implanted in Cartman's head]] near the end of TheMovie.
** The "Kenny born for the 52nd time" gag at the end of "Cartman Joins NAMBLA" becomes a major plot point in the "Coon and Friends" trilogy.
** In "Margaritaville", Kyle holds a Sermon about the economy, saying he applied for an American Express Platinum card to prove a point, and holds it up to show his audience. Near the end of the episode, he uses that same credit card to pay off the town's debts.
* ChekhovsGunman: In the ''Coon and Friends'' saga: who'd have thunk that [[spoiler: Mint-Berry Crunch, who came out of nowhere, had no real significance to the plot, and was [[WhatKindOfLamePowerIsHeartAnyway a noticeably lame superhero]], would wind up being the one to fix everything?]] Even Cartman's surprised.
--> '''Cartman:''' (in disbelief) [[spoiler:[[DidntSeeThatComing Fucking Mint-Berry fucking Crunch]]...]]
* ChekhovsHobby: In "Lil' Crime Stoppers" a drug cartel states that they'll have to have the McCormicks start making their meth again. Nobody payed much attention. Then eight years later it becomes a major plot point in "The Poor Kid"
* ChekhovsSkill: Parodied in the episode "You Have 0 Friends" with Stan's ability to... roll Yahtzee?
* CherryTapping:
-->'''Kyle:''' Cartman, what are you doing?\\
'''Cartman:''' I'm killing you. Unfortunately I could only afford a [[NerfArm wiffle bat]], so it's gonna take a while.
* TheChessmaster: Both Cartman and Kyle frequently engage in this with one another. Typically involves Cartman developing a scheme and Kyle attempting to counter it. This can get quite elaborate as both are more than familiar with the other's capability.
* ChildPopstar: Cartman's ChristianRock band, Faith +1, is just one example.
* ChildProdigy: Ike is the most blatant version of this trope with his recreation of the last supper using macaroni and contributing to a diamond heist and becoming a knight in Canada before reaching 4.
** To a lesser extent, Kyle can be this. He has regularly been portrayed as the smartest in the 4th grade class. Existential philosophy, crossbreeding of animals, photoshopping well enough to fool a foreign government and single-handedly thwarting a terrorist plot while the government sits by idly isn't exactly typical of an eight to ten year old.
** Cartman may be somewhat BookDumb, but he is a certifiable master at scheming and manipulation and when enticed will go to great lengths to get what he wants. Is frequently capable of getting the better of Kyle's attempts to stop his plan of the week.
* ChildrenAreInnocent: Usually subverted, most often with the murderous Cartman and the sex-crazed, glue-sniffing Kenny. It's also often played straight. Butters is most usually portrayed as innocent, while other children are sometimes shown to be uncorrupted by various stupid or disgusting aspects of adult culture.
** In the [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Fga_q5on1I commentary for the episode "Bebe's Boobs Destroy Society",]] Matt and Trey explicitly state that they disagree with this trope, instead believing that people are born corrupt and that "society keeps us just barely in line."
** Played straight in some episodes ''even by Cartman'', like the one where the kids simply cannot fathom that people kill each other for having different-colored skin, or when they use "fag" without implying gay (for obnoxious Harley riders).
* ChristianRock: Parodied in "Christian Rock Hard" as taking pop love songs and substituting "Jesus" for one's lover.
-->'''Cartman:''' "I want to get down on my knees and start pleasing Jesus, I want to feel his salvation all over my face..."
* ChronicPetKiller: A variant, where it turns out that all of Creator/ParisHilton's pets had committed suicide rather then putting up with their obnoxious owner.
* ChuckCunninghamSyndrome:
** Major character Pip went from featuring heavily and getting his own solo episode, to vanishing permanently and never being mentioned again until ''201'' [[spoiler:where he was promptly killed by Mecha-Streisand.]]
** A lot of early season characters on ''South Park'' haven't been seen much (or at all) in later episodes, such as:
** Officer Barbrady: Effectively replaced by a full police force around season 7, though he is still brought back for small appearances every now and again.
** Kenny's brother, Kevin (the dirty kid who speaks like a hick, when he speaks at all). He was only seen on "Starvin' Marvin" (from season one), "Chickenlover" (from season two), and "Chickenpox" (also from season two). His most recent appearance (I think) was at the end of season 12 where he's at the dinner table and Kenny gets shot by a stray bullet (with no one in the family doing the "Oh my God! They killed Kenny!" bit).
*** Actually, his most recent appearance was in the Season 15th episode, That Poor Kid.
** {{Lampshade|Hanging}}d in "Cartman's Incredible Gift" when Ms. Crabtree is murdered by a serial killer.
---> '''Lou:''' I owe it to that victim over there! I know she hadn't been in any recent episodes, but DAMMIT, she deserved better than this!
** Damien hasn't reappeared in years despite his father making numerous reappearances.
** Nurse Goodly (the nurse with no arms from "Cartman's Mom Is Still a Dirty Slut") hasn't made a reappearance in scenes taking place in Hell's Pass Hospital.
* ChurchOfHappyology: Quite notably averted. Even ended the episode by daring them to sue.
* CircumcisionAngst: Subverted: Kyle thinks they're going to cut off his brother's penis!
* [[CityOfAdventure Town of Adventure]]
* ClicheStorm: Invoked in "About Last Night..." is intentionally full of HeistFilm cliches.
* ClipShow: Spoofed in "City On the Edge of Forever", in which all the flashbacks are incorrect and all inexplicably end with the characters involved eating ice cream.
--> "Now that's what I call [[{{Pun}} a sticky situation]]!"
** There's even a flashback of the kids in a ''Series/HappyDays'' scenario watching Fonzie jump over buses on his bike, and that's treated like it was from an actual episode -- the joke being that kids say that the flashback was wrong because if Kenny died eight hours ago, how could he have died back then as well? And then they turn things UpToEleven by bringing up a flashback from ''earlier in the episode!'' "Remember that time that that kid in the RedShirt decided to go off on his own?" Things play out just like that earlier scene, up until after the monster ate the kid:
-->''(the monster, instead of running away like in the real scene, pulls out some ice cream)''\\
'''Kyle:''' Hey look! He's got ice cream!\\
''(the monster tears a hole in the roof of the bus -- just like when he killed Kenny in a scene elsewhere in the episode -- and gives ice cream to the kids)''
* CloserToEarth: Initially subverted, with most of the female residents often being twice as obnoxious as the males ([[CharacterizationMarchesOn it's hard to believe that Randy Marsh was actually the more laid back of the two earlier on]]). Played more straight in later episodes where even the more obnoxious females such as Wendy and Sheila are far less shrill and prone to {{Idiot Ball}}s. [[AdultsAreUseless For most of the adult characters, this is about only as "Closer To Earth" as Jupiter is to Pluto]] (and naturally all female celebrities are free game).
** Played pretty straight with Sharon. Paired with her husband they're the stereotypical "Woman smart, man stupid" sitcom couple.
* {{Cloudcuckooland}}: {{Canada|Eh}}. Watch out for Scott!
* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: Anyone from Canada. Butters and Cartman seem to be shifting more towards this trope as of recently too.
** Also, Randy Marsh.
** President Bush. Apparently he thinks Saddam Hussein is Satan's gay boyfriend and that he is somehow building chemical weapons plants in Heaven. Subverted in that he is [[CassandraTruth completely right about everything]].
*** He's actually portrayed as pretty intelligent in his later appearances: he's the OnlySaneMan in parts of "Cartoon Wars" and almost pulls off a XanatosGambit in "The Mystery of the Urinal Deuce." WordOfGod says that they just didn't see a point in making him an idiot when every other show was already playing that joke to death.
** '''Mel Gibson.'''
*** "Ow, my nipples! They hurt when I twist them!"
** Parker and Stone are Cloudcuckoolanders ''themselves''. Seriously, many of the plots to these episodes simply have to be seen to be believed.
* ClusterFBomb: Happens a lot.
** Cluster S Bomb in "It Hits The Fan."
*** Also contains a Cluster F Bomb of a different sort, in regards to Mr. Garrison.
** Cluster B Bomb in the "Kyle's Mom is a Bitch" song
** Cluster N Bomb in "With Apologies to Jessie Jackson."
* ColdBloodedTorture: KanyeWest really, ''really'' wants to know why [[spoiler:Carlos Mencia]] is [[ItMakesSenseInContext calling him a gay fish]].
* ColorMeBlack: One episode has the boys making Cartman think he's [[RedHeadedStepchild a ginger]]. Freckles and hair dye. The episode then turns this trope on its head - rather than making Cartman rethink his horrible attitude, he actually starts a ginger supremacist movement and almost kills every non-ginger kid in town.
* ComeToGawk: Someone's about to get beaten up! Let's call the entire town, so that everybody can watch!
** ''"CRIPPLE FIGHT!!"''
** This is also what happens in "Breast Cancer Show Ever."
* ComedicSociopathy
* ComicBookTime: The boys started out as 8-year-olds in 3rd grade. In season 4, they moved onto 4th grade and are now 9-year-old boys. They have remained 9-years-old and in 4th grade ever since (though occasional recent episodes make reference to them being either 8 or 9).
** In "Crack Baby Athletic Association", Stan says that everyone present (Cartman, Kyle, Butters, Clyde, and Craig) is ten years old. Later in "You're Getting Old" Stan himself turns ten, so this is probably the default age for all the kids now.
** In "Ike's Wee Wee" it was stated Ike was born in 1996. This makes no sense nowadays as his older brother was stated to be born in 2001 in "You have 0 Friends".
* ComicallyMissingThePoint: Cartman tends to exemplify this one, the "Major Boobage" episode in particular. Mainly due to the sub-plot of his rescuing the cats from being put into the pound (eventually taking in around 100). When asked by Kyle (a Jew) why the cats are in his attic, he replies with "They're innocent victims in this! They have to hide or they'll be put to death. Something you just can't understand." By the end, we have this exchange between Cartman and Kyle:
-->'''Cartman''': But ya know, we've all learned something, you guys. We can never persecute living beings and force them into hiding. It's wrong.\\
'''Kyle''': And you don't see any parallel between that and anything else in history?\\
'''Cartman''': Hmmm, nope. I have no idea what you're talking about, Kyle.
** Although, since it IS Cartman, this could just be him being a {{Jerkass}}.
** In episode 201: [[spoiler:Scott Tenorman's father was Cartman's father. Cartman killed his own father and ''fed him to his half-brother'']]. Cartman has a Heroic--well, a [[HeroicBSOD BSOD of some other character alignment]] over the fact that this means he [[spoiler:is latently ginger]].
** In "Death," the earlier airings feature the following exchange:
--> '''Liane:''' Eric, dear? I just got a call from your friend Kyle's mother. She said that this show is naughty, and might make you a potty mouth.\\
'''Cartman:''' That's a bunch of crap! Kyle's mom is a dirty Jew!\\
'''Liane:''' Ohhh, okay, hon.
:::: Later airings censor the word "dirty," making the joke seem less like Cartman's mother is ignorant of her son's racism, and more like she's just plain stupid.
** This comprises a good half of the plot behind "Fishsticks." Kanye West, the one person on Earth who can't understand the titular joke, will go to [[InsaneTrollLogic great]] [[ColdBloodedTorture lengths]] in his vain attempt to "get it."
* ComingOfAgeStory: "1%", in a rather twisted way.
** "You're Getting Old" was this for Stan.
** "Smug Alert" has the town realize that their own smugness caused a terrible storm and that driving hybrid cars was the sole cause of it, even though Kyle points out that it's possible to drive a hybrid without being a douche about it.
* CondescendingCompassion: Nurse Golem calls the townspeople out on that when they are celebrating her, saying the last thing she needs is attention, and she just wants to be treated like everyone else.
* ConfessionCam: Parodied heavily at the beginning of "It's a Jersey Thing", culminating with when Sheila admits she's from {{Joisey}}.
-->'''Sharon:''' Sheila, who are you talking to?\\
'''Sheila:''' You wouldn't understand. It's a Jersey thing.
** And again in "I Should Have Never Gone Ziplining"
** In "Proffesor Chaos", they parody The Bachelor when [[spoiler:looking for someone to take Butter's place]]
* ConservationOfCompetence
* ConspicuousCG: Even though the show is ''entirely'' animated on a computer (albeit stylized like construction paper), there's actually quite a few times where it's even more obvious. Which has become '''''very''''' noticeable in the later seasons. It is generally agreed that this is frequently intentional to maintain the appearance of the show looking cheap.
** Some examples include the return of Mecha Streishand in "201", the race sequences in "Poor and Stupid", the titular creature in the "{{Cthulhu}} Trilogy" and pretty much every background since season 5.
* ConsultingAConvictedKiller: In the episode "Toilet Paper", {{Parody}}ing ''TheSilenceOfTheLambs'', Officer Barbrady consults Josh, locked up for toilet papering houses, to help him with a similar case.
* ContemplateOurNavels: in 'The Tooth Fairy Tats' has Kyle start to doubt his own existence after discovering the tooth fairy isn't real. He spends the rest of the episode reading various philosophy books and talking about the nature of reality, even when the conversation around him is something different. He finally has an out-of-body, one-with-the-universe experience, and comments that it was weird. [[BigLippedAlligatorMoment It's never, ever spoken of again.]]
* ContinuityCavalcade: "200"
* ContinuityNod: Willzyx and Tom Cruise on the moon in ''Coon 2''.
** Then we finally have Mysterion's identity and ''actual'' power explained. [[spoiler: Mysterion is Kenny, who ''can't die''. On top of that, the conclusion to the Coon/Mysterion saga showed Kenny's mother giving birth again, sans pregnancy, and regretting going to any of the Cult's meetings. This is a direct nod to the episode when she gave birth to a Kenny look-alike, ''after'' Kenny had died trying to prevent the new kid from being born]].
** In "1%" an Okama [=GameSphere=] can be seen in Token's room.
* ContractualPurity: [[invoked]] Parodied in ''Britney's New Look''. The climax reveals that [[spoiler:the public intentionally set up celebrities like BritneySpears (and later MileyCyrus) on a high pedestal just to see them fall. All so they can have a good harvest.]]
* ConvictedByPublicOpinion: When the heads of a boy scout group were taken to court for discriminating against gays, the judge, when about to announce the verdict, said it was based on public opinion.
* CookingDuel: When Stan battles his Facebook profile in a game of Yahtzee.
** Again in Creme F'raische, which pits Randy against various reality TV cooking stars, such as Guy Ferrera and Chef Ramsey [[spoiler: which is actually a disguised Cartman.]]
* CoolAndUnusualPunishment: When the FBI captures the gang in "Starvin' Marvin InSpace!", the interrogator forces the four boys to talk... by [[MostAnnoyingSound rubbing his hand against a balloon]].
* CoolTeacher: Parodied with Mr. Cartmanez.
* CoordinatedClothes: The Goths are proud of their non-conformity. "If you wanna be one of the non-conformists, all you have to do is dress just like us and listen to the same music we do."
* CorruptCorporateExecutive: [[spoiler:MickeyMouse]] in "The Ring".
** And, to tease Disney and mock its legalistic ways that result in lawsuits, [[spoiler:Mickey Mouse turns into a giant monster that breathes fire all over South Park.]]
** Also [[NativeAmericanCasino several Native Americans owning a large casino]] who threatened to tear down South Park to make way for a highway. Subverted with the CEO of Wal-Mart, who seems to be one, but is actually just a pawn to [[EldritchAbomination Wal-Mart itself]].
** "Chef-Aid:" "I am above the law!"
* CouchGag: In the early seasons, [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=egFzYz1W8M0 this]] version of the theme song would be used whenever there was a Halloween episode instead of the [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S8p22rtNMoM standard]] animation.
* CounterpointDuet: Between Randy and Skeeter in "I'm A Little Bit Country". The song was reprised at the episode to show that they had reconciled.
* CountryMatters: The only swear word that isn't thrown around with gleeful abandon. There are a few times they [[GettingCrapPastTheRadar sneak it in]] though.
** Stan tries to get Wendy back by having Jimmy tell her she's a "continuing source of inspiration" to him and his stutter makes it sound like... that.
** Randy calls Sharon this in "Clubhouses" ("did you just say the 'c' word?"), but it's censored. On the other hand, Tiger Woods calls his wife this in "Sexual Healing", and it is ''not'' censored.
** Russell Crowe starts to call a woman this in "The New Terrance and Phillip Movie Trailer", but it's [[CurseCutShort cut short]].
** And in Wendy's audition song for [[BoyBand Fingerbang]]: "Balzac was a writer/ He lived with Allen Funt/ Mrs. Roberts didn't like him/ But that's 'cause she's a/ Contaminated water can really make you sick..."
*** That song uses {{subverted rhyme|EveryOccasion}}s on several curse words, and outright uses the word "fuck" (bleeped on TV, though in such a way that it's obvious what it was, as always with South Park). Yet, the title of the song (never mentioned on TV) focuses on just one of the words so subverted - [[CaptainObvious guess which one]]. [[https://www.google.com/search?q=wendy%27s+cunt+song&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls]]
* CourtroomAntic: Spoofed in "Chef Aid".
* CoyGirlishFlirtPose: NataliePortman when she demurely turns down requests to [[ItMakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext open her wormhole]].
* CrapSaccharineWorld: The show in its initial state, before it became DarkerAndEdgier.
* CrapsackWorld: Especially after the (relatively) [[LighterAndSofter tamer]] and [[CrapsaccharineWorld sillier]] early seasons.
** Gets a [[LiteralMetaphor literal]] treatment with "You're Getting Old"/"Ass Burgers": [[spoiler: Poor Stan watches his life fall apart around him; and after it all, right as he finally regains his enthusiasm in life, he's dragged back into the status quo against his will, turning to alcoholism just to go on living normally.]]
* CreatorProvincialism: Trey and Matt are from Colorado, so they set their series in a small town about 40 miles from Trey's homeland - even taking its name from the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Park_(Park_County,_Colorado) South Park grassland]].
* CreepyCleanliness: Linda Stotch when learning her husband is cheating on her with men.
* CreepyGood: [[spoiler: [[Franchise/ANightmareOnElmStreet Freddy Krueger]]]].
* CrisisOfFaith: Kyle has one when Cartman gets his own theme park and he gets... haemorrhoids.
* {{Crossdresser}}:
** Butters has been dressing as a girl on and off ever since his first significant role in "Two Guys Naked In A Hot Tub" - not only did he suggest playing ''Series/CharliesAngels'' with women's clothes, he also said he should get to play Jacklyn since it was his idea. This little game got more intense in "Marjorine".
** Cartman has dressed up as a girl a couple of times too.
* CrossReferencedTitles:
** "Do The Handicapped Go to Hell?" "Probably."
** "Cartman's Mom is a Dirty Slut." "Cartman's Mom is Still a Dirty Slut."
* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: Butters gets a surprisingly high number of these moments.
* CruelTwistEnding: "The Return of Chef", "Stanley's Cup" and "Scott Tenorman Must Die", although the latter two are played for laughs.
* CrushParade: [[TheyKilledKenny Kenny's first ever death]] on ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'' sees him blasted onto a road by an alien raygun, trampled by a herd of stampeding cows, and the killing blow comes when he's run over by Officer Barbrady's police cruiser. After that, his body is eaten by rats.
* TheCuckoolanderWasRight: In "Reverse Cowgirl" [[spoiler:Butters admits he thought the correct way to sit on the toilet was to sit inward so you can rest your reading material on the top and reach the handle without having to look down. Near the end John Harrington's ghost confirms that this is how he intended it to be used]].
* CulturalTranslation: Sega Dreamcast is changed into Playstation in the Polish translation simply because no one there knew what a Dreamcast was.
** "Come Sail Away" was swapped out for "La Cucaracha" in a dub aired on Mexican local TV, while the other Spanish-language dubs used other alternative songs in its place.
** Starvin' Marvin was referred to as "Paco el Flaco" (Paco the Skinny) in the original Latin American dub. Big Gay Al became "Gran Pato Al" (''pato'' being slang for an effeminate gay man).
* CulturePolice: Sheila is the freakin' CHIEF of the Culture Police.
* CureYourGays: Butters gets sent to a camp of this nature in "Cartman Sucks".
* CutLexLuthorACheck: That Hippie Drill Cartman came up with in "Die, Hippie, Die"; it could have been used for so much more; and yet they only use it to disperse a hippie festival. (Sure, it could've consumed the the town like a giant, pot-smoking ameoba, but still, you would think that Cartman would've sold it to the government or something for a massive profit.)
* CutTheJuice: In the ''24'' parody episode.
** And "Over Logging".
* CuteIsEvil: The Woodland Christmas Critters.
* CuttingTheKnot: When Stan and Kyle try to destroy the [[BlandNameProduct Wall Mart]] by destroying its core, they see that the core is a mirror. The Wall Mart CEO goes on about the symbolism about how it is the citizens of the town that are fueling the Wall Mart, etc. Stan shrugs and says the guy told them to destroy the core, so Kyle shatters the mirror which destroys the Wall Mart.
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* DamnedByAFoolsPraise: If the writers think something sucks, they'll often express it by having Cartman or Butters like it.
** In "Timmy 2000" in particular, everyone gets addicted to Ritalin, causing them to mellow out and begin to like Music/PhilCollins. [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone The pharmacists were not happy about this development.]]
* DarkerAndEdgier: Pre-Season 5, the show was really silly and amusing. But once we get to the season of uncensored cursing, Cartman [[spoiler: killing two people and grinding them up into chili]], brainwashing Earth Day cults, life-threatening hemorrhoids, genetically-engineered towels, and butt-faced people, sooner or later, you'll realize that the show has gotten a near-complete overhaul.
** ''[[TheMovie Bigger, Longer & Uncut]]'' has a higher body count than the first three seasons combined, a legitimate BigBad, and a global-scale war that is taken ''[[SeriousBusiness deadly serious]]''.
* DawsonCasting
** The episode "I Should Have Never Gone Ziplining" features a live action segment with all four boys portrayed by actors clearly in their mid-twenties.
** All children, excluding Ike and similarly aged toddlers, are portrayed by Trey Parker, Matt Stone, and other adult voice actors with their voices sped up or simply imitating child like voices.
* ADayInTheLimelight:
** The Goth Kids in "The Ungroundable"
** Wendy in "Stupid Spoiled Whore Video Playset", "The List", "Breast Cancer Show Ever" among others.
** Butters' Very Own Episode" deserves a special mention, although he [[AscendedExtra later became a major character]].
** Jimmy is definitely a running second to Butters in this category. "Erection Day", "Krazy Kripples", "Crippled Summer", "Fishsticks", "Up the Down Steroid" just to name a few.
** Ike in "Royal Pudding"
* DeadlineNews: In "Night of the Living Homeless".
* DeadpanSnarker: Stan and Craig. ''Especially'' Craig.
-->'''Craig:''' This is fun. Let's walk for miles through a spooky jungle. It just keeps getting better and better.
* DeathIsASlapOnTheWrist: Cartman sums it up best in "Cartmanland" regarding Kenny's constant deaths.
--> '''Cartman''': [[LampshadeHanging Oh, come on! Kenny dies all the time!]]
* DeathIsTheOnlyOption: In the episode "Fantastic Easter Special", Jesus, who is imprisoned, asks Kyle to kill him in order for [[DeathActivatedSuperpower his powers to activate]]. Kyle, being Jewish, [[UnfortunateImplications is, naturally, very uncomfortable with this]].
* DeclarativeFinger: Towelie does this when dispensing towel advice.
* {{Deconstruction}}: In "Kenny Dies," they took their OverusedRunningGag of Kenny dying and [[KilledOffForReal played it absolutely straight]], with [[DramaBomb similarly unconventional results]]. [[UnexplainedRecovery For a while]].
** Also in the "Coon and Friends" trilogy, Kenny [[spoiler: as Mysterion]] finally decides to speak to his friends about the matter without the muffle, and completely seriously. It turns out that [[WeirdnessCensor no one has the ability to remember]] the deaths, and Kenny reappears in his bed, or occasionally somewhere else.
* DeconstructiveParody: "Crippled Summer" has one of ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'' and its AmusingInjuries.
* DefiedTrope: In "Butt Out", Kyle attempts to avoid CannotSpitItOut, only to get CassandraTruth.
* DemotedToExtra: Most of the characters from the early seasons, particularly Officer Barbrady and Dr. Mephisto, who were major characters in many episodes, and often had whole shows featuring them (both later vanished, and South Park even got a real police force). The Mayor appeared far less as time went on, and Chef was showing up less and less (after being more or less the fourth most important character on the show) before he was killed off. Most of the one-off characters, too.
** ''The boys themselves''. More and more episodes seem to follow the formula of "Randy does something stupid, while Stan & Kyle get maybe one or two lines in the beginning".
** Tweek, Pip, Wendy, Ike, Jimbo & Ned, Fr. Maxi, Kenny, Mrs. Cartman, Kyle's parents and Mr. Garrison have scarcely appeared in later seasons.
*** Lately, however, Kenny HAS been getting more appearances, even getting his own episode with Butters in "Going Native" [[spoiler: AND NOT DYING!]]
* DepravedHomosexual: '''Mr. Garrison.'''
** Though, as Chef once noted, "there is a BIG difference between gay people and Mr. Garrison." Liking men is the ''least'' weird thing about his sexual preferences.
** Cartman. Jimmy put it best in "Imaginationland".
*** And put on display in "Cartman Finds Love".
* DespotismJustifiesTheMeans: Eric Cartman has a deep fondness for this. "Probably", "Dances With Smurfs" and "Crack Baby Athletic Association" are just three examples among many, many others.
* {{Determinator}}: Cartman may be a gigantic prick, but when he wants something he'll go to almost ridiculous lengths to get it.
** Kyle at times too. Both can be pushed easily if it's at the other's expense actually.
** Butters in "Super Fun Time".
--->'''Butters:''' "Teacher, my partner is ''back on the bus''."
** Jimmy in "Erection Day" and "Up the Down Steroid".
* DeusExMachina: [[spoiler:Mintberry Crunch]], full-stop. Also, the ending of the film.
* DevilInPlainSight: Averted, in that many characters know that Cartman is a JerkAss. However, authority figures like Mr. Garrison, Principal Victoria, and Mr. Mackey oftentimes treat Stan and Kyle as if they're just as bad (or, in "Toilet Paper," ''worse!'') despite this being [[OnlySaneMan far, far from the case.]]
* TheDevilIsALoser: Originally a headstrong rebel and pretty badass his first appearance, his later appearances he's a whiny little bitch. God even calls him out on this. He's also gay for some reason.
** South Park was actually fairly progressive in this area. He's gay because he happens to be attracted to males. It wasn't done for a quick gag or gay plot, it's just a personality trait.
* DiabolusExMachina: Quite common in the show, especially in later seasons, most notably in ''Stanley's Cup''.
* DidDoTheResearch: For all that it is, South Park can be fairly sensitive when the writers want to be. Most of their issues are pretty well researched. When Timmy and Jimmy's conditions become applicable they are taken fairly seriously, "Le Petit Tourettes" handled Tourettes Syndrome better than most recent approaches, many terminal illnesses like AIDS, Cancer and Muscular Dystrophy are researched, they noted that Americans built military bases on Muslim holy ground, and they are not adverse to using Bible quotations.
* [[DidYouJustHaveTeaWithCthulhu Did You Just Make Friends With Cthulhu?]]: Cartman did.
* DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu: [[spoiler:Mintberry Crunch]] did it using the power of [[spoiler:berries and mint]] before dragging him back to whence he came (then he [[spoiler:flipped off his fat sister]]).
* DinkyDrivers: Occurs with Stan and Kenny in the episode "Towelie".
* DiscriminateAndSwitch
* DisneyCreaturesOfTheFarce: The Woodland Critters.
* DisproportionateRetribution: Oh boy, where to start. If an act is featured, it's almost certain to involve Cartman.
** The ending to "Scott Tenorman Must Die".
** In the beginning of "Tsst!", Cartman is in trouble for chaining a boy to the school flagpole, telling him he poisoned his milk (and the antidote is just out of reach), and supplying the poor boy with a hacksaw (it is implied the boy used it). This is a punishment for... calling Cartman chubby. Especially bad if you consider that Stan, Kyle, and Kenny regularly call Cartman ''MUCH'' worse names for "chubby".
** A more meta-example would be the sex-change episode. Okay, we understand that Trey and Matt think that it's wrong but... did they have to have ''Mr. Garrison'' as the primary example? It's the equivalent of having Satan pop out of the ground and say how much he loves a political party!
** How about the one involving the OTHER Scott, [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Scott the Dick]], of the Terrance and Philip fame? Scott, disliking fart jokes is completely reasonable, but is it really enough to validate wishing cancer upon someone, letting Saddam Hussein and his army into Canada in hopes that they'd repeatedly shoot and then decapitate Terrance and Phillip, and then trying to get the people you hate to sacrifice themselves in a suicide bomb attack to fix something you screwed up?
** In Douche & Turd, the slogan "Vote or Die"; meaning if you don't vote, [[LiteralMetaphor P.Diddy will KILL YOU]]. In the same episode, the town banishes Stan for not voting. They tear off his clothes bit by bit, spitting on him, then tie him to a horse and put a bucket on his head, sending him off into the wilderness. [[LampshadeHanging ("Isn't this a little extreme?")]] This was most likely a piss-take on [[NonIndicativeName MTV's youth voting campaign at the time called, you guessed it, "Vote or Die"]].
** "Pandemic". The Department of Homeland Security takes every Peruvian flute band they can find and takes them away to Miami where they plan to make them spend the rest of their lives. Why? For the sole reason that they find them annoying. [[spoiler: That is what it seems like, until Part 2, when we find out that the Peruvian flute bands were the key to keeping some monstrous guinea pigs from causing massive destruction. The DMS did that ''knowing full well what would happen''.]]
** In "T.M.I.," a psychiatrist tries to purposely antagonize Cartman by hurling fat jokes and insults at him to test how he deals with anger. Cartman does not respond with the usual emotional reaction one might expect. Rather, he [[spoiler: uses an iPhone to produce fake evidence that the psychiatrist was involved with a teenager online. The psychiatrist's wife calls the psychiatrist and kills herself over the phone.]]
** In "1%," Cartman responds to being teased about "crying to his stuffed animals" every time he is persecuted by [[spoiler: trashing all of his stuffed animals one by one and blaming it on his friends.]] Also known as, [[TheTysonZone Cartman's interpretation of "growing up".]]
* DistressedDude: Kenny is this because [[TheyKilledKennyAgain you know the drill]].
* TheDitz: Butters.
* DivineDate: Satan and Saddam Hussein (later, Satan and Chris).
* DocumentaryEpisode: "Crippled Summer" and "I Should Have Never Gone Ziplining", which are repectively parodies of ''{{Intervention}}'' and ''IShouldntBeAlive''. The latter episode even had a dramatic reenactment ([[ArtShift filmed in live action]]) for the third act of the episode.
* DodgeballIsHell: Pip becomes a Dodgeball savant when he gets pissed off over people calling him French.
* DoesNotLikeShoes: Kyle's character in ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft''.
* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: Frequently used either satirically or just PlayedForLaughs.
** "Crème Fraiche" has a meta-example with the Shake Weight, only taken UpToEleven.
** "Major Boobage" has a [[PlotThreads B Plot]] about Cartman protecting cats from a WitchHunt by hiding them in his attic and imploring them to be quiet. Kyle gets progressively more annoyed and incredulous that the anti-Semitic Cartman can't "[[LampshadeHanging see any parallel]] between that and [[WorldWarII anything else in history]]."
** Kyle's unconventional advice on the economy in "Margaritaville" is heavily paralleled with Jesus' defiance of the Pharisees.
* DoggedNiceGuy: Both Kyle and Token in "Cartman Finds Love".
* TheDogBitesBack: Butters occasionally gets back at Cartman and/or his relatives for their abuse of him, for ex. "AWESOM-O", "The Ungroundable" and "Cash for Gold".
** In "Poor and Stupid", the Vagisil CEO's wife gets in a race car and deliberately uses it to wreck the Vagisil car after he repeatedly humiliates her for her... feminine odors.
* TheDogWasTheMastermind: In the episode "About Last Night...", Kyle's toddler brother Ike was the key player in Obama and [=McCain's=] ''OceansEleven''-style heist.
* DontExplainTheJoke: Subverted. In ''Fishsticks'', the [[PunnyName fishsticks]] joke becomes funnier when, upon Cartman repeating the joke to Clyde and delivering the punchline, Butters runs up and explains the joke.
--> Butters: You said you like to put fish sticks [[note]]"fish dicks"[[/note]] in your mouth, [[spoiler: that makes you a gay fish]]!
* DoTheyKnowItsChristmasTime
* DoubleAesop: "Simpsons Already Did It" tells us "Nobody cares if ItsBeenDone". It also tells us, in its last seconds, "War is the natural order of life".
* DoubleStandard: Spoofed quite a few times.
** Most recent example: It's not okay to show Mohammed even if he's just standing there looking normal, yet it's okay to show Buddha snorting coke and Jesus watching Internet porn.
** After the censorship debacle, Matt and Trey said they'd "come back next week with something completely different and see what'll happen". That "something" was showing a shark raping a mentally handicapped child. ''Uncensored''. '''''Twice.'''''
** DoubleStandardAbuseFemaleOnMale: Revolves around Stan being beaten and everyone being sympathetic toward him over it... until they find out that the one beating him up is his sister. Then they mock him and call him a pussy. This is despite the fact that Stan's sister is older and bigger than he is, and is also a violent sociopath.
*** Averted in "The Poor Kid." Mysterion (male) beats up an unnamed female student. The female student in question is immediately unsympathetic beforehand, as she's trying to beat up Karen McCormick, a little girl half her size.
** DoubleStandardRapeFemaleOnMale: "Nice..."
* DownerEnding:
** "Stanley's Cup"
** "Toilet Paper"
** "The Tale of Scrotie [=McBoogerballs=]."
** Both [[TwoPartEpisode "You're Getting Old" and "Ass Burgers"]].
** Ginger Cow
** Titties and Dragons
** The Hobbit, mostly because of how true it actually rings.
* TheDragAlong: The characters generally take turns with this. Craig spends two whole episodes {{lampshad|eHanging}}ing this. But after years of improbable adventures it was about time somebody called them on it.
* TheDragon: Kenny or Butters usually act as this to Cartman.
** Cthulhu hmore or less became this to Cartman in "Mysterion Rises".
** General Disarray to Professor Chaos.
* DramaBomb: As soon as Season 5, the show starts to have these, beginning with "Kenny Dies". Other episodes include "Fun with Veal", "The Death Camp of Tolerance", "Toilet Paper", "Red Man's Greed", "Raisins", "Preschool", "The Return of Chef", and "You're Getting Old."
** And in the case of Stan and Kyle's friendship, "Follow That Egg" was the first of several episodes to have these dropped on it in contrast to earlier, sillier episodes such as "Prehistoric Ice Man".
** Cartman himself has quite a big one in "1%".
* DramaticallyMissingThePoint: Stan not getting what a terminal illness means.
* {{Dramedy}}: Believe it or not. The entire series became this as soon as "Kenny Dies" or as late as "Toilet Paper".
* DroppedABridgeOnHim:
** Chef. Though it's more like he was dropped ''off'' the bridge.
** Halfway through the "Professor Chaos"/"Simpsons Already Did It" two-parter, Ms. Choksondik dies off-screen, with the cause of death never revealed. [[note]]Though it may be safe to guess that her [[MeaningfulName name is not meaningless.]][[/note]]
** Pip in the episode "201" [[spoiler: gets stepped on by [[InstantAwesomeJustAddMecha Barbara Streisand]] for no reason.]]
** And lest we forget, one of the early RunningGags of the series was repeatedly dropping bridges on Kenny ([[DeathIsCheap only for him to be perfectly fine once the next episode started]])
* DrivenToSuicide: Most of the deaths in South Park (not counting Kenny's, who is rarely seen killing himself despite his many deaths) are this. Though it's mostly one-time characters doing so, obviously.
** In "Coon Vs Coon and Friends", [[spoiler:Kenny/Mysterion]] attempts to goad Cthulhu into either removing his [[CursedWithAwesome curse of immortality]] or simply killing him once and for all. After a particularly irksome situation where a mysterious stranger behind a CGI portal gives a speech about powers, destiny, an extraterrestial origin etc. only to find out [[spoiler:he's talking about Mintberry Crunch]], who then disappears along with Cthulhu and Cartman, Mysterion goes back to headquarters/Cartman's basement after [[spoiler:Mintberry Crunch saves the world]]. There, he tells his gleeful superhero buddies that he wants to "take a nap" [[spoiler:then promptly shoots himself. For the third time in the trilogy.]]
** In "Pinewood Derby", Emmett Hollis' father shoots himself with a gun after feeling ashamed to have lost to Randy in the derby-''in front of Emmett''-much to his horror. Emmett than says, "He's okay, he's okay, he's okay..." quickly before the scene changes.
** In "Something Wal-Mart This Way Comes", the owner of the local Wal-Mart faces an angry mob of townspeople fed up with its influence, nervously going back and forth between lauding its qualities and expressing his own negative yet defeated opinion of it. During the conversation he writes and shows a note telling the crowd to meet him outside. After then townspeople leave the office confused and disappointed, [[spoiler:the owner suddenly jumps through the window, hanging by a noose. Seconds later, [[NoDeadBodyPoops he craps his pants, proving Cartman right about the phenomenon]] to his satisfaction.]] The same thing happens later with [[spoiler:the founder of Wal-Mart, who shoots himself. And then [[RunningGag craps his pants]].]]
** The shopping channel host in "Cash For Gold", after spending most of the episode being told to do so by Stan and several elderly people. [[spoiler:And does so in the end.]]
** Taken seriously in "Cartman Sucks" where [[spoiler: the gay children in the camp see themselves as evil and unable to change the way they think.]]
* DrugsAreBad: Trope Namer. The episode "Ike's Wee Wee" from season two is this trope all over. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VCDnR6Px-co Literally.]]
* DugTooDeep: BP in "Coon 2: Hindsight"
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* AbhorrentAdmirer: In "Cartman Finds Love," this is Cartman's LaserGuidedKarma for conspiring to [[TheMatchmaker set up]] a TokenMinorityCouple because "people who look the same belong together".
* AbsenteeActor: None of the main boys appear at all in "Not Without My Anus", "Pip", and "A Million Little Fibers". There have also been a few episodes were one or some of the boys are absent throughout.
* AbsurdlyIneffectiveBarricade: In Butt Out. Believing Kyle is going to sneak behind his back to steal the commercial position for the Anti-Smoking team, Cartman sneaks into Kyle's house to nail his bedroom door at night. It turns out not only was Kyle just getting back to his room after getting a glass of water, but the door opened the other way. This still didn't stop Cartman from boarding up the door once Kyle went into his room.
** The Shitty Wall built to keep outsiders out of South Park because they will kidnap their children. Goddamn Mongorians!
*** Which is another poke at history: The townspeople hire the only Chinese member of their town to build the wall to keep out Mongolians, because they have so much experience doing so.
* AbsurdlyPowerfulStudentCouncil: Subverted and parodied in "Dances With Smurfs", and played straight in some episodes.
* AbusiveParents:
** Butters's parents, who will ground him for ''anything,'' including looking silly in his school pictures, even though he wasn't doing anything wrong. Once he was locked in the basement at the end of one episode, and was tellingly absent from the next episode, suggesting he may have been kept down there for up to a week. He sees his father as a kind of grounding-monster, suggesting that the beatings he has mentioned on occasion are more frequent than he lets on. Oh, and there was that whole bit about his mother [[spoiler: [[MoralEventHorizon attempting to murder him]] ]] in his very own episode. With the reveal that even [[spoiler: his grandmother bullies him]], it appears that Child Abuse runs in the Stoch family.
** {{Subverted|Trope}} with Mr. Garrison in "World Wide Recorder Concert": he's shown to have issues with his father for reasons of sexual molestation, but it turns out that he's upset because his father ''didn't'' abuse him.
** The [=McCormick=] kids' ''[[spoiler:strictly]]'' agnostic foster parents in "The Poor Kid".
** Clyde's mother according to "Reverse Cowgirl". Her public humiliation of her son over the toilet seat makes you have to rethink Kyle's mom as the biggest bitch in the whole wide world. Lucky for him, [[spoiler:[[KarmicDeath she dies near the end of the first act by falling into the toilet, because he left the seat up]].]]
** SouthParkTheStickOfTruth revealed that the Tweaks send their ten year old son [[spoiler:to a meth lab]] frequently for deliveries, and constantly have him drink the coffee that they've [[spoiler:put meth into]].
* AccidentalArt: "The Tale of Scrotie [=McBoogerballs=]" was a deliberate TakeThat at this along with TrueArtIsIncomprehensible.
* AccidentalMisnaming:
** One of the teenage skiers in the "Asspen" episode kept referring to Stan Marsh as [[IncrediblyLamePun "Stan Darsh"]]. Even his friends eventually found it annoying.
** One of the rare occasion where the german dub is better - it's Stan ''Arsch''.
*** [[BilingualBonus ...Stan Ass?]]
** His grampa also always calls him "Billy".
** My name's not Kenny!
-->'''Stan:''' "Come on, Kenny."
-->'''Butters:''' "Well I've had about enough of this! My name's not Kenny."
-->'''Kyle:''' "C'mon, Not Kenny"
-->'''Butters:''' "My name's not Not Kenny.'"
-->'''Cartman:''' "Okay, Not Not Kenny."
** From "The Poor Kid":
-->'''Cartman:''' "Laugh it up, people! Carman's mom is so poor that when she goes to KFC she has to lick other people's fingers. Ha! I beat you to it "Keeyal"!"
-->'''Kyle:''' "My name... is not... 'Keeyal'."
*** Done again with Cartman's foster mom.
---->"My name... is not... 'Meeeeym'"
* AchievementsInIgnorance: In "The Wacky Molestation Adventure", Kyle's mother tells him he can only go to the [[FakeBand Raging Pussies]] concert if he takes out the trash, shovels the driveway, and brings democracy to Cuba. Taking it literally, Kyle writes a heartfelt letter to Fidel Castro (complete with song), and Castro is so touched he ends the communist dictatorship. Kyle gets ''pissed'' when his parents still forbid him to go to the concert because they deliberately gave him a task that they thought was impossible.
* AcquiredSituationalNarcissism: "The List", when Clyde becomes a tool when he thinks the girls in school think he's the hottest looking boy.
** There are many episodes where Cartman thought he was living this trope, except what he thought made him "better" than the other kids was completely incorrect.
** Butters, who is usually the NiceGuy in the show, has this happen in one episode where he gets his first kiss, which leads to him [[ItMakesSenseInContext becoming a pimp]]. Stan and Kyle, who stuck up for him at the beginning of the episode, become concerned with his new attitude, but Butters brushes Kyle off.
--->'''Kyle:''' Butters, can't you see this is wrong? You've got little boys all over school spending all their lunch money on kisses. Boys shouldn't be paying for kisses. It's wrong.
--->'''Butters:''' Kyle, every boy pays for kisses. Do you know what I am saying? If you've got a girl, and she kisses you, sooner or later you're paying for it. You've gotta take her out to lunch, take her to a movie, and then spend time listenin' to all her stupid problems. Look, look at Stan right there. Why he's gotta sit there and listen to her stupid [[PrecisionFStrike motherf**kin']] problems 'cause she kisses him. If you ask me, that's a lot more than the five dollars my company charges.
--->'''Kyle:''' [[LampshadeHanging Butters, what's happened to you?]]
--->'''Butters:''' What happened is that I became a man! I'm sorry I'm not your little buddy anymore, but there's a time people have to grow up! [[RunningGag Do you know what I am saying?!]]
* AcronymConfusion: "Cartman Joins NAMBLA" involves confusion between the North American Man/Boy Love Association and National Association of Marlon Brando Look-Alikes.
* ActBreak: During Seasons 1-4 the show had four acts to each episode, though the fourth one was usually TheTag. The TV pilot had a weird case, with ''five'' acts (the additional break occurring during the forest scene, right before Chef appears). From "The Death Camp of Tolerance" onward, it switched to the usual three acts.
* ActionGirlfriend: Based on her fight with Cartman in season 12, Wendy might grow up into one.
* ActivistFundamentalistAntics: One episode ended with a ban on secular Christmas as well as religious Christmas, all thanks to Kyle's mother. The only song left for the kids to sing for Christmas was "Kyle's Mom is a Big Fat Bitch" (in D minor, no less).
* ActuallyPrettyFunny: From "Imaginationland Part 1": "Say what you want about Creator/MelGibson, but the son-of-a-bitch knows story structure!" (After [[{{Squick}} their]] [[FullFrontalAssault previous]] [[AxCrazy portrayal]] of Mel, very sporting indeed.)
* AdBreakDoubleTake: Stan aiming a gun at a disguised Cartman in "Volcano".
** The bus splitting in two and falling off a cliff in "City on the Edge of Forever".
* AddedAlliterativeAppeal:
** The "Allied Atheist Alliance" from "Go God, Go!"
--->"That way it has three "A"s! That is the logical choice!"
** The "Secret Society of Cynics" in "Ass Burgers". Since their name never appears in written form (aside from non-canonical closed captions), it's possible to [[SpellMyNameWithAnS spell "Cynics" with an "S"]].
** Bucky Baily's Bully Buckers, {{trade|snark}}mark.
* AddictionPowered: Subverted. Towelie thinks that marijuana makes him smarter and more creative. On at least one occasion, WesternAnimation/{{Popeye}}'s ThemeMusicPowerUp plays while Towelie is lighting up. But once Towelie gets high...he does what every pot-head does while high, which is to say absolutely nothing.
* AdmiringTheAbomination: Cartman only works with Cthulhu because of his ability to strike terror and misery into people he hates... and his friends.
* AdultsAreUseless: Every adult in South Park and then some is a moron, even when they're ''not'' holding the IdiotBall. [[http://www.southparkstudios.com/clips/104377/i-learned-mongolian-in-college This clip]] pretty well sums it up. (You can skip the first minute of the clip.)
** Most of the kids are either too scared of their parents to tell them the truth about anything (Kyle and Butters), are pretty good at manipulation (Cartman and to a lesser extent Stan) or are completely ignored most of the time (Kenny).
** Randy Marsh. He is practically the king of this trope.
** Zig-zagged with Mr. Adams. He was the caseworker for the McCormick siblings when they are taken away from there parents, but he was obsessed with telling them bad Penn State jokes rather than help them adjust. When he learns of the foster family's abuse, he not only pulls the foster children out, but is [[HeroicBSOD deeply distraught]] for putting children in a bad environment. He does end up sending them back to their original homes, but only because he felt the system was too incompetent for people to want to use.
* AdventurerOutfit: Worn by the Super Adventure Club.
* AnAesop: many episodes end with a character delivering an aesop. Often this is Kyle or Stan starting with, "I learned something today..." Often times the aesop delivery is subverted in some way.
** In "Chinpokomon," Stan delivers an aesop to Kyle to stop him from bombing Pearl Harbor, saying he shouldn't conform. Kyle uses the aesop to justify going ahead with the bombing, so Stan delivers a second aesop completely contradicting his earlier speech.
** Another subversion is "The Entity", where the kids try to pull their usual "I've learned something today..." Aesop speech, only for it to die out several times when they realize that, no, they actually haven't learned anything this time.
** {{Defied|Trope}} in RealLife in "201" when the entire Aesop, spoken by three people, was bleeped out by the network prior to airing, which may be some of the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/201_%28South_Park%29#Statements_to_the_media saddest irony in the history of the show]].
** Intentionally rose to the same level of irony when Stan began with the usual opening, only for Kyle to interrupt with "No, no we didn't," and walk away.
* AffablyEvil: Satan is portrayed as this. He's certainly less evil than Cartman.
* AffectionateParody:
** "Osama Bin Laden Has Farty Pants" is a paean to the classic {{Wartime Cartoon}}s, especially Bugs Bunny's.
** In the "Coon and Friends" trilogy, this is done twice between Cartman and Cthulhu: one, a tribute to MyNeighborTotoro, and the other is a nod to the Chuck Jones cartoon "Feed the Kitty". The original "Coon" episode also parodies ''Film/TheDarkKnight'' in the beginning.
** The [[ArtShift "anime"]] episode "Good Times With Weapons". Someone had to have been an anime fan to be able to mock such GratuitousEnglish.
** A meta-example: the 20+ minute animation "Trey Gets Stoned" is one of both the show itself (seriously, the animation is indistinguishable) and Creator/TreyParkerAndMattStone. Not surprising, since it was made by several fans.
* AesopAmnesia: At the end of "Jewpacabra", Cartman had finally decided to get over his anti-semitism. Six episodes late he becomes half-traumatized when Kyle tells him the Jewish population is growing.
* AgeInappropriateDress: Mocked in a few episodes, "Stupid Spoiled Whore Video Playset" in particular.
* AgelessBirthdayEpisode: The episode "Damien" does this with Cartman's birthday (although we can probably assume that he turned 9 in this episode, as the show subtly suggests that he's a little older than the three other SP boys).
* AliensMadeThemDoIt: The "wizard alien" from "Sexual Healing." In this episode, the American government is trying to figure out what caused the "recent" trend of successful men having affairs with lots of women. Instead of just admitting that this kind of thing has happened throughout history and that most men have similar urges, the government blames it on a wizard alien living in Independence Hall. [[spoiler:When a soldier calls BS on this, the other soldiers take him away to the RunningGag of "There's a turd in the punchbowl", dress him up as a wizard alien, and have Kyle and Butters shoot him dead.]]
* AliensStealCattle: One of the first tropes used in the show. The aliens actually consider cows to be the most intelligent species on the planet (it helps they communicate in "moo"s). When one cow asks about the abductions and mutilations:
-->'''Alien 1''': Oh, that was Carl. He's new.\\
'''Alien 2''': Yeah, my bad.
** If you have seen more then one or two episodes, it becomes clear that aside from Stan, Kyle and maybe Kenny, the cows ''are'' probably the most intelligent species on the planet. And that includes the Crab People, talking turds, and whatever the hell Towlie is.
*** However, in the original version of that episode, the aliens mutilate the cows because [[spoiler:they like [=BBQs=]]].
* AllergicToLove: Stan vomits every time Wendy talks to him. Though when they started dating as the show progressed (after TheMovie), Stan stopped vomiting completely around her. However, in "The List", when [[spoiler: they discover feelings for each other again (after having been broken up for some time)]], Stan vomits in front of her once more [[spoiler: before they can kiss]].
* AllCGICartoon: Switched to this format after the first episode. It, ''WesternAnimation/BeastWars'' (released around the same time) and ''ReBoot''[[note]]that series' third season ''premiered'' in 1997[[/note]] were the notable ones that were airing on American television during the mid-late 90s.
** Initially, the aim was to emulate the stop-motion cardboard of the pilot and prior "Spirit of Christmas" shorts in a way that was actually practical and could be done in a timely fashion (the pilot took 3-4 months to produce). This approach was eventually scrapped in favor of [[ArtEvolution doing anything that they could fit within the show's art style]].
** The practical problems of the original method were lampshaded in an episode where the boys try using stop-motion cardboard animation to make a Christmas animation of...themselves.
* AllElectionsAreSeriousBusiness: Shown in how serious the kindergarten elections are taken in "Trapper Keeper" and taken [[UpToEleven to the extreme]] in "Douche vs. Turd" over the school mascot election.
* AllGaysArePedophiles: Big Gay Al becomes a victim of this trope when he is fired as the boys' scoutmaster due to concerns from the parents that he will try to molest them. His replacement is, of course, an actual pedophile whom nobody suspects since he's not gay.
* AllHailTheGreatGodMickey: In the episode "The Wacky Molestation Adventure", the children of South Park manage to send of all adults on false molestation charges. Later, in the ruins of the town, they are seen worshiping a statue made of trash that is supposed to represent "The Great Provider", a supreme being that provides them food and shelter (as a faint memory of what their parents did for them). PlayedForLaughs when we find out it's been only one week since all adults have left.
** The Provider is a statue of John Elway that they appeased with human sacrifice. As shown by Butter's great disappointment when the Aesop is delivered and he is brought down, saying, "I was going to give myself to Mr. Elway."
* AllJewsAreCheapskates:
** Kyle's parents and his cousin. And to Cartman's delight, sometimes Kyle falls prey to it too.
** Parodied ''viciously'' in "Two Days Before the Day After Tomorrow", where it seems that Cartman and Kyle are going to die, and Cartman demands Kyle's "Jew Gold". Kyle, appalled, tries to convince him that this is a Jew stereotype, but Cartman doesn't relent, and Kyle pulls out a small sack of gold that had been tied around his neck. Cartman proceeds to insist that all Jews carry a spare sack of Jew Gold, which is really fake, and demands that Kyle ''hands over an identical sack also tied around his neck''. Kyle didn't hand over the real Jew gold either, he threw it into a fire rather than let Cartman have it.
** Subverted in "Night of the Living Homeless" when Kyle gives a homeless man $20. Because of that, all of the homeless invade South Park. [[spoiler:But it turns out that it wasn't Kyle's fault, but the fault of the neighboring town of Evergreen, who evicted the homeless.]]
** And then subverted majorly in "Margaritaville" when he uses his American Express credit card (with no spending limit) to pay off the debts [[TheParagon of all of South Park]], much to the dismay of his mother Sheila, who say he's ruining himself. This is all to make a point of the nature of the economy.
** In "Good Times with Weapons" Cartman mocks the fact that Kyle can't throw away his weapons because he paid money for them.
* AllJustADream: Sometimes played straight, but often subverted.
* AllMenArePerverts:
** The plot of "Sexual Healing." More specifically, the extreme lengths men will go to to prevent women from finding this out.
** In the ''LordOfTheRings'' episode, all the boy's fathers are very knowledgeable when it comes to porn, much to their wives' disgust. [[spoiler: Subverted somewhat by Mrs. Broflofski and Mrs. Cartman describing a sexual act from the titled movie with unusual accuracy]]
* AllOfTheOtherReindeer: While Butters is the most obvious victim, more recent seasons (especially Craig in "Pandemic") claim that not very many people beyond their clique like Stan, Kyle, Kenny or Cartman.
* AllTakeAndNoGive: Cartman to everyone, ''especially'' his mom. In Season One, you had to give him rather expensive toys to attend his party (who everyone only comes to because Cartman's Mom cooks ''damn good'').
* AllThereInTheManual: [[ArtisticLicenseGeography Impossibly close proximity to Canada aside]], VideoGame/SouthParkTheStickOfTruth has the official layout to the titular town. On top of that, it also shows that (spoiler tagged for people who want to find out themselves through exploration) [[spoiler: Cartman's mom is a drug addict, and the Tweaks get their blend from a meth lab that's based in the [=McCormicks=]' garage]], among other things.
* AllWomenAreLustful: All little girls want to get in the JonasBrothers' pants, [[RefugeInAudacity even if they're kindergarten age]]. Possibly TruthInTelevision, seeing as the line "My giney tickles" was something the young daughter of one of the members of the production crew actually said at one of their concerts.
* AllWomenLoveShoes: "The List".
* AManIsNotAVirgin: Or at least, a man has gotten his first kiss already, in "Butters' Bottom Bitch".
* AmazinglyEmbarrassingParents: AdultsAreUseless, including the parents.
** Sheila Broflovsky is take on {{Moral Guardian}}s, as she's overprotective, judgmental and prone to hysterical reactions. TheMovie made this a large part of its theme.
** Randy embodies typical adult stupidity in western culture starting around season 6.
** The [=McCormick=] parents joined a doomsday cult of Cthulhu for free beer and are crackheads. They also have a meth lab in an open shed in their backyard.
** Ms. Cartman is apparently a famous enough porn star to end up on the cover of Crackwhore Magazine.
* AmbiguouslyGay:
** A running gag with Mr. Garrison for several seasons. He's virulently anti-gay, yet sports a stereotypical gay lisp. Several characters state outright that they thought he was gay, but he insists that he just acts that way to "get chicks". In one episode he writes erotic fiction and focuses on penises, seeming to get very aroused by his own writing, but then insists that he's just writing to what his audience, women, want to read. In later seasons he comes out of the closet.
** Cartman.
*** He constantly says that girls are disgusting and vile, and he seems to have an ''extremely'' [[AnatomicallyImpossibleSex inaccurate idea of what sex with a woman even entails]]. [[labelnote:Curious?]][[ComicallyMissingThePoint "Get a boner, slap her titties around, stick it inside her and pee. If you don't want to get her pregnant you pull it out and pee on her leg."]][[/labelnote]]
*** He's also engaged in sexual acts with men several times, thinking NAMBLA is an innocent organization. He presumably gave Creator/BenAffleck a hand job as part of a bizarre plot to convince Kyle that his hand was a sentient con man named Mitch Connor (who turned out to actually ''exist'' in "200") who was impersonating a woman named Jennifer Lopez (much to the chagrin of the "real" JenniferLopez).
*** In "Imaginationland,", a subplot is based entirely around Cartman's obsession with making Kyle suck his balls. Jimmy even points this trope out to him in part 1 of the trilogy. He ''says'' it's solely for humiliation purposes, but we all know Cartman's [[BlatantLies track record with the truth...]]
*** "Cartman in Love" gives us [[spoiler: Cartman telling the new girl, Nicole, that he and Kyle are a gay couple, so that Nicole will be more likely to go out with Token.]] Cartman puts a ton of effort into convincing the town that his lie is true, to the point where it's hard to tell if he's just really committed or playing out some sort of wish-fulfillment exercise.
*** In "Sarcastaball", he has no reservations about drinking Butters' [[ItMakesSenseInContext creamy goo]]. Although Randy has him beat in this particular case, as he's the only one who [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything actually recognizes it]].
*** In "Le Petit Tourette" when [[spoiler:Cartman is unable to filter what he says and what he thinks, he admitted that he and his cousin touched each others wieners together.]]
** Jimbo and Ned. They're unrelated, live together, evidently have hospital visitation rights worked out. And then, [[NWordPrivileges Jimbo can say "fag" without getting bleeped]], which according to Mr. Garrison (at the time it was Mr.) means that he is one. All the other guys at the bar except for Garrison are bleeped when they say "fag". After an awkward silence, Mr. Garrison says "Well, we've certainly learned something about you today, Jimbo, you friggin' fag. Wanna make out or somethin'?"
** Butters. He has been shown crossdressing, he's feminine, innocent, submissive, polite, and fits TheTwink status. While he has shown affection toward girls, it's mostly blocked by his naivety. Oh, and [[spoiler:he's more than willing to share his "creamy goo" with all the boys.]]
* AnalProbing: Eric Cartman was probed by TheGreys in the {{Pilot}} episode, appropriately titled [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin "Cartman Gets An Anal Probe."]] By "Anal Probe", we mean he eventually grows a satellite out of his bum.
* AnatomicallyImpossibleSex: For the boys themselves, we have these gems: [[FreudWasRight Circumcision is castration.]] Urine is semen.
* AndThatsTerrible: The antagonists in "Super Fun Time" robbed a Burger King.
* AndThereWasMuchRejoicing: Done a few times when the usual "They killed Kenny!!"-"Bastards!!" routine was subverted and Kenny's death was met with amusement.
--->Kyle: (laughing) That was a good one!
** This is pretty much Cartman's reaction to arranging Scott Tenorman's parents to be killed and ground into chili to get even for being swindled out of $16.12
* AnimalAthleteLoophole: The parody of ''You Got Served'' (and similar movies) had Stan's RagtagBunchOfMisfits dancing team include a dancing duck. [[spoiler:The duck gets injured, forcing Butters to finally join the crew, with disastrous results.]]
* AnimalWrongsGroup: PETA is so insistent on paralleling vegetarianism with civil rights that they promote InterspeciesRomance.
* AnimationAnatomyAging
* AnswersToTheNameOfGod: In just about every South Park episode that features Jesus, some character will exclaim "Jesus!", prompting Jesus to inquire, "Yes?"
* TheAntichrist: Damien, though [[AntiAntiChrist apparently he just wants friends and not to move around so much]].
** Also there is Porcupiney's immaculate child, who was supposed to be the woodland critters' lord and savior, [[spoiler: but fortunately this [[WhatCouldHaveBeen never came to be]] because Stan [[ItMakesSenseInContext taught three talking mountain lion cubs how to perform an abortion.]]]]
*** [[spoiler: None of this actually happened though, as it all just came from the demented imagination of Eric Cartman. They become terrifyingly real though in the Imaginationland arc.]]
* AntiHero: All main characters verge on anti-heroism on occasion, though Cartman often verges on VillainProtagonist. Usually they learn their lesson at the end, however, and often are shown to be morally superior to the adults in town.
* AntiHumor: "Kenny Dies"
* AntiVillain: Satan, though his antivillainy isn't really of the WellIntentionedExtremist variety so much as the loser variety. His [[CardCarryingVillain expressed pride in his role in the world]] is always watered down [[RefugeInAudacity by the way his gay lover, Saddam Hussein, treats him]]. (See the movie, where Saddam interrupts his "my time to rise" speech to say "I love when you get all biblical, you know how to turn my crank!") This show takes SympathyForTheDevil to a {{literal|Metaphor}} extreme. In addition, Hell is a decent place, besides the torture, and far better than the alternative (spending eternity with overexcited Mormons).
* APlanetNamedZok: Marklar, from "Starvin' Marvin in Space!". [[{{Smurfing}} This is also the name of every noun on Marklar.]]
* ApocalypseCult: The leader of the Anti-Semetic Jews captures Moses in order to ready the world for the return of Haman.
** The cult of Blaintology in "Super Best Friends."
** And of course, the Cthulhu cult featured in the three-episode "Coon and Mysterion" arc.
* ApocalypticLog: Parodied in 'Pandemic', as Randy's incessant camcordering of the disaster gets on Sharon's nerves. And it turns out [[spoiler:[[NotWithTheSafetyOnYouWont he didn't have a tape in it]]]].
* AppliedMathematics: Underpants Gnomes. Step 1: Collect underpants. Step 2: '''[++[[color:red:?]]++]''' [[MissingStepsPlan Step 3: Profit!]]
** Cartman's formula for gold.
* ArentYouGoingToRavishMe: In "Towelie," Garrison is ambushed by a squad of towel-destroying soldiers. He assumes that they're going to rape him and says, "Have your way with me, if you must! Go on, fulfill your sick pleasures! ...Where are you going?" Garrison was also traumatized because his father didn't molest him when he was a child, because he associated being molested with being loved.
* AreYouPonderingWhatImPondering: In "Worldwide Recorder Concert", Stan and Kyle are thinking of a way to get back at the New Yorkers, when Cartman announces that he found the "[[BringMyBrownPants brown noise]]" and demonstrates it on Kenny and a deliveryman.
-->'''Stan:''' ''(to Kyle)'' Dude, are you thinking what I'm thinking?\\
'''Cartman:''' That they should bring back ''Series/ChicagoHope'' for another season? Totally.
* ArsonMurderAndJaywalking:
** Cartman in the episode "Scott Tenorman Must Die", where he [[spoiler:has Scott's parents killed, grinds their corpses into chili which he then feeds to Scott and causes Scott to cry in front of [[{{Radiohead}} his favorite band]].]] [[NoSympathy Who then call him a "crybaby".]]
** In ''The Death of Eric Cartman'': "What awaits each person in heaven is eternal bliss, divine rest, and $10,000 cash."
** Shoe the Chinpokomon. ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin.
* ArtEvolution: The difference between first season episodes and recent episodes is like night and day, even though they have kept the simplistic cutout style. Early on, the show had incredibly crude character and background designs and the animation was very shaky and choppy, while today the animation can be very sophisticated, the backgrounds are rich in detail (actually having perspective and shading), the characters are much more detailed, and animals being realistic (compared to, say, the game in the first season episode "Volcano").
** Early on, the show tried to imitate some side effects of using construction paper, such as the aforementioned shaky animation and shadows under objects. Later on, it was dropped.
* ArtShift: The art has shifted between its standard 'cutout' style and other styles on various occasions. Backgrounds often contain pictures of real life places or real art, and there are many cases of deliberately conspicuous CGI.
** The best example would probably have to be from one of the newest episodes "A Song of Ass and Fire" where the opening sequence is shot entirely in 3D. It is glorious especially considering South Park has not attempted anything of that magnitude ever
* AnAssKickingChristmas: A few times, but especially "Red Sleigh Down".
* AsLongAsThereIsEvil: The core of the evil Wall-Mart turns out to be a mirror, with the explanation that the citizens of the town empower it. [[spoiler:Subverted as smashing the mirror destroys the whole Wall-Mart]].
* AshesToCrashes: Cartman drinks Kenny's ashes, believing them to be chocolate milk mix. As a result of this, Kenny's soul becomes trapped inside Cartman, providing a story arc for the next few episodes.
* AshFace: "Summer Sucks" ends with the town covered in ash. Chef arrives from vacation to find everyone in what looks like {{blackface}} and orders everyone to get in line for a butt kicking.
* AsianHookerStereotype: On the episode "Cow Days", Cartman starts acting and talking like the Vietnamese prostitute of ''FullMetalJacket'' after a TapOnTheHead.
* AsianSpeekeeEngrish:
** Every single Asian character. Honorable mention goes to "''fucking Mongoriansh!''" Funnily enough, both creators are fluent in Japanese.
** Taken to extremes in one episode where a Japanese man and Chinese man argue with each other with the nearly the exact same accent and can't understand each other.
** Cartman's attempts to disguise himself as Chinese consist of little more than saying "herro prease".
* AssholeVictim: [[spoiler:Clyde's mother, Betsy Donovan]] in "Reverse Cowgirl", to the point she's still one beyond the grave.
* AssimilationBackfire: One episode has Cartman's super high-tech Trapper Keeper begin assimilating all technology (beginning with a calculator, then a computer, then a lamp, then Cartman). "Trapper Keeper ready to ensorb." Eventually it goes on a rampage and heads for Cheyenne Mountain to ensorb the NORAD command center there, but on the way it eats Rosie O'Donnell, weakening it enough for Kyle to turn it off.
* AssShove: Happens to Cartman. A '''lot.'''
** The premiere episode, "Cartman Gets an Anal Probe," culminates with a 50-foot satellite dish emerging from Cartman's ass.
** Another episode has Cartman smuggling all of Disneyland into a juvenile hall inside his ass.
** Then there was the time Cartman tried to eat through his butt to see if he would then crap through his mouth. It works! In fact, it becomes quite a trend and even leads to Martha Stewart shoving a Thanksgiving turkey up her bum.
** One word: Lemmiwinks.
** The episode that aired after the 2008 US Presidential Elections has Barack Obama shove the Hope Diamond up his ass in order to steal it.
** The NoCelebritiesWereHarmed version of [[Series/CrocodileHunter Steve Irwin]] was always sticking his thumb up some poor animal's butthole. And let's not forget Cartman being shoved up a cow's butt at the end of that episode.
** "The Death of Eric Cartman": Cartman (who think he's dead) trashes Butters's room, which gets Butters sent to an insane asylum where he's examined by a questionable doctor whose methods included having a machine anally probe him for hours on end ([[http://southpark.wikia.com/wiki/File:906_butters-about-to-be-probed.jpg the probe itself]] was about the size of a football and rotated).
* AssumedWin: Inverted when the boys bring in [[JewishAndNerdy Kyle's cousin]], [[OneSteveLimit Kyle]] as a ringer to make sure they lose and thus no longer have to play baseball.
** Stan figures this when coaching pee wee hockey. Unfortunately he was WrongGenreSavvy.
* AteHisGun: They ''love'' this trope.
** Parodied in "How to Eat With Your Butt", in which Cartman [[spoiler:does it with what turns out to be a gun-shaped piece of chocolate after writing an apparent suicide note, then adds a request for more of said chocolate guns.]]
** When a line of pedophiles find out they've been lining up to see Chris Hansen, they immediately begin shooting themselves, one after another.
** Butters is told to do this by a meme-hating teacher in "Faith Hilling". He ends up frozen in his seat with the gun in his mouth for nearly the entire episode's length.
** Parodied in "Night of the Living Homeless." A scientist tries to eat his gun, only to live through the attempt. He then goes on to try again several times, each one unsuccessful, until finally making it.
* AttackOfThe50FootWhatever: Played for laughs with Scott the Dick in "Royal Pudding." At first, it appears to be played straight, but a change in the camera angle reveals that he's actually seven feet tall.
* AttractiveBentGender: In the ''Series/GameOfThrones'' parody trilogy and ''The Stick of Truth'', Kenny dresses up as a princess. Some characters react as if he actually ''was'' a pretty girl, especially [[ArtShift during]] the {{Animesque}} segments of "Titties and Dragons".
* AuthorAvatar: Stan and Kyle were originally Author Avatars for Trey and Matt, respectively, but they slowly grew out of it as the show progressed. In one interview, they said something along the lines of "He's supposed to be Stan, and I'm supposed to be Kyle... but really we're both Cartman."
** Terrance and Phillip also occasionally serve as author avatars for the duo, reflecting the reactions Trey and Matt expected their show to get from parents, most notably in TheMovie. Terrance has black hair, as does Matt, while Phillip has blond hair, as does Trey - likely deliberate.
* AuthorAppeal: This explains why a bunch of eight year old boys (in 1997) are gushing over [[TheCure Robert Smith]].
* AuthorTract: Particularly in later seasons.
* AxCrazy:
** Cartman, most famously in "Scott Tenorman Must Die".
** Saddam Hussein.
** The Woodland Critters, Mickey Mouse and Mel Gibson.
** Russell Crowe's obsession with fighting leads him to berating and almost beating up a little girl merely for looking at him. In the same episode, he ''physically brutalizes a man with terminal cancer'' (hooked up to IV and looking as frail as can be) because he thought it was a good idea, since he (Crowe) discovered that he couldn't literally "beat up cancer" like he wanted to. Might be a good example of WellIntentionedExtremist if it weren't such a ridiculous idea.
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* BackForTheDead: [[spoiler:Pip is crushed to death]] in "201".
* {{Badass}}: {{Jesus|WasWayCool}}.
-->My children, I must warn you... [[PreAsskickingOneLiner I'm packing.]]
* BackToSchool: Officer Barbrady goes back to school—and the third grade no less—after it's revealed that he's illiterate.
* BadassAdorable: Ike.
* BadBadActing: The [[ArtShift live action reenactment sequence]] in "I Should Have Never Gone Ziplining" uses very deliberately awful, over the top acting by actors about [[DawsonCasting 15 years too old to play 10 year olds]].
* BadBoss: Cartman in many episodes. Craig, too, in "South Park is Gay!".
* BadFuture: In "Trapper Keeper," "Goobacks," and the "Go God Go" {{two part|episode}}er.
* BadGuysDoTheDirtyWork:
** South Park is saved from hostile takeover by the Jersey Shore by [[spoiler: ''Al-Qaeda'']].
** In ''Insheeption'', [[spoiler:[[Franchise/ANightmareOnElmStreet Freddy Krueger]] kills [[PublicServiceAnnouncement Woodsy Owl]] after the latter goes OneWingedAngel]].
** In TheMovie, [[spoiler:it's [[AntiVillain Satan]] who finishes Saddam off after he gets zapped by ten thousand volts of profanity courtesy of Cartman.]]
* TheBadGuyWins: The ending of "Stanley's Cup" and "Scott Tenorman Must Die".
* BadImpressionists: This is a staple of Jimmy's standup routine.
* BadassSanta: He's {{pals with|Jesus}} KungFuJesus.
* BailEqualsFreedom: In "The Losing Edge," Randy is constantly getting in fights at his son's little league games. After he's been released, Gerald asks him how much bail was and Randy casually replies, "Like two hundred dollars, no big whoop." This is played for comedy as he keeps on assaulting people over and over and presumably keeps getting let back out for chump change. The inevitable trial for twelve counts of assault never happens.
* BaitAndSwitch: If there is an episode where the preview involves anything that will get a large portion of the fanbase going "Ha ha, they're making fun of X" the actual episode will likely portray X in a much more endearing manner, while those that see it as a cheap, {{acceptable target|s}} will be the ones on the receiving end of a TakeThat. These episodes typically center around [[ThisLoserIsYou Cartman]] The most recent notable example is "Poor and Stupid", with regard to NASCAR and its fanbase.
** Part 2 of [episode title]... WILL NOT BE SHOWN TODAY to bring you this special showing of [[StylisticSuck Terrance And Philip!]]
** In "You Have 0 Friends", the whole sequence of Stan trapped inside the world of Facebook is a homage of ''Film/{{Tron}}'', and it appears that everything is all set for the inevitable [[CoolBike Lightcycle]] race... [[spoiler:when the bikes are abruptly replaced with a game of ''TabletopGame/{{Yahtzee}}'']].
* BannedEpisode: ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'''s MilestoneCelebration episodes "200" and "201" only aired once, and cannot be accessed on the South Park Studios site either, especially in the wake of a death threat by a small Islamist group towards Creator/TreyParkerAndMattStone after the former aired. For 201, Creator/ComedyCentral censored even mentions of Muhammad, as well as Kyle's entire monologue relating to giving in to fear, while Parker and Stone were not allowed to disclose the details of said monologue. The censors still remain for DVD versions of the episode, and the two episodes never aired on syndication since then. Relatedly, although it never stirred controversy when it aired, "Super Best Friends" can no longer be syndicated for similar reasons.
** The ban on "200"/"201" also extends to several foreign language adaptations of the series. In particular, the director of the French dub had stated that it is highly unlikely they'd be translated due to requiring even more dialogue censorship.
** At least seven episodes have been banned in the Japanese version to date (the dub has yet to get to "200"/"201"):
*** "Terrance and Phillip in: Not Without My Anus" was skipped in the second season. [[TheOtherWiki A Japanese version of the Other Wiki]] had speculated it was due to Saddam Hussein's appearance, although the fact that the episode caused controversy on its original airing (due to delaying the reveal of Cartman's father) and is mostly seen as a gag/filler episode could have also played a part. It was later included on the DVD box sets.
*** "Chinpokomon" was completely banned (and thus not available on DVD) due to mockery of the Japanese and Emperor Hirohito, including a plot point where the Japanese were brainwashing the children to bomb Pearl Harbor.
*** "Do the Handicapped Go to Hell?" and "Probably" were not dubbed by WOWOW for season 4. While the official reasons were not stated, the popular theory is that the references to Christianity and the Western concepts of the afterlife would have been considered too confusing for viewers. The episodes did later make it on to the DVD releases, but were left in the original English version with Japanese subtitles.
*** "A Ladder to Heaven" was banned when WOWOW began broadcasting of season 6, as it contained more mockery of the Japanese and had again included heavy references to Christianity. Even so, a clip from the episode was retained in their dub of "Casa Bonita".
*** "Krazy Kripples" was to be aired in the dub of season 7, but was pulled from broadcast due to the death of Christopher Reeve (who had been the villain in the episode).
*** "Two Days Before the Day After Tomorrow" was banned in FOX Japan's broadcast of season 9, due to the fact that it would have come after the 2011 earthquake and tsunami and would be TooSoon for it parodying disasters.
*** Expect this treatment of the episode "Whale Whores" for the depiction of the Japanese being fooled by post-war Americans by a picture of a whale and dolphin flying the Enola Gay, implying that the marine creatures were responsible for the nuclear destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. [[spoiler: The Japanese completely buy it, which is the reason they have been hunting whales and dolphins despite international condemnation.]]
** The Spanish-language dub aired in the Latin American markets has had its own cases of banned episodes. Aside from "200" and "201" (which were already banned for international adaptations and DVD box sets), there are at least eight other cases to date:
*** "Rainforest Schmainforest" was banned late in the game in 2011 (several years after it was dubbed), due to its mockery of Costa Rica. A toned-down redub was produced as a way of getting the ban lifted for it to air again.
*** "Free Willzyx" and "The Last of the Meheecans" were initially left completely banned and untranslated due to their mockery of Mexicans, although these bans would wind up lifted for the DVD releases for each season.
*** "Pinewood Derby" would have been aired on MTV, but the portrayal of Felipe Calderon wound up getting the episode banned before it was broadcast.
*** A few episodes of season 6 have been banned by MTV Latinoamerica in reruns of the series (with the season having originally aired on Locomotion). The official reasons remain unstated, but the episodes include "Freak Strike", "Child Abduction Is Not Funny", "A Ladder To Heaven", and "The Death Camp of Tolerance".
** The original Italian dub by SEFIT-CDC Group banned and left three season 4 episodes untranslated: "Cartman Joins NAMBLA" (due to Kenny attempting to force an abortion on his mother, as well as references to pedophilia with NAMBLA), "Do The Handicapped Go To Hell?", and "Probably" (both due to mockery of Catholicism).
* BarrierMaiden: Terrence and Philip in the movie. Although theoretically ''any'' Canadian living south of the 49th parallel.
* BatmanGambit: Cartman's plot in "Scott Tenorman Must Die" hinges upon him understanding Stan and Kyle's and Scott's personalities, and predicting their actions perfectly (with a lot of assuming).
* BeardOfEvil: {{Inverted|Trope}} with Cartman in ''Spookyfish'' since he was already evil, his alternate universe counterpart was the good one. Played straight with everyone else.
* BeautyIsBad: Subverted in "The List."
* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: "Ass Burgers" has Stan wishing everything in his life would go back to the way it was before he was depressed, which includes his life with his family before his parents got divorced. The ending of the episode has Stan getting over his depression and learning that change can be good, only to have his life get hit with the ResetButton where his parents get back together and having his daily routines reverting back to the way they were.
* BecomingTheMask: In "Butters' Bottom Bitch", Officer Yates assigns an undercover agent for a series of prostitution busts: himself. During the operations, he makes his arrests ''after'' [[spoiler:performing the sex act]], each one becoming [[SerialEscalation more and more elaborate]], to the point of [[spoiler:gangbanging a college fraternity.]] He even [[spoiler:marries the BigBad pimp]] at the end of the episode, [[spoiler:[[HappilyMarried living with him in a Swiss chateau]] before finally deciding to place him under arrest on their anniversary.]]
* BeethovenWasAnAlienSpy: Slash is really a mythological character based on the legend of Vunter Slaush. It was just one of their parents that actually played at Cartman's party.
** [[FridgeLogic But, who was the guitarist for Guns N' Roses?]]
** ''One of their parents.''
* BelievingTheirOwnLies: Cartman works himself into quite the frenzy over his own fabricated mythos of Jewpacabra.
** Not to mention that this was the main storyline between Cartman and Jimmy in "Fishsticks".
* BerserkButton: In "Conjoined Fetus Lady", Pip is one of the players on the dodgeball team. When he's called "French", he beats the world's best dodgeball team (who [[RunningGag are Chinese]]) singlehandedly.
** Scott Tenorman doomed himself the moment he burned Cartman's money.
** ''Never'' call Bono #2, no matter how true it is.
** Cartman is not fat, he's [[InsistentTerminology big boned]]. He also does not like to be compared to ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy''.
** Kyle isn't [[spoiler: from {{Jersey|Shore}}]]. Don't suggest that he is.
*** Or make fun of him being Jewish, or cross the line with Ike, or call his mum a bitch, or say something stupid within earshot. Kyle is built on this trope.
*** Cartman is quite possibly the ultimate BerserkButton for Kyle.
** "Are you looking at my [[BracesOfOrthodonticOverkill headgear]]?"[[note]]It is the speaking of these words, not the action described, that is the actual button.[[/note]]
** Tom Cruise goes crazy when anyone says that he's a fudge packer, even if he is packing fudge at the time, wearing a fudge packing uniform in a fudge packing factory.
*** And never, ''ever'' compare him to the guy from ''Film/NapoleonDynamite''.
** Kenny (as Mysterion) gets one when he tries to tell the rest of the kids that he can't die, and Kyle says it'd be pretty cool to be immortal. Kenny, [[WhoWantsToLiveForever who knows better,]] flips out just a little bit.
*** He gets another one in "The Poor Kid". Don't mess with his little sister.
** If you don't want to piss off Mr. Mackey, don't take a dump in the urinal. Or ruin the tooth decay play he worked on for six years, whether it's by accident or not. Or touch any part of the overwhelming trash and paper hoard that [[OutOfCharacterMoment suddenly materialized in his traditionally clean office]].
** As for Wendy, don't be Cartman and don't get between her and Stan. You've been warned.
* BestialityIsDepraved:
** Several episodes and TheMovie reference or, God forgive, portray zoophilia [[PlayedForLaughs for comic effect]].
** In a strange variation, Cartman attempts to train a pony to bite Scott Tenorman's penis off. He builds an effigy of his enemy, and attaches a hotdog to represent the pe--well, you can picture it. Cartman is dismayed when, instead of biting the hotdog, the horse fellates it. It becomes a FunnyBackgroundEvent while Cartman has a conversation with Jimbo and Ned.
* BewareTheNiceOnes:
** As proven in Season 1 - Don't fuck with Wendy Testaburger!
** Subverted with Butters, who adopts a secret evil identity and attempts to plunge the world into chaos by switching restaurant orders, hiding chalkboard erasers at school, running the water hose in his front yard non-stop, and using ineffective spray cans to destroy the ozone layer.
** Butters can be pretty badass if he wants to grow a spine. He's the ChosenOne of Imaginationland, a national hero in Mexico, and in "Butters' Bottom Bitch", he is temporarily the most successful pimp in Colorado. Yes, ''Butters.''
* BigBad: Cartman is sometimes this, mainly in the trilogy "Coon & Friends". Satan and Sheila Broflovski are this in TheMovie.
** BiggerBad: Saddam Hussein. He is more or less, the Satan's evil head in TheMovie. Moreover, him represents an evil far more threatening than the war between the U.S. and Canada.
** TheDragon: Satan, to Saddam in TheMovie.
** TheHeavy: Cartman as The Coon in "Coon & Friends".
* BigBrotherInstinct: Most prominent in the relationship of Kyle and Ike as demonstrated repeatedly.
** You DO NOT want to fuck with Karen [=McCormick=]. You will invoke Kenny's wrath.
** Let it be understood that only Shelley has the right to torture little brother Stan.
* BigDamnHeroes: [[spoiler:Al-Qaeda]] of all people in "It's a Jersey Thing".
* BigDamnMovie
* BigOMG: Generally used whenever Kenny died OncePerEpisode. A notable example outside of that context (when Stan's parents accidentally send a porno to Butters's house):
-->'''Sharon:''' Wow, the production values are really good in this porno.\\
'''Randy:''' Yeah, it almost looks like... the ''Film/{{Lord of the|Rings}}''... OH MY GOD!
* BilingualBonus: Largely because co-creator Trey Parker is fluent in Japanese.
** The Japanese part of the song "Let's Fighting Love" is grammatically correct and translates into [[VulgarHumor something befitting South Park]].
** The name of the [[{{Crossdresser}} Okama]] Gamesphere.
** "Chinpokomon." Sounds like just a play on Pokémon, right? It's not. In Japanese, it means [[spoiler: "penis monster"]], or more figuratively [[spoiler:"dickimon"]].
** The running commentary of Butters crossing the border in Last of the Meheecans refers to Cartman primarily as [[FatBastard gordo]].
*** 'Mantequilla', Butters' pseudonym in the episode, is Spanish for 'butter'.
** In "Funnybot", Cartman speaks in German without subtitles, and says some...interesting things about Kyle:
*** Cartman: Duerfen wir dir Kind dort ... geboten. Er ist Jude. Ein schoener saftig Jude. Er ist frisch und wunderhuebsch. Wunderhuebsch. Translation: Can I offer you instead this child? He is Jew. A nice, juicey jew. He is fresh and beautiful. Beautiful"
* BillyElliotPlot: [[InvertedTrope Inverted]] with Brighton in the episode ''Elementary school musical''. He wants to play basketball, but his father forces him to sing.
* BitchInSheepsClothing: Don't fuck with Wendy Testaburger.
** A lot of the other elementary girls can be this, to different extents. Don't get in the way of their love for shoes.
** Barbra Streisand in "Mecha-Streisand", at first.
* BittersweetEnding: "Lice Capades", "Over Logging" (hilariously).
* BlackAndGrayMorality
* BlackComedy
* BlackComedyRape: The Indiana Jones episode, "Worldwide Recorder Concert," arguably a lot of episodes.
** Arguably subverted in-series, while absolutely hilarious to the audience ([[BlackComedy most of the time...]]). In the Indiana Jones episode, everyone is absolutely terrified and traumatised by witnessing the rape of Indy, to the point of Kyle BreakingTheFourthWall and saying "I can't do this anymore." In fact, the episode wasn't just PlayedForLaughs, but PlayedForDrama at the exact same time.
** The Christmas Critters also gang-rape a platoon of US soldiers and Kurt Russell to death in "Imaginationland". (Which was arguably horrifying.)
** The idea that Chef thought the boys took turns raping Ms. Choksondik and then murdering her afterward is played for laughs.
* TheBlank: During woodworking class in "Tweek vs. Craig", Clyde informs Mr. Adler that some kid named Tommy got his face stuck to a belt-sander, and Tommy shows up with no face.
* BlessedWithSuck: Mysterion's ([[spoiler:Kenny]]'s) power. [[spoiler:He reveals to Captain Hindsight that he has the power to never die, even if he sees Heaven or Hell. Every time he does die, he later just wakes up in bed, in his regular clothes. The worst part is that no one has any recollection of his deaths. They always think he ran away or something, despite the fact that they saw him die with their own eyes.]]
** Captain Hindsight. He knows instantly how a bad situation could've been prevented.
* BookAndSwitch: when Randy goes on a Food Network frenzy, he hides a cookbook under a Playboy magazine
* BloodyHilarious: ''South Park'' arguably wouldn't be half as funny without all the gratuitous gore - I mean, ''really'' gratuitous gore.
* BoomerangBigot: In "The Entity", Kyle exclaims in horror that the presence of his cousin Kyle Schwartz has turned him into a self-hating Jew.
* BornUnlucky: Butters has a birthday of September 11th and is constantly grounded for little to no reason.
** Kenny. Again and again and again.
* BorrowedCatchphrase: Stan and Kyle do this to ''themselves'' in "Wing".
-->'''Kyle:''' Kenny?... Kenny! Don't worry, Kenny. You didn't die for nothing. We're gonna get Wing back as our client and and make a ton of money, I swear it to you! ''(returns to the other boys)'' They killed Kenny!\\
'''Stan:''' You bastards!
** In "Going Native", Cartman borrows Butters' "Fellas! FELLAS!"
* {{Bowdlerise}}:
** The DVD release of the [[ScrewedByTheNetwork banned-from-the-network]] episode "201", which resulted in all references to Mohammad being removed (there were quite a lot).
** Seasons 1-10 have fallen victim to this; see the EditedForSyndication entry in the '''[[Trivia/SouthPark Trivia]]''' section.
* BrainsAndBrawn: Nathan and Mimsey.
* BrainyBaby: Ike.
* BrakeAngrily: The TropeNamer
* BrattyHalfPint: Most of the boys in earlier seasons, with Cartman being most obvious.
** Then there is Ike, who runs away to Somalia because he was already bored with life. He's about 4 years old.
* BreadEggsBreadedEggs: when the boys are doing the school news and want to give it higher viewership. They realize they need to add lots of sex and lots of action, and wind up renaming it Sexy Action News.
* BreadEggsMilkSquick: The stuff Trent Boyett had on his person when he first arrived in juvenile hall: a pack of crayons, safety scissors, a marble, [[KnifeNut and a knife.]]
* BreakTheMotivationalSpeaker: Cartman with just about every reality show nanny type in "Tsss"
** Stan does this in "The Biggest Douche in the Universe" by calling out the trick behind the trick.
* BreakingTheFourthWall: "This is just like when we got our money back for ''Baseketball''."
* BreakoutCharacter: Butters, Randy and Jimmy.
* BrickJoke:
** Throughout the pilot episode, Eric keeps calling everyone he comes into a contact with "a dildo". During the beginning of the second act of the same episode, Eric yells for his mother, telling her that "Kitty's being a dildo!" Eric's mother delightfully responds with:
--> '''Well, I know a certain kitty-''kitty'' 's who's sleeping with mommy tonight!'''
** In TheMovie, the boys use the promise of [[IWasToldThereWouldBeCake punch and pie]] to get other kids to join LaResistance. Way later, in "Super Best Friends", a Blaintologist hands out pamphlets for the Blaintology cult during a David Blaine performance. [[http://www.spscriptorium.com/Season5/BlaineWorkshop.jpg Guess what the pamphlet promises?]]
** In "Jared Has Aides", Cartman pretends to be Butters and gets his parents angry by swearing at them over the phone. Later at the end of the episode, Butters' parents come to [[AbusiveParents beat the stuffing out of him]]. Butters later refers to this very incident in "AWESOM-O", including somehow-realized knowledge of the setup.
** In "The Poor Kid", the Agnostic foster parents make an offhand mention of a giant reptilian bird. It shows up at the end of the episode to deliver some [[LaserGuidedKarma Karmic]] [[TheyKilledKenny (In)]][[LaserGuidedKarma Justice]].
** In "The Biggest Douche in the Universe" Stan insults John Edward, telling him he nominates him [[ExactlyWhatItSaysontheTin biggest douche in the universe]]. The conclusion of the story is a DeusExMachina where aliens take away John Edward.
** In "Chef's Chocolate Salty Balls", upon learning that a film festival only screens independent movies, Cartman stands by his viewpoint that independent movies are about nothing else than "gay cowboys eating pudding". It seems as though this goes unheeded, as the first movie Stan and Wendy attend for their paper is about lesbians, but around twelve minutes in, there is a big gathering at the Bijou theater for what the director calls a "visionary new motion picture". Said visionary motion picture is about, and is [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin titled]], "Gay Cowboys Eating Pudding." Though, due to plot conveniences, this movie is never shown.
** In "Osama Bin Laden Has Farty Pants", when Officer Barbrady is searching students entering the bus, due to the paranoia from 9/11, he confiscates a pair of safety scissors from Cartman. Two episodes later in "The Entity", an Airport Security Guard finds the same type of scissors on Kenny, yells "Die Terrorist!" and shoots Kenny in the head.
* BridalCarry: Jimmy and the prostitute in ''Erection Day''.
* TheBrideWithAPast: In the episode "The Succubus", the womanizing Chef has finally found his one and only...but, as the episode title suggests, she has a secret. The boys know, but no one listens, until the actual ceremony is underway and Veronica is forced to reveal her true nature.
* BringMyBrownPants: Matt and Trey are quite fond of their poop humor and thus this mentioned repeatedly. "Hell on Earth 2006" and "Le Petit Tourette" come to mind.
* BrokenAesop: Comes with the territory when your primary goal is to offend everyone. See examples under AnAesop, AesopAmnesia, GreenAesop. Or AllJewsAreCheapskates, Anvilicious, ChildrenAreInnocent, CorruptCorporateExecutive, CountryMatters... Just look anywhere on this page.
* BrownNote:
** "World Wide Recorder Concert" involves Cartman trying to discover the ''actual'' Brown Note.
** ''The Tale of Scrotie [=McBoogerballs=]'' makes people throw up if they read just two seconds of it.
** The porno "Back Door Sluts 9" from ''The Return of the Fellowship of the Ring to the Two Towers.''
* BrutalHonesty: Craig in "Pandemic", but Kyle also frequently veers in this territory.
* TheBully: In "Butterballs" Butters is secretly bullied and beat up by his own grandma. She even follows him to school and bullies him in the bathroom. It's a running gag in the episode where people go to the bathroom to find a bully there waiting there for them.
** [[spoiler: Even more so when Butters attempts to find inner strength by donning the costume of Professor Chaos, only to have Grandma show up in a costume of her own, complete with black cape.]]
** Cartman seems to be the most evident in South Park Elementary, once even spearheading a tirade of abuse on a kid until he committed suicide. [[CharacterizationMarchesOn In earlier episodes]], Stan and Kyle also had shades of this, it's implied even Cartman suffered heavily from them.
* BunniesForCuteness: Subverted (in a non-HairRaisingHare way) in the episode "Pip" (parodying ''Great Expectations''). Pip tries to prove to Estella that she is not an unfeeling monster, because an unfeeling monster wouldn't hurt a cute little bunny rabbit (which Pip pulls from {{Hammerspace}}).
-->ESTELLA: I told you, Pip. I have no heart.
-->PIP: But you do! And I shall prove it to you once and for all! Look at this adorable little bunny.
-->ESTELLA: Oh my. 'E's very cute.
-->PIP: You see that? A heartless person wouldn't care at all about this bunny. They'd just as soon break its neck. ''Estella breaks its neck'' ...Oh. But look at ''this'' bunny. There. You see that? You have too big a heart to kill two baby bunnies.''Estella kills bunny #2''...Right...
::Estella ends up killing 25 baby bunnies.
* BunnyEarsLawyer: "Say what you will about Creator/MelGibson, but the son of a bitch knows story structure!"
** Mr Garrison and Mr. Mackey. However the fuck they keep their jobs despite at LEAST [[ObfusticatingStupidity appearing]] completely stupid and acting like fools, they somehow keep their jobs. Subverted briefly for Mr Garrison since he was fired but that was quickly remedied and he was brought back on.
** Randy has been Flanderized into this. In earlier seasons, he was a competent, if slightly doofy, geologist. Unfortunately as the seasons wore on, he continually got himself in increasingly stupid situations (some of which involved quitting his Geology job, going into VERY risky business ventures, or being a complete dipshit around the office). However it's been implied that Randy's litearlly the only scientist in town (no mention of Dr. Mephisto during that episode oddly enough).
* BumblingDad: Randy Marsh. ''Dear God Randy Marsh.'' He makes [[TheSimpsons Homer Simpson]] look like [[LeaveItToBeaver Wally Cleaver]]. Some of his brilliant exploits include:
** Attending Little League games for the express purpose of getting into fights with competing team members' dads.
** Driving drunk, then after attending Alcoholics Anonymous [[spoiler:shaving his head chemo-style and residing himself to a wheelchair under insane delusions of disease.]]
** Listening to music he literally perceives as shit, then performing said music in order to be "cool" and "in tune with" the "kids today".
** Trying to stop his 13 year old daughter from attending a musical and killing her 'boyfriend'.
** Saying a certain n word on national television.
* BuriedAlive: Cartman in ''Go God Go'', necktie variant.
* ButThouMust: In the episode ''Woodland Critter Christmas'', after Stan [[spoiler:kills the mountain lion and finds out that the animals he had helped to build a manger are actually Satan worshipers]] he repeatedly refuses to [[spoiler:take her now-orphaned cubs to learn how to perform abortions. With a forceful "[[PunctuatedForEmphasis YES. HE. DID!]]" the scene jump-cuts to an abortion doctor, with Stan and the mountain lion cubs there.]] Stan is not amused.
** Earlier than that, Stan attempted to stay home after learning the Critters' true nature.
--->He tried to forget all about it by watching TV,\\
but his conscience caught up with him and to the forest he did flee.\\
''(Stan stays put.)''\\
He thought he could hide from his problems - not true!\\
He knew in his heart the thing he had to do!\\
''(Stan is getting annoyed by the persistent narration.)''\\
He knew that only by going to the forest could he--\\
''(Stan finally gives in and leaves the house.)''
* ButtMonkey: Kenny filled the role due to his constant deaths. Pip was the other buttmonkey who is constantly humiliated until his spot was taken by Butters.
** Clyde in some episodes.
* BuxomIsBetter: Parodied in "Bebe's Boobs Destroy Society". Being an early blooming third-grader, her "breasts" are practically nonexistent (she first mistakes them for mosquito bites), but even they're enough to first make every boy in her grade fall head-over-heels for her and eventually transform into lustful, breast obsessed cavemen. [[spoiler: They all grow out of it just in time for Wendy, who's spend the entire episode jealous of Bebe's newfound popularity, to get ridiculously large breast implants, which of course immediately turn her into a subject of mockery instead of adoration.]]
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* CainAndAbel: Lemmiwinks and [[spoiler:Wikileaks]] in "Bass to Mouth". [[spoiler:In this case, it's the good brother killing the evil brother.]]
* TheCakeIsALie: Sorry if you came to LaResistance hoping for [[IWasToldThereWouldBeCake punch and pie]].
* CallBack: In the first Halloween episode, Wendy wins the school costume contest with a [[StarWars Chewbacca]] mask. In the third, Kenny enters the contest with an insanely elaborate HumongousMecha costume and seems a shoo-in to win... only for Wendy to win again with the ''exact same'' mask. They might even have relooped Mr. Garrison's announcing her winner for that one.
** Also in the first Halloween episode was a conversation where Cartman [[ChewbaccaDefense got confused about what planet Wookies come from...]]
** In the season 3 episode ''Starvin' Marvin' in Space'', Cartman blames Kyle for a turd in the urinal. Season 10 makes an episode [[note]] ''the Mystery of the Urinal Deuce''[[/note]] out of finding out who took a crap in the urinal. Cartman blames Kyle, obviously. After a purposefully convoluted plot, it turns out to have been [[spoiler:Stan.]]
** In the Season 8 episode "AWESOM-O", a disguised Eric Cartman asks Butters to reveal private aspects of his life. After mentioning a particularly embarrassing bowel condition, he mentions a bully named—you guessed it—Eric Cartman who likes to play tricks on him. The two incidents he names are from previous episodes: "Jared Has Aides" and "Casa Bonita".
** In the [[WesternAnimation/SouthParkBiggerLongerAndUncut theatrical movie]], General Plymkin shoots Bill Gates in the head after what he believes is a glitch in Windows '98. Gates later appears in "The Entity" (airing two years after the film was released), only this time, with a band-aid poorly covering a hole in his head.
** In "Elementary School Musical", the boys are asked rhetorically "where have you been" when they say they don't know anything about ''HighSchoolMusical.'' [[DeadpanSnarker Craig]] replies "Peru", a CallBack to "Pandemic" earlier in the season.
** In "The Coon", Cartman holds a failed rally for his eponymous superhero alter-ego, where the attendant asks him if he's the same kid that held the "Ginger Pride" rally from "Ginger Kids" and the AIDS benefit from "Tonsil Trouble", to which Cartman angrily denies.
* {{Calvinball}}: Randy's idea of "Sarcastaball". The players wear bras and tinfoil hats.
* CameBackStrong: Parodied when Cartman throws himself off a roof and wakes up from a coma in the hospital, and the cops who have the IdiotBall believe he has precognition. Kyle later does the same thing at the end of the episode so people will believe him about the serial killer and Cartman. Eerily, the lights flicker violently when he gets frustrated.
* CameBackWrong: When Butters fakes his death, his dad buries the mutilated pig remains he thinks is Butters in an Indian burial ground - when Butters goes back home his parents assume this is what's happened, and chain him up in the basement.
* CanadaEh: Canadians are usually portrayed as having floppy PacMan esque heads and black beady eyes.
** All Canadian anatomy and technology is shown to be rather, uh, odd. Terrance and Phillip seem to have square testicles—yes we've [[VulgarHumor seen them]] on screen. Canadian automobiles are shown to have square wheels.
** Averted with some actual Canadian celebrities who have been caricatured on the show, including Alanis Morrisette, Music/JustinBieber, SarahMcLachlan, and professional wrestler Wrestling/{{Edge}}.
* TheCanKickedHim: The fate of [[spoiler: Clyde's mom]] in "Reverse Cowgirl."
* CaptainErsatz: TheMovie featured an assortment of original songs that were obvious tributes to numbers from classic American musicals. ''Oklahoma!'' got quoted quite a bit ("Mountain Town"/"O What a Beautiful Morning"; "Uncle Fucka"/the title song; and "It's Easy, Mmmkay?"/"The Farmer and the Cowman"), but there were others. "Kyle's Mom's a Big Fat Bitch" was a pretty generic tribute to early 1900s musicals in general, complete with a "showstopper" climax followed by a "Good evening, friends!" finale. "La Resistance" is structured after "One Day More" from ''Theatre/LesMiserables'' and the Quintet from ''Theatre/WestSideStory''; "La Resistance (Reprise)" is more specifically derived from "A Little Fall Of Rain" from ''Theatre/LesMiserables''.
** In terms of characters, the [[AddedAlliterativeAppeal Secret Society of Cynics]] from "Ass Burgers" is heavily based on Morpheus's gang from ''Film/TheMatrix''.
* CaptainObvious: Captain Hindsight is a hop and a skip away from this.
* CaptainSuperhero: Captain Hindsight.
* CaptivityHarmonica: In TheMovie, by Ike. Also in "Whale Whores" by Eric Cartman and in the season three episode "Jakovasaurous".
* {{Card Carrying Villain}}s: The Woodland Critters.
* CarloadOfCoolKids: There's one episode where people from the future repeatedly come to live in their own enclave, called Little Future. A bunch of futurists drive by in a hovercar and wordlessly start jumping the car up and down (as if it were a lowrider).
* CarMeetsHouse: Played with in the episode that covered the dangers of elderly drivers. Said old people chase the boys through the house serial-killer style, using their cars. Lampshaded when [[spoiler: the boys and Randy take cover on the ''second'' story of a house, only to flip on the lights and reveal another car with elderly drivers. Cue driver: "How the hell did we get up here?"]]
* CassandraTruth: Often happens, somewhat justified as some of what the boys say is hard to believe, but this is ''South Park'' after all. Sgt. Yates never seems to listen to Kyle. Stan trying to prove that John Edward is only conducting a parlor trick, or that there is a fish that is out for blood.
** "I broke the dam"
* TheCastShowoff: Trey Parker. So very much. Pick an episode and it will usually have him singing or it will have something spoken or written in Japanese (for those who don't know, Trey Parker is the lead singer of the band, DVDA, and majored in Japanese in college)
** Isaac Hayes before he left. In almost every appearance, he's singing.
* CatapultNightmare: ''South Park'' loves this trope.
* {{Catchphrase}}: Stan and Kyle's "Oh my God, they killed Kenny!" "You bastards!" exchange, Cartman's "[[ScrewThisImOuttaHere Screw you guys, I'm going home]]!", "Respect mah authoritah!" and "Goddamn it!" with [[CharacterTic cocking head and squinted eyes]].
** They also [[PlayingWithTropes toyed with]] the "They killed Kenny" line a lot; one of the best was when it became a version of "Marco! Polo!" to let Stan find Kyle in "Super Best Friends". Then there was the "I found a penny!" bit from "Chef's Chocolate Salty Balls".
** The classic Butters catchphrase: "Oh, hamburgers!"
*** In "Butters' Bottom Bitch", he learns a new one off the pimps, with it becoming increasingly natural for him to say...
--> '''Butters:''' Do you know what I am saying?
*** Butters also has "Fellas! FELLAS!"
** Randy Marsh: "Well, ''that'' sucks."
** Stan has "Goddammit!", "Oh, ohhhhhh!", and in the earlier seasons, a simple "Dude", or "That right there, that was fucked up".
** Everyone from New Jersey: "It's a Jersey thing!"
* CatchphraseInterruptus
* CaughtWithYourPantsDown: In "Overlogging", Stan's dad Randy has gone for weeks without masturbating to internet porn, (which he needs, as normal porn is now too tame) eventually near the end he sneaks into the camp's computer room, looks at a bunch of perverted things, and [[spoiler: in a moment of Squick ejaculates all over the room and himself. He tells the people who come to investigate the strange noises that "a ghost was attacking him and slimed him with ectoplasm". He asks several times if anyone else "saw the ghost."]]
* CelestialParagonsAndArchangels: There are three of them in "Best Friends Forever": ArchangelMichael, ArchangelGabriel, and ArchangelUriel.
* CensoredTitle:
** The episode "Chicken Lover"—the name of the villain is actually "Chicken Fucker", but the name of the episode was changed.
*** The term "Chicken Lover" ''was'' used in the episode, to be fair— three times by Officer Barbrady and once by Cartman.
--->'''Officer Barbrady:''' Uh, Mayor, please. When we're around children we prefer to call him the "Chicken ''Lover''".
** The episode "You Got Fucked in the Ass" as well, usually switched to "You Got F'd in the A" or just "You Got...".
** Also, in the newspaper's TV sections, "Make Love, Not Warcraft" became just "World of Warcraft", and "Miss Teacher Bangs a Boy" had the word "Bangs" removed, making the title just "Miss Teacher ... a Boy".
** "The Biggest Douche in the Universe" is truncated in TV listings to just "The Biggest". The two-parter that closes Season 1 ("Cartman's Mom is a Dirty Slut") and [[AprilFoolsDay "officially"]] opens Season 2 ("Cartman's Mom is Still a Dirty Slut") has "(is) a dirty slut" replaced by ellipses. The "bitch" in "Butters' Bottom Bitch" is replaced with a "B".
** "An Elephant Fucks a Pig" was toned down to "An Elephant Makes Love to A Pig", which Parker and Stone found ridiculous.
* {{Cephalothorax}}: The "girl born without a midsection" on the Maury Povich show.
* CerebusRetcon: [[spoiler: Kenny's recurring deaths]] and [[spoiler: the explanation behind the subsequent {{Snap Back}}s given in "Cartman Joins NAMBLA"]] are given a '''dark''' twist in "Mysterion Rises".
** And it's not about Kenny's dad [[spoiler:getting raped by the 30 or so middle aged men in that episode]] either.
** You know all those wacky activities that Randy hilariously takes as SeriousBusiness? Well, it turns out... [[spoiler:that Randy was trying to distract himself from the fact that he's unhappy with his life.]]
** It might have always been there but "Cash For Gold" revealed that [[spoiler: Stan's grandpa has Alzheimer's disease, making him calling Stan "Billy" all those times a little less funny]].
* CerebusSyndrome: While the show is still very much a comedy, its tone has changed significantly over its run. Early seasons were silly and sitcom-like, with a sense of humor reminiscent of ''Series/MontyPythonsFlyingCircus'' and ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons''; later seasons became increasingly topical, with most episodes featuring recent political or social issues, while the BlackComedy became even blacker to the point of becoming a {{Dramedy}} with a DownerEnding or two and increasingly common and [[{{Squick}} graphic]] [[FamilyUnfriendlyViolence violence]].
* CharacterAsHimself: In the movie, the end credits read, "And Saddam Hussein as Himself" in the "Cast" section, though the voice was actually done by Matt Stone.
* CharacterDevelopment: In "Coon 2: Hindsight", Liane actually puts her foot down and disciplines Eric. Borders on an OutOfCharacterMoment. This development continues in season 15, though.
** Cartman has developed both ways. At first he was just a spoiled brat who got worse and worse. He evolved into a ManipulativeBastard capable of rounding up a lynch mob with a stirring speech, and rose to the point where the writers had trouble thinking up how to top himself. "Tsst" suggests an attempt to take him back down to sane levels. He's still spoiled, selfish and agressively dominant, but a few of the demons have been exorcised.
** "1%" appears to have furthered this development.
** The town of South Park itself has undergone development over the years, gaining more businesses and residents, becoming more of a medium-sized town, to the point of having a mall. The sole South Park policeman, Officer Barbrady, has been marginalized over the years in favor of a county police force (though Barbrady now seems to be more competent than in the earlier seasons). This development is best shown in the new season 17 intro, where many more houses and businesses (many of which are from past episodes) are shown to populate the town.
* CharacterizationMarchesOn: The children characters were generally more childish and {{bratty|HalfPint}} early on. Stan and Kyle were generally lower scale bullies (compare their treatment of Butters in early and later episodes) while Cartman was less calculating and sociopathic and more just a {{Jerkass}}. That said, they can still be immature at times in later seasons.
** Stan went from your run-of-the-mill kid and low-grade bully to a cross between the OnlySaneMan and [[KnightInShiningArmor The Knight]].
** Kyle went from your average [[PetTheDog occasionally-caring-occasionally-kind]] young boy to a cross between TheParagon and TheConscience (except when it comes to [[ArchEnemy Cartman]]). Much of his initial childish traits, such as in "Are you there God? It's me, Jesus" seemed to be transferred over to Butters.
** Cartman went from a cross between BrattyHalfPint and {{Jerkass}} to [[EnfantTerrible a complete psychopath]].
** Kenny went from TheWorldsExpertOnGettingKilled to TheHedonist
*** And that change may be [[JustifiedTrope justified]] as him trying to live his life to the fullest, because he dies all the time, and really has no reason to avoid potentially life-threatening activities. (That and the fact that the creators have stated that the "Kenny dying every episode" trope had gotten stale and/or they had reached the point where they had trouble thinking of original deaths (almost) every episode. This was one of the reasons for [[MoodWhiplash the episode "Kenny Dies"]].)
** Randy underwent a huge change. Compare his very first scene—where he casually sips coffee after learning of a volcanic eruption—to his main character trait later on, i.e. freaking out over every little thing, including non-existent threats.
* CheatingWithTheMilkman: The episode "Insecurity" suggests this trope had been modernized with UPS deliverymen in place of milkmen.
* ChekhovsBoomerang: In the episode "200," every celebrity/famous figure that has been on South Park is back in this episode. Tom Cruise, Barbara/Mecha Streisand, Mel Gibson, Bono, Paris Hilton, R. Kelly, Sally Struthers, you get the point. They're ALL back to sue the town..
* ChekhovsGag: In "You're Getting Old", there's a joke where Stan can't tell the difference between a turd in a microwave and an ad for Kevin James's ''Zookeeper''. In the following episode, at the very end, Stan's friends ask him to come watch a movie together. Guess which one it is a sequel of.
--> '''Cartman:''' ''Zookeeper 2: Zookeepier''!
* ChekhovsGun: The "goo" that came out of the Rob Reiner at the end of "Butt Out" becomes a plot point in the episode "200".
** "The Death of Eric Cartman" establishes that the boys love KFC. After the boys decide to [[DisproportionateRetribution start ignoring him after eating all the chicken breading]], he becomes convinced that he is actually dead, confirming it to himself when hearing reports about what he ate clogging the toilet as referring to [[NauseaFuel rupturing his colon]].
*** The plot of a latter episode, "Medicinal Fried Chicken" revolves heavily around KFC.
** [[spoiler:The V-Chip implanted in Cartman's head]] near the end of TheMovie.
** The "Kenny born for the 52nd time" gag at the end of "Cartman Joins NAMBLA" becomes a major plot point in the "Coon and Friends" trilogy.
** In "Margaritaville", Kyle holds a Sermon about the economy, saying he applied for an American Express Platinum card to prove a point, and holds it up to show his audience. Near the end of the episode, he uses that same credit card to pay off the town's debts.
* ChekhovsGunman: In the ''Coon and Friends'' saga: who'd have thunk that [[spoiler: Mint-Berry Crunch, who came out of nowhere, had no real significance to the plot, and was [[WhatKindOfLamePowerIsHeartAnyway a noticeably lame superhero]], would wind up being the one to fix everything?]] Even Cartman's surprised.
--> '''Cartman:''' (in disbelief) [[spoiler:[[DidntSeeThatComing Fucking Mint-Berry fucking Crunch]]...]]
* ChekhovsHobby: In "Lil' Crime Stoppers" a drug cartel states that they'll have to have the McCormicks start making their meth again. Nobody payed much attention. Then eight years later it becomes a major plot point in "The Poor Kid"
* ChekhovsSkill: Parodied in the episode "You Have 0 Friends" with Stan's ability to... roll Yahtzee?
* CherryTapping:
-->'''Kyle:''' Cartman, what are you doing?\\
'''Cartman:''' I'm killing you. Unfortunately I could only afford a [[NerfArm wiffle bat]], so it's gonna take a while.
* TheChessmaster: Both Cartman and Kyle frequently engage in this with one another. Typically involves Cartman developing a scheme and Kyle attempting to counter it. This can get quite elaborate as both are more than familiar with the other's capability.
* ChildPopstar: Cartman's ChristianRock band, Faith +1, is just one example.
* ChildProdigy: Ike is the most blatant version of this trope with his recreation of the last supper using macaroni and contributing to a diamond heist and becoming a knight in Canada before reaching 4.
** To a lesser extent, Kyle can be this. He has regularly been portrayed as the smartest in the 4th grade class. Existential philosophy, crossbreeding of animals, photoshopping well enough to fool a foreign government and single-handedly thwarting a terrorist plot while the government sits by idly isn't exactly typical of an eight to ten year old.
** Cartman may be somewhat BookDumb, but he is a certifiable master at scheming and manipulation and when enticed will go to great lengths to get what he wants. Is frequently capable of getting the better of Kyle's attempts to stop his plan of the week.
* ChildrenAreInnocent: Usually subverted, most often with the murderous Cartman and the sex-crazed, glue-sniffing Kenny. It's also often played straight. Butters is most usually portrayed as innocent, while other children are sometimes shown to be uncorrupted by various stupid or disgusting aspects of adult culture.
** In the [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Fga_q5on1I commentary for the episode "Bebe's Boobs Destroy Society",]] Matt and Trey explicitly state that they disagree with this trope, instead believing that people are born corrupt and that "society keeps us just barely in line."
** Played straight in some episodes ''even by Cartman'', like the one where the kids simply cannot fathom that people kill each other for having different-colored skin, or when they use "fag" without implying gay (for obnoxious Harley riders).
* ChristianRock: Parodied in "Christian Rock Hard" as taking pop love songs and substituting "Jesus" for one's lover.
-->'''Cartman:''' "I want to get down on my knees and start pleasing Jesus, I want to feel his salvation all over my face..."
* ChronicPetKiller: A variant, where it turns out that all of Creator/ParisHilton's pets had committed suicide rather then putting up with their obnoxious owner.
* ChuckCunninghamSyndrome:
** Major character Pip went from featuring heavily and getting his own solo episode, to vanishing permanently and never being mentioned again until ''201'' [[spoiler:where he was promptly killed by Mecha-Streisand.]]
** A lot of early season characters on ''South Park'' haven't been seen much (or at all) in later episodes, such as:
** Officer Barbrady: Effectively replaced by a full police force around season 7, though he is still brought back for small appearances every now and again.
** Kenny's brother, Kevin (the dirty kid who speaks like a hick, when he speaks at all). He was only seen on "Starvin' Marvin" (from season one), "Chickenlover" (from season two), and "Chickenpox" (also from season two). His most recent appearance (I think) was at the end of season 12 where he's at the dinner table and Kenny gets shot by a stray bullet (with no one in the family doing the "Oh my God! They killed Kenny!" bit).
*** Actually, his most recent appearance was in the Season 15th episode, That Poor Kid.
** {{Lampshade|Hanging}}d in "Cartman's Incredible Gift" when Ms. Crabtree is murdered by a serial killer.
---> '''Lou:''' I owe it to that victim over there! I know she hadn't been in any recent episodes, but DAMMIT, she deserved better than this!
** Damien hasn't reappeared in years despite his father making numerous reappearances.
** Nurse Goodly (the nurse with no arms from "Cartman's Mom Is Still a Dirty Slut") hasn't made a reappearance in scenes taking place in Hell's Pass Hospital.
* ChurchOfHappyology: Quite notably averted. Even ended the episode by daring them to sue.
* CircumcisionAngst: Subverted: Kyle thinks they're going to cut off his brother's penis!
* [[CityOfAdventure Town of Adventure]]
* ClicheStorm: Invoked in "About Last Night..." is intentionally full of HeistFilm cliches.
* ClipShow: Spoofed in "City On the Edge of Forever", in which all the flashbacks are incorrect and all inexplicably end with the characters involved eating ice cream.
--> "Now that's what I call [[{{Pun}} a sticky situation]]!"
** There's even a flashback of the kids in a ''Series/HappyDays'' scenario watching Fonzie jump over buses on his bike, and that's treated like it was from an actual episode -- the joke being that kids say that the flashback was wrong because if Kenny died eight hours ago, how could he have died back then as well? And then they turn things UpToEleven by bringing up a flashback from ''earlier in the episode!'' "Remember that time that that kid in the RedShirt decided to go off on his own?" Things play out just like that earlier scene, up until after the monster ate the kid:
-->''(the monster, instead of running away like in the real scene, pulls out some ice cream)''\\
'''Kyle:''' Hey look! He's got ice cream!\\
''(the monster tears a hole in the roof of the bus -- just like when he killed Kenny in a scene elsewhere in the episode -- and gives ice cream to the kids)''
* CloserToEarth: Initially subverted, with most of the female residents often being twice as obnoxious as the males ([[CharacterizationMarchesOn it's hard to believe that Randy Marsh was actually the more laid back of the two earlier on]]). Played more straight in later episodes where even the more obnoxious females such as Wendy and Sheila are far less shrill and prone to {{Idiot Ball}}s. [[AdultsAreUseless For most of the adult characters, this is about only as "Closer To Earth" as Jupiter is to Pluto]] (and naturally all female celebrities are free game).
** Played pretty straight with Sharon. Paired with her husband they're the stereotypical "Woman smart, man stupid" sitcom couple.
* {{Cloudcuckooland}}: {{Canada|Eh}}. Watch out for Scott!
* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: Anyone from Canada. Butters and Cartman seem to be shifting more towards this trope as of recently too.
** Also, Randy Marsh.
** President Bush. Apparently he thinks Saddam Hussein is Satan's gay boyfriend and that he is somehow building chemical weapons plants in Heaven. Subverted in that he is [[CassandraTruth completely right about everything]].
*** He's actually portrayed as pretty intelligent in his later appearances: he's the OnlySaneMan in parts of "Cartoon Wars" and almost pulls off a XanatosGambit in "The Mystery of the Urinal Deuce." WordOfGod says that they just didn't see a point in making him an idiot when every other show was already playing that joke to death.
** '''Mel Gibson.'''
*** "Ow, my nipples! They hurt when I twist them!"
** Parker and Stone are Cloudcuckoolanders ''themselves''. Seriously, many of the plots to these episodes simply have to be seen to be believed.
* ClusterFBomb: Happens a lot.
** Cluster S Bomb in "It Hits The Fan."
*** Also contains a Cluster F Bomb of a different sort, in regards to Mr. Garrison.
** Cluster B Bomb in the "Kyle's Mom is a Bitch" song
** Cluster N Bomb in "With Apologies to Jessie Jackson."
* ColdBloodedTorture: KanyeWest really, ''really'' wants to know why [[spoiler:Carlos Mencia]] is [[ItMakesSenseInContext calling him a gay fish]].
* ColorMeBlack: One episode has the boys making Cartman think he's [[RedHeadedStepchild a ginger]]. Freckles and hair dye. The episode then turns this trope on its head - rather than making Cartman rethink his horrible attitude, he actually starts a ginger supremacist movement and almost kills every non-ginger kid in town.
* ComeToGawk: Someone's about to get beaten up! Let's call the entire town, so that everybody can watch!
** ''"CRIPPLE FIGHT!!"''
** This is also what happens in "Breast Cancer Show Ever."
* ComedicSociopathy
* ComicBookTime: The boys started out as 8-year-olds in 3rd grade. In season 4, they moved onto 4th grade and are now 9-year-old boys. They have remained 9-years-old and in 4th grade ever since (though occasional recent episodes make reference to them being either 8 or 9).
** In "Crack Baby Athletic Association", Stan says that everyone present (Cartman, Kyle, Butters, Clyde, and Craig) is ten years old. Later in "You're Getting Old" Stan himself turns ten, so this is probably the default age for all the kids now.
** In "Ike's Wee Wee" it was stated Ike was born in 1996. This makes no sense nowadays as his older brother was stated to be born in 2001 in "You have 0 Friends".
* ComicallyMissingThePoint: Cartman tends to exemplify this one, the "Major Boobage" episode in particular. Mainly due to the sub-plot of his rescuing the cats from being put into the pound (eventually taking in around 100). When asked by Kyle (a Jew) why the cats are in his attic, he replies with "They're innocent victims in this! They have to hide or they'll be put to death. Something you just can't understand." By the end, we have this exchange between Cartman and Kyle:
-->'''Cartman''': But ya know, we've all learned something, you guys. We can never persecute living beings and force them into hiding. It's wrong.\\
'''Kyle''': And you don't see any parallel between that and anything else in history?\\
'''Cartman''': Hmmm, nope. I have no idea what you're talking about, Kyle.
** Although, since it IS Cartman, this could just be him being a {{Jerkass}}.
** In episode 201: [[spoiler:Scott Tenorman's father was Cartman's father. Cartman killed his own father and ''fed him to his half-brother'']]. Cartman has a Heroic--well, a [[HeroicBSOD BSOD of some other character alignment]] over the fact that this means he [[spoiler:is latently ginger]].
** In "Death," the earlier airings feature the following exchange:
--> '''Liane:''' Eric, dear? I just got a call from your friend Kyle's mother. She said that this show is naughty, and might make you a potty mouth.\\
'''Cartman:''' That's a bunch of crap! Kyle's mom is a dirty Jew!\\
'''Liane:''' Ohhh, okay, hon.
:::: Later airings censor the word "dirty," making the joke seem less like Cartman's mother is ignorant of her son's racism, and more like she's just plain stupid.
** This comprises a good half of the plot behind "Fishsticks." Kanye West, the one person on Earth who can't understand the titular joke, will go to [[InsaneTrollLogic great]] [[ColdBloodedTorture lengths]] in his vain attempt to "get it."
* ComingOfAgeStory: "1%", in a rather twisted way.
** "You're Getting Old" was this for Stan.
** "Smug Alert" has the town realize that their own smugness caused a terrible storm and that driving hybrid cars was the sole cause of it, even though Kyle points out that it's possible to drive a hybrid without being a douche about it.
* CondescendingCompassion: Nurse Golem calls the townspeople out on that when they are celebrating her, saying the last thing she needs is attention, and she just wants to be treated like everyone else.
* ConfessionCam: Parodied heavily at the beginning of "It's a Jersey Thing", culminating with when Sheila admits she's from {{Joisey}}.
-->'''Sharon:''' Sheila, who are you talking to?\\
'''Sheila:''' You wouldn't understand. It's a Jersey thing.
** And again in "I Should Have Never Gone Ziplining"
** In "Proffesor Chaos", they parody The Bachelor when [[spoiler:looking for someone to take Butter's place]]
* ConservationOfCompetence
* ConspicuousCG: Even though the show is ''entirely'' animated on a computer (albeit stylized like construction paper), there's actually quite a few times where it's even more obvious. Which has become '''''very''''' noticeable in the later seasons. It is generally agreed that this is frequently intentional to maintain the appearance of the show looking cheap.
** Some examples include the return of Mecha Streishand in "201", the race sequences in "Poor and Stupid", the titular creature in the "{{Cthulhu}} Trilogy" and pretty much every background since season 5.
* ConsultingAConvictedKiller: In the episode "Toilet Paper", {{Parody}}ing ''TheSilenceOfTheLambs'', Officer Barbrady consults Josh, locked up for toilet papering houses, to help him with a similar case.
* ContemplateOurNavels: in 'The Tooth Fairy Tats' has Kyle start to doubt his own existence after discovering the tooth fairy isn't real. He spends the rest of the episode reading various philosophy books and talking about the nature of reality, even when the conversation around him is something different. He finally has an out-of-body, one-with-the-universe experience, and comments that it was weird. [[BigLippedAlligatorMoment It's never, ever spoken of again.]]
* ContinuityCavalcade: "200"
* ContinuityNod: Willzyx and Tom Cruise on the moon in ''Coon 2''.
** Then we finally have Mysterion's identity and ''actual'' power explained. [[spoiler: Mysterion is Kenny, who ''can't die''. On top of that, the conclusion to the Coon/Mysterion saga showed Kenny's mother giving birth again, sans pregnancy, and regretting going to any of the Cult's meetings. This is a direct nod to the episode when she gave birth to a Kenny look-alike, ''after'' Kenny had died trying to prevent the new kid from being born]].
** In "1%" an Okama [=GameSphere=] can be seen in Token's room.
* ContractualPurity: [[invoked]] Parodied in ''Britney's New Look''. The climax reveals that [[spoiler:the public intentionally set up celebrities like BritneySpears (and later MileyCyrus) on a high pedestal just to see them fall. All so they can have a good harvest.]]
* ConvictedByPublicOpinion: When the heads of a boy scout group were taken to court for discriminating against gays, the judge, when about to announce the verdict, said it was based on public opinion.
* CookingDuel: When Stan battles his Facebook profile in a game of Yahtzee.
** Again in Creme F'raische, which pits Randy against various reality TV cooking stars, such as Guy Ferrera and Chef Ramsey [[spoiler: which is actually a disguised Cartman.]]
* CoolAndUnusualPunishment: When the FBI captures the gang in "Starvin' Marvin InSpace!", the interrogator forces the four boys to talk... by [[MostAnnoyingSound rubbing his hand against a balloon]].
* CoolTeacher: Parodied with Mr. Cartmanez.
* CoordinatedClothes: The Goths are proud of their non-conformity. "If you wanna be one of the non-conformists, all you have to do is dress just like us and listen to the same music we do."
* CorruptCorporateExecutive: [[spoiler:MickeyMouse]] in "The Ring".
** And, to tease Disney and mock its legalistic ways that result in lawsuits, [[spoiler:Mickey Mouse turns into a giant monster that breathes fire all over South Park.]]
** Also [[NativeAmericanCasino several Native Americans owning a large casino]] who threatened to tear down South Park to make way for a highway. Subverted with the CEO of Wal-Mart, who seems to be one, but is actually just a pawn to [[EldritchAbomination Wal-Mart itself]].
** "Chef-Aid:" "I am above the law!"
* CouchGag: In the early seasons, [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=egFzYz1W8M0 this]] version of the theme song would be used whenever there was a Halloween episode instead of the [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S8p22rtNMoM standard]] animation.
* CounterpointDuet: Between Randy and Skeeter in "I'm A Little Bit Country". The song was reprised at the episode to show that they had reconciled.
* CountryMatters: The only swear word that isn't thrown around with gleeful abandon. There are a few times they [[GettingCrapPastTheRadar sneak it in]] though.
** Stan tries to get Wendy back by having Jimmy tell her she's a "continuing source of inspiration" to him and his stutter makes it sound like... that.
** Randy calls Sharon this in "Clubhouses" ("did you just say the 'c' word?"), but it's censored. On the other hand, Tiger Woods calls his wife this in "Sexual Healing", and it is ''not'' censored.
** Russell Crowe starts to call a woman this in "The New Terrance and Phillip Movie Trailer", but it's [[CurseCutShort cut short]].
** And in Wendy's audition song for [[BoyBand Fingerbang]]: "Balzac was a writer/ He lived with Allen Funt/ Mrs. Roberts didn't like him/ But that's 'cause she's a/ Contaminated water can really make you sick..."
*** That song uses {{subverted rhyme|EveryOccasion}}s on several curse words, and outright uses the word "fuck" (bleeped on TV, though in such a way that it's obvious what it was, as always with South Park). Yet, the title of the song (never mentioned on TV) focuses on just one of the words so subverted - [[CaptainObvious guess which one]]. [[https://www.google.com/search?q=wendy%27s+cunt+song&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls]]
* CourtroomAntic: Spoofed in "Chef Aid".
* CoyGirlishFlirtPose: NataliePortman when she demurely turns down requests to [[ItMakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext open her wormhole]].
* CrapSaccharineWorld: The show in its initial state, before it became DarkerAndEdgier.
* CrapsackWorld: Especially after the (relatively) [[LighterAndSofter tamer]] and [[CrapsaccharineWorld sillier]] early seasons.
** Gets a [[LiteralMetaphor literal]] treatment with "You're Getting Old"/"Ass Burgers": [[spoiler: Poor Stan watches his life fall apart around him; and after it all, right as he finally regains his enthusiasm in life, he's dragged back into the status quo against his will, turning to alcoholism just to go on living normally.]]
* CreatorProvincialism: Trey and Matt are from Colorado, so they set their series in a small town about 40 miles from Trey's homeland - even taking its name from the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Park_(Park_County,_Colorado) South Park grassland]].
* CreepyCleanliness: Linda Stotch when learning her husband is cheating on her with men.
* CreepyGood: [[spoiler: [[Franchise/ANightmareOnElmStreet Freddy Krueger]]]].
* CrisisOfFaith: Kyle has one when Cartman gets his own theme park and he gets... haemorrhoids.
* {{Crossdresser}}:
** Butters has been dressing as a girl on and off ever since his first significant role in "Two Guys Naked In A Hot Tub" - not only did he suggest playing ''Series/CharliesAngels'' with women's clothes, he also said he should get to play Jacklyn since it was his idea. This little game got more intense in "Marjorine".
** Cartman has dressed up as a girl a couple of times too.
* CrossReferencedTitles:
** "Do The Handicapped Go to Hell?" "Probably."
** "Cartman's Mom is a Dirty Slut." "Cartman's Mom is Still a Dirty Slut."
* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: Butters gets a surprisingly high number of these moments.
* CruelTwistEnding: "The Return of Chef", "Stanley's Cup" and "Scott Tenorman Must Die", although the latter two are played for laughs.
* CrushParade: [[TheyKilledKenny Kenny's first ever death]] on ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'' sees him blasted onto a road by an alien raygun, trampled by a herd of stampeding cows, and the killing blow comes when he's run over by Officer Barbrady's police cruiser. After that, his body is eaten by rats.
* TheCuckoolanderWasRight: In "Reverse Cowgirl" [[spoiler:Butters admits he thought the correct way to sit on the toilet was to sit inward so you can rest your reading material on the top and reach the handle without having to look down. Near the end John Harrington's ghost confirms that this is how he intended it to be used]].
* CulturalTranslation: Sega Dreamcast is changed into Playstation in the Polish translation simply because no one there knew what a Dreamcast was.
** "Come Sail Away" was swapped out for "La Cucaracha" in a dub aired on Mexican local TV, while the other Spanish-language dubs used other alternative songs in its place.
** Starvin' Marvin was referred to as "Paco el Flaco" (Paco the Skinny) in the original Latin American dub. Big Gay Al became "Gran Pato Al" (''pato'' being slang for an effeminate gay man).
* CulturePolice: Sheila is the freakin' CHIEF of the Culture Police.
* CureYourGays: Butters gets sent to a camp of this nature in "Cartman Sucks".
* CutLexLuthorACheck: That Hippie Drill Cartman came up with in "Die, Hippie, Die"; it could have been used for so much more; and yet they only use it to disperse a hippie festival. (Sure, it could've consumed the the town like a giant, pot-smoking ameoba, but still, you would think that Cartman would've sold it to the government or something for a massive profit.)
* CutTheJuice: In the ''24'' parody episode.
** And "Over Logging".
* CuteIsEvil: The Woodland Christmas Critters.
* CuttingTheKnot: When Stan and Kyle try to destroy the [[BlandNameProduct Wall Mart]] by destroying its core, they see that the core is a mirror. The Wall Mart CEO goes on about the symbolism about how it is the citizens of the town that are fueling the Wall Mart, etc. Stan shrugs and says the guy told them to destroy the core, so Kyle shatters the mirror which destroys the Wall Mart.
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* DamnedByAFoolsPraise: If the writers think something sucks, they'll often express it by having Cartman or Butters like it.
** In "Timmy 2000" in particular, everyone gets addicted to Ritalin, causing them to mellow out and begin to like Music/PhilCollins. [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone The pharmacists were not happy about this development.]]
* DarkerAndEdgier: Pre-Season 5, the show was really silly and amusing. But once we get to the season of uncensored cursing, Cartman [[spoiler: killing two people and grinding them up into chili]], brainwashing Earth Day cults, life-threatening hemorrhoids, genetically-engineered towels, and butt-faced people, sooner or later, you'll realize that the show has gotten a near-complete overhaul.
** ''[[TheMovie Bigger, Longer & Uncut]]'' has a higher body count than the first three seasons combined, a legitimate BigBad, and a global-scale war that is taken ''[[SeriousBusiness deadly serious]]''.
* DawsonCasting
** The episode "I Should Have Never Gone Ziplining" features a live action segment with all four boys portrayed by actors clearly in their mid-twenties.
** All children, excluding Ike and similarly aged toddlers, are portrayed by Trey Parker, Matt Stone, and other adult voice actors with their voices sped up or simply imitating child like voices.
* ADayInTheLimelight:
** The Goth Kids in "The Ungroundable"
** Wendy in "Stupid Spoiled Whore Video Playset", "The List", "Breast Cancer Show Ever" among others.
** Butters' Very Own Episode" deserves a special mention, although he [[AscendedExtra later became a major character]].
** Jimmy is definitely a running second to Butters in this category. "Erection Day", "Krazy Kripples", "Crippled Summer", "Fishsticks", "Up the Down Steroid" just to name a few.
** Ike in "Royal Pudding"
* DeadlineNews: In "Night of the Living Homeless".
* DeadpanSnarker: Stan and Craig. ''Especially'' Craig.
-->'''Craig:''' This is fun. Let's walk for miles through a spooky jungle. It just keeps getting better and better.
* DeathIsASlapOnTheWrist: Cartman sums it up best in "Cartmanland" regarding Kenny's constant deaths.
--> '''Cartman''': [[LampshadeHanging Oh, come on! Kenny dies all the time!]]
* DeathIsTheOnlyOption: In the episode "Fantastic Easter Special", Jesus, who is imprisoned, asks Kyle to kill him in order for [[DeathActivatedSuperpower his powers to activate]]. Kyle, being Jewish, [[UnfortunateImplications is, naturally, very uncomfortable with this]].
* DeclarativeFinger: Towelie does this when dispensing towel advice.
* {{Deconstruction}}: In "Kenny Dies," they took their OverusedRunningGag of Kenny dying and [[KilledOffForReal played it absolutely straight]], with [[DramaBomb similarly unconventional results]]. [[UnexplainedRecovery For a while]].
** Also in the "Coon and Friends" trilogy, Kenny [[spoiler: as Mysterion]] finally decides to speak to his friends about the matter without the muffle, and completely seriously. It turns out that [[WeirdnessCensor no one has the ability to remember]] the deaths, and Kenny reappears in his bed, or occasionally somewhere else.
* DeconstructiveParody: "Crippled Summer" has one of ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'' and its AmusingInjuries.
* DefiedTrope: In "Butt Out", Kyle attempts to avoid CannotSpitItOut, only to get CassandraTruth.
* DemotedToExtra: Most of the characters from the early seasons, particularly Officer Barbrady and Dr. Mephisto, who were major characters in many episodes, and often had whole shows featuring them (both later vanished, and South Park even got a real police force). The Mayor appeared far less as time went on, and Chef was showing up less and less (after being more or less the fourth most important character on the show) before he was killed off. Most of the one-off characters, too.
** ''The boys themselves''. More and more episodes seem to follow the formula of "Randy does something stupid, while Stan & Kyle get maybe one or two lines in the beginning".
** Tweek, Pip, Wendy, Ike, Jimbo & Ned, Fr. Maxi, Kenny, Mrs. Cartman, Kyle's parents and Mr. Garrison have scarcely appeared in later seasons.
*** Lately, however, Kenny HAS been getting more appearances, even getting his own episode with Butters in "Going Native" [[spoiler: AND NOT DYING!]]
* DepravedHomosexual: '''Mr. Garrison.'''
** Though, as Chef once noted, "there is a BIG difference between gay people and Mr. Garrison." Liking men is the ''least'' weird thing about his sexual preferences.
** Cartman. Jimmy put it best in "Imaginationland".
*** And put on display in "Cartman Finds Love".
* DespotismJustifiesTheMeans: Eric Cartman has a deep fondness for this. "Probably", "Dances With Smurfs" and "Crack Baby Athletic Association" are just three examples among many, many others.
* {{Determinator}}: Cartman may be a gigantic prick, but when he wants something he'll go to almost ridiculous lengths to get it.
** Kyle at times too. Both can be pushed easily if it's at the other's expense actually.
** Butters in "Super Fun Time".
--->'''Butters:''' "Teacher, my partner is ''back on the bus''."
** Jimmy in "Erection Day" and "Up the Down Steroid".
* DeusExMachina: [[spoiler:Mintberry Crunch]], full-stop. Also, the ending of the film.
* DevilInPlainSight: Averted, in that many characters know that Cartman is a JerkAss. However, authority figures like Mr. Garrison, Principal Victoria, and Mr. Mackey oftentimes treat Stan and Kyle as if they're just as bad (or, in "Toilet Paper," ''worse!'') despite this being [[OnlySaneMan far, far from the case.]]
* TheDevilIsALoser: Originally a headstrong rebel and pretty badass his first appearance, his later appearances he's a whiny little bitch. God even calls him out on this. He's also gay for some reason.
** South Park was actually fairly progressive in this area. He's gay because he happens to be attracted to males. It wasn't done for a quick gag or gay plot, it's just a personality trait.
* DiabolusExMachina: Quite common in the show, especially in later seasons, most notably in ''Stanley's Cup''.
* DidDoTheResearch: For all that it is, South Park can be fairly sensitive when the writers want to be. Most of their issues are pretty well researched. When Timmy and Jimmy's conditions become applicable they are taken fairly seriously, "Le Petit Tourettes" handled Tourettes Syndrome better than most recent approaches, many terminal illnesses like AIDS, Cancer and Muscular Dystrophy are researched, they noted that Americans built military bases on Muslim holy ground, and they are not adverse to using Bible quotations.
* [[DidYouJustHaveTeaWithCthulhu Did You Just Make Friends With Cthulhu?]]: Cartman did.
* DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu: [[spoiler:Mintberry Crunch]] did it using the power of [[spoiler:berries and mint]] before dragging him back to whence he came (then he [[spoiler:flipped off his fat sister]]).
* DinkyDrivers: Occurs with Stan and Kenny in the episode "Towelie".
* DiscriminateAndSwitch
* DisneyCreaturesOfTheFarce: The Woodland Critters.
* DisproportionateRetribution: Oh boy, where to start. If an act is featured, it's almost certain to involve Cartman.
** The ending to "Scott Tenorman Must Die".
** In the beginning of "Tsst!", Cartman is in trouble for chaining a boy to the school flagpole, telling him he poisoned his milk (and the antidote is just out of reach), and supplying the poor boy with a hacksaw (it is implied the boy used it). This is a punishment for... calling Cartman chubby. Especially bad if you consider that Stan, Kyle, and Kenny regularly call Cartman ''MUCH'' worse names for "chubby".
** A more meta-example would be the sex-change episode. Okay, we understand that Trey and Matt think that it's wrong but... did they have to have ''Mr. Garrison'' as the primary example? It's the equivalent of having Satan pop out of the ground and say how much he loves a political party!
** How about the one involving the OTHER Scott, [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Scott the Dick]], of the Terrance and Philip fame? Scott, disliking fart jokes is completely reasonable, but is it really enough to validate wishing cancer upon someone, letting Saddam Hussein and his army into Canada in hopes that they'd repeatedly shoot and then decapitate Terrance and Phillip, and then trying to get the people you hate to sacrifice themselves in a suicide bomb attack to fix something you screwed up?
** In Douche & Turd, the slogan "Vote or Die"; meaning if you don't vote, [[LiteralMetaphor P.Diddy will KILL YOU]]. In the same episode, the town banishes Stan for not voting. They tear off his clothes bit by bit, spitting on him, then tie him to a horse and put a bucket on his head, sending him off into the wilderness. [[LampshadeHanging ("Isn't this a little extreme?")]] This was most likely a piss-take on [[NonIndicativeName MTV's youth voting campaign at the time called, you guessed it, "Vote or Die"]].
** "Pandemic". The Department of Homeland Security takes every Peruvian flute band they can find and takes them away to Miami where they plan to make them spend the rest of their lives. Why? For the sole reason that they find them annoying. [[spoiler: That is what it seems like, until Part 2, when we find out that the Peruvian flute bands were the key to keeping some monstrous guinea pigs from causing massive destruction. The DMS did that ''knowing full well what would happen''.]]
** In "T.M.I.," a psychiatrist tries to purposely antagonize Cartman by hurling fat jokes and insults at him to test how he deals with anger. Cartman does not respond with the usual emotional reaction one might expect. Rather, he [[spoiler: uses an iPhone to produce fake evidence that the psychiatrist was involved with a teenager online. The psychiatrist's wife calls the psychiatrist and kills herself over the phone.]]
** In "1%," Cartman responds to being teased about "crying to his stuffed animals" every time he is persecuted by [[spoiler: trashing all of his stuffed animals one by one and blaming it on his friends.]] Also known as, [[TheTysonZone Cartman's interpretation of "growing up".]]
* DistressedDude: Kenny is this because [[TheyKilledKennyAgain you know the drill]].
* TheDitz: Butters.
* DivineDate: Satan and Saddam Hussein (later, Satan and Chris).
* DocumentaryEpisode: "Crippled Summer" and "I Should Have Never Gone Ziplining", which are repectively parodies of ''{{Intervention}}'' and ''IShouldntBeAlive''. The latter episode even had a dramatic reenactment ([[ArtShift filmed in live action]]) for the third act of the episode.
* DodgeballIsHell: Pip becomes a Dodgeball savant when he gets pissed off over people calling him French.
* DoesNotLikeShoes: Kyle's character in ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft''.
* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: Frequently used either satirically or just PlayedForLaughs.
** "Crème Fraiche" has a meta-example with the Shake Weight, only taken UpToEleven.
** "Major Boobage" has a [[PlotThreads B Plot]] about Cartman protecting cats from a WitchHunt by hiding them in his attic and imploring them to be quiet. Kyle gets progressively more annoyed and incredulous that the anti-Semitic Cartman can't "[[LampshadeHanging see any parallel]] between that and [[WorldWarII anything else in history]]."
** Kyle's unconventional advice on the economy in "Margaritaville" is heavily paralleled with Jesus' defiance of the Pharisees.
* DoggedNiceGuy: Both Kyle and Token in "Cartman Finds Love".
* TheDogBitesBack: Butters occasionally gets back at Cartman and/or his relatives for their abuse of him, for ex. "AWESOM-O", "The Ungroundable" and "Cash for Gold".
** In "Poor and Stupid", the Vagisil CEO's wife gets in a race car and deliberately uses it to wreck the Vagisil car after he repeatedly humiliates her for her... feminine odors.
* TheDogWasTheMastermind: In the episode "About Last Night...", Kyle's toddler brother Ike was the key player in Obama and [=McCain's=] ''OceansEleven''-style heist.
* DontExplainTheJoke: Subverted. In ''Fishsticks'', the [[PunnyName fishsticks]] joke becomes funnier when, upon Cartman repeating the joke to Clyde and delivering the punchline, Butters runs up and explains the joke.
--> Butters: You said you like to put fish sticks [[note]]"fish dicks"[[/note]] in your mouth, [[spoiler: that makes you a gay fish]]!
* DoTheyKnowItsChristmasTime
* DoubleAesop: "Simpsons Already Did It" tells us "Nobody cares if ItsBeenDone". It also tells us, in its last seconds, "War is the natural order of life".
* DoubleStandard: Spoofed quite a few times.
** Most recent example: It's not okay to show Mohammed even if he's just standing there looking normal, yet it's okay to show Buddha snorting coke and Jesus watching Internet porn.
** After the censorship debacle, Matt and Trey said they'd "come back next week with something completely different and see what'll happen". That "something" was showing a shark raping a mentally handicapped child. ''Uncensored''. '''''Twice.'''''
** DoubleStandardAbuseFemaleOnMale: Revolves around Stan being beaten and everyone being sympathetic toward him over it... until they find out that the one beating him up is his sister. Then they mock him and call him a pussy. This is despite the fact that Stan's sister is older and bigger than he is, and is also a violent sociopath.
*** Averted in "The Poor Kid." Mysterion (male) beats up an unnamed female student. The female student in question is immediately unsympathetic beforehand, as she's trying to beat up Karen McCormick, a little girl half her size.
** DoubleStandardRapeFemaleOnMale: "Nice..."
* DownerEnding:
** "Stanley's Cup"
** "Toilet Paper"
** "The Tale of Scrotie [=McBoogerballs=]."
** Both [[TwoPartEpisode "You're Getting Old" and "Ass Burgers"]].
** Ginger Cow
** Titties and Dragons
** The Hobbit, mostly because of how true it actually rings.
* TheDragAlong: The characters generally take turns with this. Craig spends two whole episodes {{lampshad|eHanging}}ing this. But after years of improbable adventures it was about time somebody called them on it.
* TheDragon: Kenny or Butters usually act as this to Cartman.
** Cthulhu hmore or less became this to Cartman in "Mysterion Rises".
** General Disarray to Professor Chaos.
* DramaBomb: As soon as Season 5, the show starts to have these, beginning with "Kenny Dies". Other episodes include "Fun with Veal", "The Death Camp of Tolerance", "Toilet Paper", "Red Man's Greed", "Raisins", "Preschool", "The Return of Chef", and "You're Getting Old."
** And in the case of Stan and Kyle's friendship, "Follow That Egg" was the first of several episodes to have these dropped on it in contrast to earlier, sillier episodes such as "Prehistoric Ice Man".
** Cartman himself has quite a big one in "1%".
* DramaticallyMissingThePoint: Stan not getting what a terminal illness means.
* {{Dramedy}}: Believe it or not. The entire series became this as soon as "Kenny Dies" or as late as "Toilet Paper".
* DroppedABridgeOnHim:
** Chef. Though it's more like he was dropped ''off'' the bridge.
** Halfway through the "Professor Chaos"/"Simpsons Already Did It" two-parter, Ms. Choksondik dies off-screen, with the cause of death never revealed. [[note]]Though it may be safe to guess that her [[MeaningfulName name is not meaningless.]][[/note]]
** Pip in the episode "201" [[spoiler: gets stepped on by [[InstantAwesomeJustAddMecha Barbara Streisand]] for no reason.]]
** And lest we forget, one of the early RunningGags of the series was repeatedly dropping bridges on Kenny ([[DeathIsCheap only for him to be perfectly fine once the next episode started]])
* DrivenToSuicide: Most of the deaths in South Park (not counting Kenny's, who is rarely seen killing himself despite his many deaths) are this. Though it's mostly one-time characters doing so, obviously.
** In "Coon Vs Coon and Friends", [[spoiler:Kenny/Mysterion]] attempts to goad Cthulhu into either removing his [[CursedWithAwesome curse of immortality]] or simply killing him once and for all. After a particularly irksome situation where a mysterious stranger behind a CGI portal gives a speech about powers, destiny, an extraterrestial origin etc. only to find out [[spoiler:he's talking about Mintberry Crunch]], who then disappears along with Cthulhu and Cartman, Mysterion goes back to headquarters/Cartman's basement after [[spoiler:Mintberry Crunch saves the world]]. There, he tells his gleeful superhero buddies that he wants to "take a nap" [[spoiler:then promptly shoots himself. For the third time in the trilogy.]]
** In "Pinewood Derby", Emmett Hollis' father shoots himself with a gun after feeling ashamed to have lost to Randy in the derby-''in front of Emmett''-much to his horror. Emmett than says, "He's okay, he's okay, he's okay..." quickly before the scene changes.
** In "Something Wal-Mart This Way Comes", the owner of the local Wal-Mart faces an angry mob of townspeople fed up with its influence, nervously going back and forth between lauding its qualities and expressing his own negative yet defeated opinion of it. During the conversation he writes and shows a note telling the crowd to meet him outside. After then townspeople leave the office confused and disappointed, [[spoiler:the owner suddenly jumps through the window, hanging by a noose. Seconds later, [[NoDeadBodyPoops he craps his pants, proving Cartman right about the phenomenon]] to his satisfaction.]] The same thing happens later with [[spoiler:the founder of Wal-Mart, who shoots himself. And then [[RunningGag craps his pants]].]]
** The shopping channel host in "Cash For Gold", after spending most of the episode being told to do so by Stan and several elderly people. [[spoiler:And does so in the end.]]
** Taken seriously in "Cartman Sucks" where [[spoiler: the gay children in the camp see themselves as evil and unable to change the way they think.]]
* DrugsAreBad: Trope Namer. The episode "Ike's Wee Wee" from season two is this trope all over. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VCDnR6Px-co Literally.]]
* DugTooDeep: BP in "Coon 2: Hindsight"
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