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* AnAesop: {{Subverted|Trope}}. Cartman gets as far as, "Sometimes you--" before Kyle interrupts him, accusing him of not learning anything.

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* AnAesop: {{Subverted|Trope}}. While in detention with the others, Cartman gets as far as, "Sometimes you--" before Kyle interrupts him, accusing him of not learning anything.

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* AnAesop: {{Subverted|Trope}}. Cartman gets as far as, "Sometimes you--" before Kyle interrupts him, accusing him of not learning anything.



-->'''Cashier:''' (scanning) Toilet paper ["beep"] Toilet paper ["beep"] Aaand toilet paper ["beep". He picks up the gum] Eh, hey. Now you kids be careful with this chewing gum. Don't go sticking it under tables.

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-->'''Cashier:''' (scanning) Toilet paper ["beep"] Toilet paper ["beep"] Aaand toilet paper ["beep". He picks up the gum] Eh, hey. Now H-hey, now you kids be careful with this chewing gum. Don't go sticking it under tables.



* MotorMouth: Cartman's SeamlessSpontaneousLie to cover up the incident when the gang is sent to the Principal's office.[[note]]It doesn't work; Kyle and Stan can't follow it, and Cartman gets tired of repeating it.[[/note]]
--> '''Cartman:''' Okay. Last night, all four of us were at the bowling alley until about 7:30, at which time we noticed Creator/AllySheedy, the Goth chick from ''Film/TheBreakfastClub'', was bowling in the lane next to us, and we asked her for her autograph, but she didn't have a pen, so we followed her out to her car, but on the way we were accosted by five Scientologists who wanted to give us all personality tests, which were administered at the Scientology Center in Denver until 10:45, at which time we accidentally boarded the wrong bus home and ended up in Rancho de Burritos Rojos, south of Castle Rock, and finally got a ride home with a man who was missing his left index finger, named Gary Bushwell, arriving home at 11:46.

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* MotorMouth: Cartman's SeamlessSpontaneousLie to cover up the incident when the gang is sent to the Principal's office.[[note]]It doesn't work; Kyle and Stan can't follow it, and Cartman gets tired of repeating it.[[/note]]
--> '''Cartman:''' Okay. Last night, all four of us were at the bowling alley until about 7:30, at which time we noticed Creator/AllySheedy, the Goth chick from ''Film/TheBreakfastClub'', was bowling in the lane next to us, and we asked her for her autograph, but she didn't have a pen, so we followed her out to her car, but on the way we were accosted by five Scientologists who wanted to give us all personality tests, which were administered at the Scientology Center in Denver until 10:45, at which time we accidentally boarded the wrong bus home and ended up in Rancho de Burritos Rojos, south of Castle Rock, and finally got a ride home with a man who was missing his left index finger, named Gary Bushwell, arriving home at 11:46.



* SeamlessSpontaneousLie: Cartman delivers one in MotorMouth fashion when fabricating a cover for their eponymous incident:

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* SeamlessSpontaneousLie: Cartman delivers one in MotorMouth fashion when fabricating a cover for their eponymous incident:incident:[[note]]It doesn't work; Kyle and Stan can't follow it, and Cartman gets tired of repeating it.[[/note]]
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* SeamlessSpontaneousLie: Cartman delivers one in MotorMouth fashion when fabricating a cover for their eponymous incident:
--> '''Cartman:''' Okay. Last night, all four of us were at the bowling alley until about 7:30, at which time we noticed Creator/AllySheedy, the Goth chick from ''Film/TheBreakfastClub'', was bowling in the lane next to us, and we asked her for her autograph, but she didn't have a pen, so we followed her out to her car, but on the way we were accosted by five Scientologists who wanted to give us all personality tests, which were administered at the Scientology Center in Denver until 10:45, at which time we accidentally boarded the wrong bus home and ended up in Rancho de Burritos Rojos, south of Castle Rock, and finally got a ride home with a man who was missing his left index finger, named Gary Bushwell, arriving home at 11:46.
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* MotorMouth: Cartman's SeamlessSpontaneousLie to cover up the incident when the gang is sent to the Principal's office.[[note]]It doesn't work; Kyle and Stan can't follow it, and Cartman gets tired of repeating it.[[/note]]
--> '''Cartman:''' Okay. Last night, all four of us were at the bowling alley until about 7:30, at which time we noticed Creator/AllySheedy, the Goth chick from ''Film/TheBreakfastClub'', was bowling in the lane next to us, and we asked her for her autograph, but she didn't have a pen, so we followed her out to her car, but on the way we were accosted by five Scientologists who wanted to give us all personality tests, which were administered at the Scientology Center in Denver until 10:45, at which time we accidentally boarded the wrong bus home and ended up in Rancho de Burritos Rojos, south of Castle Rock, and finally got a ride home with a man who was missing his left index finger, named Gary Bushwell, arriving home at 11:46.



** Kyle's line "You didn't say nothing about no kids, man" is from ''Film/Scarface1983''.



* YouAreGrounded: Butters gets grounded for confessing to a crime he didn't commit. [[NoodleIncident Again.]]

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* YouAreGrounded: Butters gets grounded for confessing to a crime he didn't commit. [[NoodleIncident Again.]]]]
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* EvilCanNotComprehendGood: Cartman gets a migraine trying to understand why Kyle, Stan and Kenny would want to confess to their [=TPing=].

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* EvilCanNotComprehendGood: EvilCannotComprehendGood: Cartman gets a migraine trying to understand why Kyle, Stan and Kenny would want to confess to their [=TPing=].



* GuiltRiddenAccomplice: Kyle becomes frightened that he was involved with the [=TPing=] prank, so much to the point where he had nightmares about it and [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone deeply regrets agreeing to pull the prank.]]

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* GuiltRiddenAccomplice: Kyle becomes frightened that he was involved with the [=TPing=] prank, so much to the point where he had nightmares about it and [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone deeply regrets agreeing to pull the prank.]]prank]].



* NeverMyFault: The boys [=TP=] the art teacher's house because she put them in detention, but ignore the fact that they were fooling around and made a clay model of a penis which is what got the in trouble in the first place.

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* NeverMyFault: The boys [=TP=] the art teacher's house because she put them in detention, but ignore the fact that they were fooling around and made a clay model of a penis which is what got the them in trouble in the first place.



* OhCrap: When Barbrady's personal revelations gets a little to real for Josh, he drops the Hannibal act for a few seconds.

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* OhCrap: When Barbrady's personal revelations gets get a little to too real for Josh, he drops the Hannibal act for a few seconds.
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* NeverMyFault: The boys [=TP=] the art teacher's house because she put them in detention, but ignore the fact that they were fooling around and made a clay model of a penis which is what got the in trouble in the first place.
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** Josh [[spoiler:after escaping proceeds to do this on TheWhiteHouse]].

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** Josh [[spoiler:after after escaping proceeds to do this on TheWhiteHouse]].TheWhiteHouse.
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* TheBadGuyWins: Cartman, upon realizing all the boys want to confess to their crime and he won't be able to stop them, ends up confessing first. He still gets punished for it, but he gets a reduced one-week detention while Stan, Kyle, and Kenny get a full two-week sentence.
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* DeathByAThousandCuts: What Cartman hopes to achieve when all he has to kill Kyle (and later the rest of the boys) is a wiffle bat.
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* NonStandardCharacterDesign: Downplayed with Josh Myers, he's shaped like the rest of the child characters although his eyes are spaced apart unlike most of the characters and when he talks, his head stays still and doesn't bob around.

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* TheLastOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers: To avoid seeming suspicious, the boys add a pack of chewing gum to their cart full of toilet paper. The cashier narrates the items he's scanning, which is all toilet paper until he comes across the pack of gum.
-->'''Cashier:''' (scanning) Toilet paper ["beep"] Toilet paper ["beep"] Aaand toilet paper ["beep". He picks up the gum] Eh, hey. Now you kids be careful with this chewing gum. Don't go sticking it under tables.



* OneOfTheseThingsIsNotLikeTheOthers: To avoid seeming suspicious, the boys add a pack of chewing gum to their cart full of toilet paper. The cashier narrates the items he's scanning, which is all toilet paper until he comes across the pack of gum.
-->'''Cashier:''' (scanning) Toilet paper ["beep"] Toilet paper ["beep"] Aaand toilet paper ["beep". He picks up the gum] Eh, hey. Now you kids be careful with this chewing gum. Don't go sticking it under tables.
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* CoverupPurchase: Parodied when the boys buy a trolley load of toilet paper ready to teepee their art teacher's house. Kyle is worried this will look suspicious, so Cartman balances it with one stick of gum. The cashier nonchalantly checks through roll after roll of toilet paper not suspecting a thing, ironically only being skeptical of the gum, warning the boys not to stick it under tables.
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* PleaDeal: Discussed and PlayedStraight. Before being questioned about the [=TPing=] of their teacher's house, Cartman tells the others Mr. Mackey will be interviewing them separately to see if one of them will be willing to rat on the others in exchange for a less severe punishment (and threatens Kyle to not do so). At the end, when the other three decide to confess to ease their guilt, Cartman, seeing the writing on the wall, confesses to Mackey before they do and only gets a week of detention to the others' two weeks.

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* PleaDeal: PleaBargain: Discussed and PlayedStraight. Before being questioned about the [=TPing=] of their teacher's house, Cartman tells the others Mr. Mackey will be interviewing them separately to see if one of them will be willing to rat on the others in exchange for a less severe punishment (and threatens Kyle to not do so). At the end, when the other three decide to confess to ease their guilt, Cartman, seeing the writing on the wall, confesses to Mackey before they do and only gets a week of detention to the others' two weeks.
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* PleaDeal: Discussed and PlayedStraight. Before being questioned about the [=TPing=] of their teacher's house, Cartman tells the others Mr. Mackey will be interviewing them separately to see if one of them will be willing to rat on the others in exchange for a less severe punishment (and threatens Kyle to not do so). At the end, when the other three decide to confess to ease their guilt, Cartman, seeing the writing on the wall, confesses to Mackey before they do and only gets a week of detention to the others' two weeks.
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* EpicFail: Cartman attempts to silence Kyle on the boat, but he could only afford a wiffle bat, so it goes as well as you'd expect.
-->'''Cartman:''' ''[after the umpteenth hit]'' Kyle will be dead in a matter of hours.

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* FelonyMisdemeanor: [=TPing=] is treated as if it were a horrible crime in story.



* WhatDoYouMeanItsNotHeinous: [=TPing=] is treated as if it were a horrible crime in story.

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* EvilCanNotComprehendGood: Cartman gets a migraine trying to understand why Kyle, Stan and Kenny would want to confess to their TPing.

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* EvilCanNotComprehendGood: Cartman gets a migraine trying to understand why Kyle, Stan and Kenny would want to confess to their TPing.[=TPing=].



* ShoutOut: The Josh Meyers plot is one to ''Film/SilenceOfTheLambs''.
** Both times Cartman tries to kill Kyle and the others is taken from the scene in ''LiveActionFilm/TheGodfatherPartII'' when Michael orders his brother to be killed.
* ToiletPaperPrank: The main plotline involves the boys [=TPing=] their art teacher's house to get revenge on her for giving them detention.
** Josh [[spoiler: after escaping proceeds to do this on TheWhiteHouse]].

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* ShoutOut: ShoutOut:
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The Josh Meyers plot is one to ''Film/SilenceOfTheLambs''.
** Both times Cartman tries to kill Kyle and the others is taken from the scene in ''LiveActionFilm/TheGodfatherPartII'' ''Film/TheGodfatherPartII'' when Michael orders his brother to be killed.
* ToiletPaperPrank: ToiletPaperPrank:
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The main plotline involves the boys [=TPing=] their art teacher's house to get revenge on her for giving them detention.
** Josh [[spoiler: after [[spoiler:after escaping proceeds to do this on TheWhiteHouse]].
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* GuiltRiddenAccomplice: Kyle becomes frightened that he was involved with the [=TPing=] prank, so much to the point where he had nightmares about it and deeply regrets agreeing to pull the prank.

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* GuiltRiddenAccomplice: Kyle becomes frightened that he was involved with the [=TPing=] prank, so much to the point where he had nightmares about it and [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone deeply regrets agreeing to pull the prank.]]
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** Josh [[spoiler: after escaping proceeds to do this on TheWhiteHouse]].
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* EvilCanNotComprehendGood: Cartman gets a migraine trying to understand why Kyle, Stan and Kenny would want to confess to their TPing.
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** Both times Cartman tries to kill Kyle and the others is taken from the scene in [[LiveActionFilm/TheGodfatherPartII]] when Michael orders his brother to be killed.

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** Both times Cartman tries to kill Kyle and the others is taken from the scene in [[LiveActionFilm/TheGodfatherPartII]] ''LiveActionFilm/TheGodfatherPartII'' when Michael orders his brother to be killed.

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He was upset because Cartman did it to get out of trouble.


* GroinAttack: Kyle kicks Cartman in the balls for insulting him. Unlike most examples Cartman's response is rather realistic, he grunts in pain and has trouble talking for the rest of the scene

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* DisproportionateRetribution: The whole reason the boys [=TP=] the art teacher's house is because she rightfully punished them for making an obscene clay model in class.
* GroinAttack: Kyle kicks Cartman in the balls for insulting him. Unlike most examples Cartman's response is rather realistic, he grunts in pain and has trouble talking for the rest of the scenescene.



* ItsAllAboutMe: Kyle gets upset when Cartman tattles to Principal Victoria, because ''he'' was supposed to learn a lesson, not Cartman.


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* DidntThinkThisThrough: Cartman tries to kill Kyle. With a [[EpicFail whiffle-ball bat]].


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* OhCrap: When Barbrady's personal revelations gets a little to real for Josh, he drops the Hannibal act for a few seconds.
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* DidntThinkThisThrough: Cartman tries to kill Kyle. With a [[EpicFail whiffle-ball bat]].



* ItsAllAboutMe: Kyle gets upset when Cartman tattles to Principal Victoria, because ''he'' was supposed to learn a lesson, not Cartman.



* WhatDoYouMeanItsNotHeinous: [=TPing=] is treated as if it were a horrible crime in story.

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* WhatDoYouMeanItsNotHeinous: [=TPing=] is treated as if it were a horrible crime in story.story.
* YouAreGrounded: Butters gets grounded for confessing to a crime he didn't commit. [[NoodleIncident Again.]]
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*BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: Josh keeps trying to HannibalLecture Barbrady into revealing deeply personal tidbits about himself. The second time he does this, where Barbrady reveals his dad used to make him dress up like a girl and sit on all his uncles laps unnerves Josh so much he actually drops the Hannibal act for a few seconds.
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* GroinAttack: Kyle kicks Cartman in the balls for insulting him. Unlike most examples Cartman's response is rather realistic, he grunts in pain and has trouble talking for the rest of the scene
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* OffscreenRomance: Butters mentions that he has a girlfriend from Michigan named "Carrie", but she never appeared in the series nor was their relationship looked into any further.

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* OffscreenRomance: Butters mentions that he has a girlfriend from Michigan named "Carrie", but she never appeared in the series nor was their relationship looked into any further. However, this could've been a case of GirlfriendFromCanada.
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* OnlySaneMan: The art teacher's husband isn't worried about his house being [=TPed=], saying that it's natural for young boys to do pranks like this and that he used to [=TP=] houses when he was a kid.

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* ToiletPaperPrank: The main plotline involves the boys [=TPing=] their art teacher's house to get revenge on her for giving them detention.

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* ShoutOut: The Josh Meyers plot is one to ''Film/SilenceOfTheLambs''.
* ToiletPaperPrank: The main plotline involves the boys [=TPing=] their art teacher's house to get revenge on her for giving them detention.detention.
* WhatDoYouMeanItsNotHeinous: [=TPing=] is treated as if it were a horrible crime in story.
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'''Airdate:''' April 2, 2003

The boys cover their art teacher's house in toilet paper after getting detention for molding a penis out of clay, but Kyle starts feeling guilty about it and Officer Barbrady summons help from a Hannibal Lector-esque boy named Josh Meyers ([[NamesTheSame not to be confused with Seth Meyers' real-life brother and former cast member of]] ''Series/{{MADtv}}'' and ''Series/That70sShow'').
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!!"Toilet Paper" contains examples of:

* GuiltRiddenAccomplice: Kyle becomes frightened that he was involved with the [=TPing=] prank, so much to the point where he had nightmares about it and deeply regrets agreeing to pull the prank.
* OffscreenRomance: Butters mentions that he has a girlfriend from Michigan named "Carrie", but she never appeared in the series nor was their relationship looked into any further.
* OneOfTheseThingsIsNotLikeTheOthers: To avoid seeming suspicious, the boys add a pack of chewing gum to their cart full of toilet paper. The cashier narrates the items he's scanning, which is all toilet paper until he comes across the pack of gum.
-->'''Cashier:''' (scanning) Toilet paper ["beep"] Toilet paper ["beep"] Aaand toilet paper ["beep". He picks up the gum] Eh, hey. Now you kids be careful with this chewing gum. Don't go sticking it under tables.
* ToiletPaperPrank: The main plotline involves the boys [=TPing=] their art teacher's house to get revenge on her for giving them detention.

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