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* ThisIsGonnaSuck: In "Happy Fun Time", Kyle says this when he first arrives at Frontier Village and having heard the annoying Pioneer Paul.
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* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Chef and Principal Victoria. Also, [[GeorgeWBush President Bush]], as he was the only one in "Cartoon Wars Part 2" who defended the Family Guy writers rights to free speech instead of having them arrested like many people were recommending.
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* VerbalTic: Mr. Mackey (based on Trey Parker's actual school counselor) puts "m'kay" at the end of a lot of his sentences. (It even crosses language borders; when speaking Spanish, he consistently ends his sentences with "m'bien" said with the exact same inflection as his "m'kay.")
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* VerbalTic: Mr. Mackey (based on Trey Parker's actual school counselor) puts "m'kay" at the end of a lot of his sentences. (It even It crosses language borders; when speaking Spanish, he consistently ends his sentences with "m'bien" said with the exact same inflection as his "m'kay.")" It even apparently extends to writing, as it shows up in [[ItMakesSenseInContext a note he wrote trying to fake Cartman's suicide]].
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* RiversOfBlood: In an episode, Stan's sister is menstruating and sends him out to buy her some tampons. When he comes back (without any) and opens the door, menstrual blood floods out.
* RoaringRampageOfRevenge: Kyle in "Tonsil Trouble" when he finds out Cartman infected him with his AIDS virus.
* RoaringRampageOfRevenge: Kyle in "Tonsil Trouble" when he finds out Cartman infected him with his AIDS virus.
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* SocietyOnEdgeEpisode: South Park parodies this trope with their Cartoon Wars two-parter; in the first episode, FamilyGuy [[TakeThat resorts to shock value by doing a caricature of Muhammad]], and after some Islamic fanatics make vague threats of revenge, the residents of South Park are afraid that they will be targeted by terror attacks. [[spoiler:In the second episode, the revenge turns out to be a cartoon of caricatures of various aspects American culture crapping on each other.]]
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* VillainSong: Cartman, after successfully using Cthulhu to remold the world to fit his KnightTemplar ideals, gets one that ''drips'' with LyricalDissonance. That it's a parody of ''Anime/MyNeighborTotoro'''s ending theme makes it all the more sweeter.
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* Cartoon Wars's parody of [[WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy Family Guy's]] [[CutawayGag cutaway gags]] isn't much crazier than some of the examples [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iT4v2QKiJGQ on the real show]].
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* SternTeacher: Ms. Choksondik and Mr. Mackey. Mr. Garrison as well whenever he's not being a [[Sadist Teacher]].
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* SubvertedKidsShow: It has the cutesy cartoony art style, and most of its plots are fantasy-based, so [WhatDoYouMeanItsNotForKids? it must be for kids, right?....]
** "Butters Very Own Episode" was the sickest, most messed up DeconstructionParody of family-friendly sitcoms ever, even beating out ''Too Many Cooks.'' [CrosessTheLineTwice And it's amazing].
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* SubvertedKidsShow: It has the cutesy cartoony art style, and most of its plots are fantasy-based, so [[WhatDoYouMeanItsNotForKids? it must be for kids, right?....]]
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* RealityEnsues: While the participants in the Special Olympics in "Up the Down Steroid" are disabled, they are still athletes who spend weeks in intensive training before the start of the competition. Cartman, on the other hand, is so fat and out of shape that even without having a handicap he is hopelessly outclassed by them and finishes last in every event.
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* RealityBleed: Happens in "#REHASH" and "#[=HappyHolograms=]", when the popularity of Cartman's meta-commentary videos allow his [=CartmanBrah=] commenter window to pop up in ''The Wendy Williams Show'', as well as around South Park. Even more so in the latter episode, where his trending gets so high his window starts appearing everywhere.
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** "#REHASH" is a mockery of the concept of Let's Play (''especially'' Creator/PewDiePie, whose catchphrase is based on Mr. Hankey), with the kids having to put up with Cartman's redundant, unfunny, and obnoxious commentary on everything, and wondering why ''anyone wouldn't just play the damn game itself''. The episode also takes a dump on Iggy Azalea and Nicki Minaj.
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** "#REHASH" is a mockery of the concept of Let's Play (''especially'' Creator/PewDiePie, LetsPlay/PewDiePie, whose catchphrase is based on Mr. Hankey), with the kids having to put up with Cartman's redundant, unfunny, and obnoxious commentary on everything, and wondering why ''anyone wouldn't just play the damn game itself''. The episode also takes a dump on Iggy Azalea and Nicki Minaj.Minaj.
*** However, in the following episode, "#[=HappyHolograms=]", Kyle eventually comes around and accepts [=PewDiePie=] and his ilk for what they are.
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** "#REHASH" is a mockery of the concept of Let's Play (''especially'' Creator/PewDiePie, whose catchphrase is based on Mr. Hankey), with the kids having to put up with Cartman's redundant, unfunny, and obnoxious commentary on everything, and wondering why ''anyone wouldn't just play the damn game itself''. The episode also takes a dump on Iggy Azalea and Nicki Minaj.
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** In the "Go God Go" duology, there's the running gag of Cartman pacing back and forth and going "come ooon!"
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* StuckOnBandAidBrand: The Sega Dreamcast and Nintendo Wii have both appeared on episodes. Each console was mentioned repeatedly with its manufacturer's name, where a normal person would just say "Dreamcast" or "Wii".
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* StuckOnBandAidBrand: The Sega Dreamcast and Nintendo Wii have both appeared on episodes. Each console was mentioned repeatedly with its manufacturer's name, where a normal person would just say "Dreamcast" or "Wii"."Wii"[[note]]even Nintendo officially brands it "Wii" without the "Nintendo"[[/note]].
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* TakenForGranite: Happens to the Tooth Decay monster after seeing Ugly Bob's face in "Royal Pudding".
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The YKTTW rescue thread has voted to cut Tintin Shout Out as a The Same But More Specific of Shout Out. Examples are being moved to Shout Out.
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* TintinShoutOut: Tintin and Snowy appeared in the episode trilogy ''Imaginationland''.
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** In "The Death Camp of Tolerance", Mr. Garrison hears of a teacher who was fired for being gay and sued the school for millions, so he ramps up the DepravedHomosexual act while on the job in an attempt to get himself fired and do the same thing. When the kids try to tell their parents what they have been exposed to they are chastised for being homophobic and sent to the titular Tolerance Camp, which resembles a Nazi concentration camp. Garrison, however, is praised for his "courageous" behaviour and presented with an award for overcoming adversity. He is appalled by how everyone is treating him and snaps during the awards ceremony, screaming at the audience about how "tolerance" is not the same thing as "acceptance", and that ''anyone'' would deserve to get fired for doing what he has done, regardless of their sexuality. However, this causes the principal to declare that he is too intolerant of his own behaviour and sends him to the Tolerance Camp as well.
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** ''Queer Eye for the Straight Guy''
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** ''Queer ''[[Series/QueerEye Queer Eye for the Straight Guy''Guy]]''
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* SugarApocalypse: The "Imaginationland" episodes.
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* SugarApocalypse: The "Imaginationland" episodes. Could also count as an [[EldritchAbomination Eldritch]] Apocalypse [[PretextForWar given the purpose of the war orchestrated by the terrorist cell]] [[KillEmAll was for the Good and Evil Imaginary characters to kill each other off entierely.]]
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* SynchronousEpisodes: The three-party Meteor Shower Trilogy. The first episode had Cartman babysat by Stan's sister Shelly while his mom was at a party; the second part showed Stan with his parents at that party, which the government thought was a Heaven's Gate-style cult meeting; and the third had Kyle and Kenny at a camp for Jewish kids, where a villain tried to summon an EldritchAbomination BiblicalBadGuy.
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* SanitySlippage: "%1" ends with the implication that [[spoiler: Cartman's sociopathic tendencies are growing into a full blown psychosis]].
** Even without any greater implications, you can see his sanity suffer with each [[spoiler: stuffed animal destroyed]].
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* SuicideIsPainless: Averted. In "Night of the Living Homeless", a scientist tries several times to kill himself before the homeless get to him, but each shot just leaves him bloodier and more in pain until he finally, mercifully, dies.
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* SwordOverHead: Subverted in the episode "Red Sleigh Down" where after being freed from his torture, Santa takes a gun and shoots the person who tortured him. It looks and sounds like he shot to the side but then we see the victim and Santa says "I just couldn't do it, I just couldn't let him live. He shocked Santa's balls." It's probably a reference to a scene from the movie ''Film/ThreeKings'', where after saving Barlow from his Iraqi torturers Major Gates hands Barlow his pistol. Barlow stares at the pistol, then at his interrogator, who was NotSoDifferent, and finally points it to the side at the last minute and empties the clip into the wall.
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This page covers tropes found in ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark''.
[[SouthPark/TropesAToD Tropes A-D]] | [[SouthPark/TropesEToJ Tropes E-J]] | [[SouthPark/TropesKToQ Tropes K-Q]] | '''Tropes R-V''' | [[SouthPark/TropesWToZ Tropes W-Z]] | [[YMMV/SouthPark YMMV]] | [[ShoutOut/SouthPark Shout Outs]]
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* RabbleRouser:
** Mr/Mrs Garrison has a tendency for these, in one episode even creating an alternate timeline where the entire world converts to his abrasive train of thought on religion ("Logic and reason aren't enough. You have to be a dick to anyone who doesn't think like you."). Subverted in one episode where, in an attempt to stop legalized same sex marriage, Garrison spearheads a "fag drag". The mob look dumbfounded, explaining they don't actually hate homosexuals, they just don't want them to marry. Garrison also spearheaded an annoyance & fear campaign to make the "richers" move out of town: first he had people burn lower-case Ts on their lawn ("for Time to Leave"), then dress up as ghosts wearing pointy hats.
** When not Garrison, Sheila Brovloski and Randy Marsh tend to spearhead most of the town's riots. Cartman is also known to start lower key ones with kids (perhaps most glaringly getting ginger kids to beat up a Broadway star of Annie who wore a wig).
* RaceAgainstTheClock: "Sorry, boys. No ticket stub, no candy shopping spree. If you find it, you can come back, but you only have one week to claim the prize. That's called 'The Ticking Clock.' [[LampshadeHanging Works great in the movies.]]"
* RagingStiffie: Jimmy had one for practically all of "[[JustForPun Erection Day]]". It got even worse in his dream, where his boner ''just kept growing''. Not surprisingly, the audience chortled at it.
* RashomonStyle: Cartman, with himself regarding the invention of the joke, in "Fishsticks."
* RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil: In "The China Probrem", a character recalls how George Lucas and Steven Spielberg ''literally'' raped Indiana Jones. In the send-up to the rape scene in ''Film/TheAccused'', they rape Indiana Jones in a bar on top of a pinball machine. At one point the Nazi agent from ''Film/RaidersOfTheLostArk'' walks in, but [[EvenEvilHasStandards is completely shocked]] when he sees what Lucas and Spielberg are doing, and immediately leaves.
* ReadingIsCoolAesop: Deconstructed in "Chicken Fucker", where the titular [[BestialityIsDepraved serial rapist]] [[spoiler:makes Officer Barbrady learning to read part of his M.O.]] and, at the end of the episode, Barbrady [[spoiler:declares reading as a waste of time after finishing ''Atlas Shrugged''.]]
* RealitySubtext: In the episode "Fishsticks", Jimmy writes a joke that Cartman seeks to publicize as ''their'' joke, even though [[{{Garfunkel}} he sat on the couch and ate chips while Jimmy came up with the actual joke]] (although [[SelfServingMemory Cartman remembers it as being the other way around]]). Much of the episode is dedicated to this conflict, and the episode ends with Cartman apologizing to Jimmy - for not accommodating ''Jimmy'''s belief that he wrote most of the joke. The season that contains this episode was the first to not co-bill Matt Stone as a writer for the show, and during Jimmy and Cartman's interview with Ellen, Cartman is shown with the same hair and clothing that Trey Parker is seen wearing in interviews. However, [[ComicallyMissingThePoint nobody on the Internet has commented on this because everybody focused on the episode's treatment of]] KanyeWest.
** Stan's whole final speech in "Ass Burgers". The previous episode, "You're Getting Old" had looked like it might change the show dramatically, and fans (mirroring Stan in-universe) were worried that the change would be bad for the show. So in-universe, Stan gets over his emo phase, gives a whole {{A|nAesop}}esop about how things can change for the better with the entire speech LeaningOnTheFourthWall... only to play StatusQuoIsGod, hit the ResetButton, and return the show to exactly where it was.
*** And note that it's not the original status quo but, [[spoiler:the last episode where Stan was depressed. Meaning that Stan is still, even if more so, depressed while everything else is the same. Meaning, Kyle, Cartman, and Kenny still hang out with Stan, he lives in the same house, goes to the same school, his parents still live together and all this with the [[SarcasmMode added bonus]] that Stan turned to alcohol to try and be happy.]]
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Chef and Principal Victoria. Also, [[GeorgeWBush President Bush]], as he was the only one in "Cartoon Wars Part 2" who defended the Family Guy writers rights to free speech instead of having them arrested like many people were recommending.
* RecycledINSPACE: Played completely straight. "Starvin' Marvin" was followed—two seasons later—with "Starvin' Marvin [-IN SPACE-]".
* RedHeadedHero: Kyle.
* RedHeadedStepchild: The episode "Ginger Kids".
** [[spoiler:It turned out, in the episode "201", that Cartman got half his genes from Scott Tenorman's father. He is very upset over being half-ginger, though he calmed down when told he is also half Denver Bronco.]]
* RedOniBlueOni: At first, Stan and Kyle had pretty similar personalities, but later on, as the series progressed, they were differenced. Stan was deadpan, impassive, more introvert and sensible, while Kyle was impulsive, outward-looking, sociable and rash, especially when he wanted to stop Cartman.
** This is available for Craig (Blue) and Tweek (Red), too.
* RedShirt: In Season 2's "[[ClipShow City on the Edge of Forever]]", the unnamed kid who gets off the bus after Mrs Crabtree warned them that "A big scary monster WILL EAT YOU!!" is actually wearing a red ''Franchise/StarTrek'' shirt.
* ReferenceOverdosed: [[ShoutOut/SouthPark And how.]]
* [[RefugeInAudacity/WesternAnimation Refuge In Audacity]]: So, so much. See the trope page for some examples.
* RefusalOfTheCall: Craig in "Pandemic". Repeatedly. Emphatically. [[YouCantFightFate Unsuccessfully.]]
* RememberTheNewGuy: In ''Red Man's Greed,'' there's a random kid acting like a regular. He wears a sweatshirt that says "Alex" so we'll know who he is. (Of course, at the end of the episode Stan asks who he is and we find out that he [[LeaningOnTheFourthWall got to come on and do the guest voice thing.]])
** The episode ''Quest for Ratings'' features the guys running a news show on the elementary school closed circuit television system and they act as though they've always done this and its never mentioned again.
* TheRenaissanceAgeOfAnimation
* RentAZilla
* ReplacementFlatCharacter: Butters, created to fill the ButtMonkey role better than Pip.
* ReplacementScrappy: In-universe example, both Butters and Tweek get this treatment from the boys themselves in attempts to replace Kenny as the token fourth friend -- Butters for [[ChildrenAreInnocent his innocence]] and [[ExtremeDoormat lack of backbone]] (to the point where an entire episode revolved around the boys kicking Butters out and running a contest for a new replacement), Tweek for [[ProperlyParanoid his paranoia]]. Ironically, for all their guilt trips and manipulation involving Kenny's death, the boys had in fact nearly completely got over it and all but forgotten about "that asshole". The sixth season was generally one giant KickTheDog for the three main boys.
* ResetButton: Kenny's death, sometimes even {{lampshade}}d.
* ResurrectiveImmortality:
** Kenny has this power. First mentioned as a joke on "Cartman Joins NAMBLA," then made official and played for realism in "Mysterion Rises," where Kenny actually feels and remembers his deaths and no one has any memory of how he dies.
** Jesus. In "Fantastic Easter Special", he escapes from a jail cell (in the Vatican) by having Kyle kill him and resurrecting on the other side of the door. He can only do this on Easter though.
* RevengeBeforeReason: Cartman, usually [[DisproportionateRetribution disproportionate]] to the offense. Kyle, who is usually the most logical and kind one of the boys often devolves into this when [[HeWhoFightsMonsters Cartman is involved.]]
** Primary Cartman example: Scott Tenorman.
** Kyle convincing Cartman to go to Somalia to be a pirate was this. Too bad Cartman had to get Ike to come along for the ride.
* RightForTheWrongReasons: In "Cartman Finds Love" Cartman tries to force Token and Nicole together just because they're both black, but it turns out they're perfect for each other anyway.
** In "Best Friends Forever" ends with Kyle realizing that he and Stan were trying to do the wrong thing (keeping Kenny on life support) for the right reason (friendship), while Cartman was trying to do the right thing (letting Kenny die) for the wrong reason (inheriting his [=PSP=]).
* RightPlaceRightTimeWrongReason: Cartman decides in prejudiced irrationality that the new Arab student is a terrorist and pulls out all the stops to save Hillary Clinton, who, coincidentally, is in South Park that very same day. Even though Cartman's theory is completely unfounded, it turns out that there ''are'' terrorists plotting to kill Hillary Clinton (Russians secretly working for [[spoiler:the British]])--but the only reason we found out about them is thanks to Cartman's prejudice. This is {{lampshaded}} heavily at the end, when they deliver the story's moral about tolerance only for Cartman to point this out.
* RippedFromTheHeadlines: Because of the short time to animate episodes, they can be far more topical than nearly any show on TV.
* RippleEffectProofMemory: Both averted and played straight in "Go God Go XII". When Cartman makes a small change to the past, he doesn't notice any of the minor but obvious changes around him. However, when he makes a major change and completely changes the future, he only remembers the old timeline.
* RiskyBusinessDance: Kyle does this after getting his parents arrested for child molestation, leaving him to take care of himself.
* {{Robeast}}: BarbraStreisand undergoes a henshin-style TransformationSequence into Mecha-Streisand, a blatant {{Expy}} of [[Franchise/{{Godzilla}} Mecha-Godzilla]]. Comes back in the episode "200".
* {{Robosexual}}: Parodied a few times.
* RoaringRampageOfRevenge: Kyle in "Tonsil Trouble" when he finds out Cartman infected him with his AIDS virus.
* RodentsOfUnusualSize: Giant carnivorous guinea pigs.
* RogerRabbitEffect: Said guinea pigs. This was an interesting example, as they were giant.
* RashomonStyle: In "Fishsticks", when Cartman and Jimmy make the Fishsticks joke, Jimmy is the one who comes up with the idea of it, but when confronted, Cartman believes he is the one that made it. His flashback even involves people telling him he's not fat.
* RuleOfCute: According to the commentary, the logic behind "The Losing Edge" was "Wouldn't the boys look cute in baseball outfits?"
** There was a similar reasoning behind "Pre-school."
* RuleOfDrama: In "Make Love, Not Warcraft", the boys encounter a player in ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft'' that is so powerful that he can kill the administrators running the game and kill anyone he wants, even if they don't accept a duel. Normally, admin players can use powerful characters themselves and they can easily ban the offending player, but this is all set aside for dramatics and hilarity.
* RuleOfFunny: This show is probably the ultimate litmus test for it. If they can't make it funny, ''no one'' can.
-->"You know what this means? AIDS is finally funny!"
* RunForTheBorder: Inverted in "Last Of The Meheecans". Butters inspires a resurgence of nostalgia, homesickness, and nationalism that causes Mexican emigrants to the United States to cross the border ''back'' into Mexico. Border patrol guards eventually have to guard the border on the U.S. side instead to prevent the loss of menial laborers to the American economy.
* RunningGag: Other than the obvious ones, such as Kenny dying, there are other, smaller ones such as Cartman's almost unvarying goal to get "ten million dollars". It's never explained why he wants ''exactly'' ten million dollars, and the closest they get to it is when another character reveals their own plan to get ten million dollars, they say "that's how scams work."
** In "Cartmanland", it is revealed Cartman always wanted one million dollars to buy a theme park. Why he wants the other nine is never shown.
** "THEY TOOK OUR JOBS!"
*** "DEY TOOK ERR JERBS?!"
*** "DEY TOOKUR JEEOBS!"
**** [[RuleOfThree DRR TRRKA JRR!!]]
**** DURKA DUR!
** During the earlier seasons at least, there is at least the outline of one of the aliens from the first episode's heads once per episode. EVERY. SINGLE. EPISODE.
** On the DVD release of the first season, Matt and Trey have "Fireside chats" between the episodes, in which they have a dog named "Old Scratch" who changes breed (and even changes into stuffed animals) each time he is seen.
** There was also more than one mention of Cartman wanting to give Kyle AIDS. [[spoiler: Until he does.]]
** Scott is a dick.
** One ''frequent'' running gag is Mr. Garrison's habit of teaching the class nonsense "history" that is actually based on a summary of a popular novel, movie, or musical. For example, talking about the history of Westeros in ''Series/GameOfThrones'' [[CrowningMomentOfFunny as if it were real history.]]
* RunningGagged: Kenny's deaths. They were about OnceAnEpisode before the end of season 5, where they killed Kenny in the most dramatic way possible in an [[WhamEpisode episode]] called "Kenny Dies". After staying dead for the entirety of the following season, he came back at the end and only dies approximately OnceASeason, if not at all.
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* SarcasmMode: Pretty much every adult in Sarcastaballs. Particularly Randy. It actually becomes a plot point where in Sarcastaballs makes SarcasmMode a person's default mode.
* SadistTeacher: Mr./Mrs. Garrison is sometimes one.
* SafetyWorst: In "Broadway Bro Down," Larry is a little boy with very overprotective parents; his parents always have him wearing a life vest to prevent drowning. During the episode, Shelley convinces him that he doesn't need to wear the vest all the time. [[spoiler: Ironically, Larry [[DeathByIrony drowns at the end of the episode]], and the news reporter comments that he might have survived if he was wearing a life vest.]]
* SanctuaryOfSolitude: In "Cartmanland" after Kyle gets a hemorrhoid, he goes to the church to contemplate by himself. He yells at God and wonders how this could have happened to him.
* SanitySlippage: "%1" ends with the implication that [[spoiler: Cartman's sociopathic tendencies are growing into a full blown psychosis]].
** Even without any greater implications, you can see his sanity suffer with each [[spoiler: stuffed animal destroyed]].
** Randy in "A Nightmare on Face Time". Complete with shot-for-shot, line-for-line {{homage}}s to JackNicholson and ''Film/TheShining''.
* {{Satan}}: Portrayed as half of a homosexual pairing with Saddam Hussein. The ''submissive'' half.
* SawStarWarsTwentySevenTimes: Eric Cartman claims to have seen ''Film/ThePassionOfTheChrist'' 34 times (in movie theaters) in the episode "The Passion Of The Jew."
* ScamReligion: Has portrayed both [[ChurchOfHappyology Scientology]] and Mormonism in this way, as well as Alcoholics Anonymous. Ironically, other episodes have shown that Mormons are the only people who get into Heaven, so it's not taking itself that seriously.
** Nearly every religion spotlighted in the show is depicted as having corrupt or hypocritical undertones. That said it is often balanced with a redeeming view of its followers (Gary in "All About Mormons" views that even if his religion is a scam his family have happy satisfying lives as a result of the ethics it teaches). This extra complexity is interestingly left out during the show's jab at Scientology (when it seems this moral is about to given the Scientologist members [[JerkWithAHeartOfJerk all throw tantrums and threaten to sue anyone that mocks their religion]]).
*** The voice actor for Chef (A ''close'' personal friend of the creators) left the show over Scientology, so they're probably, quite understandably a little bitter about that (They also think Scientology contributed to his eventual death, which...)
* ScopeSnipe: Butters in Going Native. Through a pair of binoculars. With [[AbnormalAmmo a golf ball]].
* TheScottishTrope
* SecondPlaceIsForWinners: "The Losing Edge", where the boys try to lose at baseball because they don't want to play. [[spoiler: Everyone else has the same idea]].
* SelectiveEnforcement: With all the terrible things Cartman has done, the one thing that got the other kids to give him the silent treatment in "The Death of Eric Cartman" was his eating the skin off the KFC. (Technically this was more of a "Straw that broke the camel's back" situation.)
* SelfDeprecation: In "A Very Crappy Christmas", after the boys recreated the 1995 "Spirit of Christmas" and showed it to the town:
--> '''Mayor:''' Kids, that cartoon was fabulous. How would you like to have your own show and make 100 more of them?\\
'''Stan:''' Are you kidding? I think we'd rather stab ourselves in the head.
** ''Terrance and Philip" mocks their potty humor and jokes.
** ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'' is known for mocking its {{Anvilicious}}ness, more prominently in later seasons, especially in "Cartoon Wars": "At least ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'' doesn't get all preachy up the ass with its own messages."
** "Raising the Bar" features a moment where Stan and Kyle remark how they somehow feel responsible for how far the bar of good taste and public shamelessness has dropped.
* SelfInducedAllergicReaction: In the episode Obama Wins, Butters eats an almond M&M. He is apparently severely allergic to almonds.
* SelfMadeOrphan:
** [[spoiler: Cartman. Well, half-way there at least.]]
** Scott Tenorman, indirectly.
** Clyde's also half-way there.
* SelfServingMemory: In "Fishsticks" Cartman repeatedly recalls to the origin of the fishsticks joke, each time getting [[SerialEscalation more and more fantastical]].
* SensitivityTraining
* SerenadeYourLover: Stan is advised to stand outside Wendy's window and play Peter Gabriel. He picks [[SoundtrackDissonance "Shock the Monkey"]]...
* SerialEscalation:
** ExecutiveMeddling gradually turning ''[[ShowWithinAShow Jesus & Pals]]'' into a sensationalistic ''JerrySpringer''-style show in "The Mexican Staring Frog of Southern Sri Lanka".
** Cartman's [[SelfServingMemory flashbacks]] in "Fishticks". Not only was he the one who wrote the joke, but he also [[spoiler:slew a dragon, became the [[ComicBook/FantasticFour Human Torch]], and immolated an army of Jewbots.]]
* SeriesContinuityError: Unsurprising in such a [[LongRunner long series]].
** Randy (a geologist) is mentioned as the only scientist in town, but later Token's mother is said to be a chemist, and Clyde's father a geologist.
*** And later Clyde's father is not a geologist but a shoe store owner.
** Jimbo was originally supposed to be Sharon's older brother, but then they gave her the maiden name "Kimble" (as opposed to Kern), so he was {{Retcon}}ned as being Randy's half-brother.
** Randy Marsh's teenage years are stated to have taken place through the '80s, and we briefly see a girlfriend who may or may not be Sharon. However, a later flashback places a younger Randy and Sharon as having been teens at Woodstock.
** Kenny is revealed to have a younger sister in "Best Friends Forever", when previously the [=McCormicks=] were stated to have two children. Matt Stone admitted that she was an oversight, and she didn't reappear for a while until "The Poor Kid".
*** It has since been revealed that Kenny did have a younger sister in early plans for the series. She was meant to be around Ike's age, and was mentioned in an early script for "Starvin' Marvin" (though she did not make it into the final product).
** Sometimes Kyle's family are the only Jews in South Park, sometimes there are more.
** They're particularly bad with names (see "Sudden Name Change").
** They frequently go back and forth on who's aware of Kenny's deaths.
*** "Cartmanland": when Cartman is sued for Kenny's death at his theme park, Cartman bursts out, "Who, Kenny? He dies all the time!"
*** "Chinpokomon": Cartman repeatedly has to fend off rats from Kenny's catatonic body, saying, "No! He's not dead [[TheyKilledKennyAgain yet]]!"
*** "Chef Goes Nanners": Kenny dies from ingesting antacid tablets he thought were mints. After he explodes, the boys laugh hysterically and respond with "That was a good one!"
*** "Gnomes": Stan, Cartman, and Kyle are completely indifferent to the gnomes killing Kenny. The gnomes are horrified, but the three boys make it explicitly clear that their term paper is far more important, as their hasted run-through of the usual {{catchphrase}} indicates.
*** On the other hand, Kenny has stated before that he the only one aware of his deaths in other episodes. In "Cherokee Hair Tampons", Stan is distraught over the possibly of Kyle dying from kidney failure. He opens up to Kenny about how lost he feels watching a friend die, to which Kenny responds (muffled) "You never seem to care when I die!" Stan doesn't acknowledge Kenny spoke.
*** In Tweek vs. Craig, Kenny is terrified to take shop class. When he is finally transferred into the class, much to his distress, one of the other boys tells him, "Come on, Kenny, you're not going to die!"
*** "City on the Edge of Forever" is mostly clip shows with altered endings from old episodes, all of which the boys remember despite the screwed up, ice cream-centric endings. However, Stan and Kyle call Cartman out on 'lying' about a past episode because Cartman's recount of it included Kenny's death from that episode.
*** And of course, there's the Mysterion arc of season 14, which focuses almost entirely on Kenny's power. He dies a total of 4 times in the arc—3 of them by suicide—in an attempt to prove to the other boys that he does, in fact, keep dying. Despite pulling the trigger on himself in front of six of the other boys, he's never able to get any of them to remember his death after he comes back to life.
* SeriesMascot: Both Cartman and Kenny are frequently used to represent the series, often as icons (for example, Cartman on the official website and Kenny for [[Pinball/SouthPark the pinball game]]'s options menu).
* SeriousBusiness: At this point making a list of episodes that ''don't'' feature this trope would be much shorter. Whatever form it takes, Randy Marsh usually gets involved in a big way.
** What ''really'' takes the cake is "Cartoon Wars". Many characters treat ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'' having an episode with Muhammed in it like the start of WorldWarThree, and Kyle nearly dies trying to stop Cartman from getting it canned.
** "Douche And Turd" takes it UpToEleven, when Stan's refusal to vote got him threatened, banished and nearly killed.
** At the end of "Quest For Ratings" when Craig's show falls in the ratings the AV teacher orders him to be suspended from school and puts in a request for the surgical removal of his testicles, just to reinforce how important ratings are.
* SexAsARiteOfPassage: Butters getting his first kiss in "Butters' Bottom Bitch" is an obvious metaphor for this trope.
* ShapedLikeItself: Early on in "Cartoon Wars Part 1", Randy says, "If we're still alive in the morning, then we'll know we're not dead."
* ShellShockedSenior: "The Mole" in TheMovie, despite being the same age as the boys.
* ShipperOnDeck: Surprisingly, Cartman in "Cartman Finds Love". He goes to great lengths to pair Token up with the new girl in school. True to form, however, it's only because she's also black and Cartman thinks they should be together solely on that racist notion.
* ShmuckBait: Poor, poor Butters. Every single time. And a lot of the time he just never catches on.
* ShootTheShaggyDog: "Stanley's Cup"
* ShopClass: One episode focuses on boys taking Woodshop and girls taking Home Ec. Kenny breaks the mold and takes Home Ec because he fears, [[TheyKilledKennyAgain not unreasonably]], that one of the machines will kill him. His fears became true when the Home Ec teacher, not believing Kenny could [[GoldDigger get a rich husband]], which is what she teaches her students to do, sent him to shop class.
* ShorterMeansSmarter: Slightly altered with them having a good reason for being shorter Small children like Kyle, Stan, and Cartman sometimes seem to be the smartest people in South Park.
* ShouldntWeBeInSchoolRightNow: {{Handwave}}d in "Kenny Dies".
** In the beginning of "Ass Burgers", Kyle, Kenny, and Cartman leave the bus stop moments before the bus arrives to ask Gerald if UsefulNotes/AspergersSyndrome is real. At class, Officer Barbrady shows up with them, saying they were caught playing hooky.
* ShoutOut: See the '''[[ShoutOut/SouthPark Shout Out]]''' page.
* ShotaCon: A bit of a RunningGag.
* ShouldHaveThoughtOfThatBeforeX: In the "Cartman's Mom is Still a Dirty Slut":
-->'''Liane''': I mean, what right do I have bringing another child into this overpopulated world? Then again, I should have thought of that before having sex...
* ShowerOfAngst: Stan takes one of these in the beginning of "Ass Burgers", after getting out of bed.
* ShowWithinAShow: ''Terrence and Phillip,'' ''Jesus & Pals'', among others.
** ''RussellCrowe: Fightin' 'Round the World''
** ''Queer Eye for the Straight Guy''
** ''Boy Meets Boy''
** ''Chinpokomon'' The list goes on and on and on.
* ShownTheirWork: Henrietta's room after she becomes emo in "Goth Kids 3: Dawn of The Posers" is filled with visual puns and inside jokes about emo culture that must have taken some research on Parker and Stone's part. Besides a conversation about Music/FallOutBoy [[ItMakesSenseInContext playing the Super Bowl when emos take over the world]], easy emo culture jokes are avoided, with a ShoutOut reference going to obscure emo pioneers Sunny Day Real Estate.
* ShrunkenOrgan: Osama bin Laden's penis.
* SideBet
* SimilarSquad: Craig's gang.
* SkewedPriorities: At the end of "Death Camp of Tolerance," the boys are pulled from the Tolerance Camp after a huge misunderstanding. "You have no idea how much we've suffered!" said Sheila Broflovski to the emaciated Stan, Kyle, Cartman and Butters, in full HeroicBSOD mode.
* SkywardScream: Cartman doesn't react well to Scott Tenorman burning his money.
* SlidingScaleOfContinuity: The show is normally level 3 (Subtle Continuity) but occasionally goes into level 4 (Arc-Based Episodic), especially when a major event happens or characters go through major CharacterDevelopment.
* SmallTownRivalry: A three-way one between [[TheNamesake South Park]], North Park, and Middle Park.
* SmokingIsGlamorous: Actually, not smoking is stupid and dorky, based on an assembly hall presentation.
* SnapBack: Kenny's deaths, destruction of the town.
** Subverted in "Mysterion Rises". After 14 seasons, it turns out that Kenny is ''completely'' aware of every single death.
** "Trapper Keeper" is perhaps the only episode in which one of the boys' homes (Cartman's, in this case) is explicitly shown being destroyed. Of course, it's fully intact again in the next episode.
* SoapboxSadie: Wendy, especially if the creators are trying to deliver a [[{{Anvilicious}} heavy-handed]] liberal {{Aesop}}.
* SocietyOnEdgeEpisode: South Park parodies this trope with their Cartoon Wars two-parter; in the first episode, FamilyGuy [[TakeThat resorts to shock value by doing a caricature of Muhammad]], and after some Islamic fanatics make vague threats of revenge, the residents of South Park are afraid that they will be targeted by terror attacks. [[spoiler:In the second episode, the revenge turns out to be a cartoon of caricatures of various aspects American culture crapping on each other.]]
* SociopathicHero: In "Scott Tenorman Must Die", Cartman starts as this, going up against Scott Tenorman, who is portrayed as even worse than Cartman. But then the ending comes and subverts it, showing that Cartman is actually much, ''much'' more sinister.
* SolidGoldPoop: "How about a taco... that craps ice cream?"
* SomethingCompletelyDifferent: Many, many times, including "Butters' Very Own Episode", devoted to side character Leopold "Butters" Stotch; several musical episodes; "It Hits The Fan", which set out to break the world record for the number of inclusions of the word "shit" (162 in total); "Good Times With Weapons", an AffectionateParody of {{Shonen}} fighting anime that spent half its running time [[ArtShift as anime]]; "Pip", which was devoted entirely to spoofing the Charles Dickens story ''Literature/GreatExpectations'', the third act of "I Should Have Never Gone Ziplining" which is [[spoiler:done completely in live action with adult actors]] etc. One of the most notable is probably TheMovie, which is both deliberately cruder than the TV series (it has an anti-censorship theme, as well as an "R" rating), ''and'' a full-fledged musical.
** First seen in "Not Without My Anus", which was a complete Terrance and Phillip half-hour TV special. It might have been more popular if it hadn't been an {{April Fools|Day}} joke airing on the night when viewers were expecting to see the second part of a CliffHanger.
* SonOfAWhore: Cartman. In the first season finale, he learned that his mom had slept with ''the entire named adult population of South Park''.
** ...including Jesus.
** ...and the entire roster of the 1989 Denver Broncos.
** [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking ...and a black guy.]]
*** All of which were being tested to find out who had fathered Cartman at the 12th Annual Drunken Barn Dance. So yeah...
*** [[spoiler: And one of the Denver Broncos turned out to be the father of both Scott Tenorman and Eric Cartman.]]
** ...but Halfy didn't sleep with her.
*** How can he? He doesn't have any legs!
* SorryOciffer: "What seems to be the officer, problem?"
* SoundEffectBleep: Very prevalent due to how much swearing is present in this show. Played with in "It Hits the Fan", where Mr. Garrison is allowed to say "fag" uncensored because he's come out as gay. While [[DiscussedTrope discussing it]] with some guys at the bar, Mr. Garrison points out that they're all [[BreakingTheFourthWall getting beeped for saying it]]. Then Jimbo complains about it and [[WordOfGay doesn't get beeped.]] Mr. Garrison sarcastically asks him if he wants to make out.
* SoundtrackDissonance: [[HarmlessVillain Professor Chaos' pitiful attempts at committing evil]] are only made all the funnier by the genuinely sinister and dramatic orchestral {{Leitmotif}} accompanying his schemes.
** Later episodes often have this melodramatic piano music or orchestra playing in some scenes that are actually funny in the right context.
* SpaceWhale: The plot of "Free Willzyx" relies on this trope.
* SpaceWhaleAesop: From "Fun With Veal":
-->'''Stan:''' It's wrong to eat veal because the animals are so horribly mistreated, but if you don't eat meat at all you break out in vaginas.
* SpellMyNameWithAnS: Kyle's surname is usually Broflovski, but it has appeared as Brovlofski, Broflofski and Broflowski.
** Many fans tend to leave out the second "e" in Shelley's name.
* {{Spinoff}}: Parodied in "Jakovasaurs".
-->'''Cartman:''' ''(coming in to visit the Jakovasaurs)'' Hi, Jakov.\\
''(applause from StudioAudience)''\\
'''Cartman:''' What the hell is that?\\
''(audience laughter)''
-->'''Cartman:''' [[AudienceWhatAudience Who's laughing?]]
** The MUCH channel in [[CanadaEh Canada]] made a series of promos for ''South Park'' depicting a Canadian equivalent of the series called "North Park", lampooning Toronto multiculturalism, Canadian politeness, and Rob Ford (mayor of Toronto). Coincidentally, the geometry is even square-based like Canada's depiction in the show proper.
* SphereEyes: The entire cast, of course, excluding the Canadians and Saddam Hussein.
* SplitPersonality: In City Sushi, it is revealed that [[spoiler:the City Wok guy is actually a white man named [[MeaningfulName Doctor Janus]], who has at least 10 different personalities. The cops decide to [[SplitPersonalityTakeover let him live as the City Wok owner]], as it is the strongest developed and most practical for the town]].
* SpontaneousHumanCombustion: Kenny dies of this in "Spontaneous Combustion"; it’s later explained that Kenny had a new girlfriend and was holding in all his farts.
* SpringtimeForHitler: In "The Losing Edge", despite trying to get themselves eliminated from the baseball playoffs because they hate it and are pressured into playing it by their parents, the boys make it all the way to the finals because every other team is trying to do exactly the same.
* StandardPoliceMotto: Parodied; the side of Officer Barbrady's patrol car has "To Patronize and Annoy" on it.
* StarCrossedLovers: Parodied in "Miss Teacher Bangs a Boy" with Ms. Stevenson and Ike.
** Played straight with Kyle and Rebecca in "Hooked on Monkey Fonics".
* StatusQuoIsGod: {{Lampshade|Hanging}}d multiple times.
** The first time, in the episode "Mecha Streisand", a reporter appears, saying that the town had managed to rebuild itself "just weeks after the devastating attack of [[ContinuityNod mutant genetic creatures, zombies, and Thanksgiving turkeys]]". Then Mecha Streisand shows up and begins to wreck the town, prompting a "not again" comment from the reporter.
** The second time, in "201", after the main events of the plot is resolved, the mayor announces, "Alright, people, let's start rebuilding our town! ...for the 39th time."
** In "You're Getting Old":
--->'''Sharon:''' "It’s like the same shit just happens over and over, then in a week it just all resets until it happens again. Every week it’s kind of the same story in a different way, but it just keeps getting more and more ridiculous."
** And its sequel, "Ass Burgers", has [[spoiler: Stan accepting the change in his life, only to have everything change back to the way it was against his will.]] Sharon even remarks at how sometimes it's just best to stick with what you know.
** A straight example happens when it is discovered that the City Wok owner [[spoiler:is the psychotic, murderous ''Caucasian'' Dr. Janus]]. Since he's the only Asian restaurant owner left in town [[spoiler:after the Japanese sushi chef whom he harassed killed himself after this reveal]], the police lets him go away.
** At the end off "Cartman Joins NAMBLA", where Kenny's parents are in the hospital with their newborn son...complete with orange parka.
--->'''Stuart:''' "God, this must be the 50th time this has happened."
--->'''Carol:''' "52nd."
* StealthHiBye: Parodied in one scene of "The Coon", in which Sergeant Yates keeps finding the Coon gone, only for the Coon to tell him he's elsewhere in the room.
* StealthPun: In "The F Word", the dictionary's head editor is [[{{Webster}} Emmanuel Lewis]].[[note]]"Webster's" is the name of one of North America's most famous dictionaries[[/note]]
** In "Royal Pudding," the various Canadian wedding "traditions" that get increasingly bizarre and disgusting are being acted out by TheAristocrats who are getting married.
** Wolf Home Security in the episode "Insecurity" refers to [[spoiler: ''[[CryingWolf The Boy Who Cried Wolf]]''.]]
** In "Ass Burgers", the President is replaced by a duck that spews shit, making him a [[spoiler:lame duck.]]
** A school named "Jim Davis High School" appears in the episode "Eek, A Penis!". It's a parody of the Garfield High School from the film ''Film/StandAndDeliver'', referencing the other {{ComicBook/Garfield}}, who was created by Jim Davis.
* SternTeacher: Ms. Choksondik and Mr. Mackey. Mr. Garrison as well whenever he's not being a [[Sadist Teacher]].
* StockNinjaWeaponry: "Good Times With Weapons" sees the boys buy ninja weapons and run amok with them.
* StockSoundEffects: South Park just loves using these more than most shows.
* TheStoic: Craig is like this, most of the time, especially when he flips people off.
* StrangelyArousing: Butters, upon watching Back Door Sluts 9, experiences arousal for what we can assume is the first time. "What's going on down there?". It acts as a double-down of the trope, as both the porno and his arousal are strange and exciting. Also helps illustrate Butters' innocence, considering how alien the idea of sex is to him.
* StrangeMindsThinkAlike: In "[[Recap/SouthParkS7E7RedMansGreed Red Man's Greed]]", the boys are thinking up a a way to generate $300,000 to buy back South Park, Butters suggests a dog parade, in which the dogs are dressed in little outfits and the kids sell tickets to their moms and dads. This idea is shot down by Stan, who points out their moms and dads are the ones who need the money. Later on, the kids run up telling the adults they have an idea to generate $300,000. Butters's dad Stephen eagerly asks if it's a dog parade.
* StrawmanPolitical: Sometimes {{Lampshade|Hanging}}d, sometimes played straight. More cynical viewers might argue that their entire method of political commentary typically involves pitting various strawmen against each other before settling on a GoldenMeanFallacy.
** One of the draws of the show is that unlike politicians and other writers who simply say "People with different views should just get along", ''South Park'' actually gives rationalizations for it.
** The one consistent political message in ''South Park'' is that too many people pay way, way too much attention to politics. Anyone with a pet political cause of any kind almost always will be portrayed as a troublesome fool (when not a villain).
* StressVomit: Stan vomits whenever Wendy talks to him, sometimes even vomiting on her. They're still an item in spite of this.
* StuckOnBandAidBrand: The Sega Dreamcast and Nintendo Wii have both appeared on episodes. Each console was mentioned repeatedly with its manufacturer's name, where a normal person would just say "Dreamcast" or "Wii".
* StudentTeacherRomance: Between Miss Stevenson and Ike. [[CrossesTheLineTwice Ike is three years old.]]
* StupidQuestionBait: A somewhat provoked case after George W. Bush explains his theory of [[ItMakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext Saddam Hussein being sent to heaven after Satan broke up with him]]:
-->'''President Bush:''' Question?
-->'''Crowd member:''' Are you high, or just incredibly stupid?
-->'''President Bush:''' I assure you. [[ComicallyMissingThePoint I am not high]].
* StupidSexyFlanders: "Two Guys Naked in a Hot Tub" takes this one all the way.
* SuckECheeses: Whistling Willy's. Played straighter in its initial appearance, where it was called "Krust E. Crotch's".
** ''Raisins'' = Hooters for eight-year-olds.
* SuckinessIsPainful: The ''Film/RaidersOfTheLostArk'' special edition.
** "I Should Have Never Gone Ziplining". So painful that [[spoiler:it killed Kenny.]]
*** [[spoiler:That has been jossed as not a legitimate death. So technically Kenny made it through season 16 without dying ONCE!]]
* SuddenNameChange: Happens a lot in the show, due to it being a long-runner and Parker and Stone admittedly not prioritizing many characters' names or details.
** Jimbo Kern/Kerns
** Jimmy Swanson/Valmer
** Ryan/Stephen Valmer
** Chris/Stephen Stotch, with his given name going back and forth for some time until the creators finally settled on him being "Stephen"
** Token Black/Williams
** Bob/Steve Black/Williams [[note]]Although it should be noted that Token's father being named "Bob" in an episode was only an assumption made by a fan as to which parents in the group were "Bob and Linda". As Butters' mother had been previously named Carol a few episodes before, his parents were not considered. As she received the name "Linda" in the season finale, it's also possible that "Bob" could just as well have been an early name for Mr. Stotch[[/note]]
** Alphonse/Alfonz Mephesto/Mephisto and his son Terrance/Terrence
** Sally Turner/Powder
** Loogie/Luigi
** Red/Bertha/Rebecca (and back to Red again)
** Milly/Jessie/Millie Larsen
** Leroy Jenkins/Peter Mullen. The first name was used in "Mystery of the Urinal Deuce", "The List", and "1%", but suddenly [[SuddenNameChange became the latter]] in "Informative Murder Porn". His first full name also happened to be a ShoutOut to ''World of Warcraft''. In ''The Stick of Truth'', the creators opted to refer to him as "Leroy Mullens".
** Marcy/Heidi Turner, who is also infamous among fans for her multiple different sets of parents.
** Clyde Goodman[[note]]Only used in early show merchandise, however, and never spoken in the show[[/note]]/Donovan/Harris (and back to Donovan)
** Martha/Betsy Donovan
** Casey/Sky/Kevin. Fans tried to reconcile the first and the third by changing "Casey" to "KC" (with "C" being an initial for his surname). It worked well enough until his surname was revealed to be "Stoley". Previously in a season 6 episode, it was suggested his last name was "Brooks" and showed that his parents were Caucasian (despite another episode stating his parents were Chinese).
** Sheila Broflovski and Sharon Marsh were both called Carol in the episode "Death". Mrs. Stotch was also initially called this in "Super Best Friends", but the season 5 finale revealed her name to be Linda.
** Butters was referred to as "Swanson" in season 2's "Conjoined Fetus Lady", while a female classmate Annie was called "Jordan". Annie has also been alternatively referred to as "Ashley" in "Butters' Bottom Bitch". Before being called "Swanson", Butters had the name "Puff Puff" (due to his puff of hair) given to him in storyboards for season 1. Annie's surname was also initally "Faulk", but later became "Nelson" and then "Knitts".
** A nerdy classmate was initially named "Lorraine", but later named "Lisa Berger" when she got more of a role.
** Ethan/Herbert Garrison, though in his short-lived stint as a woman, he preferred the name Janet.
** Officer Lou/Harrison Yates, who's also been referred to as "Officer Harris" in some of the actual scripts.
** Officer Mitch Harris/Mitch Murphy
* SugarApocalypse: The "Imaginationland" episodes.
* SuicideAsComedy: Shows up with disturbing frequency. One has to wonder how this reflects on the mental health of the creators...
* {{Superhero}}: The gang, plus a few of their friends, all have their own superhero alter-egos. Together they are... ''Coon and Friends''!
* SuicideIsPainless: Averted. In "Night of the Living Homeless", a scientist tries several times to kill himself before the homeless get to him, but each shot just leaves him bloodier and more in pain until he finally, mercifully, dies.
** Though not technically a suicide, Jesus' [[ICannotSelfTerminate death]] in "Fantastic Easter Special" is lengthy and bloody.
** In "Coon Vs Coon and Friends", Kenny kills himself several times. Once, in a desperate attempt to get his friends to [[spoiler:remember his many deaths]]; another time, to escape from an [[spoiler:alternate dimension]]; and yet another because he was just ''tired''. And as he reminds us in case we forgot after 100+ deaths through the show's history:
--->'''Kenny:''' [Immortality] is not cool, Kyle. It ''fucking'' '''''hurts!'''''
* SuspiciouslySpecificDenial: From "An Elephant Makes Love To A Pig" when Eric is trying to sound like he wouldn't as easily let a girl beat him up as Stan does.
-->'''Eric''': If some girl tried to kick my ass, I'd be like ''"AY, why don't you stop dressing me up like a mailman, and making me dance for you, while you go and smoke crack in your bedroom, and have sex with some guy I don't even know, on my dad's bed?"''\\
'''Stan''': ...Cartman, what the hell are you talking about?\\
'''Eric''': I'm just saying you're just a little wuss.
* SwallowedWhole: One of the ways Kenny died in the series, by a giant reptilian bird that apparently breaks through the school ceiling.
* SymbolSwearing: In some early episodes, the ClosedCaptioning used grawlixes whenever a word was beeped.
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* TakeANumber: In "Over Logging", Stan, his sister, and his dad have to take a number to get rationed web access at a refugee camp. Features both versions of the trope: the fighting and the closing.
* TakeAThirdOption: Between having sex with his son or letting him die, Garrison's father chooses to bribe Kenny G to [[BedTrick impersonate him]].
* TakeOurWordForIt: ''The Tale of Scrotie [=McBoogerballs=].''
* TakeThat: Almost every episode. One of the most elaborate ones they did was a slam against ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'' and the "manatee gags" they always do. In the same two episodes, with just as much importance to the plot, they made fun against the overreaction to a cartoon with [[UsefulNotes/{{Islam}} Mohammad]].
** Hell, in that very episode, they provide a Take That against ''themselves'', as Kyle, the head of the CBC, and a passerby all express the idea that they like ''Family Guy'' because it's easy to watch, makes them laugh and doesn't get "preachy and up its own ass with messages".
** They're generally pretty free with the SelfDeprecation in general. Another notable TakeThatUs from "Passion of the Jew": "This is just like when we got our money back for ''BASEketball''."
** "Fishsticks" was run repeatedly back-to-back on Comedy Central the Wednesday after Kanye's outburst at the [=VMAs=].
** The captain from ''Series/WhaleWars'' gets raked across the coals thoroughly in "Whale Whores".
** In "Up the Down Steroids", Jimmy calls athletes who take steroids "big fat p-p-p-pussies" as the camera cuts to close-ups of Mark [=McGwire=], Barry Bonds and Jason Giambi all idiotically grinning.
** The ''entire episode'' "How To Eat With Your Butt" is just a twenty-minute buildup to an IncrediblyLamePun about [[spoiler: Ben Affleck.]]
** ''The Tale Of Scrotie [=McBoogerballs=]'' has an obvious TakeThat against [[MoralGuardians banning books]] early in the episode when the boys are assigned to read the un-banned ''Literature/TheCatcherInTheRye'' and find it boring. It's also a more subtle TakeThat against all the fans that read too deeply into what they bash or not, and claim ''South Park'' is one thing or another.
*** Which made it even '''''more''''' appropriate when the 20X episodes drew fire from both Muslims (200) and fans (201) over the same thing (Mohammad) and [[ExecutiveMeddling the slot where 201 would be reaired on Wednesday was swapped out for this]].
*** This became even more hilariously ironic when "You're Getting Old" became a magnet for the sort of deep fan interpretations that "Scrotie [=McBoogerBalls=]" chewed the public out for just a season before. Fans were clamoring over the episode as a sign of Trey [[CreatorBreakdown growing tired of the show and deciding to cancel it]] before he and Matt and ComedyCentral {{Jossed}} all these theories.
** "Insheeption" is twenty minutes of "people who find {{Inception}} cool because they think it is complex are dumb, because it's actually pretty simple"
*** Unless, of course, it was a TakeThat against ''{{Inception}}'' for substituting convoluted, jargon-laden exposition for story and character development.
*** The episode straddles the line so it can be interpreted both ways. They didn't know whether to say it was good or bad, because they didn't watch the movie.
** ''Canada on Strike'' was a massive TakeThat towards all those involved in the 2007/2008 Writer's Strike.
** "Mystery of the Urinal Deuce" aired during the height of very public allegations that September 11th was a FalseFlagOperation, saying those people are "retarded."
** "Two Days Before the Day After Tomorrow" ridicules the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina (specifically those that were more content to place blame than to help people), people who believe all the hype over global warming, and the film ''TheDayAfterTommorrow''.
** "[[WorldOfWarcraft Make Love, Not Warcraft]]" is practically an episode-long Take That towards people who are obsessed with {{MMORPG}}s. With people often refering to players as "Ones with No Life" (ie. {{Griefer}}s). It also makes fun of people who go out of their way to get revenge on players who destroy them in a game.
** The use of a real fraternity house (Alpha Tau Omega) in "Butters' Bottom Bitch" makes it pretty obvious who Matt and Trey had a beef with when they were at Boulder.
** Then in ''Broadway Bro Down'', Randy attempts to stop Shelley and her new boyfriends from seeing "Wicked" to protect her from "subliminal subtext." He cries "It's time to put an end to Broadway!" [[Theatre/SpiderManTurnOffTheDark Then he dresses in a Spider-Man costume]]...
** TheMovie was basically a big TakeThat at MoralGuardians and scrapegoating. The last lines to the song "Blame Canada" pretty much spell it out.
---> We must blame them and cause a fuss.\\
[[NeverMyFault Before somebody thinks of blaming us.]]
** ''A History Channel Thanksgiving'' takes a big aim at TheHistoryChannel ([[CaptainObvious as you probably would have guessed]]) and its [[HollywoodHistory unique]] [[AncientAliens brand]] of NetworkDecay, all set to a parody of ''Film/{{Thor}}'' [[spoiler:that reveals the Pilgrims and Indians were basically [[MundaneMadeAwesome Asgardians and Frost Giants fighting over the universe's supply of stuffing]].]]
** "Music/{{Taylor|Swift}} [[MemeticMutation Swifting]]" is an affront against following trends and those who look down on others for not doing so.
** "The China Problem" thoroughly skewers ''Film/IndianaJonesAndTheKingdomOfTheCrystalSkull'' by taking the popular rape metaphors used by {{Caustic Critic}}s and running with it.
*** In the documentary "Six Days to Air", one of the staff members mentions that Matt actually came out of the theater saying that "It was like a rape. It was like being raped."
** ''Smug Alert'' is a large and obvious ridicule of the fact that many hybrid car owners are arrogant and more focused on making themselves look superior to drivers of more pollutive vehicles ([=SUV=]s in particular), and also one of George Clooney's acceptance speeches about Hollywood, how San Fransisco think they're more progressive than the rest of the country, and last but not least, some smug LA film writers who owned hybrid cars who were also major hypocrites because they use private jets. (Which are much worse than any car for pollution)
** ''All About the Mormons?'' started off mocking the origins of the Mormon faith only to [[StealthParody completely 180 on it's target]] during the ending with a TakeThat at people who mock others' religious and spiritual beliefs.
** "Stupid Spoiled Whore Playset" is basically a huge riff on Paris Hilton on how she is spoiled and parties everyday.
** "You're Getting Old" rips into people that do nothing but complain about how everyone and everything is shit while refusing to find anything wholesome or good to be happy about. The doctor who diagnoses Stan's extreme cynicism explicitly calls him a cynical ass hole.
** "Raising the Bar" slams ''Here Comes Honey Boo-Boo'' for glorifying people that are obese and live like slobs while also blasting The Learning Channel for airing the show and slamming people that watch such shows in the first place. [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking The episode also does a quick jab at Randy Newman]] after Kyle confronts Token for making a copycat show called [[FollowTheLeader Here Comes Fatty Doo Doo]]:
--> '''Token''': Kyle, Kyle. I'm trying to make compelling television.
--> '''Kyle''': You got Randy Newman to do the theme song. You're not trying ''that'' hard!
*** Incidentally, Randy Newman lowered the bar to keep his career afloat.
** "Let Go, Let Gov" slams several groups at once; it pokes fun at people who cry about their privacy being invaded while doing things that aren't so private to begin with (talking loudly on their cell phones while having the speakerphone on for instance), slams people that use Twitter to post anything that comes to their mind without thinking about it first, trashing the NSA for spying on people, and Alec Baldwin(again).
** "Informative Murder Porn" is a big FU to cable companies for forcing customers to take channels they don't want and for making them wait to get any kind of service between an unspecified time period.
* TheTalk: The boys are treated to this after their parents mistakenly think that they saw a depraved porn film.
-->'''Randy Marsh''': "Alright, now, now listen, kids, there's some things we need to put into context for you. You see, a man puts his penis into a woman's vagina for both love and pleasure. But sometimes the woman lays on top of the man facing the other way so that they can put each other's genitals in their mouths. This is called "69ing" and it's normal."\\
'''Sharon Marsh''': "See boys, a woman is sensitive in her vagina and it... feels good to have a man's penis inside of it."\\
'''Sheila Broflovski''': "That's right, but sometimes a woman chooses to use other things - telephones, staplers, magazines. It's because the nerve endings in the vagina are so sensitive, it's like a fun tickle."\\
'''Gerald Broflovski''': "Now, on to double penetration, boys. You see, sometimes when a woman has sex with more than one man, each man makes love to a different orifice."\\
'''Randy Marsh''': "That's right. It's something adults can do with really good friends in a comfortable setting."\\
'''Sheila Broflovski''': "It's also important that you understand why some people choose to urinate on each other."\\
'''Randy Marsh''': "Going #1 or #2 on your lover is something people might do, but you must make sure your partner is okay with it before you start doing it."\\
'''Gerald Broflovski''': "Okay boys. Do you have any questions?"\\
'''Stan Marsh''': "...Wow."
* TeamPrimaDonna: Cartman, when he founded the team "Coon and Friends".
* TearsOfFear: Randy shows these during a conversation with Sharon in "Sarcastaball" when attempting to [[FightingFromTheInside break away]] from a sickness that makes him unable to communicate without sarcasm.
* TeenyWeenie:
** In one episode, OsamaBinLaden is shown to have an absurdly microscopic penis.
** "T.M.I." uses the idea of compensating for a small penis as its entire premise. It turns out that all of the angry people in the world are just pissed off because they're below the average length. To fix the problem [[spoiler:the "average length" is shortened (ironically, Cartman, being a kid and all, ''still'' doesn't make the cut).]]
** In the ''{{Pokemon}}'' spoof "Chinpokomon", the Japanese creators keep talking about how small their penises are as opposed the well-endowed Americans. Sharon calls them out on this, saying that they're only saying this to distract the male Americans. While this ''is'' true, one of the creators proves that he's not lying about the size of his penis, either.
* ThemeMusicPowerUp: [[IntentionalEngrishForFunny Let's Fighting Love]] is arguably qulaified as this. It plays in the "Good Times With Weapons" episode when the boys pretend to be [[ArtShift hyper-muscled hyper-detailed Japanese anime teenage ninja badasses]] and have epic imaginary ninja battles against each other.
* ThereIsAGod: When Cartman lost his dream of owning his own amusement park, it restored Kyle's faith in God.
** Long story short: When Eric Cartman gets a million dollars he buys an amusement park, which causes Kyle to lose his belief in God, which in turn causes him to be at death's door due to a hemorrhoid. At the end of the episode Cartman gets his comeuppance.
-->'''Stan''': Look, Kyle, Cartman is totally miserable. ''[a shot of Cartman on his knees, sobbing]'' Even more miserable than he was before because he's had his dream and lost it.
-->'''Cartman''': It's not fair! It's not fair; I wanna die! I wanna daaahahie! ''[Kyle looks at Cartman, then up at the sky, then sits up and removes the oxygen mask]''
-->'''Kyle''': You are up there! ''[smiles]''
* ThinkNothingOfIt: In "Raising the Bar", Creator/JamesCameron doesn't take credit for the eponymous act. "James Cameron doesn't do what James Cameron does for James Cameron. James Cameron does what James Cameron does because James Cameron is James Cameron."
* ThisIsADrill: and Cartman will not hesitate to use it against hippies.
* ThisIsAWorkOfFiction: "All characters and events in this show—even those based on real people—are entirely fictional. All celebrity voices are impersonated... poorly. The following program contains coarse language and due to its content it should not be viewed by anyone."
* ThisIsForEmphasisBitch: The [[MemeticMutation "pal/buddy/friend" exchange]] in "Canada on Strike".
** From "Miss Teacher Bangs a Boy": "You just dealt with the Dawg, bitch!"
* ThisIsMySide:
** Played straight in "The Wacky Molestation Adventure", where all of the adults are gone from South Park and kids split the town into Smiley Town and Treasure Cove.
** {{Deconstructed|Trope}} in "I'm a Little Bit Country", where the town attempts to split themselves into pro-war and anti-war halves, only to almost immediately find that certain needs of theirs are on the other side of the line they just made, and Skeeter concludes, "What we really should be doing is just beatin' the hell out of each other like we were."
* ThousandYearReign
* ThreeStoogesShoutOut: "Hell on Earth 2006" features notorious serial killers Ted Bundy, Jeffrey Dahmer and John Wayne Gacy sent to Earth to get a cake for Satan's party. They start fighting each other in typical Three Stooges' fashion. The title card even spoofs the ones from their shorts.
* TimePassesMontage: Parodied in "Cartman's Incredible Gift".
* TitleDrop: Butters does this in "Last of the Meheecans".
** The Catatafish does this in "Bass to Mouth". And also accidentally flubs it and says "Ass to Trout".
--->"Did I say ass to trout? I meant bass to mouth. Although I guess it's basically the same thing.
* TitleSequenceReplacement: The series has a syndication-only version of the TitleSequence.
* ToiletHumour: Used in just about every episode. The boys of the show like to watch [[ShowWithinAShow ''Terrence and Philip'']], a series comprised almost entirely of fart jokes. In some episodes, the plot is built around toilet humor: as a couple of examples, in "Spontaneous Combustion," people are urged to stop holding in their farts so they don't combust and "More Crap" revolves around Randy Marsh trying to break the world record for taking the largest dump.
** In "You're Getting Old", everything turns to shit. ''{{Literal|Metaphor}}ly''.
** "Reverse Cowgirl" is toilet humor that actually focuses on the damn toilet.
* TokenMinority: Conveniently named Token Black (although played with in that he's both the token black kid and the token ''rich'' kid).
** In "Here Comes The Neighborhood", Randy called them the Williamses. Possibly to avoid the UnfortunateImplications of Randy saying "Isn't that the Blacks?"
* TokenMinorityCouple: {{Invoked}}, {{Parodied}}, [[DeconReconSwitch and then reconstructed]], in "Cartman Finds Love."
* TomatoSurprise: Liu Kim, the City Wok owner, is actually [[spoiler:one of Dr. Janus' personalities.]]
* TooDumbToLive: In "Faith Hilling" the kids are forced to watch a PSA showing the dangers of memeing. It shows 3 clips, all with kids ending up getting run over by trains. While the third one was forgivable, due to the fact that the train had no business being there, the first two have no excuse, considering they spent the 30 seconds they had to run away, screaming.
* TooHotForTV: Not just all the swearing, but parodied with a ''Jesus & Pals'' version.
* TookALevelInBadass: Ike goes from "Don't kick the baby!" in season 1 to being part of a plan to steal the Hope Diamond by [[spoiler:Barack Obama and John [=McCain=]]]. This is before he runs off to be a pirate having grown bored with middle class life.
** Liane Cartman as of "Coon 2: Hindsight." She's actually refusing to be Cartman's personal servant for once, and punishing him for swearing and beating up his friends. [[ExtremeDoormat It says something]] that this is a level in badass for her. (She does fall for the [=LeBron=] James Technique, however.)
*** As of "[=HUMANCENTiPAD=]", she has apparently stopped putting up with any of Eric's attitude, making her one of the few (if only) competent parents on the show. Of course, now Eric has started screwing her over the same way he does everyone else.
** [[spoiler: Kenny]] as of "Mysterion Rises".
** [[BadassAdorable Butters]] on numerous occasions:
*** "Super Fun Time": He will ''not'' let go of Cartman's hand. For ''anything''.
*** "ChristianRock Hard": After Cartman's plan to scam the Contemporary Christian community falls flat on his face, breaking up his band and humiliating him in front of a deeply offended audience, Butters (a devoted Christian himself) [[spoiler:''farts in Cartman's face'', then flips him off and says "Fuck you, Eric."]]
*** "Imaginationland": [[spoiler:Becomes Imagionationland's ''[[TheChosenOne freaking]]'' ''[[MessianicArchetype messaiah]]'' by [[DecisiveBattle turning the war around]] with his own, well, imagination, and then ''[[DeusExMachina completely fucking ressurecting it]]'' after a nuclear strike by imagining ''the whole fucking thing'' back into existence.]]
*** "The Tale of Scrotie [=McBoogerballs=]": The ReasonYouSuckSpeech he gives the main characters after [[spoiler:the novel they wrote]] makes him a worldwide celebrity.
*** "Butterballs": His TheReasonYouSuckSpeech to [[spoiler:his grandma]].
** Taken UpToEleven with Wendy in "Breast Cancer Show Ever" by standing up to Cartman and then beating the snot out of him at the end.
* TookALevelInKindness: In the early seasons, Stan and Kyle were only slightly less obnoxious and self centered than Cartman, and often seemed to act as lower scale bullies at school. While they still have occasional {{Jerkass}} moments, they are ''much'' more rashional and empathetic individuals ([[OnlySaneMan arguably the most so in the entire town]]), likely to contrast Cartman, who [[TookALevelInJerkass Took SEVERAL Levels in Jerkass]].
** Compare and contrast Sheila in TheMovie (declaring war on Canada and initiating genocide) to after (scolding her husband cor condemning Mr. Garrison's sex change).
** Cartman as of the second half of season 15.
* TooManyHalves: According to Al Gore, the [=ManBearPig=] is "half man, half bear, half pig."
* TooSmartForStrangers: Parodied three times over.
* TheTopicOfCancer: [[DiscussedTrope Discussed]] in the episode "Tonsil Trouble". Of course they have to bring it UpToEleven by having activists claim that just having AIDS is way better than having cancer.
** Then there's the episode "Breast Cancer Show Ever".
* TorturedMonster: Stan falls in with a bunch of extreme environmentalists who marry animals. The "child" of such a pair -- a man and an ostrich -- can only say "kill me."
** This is also said by one of the failed Towelie clones in "Towelie".
* TranquilFury: When Stan realizes his grandfather was swindled in "Cash for Gold", he calls the shopping channel responsible, [[TheReasonYouSuckSpeech calls him out for scamming senile old people]], and tells him to kill himself, without raising his voice the entire time.
* TrappedInASinkingCar: In episode [[Recap/SouthParkS5E14ButtersVeryOwnEpisode Butters' Very Own Episode]] Butters' mom tries to drown him by locking him in the car and sending it into the river, blaming it on "some Puerto Rican guy."
* TraumaCongaLine: Butters and Kyle are often subjected to this. The fact that these characters are often at the brunt of Cartman's antics plays heavily into it.
** "Good Times With Weapons" has Butters get ridiculed by the boys, get a ninja star stuck in his eye, dressed up as a dog, wanders in a delirium
** Kyle in "HumanCentiPad" and "Ginger Cow" is pretty much a string of [[FromBadToWorse increasingly humiliating and horrific events]].
*** "Cartmanland" also serves as this for him until the last thirty seconds where the world is put in place thanks to a [[LaserGuidedKarma Cartman's instant misfortune.]]
* TraumaticSuperpowerAwakening: Parodied in "Cartman's Incredible Gift"; when Cartman wakes up from coma due to a head injury, he fakes psychic powers.
* TriumphantReprise: Parodied by Chef in the movie: [[spoiler: Everything worked out/What a happy end!]]
* {{Trope 2000}}: The first four episodes of Season 4 have "2000" in the title.
* {{Troperiffic}}: ''South Park'' is famous for skewering {{trope}}s just as much as virtually everything else in existence. Pick any episode and you'll probably find 5 tropes that haven't been added to this page in it.
* TradeSnark: Bucky Bailey's Bully Buckers™ or, as its spokesman [[InsistentTerminology insistently pronounces]] it, "Bully Buckers, trademark".
* {{Transsexual}}: Mr. Garrison, in Seasons 9-12.
* TrueCompanions: Lampshaded in "The Biggest Douche in the Universe," when Chef tells Stan and Kyle that Cartman is their friend whether they like him or not. This trope becomes more apparent in later seasons, once their WeirdnessMagnet status has begun to wear old; the boys fall victim to AllOfTheOtherReindeer more often, making it evident that, while their classmates may tolerate them, they don't really have any friends outside of one another. As much as they would hate to admit it, they're a textbook example of this trope.
* TrumanShowPlot: The episode "Cancelled".
* TwistedEchoCut:
--> '''Cartman:''' ''(watching the Queef Sisters at his house with his friends)'' Dude! What the hell is this disgusting crap?!\\
'''Phillip:''' ''(watching the Queef Sisters at CBC with Terrance)'' What the hell is this disgusting crap?!
* TwoDecadesBehind: The actors in the "Bloody Sunday" educational short look like they came from TheEighties, but according to the copyright date at the end, it was produced in 2010.
* TunnelKing: The Mole from ''[[TheMovie Bigger, Longer & Uncut]]''.
* TWordEuphemism: In the movie when Cartman calls Kyle a "fucking Jew" in class.
--->'''Mr. Garrison:''' Cartman, did you just say the F-word?!\\
'''Cartman:''' "Jew"?
* TyrantTakesTheHelm: Bill Donohue in the "Fantastic Easter Special", who takes over the Catholic Church before Jesus makes him HalfTheManHeUsedToBe.
* TheTysonZone: Randy Marsh and Cartman. "1%" is pretty much dedicated to showing just how far Cartman's gone into this trope for the previous ten or so years.
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* UltraSuperDeathGoreFestChainsawer3000: ''Thirst for Blood'', introduced as a console game in "Towelie" and later shows up in the background of numerous episodes as an arcade cabinet.
--> '''Stan:''' Dude, I just cut off your face and ate it!\\
'''Cartman:''' Sweet!
* UnbelievableSourcePlot: In one episode, Cartman gets a head injury and thinks he's psychic, so the police want him to help solve a series of murders. Kyle, who does some independent detective work, finds the murderer but can't get the police to pay attention to him because he isn't psychic - so he recreates Cartman's head-bumpage so he can pretend to also be psychic so the police will pay attention to his information.
* UncertainDoom: The episode "Trapped in the Closet" ends this way, though the doom here is purely legal.
* UndeadChild
* {{Understatement}}: At the end of "Scott Tenorman Must Die":
--> '''Kyle''': Dude, I think it might be best for us to never piss Cartman off again.
* UnexplainedRecovery: Happens ''a lot,'' but one particular spoof on the concept: Cartman responds with this when Kyle taunts him by saying that he was a stillborn.
* UnfortunateName: Played with in regards to Ms. Choksondik. She has the astronomical fortune of the implied UnfortunateImplications going over her students' heads, whose insulting modifications only serve to make it tamer ("Ms. Chokes-on-rocks" and "Ms. Makes-me-sick"). It does, however, become [[MeaningfulName quite ironic]] in regards to her [[KilledOffForReal death]] in Season 6.
** The Super Best Friends member Semen.
-->'''Seaman:''' It's '''''Seaman'''''!
-->'''Buddha:''' But that's what I said. Semen.
-->'''Seaman:''' Stop it!
* TheUnfought: Satan in TheMovie, when Saddam turns out to be the real BigBad.
* TheUnintelligible: Kenny.
* UnreliableNarrator: In "Mysterion Rises", the Coon attacks a little girl who was only asking about Mintberry Crunch, with a man breaking the fight off. In the Coon's subsequent summary of what transpired, the girl was depicted as a villain who was bigger than him and "fought with all her might" against him, while spectators cheer the Coon on.
** All of the "comic book" scenes regarding the Coon invoke this.
* TheUnreveal: Recently epitomized with [[spoiler:the entire Aesop of the episode "201"]]. [[ExecutiveMeddling Guess why]].
* UnroboticReveal: In "AWESOME-O", in which Cartman's robot disguise (consisting of a couple of cardboard boxes) manages to fool everybody (except Stan, Kyle, Kenny, and Butters's parents) until he gives the game away by [[spoiler:farting.]]
* UnspokenPlanGuarantee: Cartman is GenreSavvy enough to tell a fake plan to humiliate Scott Tennorman to Stan and Kyle (who of course warned Scott about it), and only revealed the real plan once Scott completely fell for it.
* UnsportsmanlikeGloating: Cartman is the one main character prone to this.
* UnstoppableRage: Kyle in "Tonsil Trouble".
* UnsympatheticComedyProtagonist: Several characters, though Cartman rises above the rest.
* UnwittingPawn: Stan, Kyle, and Scott Tenorman in "Scott Tenorman Must Die."
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* VaginaDentata: From "Red Hot Catholic Love":
-->"The Gelgamek vagina is three feet wide and filled with razor sharp teeth! Do you really expect us to have sex with ''them''?"
** Hillary Clinton has... ''something'' in there, according to "The Snuke".
* VampireVannabe: Butters, in 'The Ungroundable'.
* VerbalTic: Mr. Mackey (based on Trey Parker's actual school counselor) puts "m'kay" at the end of a lot of his sentences. (It even crosses language borders; when speaking Spanish, he consistently ends his sentences with "m'bien" said with the exact same inflection as his "m'kay.")
** Also MickeyMouse in the episode "The Ring" usually ends his sentences with his [[{{Expy}} traditional]] "Haha!"
** The head vampire (and Butters) in the episode "Ungroundable" ends his sentences with "per se" a lot, which is a parody of this guy who used to appear on a lot of television programs claiming he was a vampire, per se. He did it a lot, too, per se.
** David Blaine ends a few of his sentences with "twah". The real Blaine doesn't. Trey and Matt, in their commentary for "Super Best Friends", said they had no idea why they gave Blaine a VerbalTic. Blaine even called them and asked why they gave him one.
* VerySpecialEpisode: Parodied in "Sexual Harassment Panda", complete with a closing PublicServiceAnnouncement against suing people to make money.
* ViewersAreGoldfish: {{In-universe}} with ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'', which always mentioned what's happening in the actual plot after their signature {{Cutaway Gag}}s.
-->'''Lois:''' Peter, I can't believe you invited your old high-school sweetheart over for dinner.\\
'''Peter:''' You think ''that''[='=]s bad? Remember when I auditioned to be Creator/DavidHasselhoff's [[Series/KnightRider car]]?\\
''(Insert CutawayGag here.)''\\
'''Chris:''' Yeah. But Dad, why would you invite an ex-girlfriend to dinner?\\
'''Stewie:''' Perhaps he wants to make our mother nervous.\\
'''Peter:''' Nervous? Like when I had to sell pancakes to the school soccer captain?\\
''(Insert CutawayGag here.)''\\
'''Lois:''' But Peter, I don't wanna cook dinner for your ex-girlfriend.\\
'''Peter:''' Well, maybe we can just have tea.\\
'''Brian:''' You mean like the time you had tea with [[TheProphetMuhammad Muhammed, the prophet of the Muslim faith]]?\\
''(Insert CutawayGag here.)''\\
'''Peter:''' Oh boy, was ''that'' ever weird. Anyway, I can't believe I invited my old sweetheart to dinner. Huh.
* ViolenceReallyIsTheAnswer: Kyle, Jesus, and Santa's censored speech in ''201'' is this, saying that the only way to get what you want is to threaten people with violence. The {{Irony}} of this is that the reason why the speech and various other parts of the episode are censored is because Comedy Central feared a potential violent backlash from Islamic extremists.
* VitriolicBestBuds: Cartman and... everyone else, actually, but especially Kyle.
* VolleyingInsults: Common between the boys, but pretty much a regular occurrence when Kyle and Cartman are in the vicinity of one another. It never takes long before they devolve into insults concerning jews and fat people.
* VomitIndiscretionShot: So much. Usually part of OverlyLongGag.
** A consistent, fundamental aspect of "The Tale of Scrotie [=McBoogerBalls=]".
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* RabbleRouser:
** Mr/Mrs Garrison has a tendency for these, in one episode even creating an alternate timeline where the entire world converts to his abrasive train of thought on religion ("Logic and reason aren't enough. You have to be a dick to anyone who doesn't think like you."). Subverted in one episode where, in an attempt to stop legalized same sex marriage, Garrison spearheads a "fag drag". The mob look dumbfounded, explaining they don't actually hate homosexuals, they just don't want them to marry. Garrison also spearheaded an annoyance & fear campaign to make the "richers" move out of town: first he had people burn lower-case Ts on their lawn ("for Time to Leave"), then dress up as ghosts wearing pointy hats.
** When not Garrison, Sheila Brovloski and Randy Marsh tend to spearhead most of the town's riots. Cartman is also known to start lower key ones with kids (perhaps most glaringly getting ginger kids to beat up a Broadway star of Annie who wore a wig).
* RaceAgainstTheClock: "Sorry, boys. No ticket stub, no candy shopping spree. If you find it, you can come back, but you only have one week to claim the prize. That's called 'The Ticking Clock.' [[LampshadeHanging Works great in the movies.]]"
* RagingStiffie: Jimmy had one for practically all of "[[JustForPun Erection Day]]". It got even worse in his dream, where his boner ''just kept growing''. Not surprisingly, the audience chortled at it.
* RashomonStyle: Cartman, with himself regarding the invention of the joke, in "Fishsticks."
* RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil: In "The China Probrem", a character recalls how George Lucas and Steven Spielberg ''literally'' raped Indiana Jones. In the send-up to the rape scene in ''Film/TheAccused'', they rape Indiana Jones in a bar on top of a pinball machine. At one point the Nazi agent from ''Film/RaidersOfTheLostArk'' walks in, but [[EvenEvilHasStandards is completely shocked]] when he sees what Lucas and Spielberg are doing, and immediately leaves.
* ReadingIsCoolAesop: Deconstructed in "Chicken Fucker", where the titular [[BestialityIsDepraved serial rapist]] [[spoiler:makes Officer Barbrady learning to read part of his M.O.]] and, at the end of the episode, Barbrady [[spoiler:declares reading as a waste of time after finishing ''Atlas Shrugged''.]]
* RealitySubtext: In the episode "Fishsticks", Jimmy writes a joke that Cartman seeks to publicize as ''their'' joke, even though [[{{Garfunkel}} he sat on the couch and ate chips while Jimmy came up with the actual joke]] (although [[SelfServingMemory Cartman remembers it as being the other way around]]). Much of the episode is dedicated to this conflict, and the episode ends with Cartman apologizing to Jimmy - for not accommodating ''Jimmy'''s belief that he wrote most of the joke. The season that contains this episode was the first to not co-bill Matt Stone as a writer for the show, and during Jimmy and Cartman's interview with Ellen, Cartman is shown with the same hair and clothing that Trey Parker is seen wearing in interviews. However, [[ComicallyMissingThePoint nobody on the Internet has commented on this because everybody focused on the episode's treatment of]] KanyeWest.
** Stan's whole final speech in "Ass Burgers". The previous episode, "You're Getting Old" had looked like it might change the show dramatically, and fans (mirroring Stan in-universe) were worried that the change would be bad for the show. So in-universe, Stan gets over his emo phase, gives a whole {{A|nAesop}}esop about how things can change for the better with the entire speech LeaningOnTheFourthWall... only to play StatusQuoIsGod, hit the ResetButton, and return the show to exactly where it was.
*** And note that it's not the original status quo but, [[spoiler:the last episode where Stan was depressed. Meaning that Stan is still, even if more so, depressed while everything else is the same. Meaning, Kyle, Cartman, and Kenny still hang out with Stan, he lives in the same house, goes to the same school, his parents still live together and all this with the [[SarcasmMode added bonus]] that Stan turned to alcohol to try and be happy.]]
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Chef and Principal Victoria. Also, [[GeorgeWBush President Bush]], as he was the only one in "Cartoon Wars Part 2" who defended the Family Guy writers rights to free speech instead of having them arrested like many people were recommending.
* RecycledINSPACE: Played completely straight. "Starvin' Marvin" was followed—two seasons later—with "Starvin' Marvin [-IN SPACE-]".
* RedHeadedHero: Kyle.
* RedHeadedStepchild: The episode "Ginger Kids".
** [[spoiler:It turned out, in the episode "201", that Cartman got half his genes from Scott Tenorman's father. He is very upset over being half-ginger, though he calmed down when told he is also half Denver Bronco.]]
* RedOniBlueOni: At first, Stan and Kyle had pretty similar personalities, but later on, as the series progressed, they were differenced. Stan was deadpan, impassive, more introvert and sensible, while Kyle was impulsive, outward-looking, sociable and rash, especially when he wanted to stop Cartman.
** This is available for Craig (Blue) and Tweek (Red), too.
* RedShirt: In Season 2's "[[ClipShow City on the Edge of Forever]]", the unnamed kid who gets off the bus after Mrs Crabtree warned them that "A big scary monster WILL EAT YOU!!" is actually wearing a red ''Franchise/StarTrek'' shirt.
* ReferenceOverdosed: [[ShoutOut/SouthPark And how.]]
* [[RefugeInAudacity/WesternAnimation Refuge In Audacity]]: So, so much. See the trope page for some examples.
* RefusalOfTheCall: Craig in "Pandemic". Repeatedly. Emphatically. [[YouCantFightFate Unsuccessfully.]]
* RememberTheNewGuy: In ''Red Man's Greed,'' there's a random kid acting like a regular. He wears a sweatshirt that says "Alex" so we'll know who he is. (Of course, at the end of the episode Stan asks who he is and we find out that he [[LeaningOnTheFourthWall got to come on and do the guest voice thing.]])
** The episode ''Quest for Ratings'' features the guys running a news show on the elementary school closed circuit television system and they act as though they've always done this and its never mentioned again.
* TheRenaissanceAgeOfAnimation
* RentAZilla
* ReplacementFlatCharacter: Butters, created to fill the ButtMonkey role better than Pip.
* ReplacementScrappy: In-universe example, both Butters and Tweek get this treatment from the boys themselves in attempts to replace Kenny as the token fourth friend -- Butters for [[ChildrenAreInnocent his innocence]] and [[ExtremeDoormat lack of backbone]] (to the point where an entire episode revolved around the boys kicking Butters out and running a contest for a new replacement), Tweek for [[ProperlyParanoid his paranoia]]. Ironically, for all their guilt trips and manipulation involving Kenny's death, the boys had in fact nearly completely got over it and all but forgotten about "that asshole". The sixth season was generally one giant KickTheDog for the three main boys.
* ResetButton: Kenny's death, sometimes even {{lampshade}}d.
* ResurrectiveImmortality:
** Kenny has this power. First mentioned as a joke on "Cartman Joins NAMBLA," then made official and played for realism in "Mysterion Rises," where Kenny actually feels and remembers his deaths and no one has any memory of how he dies.
** Jesus. In "Fantastic Easter Special", he escapes from a jail cell (in the Vatican) by having Kyle kill him and resurrecting on the other side of the door. He can only do this on Easter though.
* RevengeBeforeReason: Cartman, usually [[DisproportionateRetribution disproportionate]] to the offense. Kyle, who is usually the most logical and kind one of the boys often devolves into this when [[HeWhoFightsMonsters Cartman is involved.]]
** Primary Cartman example: Scott Tenorman.
** Kyle convincing Cartman to go to Somalia to be a pirate was this. Too bad Cartman had to get Ike to come along for the ride.
* RightForTheWrongReasons: In "Cartman Finds Love" Cartman tries to force Token and Nicole together just because they're both black, but it turns out they're perfect for each other anyway.
** In "Best Friends Forever" ends with Kyle realizing that he and Stan were trying to do the wrong thing (keeping Kenny on life support) for the right reason (friendship), while Cartman was trying to do the right thing (letting Kenny die) for the wrong reason (inheriting his [=PSP=]).
* RightPlaceRightTimeWrongReason: Cartman decides in prejudiced irrationality that the new Arab student is a terrorist and pulls out all the stops to save Hillary Clinton, who, coincidentally, is in South Park that very same day. Even though Cartman's theory is completely unfounded, it turns out that there ''are'' terrorists plotting to kill Hillary Clinton (Russians secretly working for [[spoiler:the British]])--but the only reason we found out about them is thanks to Cartman's prejudice. This is {{lampshaded}} heavily at the end, when they deliver the story's moral about tolerance only for Cartman to point this out.
* RippedFromTheHeadlines: Because of the short time to animate episodes, they can be far more topical than nearly any show on TV.
* RippleEffectProofMemory: Both averted and played straight in "Go God Go XII". When Cartman makes a small change to the past, he doesn't notice any of the minor but obvious changes around him. However, when he makes a major change and completely changes the future, he only remembers the old timeline.
* RiskyBusinessDance: Kyle does this after getting his parents arrested for child molestation, leaving him to take care of himself.
* {{Robeast}}: BarbraStreisand undergoes a henshin-style TransformationSequence into Mecha-Streisand, a blatant {{Expy}} of [[Franchise/{{Godzilla}} Mecha-Godzilla]]. Comes back in the episode "200".
* {{Robosexual}}: Parodied a few times.
* RoaringRampageOfRevenge: Kyle in "Tonsil Trouble" when he finds out Cartman infected him with his AIDS virus.
* RodentsOfUnusualSize: Giant carnivorous guinea pigs.
* RogerRabbitEffect: Said guinea pigs. This was an interesting example, as they were giant.
* RashomonStyle: In "Fishsticks", when Cartman and Jimmy make the Fishsticks joke, Jimmy is the one who comes up with the idea of it, but when confronted, Cartman believes he is the one that made it. His flashback even involves people telling him he's not fat.
* RuleOfCute: According to the commentary, the logic behind "The Losing Edge" was "Wouldn't the boys look cute in baseball outfits?"
** There was a similar reasoning behind "Pre-school."
* RuleOfDrama: In "Make Love, Not Warcraft", the boys encounter a player in ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft'' that is so powerful that he can kill the administrators running the game and kill anyone he wants, even if they don't accept a duel. Normally, admin players can use powerful characters themselves and they can easily ban the offending player, but this is all set aside for dramatics and hilarity.
* RuleOfFunny: This show is probably the ultimate litmus test for it. If they can't make it funny, ''no one'' can.
-->"You know what this means? AIDS is finally funny!"
* RunForTheBorder: Inverted in "Last Of The Meheecans". Butters inspires a resurgence of nostalgia, homesickness, and nationalism that causes Mexican emigrants to the United States to cross the border ''back'' into Mexico. Border patrol guards eventually have to guard the border on the U.S. side instead to prevent the loss of menial laborers to the American economy.
* RunningGag: Other than the obvious ones, such as Kenny dying, there are other, smaller ones such as Cartman's almost unvarying goal to get "ten million dollars". It's never explained why he wants ''exactly'' ten million dollars, and the closest they get to it is when another character reveals their own plan to get ten million dollars, they say "that's how scams work."
** In "Cartmanland", it is revealed Cartman always wanted one million dollars to buy a theme park. Why he wants the other nine is never shown.
** "THEY TOOK OUR JOBS!"
*** "DEY TOOK ERR JERBS?!"
*** "DEY TOOKUR JEEOBS!"
**** [[RuleOfThree DRR TRRKA JRR!!]]
**** DURKA DUR!
** During the earlier seasons at least, there is at least the outline of one of the aliens from the first episode's heads once per episode. EVERY. SINGLE. EPISODE.
** On the DVD release of the first season, Matt and Trey have "Fireside chats" between the episodes, in which they have a dog named "Old Scratch" who changes breed (and even changes into stuffed animals) each time he is seen.
** There was also more than one mention of Cartman wanting to give Kyle AIDS. [[spoiler: Until he does.]]
** Scott is a dick.
** One ''frequent'' running gag is Mr. Garrison's habit of teaching the class nonsense "history" that is actually based on a summary of a popular novel, movie, or musical. For example, talking about the history of Westeros in ''Series/GameOfThrones'' [[CrowningMomentOfFunny as if it were real history.]]
* RunningGagged: Kenny's deaths. They were about OnceAnEpisode before the end of season 5, where they killed Kenny in the most dramatic way possible in an [[WhamEpisode episode]] called "Kenny Dies". After staying dead for the entirety of the following season, he came back at the end and only dies approximately OnceASeason, if not at all.
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* SarcasmMode: Pretty much every adult in Sarcastaballs. Particularly Randy. It actually becomes a plot point where in Sarcastaballs makes SarcasmMode a person's default mode.
* SadistTeacher: Mr./Mrs. Garrison is sometimes one.
* SafetyWorst: In "Broadway Bro Down," Larry is a little boy with very overprotective parents; his parents always have him wearing a life vest to prevent drowning. During the episode, Shelley convinces him that he doesn't need to wear the vest all the time. [[spoiler: Ironically, Larry [[DeathByIrony drowns at the end of the episode]], and the news reporter comments that he might have survived if he was wearing a life vest.]]
* SanctuaryOfSolitude: In "Cartmanland" after Kyle gets a hemorrhoid, he goes to the church to contemplate by himself. He yells at God and wonders how this could have happened to him.
* SanitySlippage: "%1" ends with the implication that [[spoiler: Cartman's sociopathic tendencies are growing into a full blown psychosis]].
** Even without any greater implications, you can see his sanity suffer with each [[spoiler: stuffed animal destroyed]].
** Randy in "A Nightmare on Face Time". Complete with shot-for-shot, line-for-line {{homage}}s to JackNicholson and ''Film/TheShining''.
* {{Satan}}: Portrayed as half of a homosexual pairing with Saddam Hussein. The ''submissive'' half.
* SawStarWarsTwentySevenTimes: Eric Cartman claims to have seen ''Film/ThePassionOfTheChrist'' 34 times (in movie theaters) in the episode "The Passion Of The Jew."
* ScamReligion: Has portrayed both [[ChurchOfHappyology Scientology]] and Mormonism in this way, as well as Alcoholics Anonymous. Ironically, other episodes have shown that Mormons are the only people who get into Heaven, so it's not taking itself that seriously.
** Nearly every religion spotlighted in the show is depicted as having corrupt or hypocritical undertones. That said it is often balanced with a redeeming view of its followers (Gary in "All About Mormons" views that even if his religion is a scam his family have happy satisfying lives as a result of the ethics it teaches). This extra complexity is interestingly left out during the show's jab at Scientology (when it seems this moral is about to given the Scientologist members [[JerkWithAHeartOfJerk all throw tantrums and threaten to sue anyone that mocks their religion]]).
*** The voice actor for Chef (A ''close'' personal friend of the creators) left the show over Scientology, so they're probably, quite understandably a little bitter about that (They also think Scientology contributed to his eventual death, which...)
* ScopeSnipe: Butters in Going Native. Through a pair of binoculars. With [[AbnormalAmmo a golf ball]].
* TheScottishTrope
* SecondPlaceIsForWinners: "The Losing Edge", where the boys try to lose at baseball because they don't want to play. [[spoiler: Everyone else has the same idea]].
* SelectiveEnforcement: With all the terrible things Cartman has done, the one thing that got the other kids to give him the silent treatment in "The Death of Eric Cartman" was his eating the skin off the KFC. (Technically this was more of a "Straw that broke the camel's back" situation.)
* SelfDeprecation: In "A Very Crappy Christmas", after the boys recreated the 1995 "Spirit of Christmas" and showed it to the town:
--> '''Mayor:''' Kids, that cartoon was fabulous. How would you like to have your own show and make 100 more of them?\\
'''Stan:''' Are you kidding? I think we'd rather stab ourselves in the head.
** ''Terrance and Philip" mocks their potty humor and jokes.
** ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'' is known for mocking its {{Anvilicious}}ness, more prominently in later seasons, especially in "Cartoon Wars": "At least ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'' doesn't get all preachy up the ass with its own messages."
** "Raising the Bar" features a moment where Stan and Kyle remark how they somehow feel responsible for how far the bar of good taste and public shamelessness has dropped.
* SelfInducedAllergicReaction: In the episode Obama Wins, Butters eats an almond M&M. He is apparently severely allergic to almonds.
* SelfMadeOrphan:
** [[spoiler: Cartman. Well, half-way there at least.]]
** Scott Tenorman, indirectly.
** Clyde's also half-way there.
* SelfServingMemory: In "Fishsticks" Cartman repeatedly recalls to the origin of the fishsticks joke, each time getting [[SerialEscalation more and more fantastical]].
* SensitivityTraining
* SerenadeYourLover: Stan is advised to stand outside Wendy's window and play Peter Gabriel. He picks [[SoundtrackDissonance "Shock the Monkey"]]...
* SerialEscalation:
** ExecutiveMeddling gradually turning ''[[ShowWithinAShow Jesus & Pals]]'' into a sensationalistic ''JerrySpringer''-style show in "The Mexican Staring Frog of Southern Sri Lanka".
** Cartman's [[SelfServingMemory flashbacks]] in "Fishticks". Not only was he the one who wrote the joke, but he also [[spoiler:slew a dragon, became the [[ComicBook/FantasticFour Human Torch]], and immolated an army of Jewbots.]]
* SeriesContinuityError: Unsurprising in such a [[LongRunner long series]].
** Randy (a geologist) is mentioned as the only scientist in town, but later Token's mother is said to be a chemist, and Clyde's father a geologist.
*** And later Clyde's father is not a geologist but a shoe store owner.
** Jimbo was originally supposed to be Sharon's older brother, but then they gave her the maiden name "Kimble" (as opposed to Kern), so he was {{Retcon}}ned as being Randy's half-brother.
** Randy Marsh's teenage years are stated to have taken place through the '80s, and we briefly see a girlfriend who may or may not be Sharon. However, a later flashback places a younger Randy and Sharon as having been teens at Woodstock.
** Kenny is revealed to have a younger sister in "Best Friends Forever", when previously the [=McCormicks=] were stated to have two children. Matt Stone admitted that she was an oversight, and she didn't reappear for a while until "The Poor Kid".
*** It has since been revealed that Kenny did have a younger sister in early plans for the series. She was meant to be around Ike's age, and was mentioned in an early script for "Starvin' Marvin" (though she did not make it into the final product).
** Sometimes Kyle's family are the only Jews in South Park, sometimes there are more.
** They're particularly bad with names (see "Sudden Name Change").
** They frequently go back and forth on who's aware of Kenny's deaths.
*** "Cartmanland": when Cartman is sued for Kenny's death at his theme park, Cartman bursts out, "Who, Kenny? He dies all the time!"
*** "Chinpokomon": Cartman repeatedly has to fend off rats from Kenny's catatonic body, saying, "No! He's not dead [[TheyKilledKennyAgain yet]]!"
*** "Chef Goes Nanners": Kenny dies from ingesting antacid tablets he thought were mints. After he explodes, the boys laugh hysterically and respond with "That was a good one!"
*** "Gnomes": Stan, Cartman, and Kyle are completely indifferent to the gnomes killing Kenny. The gnomes are horrified, but the three boys make it explicitly clear that their term paper is far more important, as their hasted run-through of the usual {{catchphrase}} indicates.
*** On the other hand, Kenny has stated before that he the only one aware of his deaths in other episodes. In "Cherokee Hair Tampons", Stan is distraught over the possibly of Kyle dying from kidney failure. He opens up to Kenny about how lost he feels watching a friend die, to which Kenny responds (muffled) "You never seem to care when I die!" Stan doesn't acknowledge Kenny spoke.
*** In Tweek vs. Craig, Kenny is terrified to take shop class. When he is finally transferred into the class, much to his distress, one of the other boys tells him, "Come on, Kenny, you're not going to die!"
*** "City on the Edge of Forever" is mostly clip shows with altered endings from old episodes, all of which the boys remember despite the screwed up, ice cream-centric endings. However, Stan and Kyle call Cartman out on 'lying' about a past episode because Cartman's recount of it included Kenny's death from that episode.
*** And of course, there's the Mysterion arc of season 14, which focuses almost entirely on Kenny's power. He dies a total of 4 times in the arc—3 of them by suicide—in an attempt to prove to the other boys that he does, in fact, keep dying. Despite pulling the trigger on himself in front of six of the other boys, he's never able to get any of them to remember his death after he comes back to life.
* SeriesMascot: Both Cartman and Kenny are frequently used to represent the series, often as icons (for example, Cartman on the official website and Kenny for [[Pinball/SouthPark the pinball game]]'s options menu).
* SeriousBusiness: At this point making a list of episodes that ''don't'' feature this trope would be much shorter. Whatever form it takes, Randy Marsh usually gets involved in a big way.
** What ''really'' takes the cake is "Cartoon Wars". Many characters treat ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'' having an episode with Muhammed in it like the start of WorldWarThree, and Kyle nearly dies trying to stop Cartman from getting it canned.
** "Douche And Turd" takes it UpToEleven, when Stan's refusal to vote got him threatened, banished and nearly killed.
** At the end of "Quest For Ratings" when Craig's show falls in the ratings the AV teacher orders him to be suspended from school and puts in a request for the surgical removal of his testicles, just to reinforce how important ratings are.
* SexAsARiteOfPassage: Butters getting his first kiss in "Butters' Bottom Bitch" is an obvious metaphor for this trope.
* ShapedLikeItself: Early on in "Cartoon Wars Part 1", Randy says, "If we're still alive in the morning, then we'll know we're not dead."
* ShellShockedSenior: "The Mole" in TheMovie, despite being the same age as the boys.
* ShipperOnDeck: Surprisingly, Cartman in "Cartman Finds Love". He goes to great lengths to pair Token up with the new girl in school. True to form, however, it's only because she's also black and Cartman thinks they should be together solely on that racist notion.
* ShmuckBait: Poor, poor Butters. Every single time. And a lot of the time he just never catches on.
* ShootTheShaggyDog: "Stanley's Cup"
* ShopClass: One episode focuses on boys taking Woodshop and girls taking Home Ec. Kenny breaks the mold and takes Home Ec because he fears, [[TheyKilledKennyAgain not unreasonably]], that one of the machines will kill him. His fears became true when the Home Ec teacher, not believing Kenny could [[GoldDigger get a rich husband]], which is what she teaches her students to do, sent him to shop class.
* ShorterMeansSmarter: Slightly altered with them having a good reason for being shorter Small children like Kyle, Stan, and Cartman sometimes seem to be the smartest people in South Park.
* ShouldntWeBeInSchoolRightNow: {{Handwave}}d in "Kenny Dies".
** In the beginning of "Ass Burgers", Kyle, Kenny, and Cartman leave the bus stop moments before the bus arrives to ask Gerald if UsefulNotes/AspergersSyndrome is real. At class, Officer Barbrady shows up with them, saying they were caught playing hooky.
* ShoutOut: See the '''[[ShoutOut/SouthPark Shout Out]]''' page.
* ShotaCon: A bit of a RunningGag.
* ShouldHaveThoughtOfThatBeforeX: In the "Cartman's Mom is Still a Dirty Slut":
-->'''Liane''': I mean, what right do I have bringing another child into this overpopulated world? Then again, I should have thought of that before having sex...
* ShowerOfAngst: Stan takes one of these in the beginning of "Ass Burgers", after getting out of bed.
* ShowWithinAShow: ''Terrence and Phillip,'' ''Jesus & Pals'', among others.
** ''RussellCrowe: Fightin' 'Round the World''
** ''Queer Eye for the Straight Guy''
** ''Boy Meets Boy''
** ''Chinpokomon'' The list goes on and on and on.
* ShownTheirWork: Henrietta's room after she becomes emo in "Goth Kids 3: Dawn of The Posers" is filled with visual puns and inside jokes about emo culture that must have taken some research on Parker and Stone's part. Besides a conversation about Music/FallOutBoy [[ItMakesSenseInContext playing the Super Bowl when emos take over the world]], easy emo culture jokes are avoided, with a ShoutOut reference going to obscure emo pioneers Sunny Day Real Estate.
* ShrunkenOrgan: Osama bin Laden's penis.
* SideBet
* SimilarSquad: Craig's gang.
* SkewedPriorities: At the end of "Death Camp of Tolerance," the boys are pulled from the Tolerance Camp after a huge misunderstanding. "You have no idea how much we've suffered!" said Sheila Broflovski to the emaciated Stan, Kyle, Cartman and Butters, in full HeroicBSOD mode.
* SkywardScream: Cartman doesn't react well to Scott Tenorman burning his money.
* SlidingScaleOfContinuity: The show is normally level 3 (Subtle Continuity) but occasionally goes into level 4 (Arc-Based Episodic), especially when a major event happens or characters go through major CharacterDevelopment.
* SmallTownRivalry: A three-way one between [[TheNamesake South Park]], North Park, and Middle Park.
* SmokingIsGlamorous: Actually, not smoking is stupid and dorky, based on an assembly hall presentation.
* SnapBack: Kenny's deaths, destruction of the town.
** Subverted in "Mysterion Rises". After 14 seasons, it turns out that Kenny is ''completely'' aware of every single death.
** "Trapper Keeper" is perhaps the only episode in which one of the boys' homes (Cartman's, in this case) is explicitly shown being destroyed. Of course, it's fully intact again in the next episode.
* SoapboxSadie: Wendy, especially if the creators are trying to deliver a [[{{Anvilicious}} heavy-handed]] liberal {{Aesop}}.
* SocietyOnEdgeEpisode: South Park parodies this trope with their Cartoon Wars two-parter; in the first episode, FamilyGuy [[TakeThat resorts to shock value by doing a caricature of Muhammad]], and after some Islamic fanatics make vague threats of revenge, the residents of South Park are afraid that they will be targeted by terror attacks. [[spoiler:In the second episode, the revenge turns out to be a cartoon of caricatures of various aspects American culture crapping on each other.]]
* SociopathicHero: In "Scott Tenorman Must Die", Cartman starts as this, going up against Scott Tenorman, who is portrayed as even worse than Cartman. But then the ending comes and subverts it, showing that Cartman is actually much, ''much'' more sinister.
* SolidGoldPoop: "How about a taco... that craps ice cream?"
* SomethingCompletelyDifferent: Many, many times, including "Butters' Very Own Episode", devoted to side character Leopold "Butters" Stotch; several musical episodes; "It Hits The Fan", which set out to break the world record for the number of inclusions of the word "shit" (162 in total); "Good Times With Weapons", an AffectionateParody of {{Shonen}} fighting anime that spent half its running time [[ArtShift as anime]]; "Pip", which was devoted entirely to spoofing the Charles Dickens story ''Literature/GreatExpectations'', the third act of "I Should Have Never Gone Ziplining" which is [[spoiler:done completely in live action with adult actors]] etc. One of the most notable is probably TheMovie, which is both deliberately cruder than the TV series (it has an anti-censorship theme, as well as an "R" rating), ''and'' a full-fledged musical.
** First seen in "Not Without My Anus", which was a complete Terrance and Phillip half-hour TV special. It might have been more popular if it hadn't been an {{April Fools|Day}} joke airing on the night when viewers were expecting to see the second part of a CliffHanger.
* SonOfAWhore: Cartman. In the first season finale, he learned that his mom had slept with ''the entire named adult population of South Park''.
** ...including Jesus.
** ...and the entire roster of the 1989 Denver Broncos.
** [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking ...and a black guy.]]
*** All of which were being tested to find out who had fathered Cartman at the 12th Annual Drunken Barn Dance. So yeah...
*** [[spoiler: And one of the Denver Broncos turned out to be the father of both Scott Tenorman and Eric Cartman.]]
** ...but Halfy didn't sleep with her.
*** How can he? He doesn't have any legs!
* SorryOciffer: "What seems to be the officer, problem?"
* SoundEffectBleep: Very prevalent due to how much swearing is present in this show. Played with in "It Hits the Fan", where Mr. Garrison is allowed to say "fag" uncensored because he's come out as gay. While [[DiscussedTrope discussing it]] with some guys at the bar, Mr. Garrison points out that they're all [[BreakingTheFourthWall getting beeped for saying it]]. Then Jimbo complains about it and [[WordOfGay doesn't get beeped.]] Mr. Garrison sarcastically asks him if he wants to make out.
* SoundtrackDissonance: [[HarmlessVillain Professor Chaos' pitiful attempts at committing evil]] are only made all the funnier by the genuinely sinister and dramatic orchestral {{Leitmotif}} accompanying his schemes.
** Later episodes often have this melodramatic piano music or orchestra playing in some scenes that are actually funny in the right context.
* SpaceWhale: The plot of "Free Willzyx" relies on this trope.
* SpaceWhaleAesop: From "Fun With Veal":
-->'''Stan:''' It's wrong to eat veal because the animals are so horribly mistreated, but if you don't eat meat at all you break out in vaginas.
* SpellMyNameWithAnS: Kyle's surname is usually Broflovski, but it has appeared as Brovlofski, Broflofski and Broflowski.
** Many fans tend to leave out the second "e" in Shelley's name.
* {{Spinoff}}: Parodied in "Jakovasaurs".
-->'''Cartman:''' ''(coming in to visit the Jakovasaurs)'' Hi, Jakov.\\
''(applause from StudioAudience)''\\
'''Cartman:''' What the hell is that?\\
''(audience laughter)''
-->'''Cartman:''' [[AudienceWhatAudience Who's laughing?]]
** The MUCH channel in [[CanadaEh Canada]] made a series of promos for ''South Park'' depicting a Canadian equivalent of the series called "North Park", lampooning Toronto multiculturalism, Canadian politeness, and Rob Ford (mayor of Toronto). Coincidentally, the geometry is even square-based like Canada's depiction in the show proper.
* SphereEyes: The entire cast, of course, excluding the Canadians and Saddam Hussein.
* SplitPersonality: In City Sushi, it is revealed that [[spoiler:the City Wok guy is actually a white man named [[MeaningfulName Doctor Janus]], who has at least 10 different personalities. The cops decide to [[SplitPersonalityTakeover let him live as the City Wok owner]], as it is the strongest developed and most practical for the town]].
* SpontaneousHumanCombustion: Kenny dies of this in "Spontaneous Combustion"; it’s later explained that Kenny had a new girlfriend and was holding in all his farts.
* SpringtimeForHitler: In "The Losing Edge", despite trying to get themselves eliminated from the baseball playoffs because they hate it and are pressured into playing it by their parents, the boys make it all the way to the finals because every other team is trying to do exactly the same.
* StandardPoliceMotto: Parodied; the side of Officer Barbrady's patrol car has "To Patronize and Annoy" on it.
* StarCrossedLovers: Parodied in "Miss Teacher Bangs a Boy" with Ms. Stevenson and Ike.
** Played straight with Kyle and Rebecca in "Hooked on Monkey Fonics".
* StatusQuoIsGod: {{Lampshade|Hanging}}d multiple times.
** The first time, in the episode "Mecha Streisand", a reporter appears, saying that the town had managed to rebuild itself "just weeks after the devastating attack of [[ContinuityNod mutant genetic creatures, zombies, and Thanksgiving turkeys]]". Then Mecha Streisand shows up and begins to wreck the town, prompting a "not again" comment from the reporter.
** The second time, in "201", after the main events of the plot is resolved, the mayor announces, "Alright, people, let's start rebuilding our town! ...for the 39th time."
** In "You're Getting Old":
--->'''Sharon:''' "It’s like the same shit just happens over and over, then in a week it just all resets until it happens again. Every week it’s kind of the same story in a different way, but it just keeps getting more and more ridiculous."
** And its sequel, "Ass Burgers", has [[spoiler: Stan accepting the change in his life, only to have everything change back to the way it was against his will.]] Sharon even remarks at how sometimes it's just best to stick with what you know.
** A straight example happens when it is discovered that the City Wok owner [[spoiler:is the psychotic, murderous ''Caucasian'' Dr. Janus]]. Since he's the only Asian restaurant owner left in town [[spoiler:after the Japanese sushi chef whom he harassed killed himself after this reveal]], the police lets him go away.
** At the end off "Cartman Joins NAMBLA", where Kenny's parents are in the hospital with their newborn son...complete with orange parka.
--->'''Stuart:''' "God, this must be the 50th time this has happened."
--->'''Carol:''' "52nd."
* StealthHiBye: Parodied in one scene of "The Coon", in which Sergeant Yates keeps finding the Coon gone, only for the Coon to tell him he's elsewhere in the room.
* StealthPun: In "The F Word", the dictionary's head editor is [[{{Webster}} Emmanuel Lewis]].[[note]]"Webster's" is the name of one of North America's most famous dictionaries[[/note]]
** In "Royal Pudding," the various Canadian wedding "traditions" that get increasingly bizarre and disgusting are being acted out by TheAristocrats who are getting married.
** Wolf Home Security in the episode "Insecurity" refers to [[spoiler: ''[[CryingWolf The Boy Who Cried Wolf]]''.]]
** In "Ass Burgers", the President is replaced by a duck that spews shit, making him a [[spoiler:lame duck.]]
** A school named "Jim Davis High School" appears in the episode "Eek, A Penis!". It's a parody of the Garfield High School from the film ''Film/StandAndDeliver'', referencing the other {{ComicBook/Garfield}}, who was created by Jim Davis.
* SternTeacher: Ms. Choksondik and Mr. Mackey. Mr. Garrison as well whenever he's not being a [[Sadist Teacher]].
* StockNinjaWeaponry: "Good Times With Weapons" sees the boys buy ninja weapons and run amok with them.
* StockSoundEffects: South Park just loves using these more than most shows.
* TheStoic: Craig is like this, most of the time, especially when he flips people off.
* StrangelyArousing: Butters, upon watching Back Door Sluts 9, experiences arousal for what we can assume is the first time. "What's going on down there?". It acts as a double-down of the trope, as both the porno and his arousal are strange and exciting. Also helps illustrate Butters' innocence, considering how alien the idea of sex is to him.
* StrangeMindsThinkAlike: In "[[Recap/SouthParkS7E7RedMansGreed Red Man's Greed]]", the boys are thinking up a a way to generate $300,000 to buy back South Park, Butters suggests a dog parade, in which the dogs are dressed in little outfits and the kids sell tickets to their moms and dads. This idea is shot down by Stan, who points out their moms and dads are the ones who need the money. Later on, the kids run up telling the adults they have an idea to generate $300,000. Butters's dad Stephen eagerly asks if it's a dog parade.
* StrawmanPolitical: Sometimes {{Lampshade|Hanging}}d, sometimes played straight. More cynical viewers might argue that their entire method of political commentary typically involves pitting various strawmen against each other before settling on a GoldenMeanFallacy.
** One of the draws of the show is that unlike politicians and other writers who simply say "People with different views should just get along", ''South Park'' actually gives rationalizations for it.
** The one consistent political message in ''South Park'' is that too many people pay way, way too much attention to politics. Anyone with a pet political cause of any kind almost always will be portrayed as a troublesome fool (when not a villain).
* StressVomit: Stan vomits whenever Wendy talks to him, sometimes even vomiting on her. They're still an item in spite of this.
* StuckOnBandAidBrand: The Sega Dreamcast and Nintendo Wii have both appeared on episodes. Each console was mentioned repeatedly with its manufacturer's name, where a normal person would just say "Dreamcast" or "Wii".
* StudentTeacherRomance: Between Miss Stevenson and Ike. [[CrossesTheLineTwice Ike is three years old.]]
* StupidQuestionBait: A somewhat provoked case after George W. Bush explains his theory of [[ItMakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext Saddam Hussein being sent to heaven after Satan broke up with him]]:
-->'''President Bush:''' Question?
-->'''Crowd member:''' Are you high, or just incredibly stupid?
-->'''President Bush:''' I assure you. [[ComicallyMissingThePoint I am not high]].
* StupidSexyFlanders: "Two Guys Naked in a Hot Tub" takes this one all the way.
* SuckECheeses: Whistling Willy's. Played straighter in its initial appearance, where it was called "Krust E. Crotch's".
** ''Raisins'' = Hooters for eight-year-olds.
* SuckinessIsPainful: The ''Film/RaidersOfTheLostArk'' special edition.
** "I Should Have Never Gone Ziplining". So painful that [[spoiler:it killed Kenny.]]
*** [[spoiler:That has been jossed as not a legitimate death. So technically Kenny made it through season 16 without dying ONCE!]]
* SuddenNameChange: Happens a lot in the show, due to it being a long-runner and Parker and Stone admittedly not prioritizing many characters' names or details.
** Jimbo Kern/Kerns
** Jimmy Swanson/Valmer
** Ryan/Stephen Valmer
** Chris/Stephen Stotch, with his given name going back and forth for some time until the creators finally settled on him being "Stephen"
** Token Black/Williams
** Bob/Steve Black/Williams [[note]]Although it should be noted that Token's father being named "Bob" in an episode was only an assumption made by a fan as to which parents in the group were "Bob and Linda". As Butters' mother had been previously named Carol a few episodes before, his parents were not considered. As she received the name "Linda" in the season finale, it's also possible that "Bob" could just as well have been an early name for Mr. Stotch[[/note]]
** Alphonse/Alfonz Mephesto/Mephisto and his son Terrance/Terrence
** Sally Turner/Powder
** Loogie/Luigi
** Red/Bertha/Rebecca (and back to Red again)
** Milly/Jessie/Millie Larsen
** Leroy Jenkins/Peter Mullen. The first name was used in "Mystery of the Urinal Deuce", "The List", and "1%", but suddenly [[SuddenNameChange became the latter]] in "Informative Murder Porn". His first full name also happened to be a ShoutOut to ''World of Warcraft''. In ''The Stick of Truth'', the creators opted to refer to him as "Leroy Mullens".
** Marcy/Heidi Turner, who is also infamous among fans for her multiple different sets of parents.
** Clyde Goodman[[note]]Only used in early show merchandise, however, and never spoken in the show[[/note]]/Donovan/Harris (and back to Donovan)
** Martha/Betsy Donovan
** Casey/Sky/Kevin. Fans tried to reconcile the first and the third by changing "Casey" to "KC" (with "C" being an initial for his surname). It worked well enough until his surname was revealed to be "Stoley". Previously in a season 6 episode, it was suggested his last name was "Brooks" and showed that his parents were Caucasian (despite another episode stating his parents were Chinese).
** Sheila Broflovski and Sharon Marsh were both called Carol in the episode "Death". Mrs. Stotch was also initially called this in "Super Best Friends", but the season 5 finale revealed her name to be Linda.
** Butters was referred to as "Swanson" in season 2's "Conjoined Fetus Lady", while a female classmate Annie was called "Jordan". Annie has also been alternatively referred to as "Ashley" in "Butters' Bottom Bitch". Before being called "Swanson", Butters had the name "Puff Puff" (due to his puff of hair) given to him in storyboards for season 1. Annie's surname was also initally "Faulk", but later became "Nelson" and then "Knitts".
** A nerdy classmate was initially named "Lorraine", but later named "Lisa Berger" when she got more of a role.
** Ethan/Herbert Garrison, though in his short-lived stint as a woman, he preferred the name Janet.
** Officer Lou/Harrison Yates, who's also been referred to as "Officer Harris" in some of the actual scripts.
** Officer Mitch Harris/Mitch Murphy
* SugarApocalypse: The "Imaginationland" episodes.
* SuicideAsComedy: Shows up with disturbing frequency. One has to wonder how this reflects on the mental health of the creators...
* {{Superhero}}: The gang, plus a few of their friends, all have their own superhero alter-egos. Together they are... ''Coon and Friends''!
* SuicideIsPainless: Averted. In "Night of the Living Homeless", a scientist tries several times to kill himself before the homeless get to him, but each shot just leaves him bloodier and more in pain until he finally, mercifully, dies.
** Though not technically a suicide, Jesus' [[ICannotSelfTerminate death]] in "Fantastic Easter Special" is lengthy and bloody.
** In "Coon Vs Coon and Friends", Kenny kills himself several times. Once, in a desperate attempt to get his friends to [[spoiler:remember his many deaths]]; another time, to escape from an [[spoiler:alternate dimension]]; and yet another because he was just ''tired''. And as he reminds us in case we forgot after 100+ deaths through the show's history:
--->'''Kenny:''' [Immortality] is not cool, Kyle. It ''fucking'' '''''hurts!'''''
* SuspiciouslySpecificDenial: From "An Elephant Makes Love To A Pig" when Eric is trying to sound like he wouldn't as easily let a girl beat him up as Stan does.
-->'''Eric''': If some girl tried to kick my ass, I'd be like ''"AY, why don't you stop dressing me up like a mailman, and making me dance for you, while you go and smoke crack in your bedroom, and have sex with some guy I don't even know, on my dad's bed?"''\\
'''Stan''': ...Cartman, what the hell are you talking about?\\
'''Eric''': I'm just saying you're just a little wuss.
* SwallowedWhole: One of the ways Kenny died in the series, by a giant reptilian bird that apparently breaks through the school ceiling.
* SymbolSwearing: In some early episodes, the ClosedCaptioning used grawlixes whenever a word was beeped.
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* TakeANumber: In "Over Logging", Stan, his sister, and his dad have to take a number to get rationed web access at a refugee camp. Features both versions of the trope: the fighting and the closing.
* TakeAThirdOption: Between having sex with his son or letting him die, Garrison's father chooses to bribe Kenny G to [[BedTrick impersonate him]].
* TakeOurWordForIt: ''The Tale of Scrotie [=McBoogerballs=].''
* TakeThat: Almost every episode. One of the most elaborate ones they did was a slam against ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'' and the "manatee gags" they always do. In the same two episodes, with just as much importance to the plot, they made fun against the overreaction to a cartoon with [[UsefulNotes/{{Islam}} Mohammad]].
** Hell, in that very episode, they provide a Take That against ''themselves'', as Kyle, the head of the CBC, and a passerby all express the idea that they like ''Family Guy'' because it's easy to watch, makes them laugh and doesn't get "preachy and up its own ass with messages".
** They're generally pretty free with the SelfDeprecation in general. Another notable TakeThatUs from "Passion of the Jew": "This is just like when we got our money back for ''BASEketball''."
** "Fishsticks" was run repeatedly back-to-back on Comedy Central the Wednesday after Kanye's outburst at the [=VMAs=].
** The captain from ''Series/WhaleWars'' gets raked across the coals thoroughly in "Whale Whores".
** In "Up the Down Steroids", Jimmy calls athletes who take steroids "big fat p-p-p-pussies" as the camera cuts to close-ups of Mark [=McGwire=], Barry Bonds and Jason Giambi all idiotically grinning.
** The ''entire episode'' "How To Eat With Your Butt" is just a twenty-minute buildup to an IncrediblyLamePun about [[spoiler: Ben Affleck.]]
** ''The Tale Of Scrotie [=McBoogerballs=]'' has an obvious TakeThat against [[MoralGuardians banning books]] early in the episode when the boys are assigned to read the un-banned ''Literature/TheCatcherInTheRye'' and find it boring. It's also a more subtle TakeThat against all the fans that read too deeply into what they bash or not, and claim ''South Park'' is one thing or another.
*** Which made it even '''''more''''' appropriate when the 20X episodes drew fire from both Muslims (200) and fans (201) over the same thing (Mohammad) and [[ExecutiveMeddling the slot where 201 would be reaired on Wednesday was swapped out for this]].
*** This became even more hilariously ironic when "You're Getting Old" became a magnet for the sort of deep fan interpretations that "Scrotie [=McBoogerBalls=]" chewed the public out for just a season before. Fans were clamoring over the episode as a sign of Trey [[CreatorBreakdown growing tired of the show and deciding to cancel it]] before he and Matt and ComedyCentral {{Jossed}} all these theories.
** "Insheeption" is twenty minutes of "people who find {{Inception}} cool because they think it is complex are dumb, because it's actually pretty simple"
*** Unless, of course, it was a TakeThat against ''{{Inception}}'' for substituting convoluted, jargon-laden exposition for story and character development.
*** The episode straddles the line so it can be interpreted both ways. They didn't know whether to say it was good or bad, because they didn't watch the movie.
** ''Canada on Strike'' was a massive TakeThat towards all those involved in the 2007/2008 Writer's Strike.
** "Mystery of the Urinal Deuce" aired during the height of very public allegations that September 11th was a FalseFlagOperation, saying those people are "retarded."
** "Two Days Before the Day After Tomorrow" ridicules the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina (specifically those that were more content to place blame than to help people), people who believe all the hype over global warming, and the film ''TheDayAfterTommorrow''.
** "[[WorldOfWarcraft Make Love, Not Warcraft]]" is practically an episode-long Take That towards people who are obsessed with {{MMORPG}}s. With people often refering to players as "Ones with No Life" (ie. {{Griefer}}s). It also makes fun of people who go out of their way to get revenge on players who destroy them in a game.
** The use of a real fraternity house (Alpha Tau Omega) in "Butters' Bottom Bitch" makes it pretty obvious who Matt and Trey had a beef with when they were at Boulder.
** Then in ''Broadway Bro Down'', Randy attempts to stop Shelley and her new boyfriends from seeing "Wicked" to protect her from "subliminal subtext." He cries "It's time to put an end to Broadway!" [[Theatre/SpiderManTurnOffTheDark Then he dresses in a Spider-Man costume]]...
** TheMovie was basically a big TakeThat at MoralGuardians and scrapegoating. The last lines to the song "Blame Canada" pretty much spell it out.
---> We must blame them and cause a fuss.\\
[[NeverMyFault Before somebody thinks of blaming us.]]
** ''A History Channel Thanksgiving'' takes a big aim at TheHistoryChannel ([[CaptainObvious as you probably would have guessed]]) and its [[HollywoodHistory unique]] [[AncientAliens brand]] of NetworkDecay, all set to a parody of ''Film/{{Thor}}'' [[spoiler:that reveals the Pilgrims and Indians were basically [[MundaneMadeAwesome Asgardians and Frost Giants fighting over the universe's supply of stuffing]].]]
** "Music/{{Taylor|Swift}} [[MemeticMutation Swifting]]" is an affront against following trends and those who look down on others for not doing so.
** "The China Problem" thoroughly skewers ''Film/IndianaJonesAndTheKingdomOfTheCrystalSkull'' by taking the popular rape metaphors used by {{Caustic Critic}}s and running with it.
*** In the documentary "Six Days to Air", one of the staff members mentions that Matt actually came out of the theater saying that "It was like a rape. It was like being raped."
** ''Smug Alert'' is a large and obvious ridicule of the fact that many hybrid car owners are arrogant and more focused on making themselves look superior to drivers of more pollutive vehicles ([=SUV=]s in particular), and also one of George Clooney's acceptance speeches about Hollywood, how San Fransisco think they're more progressive than the rest of the country, and last but not least, some smug LA film writers who owned hybrid cars who were also major hypocrites because they use private jets. (Which are much worse than any car for pollution)
** ''All About the Mormons?'' started off mocking the origins of the Mormon faith only to [[StealthParody completely 180 on it's target]] during the ending with a TakeThat at people who mock others' religious and spiritual beliefs.
** "Stupid Spoiled Whore Playset" is basically a huge riff on Paris Hilton on how she is spoiled and parties everyday.
** "You're Getting Old" rips into people that do nothing but complain about how everyone and everything is shit while refusing to find anything wholesome or good to be happy about. The doctor who diagnoses Stan's extreme cynicism explicitly calls him a cynical ass hole.
** "Raising the Bar" slams ''Here Comes Honey Boo-Boo'' for glorifying people that are obese and live like slobs while also blasting The Learning Channel for airing the show and slamming people that watch such shows in the first place. [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking The episode also does a quick jab at Randy Newman]] after Kyle confronts Token for making a copycat show called [[FollowTheLeader Here Comes Fatty Doo Doo]]:
--> '''Token''': Kyle, Kyle. I'm trying to make compelling television.
--> '''Kyle''': You got Randy Newman to do the theme song. You're not trying ''that'' hard!
*** Incidentally, Randy Newman lowered the bar to keep his career afloat.
** "Let Go, Let Gov" slams several groups at once; it pokes fun at people who cry about their privacy being invaded while doing things that aren't so private to begin with (talking loudly on their cell phones while having the speakerphone on for instance), slams people that use Twitter to post anything that comes to their mind without thinking about it first, trashing the NSA for spying on people, and Alec Baldwin(again).
** "Informative Murder Porn" is a big FU to cable companies for forcing customers to take channels they don't want and for making them wait to get any kind of service between an unspecified time period.
* TheTalk: The boys are treated to this after their parents mistakenly think that they saw a depraved porn film.
-->'''Randy Marsh''': "Alright, now, now listen, kids, there's some things we need to put into context for you. You see, a man puts his penis into a woman's vagina for both love and pleasure. But sometimes the woman lays on top of the man facing the other way so that they can put each other's genitals in their mouths. This is called "69ing" and it's normal."\\
'''Sharon Marsh''': "See boys, a woman is sensitive in her vagina and it... feels good to have a man's penis inside of it."\\
'''Sheila Broflovski''': "That's right, but sometimes a woman chooses to use other things - telephones, staplers, magazines. It's because the nerve endings in the vagina are so sensitive, it's like a fun tickle."\\
'''Gerald Broflovski''': "Now, on to double penetration, boys. You see, sometimes when a woman has sex with more than one man, each man makes love to a different orifice."\\
'''Randy Marsh''': "That's right. It's something adults can do with really good friends in a comfortable setting."\\
'''Sheila Broflovski''': "It's also important that you understand why some people choose to urinate on each other."\\
'''Randy Marsh''': "Going #1 or #2 on your lover is something people might do, but you must make sure your partner is okay with it before you start doing it."\\
'''Gerald Broflovski''': "Okay boys. Do you have any questions?"\\
'''Stan Marsh''': "...Wow."
* TeamPrimaDonna: Cartman, when he founded the team "Coon and Friends".
* TearsOfFear: Randy shows these during a conversation with Sharon in "Sarcastaball" when attempting to [[FightingFromTheInside break away]] from a sickness that makes him unable to communicate without sarcasm.
* TeenyWeenie:
** In one episode, OsamaBinLaden is shown to have an absurdly microscopic penis.
** "T.M.I." uses the idea of compensating for a small penis as its entire premise. It turns out that all of the angry people in the world are just pissed off because they're below the average length. To fix the problem [[spoiler:the "average length" is shortened (ironically, Cartman, being a kid and all, ''still'' doesn't make the cut).]]
** In the ''{{Pokemon}}'' spoof "Chinpokomon", the Japanese creators keep talking about how small their penises are as opposed the well-endowed Americans. Sharon calls them out on this, saying that they're only saying this to distract the male Americans. While this ''is'' true, one of the creators proves that he's not lying about the size of his penis, either.
* ThemeMusicPowerUp: [[IntentionalEngrishForFunny Let's Fighting Love]] is arguably qulaified as this. It plays in the "Good Times With Weapons" episode when the boys pretend to be [[ArtShift hyper-muscled hyper-detailed Japanese anime teenage ninja badasses]] and have epic imaginary ninja battles against each other.
* ThereIsAGod: When Cartman lost his dream of owning his own amusement park, it restored Kyle's faith in God.
** Long story short: When Eric Cartman gets a million dollars he buys an amusement park, which causes Kyle to lose his belief in God, which in turn causes him to be at death's door due to a hemorrhoid. At the end of the episode Cartman gets his comeuppance.
-->'''Stan''': Look, Kyle, Cartman is totally miserable. ''[a shot of Cartman on his knees, sobbing]'' Even more miserable than he was before because he's had his dream and lost it.
-->'''Cartman''': It's not fair! It's not fair; I wanna die! I wanna daaahahie! ''[Kyle looks at Cartman, then up at the sky, then sits up and removes the oxygen mask]''
-->'''Kyle''': You are up there! ''[smiles]''
* ThinkNothingOfIt: In "Raising the Bar", Creator/JamesCameron doesn't take credit for the eponymous act. "James Cameron doesn't do what James Cameron does for James Cameron. James Cameron does what James Cameron does because James Cameron is James Cameron."
* ThisIsADrill: and Cartman will not hesitate to use it against hippies.
* ThisIsAWorkOfFiction: "All characters and events in this show—even those based on real people—are entirely fictional. All celebrity voices are impersonated... poorly. The following program contains coarse language and due to its content it should not be viewed by anyone."
* ThisIsForEmphasisBitch: The [[MemeticMutation "pal/buddy/friend" exchange]] in "Canada on Strike".
** From "Miss Teacher Bangs a Boy": "You just dealt with the Dawg, bitch!"
* ThisIsMySide:
** Played straight in "The Wacky Molestation Adventure", where all of the adults are gone from South Park and kids split the town into Smiley Town and Treasure Cove.
** {{Deconstructed|Trope}} in "I'm a Little Bit Country", where the town attempts to split themselves into pro-war and anti-war halves, only to almost immediately find that certain needs of theirs are on the other side of the line they just made, and Skeeter concludes, "What we really should be doing is just beatin' the hell out of each other like we were."
* ThousandYearReign
* ThreeStoogesShoutOut: "Hell on Earth 2006" features notorious serial killers Ted Bundy, Jeffrey Dahmer and John Wayne Gacy sent to Earth to get a cake for Satan's party. They start fighting each other in typical Three Stooges' fashion. The title card even spoofs the ones from their shorts.
* TimePassesMontage: Parodied in "Cartman's Incredible Gift".
* TitleDrop: Butters does this in "Last of the Meheecans".
** The Catatafish does this in "Bass to Mouth". And also accidentally flubs it and says "Ass to Trout".
--->"Did I say ass to trout? I meant bass to mouth. Although I guess it's basically the same thing.
* TitleSequenceReplacement: The series has a syndication-only version of the TitleSequence.
* ToiletHumour: Used in just about every episode. The boys of the show like to watch [[ShowWithinAShow ''Terrence and Philip'']], a series comprised almost entirely of fart jokes. In some episodes, the plot is built around toilet humor: as a couple of examples, in "Spontaneous Combustion," people are urged to stop holding in their farts so they don't combust and "More Crap" revolves around Randy Marsh trying to break the world record for taking the largest dump.
** In "You're Getting Old", everything turns to shit. ''{{Literal|Metaphor}}ly''.
** "Reverse Cowgirl" is toilet humor that actually focuses on the damn toilet.
* TokenMinority: Conveniently named Token Black (although played with in that he's both the token black kid and the token ''rich'' kid).
** In "Here Comes The Neighborhood", Randy called them the Williamses. Possibly to avoid the UnfortunateImplications of Randy saying "Isn't that the Blacks?"
* TokenMinorityCouple: {{Invoked}}, {{Parodied}}, [[DeconReconSwitch and then reconstructed]], in "Cartman Finds Love."
* TomatoSurprise: Liu Kim, the City Wok owner, is actually [[spoiler:one of Dr. Janus' personalities.]]
* TooDumbToLive: In "Faith Hilling" the kids are forced to watch a PSA showing the dangers of memeing. It shows 3 clips, all with kids ending up getting run over by trains. While the third one was forgivable, due to the fact that the train had no business being there, the first two have no excuse, considering they spent the 30 seconds they had to run away, screaming.
* TooHotForTV: Not just all the swearing, but parodied with a ''Jesus & Pals'' version.
* TookALevelInBadass: Ike goes from "Don't kick the baby!" in season 1 to being part of a plan to steal the Hope Diamond by [[spoiler:Barack Obama and John [=McCain=]]]. This is before he runs off to be a pirate having grown bored with middle class life.
** Liane Cartman as of "Coon 2: Hindsight." She's actually refusing to be Cartman's personal servant for once, and punishing him for swearing and beating up his friends. [[ExtremeDoormat It says something]] that this is a level in badass for her. (She does fall for the [=LeBron=] James Technique, however.)
*** As of "[=HUMANCENTiPAD=]", she has apparently stopped putting up with any of Eric's attitude, making her one of the few (if only) competent parents on the show. Of course, now Eric has started screwing her over the same way he does everyone else.
** [[spoiler: Kenny]] as of "Mysterion Rises".
** [[BadassAdorable Butters]] on numerous occasions:
*** "Super Fun Time": He will ''not'' let go of Cartman's hand. For ''anything''.
*** "ChristianRock Hard": After Cartman's plan to scam the Contemporary Christian community falls flat on his face, breaking up his band and humiliating him in front of a deeply offended audience, Butters (a devoted Christian himself) [[spoiler:''farts in Cartman's face'', then flips him off and says "Fuck you, Eric."]]
*** "Imaginationland": [[spoiler:Becomes Imagionationland's ''[[TheChosenOne freaking]]'' ''[[MessianicArchetype messaiah]]'' by [[DecisiveBattle turning the war around]] with his own, well, imagination, and then ''[[DeusExMachina completely fucking ressurecting it]]'' after a nuclear strike by imagining ''the whole fucking thing'' back into existence.]]
*** "The Tale of Scrotie [=McBoogerballs=]": The ReasonYouSuckSpeech he gives the main characters after [[spoiler:the novel they wrote]] makes him a worldwide celebrity.
*** "Butterballs": His TheReasonYouSuckSpeech to [[spoiler:his grandma]].
** Taken UpToEleven with Wendy in "Breast Cancer Show Ever" by standing up to Cartman and then beating the snot out of him at the end.
* TookALevelInKindness: In the early seasons, Stan and Kyle were only slightly less obnoxious and self centered than Cartman, and often seemed to act as lower scale bullies at school. While they still have occasional {{Jerkass}} moments, they are ''much'' more rashional and empathetic individuals ([[OnlySaneMan arguably the most so in the entire town]]), likely to contrast Cartman, who [[TookALevelInJerkass Took SEVERAL Levels in Jerkass]].
** Compare and contrast Sheila in TheMovie (declaring war on Canada and initiating genocide) to after (scolding her husband cor condemning Mr. Garrison's sex change).
** Cartman as of the second half of season 15.
* TooManyHalves: According to Al Gore, the [=ManBearPig=] is "half man, half bear, half pig."
* TooSmartForStrangers: Parodied three times over.
* TheTopicOfCancer: [[DiscussedTrope Discussed]] in the episode "Tonsil Trouble". Of course they have to bring it UpToEleven by having activists claim that just having AIDS is way better than having cancer.
** Then there's the episode "Breast Cancer Show Ever".
* TorturedMonster: Stan falls in with a bunch of extreme environmentalists who marry animals. The "child" of such a pair -- a man and an ostrich -- can only say "kill me."
** This is also said by one of the failed Towelie clones in "Towelie".
* TranquilFury: When Stan realizes his grandfather was swindled in "Cash for Gold", he calls the shopping channel responsible, [[TheReasonYouSuckSpeech calls him out for scamming senile old people]], and tells him to kill himself, without raising his voice the entire time.
* TrappedInASinkingCar: In episode [[Recap/SouthParkS5E14ButtersVeryOwnEpisode Butters' Very Own Episode]] Butters' mom tries to drown him by locking him in the car and sending it into the river, blaming it on "some Puerto Rican guy."
* TraumaCongaLine: Butters and Kyle are often subjected to this. The fact that these characters are often at the brunt of Cartman's antics plays heavily into it.
** "Good Times With Weapons" has Butters get ridiculed by the boys, get a ninja star stuck in his eye, dressed up as a dog, wanders in a delirium
** Kyle in "HumanCentiPad" and "Ginger Cow" is pretty much a string of [[FromBadToWorse increasingly humiliating and horrific events]].
*** "Cartmanland" also serves as this for him until the last thirty seconds where the world is put in place thanks to a [[LaserGuidedKarma Cartman's instant misfortune.]]
* TraumaticSuperpowerAwakening: Parodied in "Cartman's Incredible Gift"; when Cartman wakes up from coma due to a head injury, he fakes psychic powers.
* TriumphantReprise: Parodied by Chef in the movie: [[spoiler: Everything worked out/What a happy end!]]
* {{Trope 2000}}: The first four episodes of Season 4 have "2000" in the title.
* {{Troperiffic}}: ''South Park'' is famous for skewering {{trope}}s just as much as virtually everything else in existence. Pick any episode and you'll probably find 5 tropes that haven't been added to this page in it.
* TradeSnark: Bucky Bailey's Bully Buckers™ or, as its spokesman [[InsistentTerminology insistently pronounces]] it, "Bully Buckers, trademark".
* {{Transsexual}}: Mr. Garrison, in Seasons 9-12.
* TrueCompanions: Lampshaded in "The Biggest Douche in the Universe," when Chef tells Stan and Kyle that Cartman is their friend whether they like him or not. This trope becomes more apparent in later seasons, once their WeirdnessMagnet status has begun to wear old; the boys fall victim to AllOfTheOtherReindeer more often, making it evident that, while their classmates may tolerate them, they don't really have any friends outside of one another. As much as they would hate to admit it, they're a textbook example of this trope.
* TrumanShowPlot: The episode "Cancelled".
* TwistedEchoCut:
--> '''Cartman:''' ''(watching the Queef Sisters at his house with his friends)'' Dude! What the hell is this disgusting crap?!\\
'''Phillip:''' ''(watching the Queef Sisters at CBC with Terrance)'' What the hell is this disgusting crap?!
* TwoDecadesBehind: The actors in the "Bloody Sunday" educational short look like they came from TheEighties, but according to the copyright date at the end, it was produced in 2010.
* TunnelKing: The Mole from ''[[TheMovie Bigger, Longer & Uncut]]''.
* TWordEuphemism: In the movie when Cartman calls Kyle a "fucking Jew" in class.
--->'''Mr. Garrison:''' Cartman, did you just say the F-word?!\\
'''Cartman:''' "Jew"?
* TyrantTakesTheHelm: Bill Donohue in the "Fantastic Easter Special", who takes over the Catholic Church before Jesus makes him HalfTheManHeUsedToBe.
* TheTysonZone: Randy Marsh and Cartman. "1%" is pretty much dedicated to showing just how far Cartman's gone into this trope for the previous ten or so years.
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* UltraSuperDeathGoreFestChainsawer3000: ''Thirst for Blood'', introduced as a console game in "Towelie" and later shows up in the background of numerous episodes as an arcade cabinet.
--> '''Stan:''' Dude, I just cut off your face and ate it!\\
'''Cartman:''' Sweet!
* UnbelievableSourcePlot: In one episode, Cartman gets a head injury and thinks he's psychic, so the police want him to help solve a series of murders. Kyle, who does some independent detective work, finds the murderer but can't get the police to pay attention to him because he isn't psychic - so he recreates Cartman's head-bumpage so he can pretend to also be psychic so the police will pay attention to his information.
* UncertainDoom: The episode "Trapped in the Closet" ends this way, though the doom here is purely legal.
* UndeadChild
* {{Understatement}}: At the end of "Scott Tenorman Must Die":
--> '''Kyle''': Dude, I think it might be best for us to never piss Cartman off again.
* UnexplainedRecovery: Happens ''a lot,'' but one particular spoof on the concept: Cartman responds with this when Kyle taunts him by saying that he was a stillborn.
* UnfortunateName: Played with in regards to Ms. Choksondik. She has the astronomical fortune of the implied UnfortunateImplications going over her students' heads, whose insulting modifications only serve to make it tamer ("Ms. Chokes-on-rocks" and "Ms. Makes-me-sick"). It does, however, become [[MeaningfulName quite ironic]] in regards to her [[KilledOffForReal death]] in Season 6.
** The Super Best Friends member Semen.
-->'''Seaman:''' It's '''''Seaman'''''!
-->'''Buddha:''' But that's what I said. Semen.
-->'''Seaman:''' Stop it!
* TheUnfought: Satan in TheMovie, when Saddam turns out to be the real BigBad.
* TheUnintelligible: Kenny.
* UnreliableNarrator: In "Mysterion Rises", the Coon attacks a little girl who was only asking about Mintberry Crunch, with a man breaking the fight off. In the Coon's subsequent summary of what transpired, the girl was depicted as a villain who was bigger than him and "fought with all her might" against him, while spectators cheer the Coon on.
** All of the "comic book" scenes regarding the Coon invoke this.
* TheUnreveal: Recently epitomized with [[spoiler:the entire Aesop of the episode "201"]]. [[ExecutiveMeddling Guess why]].
* UnroboticReveal: In "AWESOME-O", in which Cartman's robot disguise (consisting of a couple of cardboard boxes) manages to fool everybody (except Stan, Kyle, Kenny, and Butters's parents) until he gives the game away by [[spoiler:farting.]]
* UnspokenPlanGuarantee: Cartman is GenreSavvy enough to tell a fake plan to humiliate Scott Tennorman to Stan and Kyle (who of course warned Scott about it), and only revealed the real plan once Scott completely fell for it.
* UnsportsmanlikeGloating: Cartman is the one main character prone to this.
* UnstoppableRage: Kyle in "Tonsil Trouble".
* UnsympatheticComedyProtagonist: Several characters, though Cartman rises above the rest.
* UnwittingPawn: Stan, Kyle, and Scott Tenorman in "Scott Tenorman Must Die."
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* VaginaDentata: From "Red Hot Catholic Love":
-->"The Gelgamek vagina is three feet wide and filled with razor sharp teeth! Do you really expect us to have sex with ''them''?"
** Hillary Clinton has... ''something'' in there, according to "The Snuke".
* VampireVannabe: Butters, in 'The Ungroundable'.
* VerbalTic: Mr. Mackey (based on Trey Parker's actual school counselor) puts "m'kay" at the end of a lot of his sentences. (It even crosses language borders; when speaking Spanish, he consistently ends his sentences with "m'bien" said with the exact same inflection as his "m'kay.")
** Also MickeyMouse in the episode "The Ring" usually ends his sentences with his [[{{Expy}} traditional]] "Haha!"
** The head vampire (and Butters) in the episode "Ungroundable" ends his sentences with "per se" a lot, which is a parody of this guy who used to appear on a lot of television programs claiming he was a vampire, per se. He did it a lot, too, per se.
** David Blaine ends a few of his sentences with "twah". The real Blaine doesn't. Trey and Matt, in their commentary for "Super Best Friends", said they had no idea why they gave Blaine a VerbalTic. Blaine even called them and asked why they gave him one.
* VerySpecialEpisode: Parodied in "Sexual Harassment Panda", complete with a closing PublicServiceAnnouncement against suing people to make money.
* ViewersAreGoldfish: {{In-universe}} with ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'', which always mentioned what's happening in the actual plot after their signature {{Cutaway Gag}}s.
-->'''Lois:''' Peter, I can't believe you invited your old high-school sweetheart over for dinner.\\
'''Peter:''' You think ''that''[='=]s bad? Remember when I auditioned to be Creator/DavidHasselhoff's [[Series/KnightRider car]]?\\
''(Insert CutawayGag here.)''\\
'''Chris:''' Yeah. But Dad, why would you invite an ex-girlfriend to dinner?\\
'''Stewie:''' Perhaps he wants to make our mother nervous.\\
'''Peter:''' Nervous? Like when I had to sell pancakes to the school soccer captain?\\
''(Insert CutawayGag here.)''\\
'''Lois:''' But Peter, I don't wanna cook dinner for your ex-girlfriend.\\
'''Peter:''' Well, maybe we can just have tea.\\
'''Brian:''' You mean like the time you had tea with [[TheProphetMuhammad Muhammed, the prophet of the Muslim faith]]?\\
''(Insert CutawayGag here.)''\\
'''Peter:''' Oh boy, was ''that'' ever weird. Anyway, I can't believe I invited my old sweetheart to dinner. Huh.
* ViolenceReallyIsTheAnswer: Kyle, Jesus, and Santa's censored speech in ''201'' is this, saying that the only way to get what you want is to threaten people with violence. The {{Irony}} of this is that the reason why the speech and various other parts of the episode are censored is because Comedy Central feared a potential violent backlash from Islamic extremists.
* VitriolicBestBuds: Cartman and... everyone else, actually, but especially Kyle.
* VolleyingInsults: Common between the boys, but pretty much a regular occurrence when Kyle and Cartman are in the vicinity of one another. It never takes long before they devolve into insults concerning jews and fat people.
* VomitIndiscretionShot: So much. Usually part of OverlyLongGag.
** A consistent, fundamental aspect of "The Tale of Scrotie [=McBoogerBalls=]".
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