History SouthPark / TropesRToV

* SymbolSwearing: In some early episodes, the UsefulNotes/ClosedCaptioning used grawlixes whenever a word was beeped.

** "#REHASH" is a mockery of the concept of Let's Play (''especially'' 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 Music/IggyAzalea and Music/NickiMinaj.

* 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.

** 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.

** The MUCH channel in {{Canada|Eh}} 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.

* TheVillainKnowsMoment: a GambitPileup between Cartman and Scott Tenorman in the Season 5 episode [[Recap/SouthParkS5E4ScottTenormanMustDie Scott Tenorman Must Die]]. After Cartman ultimately fails to recover his money from Scott (who burns it right after humiliating him), he devises a plan to humiliate him in return: He begins training a pony so it bites Scott's penis during a chili festival, and tries to persuade Stan and Kyle to invite him into the event; the two boys not only refuse to join his plan, but secretly call Scott via phone to leak the information to him, thus giving '''him''' a chance to retaliate with an even more humiliating plan (to make Cartman eat chili seasoned with the pubic hair of ''half the population'' of South Park during their chili festival). During the fateful event, Cartman tries to convince Scott to ride the pony so everybody can see it bite his penis, but Scott ends up overriding the plan in favor of both going first to eat chili, so it all seems like Scott has succeeded in his sordid plan. However, when the two characters are about to finish eating and Scott prepares to reveal the AwfulTruth (that Cartman ate the chili seasoned with pubic hair), Cartman in turn reveals to Scott that he knew about ''that'' plan; so he not only ate chili from a different bowl, but also reveals that Scott inadvertently ate chili seasoned with the remains of his parents. Cartman proceeds to explain how that happened, and it all started from the moment he tried to invoke this very trope thanks to Stan and Kyle (the plan about the pony biting Scott's penis was a ''decoy'').

** "%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]].

** In the episode ''Recap/SouthParkS7E14Raisins Raisins'', Butters tells his parents he has a girlfriend, they exchange money according to their bet on his sexuality.

* SpecialGuest: There has been a few guest actors, but after about season four due to the quick production turnaround they rarely have the time to write a role and have the big name actor record lines in time. "Chief Aid" was notable for having a collection of famous musicians. In most cases though when someone requests a guest spot due to being a fan of the show, Parker and Stone may ask them to perform vocals for a dog. Due to being on the writing team for a few years Creator/BillHader has the most "guest" roles.

** Cartman says his {{Catchphrase}} of "Seriously!" whenever he should grammatically say some other version of the word "serious," such as "I'm seriously, you guys!"

*** "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.

** In "[[Recap/SouthParkS8E2UpTheDownSteroid Up The Down Steroid]]" Cartman [[ObfuscatingDisability fakes being mentally handicapped]] to enter the Special Olympics, thinking he'll automatically win any event he enters just because he's not really handicapped and the rest of the participants are. Cartman ends up shocked to learn that everyone in the Special Olympics still physically trained for it, and [[SubParSupremacist Cartman places last in every single event]].
** In "Free Willzyx" a prank that goes horribly wrong leads the kids to think that an orca at a water park is really an alien from outer space who lives on the moon, and they eventually succeed at "sending him home". Even though viewers know it's a prank that was set up by two employees from the water park, this show has followed through on plenty of weird plot twists before, so a civilization made up of sapient, telepathic, space-dwelling porpoises isn't out of the question. Cut to a single frame of the orca lying dead on the moon from asphyxiation while the end credits roll.

** In "City People", the rising number of people moving to South Park causes real estate prices to increase. Thus, Liane gets a job as a realtor so she can keep paying rent. However, Cartman (unsurprisingly) [[ItsAllAboutMe only cares about his mother taking care of him full time]]. He doesn't listen to Liane nor understand that she ''needs'' the job to keep a roof over their heads. Indeed, after Cartman forces her to quit, they lose their house and are forced to move into a cramped hot dog stand.

** In "Here Comes the Neighborhood", when Token goes to live with the lions in the zoo, he meets [[Literature/ChroniclesOfNarnia Aslan]]. In South Park's universe, Aslan can't talk to humans and lions apparently hear lion noises as English.

** Averted very much so as it's shown that the other boys in their class do spend time with them in recent seasons, helping them through situations, sitting with them during lunch, and hanging out with them outside of school. In fact, it seems like the only person they genuinely all dislike is Cartman.

* 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 entirely.]]

** "Douche and Turd" takes it UpToEleven, when Stan's refusal to vote got him threatened, banished and nearly killed.

** 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.

** {{Discussed|Trope}} in "Tonsil Trouble". Of course they have to bring it UpToEleven by having activists claim that just having AIDS is way better than having cancer.