South Park/Trivia


 * Artistic License Medicine: In "Timmy 2000", the kids take Ritalin to get out of doing homework and it makes them calm. Several adults take some and they're also calm, but in Real Life, Ritalin has the opposite effect on grown-ups.
 * In "Cartmanland", Kyle is at near-death from a hemorrhoid. To answer your question, no, hemorrhoids can't kill you. However, this was intentional given the show's nature.
 * Banned in China: "Chinpokomon" never aired in Japan due to its cruel jokes and stereotypes about the people. The same can be said for "Rainforest Schmainforest", only the country that banned it was Costa Rica.
 * Creator Backlash: Parker and Stone mentioned in one of the DVD commentaries for season 3 that they considered season 2 to be "very poor," which is why there are no commentaries on the season 2 DVDs. They are also noted as not being fond of the video games made during the show's early run.
 * Also, they were not happy about the "201" censorship.
 * Creator Breakdown: "You're Getting Old" seems to suggest that Parker and Stone have or are undergoing one. The two themselves, however, have stated that fans "took the episode too seriously" and deny being unhappy with the show.
 * Defictionalization: "Cheesy Poofs" were sold in stores for a time; they were just repackaged Cheetos.
 * And now Cartman's rendition of Lady Gaga's Poker Face is actually in the Rock Band Music Store.
 * His rendition of "Heat of the Moment" in Kenny Dies has also taken on a life of its own.
 * And, of course, his penchant for singing "Come Sail Away" by Styx.
 * Executive Meddling: The 201st episode not only got censored by Comedy Central ("Muhammad" and the ENTIRE ending speech by Kyle and Jesus were censored), but it was only aired once on the night it premiered (as opposed to the usual two times, the second being a reair). They probably had very good reason to, though, considering a single vaguely worded warning posted on a "smallest-fish-in-the-smallest-pond" extremist Muslim group's website when the prior episode aired.
 * It didn't help that the week in between "200" and "201", the Times Square Car Bomb plot was foiled. Said car was parked hear the Viacom headquarters, where Comedy Central is based.
 * Fan Nickname: The "Colored Screen of Death" for Kyle's speech at the end of "201", after what videophiles call the "White Screen of Death", which seemed to be pure Nightmare Fuel for those who watched to the end of a VHS tape from Paramount.
 * Hey It's That Voice: The Japanese dub got three different voice casts: One for the WOWOW version of the series (when the series debuted in Japan for first time), another for the Japanese branch of Fox Network, and another for the movie:
 * Stan is Omi Tsukiyono and Clotho Buer in the WOWOW version, in the Fox Japan version, he is Usso Ewing and Shimura Shinpachi.
 * Kyle is Inuyasha and male-Ranma Saotome in the WOWOW version.
 * I Knew It: "About Last Night", being a pastiche of heist films, sets up viewers to say this a few times.
 * Keep Circulating the Tapes: "200" and "201" will never appear on TV again, though a recent press release confirmed that they would in fact be featured on the season DVD sets. However, much to the fans' displeasure, the version of "201" that appears on the DVD is the "Screwed By the Network" edited version. Also good luck with ever seeing "Super Best Friends" again on television (though "Super Best Friends" is available -- with Mohammed shown and referred to by name -- on the season five DVD set).
 * Heck, you can't even see them on southparkstudious.com, even in the screwed edition!
 * Reciprocal Fiction Paradox: This trope even occurs within a single show: South Park and Terrance and Phillip have watched each other's television shows. This gets a bit muddled as Terrance and Phillip are "real" actors in the South Park universe with a television show the South Park kids watch, but the characters (one assumes) Terrance and Phillip play have watched South Park. Do what now?
 * Screwed By the Network: "201", anyone?
 * Talking to Himself: Played straight at first and then Lampshaded pretty hard. Parker and Stone voice almost every character and even they admit they don't have much of a range.
 * In the DVD commentary, they point out one episode where they're playing two nondescript extra characters who actually switch voices in mid-scene. It probably happened more than just the once.