South Park/Headscratchers

Everything About Fiction You Never Wanted to Know.


  • Why does a majority of the fandom believe Kyle has green eyes? Stan has blue, Cartman brown, and Kenny blue. All of those are confirmed as of now (originally both Kenny and Cartman had hazel though, and Cartman described Kenny as having brown eyes in an early episode). Is it because he has red hair? To make him stand out from his friends and the crowd? Because it looks good on him color combination wise?
    • I'm guessing it's a combination of all three.
    • Also given his Jewish heritage likely being of the Ashkenazi variety out of Central and Eastern Europe (his surname is of Slavic origin), Green eyes are not at all uncommon there so it's plausible.
    • I think you're thinking of the time Cartman made a pun about Kenny's anus
  • Why does everyone draw Butters with Blue Eyes? It's never stated, and blondes aren't always blue eyed. Is it because of how the color duo is often seen as being innocent, or because it makes him more twink to them? To note his similarities to Kenny? I've always seen him as having Green Eyes or Brown Eyes.
    • Maybe because Blue Eyes are often associated with innocent characters?
    • Because they make him look EVEN MORE freaking adorable.
  • Why does this show attract so many Yaoi Fangirls?? I mean, sure, there are quite a few character bits in the series that could be interpreted as romantic, but it's usually played for humor and has never been the main focus of any episode! A few Yaoi Fangirls would be understandable and excusable, but the internet is filled to the breaking point with teenage girls who obsess over the imagined gay relationships of a bunch of very young children in a show whose specialty is Toilet Humor and Dead Baby Comedy! Do these girls realize the show's a satirical comedy?
    • Yaoi fangirls seep into all fandoms. It's not difficult to believe that, while they surely must realize what the show is, they also feel a need to ship characters they like.
    • I honestly think the answer's quite simple: they're adorable. Yaoi fangirls will latch onto anything horribly cute, and given the show has an almost exclusively male cast of these adorable characters, it's the perfect breeding ground for them...
    • Not to mention, not all fangirls watch the show purely for the pairings. Yes, believe it or not, some of them enjoy the show's humor and are smart enough to get the jokes, while also participating in the fandom. Crazy, huh.
    • "Cartman Finds Love" despite making fun of the Cartman and Kyle pairing seems to have only reinforced the fangirls of said pairing, Completely Missing the Point of how ridiculous that would be considering they don't see eye to eye on ANYTHING. It's now considered canon in many circles.
      • Not to mention that it ended up being made very clear that Kyle likes girls.
  • What kind of accent does Principal Victoria have? It's weird compared to the accents that some of the other adult citizens have.
    • Minnesota.
  • Why wouldn't Stan's parents let him go to Cartman's grandma's house for Christmas in "Merry Christmas, Charlie Manson" ?
    • Because "Christmas is a family time." This Troper's parents have this rule too.
  • In the episode "Good Times With Weapons" why didn't it ever occur to the kids to just bury their weapons in the ground?
    • Cartman tries to tempt Kyle into ditching his weapon but (his words, not mine) -->"Okay. Go ahead, Kyle. Throw your nunchakus away. If you can. But you know well that the Jew in you won't let you. You can't throw away something you paid fifteen bucks for. Go ahead and try."
    • In that same episode... since when are real, high-quality Japanese weapons only fifteen dollars?
      • They aren't. They're just hunks of metal that are sharp enough to cause injury, and hawked as real to kids and gun nuts who don't know any better.
      • Adults Are Useless
      • Also, a lot of that was the kids using their imagination. They probably imagined those weapons a lot more awesome than they really are.
  • How could Kyle lose his faith in God in "Cartman Land" if he has personally met both Moses AND Jesus?
    • It's agreed by a lot of people that believing in God is not the same as having faith in Him. So what if God (and Jesus and all those other various messiahs we saw in Super Best Friends) exist? Does it matter if Cartman gets his own amusement park and millions of dollars while Kyle gets a painful rectal disease? God existing won't make that seem any more fair. In that episode Kyle reasons that God simply doesn't care. It's His love that doesn't exist. And being fairly devout, this hits him hard. After all, if God doesn't care about him, why should he care about himself?
  • How did Kenny's family win a lawsuit against Cartman with no trial?
    • Ever heard of a settlement?
      • Cartman isn't that responsible. Maybe there WAS a trial, he didn't show, and the family won by default?
  • How can Jesus be on the Council of Nine in Imaginationland if he's a real person in canon?
    • This troper thought it was a blatant assertion that Jesus was imaginary and not a real person.
    • An equally good question is why other historical figures like Joseph Smith and Buddha are running around there before the terrorist attack.
    • It might be implying that while Jesus the historical figure was real, the Jesus of Christianity as depicted in the Bible is more myth than reality. With this reading it could be a very covert "the Bible is a load of lies fairytales" statement. Or vice-versa, that the Imaginationland Jesus is the historical Jesus, and the divine one is the one that appears in canon.
      • The historical figures are the actors, not the characters they play. It seems Imaginationland Jesus didn't recognize Kyle or Stan, so it could be argued that he isn't the same person as the Jesus they've met, just as Morpheus isn't Lawrence Fishburn. The difference lies on how people actually were, and on how they were perceived. Because, As You Know, back in the fifties some children really though that George Reeves was Superman, and, if they died in an accident before realizing he was the actor, not the character, that would mean that, in their opinions, George Reeves really was Superman and not an imaginary character.
      • Real people can still appear in fiction. Hell, just look at the amount of Special Guests
    • Anything regarding religion on this page can be explained by Negative Continuity and the Rule of Funny.
    • This troper thinks it was a subtle way of breaking the fourth wall. It was acknowledging that show's characters were imaginary. This is supported by when Imaginationland was destroyed by the bomb including the show's main cast, and they're all imagined back to life by Butters.
  • In "Douche and Turd", everybody gets mad at Stan for being indecisive over gross mascot choices to replace the cow after PETA meddled in a pep rally. For the show's standards that border on Serious Business, that makes sense, but isn't banishing him from town on a horse even the slightest bit too far?!? They're banishing a nine-year-old kid who could've been left out to starve! Luckily for Stan, he found a village where PETA has had made offspring with an ostrich, but still...!
  • Are we ever going to see Darth Chef again?
    • Dear Lord, I hope so.
      • Don't think so, but we can dream.
    • That may have been a possibility, till recently, when Isaac Hayes died. he still maybe in the Season 12 Opening, though.
      • Actually, it's still technically possible, since Darth Chef was voiced by a different voice actor, and as far as I know he's still alive.
    • His actor died shortly after they made his character into a child molester and killed him in the most brutal way possible. As weird as it may be talking about Trey Parker and Matt Stone like this, they may just find the idea of bringing him back to be in bad taste.
      • As the treatment of his character suggests, the parting wasn't exactly cordial... Isaac Hayes was a Scientoligist, who left the show after an episode making fun of Scientology. He was labelled a hypocrite by them after doing episodes that made fun of most other religions, but leaving due to 'religious intolerance' when it was done to his own.
  • What happened to Officer Tenpenny Barbrady?
    • He got boring.
    • Barbrady is still there, but he's more of a town cop now. Whenever they need real cops, they go to the Park County Police department. Apparently, bigot cops are more funny than cops with little experience.
    • The town of South Park became more realistic due to more mature writing and a larger animation budget. Comparing the school in the early seasons with the newer episodes, it's obvious that the world of South Park is now becoming less crude and childish. Officer Barbrady just would not fit in as well as Sergeant Yates.
  • Is there a government, law enforcement, education, or other official in South Park who isn't either grossly incompetent or extremely corrupt (or maybe both) that isn't named Chef?
  • Nearly every episode is written and directed by Trey Parker... what does Matt Stone do exactly?
    • The voices of Kyle and Kenny. :-)
    • Executive Produces.
      • This was lampshaded in one of the episodes about Terence and Philip. I forget the title.
      • I believe you're thinking of "Behind the Blow", although I'm not 100% sure of the name.
    • Trey is often busy, and often can't meet with suits and whatnot, so Matt goes instead. He also keeps Trey from losing his mind.
    • I figure Matt plays creative foil to Trey. Trey probably has a lot of shit ideas and Matt acts as the filter. So even though Trey does most of the work, he recognizes that Matt keeps his work from going down the crapper. That and the fact he probably doesn't want to be a dick about the creative rights to the show. It's not like South Park is just barely profitable for him and he needs to cut costs... Hell, the show costs a fraction of the cost of any other show. The guys who make the Simpsons or Family Guy would give road head to hobos if they could make a show in three days.
  • Why, if everyone sees Jesus, does the town not convert to Christianity?
    • Multiple reasons. Jesus is a figure in both Hinduism (an avatar of some Hindu deity I believe), and in Islam (a prophet). Similarly a lot of Jews acknowledge that Jesus existed and was a Jewish teacher - in fact much of the New Testament is an affirmation of the Jewish faith. Plus has Jesus ever said 'Everyone become Christian'; and Rule of Funny.
      • I'd just like to make it clear that Jesus isn't related to Hinduism at all as far as scripture goes. There are some Hindus who believe that Jesus was so wise and such that he must have been an incarnation of a god. However, this is just what some individuals believe and it has zero evidence as far as scripture goes.
      • That's no problem, most religions have beliefs that aren't in their scriptures. I've never found any part of the Bible where Jesus urges people to go to church on Sunday.
      • Erm, except for, y'know, that whole "keep the Sabbath holy" thing...
      • The sabbath was the seventh day of the week, but the week started on Sunday.
      • It is a bit like people trying to claim that Jesus was born on Dec. 25 CENTURIES before the Gregorian calender was implemented. Nobody questions it because we are so used to the calender we have.
    • Not everyone would want to follow him. It's not like he's performing miracles or doing anything important. If not for some very funny episodes, he would just come across as a wacko who thinks he's Jesus
    • In most of the early episodes featuring Jesus, it was implied that Jesus just wanted to live like a normal person without everyone bugging him for divine intervention (i.e., when Jimbo prays to him at Stan's football game, even though he's sitting three feet away, he says something to the effect of "Leave me alone!"
    • Possibly because basically every other major religious figure is also alive and real.
  • Why does Jesus not tell the town that Heaven is exclusive to the Mormon faith? Is he a giant asshole?
    • As stated before, Negative Continuity. And it's all done intentionally as a joke.
      • But isn't it mentioned like 3 times? Once in the episode "Best Friends Forever", one of the angels mentioned that Heaven was allowing more people in because Hell's army vastly outnumbered theirs, once when Saddam gets sent to Heaven by Satan, and one other one where somebody in Hell asks what the correct religion was and is answered with, "Mormons."
      • Maybe Jesus and his dad haven't talked in awhile and he doesn't know.
      • South Park heaven is worse then South Park hell, so Jesus is doing them a favor.
  • Kenny is Protestant not a Mormon, right? How did he get into Heaven at least twice?
    • First of all, Kenny is Catholic. And the "Best Friends Forever" episode explained that Heaven was letting in non-Mormons since they had a smaller army than Hell (But still, it seems most people end up in Hell anyways.) And in The Movie... well, he just sacrificed himself in order to reset a war. If that's not a Get Into Heaven Free Card, I don't know what is.
      • If the writers are Mormons, then their view is that Mormons get a better Heaven than all the other Christians. Catholics and Protestants get regular choir singing Heaven for all eternity. Each Mormon gets to have his own planet where he is now the local god.
      • No, Mormons in the show are shown going to Fluffy Cloud Heaven where they make macaroni sculptures and sing and whatnot. Everyone else goes to hell, which is really cool, fun for all but the worst people, and run by Satan who comes across as being a really cool guy.
      • I strongly doubt the writers are Mormons, especially since the Mormon-only heaven was where Satan ended up sending Saddam Hussein because it was WORSE than hell.
      • It was worse for Saddam, the evil dickweed, because he would be forced to do "nice" things instead of torturing the damned like he wanted to do.
      • Trey was raised Catholic. Matt is Jewish like Kyle. Neither are Mormon and I doubt they'd still be with the church after putting this show out for years if they were.
      • As for why it keeps coming up? Colorado ain't that far from Utah, and Mormons are far more common in the intermountain West than they are in the rest of the USA.
  • How was Kenny still alive and conscious, albeit briefly, after having his heart replaced with a potato?
  • How was the potato baked before anyone cooked it?
    • It may have been run in the microwave before and was sitting there, cooked, when the doctor opened the microwave up. Plus, he left it in the microwave when he put Kenny's heart in. I assume it got zapped right along with the heart then.
    • Twice-baked potatoes, dude. They're really good.
  • South Park's Mayor and policeman are horribly corrupt and incompetent; the citizens are all violent, crazed hillbillies. Why do the citizens not rebel and take control?
    • Perhaps that's how they got the Mayor and Barbrady in the first place. They are living in a Crapsack World after all.
    • It is implied that despite his incompetence, Barbrady's presence alone(pointed out by Stan) is enough to keep the place in order as proven in 'Chicken F*cker' in which the entire city is plunged into chaos five seconds after he resigns.
  • So now that Garrison is a man again, but liked women when he was a woman and liked men when he was originally a man, what exactly is he now?
    • Confusing as all get-out.
    • Since Garrison has always had non-standard sexual tastes, I would assume that he's back to men now.
    • You'd think that if they turned the No Bisexuals rule off, Mr. Garrison would be a lot happier, as he could just identify as bi...
      • Maybe he will.
    • Perhaps Mr. Garrison is actually asexual, but he just doesn't think that's an option. So, whenever he tries to engage in relationships, he's never happy. This repression could account for his promiscuity -- he's overcompensating.
    • Considering Garrison fornicated with everything but a rusty keyhole (let's reiterate: Had sex with a pigeon, was hinted to have had sex with a pig, tried to have sex with kids, had sex with men both as man and woman, had sex with women both as man and woman, had sex with with his uncle ...) He has no defined sexual identity so arguing about it is pretty pointless.
    • My personal guess is he's homosexual regardless of gender, or he's just plain omnisexual.
    • The way This Troper thinks of it, Mr. Garrison cannot be a straight man. However, he can be and is absolutely anything else.
    • Even though Garrison's sexual orientation hasn't been discussed on the show since his sex-change back to a man, in "The F-Word", when the gays of South Park have a meeting, Garrison is not present, so I assumed he was still interested in women.
  • Why is South Park referred to as being in the Midwest in several episodes, right off the top of my head I can think of "Smug Alert" and possibly "Christian Rock Hard" (Cartman referred to Christfest as the largest gathering of Christian in the Midwest, but it didn't seem like they were too far from home) when the show is set in Colorado which is definitely not in the Midwest? One could even argue that they're referring to as far west as San Francisco the Midwest in "Smug Alert." Did Not Do the Research?
    • Since Matt and Trey are actually from Colorado, it can't be Did Not Do the Research. More likely, it's either the idea of Mid West as a personality type or they're catering to the attitude that everything outside New York and LA is flyover territory.
    • Many people believe that Colorado is in the midwest.
      • Then they are using an extremely broad definition. This troper has lived in both Colorado and Illinois, and there is very little that they share culturally, demographically, economically, or in climate. Especially Park County, CO, which is in the mountains.
      • A broad definition would be including Kentucky. Any definition including Colorado is just wrong.
      • PA born and raised, to be honest, what we were taught about Colorado depended on the textbook company producing the maps. I've seen it considered Mid West, South West, but never West. West was Rocky Mountains and westward. Colorado is on the wrong side for being "Western".
      • A huge chunk of Colorado is west of the Rocky Mountains, just not a huge chunk of the population.
  • If Kenny was alive during the entirety of the sixth season (or really just "standing right over there" unseen,) then whose ashes did Cartman drink?
  • In pre-school, why does a three year old get sent to prison for five years? Especially since Cartman (who is nine) has committed far worse crimes.
  • How did the terrorists get into Imaginationland in the first place?
    • The DVD commentary for that episode actually covers this - it's mentioned that other countries were also trying to get in, and the terrorists just got their hands on one of those portals instead.
      • So it wasn't all of us letting our fear run wild? Jeez, now I feel stupid.
      • They might have gone with that if they thought of it, especially after "201". At the time, they were probably going by the reports that terrorists were trying to steal atomic weapons from Pakistan and other countries.
  • In "Spookyfish", Evil Cartman's beard is brown and Evil Stan's beard is black, so why isn't Evil Kyle's beard red?
    • Probably because Matt and Trey hadn't, at that point, decided that Kyle's hair should be red. Although maybe Evil Kyle just dyes it.
  • What happened to Dr. Mephesto? He was important in the first season but then just forgotten.
    • He came back in the possibly-never-to-be-seen-again episodes 200 and 201.
  • Right, we have a South Park just bugs me. I guess I'm the one that's gonna have to ask. Just how does Kenny keep coming back? Actually, given all the supernatural stuff in the show, was there ever a canonical explanation for it, or is it purely Rule of Funny?
    • Rule of Funny. Yeesh.
    • Rule of Funny still applies, but the show has offered two different explanations. "Cartman's Mom Is Still a Dirty Slut" shows Kenny just materializing out of thin air and "Cartman Joins NAMBLA" has Kenny's parents giving birth to a new Kenny after the original one died.
      • IIRC, the latter was acknowledged as the canon explanation.
  • Who is Mysterion? [1]
    • As of "Mysterion Rises," it's definately, 100% factually... Kenny
  • How come nobody noticed that Cartman's Mom had a penis until Mephesto pointed it out?
    • Because she didn't (circa episode 201).
    • The people of South Park are idiots. Besides I think it was supposed to be a clever plot twist.
    • She could have gotten surgery similar to Mr. Garrison's "vagainaplasty" sometime since then.
    • How did Eric ended up in her custody if she was ever a hermaphrodite.
  • How did Butters survive the nuke?
    • Butters was invincible in his floating imagination bubble.
    • Aslan did say Butters is Imaginationland's Chosen One. A lil' ole nuke isn't going to change that.
  • So wait, the four boys (was it all four?) got killed in the nuke and were imagined back by Butters, does that mean these are not the real boys and they are dead for good?
    • Since Cartman was a "creator", able to imagine Kyle sucking his balls, they can't be imaginary. You could take the perspective that Butters didn't reimagine each character/object individually, but rather reimagined the timeline/reality itself.
      • Maybe he simply imagined their resurrection. They came back to life, but they are still the same people.
  • Who is driving the school bus since Crabtree is dead? Has the bus even been seen since then?
    • There's a new male bus driver, but he's most likely a prop character who'll stay in the background. Presumably the school has a new chef, too.
      • When Chef was gone for one episode, his replacement was one shot character Mr. Derp. Oddly enough, the new bus driver looked just like Mr. Derp, possibly as a Continuity Nod.
  • That guy in "Something Wall-Mart This Way Comes" wrote "Meet me out back in 5 minutes"... and then he killed himself... why did he give that message, if he was going to kill himself anyway?
  • What are Matt Stone's religious beliefs? According to one interview, he believed in God, but someone on this site said he was an atheist, and Wikipedia says he's agnostic. So what is he?!
    • ... Indecisive?
    • Agnostic sounds likely, as that would be someone who believes God exists but for some reason or another chooses not to worship said God.
      • No, an agnostic is someone doesn't think s/he knows whether God exists or not, or someone who believes it isn't possible to know whether God exists or not.
      • Or, as it's commonly defined, someone who thinks there may be 'higher' or 'divine' power, but doesn't define said power as God.
    • Maybe he is an agnostic atheist?
    • Isn't he a half-Jew?
      • Judaism independently is a religion, a people, and a culture.
    • Probably agnostic because the uninformed are more likely to think agnosticism is atheism than the other way around.
    • In this recent interview, Matt Stone states clearly he is a "religion-loving" atheist ("when I go through a hard time, I don't turn to a God"). You might have been mistaken with Trey Parker who still is an agnostic. Though there did appear to be a time where both were agnostics (I think an old Nightline interview indicated that Parker and Stone were surprised to be assumed atheists).
  • I'm still scratching my head at the end of Pinewood Derby. I'm shutting off the Negative Continuity rule for this. First, why is it that aliens came down now instead of around the time of "Starvin Marvin In Space" when they got to hyperspeed or whatever it was. Second, they banned Earth from the Universe for some bullshit secret test? The aforementioned Starvin Marvin had four boys (one a known sociopathic racist jerk) go out of their way to bring an entire group of suffering people (the Ethiopians) to the planet Marklar, showing humans' capacity for good. And while my memory of the episode is fuzzy, Cartman had no reason for wanting to help, but went along anyway, proving there is good in him. Next, "Space Jail"? "Space Cops"? "Space Cash"? Seriously? These are the laziest aliens ever. Finally, "Space cash could be whatever amount you wanted it to be," is a screwed up system considering the differences in currency, thus meaning there isn't a standard.
    • This troper, as a conservative/libertarian, thought the "Space Cash" was somewhat of a take that to the American Governemnt printing money like crazy. It also showed how ignorant the people were because at the end of the day, unless a currency in on the Gold Standard, the money we use only has value because we believe it has value, like how Mexico used the space cash to build Water parks even though the currency was worthless. The last part of the episode was basically economics 101.
      • Wait, in a broad sense, doesn't gold also only have value because we believe it has value, but in the end, it's largely just a rare, shiny, pretty metal that doesn't tarnish easily?
      • But there is a limited amount of gold in the world (Think of how oil is referred to as black gold). If someone were to discover 1,000 lbs of gold tomorrow the price of gold would drop because it just became slightly less rare.
      • I know that, but it's still an arbitrary distinction. Why should humans care at all whether or not gold is more or less rare (at least before the arrival or electronics equipment)? Why should humans have cared at all about the rarity of gold for so much of its civilized existence, except for goldsmiths and artists?
      • Being pretty is value in itself. The rich being willing to spend resources to get jewelry made of gold gave it its value. Moreover, anything can be given value if the government accepts it as currency. The problem is that currency is still subject to the laws of supply and demand. Printing cash doesn't create wealth, it just devalues your currency.
        • Yeah, but I wasn't questioning the supply of gold, I was questioning the demand. Also, I just realized there are two big flaws in treating space cash as a Take That on fiat currency and how it is inferior to the gold standard: 1: On Earth, there is a limited amount of Space Cash and with no galactic printing press there isn't going to be any more until some aliens show up (much like with gold). 2: Space Cash would be tremendously valuable as a cultural artifact, since it is some of the first concrete evidence of extra-terrestrial life.
        • Really demand for gold is similar to demand for money. Mostly, there's demand because there's demand. But unlike money, it can be used for computer processors, jewelery, etc. Also unlike money, it can't be printed any time, which helps keep demand up ("If the gov't decided to print 100 trillion dollars, my money would become less valuable but not my gold." The govt's of the world understand this and manage their money production accordingly, but there's still less of a guarantee as to what the supply will be in the future compared to gold).
    • ...Okay, seriously? It was all fake. The Space Cops, Space Jail, it was all part of the act and explicitly pointed out as not being real. The Space Cash doesn't work as a currency because it's not a real currency. They spell this out explicitly at the end of the episode, while they're mocking Earth for believing in any of it. How did you not get that?
      • The headscratcher is more about "how did Mexico buy water parks with fake money?" The reason is that other countries thought Space Bucks were valuable (when aliens come to visit), so they gave real money to Mexico in exchange for some of their Space Bucks, hoping for a good return later.
    • As for the aliens not doing their act at the Starvin Marvin episode, they said they did it when a world discovers hyperdrive. Not when they swipe a ship that already has it.
      • Yeah, but why did the alien policemen keep up the act when they were flying away from earth and nobody could hear them?
      • Maybe they're really dedicated to not breaking character?
    • First, they explicitly state that the "space cash" had the value that they gave it. Second, it's when they discover hyderdrive technology, not steal it from another alien species. Third, it was a secret test of character for the whole planet, not just four little kids. You wouldn't base all pirates on Luffy's crew, would you? Fourth, what would a planet with hyperdrive technology also have? Bugs? X-ray-vision lip-readers? You can't assume they are stupid.
  • Has anybody noticed that almost every South Park character carries a gun?
    • Considering the stuff that happens in their daily lives, I think that a South Park resident carrying a gun is just them being sensible, I mean wouldn't you like to have a gun near by when Cartman exists?
  • How did those kids the kids faced off against in "The Losing Edge" get so good at being bad, and yet make it so far? Shouldn't they have gotten themselves beaten a long time ago?
    • They obviously faced off against other teams who were even better at losing than they were, but they (unlike South Park) practiced getting bad. I don't remember seeing the South Park team practice at getting bad once in the entire episode, and the fact that they made it to the state finals (and almost won 23-0 at that!), not to mention they mentioned that the other team had practiced getting bad, backs up the claim that South Park just waltzed into each game expecting to lose.
  • If all the boys were killed by the nuke, why does Butters imagine back Cartman?
    • Because Status Quo Is God and Butters wanted to restore everything to the way it was before terrorists attacked.
    • Because he's too nice not to.
  • More Crap. If Bono is the world's biggest pile of shit and has been for decades, wouldn't the smell have tipped people off?
    • Money and fame cover any smell.
    • Maybe his shit don't stink.
  • What's up with all of the product placement on this show, especially in the later seasons? In the latest season alone, they've mentioned TGI Friday's, Netflix, Sur La Table, Grand Theft Auto, Walgreens, American Express, etc. Is it just for the sake of realism?
    • It must be, because I remember hearing that they weren't paid for putting Rock Band in their show, even though it was later deemed one of the greatest Rock Band ads of all time. I can't find that statement in writing anywhere, though, so I could be totally wrong.
      • Rock Band was owned by Viacom at the time, as is Comedy Central.
    • It could be that they genuinely like the stuff and want more realism. It could also be so they can go back and rip on it later. Or it could be that they are getting paid to include the placement.
  • Why is Wendy still friends with the other girls after they tried to murder her?
    • Because young girls are really stupid and Frienemies are a very common thing amongst them?
      • Common, yes. Practical when you were about to die to said Frienemies, no.
      • Practicality is not something little kids tend to think of.
      • Given her past actions, she's sizing them up for revenge?
  • Kenny was pushed into the background, because Trey and Parker don't know what to do with him. Haven't they thought of the most obvious joke: have him deliver the episode's aesop?
    • I'm not sure, but I think they have actually done that once. Even if not, the "Kenny says something important/touching/funny but the audience can't understand him"-joke was already overdone by the end of season one. Or do you mean unmuffle Kenny and let him talk normally? That should be indeed done more often.
      • He delivered an "I learned something today" speech in the movie. Muffled, of course.
    • There is the Movie, where he delivers an aesop. There's also where he tries to tell them that dieing sucks. And a few random moments where his death generally is the aesop.
  • Have they made a Balloon Boy episode yet? Seeing as Trey and Parker actually live in Colorado (And likewise have the show set in Colorado), wouldn't that actually be the perfect opportunity?
    • This troper thinks they may not because that'd involve mentioning Fort Collins - the most boring town of Colorado.
      • I'm pretty sure they don't still live in Colorado, they're just from Colorado. And also, there are way more boring towns in Colorado than Fort Collins. Ever heard of Ault?
    • One of the Season 13 episodes (can't remember which) has a newspaper with "Balloon Stunt a Hoax" as a subarticle. Shout-Out?
  • In "The Biggest Douche In The Universe", Stan said that it was bad that John Edward claimed he could talk with dead people. Kyle even said something like, "You're right! My grandma's not floating around somewhere!" and that there were plenty of things in the real world people could be fascinated by. However, in that same episode, Chef's parents exorcise Kenny's spirit from Cartman. It is clearly stated that things like exorcism and ghosts are real in the South Park world, so why is Edward a douche for claiming that he can communicate with them? They are real as the episode just showed us. In "Dead Celebrities" it seemed really stupid that they made the people in Ghost Hunters looked dumb, when ghosts are real in the South Park world as that was the premise of the episode itself. I mean, how are we supposed to apply Real Life skepticism in a world where the supernatural clearly does exist?
    • Kyle's grandma died a natural death & genuinely crossed over. Kenny always dies before his time. Besides, I think the moral isn't that there is no supernatural, but that John Edward is a fraud performing a very easy parlor trick which Stan learned to replicate in just a few minutes.
      • Yeah, there's a difference between being a Flat Earth Atheist and someone dealing with a genuine liar.
  • At the beginning of Imaginationland, they capture a leprechaun that Cartman has seen a few times before. Then the leprechaun bitches about not being able to warn people and that sets off the events. First off, he gets out of there in ten seconds and could've easily continued (he could teleport) secondly, he has been there for days and didn't tell anybody, and third, who was he going to tell? To anyone else he would've just been a midget in a costume.
    • It's possible that he only learnt about the attack the day he was inconvenienced for 10 seconds but it the weird thing is that the terrorist attack didn't happen until the next day. That may be linked to The Mayor searching for him but then why would he take the kids all the way into Imaginationland before asking about the message?
  • This one's been on my mind for a while: I've seen it said on this site that Parker speaks fluent Japanese, and the Let's Fighting Love song is not Gratuitous Japanese; but I've also seen the exact opposite. Which one is it?
    • Let's Fighting Love is deliberately both Gratuitous Japanese and Gratuitous English, as Parker is fluent in the language, and was making fun of anime.
      • To be more clear: The English in Let's Fighting Love is less grammatically correct than the Japanese. The Japanese lyrics on the other hand are far more absurd and is nothing you would ever use in polite company or learn in a Japanese class. Think shonen manga and izakaya (pub) fare.
    • Ah. What of other episodes where Japanese is spoken? "Over logging" I'm pretty sure is random words, but what of "Whale Wars"?
      • The general crowds of Japanese whalers are nothing but a large group hollaring. However, when the Japanese leader speaks on his own, it is proper, if crude Japanese. One of the lines translates to be more or less the equivilent of 'goddamn foreigners' or 'fucking foreigners'.
    • In the Season 3 episode Chinpokomon, I believe the Japanese was correct.
      • Not being fluent myself, I can only cite what I've heard from others, but apparently every time Japanese appears in the show, it is grammatically correct and actually means something.
        • The grammar is correct, but don't ever pretend that they are not saying something lewd.
    • What I have picked out, it depends on what they care. Some seem grammatically correct, some seem random. What scratches my head is who cares?
      • Value added for those who speak the language. And it's never really random, but they like to use potty humor just as much as they do in English.
  • Wendy's voice. It changes in pitch every few seasons. First it was low, then high, and now it's low, the lowest of all the girls in her class, again.
    • Wendy's had at least two, possibly three different voice actors. Couple that with the fact that she often goes long stretches without having a significant role, and that probably accounts for the change. Or it could just be Vocal Evolution... certainly her more natural sounding current voice is better suited to her role as a voice of reason than her earlier high-pitched squeaky voice.
      • It seems like vocal evolution. Even with new voice actors they could have imitated her old voice, or at least sound like it in terms of pitch.
      • Their second voice actress replaced the first after she committed suicide. She probably kept up the shrill voice in memory of her. But during her long disappearance from the show they may have changed her voice to make her character more tolerable for people to listen to and take her more seriously in episodes like "The Breast Cancer Show Ever".
  • The hate crimes episode. If Stan and Token had gotten into a fight and Stan had been locked up for committing a hate crime, the point would have been infinitely more valid. "Hate crime legislation is flawed because of these reasons, and a little boy is suffering for it." But Cartman is not only an avowed racist and nascent Neo Nazi, but he regularly commits hate crimes, usually against Kyle. The fact that this particular incident wasn't a hate crime doesn't make the assumption that it was any less legitimate.
    • I have to disagree. The point of the episode wasn't "a little boy is suffering for it," it was that the punishment for the crime shouldn't be worse for a reason like the person getting hit happens to be black. Yes, Cartman does commit hate crimes, but Cartman is an asshole to everybody, not just Kyle. The idea behind the episode is if you want to promote equality, it should be real equality; they're trying to say that having harsher penalties for just happening to commit a crime against a black dude is a state-endorsed notion of inequality; implying either Black people are special and must be protected, or that Black people are weak and must be protected, depending on your point of view.
      • Notice how he doesn't get any punishment at all at the end when he beans Pip with a rock. That scene right there, the illustration of "You're perfectly okay hitting a white kid with a rock, but God help you if he's black," was what the episode was about. The lesson wasn't "hate crime legislation is wrong because it makes innocent people suffer for it," it was "hate crime legislation is wrong because it promotes inequality via the law."
      • That's fair. It's still a flawed argument--hate crime laws aren't supposed to be "you can't hit someone because he's black," even if they are occasionally used in such a fashion--but at least their argument makes more sense.
      • It's not a flawed argument at all. Hate crime laws promote inequality. A white man killing a black man shouldn't be considered a different crime deserving a different punishment than a white man killing a white man. Handing out a worse or more lenient punishment dependent on which race/group you commit a crime upon is saying the law doesn't consider those groups equal.
      • Also because Pip is a Butt Monkey.
    • Cartman's crime was not a hate crime, though he obviously is a racist, because it definitely was an act of pure personal dislike. The idea of terming something a hate crime is to punish a criminal more severely when they carry out crimes that are either in a manner to cause fear and intimidation towards a specific group, or against specifically targeted individuals to cause fear and intimidation towards a specific group. Saying that something like the murder of Medgar Evers was not a crime carried out to do such things is incredibly stupid. The argument shouldn't be that "hate crimes are automatically flawed", and instead "the application of hate crime designation is not a frivolous assertion". Which they didn't argue. That is the episode's fault.
      • Your Mileage May Vary. There is a reasonable argument to be made that hate crimes are automatically flawed. They are designed to punish someone differently based on whether they hate the victim's race or hate the victim personally. That's basically punishing thought.
      • There's a difference between "thought" and "intent". Saying that a hate crime is "punishing thought" is like saying that someone who tries to kill another person in assault but fails shouldn't be charged with assault with intent to murder.
      • But, and this is important, assault with intent to murder is the operative phrase. The motive for such a crime shouldn't decide the sentence; the actions should. If you shoot someone in the face but fail to kill them, it doesn't matter whether you did it because of the color of their skin, the money in their wallet, or just the sheer sport of it, you still shot someone in the face, and that's what needs to be punished.
  • Cartman's mom. She's a hermaphrodite, right? Is she, from a biological standpoint rather then her gender which is obviously female, a male that has female features or a female with a penis?
    • Considering she was able to impregnate someone, I'd guess the former.
      • Perhaps not, considering the 200th episode.]]
  • In the 200th episode why didn't Ben Affleck call out "Jennifer Lopez" when he should already know it's really Mitch Conner?
    • Well, there are two Jennifer Lopezes. Maybe he just got confused again.
  • In "Cherokee Hair Tampons", Kyle throws up some bean with bacon soup when he's sick in bed. How is that possible when he's Jewish?
    • Turkey-bacon?
      • Many Jews, possibly even most American Jews, don't keep kosher.
        • But when Kyle sings his song about being a Jew at Christmas in another episode, he mentions that he can't eat ham, so bang goes that theory.
          • Rule of Funny. The joke for many Jews is that they can't eat ham; that doesn't mean he follows all kosher regulations, just because of one lyric.
      • It could be soy-bacon. Or one of any other alternatives.
  • In the 200th and 201st episodes, where was Richard Dawkins?
  • Why was Kathie Lee Gifford among the celebrities in "200" and "201"? They never made fun of her.
    • I'm pretty sure Mr. Garrison tried to assassinate her back in the first season.
      • Yeah, but isn't that a federal matter rather than a civil matter?
        • Who cares?
  • Okay, we know in "201" Lianne's not a hermaphrodite. Apparently, IIRC, the citizens of South Park lied to Cartman about his father because Lianne asked them to. I'm wondering why exactly would they do that? I mean, everybody in the show hates Cartman. I would assume they wouldn't be fond of Lianne either because she, well, gave birth to a Complete Monster in a 9 year old's body and is a giant whore.
    • They had to protect The Denver Broncos.
    • Screw with Cartman? Protect the Broncos? Because there is little continuity?
  • The kids. They're really realistic interpretations of children their age, with cartoon comicness and an overdose of maturity, but..They seem a bit too mature at times and too immature at times. Even when it comes to balancing them with the adults.
  • So in "201" we find out that Liane isn't a hermaphrodite and actually is Cartman's mother. If that's the case, then what was all that adoption talk about in "Cartman's Mom Is Still a Dirty Slut"?
    • Wasn't she trying to give him up for adoption because of how seemingly unhappy he was about the lack of a father? Besides, we're talking about a show that came close to being canceled three or four times before they were out of Season 3. I doubt they ever considered doing a massive 200th celebratory episode mash-up that would retcon the status of Cartman's father.
  • Why exactly is Kyle's hair so...Very much exaggerated? Even for SP, that is. For a while I thought he had an afro but he has a Jewfro which in all reality is probably very different looking if they drew him realistically (or at least like the adults).
    • Because it's supposed to be ridiculous and embarrassing. It's why he always hides it with a hat. Also because one of the creators has the exact same hairstyle and is likely a way of poking fun at himself.
  • In "Quintuplets 2000" the quintuplets and their grandmother all have the surname "Vladchik," which is obviously of Slavic origin (or at least it's meant to be). This troper therefore thinks the South Park creators mistook Romanian for a Slavic language, when it is in fact from the Romance family.
    • Then again, they probably made the assumption based on the fact that Romania and Moldova are surrounded by countries that speak Slavic languages, and some people may justify it on that note; however I am not one of those people. (Otherwise I wouldn't complain about it here, would I?)
    • Keep in mind that you do get some Slavic and Hungarian names in various parts of Romania and Moldova because of the historical background of the region. Particularly during the Soviet era where Russians and other Eastern Slavs were encouraged or even forced to relocate to other regions to force the others to integrate. Short answer: Eastern Europe is only consistent in being a mess.
  • In the end of "Imaginationland" Cartman imagines Kyle sucking his balls. Why doesn't Kyle instead of whining imagine something in retaliation that will stop imagine-Cartman?
    • The last thing you'd ever want to do is get into an Escalating War of imagination with Eric Cartman.
  • Are the boys not circumcised, minus Kyle? I've heard a few people say that one episode, presumably "Ike's Wee-Wee", stated that they weren't circumcised. It seems vague though. They could be and not know.
    • Some might be. Some might not be. Who cares?
  • The Movie and Cartman's mom. They searched "clitoris" and came up with stuff about her. An early spoiler or just her doing lesbian stuff?
    • The nature of the video is stated explicitly.
    • Negative Continuity. Plus, searching the internet isn't necessarily the most accurate thing imaginable, including/especially porn. There could be any number of reasons she showed up on that particular search. Including/especially porn.
  • This appears in a lot of western Long Runner's but..The Negative Continuity on their age. They were born in 2001 according to the latest season. Each season they'll up that one year. Do they remember any of the past events from previous seasons? Even in older seasons, they were "too young".
  • A season doesn't equal a year. And episodes don't have to be aired in the order in which they "occur".
  • It looks like Cartman is becoming less of a Jerkass and his peers are becoming more so, especially Kyle. Even on Cartman's side, a good portion of his behavior was just regular, but still jerky, childish behavior compared to his friends.
  • Kyle's anime self. Is there a reason he had black hair? Does Kyle dislike his hair color? On another note, how much hair does Kyle really have?
    • Kyle has a lot of hair. I'm pretty sure he was just imagining himself looking more Asian.
  • In "The Tale Of Scrotie McBoogerballs", how is it that children can write the book and not vomit but adults can't even get through the first paragraph without vomiting? Not even Butters was disgusted by the book.
    • The kids were probably just used to thinking of gross things, being immature school boys. What bugs me is that Morgan Freeman didn't throw up from the sequel The Poop that Took a Pee, in fact, nobody else did either.
      • It's because Butters wrote it, and Butters sucks at writing.
    • It could just be that the act of writing sort of "buffered" them from the effect. When you're making something up you're thinking about it carefully, so it seems less gross/funny/scary/whatever than when somebody reads it and just gets hit with the full effect. Or something.
  • Aren't any of the parents aware of their children's behavior and language? I know most are Too Dumb to Live but how do they not notice kids kicking around a toddler, or said toddler cursing?
    • Again, this is South Park. Rule of Funny applies.
      • I always thought it was Character Development on the part of the parents in the movie. The movie's message was pretty much that the whole concept of taboo "curse words" that are vulgar "just because they are" despite all of them having synonyms, being generally fun things to say, and the supposed vulgarity just resulting in awkwardness is pure bullshit. Of course, then comes "It Hits the Fan."
  • In the episode "The List", the explanation Bebe gives is so complex. Why didn't they just move Clyde to the top and anyone who was above him down a peg?
    • in that episode just the voting process made no frakkin sense. Neither does changing the list. Also Rule of Funny.
  • Why on the main page does everyone file Scott Tenorman under the Teens Are Monsters label? All he did was pull a prank on a kid who more than had it coming to him.
    • A. This was the earlier seasons, before Cartman really became as bad as he is now, and B. Cartman had done nothing, personally, to Scott, and there's no indication Scott knew of the bad stuff Cartman had done at that point. So he cheated an 8 year old kid he didn't know out of 20 bucks, and mercilessly pranked him even afterward.
      • But Scott didn't really expect Cartman to take him seriously about the pube sale. And he could have laughed at him afterwards just to save face.
      • The pube sale is just what gets it started. He becomes unlikable about the time he makes Cartman beg for his money back by oinking like a pig (while getting soaked in a rainstorm). Despite having promised to give the money back, Scott takes out a lighter and burns it in front of him. When Cartman asks him why he did that, Scott says his parents give him a huge allowance, so he didn't even need Cartman's money.
  • Is Cartman truly a Complete Monster nowadays? He seems to slip between a kid that should be in juvie or a mental institute and just a Jerkass age appropriate kid. He doesn't seem all that bad most of the time, and when he does it's exaggerated. Also, why exactly isn't he in juvie or a mental institute? Are adults really that useless?
    • He never was a true Complete Monster: just a sociopathic brat capable of delving into that trope's territory on occasion
  • Why in God's name does anyone still hang around with Cartman? Maybe after the Scott Tenorman thing everyone was too afraid of him to tell him off, but what about before then? If I knew someone who was that blatantly and unrepentantly racist/antisemitic/classist/God knows what else, I'd never come within 500 feet of him if I could avoid it.
    • In "Best Friends Forever" Kenny said it was because he felt sorry for him. For Stan and Kyle, it might be because they enjoy making fun of him, or they need someone to blame if they ever get in trouble.
  • What's with the bicycles? I know it would have originally been hard getting stubby characters onto regular bikes, and it fits their more childish appearance thanks to the art style, but...They look like toddler bicycles. They're ten years old; Why don't they use normal ones?
    • You answered your own question, methinks: their legs are proportionately so tiny that they can't use a regular bike.
  • Everyone's weight. Kenny is 56 pounds, Stan is 63, Cartman is 117, and Kyle is 44. Are they short, because those seem rather tiny for their age. 'Sounds sickly.
    • Those are perfectly fine weights for 9 year old kids (Well, not Cartman, but he's obviously fat). This troper wasn't particularly light as a child, but weighed in at about 65 lbs in fourth/fifth grade (a couple years older than the South Park kids) when he was a wrestler.
    • When this troper was a fourth grade the girls were usually in their 70 pounds, and in fifth grade in their eighties - nineties. They were skinny too, and not tall (less then 5'0).
    • It makes perfect sense to me. I seem to remember being 40-something pounds in fourth grade. Granted, this troper is female, but at that age, gender doesn't usually affect weight too much.
    • In "Human Centipad", Kyle weighed 83 pounds. Where exactly did the above weights come from? Were they stated or shown in an episode?
    • Well, they've aged to 10 since the beginning of the series (as stated by Stan in "Crack Baby Athletic Association"). One could assume that they've had a growth spurt. This troper recalls seeing these numbers in the Japanese Wikipedia article and would also like the source for them.
  • Whatever happened to Saddam Hussein? He hasn't been seen since his whole "Prime Minister of Canada" plot went down the drain. I mean, he didn't even get a Continuity Nod in 200 or 201, which was kind of weird seeing how much nods there were in those episodes.
    • Probably because he took a long fall at the end of a short rope back in 2006, so there's nothing new to make fun of.
  • Wait... in Fatbeard, Cartman stated that Jews couldn't be pirates. But why'd he allow Ike? Ike is a Jew by adoption.
    • Just to piss Kyle off.
    • A person cannot be adopted into Judaism. Since Ike's biological parents were not Jewish, Ike is not Jewish despite his being raised by the Broflovski's. Ike would have to convert into the faith, which he is obviously not old enough to do, in order to be considered Jewish.
  • Cartman called Kyle a "ginger". But he neither has overly pale skin or freckles. Is he supposed to have freckles but they aren't shown? Or was he messing with him?
    • He's what Cartman calls a day-walker. He's a redhead without all the characteristics of a ginger.
    • You mean in the Jersey episode? I think it's because a fourth grader thinking 'Ginger' starts with a 'J' makes him sound vaguely stupid, but him thinking 'Daywalker' starts with a 'J' makes him sound Too Dumb to Live.
  • What was the point of "Mystery of the Urinal Deuce"? Why do several people actually believe that Kyle was involved with 9/11 just because Cartman accused him of it for his own pleasure?
    • Because one fourth of the population is retarded, as was stated in the episode.
  • If the identity of Cartman's father was so secret that Cartman couldn't be told, then who told Scott Tenorman?
    • They didn't want Cartman to find out because the Denver Broncos were having a good season and didn't want any controversy. When they didn't have a good season, the need for secrecy is lessened. Plus this would only affect a dead guy.
      • Okay, but even though controversy lessened, the truth was still kept from Cartman. Somebody decided that it wasn't okay to tell Cartman, but it was okay to tell Scott Tenorman (who was in a mental hospital at the time).
        • It might be because they figured it would be harder telling the guy who killed his father (guilt and what-not). Also, Cartman is, y'know, 9 years old.
          • Cartman lost interest and by the time the danger was over, the rest of the town probably did too. This is South Park.
  • I'm not sure if this has been addressed or not yet, but how come in the movie, fourth graders can't get into an R-rated movie without a guardian, yet the sixth graders in line behind them CAN???
    • Who said that they were there to see that movie in particular? They could've been seeing another movie.
  • So Mint-Berry Crunch banishes Cthulhu back to his own dimension... somehow. OK. But what exactly happened to all those other things from the other dimension? Aren't they still out there? Also, why wasn't the army or the national guard or the coast guard in the gulf helping out? I can understand conventional weaponry won't hurt a god like Cthulhu, but there is nothing to suggest those other creatures from the other dimension couldn't be killed with a few bullets. This is especially weird because unlike most adults, the government and the military has been shown to be at least somewhat competent lately.
  • Why is Kyle considered the Uke to Stan? Stan is the emotional one and Kyle is the more Hot-Blooded straight guy.
    • This bugs me too. Probably because Stan was shown to be good at football for one episode and Kyle's a smart Jew. Therefore, that's how it MUST be. It's funny that Stan is always portrayed as some huge jock in fanfic, because Kyle seemed to be better at basketball than Stan was at football.
    • To be fair, they do switch it up sometimes. That, and Stan's usually the one who has yet to figure out his emotions and Kyle is usually confident in his, keeping...basic personalities the same. Stan usually becomes super gung-ho once he figures it out, and Kyle's just happy that Stan is his, so he pretty much lets him do anything he wants.
  • No one remembers Kenny's deaths now? But in previous episodes the gang appeared to remember, and grew bored of it at times. Also.. They kept that "Each time Kenny dies, a new baby is born" theory? That makes absolutely no sense, in more ways then one.
    • The implication seemed to be that, yes, Kenny is some kind of Eldritch Abomination, reincarnated into an identical new form after every 'death', and the new body grows while he sleeps to where the last one left off. That's the thing about EA's; they don't make a whole lot of sense to the minds of creatures as relatively primitive as humans.
    • Also in "Cartmanland" Cartman says "What, Kenny? He dies all the time!"
      • Maybe Cartman is a fellow immortal and therefore immune to the mind wipe? That would explain how he survived having his head explode in "Medicinal Fried Chicken".
    • Then again, there was also that time (in Cherokee Hair Tampons) when Kyle was sick and Stan was distraught because there was a possibility of Kyle dying, and Kenny said something along the lines of "Hey! You never seem to care when I die!" Stan completely ignores him (as if he had no clue what he was talking about?).
      • Though that could just be because he was too busy crying over his best friend to notice Kenny.
    • How does the new Kenny even remember everything? Is it reincarnation? Or is that supposed to be the same Kenny, just "healing" in a way? Also, what happened to the times when he just poofed in front of the guys? Also, back to him and the others. They have reacted to his death, and they have shown that they know he dies a lot.
    • Timmy also remembers Kenny's deaths. Remember when he tried to kill Jimmy by disguising him as Kenny?
    • It's a perception filter. People can know it happens, but they don't dwell on it or think about it and therefore it's easy to just forget.
    • Maybe he alternates between different methods of resurrection? And in addition, the only people that remember his deaths are the ones that wouldn't care?
    • It's just a continuity error, like Butters's dad being called Chris in his first episode and Stephen after that, or Craig's hair being brown instead of black in "The Losing Edge". There's no way you can make the Cthulhu trilogy fit in with earlier episodes as far as Kenny's powers go.
    • Rule of Funny, and it's the best excuse you can give for someone dying over a hundred times for a running gag.
  • Where did Cartman get a "Coon and Friend" T-Shirt to fit Cthulhu anyway?
    • From a tailoring factory, naturally.
      • It's the same size as Cartman. BA-DUM-BUM!
  • Since we already know Kyle(AB-), Eric(AB-) and Butters(O) Blood types what are Stan and Kenny's Blood type. So far I'm only betting A and B respectively
    • Kenny might have AB- as well, since at the end of "Chef's Mama", Cartman gets his eyes replaced with Kenny's.
    • Except that Dr. Doctor says that Cartman is the only one in town who shares Kyle's blood type. (Kenny was still alive at that point in the episode, for the record.)
      • I think it's funny that Butters gets the 'sucker' blood type. You know, the blood type that can be donated to anybody, but they can only have O? To be entirely accurate to this (and that must surely be why it was chosen), it would have to be specifically O-.
  • Butters spends several days in the Coon-Cell. What about his parents? Sure, they are assholes, but they DO usually pay attention when he dissappears for long and go search for him (like when Cartman persuaded him that a comet hit Earth and he had to hide in a bomb-shelter).
    • Cartman tells Liane to tell them it's a sleepover. If they ask to speak with him on the phone, Cartman pressures Butters into saying everything is okay. If anything, all Cartman probably has to do is say he was a villain and he's now "grounded" in the game they're playing and they'd probably be okay with it.
  • In the Cartmanland episode, why didn't Cartman use the money from Cartmanland to buy himself another amusement park and keep that one for himself, further using the profits from the first to hire a guard and maintenance man for it?
    • He could also have just a rule made, stating that the park owner (him) shouldn't have to wait to get in the rides...
      • The first, probably because any profits are offset by the expenses of the first park, which as Cartman discovered is a pretty expensive operation even if you only intend on one person using it; even if you did have enough to buy an entire second theme park, you'd still face the problem of incremental expenses in maintaining the second one meaning that eventually you'd have to open that one up to the public as well. The second wouldn't have helped, because he was clearly still managing to get on the rides; the problem was that he didn't have them all to himself and other people were enjoying them at the same time.
      • Yeah, it's not like you can rule the world just from owning one business.
    • And in the "Make Love, not Warcraft" Episode, couldn't they just have, you know, gone to another server? But, of course, Rule of Funny wins again.
      • Actually, that probably wouldn't have solved anything, because the no-life would have probably just found the new server and started the whole process over again.
    • The moral of "Proper Condom Use" is arguably an example of this, as the episode's debate about what age sex education should be taught at is answered by Chef telling everyone that sex education shouldn't be taught in schools at all, and that parents should do it, because whoever the school gets to do it could be clueless about sex, have a bad opinion of it, or just be a total pervert. You know, because there's no chance at all that a parent could be any of those things. Granted, they probably wouldn't be clueless about how to have sex (barring some very weird circumstance like being an adoptive parent who is also a virgin), but that doesn't mean they'd necessarily know about the risks.
      • You really have to hand it to Parker and Stone for their ability to use Fridge Logic to make something funny (and not, as it is when used unintentionally, painful).
    • In "Canada on Strike!", the Anvilicious Aesop is apparently that nothing on the internet makes money and the Writer's Guild strike was "[trading] real and immediate opportunities for income for the promise of future online revenue." But websites make plenty of money off of ad revenue or subscriptions, and track the number of views, so it's easy to determine how much an artist earns from putting their art online. Expecting to be paid for online video content you had a part in creating is perfectly reasonable.
    • On global warming: "Excuse me, my father's a geologist, and..." sounds like it's saying global warming isn't real. Then you realize geologists have nothing to do with modern climate science, and that people out of their field are typically nutcases. (Think Einstein on quantum mechanics, Shockley on race and IQ, or Tesla's later work.)
      • If you are saying Trey and Matt really do believe in global warming, they probably don't. "ManBearPig" seems to be one giant aesop on how global warming is an imaginary threat.
  • Not really a complaint, but this just bugs me: Do the other characters still see Timmy and Jimmy as new kids? Well, Timmy I guess not since A.) he was introduced in 3rd grade and B.) he may have just been new to Garrison's class. Still, from our perspective Jimmy has been around for a decade, yet to them, is this still his first year? Most surprising is how there has yet to be a continuity error regarding this, i.e. someone saying they've been friends with Jimmy or his parents for years.
    • The show definitely has a floating timeline. Clinton was president when they were in third grade, and now Obama is president. I'll let that sink in for a sec.
      • Real life stuff is different, though. The characters' histories float while our history flows normally. Thus, a "new" kid's history is odd to think about. Though I guess it was already messed up with Summer Sucks showing the end of a school year, and you can't pretend it takes place between Probably and 4th Grade due to two separate Garrison story arcs (Mr. Twig and getting fired/coming out).
  • In the last episode of season 14 all it took to bring Randy back to normal was one good handjob. But didn't he jerk off himself constantly?
    • There is a big psychological difference between doing it yourself and having someone else do it for you.
  • Okay, the Crème Fraiche episode had some moral plot hole in my eyes. Yes, I understand that Randy's obsession with cooking was tearing his family apart, but couldn't Sharon just appreciate that he just has a hobby that he likes to do that has positive side effects?
    • Because the cooking was a metaphor for masturbation.
      • Also, there were no positive side effects. Randy was a terrible cook, left huge messes expecting her to clean up, and displayed tendencies consistent with with the wikipedia definition of hypomania
      • While the second response makes sense, the first one... kind of. It starts out as a metaphor for masturbation, but once Randy becomes the cafeteria's chef and goes against the Food Network guys, it loses its metaphor value.
  • The Boys wear such heavy clothes even when they're indoors on a summer day and in some warmer place (granted, at least Cartman tends to take off his hat). And Butters rarely wears headgear despite only having a small tuft of hair. Huh? And you can't say "Kenny is too poor to get anything other than the parka" because he clearly has a few regular shirts plus he can always just keep his hood down.
    • I was just gonna say the same thing, though specifically at Kenny. Why does he always wear that parka? The rest of his family wears regular clothing, plus there are things cheaper then parkas. Kenny wore parkas as a kid too, and he wears it inside his own home. He even sleeps with it on at times.
      • Maybe Kenny's parka is like his security blanket. He tightens the hood whenever he's scared, so he probably feels snug and safe in there.
    • That makes sense. Now the fandom's common depiction of Kenny with his hood down makes little sense, since he seems to be safer with it on.
      • Speaking of which, why does he feel the need to do that if he remembers that he's immortal?
        • He makes it clear that dying hurts like a bitch. He's scared of the pain.
    • He's still a kid, with normal feelings.
  • Kenny's voice. In Mysterion Rises we hear his voice normally once, however it's more like the voice from The Movie. What gives? His voice was nasal up until then.
    • Kenny's voice is done by three different people. Matt Stone does Kenny muffled, and unmuffled as Mysterion. Mike Judge did a guest voice in the movie as Kenny's Goodbye. Eric Stough does Kenny unmuffled. It is a bit confusing, as Kenny has different voices with and without his hood.
      • Yes, I know that. But why the voice change? A lot of VA's can use the same voice, or similar sounding ones. Then again, as Wendy can show, this series doesn't care much for continuity in terms of voices.
      • The woman who originally voiced Wendy committed suicide. It might have taken them some time to find a replacement they were at all happy with. You really can't bitch at them about that one without being, you know, jerky and insensitive about it.
    • Most other Darrin's attempt to simulate the previous voice. Wendy went from high pitched to mature for no reason; just like Cartman went from squeaky to his signature voice.
    • Wendy's initial replacement (Eliza Schneider) sounded a lot like Bergman's, only slightly smoother and more natural sounding, much like how Matt and Trey evolved the boy's voices. When she left the show April Stewart did an even more natural exagerration of that (and unlike the boys, didn't have voice pitch editing to maintain a wackyness to it).
      • In addition Vocal Evolution also often abides to personality changes. Wendy was shrill and childish in the early seasons so her voice reflected that, in later seasons she has a (usually) Closer to Earth personality much like the other kids so the replacement actresses possibly made their enterpretation accordingly.
  • How is it that Stan, Kyle, Cartman, Kenny, Wendy, and a few random background citizens and students the only characters with winter apparel as their Limited Wardrobe while the other characters wear normal clothing?
    • Not just that, but in the early seasons show them wearing the same outfits even in tropical/semi-tropical settings like in "Starvin' Marvin" and "Rainforest Schmainforest." I'm suprised nobody died from heatstroke.
  • Because of the whole Muhammad incident, "Super Best Friends", "200" and "201" have pretty much been banned from ever being aired again. But HOLD IT! By that logic, every episode from season 6 should be banned as well, because if you freeze frame at the end of the opening sequence, you can see a clip of "Super Best Friends"... WITH MUHAMMAD CLEARLY VISIBLE!!! OMG GET 'EM OFF BEFORE THE MUSLIMS BOMB US ALL!!! (If you can't tell, I find the whole deal ridiculously stupid.)
    • He's also in the crowd shot from "Smug Alert!" to "The List", so with that plus season six 44 episodes MUST be taken off the air! (And based on the logic that the word Muhammad should be censored, shouldn't they go back and edit Mr. Garrison's Christmas song and the "Cartoon Wars" episodes?)
    • They might get released on DVD and Blu-Ray. The guy who made the threat was put in prison, and he's the only one who complained. Also, he wasn't a real Muslim terrorist. He was some crazy brainwashed Jew.
      • The South Park FAQ is currently saying that all episodes will indeed be included in the Season 14 release. They still aren't available on the South Park site or other streaming sources.
  • Why is Kevin (Stoley) not considered Chinese anymore by some fans? Just because he's drawn like the other kids? It's the generic style of the series; everyone is drawn like that. Plus he's American born, and it's been stated in series it's okay to stereotype based on nationality but not race.
    • This show has terrible continuity. Plus, at one point his last name was Brooks.
  • What the fuck happens to Kenny's bodies after he dies?
    • They get eaten by rats.
  • Cartman's family going broke in the Tooth Fairy episode. I could buy that maybe Cartman already spent all the money, thus preventing him from simply giving it back, but it's been established that Liane is a prostitute and a porn star. She could easily get that money back within weeks.
    • True, but they still have no money until then. Liane specifically said that they can't buy groceries for at least a month. Maybe it'll take that long to catch up again.
  • Why doesn't Justin Bieber have beady eyes and a flapping mouth like all the other Canadians? Did Parker and Stone know about his nationality when they were making the Coon episodes?
    • I was also wondering why Alanis Morissette doesn't have that kind of head, either.
      • I think it's because Canadian celebrities don't have them
      • How does that explain Celine Dion? My guess is that They Just Didn't Care.
      • Celin Dion is the exception that proves the rule. For one thing, that was more an episode of 'Terrance and Phillip' than it was an epeisode of South Park. For another thing, they constantly called her by her full name, probably to be sure we knew who she was. That was also fairly early in the show's run, and there were a few rules that had yet to be established. Since every single other Canadian celebrity has been made to look like their real-life counterparts (or a caricature thereof) it's really not worth fretting over. It could be that they just didn't know, and it could be that they didn't care, but I think it most likely that they don't want a horde of celebrities that all look the same, since plenty of them come from Canada.
      • If you watch closely, you'll notice that the only time Canadian celebrities have generic flapping heads is when an episode is taking place in Canada, such as "Not Without My Anus" and "Royal Pudding." Otherwise, they're designed to look like themselves.
    • Plus, T&P are apparently in a cartoon in the earlier seasons.
  • In the Guitar Hero episode, Stan asks the Guitar Hero expert to play Jordan by Buckethead acoustically. He does, or at least appears to. He then asks him to play John the Fisherman by Primus. Now, supposedly he asked for these songs as challenges to the kids skill. The thing is, Jodan, by far, is the much harder song. Even in the next sing they play John the Fisherman and it's pretty standard compared to Jordan which is all weedilydeedilydeedildidilleedillo for four minutes. He got confirmation that the kid could play a really difficult song, then asked him to play an easier one. Just should've been reverse order is all.
  • I always assumed that he was checking for breadth of knowledge and not just depth. The Primus song is more obscure meaning that the kid would have to have a larger base of knowledge.
    • Rule of Funny. The episode was just for ripping on Guitar Hero. They didn't care about being 100% accurate.
  • Is Butters supposed to have Blue Eyes? Kenny has them, and Butters was mentioned to look a lot like him. Speaking of that, how often do the guys see Kenny without his parka?
    • To answer the Butters eye color question, he has mismatched eyes, his right eye is blue, his left eye is hazel. This is because Kenny mutilated his left eye with a shuriken, and his parents had to take him to get an eye transplant. Unfortunately this resulted in mismatched eyes.
    • How the hell do you know this?
  • In "Do the Handicapped go to Hell" and "Probably", why is Kenny so nervous about going to Hell if he's already been there, hundreds of times, and knows it's not that bad of a place. Secondly, if he's so worried about going, why doesn't he just become Mormon? Once again he's been to Hell enough times to know that only Mormons go to Heaven.
    • Well, do you have to be an "official" Mormon or an actually "good" Mormon? Because good Mormons are family values and don't look at porn or anything, and...well, Kenny's probably comfortable with the choice he made.
      • True, but it still raises the question of A. Why he's so nervous of going to Hell and B. why he's trying to become a good Catholic if he knows only Mormons go to Heaven.
        • Who says he has any memory of the afterlife when he gets resurrected?
          • In Mysterion Arises, he states that he does remember all of his deaths, and has memory of seeing Heaven and Hell. As to whether or not he remembers any specifics of being there, or if he just remembers the concept that he was there has not been told.
  • In HUMANCENTiPAD, is there any reason that the Apple guys needed to stick three people together to make a new iPad thing other than Rule of Funny?
    • This tropette thinks this was an excuse to bash Kyle, as asked "why?" earlier in this section.
      • It wasn't really "bashing," it was just making him the Designated Monkey of this particular episode.
    • According to Steve Jobs, the HumancentiPad was so people could take their videos, music, and photos, and all their shit, and share it with other people, who could do the same with all their shit. It was just like the iPad, but could also walk and read.
  • Why hasn't South Park made a Take That towards ABC Family yet? That channel has created some of the worst crap on TV (specifically, their post-Kyle XY dramas), and said crap is not even family-friendly.
  • In "Die Hippie, Die", why did Cartman go to the trouble of inventing a giant drill to rip through the hippie crowd when he could have just used a helicopter or something?
  • The penis sizes in TMI.. How does Kevin have a 0.5 and Kenny a 6 - 9? I don't even think the former is micropenis, and the latter seems too big for a nine year old.. Also, what was with the lesbian? Even if she was a female-to-male Transsexualism, I doubt she'd be over the length. It's Rule of Funny, but still confusing.
    • Actually, the boy's sizes range from Cartman's 1.2" to Justin Hall's 3". Kevin's is 2.2" and Kenny's is 2.0". Compare the rest of the sizes here.
    • Yea. Either the board was wrong, or people couldn't read it right.
  • Are the Gingers supposed to have souls or not?
    • Considering how the ginger that was kicked out of the cafeteria looks exactly like what he is supposed to be, and that afterwards the gingers seem genuinely pissed off at the discrimination against them, its possible that they are just regular kids, albeit ones with the unfortunate tendency to display creepy grins.
  • Why was the girl (or maybe a F-t-M) in TMI happy about the new regulations for penis size?
    • She's a hermaphrodite.
  • Who owns Raisins? A kid or kids? How do they maintain a building and business like that?
    • I've been wondering as well. They cater mostly to kids, who don't usually have any income aside from money given to them by their parents, and even then, it isn't a lot. Is that really enough revenue to negate the costs of running such a business?
    • According to the Token Minority page, Token's parents own it, but I don't know how reliable that information is.
  • Where was Wendy in "You're Getting Old"? I figured the birthday party would all be Stan's guy friends like most kids but why no mention of her after?
  • Did Stan move away from South Park? Why?
    • No, he didn't. He can still be seen walking down the main street of the town at the end, they just got a different house, probably half a duplex or townhouse.
  • Why are Kyle and Cartman friendly at the end of You're Getting Older? Is it just them "getting older"? But they loathe each other with a horrible passion, and they weren't friends before; the only reason Kyle hanged out with Cartman was because of Stan.
    • That's sort of the point. To show just how much has changed.
      • People change.. But that's too big a change. They go from being mortal enemies with no liking of each other, to acting like buddies.
      • They don't "act like buddies", they smile at each other. I'm surprised that people have taken this scene to mean that Kyle and Cartman are best friends when it's clearly meant to show that they're simply recognizing that the other isn't as bad as they thought.
  • Why is "Scott Tenorman Must Die" SUCH a fan favorite? Don't get me wrong, it was a very funny episode, I won't deny it being a CMOA for Cartman, and I laughed quite a bit during it, but I don't get what makes that parent chili incident different from so many other episodes in the series' run.
    • Because it was a defining moment for the show and especially for Cartman. Up until then he had basically just been a whiny asshole. This episode showed him capable of being a complete monster.
  • Why didn't the Japanese people get arrested for killing all those animals and people?
    • It's just a wild exaggeration of how Japan is allowed to kill dolphins and whales while hunting in the name of Rule of Funny
  • Why does Al Gore always say "serial/cereal" in place of "serious"? Is there a reason for that?
    • It's funny?
    • It's a reference to his appearance on The Oprah Winfrey Show. At one point Oprah asks him, "What is your favorite cereal?" Gore thought she meant "serial", as in TV series.
  • No offense, but what's with Butter's hairstyle? It's..An atypical style.
    • It's a cartoon.
  • Craig. He's extremely popular, but why exactly? I find him to be boring and his design just bugs me. I guess since he's a stoic raven haired boy who's apparently attractive for a ten year old.
    • Craig is the one who pointed out how nobody likes them when they formed their Peruvian flute band. You may be thinking of Clive.
      • The original poster WAS talking about Craig (by the way, it's CLYDE, not Clive). To answer the original question, it's just a simple case of Your Mileage May Vary.
  • I hate to ask this, but has Cartman ever said the, uh...k-word?
    • The Jewish slur one? Yes.
  • Excuse me for returning to the discussion of the boys' eye colors, but when was it said that Cartman and/or Kenny have hazel eyes? I know Kyle stated that Stan has blue eyes, but all I know of the others is that in "Starvin' Marvin" there was a close-up of Kenny's eye getting plucked out by a turkey and it was dark blue, and Kenny also had blue eyes in anime form (But Kyle had black hair, so...). I don't think Cartman saying Kenny had a "brown eye" would count since in that episode he was just going for ass puns.
    • An early script to The Movie had Kenny with hazel eyes. To quote the script: [This boy's name is KENNY, and under his orange coat we have no idea what he looks like, except for his European nose and hazel eyes.] There are drawings of Cartman that state he has brown eyes.
  • This one relates to the episode "Goobacks." So you know how the time traveling immigrants kept coming and coming because in the future, the world would be extremely overpopulated, dirty and poor. Why didn't the people of South Park stop and think that maybe, THE GOOBACKS WERE FUCKING LYING TO THEM? The original Gooback didn't even prove anything when he first appeared, nobody from the present got to see the future for themselves and if the Goobacks really were so poor, how the fuck were they able to invent Time Travel?
    • Right. The future dudes just decided to abandon their natural environment and venture hundreds of years in the past to work minimum wage jobs, because they just felt like downshifting. *facepalm* Anyway, what does it matter if they are from future or not? They are willing to work for peanuts, that's what important. And maybe, just MAYBE they could've invented Time Travel BEFORE their world went to shit.
  • I read a lot of South Park fanfiction, and in stories where Craig is paired with Tweek Craig is shown to be a controlling, possesive, jealous, overly sexual, emotionally, sexually, verbally psychologically, and physically abusive Bastard Boyfriend.If fandom sees him this way why do so many fangirls go crazy for him? Those attributes do not make for a good boyfriend or a good relationship.
    • In "Pandemic", Craig saves the world from giant gueniea-pigs by shooting lasers out of his eyes. That's pretty f-ing badass for a character who's lucky to get one line per show.
    • Most of the above is fanon. Some fans of Craig, who happen to be female, simply find him to be one of the funnier side characters, and don't subscribe to things that aren't supported by canon.
  • Ok here's one that confuses me and it's about Jimbo... ok in "It hits the fan" It's revealed that if someone can say "fag" and is straight then they get bleeped, but when Jimbo says "Fag" and doesn't get bleeped then Mr. Garrison points out that Jimbo must be gay, same thing happened with Cartman in that lord of the rings parody (And I used this to prove Cartman's gay). Years later there's that episode involving the bikers called "The F-word" where apparently they must've forgotten about what Mr. Garrison said about "fag" because everyone can say the word and not get bleeped despite their sexual orientation (Stan has Wendy and he said "fag" without being bleeped) so now that apparently the "fag" curse is lifted... does this mean Jimbo is still gay or not?
    • In "The F-Word" it wasn't being used as a slur against homosexuals, it was being used as a slur against obnoxious bikers. (Also, the censors at Comedy Central have loosened up a bit since "It Hits the Fan")
    • This show has some of the worst continuity on TV. That's probably not even canon anymore. Tons of characters have used that term over the years, so using that to prove that Cartman is gay is null and void by now.
  • If Stan sees things as shit... then what does he see Mr. Hankey and Bono as since they are already pieces of shit anyway?
    • Non-anthropomorphic poo?
  • Aspergers is not a disease! Get it right!
    • But only the crazy Matrix guys said it was. And they're alcoholics.
    • Yes, it's a disorder. Pervasive Developmental Disorder, similar to autism.
    • Aspergers Syndrome is a mild form of autism; many people agree that it's synonymous with "high-functioning autism." Some people with Aspergers lead very successful lives and deal with their condition well. Other people actually suffer from it. It causes crippling social problems, which can lead to stress, anxiety, depression, and low self-esteem. The people who are mildly affected by Aspergers may see it as a "different way of thinking," but people with more severe forms of Aspergers, and more severe forms of autism, see it as a disease, because of the pain it causes. If any sort of medical condition causes a person to experience a substantial amount of pain- be it physical or emotional- then it's a disease to them.
  • The new episode "1%" synopsis is: One fat fourth grader is singled out when the Presidential Physical Fitness scores are announced. The kids at South Park Elementary are being punished for Cartman's failings in the physical education department. What will Cartman do when they all gang up on him? Why would anybody punish the kids just because Cartman isn't physically fit?
    • There are systems like that in real life. It's generally done with the assumption that the average score is indicative of the average student (and not one terrible score throwing it off).
  • Something about the song 'Blame Canada' in The Movie bothers me. The songs' general message is that overzealous parenting groups will blame anything but their own failings as parents when their kids misbehave. Most of the things the parents think to blame on their kids' behavior - Canada, television, society, matches, and fire - are fit that general mold. But grouped in with that is 'the doctors who allowed him [Kenny] to expire'. What bothers me is that it's completely reasonable to blame the doctors for what's happening in South Park in this case - they shoved a potato where Kenny's heart used to be and let him explode and die. Say what you want about the other things, but blaming the doctors in that case sounds totally reasonable to me!
    • Well, even a broken watch is correct once a day, so I guess even a mob of bigots may for once condemn someone for reason.
  • If Kenny wanted people to remember his deaths, why doesn't he just video-record himself being killed and then when he gets resurrected, just show the tape to the others for proof! Then again would the video recording of the death still exist if he gets resurrected? Come to think of it in "Jared has Aides" there is a Kenny McCormick Memorial Town Square, now that Kenny is revived is the Kenny McCormick Memorial Town Square still there or did it vanish upon the resurrection?
    • For the video one, how do we know the video tape won't explode due to the lovecraftian influences?
  • If Kenny is poor then how can he afford Chimpokomon toys and a PSP?
    • He's only poor when it is convenient. In many episodes, it is implied that his family is not as poor as they claim to be, considering that they even have money for killer robots. Also, it has already been shown that Kenny is not above prostitution for even very low prices, so he most defenitely has his methods of gaining money (and considering how he is immortal, he has the advantage of being capable of getting into things nobody would want or be capable of getting into. Once you let that sink in, welcome your nightmares).
    • Why does nobody think about how maybe he gets his stuff black-market or second-hand or cheap off Ebay? It's not like we see him buying many things. Just having them.
  • I get why, during the Coon trilogy, Cartman would lock Butters up in a cage for days on end with nothing to eat but his own poo. It's Cartman, afterall. But after he gets kicked out of Coon & Friends, why'd the others keep Butters locked up? While they can be mean sometimes, that's way above their usual.
    • One of the more recent episodes of the show had Craig telling Cartman and the others that Butters is, and I'm paraphrasing, "someone who you can never remember if they're around". It's very possible that, between Cthulhu and Cartman killing people, Captain Hindsight vanishing, and Mysterion dying a few times, they simply forgot Butters was in Cartman's basement.
  • Okay, since we now know that Kenny is Mysterion, does this mean that some parts of season 6 never happened to the other boys, since Kenny died two episodes before that season began?
  • Since Kenny dies, well, a LOT, how come the only time Cartman has ever had to look into who the new poor kid is was in "The Poor Kid"? In other words, how could he have been unaware that it was him?
    • Cartman kinda lives on momentary whims and was mostly fueled on the belief that he was beating out Kyle on investigating. And other than when Kenny died for a season it was the only time he was likely gone long enough for Cartman to have to think about it.
  • So, there's one episode of South Park that's against big corporations... But then there's another that supports them? What's with that?
  • Ok this just hit me right now but if Cartman can go berserk when being compared to Family Guy, then what would happen if he was compared to EVEN WORSE cartoons like Drawn Together or (dear god!) Canada's series "Kevin Spencer"? I mean Kevin is even more messed up than Cartman.
  • In "Marjorine", Garisson says Marjorine is from Dallas. I'm just curious; is that Butters' accent?
  • What happened to Mr. Garrison? They made him come full circle and then just... dropped him. Particularly jarring is how Mr. Mackey now seems to be the main school staff character, which is very odd considering how all the gimmicky and/or cartoony characters have been killed off (Choksondik, Crabtree, Kenny for a season) or pushed into the background (Ned, Barbrady, Mephesto, Tweek, Timmy, Kenny until recently), and Mackey easily has the goofiest design in the entire series. He just sticks out so much. And yet Garrison is their first and most complex character. Did they just figure since they've made him had sex with both sexes as both sexes, practice bestiality, desire parental incest, and get charged for child molestation, there's nothing left for him to do?
    • Maybe they are taking a break from him, after he sort of stole the spotlight for a while, and have been putting more focus on Randy among the adults.
    • Sadly, this show has a nasty habit of dropping characters when the writers get tired of them.
  • This troper just realized by now but in "Reverse Cowgirl" the boys (except Cartman) show concern about how Clyde's mother treats Clyde and how Micheal Jackson treats Blanket... now why hasn't the boys showed any concern about how Butters is treated by his parents? The most ironic part is that they are the ones who somehow get Butters in trouble with his parents.
    • Butters is the show's designated Butt Monkey.
    • Also keep in mind that Butters doesn't really stand up for himself early in the series and when they know he's being bullied in "Butterballs" dismisses the boys' suggestions to deal with it. He finds a way to stand up to his family in a way that is very appropriate for Butters n the end though.
  • What is the point of the townspeople keeping the secret of Jack Tenorman from Cartman even after Jack was killed and made into chilli? One can also wonder if Mrs. Tenorman knows about the affair and for some strange reason never reacted to it. It's also unknown if Chef knew about this or he took the secret to the grave.
    • Chef was probably in on it, since when we see him in "The Wacky Molestation Adventure" he's just had sex with Liane after supposedly learning she was a hermaphrodite.
  • Who took that first picture of Mr. Kitty with bread around her face if it wasn't the kids? I can't imagine Liane being the memeing type.
    • Probably Mr. Kitty himself.
  • Aside from the Foreshadowing to the ending, why did we need for Stan and Kyle to fight in "Butterballs"? Besides, I hate it when they fight. Okay, Kyle at one point says something about what Butters should do, but the rest is inexcusable.
    • Somebody needed to call Stan out and Kyle was obviously the best choice.
    • Whenever Stan holds the Idiot Ball for an episode, it's Kyle who ends up playing Only Sane Man by virtue of him being The Conscience of the group. And vice versa.
  • In Butterballs the song has profanity in it, and Cartman talking about sex. They're a bunch of 10 year olds.. Would people in-series really be okay with that?
    • It's South Park - Rule of Funny and Adults Are Useless covers this.
    • Have you heard the music being marketed to tweens for the last decade or so? Sadly this is a case of not having to exaggerate.
  • At the end of "The Breast Cancer Show Ever", all of the kids tell Cartman that they never thought he was cool and that they've always disliked him. For people like Kyle, Stan etc., this isn't a surprise at all, but even Butters agrees with them. Doesn't Butter consider Cartman to be a genuine friend?
    • Well, in "AWESOM-O" he calls him an asshole so I guess it just depends?
  • Why do the boys still hang out with Cartman? In the early seasons it made sense, he was a dick. It made sense after the Scott Tenorman incident to a lesser degree but I was okay with that. Once you banish me to a dark dimension there is a line that you've crossed and there is no coming back from.
  • Why would Saddam Hussein make sodomy illegal in Canada when he is shown to have an explicitly sexual relationship with Satan?
  • If Scott Tenorman had a time machine in the new game "Tenorman's Revenge", then why didn't he just go back in time and prevent himself from selling his pubes to Cartman and thus the events in "Scott Tenorman must die" and "201" would never happen at all.


  1. ↑ (Note: most of this was written before part 3 of Coon and Friends)
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