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* 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?

** No. [[Crapsack World|That's kinda the point]].

** Even Chef was made into a pedophilic Sith Lord.

*** But only because he was [[Real Life Writes the Plot|voiced by a Scientologist]].

** The people of South Park are idiots. Besides I think it was supposed to be [[Ass Pull|a clever plot twist]].

** She could have gotten surgery similar to Mr. Garrison's "vagainaplasty" sometime since then.

* How did Butters survive the nuke?

** Butters was invincible in his floating imagination bubble.

*** 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'''.

** 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.

* 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.

** 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?

 

* 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?

** They had to protect {{spoiler|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.

** It's ''South Park''. Realism [[Rule of Funny|isn't]] [[Rule of Cool|a]] [[Refuge in Audacity|priority.]]

* 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.

** 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.

** 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?

* 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 [[He Who Fights Monsters|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.

*** 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?

* 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.

** 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.

** This bugs me too. Probably because Stan was shown to be good at football for one episode and Kyle's a smart Jew. Therefore, [[Sarcasm Mode|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.

** 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?

** [[Wild Mass Guessing|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.

* 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.

*** 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]].

***** 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]]?

*** 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.

* 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?

** To rip on ''The Core.'' And also because it made it more exciting. [[Rule of Funny]] ''and'' [[Rule of Drama]].

** Yea. Either the board was wrong, or people couldn't read it right.

* Are the Gingers supposed to have souls or not?

* 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 - [[Captain Obvious|Canada]], [[New Media Are Evil|television]], [[Crapsack World|society]], [[Too Dumb to Live|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.

** 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 {{spoiler|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. [[Fridge Horror|Once you let that sink in]], [[Nightmare Fuel|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.

** 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 {{spoiler|Kenny is Mysterion}}, does this mean that {{spoiler|some parts of season 6 never happened to the other boys, since Kenny died two episodes before that season began}}?

** 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.

** "Cartoon Wars" was basically Matt and Trey whining about being compared to ''[[Family Guy]]'', so I can't see that happening. Anyways, [[Your Mileage May Vary|what's bad to someone might be good to someone else]].

** [[Screw the Rules, I Make Them]]

* 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.

 

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