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• Absentee Actor: None of the main boys appear at all in "Not Without My Anus", "The Great Expectations", "A Million Little Fibers" and "Handicar". There have also been a few episodes were one or some of the boys are absent throughout.
• Accidentally Accurate (crosses over with Hilarious in Hindsight): Remember the season three episode where a guy known as Sexual Harassment Panda comes to the school to talk to the kids about inappropriate behavior in school? Well... turns out it's real and it goes by the name P.A.N.D.A.
  • "Freemium Isn't Free" portrays Canada using a free to play mobile app Terrance and Phillip licensed game loaded with microtransactions. Ottawa really is the home of many mobile app developers who use the same marketing techniques. No Canadian Devil's involved that we know of, though.
• Actor Allusion: Malcolm McDowell, in his role as the Lemony Narrator in "Pip", refers to himself as "Your Humble Narrator". He also refers to himself as simply "a British person".
• Adored by the Network: You'd be hard-pressed to not find this show on Comedy Central's daily schedule.
• All-Star Cast: The short-lived French-Canadian dub cast local celebrities in many of the voice roles.
• Banned in China: "Chinpokomon" never aired in Japan due to its cruel jokes and stereotypes about the people. The same can be said for "Rainforest Schmainforest" , only the country that banned it was Costa Rica.
• The Cast Showoff: Trey Parker. So very much. Pick an episode and it will usually have him singing or it will have something spoken or written in Japanese (for those who don't know, Trey Parker is the lead singer of the band, DVDA, and majored in Japanese in college).
  • Isaac Hayes before he left. In almost every appearance, he's singing.
• Creator Backlash: Parker and Stone mentioned in one of the DVD commentaries for season 3 that they considered season 2 to be "very poor," which is why there are no commentaries on the season 2 DVDs. They are also noted as not being fond of the video games made during the show's early run.
  • Also, they were not happy about the "201" censorship.
• Creator Breakdown: "You're Getting Old" seems to suggest that Parker and Stone have or are undergoing one. The two themselves, however, have stated that fans "took the episode too seriously" and deny being unhappy with the show.
• Dawson Casting
  • The episode "I Should Have Never Gone Ziplining" features a live action segment with all four boys portrayed by actors clearly in their mid-twenties.
  • All children, excluding Ike and similarly aged toddlers, are portrayed by Trey Parker, Matt Stone, and other adult voice actors with their voices sped up or simply imitating child like voices.
• Defictionalization: Cheetos once repackaged their cheese curls as Cheesy Poofs.
  • And now Cartman's rendition of Lady Gaga's Poker Face is actually in the Rock Band Music Store.
  • His rendition of "Heat of the Moment" in Kenny Dies has also taken on a life of its own.
  • And, of course, his penchant for singing "Come Sail Away" by Styx.
• Dueling Dubs: Italy had the original heavily-censored SEFIT-CDC dub that covered the first four seasons, followed by the less-edited adaptation by ODS.
  • Latin American adaptations: Seasons 1 and 2 have three completely separate dubs. The first was an edited version by Audiomaster 3000 that aired only in Mexico on a local TV station. The second was BVI Communications' initial 1998 dub (which passed to Globecast for the last few episodes), and the current is a 2011 redub by BVI. The redubbing was reportedly done in order to keep voice cast consistent with the then-current seasons they'd adapted. The scripts for the first BVI version were also recycled for a later adaptation produced in Spain.
    • Season 7 has two alternate dubs, one by BVI for MTV and the other by Kitchen Inc. (that went unaired and is only available on the DVD release)
    • "Timmy 2000" and "Trapper Keeper" have the original Globecast/Kitchen Inc. dubs, as well as redone versions by BVI.
    • "Rainforest Schmainforest" has the original banned Globecast dub, a censored 2011 redub by Studio Center, and an alternate uncensored redub that was never aired (according to one of the actors that worked on it).
    • The film has two competing dubs that were produced around the same time in 2000. The first did not dub any of the songs and censored profanity, while the second was less censored (and dubbed the songs) but criticized for being too literal with its translation.
  • There are two dubs of the movie that exist in Hungary. The original was widely criticized for not retaining most of the show's voice cast, which lead to a redub by Filmmúzeum.
  • There is a French dub of the series, as well as a short-lived Quebecois adaptation that only covered season 1. The movie also has an obscure Quebecois dub to compete with the better-known French version.
• Executive Meddling: "200" and "201" not only got censored by Comedy Central ("Muhammad"'s appearance and the ENTIRE ending speech by Kyle and Jesus were censored), but it was only aired once on the night it premiered (as opposed to the usual two times, the second being a reair). They probably had very good reason to, though, considering a single vaguely worded warning posted on a "smallest-fish-in-the-smallest-pond" extremist Muslim group's website when the prior episode aired. It didn't help that the week in between "200" and "201", the Times Square Car Bomb plot was foiled. Said car was parked hear the Viacom headquarters, where Comedy Central is based.
• Fan Nickname: The "Colored Screen of Death" for Kyle's speech at the end of "201", after what videophiles call the "White Screen of Death", which seemed to be pure Nightmare Fuel for those who watched to the end of a VHS tape from Paramount.
• Hey, It's That Voice!: The Japanese dub got three different voice casts: One for the WOWOW version of the series (when the series debuted in Japan for first time), another for the Japanese branch of Fox Network, and another for the movie:
  • Stan is Omi Tsukiyono and Clotho Buer in the WOWOW version, in the Fox Japan version, he is Usso Ewing and Shimura Shinpachi.
  • Kyle is Inuyasha and male-Ranma Saotome in the WOWOW version.
• I Knew It!: "About Last Night", being a pastiche of heist films, sets up viewers to say this a few times.
• Keep Circulating the Tapes: Keep Circulating the Tapes: "200" and "201" will never appear on TV again (uncensored or otherwise), though a recent press release confirmed that they would in fact be featured on the season DVD sets. However, much to the fans' displeasure, the version of "201" that appears on the DVD is the edited version. Also good luck with ever seeing "Super Best Friends" again on television (though "Super Best Friends" is available — with Mohammed shown and referred to by name — on the season five DVD set, which was pressed and released years before the Mohammed debacle).
• Magnum Opus Dissonance: An interesting variant of sorts occurs with season 2's episode "Not Without My Anus." Although as mentioned above, Trey and Matt hate the entirety of seasons 1-3, that same interview has Parker stating Not Without My Anus to be the only episode they liked from the second season.
• McLeaned: "The Return of Chef," where Chef gets quite possibly the biggest bridge dropped on any character ever, which is also an instance of Real Life Writes the Plot, since Isaac Hayes was told to stop doing the show by The Church of Scientology.
• Mutually Fictional: This trope even occurs within a single show: South Park and Terrance and Phillip have watched each other's television shows. This gets a bit muddled as Terrance and Phillip are "real" actors in the South Park universe with a television show the South Park kids watch, but the characters (one assumes) Terrance and Phillip play have watched South Park.
  • It gets even weirder when you consider that Terrance and Phillip are referred to in-universe as cartoon characters.
    • They were originally meant to be a cartoon even cruder and more poorly animated than South Park itself. This was before the decision was made that all Canadian characters would be animated the same way as Terrance and Phillip.
• No Budget: The first shorts and first episode was done with construction paper. Still has this look despite being animated with rather powerful software and on a smaller budget than other animated shows.
• No Export for You: Japan has yet to receive any episodes beyond those of season 9 (which only aired in a subtitled format on their FOX satellite network). For a time, any episodes beyond that of season 7 were that case, as WOWOW's license to the show expired after 2004.
  • South Korean fans have to rely on fansubbed versions as the show, due to the Republic of Korea Broadcasting Committee banning it from Tooniverse after parents had complained of its vulgar and violent content (it's unknown how many episodes were dubbed of season 1 and left unaired).
  • The dub of the series broadcast in the Czech Republic has only ever aired seasons 1 to 6, leaving the rest of the show unadapted and those fans to be very far behind in their version.
  • Channel V's Mandarin Chinese dub broadcast in Taiwan only managed to get to season 7.
  • For some reason, countries outside of North America only got Blu-Ray sets for seasons 12 and 13, and from season 14 and on the Blu-Ray sets are region locked.
• Official Fan-Submitted Content: For the episode "Tweek x Craig", the creators asked fans to submit Yaoi fanwork of the two characters to be featured in the episode.
• Screwed by the Network: "201", anyone?
• Talking to Himself: Played straight at first and then Lampshaded pretty hard. Parker and Stone voice almost every character and even they admit they don't have much of a range.
  • In the DVD commentary, they point out one episode where they're playing two nondescript extra characters who actually switch voices in mid-scene. It probably happened more than just the once.