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* [[Affably Evil]]: Satan is portrayed as this. He's certainly less evil than Cartman.
* [[Affectionate Parody]]:
** The Osama bin Laden episode is a paean to the classic [[Wartime Cartoon
** In the Coon and Friends trilogy, this is done twice between Cartman and Cthulhu: one, a tribute to ''[[My Neighbor Totoro]]'', and the other is a nod to the Chuck Jones cartoon ''Feed the Kitty''.
** The [[Instant Awesome, Just Add Ninja|ninja]] episode. Someone had to have been an anime fan to be able to mock [[Gratuitous English]].
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** Kyle's parents and his cousin.
** Parodied ''viciously'' in "Two Days Before the Day After Tomorrow", where it seems that Cartman and Kyle are going to die, and Cartman demands Kyle's "Jew Gold". Kyle, appalled, tries to convince him that this is a Jew stereotype, but Cartman doesn't relent, and Kyle pulls out a small sack of gold that had been tied around his neck. Cartman proceeds to insist that all Jews carry a spare sack of Jew Gold, which is really fake, and demands that Kyle ''hands over an identical sack also tied around his neck''. Kyle didn't hand over the real Jew gold either, he threw it into a fire rather than let Cartman have it.
*** [[Truth in Television]], but not specifically Jewish. Many European families of all ethnicities will have a stash of ''jewels'' for emergency purpose such as bribes to escape a country. This is very common in [[Genteel Interbellum Setting
** Subverted in "Night of the Living Homeless", when Kyle gives a homeless man $20. Because of that, all of the homeless invade South Park. {{spoiler|But it turns out that it wasn't Kyle's fault, but the fault of the neighboring town of Evergreen, who evicted the homeless}}.
** And then subverted majorly in "Margaritaville", when he uses his American Express credit card (with no spending limit) to [[The Messiah|pay off the debts]] [[The Paragon|of all of South Park]], much to the dismay of his mother Sheila, who say he's ruining himself. This is all to make a point of the nature of the economy.
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** Ms. Cartman is apparently a famous enough porn star to end up on the cover of Crackhead Magazine.
* [[Ambiguously Gay]]:
** Cartman. He constantly says that girls are disgusting and vile, and he seems to have an '' extremely'' [[Anatomically-Impossible Sex|inaccurate idea of what sex with a woman even entails]].
*** Then, of course, we have "Imaginationland", whose entire subplot is based entirely around Cartman's obsession with making Kyle suck his balls. Jimmy even points this trope out to him in part 1 of the trilogy.
*** "Cartman Finds Love" gives us {{spoiler|Cartman telling the new girl, Nicole, that he and Kyle are a gay couple, so that Nicole will be more likely to go out with Token}}. Cartman puts a ton of effort into convincing the town that his lie is true, to the point where it's hard to tell if he's just really committed or playing out some sort of wish-fulfillment exercise.
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* [[Artistic License Medicine]]: In "Timmy 2000", the kids take Ritalin to get out of doing homework and it makes them calm. Several adults take some and they're also calm, but in [[Real Life]], Ritalin has the opposite effect on grown-ups.
** In "Cartmanland", Kyle is at near-death from a hemorrhoid. To answer your question, no, hemorrhoids can't kill you. However, this was intentional given the show's nature.
* [[Art Shift]]: Done several times: see "[[Pokémon|Chinpokomon]]", "[[The Simpsons (animation)|The Simpsons Already Did It]]", "[[Anime|Good Times With Weapons]]", "[[Heavy Metal (animation)|Major Boobage]]" and "[[World of Warcraft|Make Love, Not Warcraft]]".
* [[Ashes to Crashes]]: Cartman drinks Kenny's ashes, believing them to be chocolate milk mix. As a result of this, Kenny's soul becomes trapped inside Cartman, providing a story arc for the next few episodes.
* [[Ash Face]]: "Summer Sucks" ends with the town covered in ash. Chef arrives from vacation to find everyone in [[Blackface]] and orders everyone to get in line for a butt kicking.
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* [[The Bully]]: In "Butterballs", Butters is secretly bullied and beat up by his own grandma. She even follows him to school and bullies him in the bathroom. It's a running gag in the episode where people go to the bathroom to find a bully there waiting there for him.
** Cartman seems to be the most evident in South Park Elementary, once even spearheading a tirade of abuse on a kid until he committed suicide. [[Characterization Marches On|In earlier episodes]], Stan and Kyle also had shades of this, it's implied even Cartman suffered heavily from them.
* [[Bumbling Dad]]: Randy Marsh. ''Dear God Randy Marsh''. He makes [[The Simpsons (animation)|Homer Simpson]] look like [[Leave It to Beaver|Wally Cleaver]]. Some of his brilliant exploits include:
** Attending Little League games for the express purpose of getting into fights with competing team members' dads.
** Driving drunk, then after attending [[Alcoholics Anonymous]] {{spoiler|shaving his head chemo-style and residing himself to a wheelchair under insane delusions of disease}}.
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* [[But You Screw One Goat!]]:
** Several episodes and [[The Movie]] reference or, God forgive, portray zoophilia [[Played for Laughs|for comic effect]].
** In a strange variation, Cartman attempts to train a pony to bite Scott Tenorman's penis off. He builds an effigy of his enemy, and attaches a hotdog to represent the
* [[Cain and Abel]]: Lemmiwinks and Wikileaks in "Bass to Mouth".
* [[The Cake Is a Lie]]: Sorry if you came to [[La Résistance]] hoping for [[I Was Told There Would Be Cake|punch and pie]].
* [[Call Back]]: In the first Halloween episode, Wendy wins the school costume contest with a [[Star Wars|Chewbacca]] mask. In the third, Kenny enters the contest with an insanely elaborate [[Humongous Mecha]] costume and seems a shoo-in to win... only for Wendy to win again with the ''exact same'' mask. They might even have relooped Mr. Garrison's announcing her winner for that one.
** Also in the first Halloween episode was a conversation where Cartman [[Chewbacca Defense|got confused about what planet Wookies come from...]]
** In the Season 3 episode "Starvin' Marvin in Space", Cartman blames Kyle for a turd in the urinal. Season 10 makes an entire episode <ref>
** In the Season 8 episdoe "Awesom-O", a disguised Eric Cartman asks Butters to reveal private aspects of his life. After mentioning a particularly embarrassing bowel condition, he mentions a bully named—you guessed it—Eric Cartman who likes to play tricks on him. The two incidents he names are from previous episodes: "Jared Has Aides" and "Stupid Spoiled Whore Playset".
** In "Elementary School Musical", the boys are asked rhetorically "where have you been" when they say they don't know anything about ''[[High School Musical]]''. [[Deadpan Snarker|Craig]] replies "Peru", a [[Call Back]] to "Pandemic" earlier in the season.
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** "The Biggest Douche in the Universe" is truncated in TV listings to just "The Biggest". The two-parter that closes Season 1 ("Cartman's Mom Is a Dirty Slut") and [[April Fools' Day|"officially"]] opens Season 2 ("Cartman's Mom Is Still a Dirty Slut") has "(is) a dirty slut" replaced by ellipses. The "bitch" in "Butters' Bottom Bitch" is replaced with a "B".
* [[Cephalothorax]]: The "girl born without a midsection" on the Maury Povich show.
* [[Cerebus Retcon]]: {{spoiler|Kenny's recurring deaths}} and {{spoiler|the explanation behind the subsequent [[Snap Back
** And it's not about Kenny's dad {{spoiler|getting raped by the 30 or so middle aged men in that episode}} either.
** You know all those wacky activities that Randy hilariously takes as [[Serious Business]]? Well, it turns out.... {{spoiler|that Randy was trying to distract himself from the fact that he's unhappy with his life}}.
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* [[Clip Show]]: Spoofed in "City on the Edge of Forever", in which all the flashbacks are incorrect and all inexplicably end with the characters involved eating ice cream.
** "Now that's what I call [[A Worldwide Punomenon|a sticky situation!]]"
* [[Closer to Earth]]: Initially subverted, with most of the female residents often being twice as obnoxious as the males ([[Characterization Marches On|it's hard to believe that Randy Marsh was actually the more laid back of the two earlier on]]). Played more straight in later episodes where even the more obnoxious females such as Wendy and Sheila are far less shrill and prone to [[Idiot Ball
** Played pretty straight with Sharon. Paired with her husband they're pretty much the stereotypical "Woman smart, man stupid" sitcom couple.
* [[Cloudcuckooland]]: [[Canada, Eh?]]. Watch out for Scott!
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'''Cartman''': Hmmm, nope. I have no idea what you're talking about, Kyle.}}
** Although, since it IS Cartman, this could just be him being a [[Jerkass]].
** In the episode "201": {{spoiler|Scott Tenorman's father was Cartman's father. Cartman killed his own father and ''fed him to his half-brother''}}. Cartman has a
** In "Death", the earlier airings feature the following exchange:
{{quote|'''Liane:''' Eric, dear? I just got a call from your friend Kyle's mother. She said that this show is naughty, and might make you a potty mouth.
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* [[Dropped a Bridge on Him]]:
** Chef, literally.
** Halfway through the "Professor Chaos"/"Simpsons Already Did It" two-parter, Ms. Choksondik dies off-screen, with the cause of death never revealed.
** Pip in the episode "201" {{spoiler|gets stepped on by [[Instant Awesome, Just Add Mecha|Barbara Streisand]] for no reason}}.
* [[Dug Too Deep]]: BP in "Coon 2: Hindsight".
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