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* [[Early Installment Weirdness]]: In
* [[Easy Road to Hell]]: A definite example in the movie. Kenny has been killed (again) and his soul drifts up towards heaven. However, as soon as he touches it, he gets an "Access Denied" message and tumbles straight down to Hell, which has a "Population" sign showing a huge and ever-increasing number, whilst the equivalent sign for Heaven revealed a tiny population. And it's not as if Kenny has exactly had time to sin much. All [[Played for Laughs]] of course.
** In the the
*** Although in
* [[Eccentric Townsfolk]]: And how.
* [[Eek!
* [[Egg Sitting]]: The plot of "Follow That Egg!".
* [[Eldritch Abomination]]:
** Also, Cartman's Trapper Keeper.
** Cartman himself seems to go to this level in the parts of "Tsst!" with the nannies, at least fitting the criteria of causing people to lose their sanity.
** "Coon 2: Hindsight" has
* [[Eldritch Location]]: Imagination Land
* [[Embarrassing Slide]]: "Cartman Sucks". [[Ho Yay|Literally.]]
* [[Emo Teen]]: ''Goth Kids 3: Dawn of the Posers'' introduces the Emos as the natural enemy of both the [[South Park/Characters#The Goth Kids|Goth kids]] and the rival Vampire kids.
* [[End-of-Episode Silliness]]
* [[Establishing an Unreachable Baseline]]: Cartman can't laugh after he sees people with butts for faces.
* [[Even Evil Has Standards]]: Cartman, for all his atrocities, draws the line at [[Groin Attack|shooting people in the dick.]] He also loves cats, going to a lot of trouble to protect them in one episode. And he adored the Jakovasaurs, though everyone else hated them.
** In [[The Movie]], the [[Moral Guardians|Mothers Against Canada]] (except Sheila) support war with Canada, but not if it means [[Not in My Back Yard|their]] children are in the middle of it. Sheila learned her lesson [[Moral Event Horizon|the hard way]].
** Even ''Al freaking Qaeda'' suicide bombs the "armies" of New Jersey to help America before the idiocy can spread to Afghanistan.
** Satan does this often. In addition to hating his [[Jerkass]] boyfriend Saddam Hussein, he also despises [[My Super Sweet Sixteen|rich, spoiled 16 year old girls]] (he fears that he might become one, but one of his minions tells him "you're not ''that'' bad") and thinks that someone dressing up as Steve Irwin with a sting ray through their chest at his Halloween party is offensive.
* [[Everyone Is Bi]]: Every guy's masturbated with another guy before. But not in a hot tub at a party.
* [[Everyone Is Jesus in Purgatory]]: "The Tale of Scrotie McBoogerballs" deals with this [[In-Universe]].
* [[Evil Cannot Comprehend Good]]: In one episode, Cartman simply cannot wrap his mind around why Stan and Kyle feel bad that Butters is going to be punished for something they did. "Is it because you think you'll get in trouble ''later''?"
* [[Evil Twin]]: Spoofed in "Spookyfish".
* [[Evil Versus Evil]]: Eric Cartman vs Saddam Hussein. Eric Cartman vs. Scott Tenorman. Eric Cartman vs. Osama bin Laden. The Coon vs. Professor Chaos. Celebrities vs. ginger kids in "200"/"201" (and they eventually team up).
* [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin]]: Some of the news reporters are people like "a Hispanic Man with Some Gravy Stains on his Lapel", or "Midget Wearing Bikini".
** There was also a reporter who was introduced by the anchor as "a normal-looking guy with a funny name" (his name is shown as "Creamy Goodness").
* [[Excellent Adventure]]: [[Parodied Trope|Parodied]] in "I'm a Little Bit Country" where Cartman's refusal to study for a history exam like Stan, Kyle and Kenny leads him to [[Invoked Trope|intentionally attempt this based on his knowledge of it]] by harming himself in various ways to render himself unconscious and induce a flashback. His final plan involves {{spoiler|1=electrocuting himself in a tub with a TiVo that he recorded to capacity with History Channel programs. ''And it actually works''
* [[Excuse Question]]: The town once held a quiz show filled with these for the benefit of Jakovasaurs in an attempt to get rid of them. Unfortunately, they ''didn't'' get the correct answers, and Officer Barbarry forgot that he was supposed to be throwing the competition.
* [[Expy]]: All of the children at the handicapped summer camp in
** Funnybot is a [[Doctor Who|Dalek]].
* [[Extreme Doormat]]: Cartman's mom.
* [[The Extremist Was Right]]: [[Knight Templar|Cartman]] in "Die Hippie, Die".
* [[Eye Scream]]: In the first episode of
** In an instance from the very first season, Kenny winds up having an eye torn from his skull as he's mauled to death by turkeys.
** Done quite graphically to [[Strawberry Shortcake]] in "Imaginationland". To say nothing of the [[Up to Eleven|woodland critters' input on the matter]].
* [[The Faceless]]: Kenny, though his face has been seen at least six times:
* [[Fail O'Suckyname]]: Sea Man from the episode "Super Best Friends". Not only do the superhero religions call him by [[Punny Name|a pun on "semen"]], but it doesn't help that he can communicate with fish, one of which is a sidekick named Swallow:
{{quote|'''Narrator:''' Meanwhile, in the ocean depths, Seaman seeks out water to mix with the concrete.
'''Sea Man:''' Sea Man! Look, Swallow, we should be able to divert the water with that pipe.
'''Narrator:''' And so, Seaman and Swallow get to... get to work. ''*laughs*''
** The boys' school football team are the Cows.
** Butters' real name, fitting for his Woobie status, is Leopold Stotch.
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* [[Fan Disservice]]: Among others, Ms. Choksondik's enormous, sagging breasts and the sex scene between her and Mr. Mackey
* [[Fan of the Underdog]]: Pip, Butters and Dougie are all [[Butt Monkey|"Melvins" prone to bullying at school]], and so often act as their only friends. Stan and Kyle occasionally [[Throw the Dog a Bone]] as well ([[Jerkass Facade|so long as no one else is around]]).
* [[Fantasy Character Classes]]: The five basic classes in the South Park RPG are Fighter, Mage, Thief, Cleric
* [[Farts on Fire]]: Cartman in the first episode. In the [[Pilot]] version, it was caused by eating extra spicy tamales that Chef gave to the boys to help give them an excuse to leave school. In the actual premire, his anal probe was causing this.
* [[Fat Camp]]: Cartman was sent to a fat camp, and came back skinny
* [[Fire and Brimstone Hell]]: Played straight sometimes, but more often subverted. Sure, there's plenty of flame, but as often as not it seems to be a pleasant and fun place, and just about everyone winds up there regardless of their goodness or badness.
* [[Five-Man Band]]:
** [[The Hero]]: Stan.
** [[The Lancer]]: Kenny (or Kyle).
** [[The Big Guy]]: Cartman (possibly subverted in the fact that although he can enact more damage (either directly or indirectly) on someone (via manipulation et al
** [[The Smart Guy]]: Kyle (or Kenny... particularly considering that in the earlier seasons Kenny was the only one who really understood things).
** [[The Chick]]: Wendy.
** [[The Heart]]: Butters.
** [[Tagalong Kid]]: Ike.
** [[Sixth Ranger]]: Jimmy, thought this can be any of the other kids depending on the episode.
** Also, the fandom applies this trope to Craig's team as well:
*** [[The Hero]] (or [[Anti-Hero]], more appropriately): Craig.
*** [[The Lancer]]
*** [[The Big Guy]]: Clyde (he's said to be the second fattest kid in the class, after Cartman).
*** [[The Chick]]: Tweek, when he occasionally tags along with them.
*** [[Sixth Ranger|The Fifth Ranger]]: Jimmy or Kevin.
* [[Flatline]]: Present in some episodes where characters happen to be in hospital for various reasons.
* [[Flat What]]: Cartman gives one in "T.M.I.", when he finds out that the school actually ''didn't'' [[It Makes Sense in Context|post the boys' penis sizes]].
** Cartman also does it in "Crack Baby Athletic Association", when Kyle proposes using 30% of the company's profits to build an orphanage for the crack babies.
** Stan is quite prone to these when something immensely strange, stupid or unexpected happens. Sometimes he upgrades it to a deadpan [[Precision F-Strike|"Dude, what the fuck?"]].
* [[Flaw Exploitation]]: Cartman's revenge plot against Scott Tenorman relies heavily on this. If Stan and Kyle didn't
* [[Fluffy Cloud Heaven]]: Limited only to Mormons. It's ''extremely'' dull as a result.
* [[Foe Yay]]: Involving Cartman/Kyle, Cartman/Butters, Cartman/Wendy and [[Red Oni, Blue Oni|Craig/Tweek]].
** The Cartman/Kyle foe yay is perhaps most evident in the Imaginationland storyline. The lengths Cartman goes to in order to make Kyle live up to their contract are phenomenal. The contract? If Cartman can prove the existence of leprechauns, Kyle has to suck his balls.
* [[Food Porn]]: Taken to disturbingly literal territory with Randy's short-lived obsession with Food Network in the episode
* [[Foreshadowing]]: In ''South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut
* [[For Inconvenience Press One]]: In the middle of a [[Zombie Apocalypse]].
* [[Formally-Named Pet]]: Cartman's cat
* [[For the Evulz]]: Apparently, the Mongolians' only motivation for repeatedly destroying sections of the Great City Wall of South Park in "Child Abduction
* [[For the Funnyz]]
* [[Free-Range Children]]: Very possibly the most overt use of this trope in the history of Western media.
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* [[Fur and Loathing]]: Spoofed to hell. Don't throw paint on a gangsta rapper's clothes.
* [[Gainax Ending]]: The end of the Coon and Friends arc. That is all.
* [[Gambit Pileup]]: In
{{quote|Cartmen lets Shelly into his locked room.
Shelly: Haha! That was a turd trick! Your mom isn't really dead!
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Cartman: Aha! I saw you get the picture back from Mr. Kitty and that's why I wrote a letter to the press, to be opened in case of my demise. Should anything happen to me that letter will go out, and you will never find it.
Shelly: *Picks up the letter* You mean this one?
Cartman: ... [[Indy Ploy|Okay, let's see now...]] Aha! Umm... [[Out-Gambitted|god damn it!]]
* [[Game Show Appearance]]: "With Apologies to Jesse Jackson" opens with Stan's dad as a ''[[Wheel of Fortune]]'' contestant.
* [[Garage Band]]: The Lords of the Underworld. They only become popular when they become [[Ensemble Darkhorse|Timmy]] and the Lords of the Underworld.
* [[Genius Ditz]]: Randy Marsh is a brilliant scientist, but otherwise a complete idiot.
* [[Genre Savvy]]: Subverted. The children (especially Stan and Kyle) seem to be at least partially aware of the insanity of their world and its other inhabitants, but are unable to change anything.
** In "Stanley's Cup", the characters correctly realize that they are in a typical sports movie and thus are bound to win against all odds. They also understand that to achieve that, they need to invite a really good player to their team for the final match, which they also do. This is subverted when they turn out to be [[Wrong Genre Savvy]] and are beaten brutally: the opposing team were the real protagonists all along. Similarly, in "The Losing Edge", the team remarks that at this point of the movie, they should include a new, special player in the team to achieve their goals. Only their goal in to ''lose'' and the player is absolutely terrible.
** Cartman plays this straight in "
** Also, Kenny as Mysterion is sort of [[Genre Savvy]], treating his inability to die as a "super power".
*** Kenny in general is occasionally very genre savvy about his dying. In "Tweek vs. Craig", he avoids shop class knowing exactly what will happen (and does happen) the moment he gets around those dangerous power tools. In "It's Christmas in Canada", he's wary about getting on a plane because, saying (muffled) "dude, I'll fucking die." In "Cherokee Hair Tampons
*** In fact, Kenny tends to be something of a genre-savvy straight man in general: the gag being that the audience can't generally understand what he's saying, even though it's a lampshade or something savvy.
** [[Deadpan Snarker|Craig]] is this, especially in latter episodes.
* [[Genre Shift]]: ''South Park'' initially started out as a simple surrealist comedy, but the creators later shifted it to a commentary of the real world, from everything such as politics to celebrities. The creators intentionally wrote Mr. Hat out of the show as a symbol of the transition.
** In-universe
* [[Get a Hold of Yourself, Man!]]: Said word-for-word to Butters in "Two Guys Naked in a Hot Tub".
* [[Getting Crap Past the Radar]]: Despite the TV-MA rating, the show seems to have its limits as to what gets shown or heard on TV. Of course, since it's ''South Park'' we're talking about, they find loopholes...
** According to an interview featured in ''[[This Film Is Not Yet Rated]]'', [[The Movie]]'s subtitle was supposed to be "All Hell Breaks Loose", but the use of the word "hell" was resisted. By the time that resistance figured out what else
** Kenny's dialogue is not nonsensical mumbling, but just Matt Stone speaking into his sleeve. If you're able to decipher it Kenny easily has the most raunchy dialogue. ''Especially'' in the [http://southpark.wikia.com/wiki/Kenny_McCormick#In_The_Theme_Song opening].
** The Chinese man who owns the City Wok. Whenever he says "City Wok", his accent makes it sound like "Shitty Wok", much to the kids' amusement.
**
** Muhammad was in the opening crowd shot for 27 episodes (from "Smug Alert!" to "The List").
** On at least one occasion in
** The bowling place in "You're Getting Old" has an arcade cabinet of ''Custer's Revenge'' <ref>
** About halfway through Season 15, the original broadcast version of episodes have now become able to say "shit" without being bleeped out, although other episodes didn't follow this. "Fuck" is still unable to be said uncensored.
* [[Gilligan Cut]]: ''"Asspen"'' opens with all the boys' parents having drinks together, and the Stotches saying how glad they are that Butters finally seems to have finally made some close friends. Cut to the kids watching TV, and Cartman urinating on Butters while he's asleep.
** In the episode
* [[The Gods Must Be Lazy]]: In [[The Movie]], Satan and Saddam Hussein rise up from hell and take over earth. Only the fact that Saddam is such a [[Jerkass]] and Satan is a [[Jerk with a Heart of Gold]] saved Earth from being plunged into a 1000 years of darkness, and yet God does not seem to be doing anything to stop him. It's especially jarring considering that Jesus and God are both recurring characters, and you can actually briefly see Jesus in the background of one of the shots in the movie (when the soldiers are marching in front of Kyle's house). Also, in the newest episode
* [[Gonk]]: Subverted with Ugly Bob, who is by all accounts extremely hideous but has the same facial and bodily features as his fellow Canadians. This is, of course, [[Played for Laughs]].
** Sarah Jessica Parker is portrayed as this.
* [[Good Angel, Bad Angel]]: Spoofed in "Ike's Wee
* [[Good Angel, Bad Angel]]/[[Power Trio]]: Nowadays, there is a tendency for Kyle to act as the superego (good angel), Cartman act as the Id (devil), and Stan be the ego. Of course, like all things on
* [[Good Girls Avoid Abortion]]: During the ''[[Stand and Deliver]]'' episode, one of the students is pregnant but refuses to have an abortion. Cartman convinces her otherwise (since it's "cheating").
** There was also an episode where Cartman's mom wants to abort Cartman and slept with many politicians in order to allow abortions in the 40th trimester. It turns out, however, that she confused "abortion" with "adoption".
* [[Good Is Not Nice]]: Kyle. Seeing some of the conflicts between him and Cartman [[It Makes Sense in Context|out of context]] wouldn't make all that clear that Kyle's supposed to be the good guy.
** This only happens in "Le Petit Tourette", though, in the perspective of the adults. Cartman fakes Tourette's Syndrome to get what he wants, and Kyle, [[Captain Obvious|who's known Cartman all his life]], gets annoyed and says that he doesn't have Tourette's, and an authority figure that hears it accuses Kyle of being a bully and he is taken to observe various kids with Tourette's (with lack of swearing). He is then forced to apologize to Cartman. However, when Cartman plans to bad-mouth Jews, it's the straw that breaks the camel's back, so Kyle devises an elaborate plan that
** In earlier episodes, Stan and Kyle were essentially lower scale [[Jerkass|Jerkasses]] that actually joined Cartman in bullying or manipulating others when they weren't the target (usually [[Butt Monkey|Butters, Pip or Kenny]]). It was only around [[Faux Affably Evil|Cartman]] that they looked moralistic (though admittedly they are far more toned down and sympathetic in later episodes).
* [[Good News, Bad News]]
* [[Good Ol' Boy]]: Many locals, particularly the "I'm
* [[Good Thing You Can Heal]]: In the Coon and Friends trilogy, it's revealed that Kenny coming [[Back
* [[Gosh Dang It to Heck]]: Usually, Butters. Aversions are notable, such as the end of "Imaginationland
** An example that could be considered subtle in the episode "All About Mormons
** At the end of "Christian Rock Hard", when Cartman's plan to achieve a platinum album by appealing to the CCM masses is foiled when {{spoiler|he's told that Contemporary Christian albums go myrrh instead of [[I Thought It Meant|platinum]]}}, he suddenly goes nuts and curses the very deity he, um, [[Double Entendre|"praised"]] to get there. After a much offended crowed disperses, Butters, the drummer for his band, approaches Eric and farts on his face. He then flips him off, saying "Fuck you, Eric", and walks off.
* [[Got Volunteered]]: A [[Running Gag]] with Butters, usually suggested by Cartman and agreed by Stan and Kyle.
* [[Gratuitous English]]: Spoofed in "Good Times
* [[Gratuitous Japanese]]: "Over Logging", in which we find out that Randy Marsh has a fetish for [[Asian Gal with White Guy|Japanese girls]] [[Shock Site|puking in each other's mouths]] ([[But You Screw One Goat!|among other perversions]]), said porn features "dialogue" along the lines of "kawaii deshou" and "watashi wa * barf* daisuki..."
** This gets even more amusing when you remember Trey Parker speaks fluent Japanese.
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** The eponymous [[Public Service Announcement]] troupe at the beginning of "Butt Out".
* [[The Grays]]: The aliens in the first episode who put satellites in people's butts are this. This later turns out to be a plot point in a later episode they re-appear in. They are also seen in the background in nearly every episode.
** When the series started, that part of Colorado ranked very high in UFO-related claims. Trey Parker claimed to have been abducted and probed in his first ''Tonight Show'' interview.
* [[Greedy Jew]]: Cartman uses the term "Covetous Jew".
** Played with heavily. Gerald Broflovski is a lawyer and has invoked this from time to time, most notably in "Sexual Harrassment Panda". It's also implied that Kyle's family is a little better off than much of the town (but nowhere near the Blacks). Kyle himself usually averts this trope despite Cartman's (hands down the most greedy character) constant ripping on Jewish sterotypes.
* [[Green Aesop]]: Sometimes spoofed, but more often subverted in that the Aesops are anti-environmentalist. Going as far as to flat-out say that rainforrests are evil, and there's no evidence of global warming.
** One of the creators of the show actually visited Costa Rica and... well, during the commentary for the
* [[Grotesque Cute]]
* [[Growing Up Sucks]]: "You're Getting Old
** As it turns out,
* [[Half Arc Season]]: Season 6 had most of the episodes deal with Butters and Tweek as Kenny's replacements, and later Cartman being possessed by Kenny's spirit.
** While they have different plots, most of the "non-issue" episodes in Season 4 tended to revolve around Cartman's various attempts at getting $10 million. In Season 12, it's the boys' gradual discovery of their unpopularity.
* [[Handicapped Badass]]: Timmy and Jimmy. In "Cripple Fight", they manage to beat each other up despite being unable to walk, and Timmy is perfectly capable of... well, doing whatever it's funny for a retarded kid in a motorised wheelchair to do.
* [[Hannibal Lecture]]: Played with in "Toilet Paper
* [[Happily Ever After]]: Subverted in some episodes:
{{quote|"And they all lived Happily Ever After, except for Pocket who died of hepatitis B."
"And they all lived Happily Ever After, except for Kyle who died of AIDS two weeks later." ("Goddamnit, Cartman!")
* [[Hard Work Montage]]
* [[Harmless Villain]]: Butters' "Professor Chaos" alter-ego.
* [[Haunted House Historian]]: A parody of Judd Crandall from ''[[Pet Sematary]]''.
* [[Have a Gay Old Time]]: "The F Word" argues and advocates the notion that "fag" is no longer a derogatory term for homosexuals, but for loud, annoying douchebags. Like [[Acceptable Targets|Harley riders]].
* [[Head Desk]]: In "Hooked on Monkey Fonics", Kyle falls in love with the [[Homeschooled Kids]] Rebecca, who is unfamiliar with the public school system. When he asks her to come to the dance, she says she might see him there. Kyle explains that he meant going to the dance with him, but Rebecca explains there is no need for that since her father will drive her there. Once she leaves the room, Kyle bangs his head against her chair.
* [[Headless Horseman]]: In "Imaginationland", the Horseman is one of the "evil" characters that resides in Imaginationland.
* [[Heart Is an Awesome Power]]: Parodied with Captain Hindsight, whose only superpower, besides [[Flight]], is to tell people what they ''should've'' done before an accident happened. This somehow counts as saving the day.
**
* [[Heavy Voice]]: In the second episode, when Cartman gains a lot of weight, his voice gets deeper (and thicker). The same happens to all the boys in "Make Love, Not Warcraft
* [[Heel Face Revolving Door]]: Cartman has gone from being one of the team to actually being the villain of the episode and back again so many times over the years, he may as well be labeled the poster boy for this trope.
** Cartman will generally do whatever will benefit him at the moment, but there a few episodes where he does something good even when he won't get anything out of it.
* [[Hell of a Heaven]]: Heaven is full of Mormons. This was used to punish Sadam Hussein, actually.
* [[Henshin Hero]]: Bradley Biggle plays this trope straight to become ''Mint Berry Crunch
* [[Hermaphrodite]]: Liane Cartman is revealed to be one at the end of the Eric Cartman's Father Two-Parter. {{spoiler|Though
* [[Heterosexual Life Partners]]: Stan and Kyle, though both Randy and Cartman have questioned the 'heterosexual' part.
* [[He Who Fights Monsters]]:
** Abiding by some circumstances, Cartman himself. While often depicted as a sociopath and a [[Jerkass]] it is made clear the other boys enjoy picking on him whether he provokes it or not, this perhaps becomes most coherent in
*** The plot of "Crack Baby Athletic Association" is heavily based on Kyle fulfilling this trope. In one scene where he attempts to justify Cartman's shady behavior to Stan, Stan repeatedly responds that it "sounds like something Cartman would say" as Kyle continues his monologue. Eventually Kyle becomes enraged at Stan's comments and snaps back "I do ''not'' sound like Cartman GODDAMNIT!", complete with raspy voice and grimacing face. He quickly covers his mouth in embarrassment and commercial break ensues.
** An interesting pattern is given in both characters' behaviour as a result of their abuse, Kyle is tortured by Cartman and thus bullies fat people, Cartman is tortured by Kyle and thus is anti-semetic.
* [[Hey, You]]: Shelley hasn't called Stan by his given name since Season
* [[Hidden Depths]]: Lots of characters but Ike in particular. He is a conservative, intellectual, jewel thief, pirate, adopted, Canadian/American, Jew in Kindergarten.
** And if his late female [[Teacher-Student Romance|teacher/lover]] is to be believed, [[Squick|a demon in the sack.]]
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* [[Hippie Jesus]]
* [[Hiss Before Fleeing]]
* [[Hollywood Atlas]]: Mocked. The city of South Park is a send-up of the cliches and stereotypes about "flyover country
* [[Hollywood Sex]]: Subverted spectacularly when Mr. Mackey and Ms. Choksondik fall for each other.
* [[Hollywood
* [[Homage]]: Lots of them, many of ''very'' high detail. Some notable ones:
**
** "Proper Condom Use" casts Butters as [[Mad Max|Humungus]] telling the girls to "Just walk away
**
*** The Imagination Doorway in the same episode is also an homage to ''[[Stargate (film)|Stargate]]''. They even include Kurt Russel (who played one of the lead roles in the movie) in the team that gets sent through the doorway, saying that he was "in that movie that was kinda like this."
**
**
** Wendy fighting Cartman in
**
** The opening of "The Coon" has a shot taken directly from ''[[Watchmen]]''.
***
*** "In Mysterion Rises", Cartman tries to manipulate the evil god Cthulhu, resulting in a relationship similar to Satsuki and Totoro from Miyazaki's "[[My Neighbor Totoro]]". Seriously.
**** And more specifically, exactly like ''(as in frame for frame)'', ''[[Feed the Kitty]]
** (A longer list is available on the [[South Park/Shout Out|Shout Out]] page.)
* [[Horrible Judge of Character]]: Played in "Free Hat" for laughs. The episode's titular character, Hat McCollough, is a serial murderer of twenty-three babies, but a protest group wants him freed from jail, claiming he killed the babies in self-defense.
** Cartman's mom seems to think he's a "little angel" to the point where she doesn't even question his story about why he has a picture of him with Butter's penis in his mouth in
* [[Huge Holographic Head]]
* [[Hugh Mann]]: "Bill Cosby" in the episode "Trapper Keeper".
* [[Humanoid Abomination]]
* [[Humans Are Morons]]: The episode "Cancelled
* [[Humble Goal]]: Many episode plots involve the kids wanting something relatively mundane -- say, getting the latest gaming system, or returning a rented video on time -- but continually getting waylaid by assorted weirdness.
** "Margaritaville". That is all.
* [[Humiliation Conga]]: The entire episode "
* [[Hypocritical Heartwarming]]: The only time Shelley shows ''any'' affection towards Stan is when it looks like someone else might have the privilege of beating him up.
* [[Hypocritical Humor]]: In the Spanish dub of [[The Movie]], since there isn't a word for "bitch" in Spanish, Cartman sings "la mama de Kyle is una puta" (Kyle's mom is a whore). And we all know about [[Really Gets Around|Cartman's mom...]]
** From "My Future Self
{{quote|'''Sharon:''' Stan, what did I tell you about watching ''[[The Osbournes]]''?
'''Stan:''' Aw, come on, Mom.
'''Sharon:''' [[Take That|It's going to make you retarded!]]<br />
'''Stan:''' It's just a show! It doesn't have any fucking effect on me, for fuck's sake!
** In the episode "Free Hat
** In "I'm
** In "201", Jesus says that people get upset when Muhammad is made un of because he's a religious figure, immediately followed by [[Buddha]] doing crack in front of kids.
* [[I Am Big Boned]]: Cartman.
* [[I Am Not My Father]]: Stan in particular is pretty ashamed of his father most of the time and tries to avoid being like him, not that he always succeeds.
** To a lesser extent, Kyle's like this, but usually with his mother.
* [[I Ate What?]]?:
** Scott Tenorman's parents is the most infamous example.
** The "chocolate milk mix" Cartman drank. It was actually {{spoiler|''Kenny's cremated body
** The baby (technically, since it doesn't say anything) in the Mr. Hankey Fake Commercial.
* [[I Banged Your Mom]]: Cartman's mom is known for this. By everyone in town. Including the women. Including Jesus. [[Robosexual|Including the time traveling robot.]]
* [[Icarus Allusion]]: In "Cartman's Incredible Gift", Cartman tries to fly from his roof with cardboard wings and ends up in the hospital recovering from head trauma. The cops believe that he now has psychic abilities because they have heard of similar cases; they take his advice and dismiss Kyle's. Kyle concludes he has to be as stupid as Cartman to be acknowledged. Before he does so, Butters tells him not to fly too close to the sun.
* [[Idiot Ball]]: The adults always get tossed this.
** In "Major Boobage", {{spoiler|Kyle is handed one when he takes home a cat despite a ban on them because their urine was a drug for "cheesing"
* [[I'm Mr. Future Pop Culture Reference]]: Parodied with [[VSM 471]], a cyborg from the year 2034 coming to our time and adopting the name "[[Bill Cosby]]".
* [[Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy]]:
* [[Incredibly Lame Fun]]: In the episode "Here Comes
* [[Incurable Cough of Death]]: The episode "Kenny Dies" first shows Kenny coughing a bit, and it being commented that he's had the cough for a while. The titular death is the result of "a muscular disease
* [[Indian Burial Ground]]:
* [[Informed Attractiveness]]: In "Pre-School", the Fifth Graders say Stan's mom has the hottest "bewbs" in South Park.
* [[Informed Deformity]]: Played for laughs with Ugly Bob from "Terrance and Phillip in Not Without My Anus".
* [[Informed Obscenity]]: In the episode "It Hits
* [[Infant Immortality]]: Subverted and played straight:
* [[Insane Troll Logic]]: How else can you get from buttsex (which wasn't even mentioned) to binary code?
** Pretty much all adults (and often the children too though less frequently) use [[Insane Troll Logic]] most of the time. And that's all of them, in the world.
* [[Inspirationally Disadvantaged]]: Cheerfully subverted with Timmy and Jimmy, who in addition to having plenty of achievements that have nothing to do with their disabilities also have dynamic personalities, with character strengths and flaws.
* [[Instant Awesome, Just Add Mecha]]: Mecha Streisand.
* [[Intentional Engrish for Funny]]: "Let's Fighting Love".
** And, Trey Parker [[Shown Their Work|majored in Japanese]]. Translated, there are some jokes in there.
*** Some of the lines translate to things such as "I have a fantastic penis", "This English is screwed up". If you ever wanted to know the Japanese word for a man's jewels, it's in there as well.
* [[Intercourse with You]]: Pretty much every time Chef sings, intentional or not.
* [[Internal Retcon]]: The 200th episode revealed this to be the case with {{spoiler|the early story arc concerning Cartman's father}}.
* [[Invisible Streaker]]: Subverted in "Good Times
{{quote|'''Mr. Garrison:''' You see the damage you've caused, [[Full Name Ultimatum|Eric Cartman]]? ''What were you thinking?!''<br />
'''Cartman:''' I told you it was a [[Wardrobe Malfunction]]!
* [[Irony]]: In "Cartman Joins NAMBLA
**
* [[I See Dead People]]: Or Dead Celebrities.
* [[It Got Worse]]: BP first drills into the ocean and creates another
** Oh
* [[It Is Always Spring|It Is Always Winter]]: It is almost always ''winter'' in this show, even during times of the year when it shouldn't be. A rare exception is in "Summer Sucks", where humor comes from how quickly everyone gets bored with the lack of snow, which was probably a response to ''TV Guide'' claiming during
** Cartman makes a joke in one episode about having only two seasons in South Park: winter and July.
** Semi-justified by the fact that South Park is a mountain town.
* [[It Makes Sense in Context]]: In "200", when they discussed the last time Muhammad appeared in public.
{{quote|'''Sergeant Yates:''' Muhammad showed up and there was no violence at all?
'''Stan:''' Well, this giant John Wilkes Booth shot [[Abraham Lincoln]]...<ref>In "The Super Best Friends", while the Blainetologists are trying to commit mass suicide, David Blaine brought the Lincoln statue at the Lincoln Memorial to life in order to attack the Super Best Friends. The Super Best Friends, in turn, create a statue of Booth to assassinate the Lincoln statue.</ref>
** In-universe example from the episode "Cartoon Wars Part
{{quote|'''Cartman:''' Excuse me, Kyle, but I have some idea balls to remove from a manatee tank.
(turns and leaves)
'''Kyle:''' What!?
** "Chef's Chocolate Salty Balls
* [[Its Always Sunny in Miami|It's Always Snowy in South Park]]
* [[It's Been Done]]: "
* [[It's Popular, Now It Sucks]]: An [[In-Universe]] Parody: "If you work in the entertainment industry, and you make money, you're a sellout."
* [[Ivy League for Everyone]]
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* [[Jerkass]]: Cartman is one of television's most infamous examples, making Homer Simpson post-season nine look like Ned Flanders pre-"Alone Again, Natura-Diddly" (or pre-"Hurricane Neddy").
** Also, Saddam Hussein.
** [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|Scott the Dick]].
** All of the adults have had their moments, as well. In particular, Sheila because she's overbearing, the school staff because they're incompetent morons, Butters' parents because they treat him badly, Officer Yates because of his [[Lawful Stupid]] nature, and Randy because he's Randy.
* [[Jesus Was Way Cool]]: Jesus is just a friendly guy living in suburbia and hosting his public access TV show.
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* [[Jewish Complaining]]: Particularly from Kyle's mother, and his cousin.
* [[Jumping Out of a Cake]]: "Butters' Bottom Bitch" has an undercover cop posing as a hooker in one of these.
* [[Jurisdiction Friction]]: Mocked. In "Lil' Crime Stoppers", the boys are playing city cops, and the kids playing FBI keep showing up to take their cases away.
* [[Just Like Making Love]]:
{{quote|'''Chef''': Children, playing football is like making love to a really beautiful woman. You can't always score, but when you can, it makes all the trying worthwhile.}}
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