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*** Although in ''Best Friends Forever'' it was mentioned that heaven grew an army whereas the overly excited Mormons are pacifists (and are at a alarmingly smaller size than hell) so this most probably means that more people were allowed in.

* [[Eccentric Townsfolk]]: And how.

* [[Egg Sitting]]: The plot of "Follow That Egg!"

* [[Eldritch Abomination]]: WalMart from ''Something Wall-Mart This Way Comes''.

* [[Eldritch Location]]: Imagination Land

* [[Embarrassing Slide]]: "Cartman Sucks". [[Ho Yay|Literally.]]

* [[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]].

* [[Fat Camp]]: Cartman was sent to a fat camp, and came back skinny {{spoiler|but it was really another kid he paid to show up.}}

* [[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.

** [[The Hero]]: Stan

** [[The Lancer]]: Kenny (or Kyle)

** [[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 Lancer]] / [[The Smart Guy]]: Token

*** [[The Big Guy]]: Clyde (he's said to be the second fattest kid in the class, after Cartman)

* [[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.

* [[Flaw Exploitation]]: Cartman's revenge plot against Scott Tenorman relies heavily on this. If Stan and Kyle didn't {{spoiler|rat him out to Scott}}, or Scott himself had reacted differently, the whole plan could have fallen apart.

* [[Fluffy Cloud Heaven]]: Limited only to Mormons. It's ''extremely'' dull as a result.

** 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, "Crème Fraiche".

* [[Foreshadowing]]: In ''South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut,'' when Kenny wants to go see the Terrance and Philip movie instead of going to church, his mom says, "Well, fine, you go ahead and miss church. And then, when you die and go to hell, you can answer to Satan!"

* [[For Inconvenience Press One]]: In the middle of a [[Zombie Apocalypse]].

* [[For the Evulz]]: Apparently the Mongolians' only motivation for repeatedly destroying sections of the Great City Wall of South Park in "Child Abduction is Not Funny."

* [[For the Funnyz]]

* [[The Freelance Shame Squad]]: When Stan shows up to the class Halloween party dressed up as Raggedy Andy (and Wendy doesn't go through with dressing as Raggedy Ann), Mr. Garrison actually says "Let's all laugh and point at Stan, everyone", and they do.

** When Randy gets a DUI in "Bloody Mary", Mr. Garrison gives a lecture on drunk driving, in which he brings Randy into the classroom to give a half-heated apology speech. Mr. Garrison then berates him quite thoroughly as he addresses the class as Stan hides his face in agonized embarrassment.

* [[From the Mouths of Babes]]: The kids are usually a lot more worldly than one would expect from their age, but other times they are quite innocent.

* [[Fully Automatic Clip Show]]: When Cartman is not invited to Kyle's birthday party, the latter mentions the times Cartman teased him for being Jewish.

* [[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; in "Sexual Healing", the video game franchise ''Tiger Woods PGA Tour'' turned into a pastiche of fighting games based on Woods' marital infidelity. Cartman, Stan, and Kenny loved the game. Once Woods got over his sexual addiction at the end of the episode, the next ''PGA Tour'' game [[Status Quo Is God|went back to the status quo]], upsetting Cartman and Stan (Kenny, meanwhile, [[They Killed Kenny|had died. Again]]).

* [[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 (Film)|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 "Bigger, Longer & Uncut" can refer to, the authors could get away with saying they'd already ordered the posters and making new ones with the original title would cost them too much money.

* [[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 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 {{spoiler|actually saves Cartman from going in too deep}}.

** 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 Thing You Can Heal]]: In the Coon trilogy, it's revealed that Kenny coming [[Back From the Dead]] isn't just a gag, but an actual superpower. That he's had to use his power hundreds of times by the time he's turned ten is apparently a coincidence.

* [[Gosh Dang It to Heck]]: Usually, Butters. Aversions are notable, such as the end of "Imaginationland," and the ''entirety'' of "Butters' Bottom Bitch".

* [[Got Volunteered]]: A [[Running Gag]] with Butters, usually suggested by Cartman and agreed by Stan and Kyle.

* [[Gratuitous English]]: Spoofed in "Good Times With Weapons".

** This gets even more amusing when you remember Trey Parker speaks fluent Japanese.

* [[Gratuitous Rap]]:

*** 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.

* [[Hidden Depths]]: Lots of characters but Ike in particular. He is a conservative, intellectual, jewel thief, pirate, adopted, Canadian/American, Jew in Kindergarten.

* [[High On Catnip]]: Parodied in "Cat Orgy". Kitty brings her tomcat friends in the house, dumps catnip on the floor, and one of the cats ''snorts it''.

* [[Hilariously Abusive Childhood]]: Considering the fact that ''all'' the protagonists suffer from some form of child abuse, this trope follows naturally.

* [[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.

** Scott Tenorman's parents is the most infamous example.

** The "chocolate milk mix" Cartman drank. It was actually {{spoiler|''Kenny's cremated body.''}}

** {{spoiler|That doubles as Fridge Logic/Horror, considering Kenny's immortality. This might have been his attempt to stop the cycle.}}

* [[I See Dead People]]: Or Dead Celebrities.

* [[It Got Worse]]: BP first drills into the ocean and creates another Oil spill. Then they dig again and release monsters from another dimension. They dig into the moon now, can't get worse right? {{spoiler|They release ''Cthulhu.''}}

** Oh cmon, that's total bullshit...everyone knows {{spoiler|Cthulu}} is sealed somewhere in the Atlantic near Antarctica!

** "Chef's Chocolate Salty Balls," which are actually balls made of chocolate which taste salty, not Chef's testicles.

* [[Its Always Sunny in Miami|It's Always Snowy in South Park]]

* [[Ivy League for Everyone]]

* [[I Was Told There Would Be Cake|I Was Told There Would Be Punch and Pie]]: The kids' lure to get people to join [[La Résistance]].