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** [[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 Smart Guy]]: Token
*** [[The Big Guy]]: Clyde (he's said to be the second fattest kid in the class, after Cartman)
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* [[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.
* [[Free-Range Children]]: Very possibly the most overt use of this trope in the history of Western media.
* [[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.
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** 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 ''Woodland Critter Christmas'', after Stan {{spoiler|kills the mountain lion and finds out that the animals he had helped to build a manger are actually Satan worshipers}} he repeatedly refuses to {{spoiler|take her now-orphaned cubs to learn how to perform abortions. With a forceful "[[Punctuated!
* [[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, "Mysterion Rises", God and Jesus don't seem to care that Cartman and the evil god [[Eldritch Abomination|Cthulhu]] are taking over the world.
* [[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]].
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* [[Good News, Bad News]]
* [[Good Ol' Boy]]: Many locals, particularly the "I'm A Little Bit Country" guy.
* [[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".
** An example that could be considered subtle in the episode "All About Mormons?" is that Butters refers to Gary, the new kid, as a peckerface, but it's quiet and in the background.
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* [[Hermaphrodite]]: Liane Cartman is revealed to be one at the end of the Eric Cartman's Father Two-Parter. {{spoiler|Though recent events suggest this may have been a fabrication}}.
* [[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.'' Complete with [[By the Power of Grayskull|a henshin phrase]], [[Clothes Make the Superman|a costume]] influenced by [[Kamen Rider]], and a [[Transformation Sequence]] which is heavily influenced by [[Sailor Moon]].
* [[Heterosexual Life Partners]]: Stan and Kyle, though both Randy and Cartman have questioned the 'heterosexual' part.
* [[He Who Fights Monsters]]: although it's never explicitly shown or mentioned in the show, this trope has been very gradually wearing away at Kyle since the beginning of the series, owing to Cartman's constant verbal, emotional, and psychological abuse. As of now, Kyle has only reached [[Determinator]] status, but his obsession breaks through rather...[[Knight Templar|darkly]] on occasion (eg. ''Ginger Kids'', ''Fatbeard'').
** 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 ''Cartman's Silly Hate Crime'' where after Cartman's departure, Stan and Kyle label Clyde the new fat kid and pick on him excessively for no reason until he gradually gains the same obnoxious temperament as Cartman. Indeed a lot of Cartman's treatment may come off as rather cruel and sympathetic if not for the [[Disproportionate Retribution|rather extreme manners of revenge he commits]].
*** 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.
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* [[Hollywood Tourettes]]: Played straight and deconstructed in the same episode.
* [[Homage]]: Lots of them, many of ''very'' high detail. Some notable ones:
** ''Cripple Fight'' (contains an elaborate shot-for-shot remake of the protracted fight from ''[[They Live!]]'')
** "Proper Condom Use" casts Butters as [[Mad Max|Humungus]] telling the girls to "Just walk away."
** ''Imaginationland: Episode II'' (Kyle's [[Disney Death]] is a sequence taken from ''[[The Abyss]]'')
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** (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 ''Cartman Sucks''. She also lets him get away with hell on earth, and always takes his side. However this is played with in the episode ''Tsst'' (like all things Southparkian).
* [[Huge Holographic Head]]
* [[Hugh Mann]]: "Bill Cosby" in the episode "Trapper Keeper".
* [[Humanoid Abomination]] {{spoiler|Kenny might be one of these}}
* [[Humans Are Morons]]: The episode "Cancelled," reveals Earth to be a giant [[Reality TV]] show for the rest of The Universe's silly amusement.
* [[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 "AWESOM-O" episode is this to Cartman. Especially the ending.
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* [[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.
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* [[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."
* [[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!
* [[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 season one that Trey Parker was too stupid to animate the Characters' legs.
** 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?
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* [[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.}}
* [[Just the Introduction to The Opposites]]
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