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* [[Redheaded Stepchild]]: The episode "Ginger Kids".

** {{spoiler|It turned out, in the episode "201", that Cartman got half his genes from Scott Tenorman's father. He is very upset over being half-ginger, though he calmed down when told he is also half Denver Bronco.}}

** This is available for Craig(Blue) and Tweek(Red), too.

* [[Red Shirt]]: In "[[Clip Show|City on the Edge of Forever]]", the unnamed kid who gets off the bus after Mrs Crabtree warned them that "A big scary monster WILL EAT YOU!!" is actually wearing a red ''[[Star Trek]]'' shirt.

** [[Inverted Trope]] in a sense in ''201'' when [[Executive Meddling|Comedy Central]] wouldn't allow them to air Muhammad's image. Censoring the image? Ok whatever. Censoring EVERY SINGLE TIME they mentioned his name, at least 100 or more bleeps, as well as the entire "I learned something today..." speech at the end? They actually [[Crosses the Line Twice|crossed the line twice]] in the OPPOSITE direction.

*** This may unfortunately be due to the death threat by a radical Islamic group, who were offended by the previous episode's depiction of Muhammad in a bear costume ({{spoiler|Turns out that was actually Santa Claus in the costume}}. Ahem.).

** The episode "Medicinal Fried Chicken." Many of the men get testicular cancer, causing their testicles to swell to ''enormous'' size. They then start running around town, bouncing on their grotesquely swollen balls as though they were hippity-hops. And getting [[Mickey Mousing|a ridiculous little melody playing]] whenever they pass.

**** A particularly complicated example in which Barack Obama, Michelle Obama, John McCain, and Sarah Palin are all jewel thieves trying to steal the Hope Diamond from the White House. Boom, baby.

* [[Remember the New Guy]]: In ''Red Man's Greed,'' there's a random kid acting like a regular. He wears a sweatshirt that says "Alex" so we'll know who he is. (Of course, at the end of the episode Stan asks who he is and we find out that he [[Leaning On the Fourth Wall|got to come on and do the guest voice thing.]])

* [[The Renaissance Age of Animation]]

* [[Replacement Flat Character]]: Butters, created to fill the [[Butt Monkey]] role better than Pip.

* [[Replacement Scrappy]]: In-universe example, both Butters and Tweek get this treatment from the boys themselves in attempts to replace Kenny as the token fourth friend -- Butters for [[Children Are Innocent|his innocence]] and [[Extreme Doormat|lack of backbone]] (to the point where an entire episode revolved around the boys kicking Butters out and running a contest for a new replacement), Tweek for [[Properly Paranoid|his paranoia]]. Ironically, for all their guilt trips and manipulation involving Kenny's death, the boys had in fact nearly completely got over it and all but forgotten about "that asshole". The sixth season was generally one giant [[Kick the Dog]] for the three main boys.

* [[Right for The Wrong Reasons]]: In "Cartman Finds Love" Cartman tries to force Token and Nicole together just because they're both black, but it turns out they're perfect for each other anyway.

* [[Right Place Right Time Wrong Reason]]: Cartman decides in prejudiced irrationality that the new Arab student is a terrorist and pulls out all the stops to save Hillary Clinton, who, coincidentally, is in South Park that very same day. Even though Cartman's theory is completely unfounded, it turns out that there ''are'' terrorists plotting to kill Hillary Clinton (Russians secretly working for {{spoiler|the British}})--but the only reason we found out about them is thanks to Cartman's prejudice. This is [[Lampshaded]] heavily at the end, when they deliver the story's moral about tolerance only for Cartman to point this out.

* [[Risky Business Dance]]: Kyle does this when his parents are arrested for child molestation, leaving him to take care of himself.

* [[Robeast]]: [[Barbra Streisand]] undergoes a henshin-style [[Transformation Sequence]] into Mecha-Streisand, a blatant [[Expy]] of [[Godzilla|Mecha-Godzilla]]. Comes back in the episode "200".

* [[Seen It All Suicide]]: Attempted by Cartman after being introduced to ''[[High School Musical]]''.

* [[Selective Enforcement]]: With all the terrible things Cartman has done, the one thing that got the other kids to give him the silent treatment was his eating the skin off the KFC.

{{quote| '''Mayor:''' Kids, that cartoon was fabulous. How would you like to have your own show and make 100 more of them?<br />

'''Stan:''' Are you kidding? I think we'd rather stab ourselves in the head. }}

** ...including Jesus.

** ...and the entire roster of the 1989 Denver Broncos.

*** All of which were being tested to find out who had fathered Cartman at the 12th Annual Drunken Barn Dance. So yeah...

*** {{spoiler|And one of the Denver Broncos turned out to be the father of Scott Tenorman and Cartman both.}}

* [[Space Whale Aesop]]: From "Fun With Veal":

{{quote| '''Stan:''' It's wrong to eat veal because the animals are so horribly mistreated, but if you don't eat meat at all you break out in vaginas.}}

** Many fans tend to leave out the second "e" in Shelley's name.

* [[Sphere Eyes]]: The entire cast, of course, excluding the Canadians and Saddam Hussein.

* [[Springtime for Hitler]]: In "The Losing Edge", despite trying to get themselves eliminated from the baseball playoffs because they hate it and are pressured into playing it by their parents, the boys make it all the way to the finals because every other team is trying to do exactly the same.

* [[Standard Police Motto]]: Parodied; the side of Officer Barbrady's patrol car has "To Patronize and Annoy" on it.

* [[Status Quo Is God]]: [[Lampshade Hanging|Lampshaded]] multiple times.

** The first time, in the episode "Mecha Streisand", a reporter appears, saying that the town had managed to rebuild itself "just weeks after the devastating attack of [[Continuity Nod|mutant genetic creatures, zombies, and Thanksgiving turkeys]]". Then Mecha Streisand shows up and begins to wreck the town, prompting a "not again" comment from the reporter.

* [[Strawman Political]]: Sometimes [[Lampshade Hanging|Lampshaded]], sometimes played straight.

** The one consistent political message in ''South Park'' is that too many people pay way, way too much attention to politics. Anyone with a pet political cause of any kind almost always will be portrayed as a troublesome fool -- when not a villain.

* [[Student Teacher Romance]]: Between Miss Stevenson and Ike. [[Crosses the Line Twice|Ike is three years old.]]

* [[Stupid Sexy Flanders]]: "Two Guys Naked in a Hot Tub" takes this one all the way.

** ''Raisins'' = Hooters for eight-year-olds.

* [[Suckiness Is Painful]]: The ''[[Raiders of the Lost Ark (Film)|Raiders of the Lost Ark]]'' special edition.

* [[Superhero]]: Each of the boys has one, plus a few of their friends. Together they are...Coon and Friends!

* [[Suicide Is Painless]]: Averted. In "Night of the Living Homeless", a scientist tries several times to kill himself before the homeless get to him, but each shot just leaves him bloodier and more in pain until he finally, mercifully dies.

** In "Coon Vs Coon and Friends", Kenny kills himself several times. Once, in a desperate attempt to get his friends to {{spoiler|remember his many deaths}}; another time, to escape from an {{spoiler|alternate dimension}}; and yet another because he was just ''tired''. And as he reminds us in case we forgot after 100+ deaths through the shows history:

{{quote| '''Kenny:''' [Immortality] is not cool, Kyle. It ''fucking'' '''''hurts!''''' }}

* [[Take That]]: Almost every episode. One of the most elaborate ones they did was a slam against ''[[Family Guy]]'' and the "manatee gags" they always do. In the same two episodes, with just as much importance to the plot, they made fun against the overreaction to a cartoon with [[Useful Notes/Islam|Mohammad]].

** Hell, in that very episode, they provide a Take That against ''themselves'', as Kyle, the head of the CBC, and a passerby all express the idea that they like ''Family Guy'' because it's easy to watch, makes them laugh and doesn't get "preachy and up its own ass with messages".

** The fishsticks (aka fishdicks or [[Kanye West|gayfish]]) episode was run repeatedly back-to-back on Comedy Central the Wednesday after Kanye's outburst at the VMAs.

** The captain from ''[[Whale Wars (TV)|Whale Wars]]'' got raked across the coals thoroughly.

{{quote| We must blame them and cause a fuss.<br />

Before somebody thinks of blaming us. }}

*** Yeah, these guys have pretty much made [[Take That]] an art in and of itself.

** [[Two Words Obvious Trope]]: [[Taylor Swift]] [[Memetic Mutation|Swifting]].

* [[There Is a God]]: When Cartman lost his dream of owning his own amusement park, it restored Kyle's faith in God.

* [[This Is a Work of Fiction]]: "All characters and events in this show —even those based on real people— are entirely fictional. All celebrity voices are impersonated ... poorly. The following program contains coarse language and due to its content it should not be viewed by anyone."

** In ''Miss Teacher Bangs a Boy:'' "You just dealt with the Dawg, bitch!"

* [[This Is My Side]]:

*** "Imaginationland": [[spoiler:Becomes Imagionationland's ''[[The Chosen One|freaking]]'' ''[[The Messiah|messaiah]]'' by turning the war around with his own, well, imagination, and then ''[[Deus Ex Machina|completely fucking ressurecting it]]'' after a nuclear strike by imagining ''[[Beyond the Impossible|the whole fucking thing]]'' back into existence.

*** "The Tale of Scrotie [[Mc Boogerballs]]": His [[Take That]] at the main characters after {{spoiler|the novel they wrote}} made him a worldwide celebrity.

<!-- %%** Kyle in "Tonsil Trouble" after Cartman inflicts AIDS on him. '''''"I'm going to break...everything that you own!"''''' And he goes to Cartman's and starts doing just that. %% %%Not an example of this.%% -->

** Taken [[Up to Eleven]] with Wendy in "Breast Cancer Show Ever" by standing up to Cartman and then beating the snot out of him at the end.

'''Phillip:''' ''(watching the Queef Sisters at CBC with Terrance)'' What the hell is this disgusting crap?! }}

* [[Tunnel King]]: The Mole from ''South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut''.

{{quote| '''Randy:''' Hey, back off, cunt!<br />

'''Sharon:''' *GASP* ''You said the '''c-word!!''''' }}

* [[Unexplained Recovery]]: Happens ''a lot,'' but one particular spoof on the concept: Cartman responds with this when Kyle taunts him by saying that he was a stillborn.

* [[The Unintelligible]]: Kenny.

** Recently epitomized with {{spoiler|the entire Aesop of the episode "201"}}. [[This Trope Is Bleep|Guess]] [[Executive Meddling|why]].

* [[Unrobotic Reveal]]: In "Awesom-O", in which Cartman's robot disguise (consisting of a couple of cardboard boxes) manages to fool everybody (except Stan, Kyle, Kenny, and Butters's parents) until he gives the game away by farting.

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