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  • South Park has a lot of running gags stemming from odd pronunciations and vocalizations, especially from Cartman. Respect my authori-tah, skewl, Kelleh!, Biiiiiiiit Miiiiiiiim!, and "They took my/your/his job!" come to mind.
    • "Oh my God, they killed Kenny!" "You bastards!"
    • "You guys, I'm seriously!"
    • Any time Cartman says "AY!" when someone makes fun of his weight.
  • The various ways Parker and Stone would play with the deaths of Kenny in later seasons.
  • The disclaimer right before the opening sequence has CMOF written all over it, coupled with a healthy dose of Self-Deprecation.
    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 the opening sequence (which is a CMOF by itself, after all, it's composed by Primus, who are known for their extensive use of Rule of Funny in their songs), Kenny (in his usual muffled voice) says various lines depending on the season. In even later seasons he keeps getting more and more vulgar when he talks in the theme song.
    Kenny: I like girls with big fat titties, I like girls with deep vaginas.note 
    Kenny: Hey, I've got a 10 inch penis, use your mouth if you want to clean it.note 
    Kenny: Someday, I'll be old enough to stick my dick up Britney's butt.note 
    Kenny: I like fucking silly bitches and I know my penis likes it.note 
  • Any time Cartman starts crying and whining after getting what's coming to him because of his douchebaggery. Most notably in "Christian Rock Hard", "It's Christmas in Canada", "HUMANCENTiPAD" and "It's a Jersey Thing".
  • When the kindergarteners are voiced by actual little kids and start saying things that they aren't supposed to say.
    • For example, Firkle's rant in "Mysterion Rises".
      "Nothing can stop Cthulhu now! All will become sadness, life will become death and I will watch the crimson blood leak from our neck!
    • Also from "Pre-School"
      Pre-Schooler Stan: Dude, let's play Firemen.
      Pre-Schooler Kyle: Totally, dude, let's play Firemen.
      Pre-Schooler Cartman: Jews can't be firemen.
      Pre-Schooler Kyle: Shut up, fatass!
      Pre-Schooler Cartman: Don't call me fat, you stupid Jew!
  • The Season 4-5 opening sequence. It starts off normally...until Letting the Air out of the Band occurs, then the words "4th GRADE" fall down, and the theme song speeds up. It then shows 3D models of the main characters, it says things on the screen like "MORE EXPLOSIONS" and "YOU KNOW YOU LOVE IT", and then it ends with a live-action clip of a guy jumping from an explosion. Also, all the clips of Kenny are of his deaths.
  • All the female characters' voices by Trey Parker.
  • They put an alien (Referred to as "visitors") in many episodes. Here is a list of them in order with the episode numbers.
  • Every episode of the "Terrance & Phillip" show, or, hell, Canada in general. Think of SP's Toilet Humor and Stylistic Suck and take them up to eleven. The result is priceless. It's also funny that none of the main characters are the least bit phased by Canada's weirdness and seem to find most of it perfectly mundane and boring. Take this exchange from the end of "Royal Pudding":
    Kyle: I mean, c'mon, that's pretty cool, right? My little brother is a knight in Canada!
    Stan: My sister is a den leader in Girl Scouts.
    Cartman: My uncle is next in line for manager at Gart Bros.
    Kyle: [no longer impressed] Hm, yeah...
  • Any scene with Tuong Lu Kim. A behind the scenes video show Trey and Matt directly asking an Asian coworker for help in making their portrayal of Kim and other Asian characters more offensive.
  • This Running Gag exchange between Cartman and Kyle in early seasons:
    Cartman: Isn't it cool?
    Kyle: NO, it's not cool!
  • Anytime a character is depicted with a photo of a real-life person's face but animated crudely in a fashion similar to Canadians, like Mel Gibson and Saddam.

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    Season 26 
Cupid Ye
  • Cartman starts to poison Tolkien against Kyle in band class. They are in different sections, so Cartman simply walks over to Tolkien's section and very casually pulls the kid next to him out of his seat and takes it. The poor kid doesn't even put up a fight and just leaves.
  • After Cartman starts spreading the rumor that Kyle controls Hollywood, Clyde and Scott Malkinson try to pitch an idea about a guy with guns for hands. Later on, Jimmy tries to butter Kyle up and offers him a headshot.
  • Kyle trying to explain to Tolkien why the Jews Run Hollywood stereotype bothers him, stating that no one says Black people run the NBA even though there are lots of Black players. Tolkien explains no says that because the NBA is run by White people. Kyle is forced to concede the point.
  • Randy sits with Gerald and so they can talk about Kyle. You assume he's concerned about Kyle's friendship with Stan, but it turns out he's actually come to express his annoyance with how preachy movies and tv series have become, capped off by saying that Avatar 2 sucked.
  • Cartman dressing in the same ridiculous masked outfit Kanye dressed in on Alex Jones' show when he goes on a talk show.
    • Cupid Ye is reminding Cartman of what details to add, yet Eric Cartman thinks saying Hitler wasn't such a bad guy is too much.
  • Cupid Ye dresses like Kanye West, but only above the waist. You can still see his penis in every shot.
    • Later when Cartman gives Cupid Ye his meds, Cupid Ye reverts back to Cupid Me, going from half-naked to completely naked.
  • The end credits list Matt Stone as the sole creative lead. Remember that Kyle is meant to be his Author Avatar.

The Worldwide Privacy Tour

  • Pretty much everything regarding the show's lampooning of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle, or rather, the Canadian Prince and his wife:
    Good Morning Canada Host: So let me start with you, sir. You lived a life with the royal family, you had everything handed to you but you say your life has been hard, and you've written all aboot it in your new book, "Waaagh."
  • The Princess' voice is pretty funny, as it both distinctly Canadian and Valley Girl.
  • The Canadian funeral is an open casket one. At one point we see the queen's dead body, who has crosses for eyes and her limbs are all askew. Truly a dignified ending for her.
  • The Canadian Prince telling his wife he'll see how Kyle deals with his blue penis. An odd statement, but sure enough his Royal Jewels are completely and inexplicably blue.
  • A subtle joke that is not directly spoken of... the Prince and his wife move into Cartman's old home, a perfect place to be Kyle's new nemesis.
  • Butters introduces Kyle to his branding consultants, whose company is called "Cum Hammer". All of the personal brands they have available come with four character traits, the fourth of which is always "victim". The joke climaxes with Kyle settling on a brand advertising himself as cool and carefree...and a victim.
  • When Kyle asks Jimmy where to find Butters, Jimmy nonchalantly tells Kyle that Butters "is in the playground getting the shit beaten out by Bebe". Immediately cue to the next scene where Bebe does exactly that. Even more hilarious when Kyle learns the reason why Bebe is beating up Butters from the guy himself:
    Butters: I told Bebe to go fuck herself.

Japanese Toilets

  • Randy wants to check the water level of Ol' Blue, but Sharon stops him. Randy immediately realizes she pooped and naturally announces it to his kids, who react with disgust.
  • The Japanese Toilet section of Home Depot is built like an exclusive club, complete with a Doorman and complimentary water and champagne.
  • Randy's proctologist making a house call because he needs Randy's business to take a vacation with his wife to Tuscany. When he discovers the toilet, he tries to break it and is naturally kicked out of the Marsh home. Randy shoos him away from the farm and the doctor reacts like a raccoon being chased from garbage cans.
  • The proctologist takes the Japanese toilet section of Home Depot hostage, afraid he will be blamed for Randy's attempted assassination. Everyone is horrified...except the water/champagne server who walks right up to an armed and dangerous man and offers him a drink. She's lucky she only gets shoved away.
  • The standoff ends with the doctor shooting himself in the ass...which kills him instantly as if he blew his brains out.
  • The Spoof Aesop of letting big corporations continue to do what they want, no matter how much destruction they cause because they use violence.

Deep Learning

  • The entire episode runs on a "Could Have Avoided This!" Plot considering that Bebe and Wendy insist on having Clyde and Stan use phones to communicate with them despite the fact that they all go to school together.
  • As sad as it is, the fact that Stan's entire chat history with Wendy involves her writing him something sweet and him using the "thumbs-up" reply in return. Just the absolute least amount of effort you can put in a response. Gets more tragic when it's revealed that he doesn't even look at the chat most of the time.
  • Just how annoyed Clyde is at having to respond to Bebe's messages, a far cry from the charming dreamboat he's propped up to be.
  • Clyde, Cartman, Butters and Stan all discuss their ChatGPT usage in the boy's toilets, which is always interrupted by the same speccy kid walking in on them, much to Cartman's annoyance.
  • Cartman used ChatGPT to write an essay entitled "A Feminist Neoliberal Perspective of Post-War Afghanistan". Later on Cartman accuses girls of ruining things like slavery. One can assume that Cartman uses ChatGPT not just out of laziness, but also to put a pleasing veil on some very bigoted screeds.
  • When the lie gets out of hand, Stan uses ChatGPT to overwrite reality itself and carve out an uncomplicated happy ending for everybody. The scenario is full of details that are just off, such as the monotone voices, Cartman calling Stan a Jew and character placements in each frame being inconsistent.

DikinBaus Hot Dogs

  • Cartman barges into Kenny's house, to which the startled Kenny cries "Jesus Christ!". When Cartman tells Kenny he just quit a job, Kenny says in disbelief "You had a job?!".
  • The fact that Kenny - none other than Mysterion himself - actually goes along with Cartman's scheme to rob Butters blind so they can spoil themselves. He guilts Butters into funding their "venture" just by staring at him while Cartman reminds Butters how poor Kenny is.
  • Absolutely nobody seems to notice that Cartman's revitalized hotdog stand is one big dick joke. A newsman even mistakes the ketchup testicles on the hotdog plates for smiles.
  • When Cartman and Kenny interview Darryl Weathers for the job at DikinBaus, there's a Call-Back to the joke earlier in the episode where Cartman tried to work from home at the ice cream stand, when Darryl asks if he can work from home, annoying Cartman. What really sells the moment, though, is that Kenny replies with an extremely enthusiastic (and apparently totally sincere) "Yes!"
  • The banker's stunned reaction when Butters shows off his business acumen by turning down the idea to franchise DickinBaus and announcing his plan to sell.
  • The ending where Cartman rightfully loses everything. His mother drags him back to their old home kicking and screaming, with his bawling garbling up his speech to the point where "dickin' balls" is the only intelligible thing he can say.

Spring Break

  • The show treats Garrison's political incorrectness as if it were a drug addiction, with him constantly "reapsing" due to Toxic Friend Influence and ending up weary and sick as a result.
  • Randy's outrage over Stan and Tolkien being brainwashed by the woke liberal media into foresaking their masculinity and engaging in sissy activities. The activity in question? Playing Warhammer 40,000.
  • Just the fact that the sex trafficker who looks exactly like notorious misogynist Andrew Tate turns out to be more respectful of women than Randy.
  • Mr Garrison uses his revived political campaign to make a love declaration to his estranged partner Rick. His "I love Rick" chant catches on with his followers and they start rioting while chanting "I love Rick" in unison. The security at Capitol see the crowd charging at them and one of the guards gives a resigned Here We Go Again!.
  • After Randy nearly destroys the house and himself trying to prove how manly and unwoke he is, Sharon only expresses irritation that Stan set up a Warhammer game on the kitchen table.

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