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Top 10 South Park Running Gags


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the top 10 South Park running gags
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looking at jokes that have appeared
frequently and across multiple episodes
in this popular crass comedy number 10
while this gag has seemingly been
retired or is at least in a long period
of hibernation earlier on in the series
Kyle had an unusual hobby when in the
presence of his little brother Ike
he liked to kick the baby to which I
would usually respond don’t kick the
baby the gag usually ended up with Ike
destroying property in some capacity
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while it hasn’t been featured on the
show much in recent years it was
included as one of Kyle’s special
attacks in the 2014 game South Park the
stick of truth
I hope this Alliance can last number
nine
Randy’s alcoholism I can’t drink any
more of that stuff rather than an
explicit gag with a snappy one-liner
Randy Marsh’s alcoholism was a gradual
build in seasons two and three we start
to see that Stan’s dad might have a
problem with alcohol with Cartman even
commenting on it by season seven that
sex dance dad been hitting about again
my season nine he’s getting into drunken
brawls losing his driver’s license and
starting to attend a a meetings only to
relapse in a big way three shots in
mcallen two small bottles of vodka three
bottles of beer and some jello shooters
come on let’s go while alcohol abuse is
no joke it does put into perspective
some of the wilder antics and beliefs of
number eight Canada and Canadians not
your but it guy while all of the
characters in the South Park Universe
are arguably strange and have their own
little idiosyncrasies there’s arguably
no group quite as odd as their version
of Canadians many American television
shows portray Canadians and Canada
within a narrow spectrum of stereotypes
both flattering nice skilled at hockey
welcoming and not so flattering
unintelligent drunk mediocre but with
flapping heads and jerky hectic
movements the South Park Canadians are
like another species altogether this is
not about diplomacy this is a bhoot
dignity it’s so over-the-top but it’s
hard to imagine anyone taking offense
but it sure is good for a laugh I love
it Oh buddy
number seven butters you’re grounded
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you are grounded mister Oh hamburgers
after being upgraded to a more central
role during Kenny’s permanent death in
season six
Leopold butters stotch has become more
while Kyle Stan Cartman and Kenny are
either genuinely up to no good or just
cooking up some half-baked idea to have
fun butters is a naive go along to get
along sort of kid well how would you
mind telling me why
there’s rice-a-roni in my coffee butters
you are grounded despite the high jinks
of the other four and even if the
results of a failed plan are not his
fault it’s generally the innocent
butters who must face the wrath of his
strict parents and other adults gee
fellers that doesn’t seem very fair now
does it
satisfied with the damage you’ve caused
because you’re both grounded number six
Cartman’s mom’s promiscuity when Cartman
is certainly the most soft-spoken of all
the South Park parents and in keeping
with her demure nature generally seems
incapable of controlling her son
however despite her outwardly
conservative personality she is in fact
sexually voracious and apparently gets
it whenever from whomever she can admit
it I might have made love to your mother
at the drunken barn dance but who here
didn’t her sexual appetite has been a
running joke since the beginning of the
show with her exploits including banging
it out with most of the town celebrities
politicians and the entire Denver
Broncos team as well as stints in
internet porn and prostitution
oh yeah number five chef singing before
the character of chef was brutally
killed off he was a main character and
seemingly the only reasonable adult in
South Park when the boys had a problem
or questions about life he usually bid
them a friendly hello before proceeding
to teach them a lesson try to help them
or offer to sing an educational little
song do you want gonna let you down by
the fire of course these songs usually
had to do with love playing it cool and
other topics a little too mature for
boys in the fourth grade for us home
viewers however they were always pure
comedic gold where a man knows a woman
and a woman loves a man number four
screw you guys I’m going home well you
know what I say you guys love the four
main characters Cartman is the most
likely to not only get himself into
trouble but the others too and if
there’s one thing that can be counted on
it’s that when the going gets tough he
is bailing whether a task is too
difficult he’s too bored or he feels
like others are having too much fun he
is out well it’s true that he would like
us to all respect his authority it’s
this phrase that really sums up
Cartman’s personality he doesn’t care
what happens to anyone else as long as
he can get home to his junk food and
video games number three
Kyle’s monologues I learned something
today once upon a time TV shows
especially family sitcoms couldn’t just
be entertaining
they typically wrapped up with a
moralistic theme when done right it
worked but more often than not these
summaries came across as hammy and more
than a little preachy apparently riffing
off that cheesy sentimentality early
South Park episodes would get a similar
wrap-up generally with Kyle announcing
to his friends that he learned something
and then sharing it no I’ve learned
something today you see the basis of all
reasoning is the minds awareness of
itself these lessons could be basic
quantifications on friendship or a means
of dealing with an existential crisis
the gag is so prominent that by later
seasons his friends had started to grow
a little sick of him he’s he’s seriously
giving a speech right now number two he
took courage herbs jabs when all else
fails blame someone else right
first cropping up in the season 8
episode goobacks when time-traveling
immigrants show up in South Park it
became the rallying cry of anguish for
the local redneck population roared
repeatedly throughout the episode and
devolving into almost nonsensical
crowing the gag satirizes complaints
about immigration and how one note those
protestations tend to become now
getting laid off work the gag itself has
become a meme of its own with D ticker
jerbs becoming a catch-all jab at
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Kenny’s recurring deaths from the very
beginning the most iconic running joke
of the show has been the death of the
boys mumbling little buddy Kenny and
their anguished cries of you bastard the
gag has taken on a couple of different
iterations with Kenny’s soul getting
accidentally sucked up by Cartman and of
course the most recent reveal that Kenny
is actually immortal and that to die
painfully only to respawn but with none
of his friends remembering his past
deaths is a cursed superpower of his
what is your power I can’t die not only
is the death of Kenny a running joke
it’s also a joke that runs with itself
growing bigger and more dramatic over
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