Terrance and Phillip

Terrance and Phillip are a pair of fictional characters in the American animated series South Park. They are a comedy duo who live in Canada. Terrance (born as Terrance Henry Stoot in the "small village" of Toronto) has black hair and wears a red shirt with a letter "T", while Phillip (Phillip Niles Argyle of Montréal) has blond hair and a blue shirt with a "P." Like virtually all Canadians in South Park, they are geometrically-figured with small beady eyes and Pac Man-like heads which flap up and down whenever they speak. This may originally have signified they were an animated series inside an animated series, but was quickly retconned into a distinguishing feature of Canadians.

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Fictional character - American - Animated series - South Park - Comedy duo - Canada - Toronto - Montréal - Pac Man - Retconned

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In South Park, Terrance and Philip are the stars of a popular children's television show. This show-within-a-show serves an interesting role; the parents of the South Park characters view Terrance and Philip's obsessive fart gags in much the same way that many parents in the real world view South Park: with considerable contempt. The two characters have indeterminate heavy accents, inspired by the way many Americans hear the Canadian accent. (The "aboot" pronunciation has also been used in The Simpsons and Canadian Bacon as well as Strong Bad Email "dreamail." The fact their career is based on an accidental fart Phillip made on The Ed Sullivan Show at the age of six, because that was the only part of their act Americans understood,http://www.spscriptorium.com/Season5/E505script.htm may be saying something about Canadian perceptions of Americans.)

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Television show - Show-within-a-show - Fart gags - Contempt - Heavy accents - Canadian accent - "aboot" pronunciation - The Simpsons - Canadian Bacon - The Ed Sullivan Show

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The duo popularized a catchphrase in the show-within-a-show, as they would invariably say "You FAH-ted!" and then giggle to almost any farting sound. The initials on their shirts may serve as another hidden joke. The letters P and T when pronounced in French sound like péter, slang for fart. TP is also a well known abbreviation for the words 'toilet paper', which can be heard frequently on the cartoon show Beavis and Butt-head where Beavis says "I am Cornholio... I need TP for my bunghole." TP can also be an abbrevation of "Trey Parker."

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Catchphrase - French - Slang - Toilet paper - Beavis and Butt-head - Cornholio - Bunghole

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Terrance and Phillip are huge celebrities within the South Park universe, and have won the Nobel Peace Prize. In one episode they briefly broke up, but then were reunited. Terrance also married Celine Dion and had a illegitimate daughter named Sally because they were divorced before her birth.

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Celebrities - Nobel Peace Prize - Celine Dion

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See also Wayne and Shuster.

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