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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), voiced by Matt Stone, has black hair and wears a red shirt with a letter "T", while Phillip (Phillip Niles Argyle of Montréal), voiced by Trey Parker, 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. In fact, at the beginning of South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut
, Cartman states that the animation of Terrance and Philip is “all crappy,” but later in the movie characters interact with them as real people.

In South Park, Terrance and Philip are the stars of a popular children's TV 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
). 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, may be saying something about Canadian perceptions of Americans.

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." Coincidentally, TP can also be an abbrevation of "Trey Parker."

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 an illegitimate daughter named Sally because they were divorced before her birth. He attempts to reconcile with Celine Dion in Terrance and Phillip in Not Without My Anus, but fails because she is pregnant by another man.

See also Wayne and Shuster.

South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut

In the 1999 movie South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut
, outrage on the part of American mothers to the duo's profane act (in particular their feature film Asses of Fire and the video for their song Uncle Fucka) leads to their arrest when the duo appear as guests on the American late-night talk show Late Night with Conan O'Brien, which in turn leads to a war between Canada and the United States. Their deaths at the hands of Kyle's mother Sheila cause the upwelling of Satan and his partner-in-evil, Saddam Hussein, from the underworld. However, they were resurrected at the end of the movie by Kenny's wish that everything should return to normal.

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In Bigger, Longer and Uncut, Terrance and Phillip go on Late Night With Conan O'Brien, where Brooke Shields is also a guest. Matt and Trey actually did visit the show with Brooke Shields, and this scene was meant to be a parody. Also, South Park parents' outrage over Terrance and Phillip's show is meant as a statement of how real-world parents react to South Park.

Another possible message comes from the episode "Terrance and Phillip: Behind the Blow," where the team breaks up. Terrance claims that part of the reason they broke up was because he, Terrance, wrote all the episodes of their show while Phillip just said the lines. This is likely based on reports that Trey Parker is the main writer of South Park, with Matt Stone having less involvement with the creating process; that Terrance is played by Stone and Phillip by Parker is probably meant to be ironic.

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