Terrence and Phillip are two Canadian comedians. Terrence has black hair and wears a red shirt with the letter T. Phillip has blonde hair and wears a blue shirt with the letter P.
Biography[]
Terrance and Phillip are a fictional comedy duo from Canada who appear on The Terrance and Phillip Show, which is frequently watched by Stan, Kyle, Cartman and Kenny. Terrance Henry Stoot of Toronto (voiced by Matt Stone) has black hair and wears a red shirt with a letter "T", while Phillip Niles Argyle of Montreal (voiced by Trey Parker) has blonde hair, diabetes, and a blue shirt with a "P". Terrance and Phillip have small beady eyes and disconnected heads which flap up and down whenever they speak, as do the majority of Canadians featured on the show.
The characters were inspired by the number of complaints about fart jokes in South Park. In commentary during "Death", the first episode in which Terrance and Phillip appeared, Stone and Parker complained of many people claiming that South Park was poorly animated and just all fart jokes. In response, the creators invented Terrance and Phillip to demonstrate just what a show that was indeed all fart jokes would be, and made it even more poorly animated. The duo can also partly be seen as a spoof of Beavis and Butt-head, which itself was often accused of being "poorly animated" and full of "fart jokes".
Originally it was suggested that Terrance and Phillip were animations within the context of the series; later it is shown that they are "live" actors. It is revealed in the episode "Terrance and Phillip: Behind the Blow" that Terrance and Phillip met at the "Canadian School for Gifted Babies" (a school with students who bear uncanny resemblances to Kyle's brother Ike). The duo briefly separate in this episode, with Phillip having a "serious job" as an actor in "Canadian Shakespeare" plays. Terrance also becomes obese in this episode.
In the 1999 movie South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut, American mothers' outrage at the duo's vulgar act leads to their arrest, and a war between Canada and the United States ensues. Their deaths at the hands of Kyle's mother, Sheila, causes the upwelling of Satan and his partner-in-evil, Saddam Hussein, from the underworld. However, they are resurrected at the end of the movie by Kenny McCormick's wish that everything should return to normal.
They married their girlfriends in a double wedding at the end of the episode "Eat, Pray, Queef".
External Links[]
- South Park Achieves
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_recurring_South_Park_characters#Terrance_and_Phillip
