I love the fact that Patches wasn't even a childhood dog, but one he had in middle-to-old age. Grieving a pet is often seen as a sad childhood moment; but losing an animal who's part of your life day-in and day-out can be devastating even when you're grown.
One of the saddest and most shocking moments was a recent one, where Stan starts messaging Wendy through ChatGPT. You see her being invested and feeling loved while her boyfriend is barely thinking about her at all, and it's absolutely horrible.
I just wanted to say the episode where Wendy photoshops her pictures at the end is my personal favorite because it’s something I relate to on a very personal level, it very accurately portrays how influencer/celebrity culture sets both the beauty standard and what it teaches a lot of people to expect from an average woman & how that leads to so many women and girls trying so hard to fit those standards. I also love how it doesn’t get solved, it doesn’t end happily for Wendy or any of the other girls, because that’s the reality many women face, the damage that it does to your self esteem doesn’t go away.
Barbrady ep got to me after becoming a pet owner. My dog is still fairly young of roughly 3 years old but knowing he will get old in a decade still makes me sad.
I never got the Wendy hate. She’s occasionally annoying but one of my favorite characters. Giving her the honor of being the kid who actually beats up Cartman is well deserved and cathartic.
Can people tell me whats so cathartic about beating up cartman? He brushed it off trough his massive ego pretty easily as he is so delusional, nothing physical can put some sense into him. I think Cartmanland is still the most cathartic karma cause it hits him the only place it realy hurts him: His big fat ego. Seeing him cry and rant and flail where EVERYTHING he wanted is taken away from him was so cathartic.
Viewers like it when the main characters are a little extreme. And I think people just don’t like characters that don’t let the main characters be themselves. Look at Skyler in Breaking Bad. People hate her as a character, when they should ultimately dislike Walter by the end of the show. That, or maybe we’re all just sexist because we hate strong, level-headed women in our shows.
@@Acacius1992there's just a visceral lizard-brain satisfaction to seeing him get his ass handed to him, can't explain it better than that. seeing wendy unleash all that justified frustration against him is just cathartic EDIT: shit you already used the word cathartic now i look like a moron. whoops
@@Acacius1992 there are a lot of people like cartman who delight in seeing other people hurt and won't change their ways, and who are very hard to hurt back in the same ways because they do not emotionally function like normal people do. moreover, in addition to cartman being one of those people, he's also generally a stand in for bigots in general in the show. he's racist, and -phobic against anyone who isn't exactly like him. it feels good to see someone like that gets what's coming to them, just... almost universally, even if not in a violent manner. and it makes a point of further showing cartman's viewpoint is messed up, because he's told outright that everyone hates and does not respect him and cartman still twists it around to be that ego boost. if there was any question that cartman could possibly be in the right with his opinions, it goes out the window with his last words in the episode. it's also a pretty basic part of making a story and leaving your audience not feeling like crap tbfh. like, what, do you think it would have felt good narratively to reward him for his bs? hell no
The scene with Kenny and his sister makes me cry because I had the most caring big brother in the whole world who passed away last summer. His selfless act reminds me so much of him
That Wendy moment gets me every time. I love Wendy. She is such a strong character, and it's heartbreaking to see her concede on her values like that. So sad
For me it’s heartbreaking because it’s true, it goes to show what kind of damage it does to even the most principled and strongly opinionated character's, it’s not damage that can easily be fixed and it’s damage that I deeply resonate with.
@FireRising86. Fictional characters are real, they exist. Not in the physical world, but they're impact on it is far reaching. It's foolish to disregard anything as fake just because it's fiction. They are "real" because they're impact is real. Although they are fictional characters, and they're stories are satire to complete bull. The real world impact from south park alone us astounding.
@spectrumjitters4672 the episode with butters speech at the end is probably the best one to have seen in 6th grade. It would help you for the coming years.
Not gonna lie, Butters' speech about dealing with a broken heart got me out of my worst depression in my life. I was 23 & dealing with the breakup with the girl i thought (foolishly) that i was going to marry. Not gonna say i was suicidal, but there were definitely thoughts of it at times. Seeing this & hearing this message really helped me out.
Tbh by me it was the exact oposide. It only made my depression worse and made me pretty much hate butters for a long while. Welp guess it is to be noted i never had love issues so these words pretty much not reached me
The first episode to really throw me off with how disparaging it was is "Stanley's Cup" It was genuinely such a bleak episode my only words were "holy shit"
“I can’t remember what she looked like, billy.” hits me way harder the more i think about it. i started forgetting my grandpas face after he died, i even forgot the color of his skin. it’s been about eleven years now and i still can’t remember, despite looking at pictures. and my grandma (his wife) died just short of three months ago and i can’t remember what she looks like either.
The big brother moment with Kenny got the feels going but I still love Butter’s beautiful sadness monologue. As someone with depression but hated being on medication, I worked hard not to allow to get pulled into the pit you feel you are falling into. I get episodes in the middle of happy moments. It’s not sadness, but not being able to enjoy or lack the will for anything. But it allows you to see things differently. I feel the loneliness & sadness but I’m not afraid of the solitude or grief. I probably feel it more than I should but I don’t want to run & avoid it. It’s beautiful even when something ends, because it shows you how great things were for a time, recognize how beautiful this moment was because it made you alive or different, and it’s still making you alive in your grief, living is a double edged sword but there is beauty in it all. Even in the packing one aspect of life away & starting over, it’s hard but it’s all wonderful. There is no sense in packing it up yet because death isn’t beautiful but the stories we become to our friends & family are.
crazy that Stanley's Cup didnt made the cut, besides that its a great list i also would probably add the Kip Drordy episode, the ending makes me feel all types of emotions
Stanley’s cup is not sad. It’s funny. It’s a shock value take on the formulaic scripts of sports movies. It’s basically the following joke extended to an episode length: What did the kid with no arms and no legs get for Christmas? Cancer.
I think the most important thing to note about homeless cartman in the future is that When everyone is isolated and he grows up with his mom/moves away and makes different friends, he grows up to be happy and normalish When he grows up with the guys and other kids of South Park, constantly calling him names and doing shit to him, he grows up homeless drunk and angry. Cartman isn't inherently evil. He's a fucking bully victim, apparently, lmao
For me the most impactful thing about the "You're Getting Old" ending wasn't Stan, it was Randy going "BECAUSE I'M UNHAPPY SHARON!" We are not used to seeing Randy so self-aware. I remember the moment shocked me and it's still to this day my all time favorite South Park moment for how real it felt and how it clearly mirrored how Stone and Parker felt about the show at this point (bonus points for the britches thieves in the background of the scene)
An episode that wasn’t necessarily sad but shocking and emotional for me is Stanley’s cup when you think they’re going to use the underdog trope until the kids get battered by literal fully grown men made feel so bad and then the cancer kid dying and the actual team celebrating cuz they smacked a load of kids literally made me feel shock and anger
I know Stewart is supposed to be a drunk asshole all the time, but I feel bad for him. He consistently makes it clear that he doesn't want that life, that he has tried, but he's just done with it all. Especially with having an entire family to take care of, it's a lot of responsibility that he can't take.
Cash for Gold will always hold a special place in my heart as the most emotional episode of South Park. Between being upset that grandpa Marsh along with a million other old people (irl and otherwise) getting scammed from shopping networks and Patches I will never recover.
i shed a tear at the last one ive seen all the other ones, maybe thats why it doesnt hit as hard but ive never seen that episode before, and it was really impactful
I think the fact that most of these moments even if sad still tie together with a joke or have some goofy aspect to them, but with the Stans Grandpa thing while it does lead to a joke the moment itself just uncharacteristically serious in a way that makes it hit harder.
Idk y but the scene where Jacob Hallery is eating his sandwich on the school steps makes me so sad. It makes me so upset just seeing the character all sunken into himself and dirty. It’s as if he’s trying so hard not to be noticed and then Cartman’s evil azz sings his little song 😭😭💔
“We all kind of love cartman” I gotta disagree with you there 😂😂 sure he’s a very important character for the show but I can’t say I love him by any means 😂
I always loved that Grandpas War buddy that died was named Billy so they name Stans middle name Billy but he doesn't even know he has a middle name Also this is completely made up
Dude, what about the scene in “Helen Keller! The Musical” when Timmy has to get rid of Gobbles and every sad story trope ever plays out in succession? Severely underrated episode and also speaks to your point about satirical/played-up sadness being received as genuine by the audience. Also “Stanley’s Cup”
Grandpa Marsh not remembering his dog definitely is the hardest.
I speak from experience.
I love the fact that Patches wasn't even a childhood dog, but one he had in middle-to-old age. Grieving a pet is often seen as a sad childhood moment; but losing an animal who's part of your life day-in and day-out can be devastating even when you're grown.
I was thinking it was going to be a childhood pet as well. That made the knife twist harder for me.
14:46 The way he delivers the "I can't remember what she looked like, Billy" makes me tear up every time. It's soul crushing.
When Cartman ate the skin of Kfc chicken and Kenny cried was also a very sad moment
Knowing Kenny's living situation, he was likely really lookin forward to it because it was probably gonna be the best meal he's had in a long time
@@mrpendayho but the frozen waffles
@@NightSky_Bridge don't forget about the pop tarts
I always think about Kenny's cry whenever something goes wrong and it just makes me feel worse poor Kenny
One of the saddest and most shocking moments was a recent one, where Stan starts messaging Wendy through ChatGPT. You see her being invested and feeling loved while her boyfriend is barely thinking about her at all, and it's absolutely horrible.
Totally forgot about this but I agree 100%
I hated the ending
Best Episode ever
When Kenny gave his sister the doll, is the only time the show has actually made me cry
I just wanted to say the episode where Wendy photoshops her pictures at the end is my personal favorite because it’s something I relate to on a very personal level, it very accurately portrays how influencer/celebrity culture sets both the beauty standard and what it teaches a lot of people to expect from an average woman & how that leads to so many women and girls trying so hard to fit those standards. I also love how it doesn’t get solved, it doesn’t end happily for Wendy or any of the other girls, because that’s the reality many women face, the damage that it does to your self esteem doesn’t go away.
Barbrady ep got to me after becoming a pet owner. My dog is still fairly young of roughly 3 years old but knowing he will get old in a decade still makes me sad.
I never got the Wendy hate. She’s occasionally annoying but one of my favorite characters. Giving her the honor of being the kid who actually beats up Cartman is well deserved and cathartic.
Can people tell me whats so cathartic about beating up cartman? He brushed it off trough his massive ego pretty easily as he is so delusional, nothing physical can put some sense into him.
I think Cartmanland is still the most cathartic karma cause it hits him the only place it realy hurts him: His big fat ego. Seeing him cry and rant and flail where EVERYTHING he wanted is taken away from him was so cathartic.
Viewers like it when the main characters are a little extreme. And I think people just don’t like characters that don’t let the main characters be themselves. Look at Skyler in Breaking Bad. People hate her as a character, when they should ultimately dislike Walter by the end of the show.
That, or maybe we’re all just sexist because we hate strong, level-headed women in our shows.
@@Acacius1992there's just a visceral lizard-brain satisfaction to seeing him get his ass handed to him, can't explain it better than that. seeing wendy unleash all that justified frustration against him is just cathartic
EDIT: shit you already used the word cathartic now i look like a moron. whoops
@@Acacius1992 there are a lot of people like cartman who delight in seeing other people hurt and won't change their ways, and who are very hard to hurt back in the same ways because they do not emotionally function like normal people do. moreover, in addition to cartman being one of those people, he's also generally a stand in for bigots in general in the show. he's racist, and -phobic against anyone who isn't exactly like him. it feels good to see someone like that gets what's coming to them, just... almost universally, even if not in a violent manner. and it makes a point of further showing cartman's viewpoint is messed up, because he's told outright that everyone hates and does not respect him and cartman still twists it around to be that ego boost. if there was any question that cartman could possibly be in the right with his opinions, it goes out the window with his last words in the episode.
it's also a pretty basic part of making a story and leaving your audience not feeling like crap tbfh. like, what, do you think it would have felt good narratively to reward him for his bs? hell no
The scene with Kenny and his sister makes me cry because I had the most caring big brother in the whole world who passed away last summer. His selfless act reminds me so much of him
That Wendy moment gets me every time. I love Wendy. She is such a strong character, and it's heartbreaking to see her concede on her values like that. So sad
It’s all too real
You sound like a breast cancer survivor. 😏
For me it’s heartbreaking because it’s true, it goes to show what kind of damage it does to even the most principled and strongly opinionated character's, it’s not damage that can easily be fixed and it’s damage that I deeply resonate with.
She’s not real
@FireRising86. Fictional characters are real, they exist. Not in the physical world, but they're impact on it is far reaching. It's foolish to disregard anything as fake just because it's fiction. They are "real" because they're impact is real. Although they are fictional characters, and they're stories are satire to complete bull. The real world impact from south park alone us astounding.
Kip Drodry’s face when he logs on and has 0 friends absolutely crushed me for some reason.
The Assburgers/getting old episodes got to me. Thats when my parents were going through a divorce, and it made Landslide hit hard
Barbrady’s dog is the hardest saddest moment in any tv show ever
in 6th grade, i watched you're getting old AND assburgers at one am before school the first day of school. i sobbed all night 😭
You picked one of the worst times in life to have watched that episode. 😂
@@RazalasTrebla*best
Remember the butters monologue about beautiful sadness. There's a bittersweet part about getting older
@spectrumjitters4672 the episode with butters speech at the end is probably the best one to have seen in 6th grade. It would help you for the coming years.
@@RazalasTrebla I'm not in 6th grade
Felt that
Not gonna lie, Butters' speech about dealing with a broken heart got me out of my worst depression in my life. I was 23 & dealing with the breakup with the girl i thought (foolishly) that i was going to marry. Not gonna say i was suicidal, but there were definitely thoughts of it at times. Seeing this & hearing this message really helped me out.
Tbh by me it was the exact oposide. It only made my depression worse and made me pretty much hate butters for a long while. Welp guess it is to be noted i never had love issues so these words pretty much not reached me
The first episode to really throw me off with how disparaging it was is "Stanley's Cup"
It was genuinely such a bleak episode my only words were "holy shit"
“I can’t remember what she looked like, billy.” hits me way harder the more i think about it. i started forgetting my grandpas face after he died, i even forgot the color of his skin. it’s been about eleven years now and i still can’t remember, despite looking at pictures. and my grandma (his wife) died just short of three months ago and i can’t remember what she looks like either.
The big brother moment with Kenny got the feels going but I still love Butter’s beautiful sadness monologue. As someone with depression but hated being on medication, I worked hard not to allow to get pulled into the pit you feel you are falling into. I get episodes in the middle of happy moments. It’s not sadness, but not being able to enjoy or lack the will for anything. But it allows you to see things differently. I feel the loneliness & sadness but I’m not afraid of the solitude or grief. I probably feel it more than I should but I don’t want to run & avoid it. It’s beautiful even when something ends, because it shows you how great things were for a time, recognize how beautiful this moment was because it made you alive or different, and it’s still making you alive in your grief, living is a double edged sword but there is beauty in it all. Even in the packing one aspect of life away & starting over, it’s hard but it’s all wonderful. There is no sense in packing it up yet because death isn’t beautiful but the stories we become to our friends & family are.
crazy that Stanley's Cup didnt made the cut, besides that its a great list
i also would probably add the Kip Drordy episode, the ending makes me feel all types of emotions
Stanley’s cup is not sad. It’s funny. It’s a shock value take on the formulaic scripts of sports movies.
It’s basically the following joke extended to an episode length: What did the kid with no arms and no legs get for Christmas? Cancer.
The ending to Stanley’s Cup is supposed to be shocking and funny.. not really sad
Wendy talking to the principle about breast cancer
Boooooo
I love how she encouraged Wendy to beat the crap outta carman
I always thought Cartmen becoming a rhabbi completed his arc
I think the most important thing to note about homeless cartman in the future is that
When everyone is isolated and he grows up with his mom/moves away and makes different friends, he grows up to be happy and normalish
When he grows up with the guys and other kids of South Park, constantly calling him names and doing shit to him, he grows up homeless drunk and angry.
Cartman isn't inherently evil. He's a fucking bully victim, apparently, lmao
For me the most impactful thing about the "You're Getting Old" ending wasn't Stan, it was Randy going "BECAUSE I'M UNHAPPY SHARON!" We are not used to seeing Randy so self-aware. I remember the moment shocked me and it's still to this day my all time favorite South Park moment for how real it felt and how it clearly mirrored how Stone and Parker felt about the show at this point (bonus points for the britches thieves in the background of the scene)
6:26 rips my heart out
An episode that wasn’t necessarily sad but shocking and emotional for me is Stanley’s cup when you think they’re going to use the underdog trope until the kids get battered by literal fully grown men made feel so bad and then the cancer kid dying and the actual team celebrating cuz they smacked a load of kids literally made me feel shock and anger
I know Stewart is supposed to be a drunk asshole all the time, but I feel bad for him. He consistently makes it clear that he doesn't want that life, that he has tried, but he's just done with it all. Especially with having an entire family to take care of, it's a lot of responsibility that he can't take.
I love the way Slushhh low key puts Sega tunes in his commentary
8:45 it still surprises me how I keep forgetting that this is where I got it from. That Butters' philosophy actually defined part of how I see life.
Grandpa Marsh got me. It's a truly powerful moment.
Cash for Gold will always hold a special place in my heart as the most emotional episode of South Park. Between being upset that grandpa Marsh along with a million other old people (irl and otherwise) getting scammed from shopping networks and Patches I will never recover.
You asked if i cried yet, i replied "no."
"The episode where kenny dies-"
NOOO YOU CAN'T DO THIS TO ME... NOT TODAYY :[
7:44 this scene puts my soul into utter agony, I will never forgive for giving Barbrady such a tragic story. He doesn’t deserve that
With Kenny dies
I can actually relate to Stan in the episode when my grandma was in the hospital it was hard for me to go
i shed a tear at the last one
ive seen all the other ones, maybe thats why it doesnt hit as hard
but ive never seen that episode before, and it was really impactful
I think the fact that most of these moments even if sad still tie together with a joke or have some goofy aspect to them, but with the Stans Grandpa thing while it does lead to a joke the moment itself just uncharacteristically serious in a way that makes it hit harder.
when the kid dies from cancer in the hockey episode
Only South Park can blend in truely emotional scenes with absurd potty humor.
The amy rose theme for wendy has me dead
Idk y but the scene where Jacob Hallery is eating his sandwich on the school steps makes me so sad. It makes me so upset just seeing the character all sunken into himself and dirty. It’s as if he’s trying so hard not to be noticed and then Cartman’s evil azz sings his little song 😭😭💔
bro is Glazing over south park which is the best show that has ever seen the light of day in all of television
Grandpa marsh by far is the saddest to me, its so heartbreaking and hits way to close to home
Under rated RUclipsr
4:00 yea man, when I watched I was like Damn. It the best South Park episode in my opinion.
I definitely cried again remembering some of these 😂😂
The saddest Cartman moment in my opinion is in the episode Cartman silly hate crime
How did he forget the saddest episode Stanley's Cup.
“We all kind of love cartman” I gotta disagree with you there 😂😂 sure he’s a very important character for the show but I can’t say I love him by any means 😂
5:21 how did he know I cried…
"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA" -butters, 1:30
Long time South park wacher first time subscriber
I heard you, Earthbound save file select screen
How could you forget the episode where stan becomes the coach of the kids hockey team?
Yeah the only thing that got to me was the dog since I got 2 dogs myself
1:45 What on earth is Captain Hero doing in South park
The Butters speech from raisins gets me every time. Honestly has gotten me through so much 🥰
Before watching the video my moment is when Cartman and Kyle cry over Kenny drying before Cartman reveals his true intentions
The Kenny moment got me 😅
this will be great
I always loved that Grandpas War buddy that died was named Billy so they name Stans middle name Billy but he doesn't even know he has a middle name
Also this is completely made up
Bro patches looks identical to my dog
Chefs death Kyle’s speech
Quality content
"this is not a south park or a weezer channel" yeah okay buddy
what's south park?
@@slushhhhh ion know I think it’s a band
@@slushhhhh idk its like a uhhh ummm uhhh a uhhh ummm uh
I'm not your buddy, guy
@@bamacopeland4372 I'm not your guy, friend.
,,Christopher Reeves‘‘
,,without any further ado, i present to you‘‘
you‘re an Eminem fan, aren‘t you😏
None of those clips made me cry or tear up
Dude, what about the scene in “Helen Keller! The Musical” when Timmy has to get rid of Gobbles and every sad story trope ever plays out in succession? Severely underrated episode and also speaks to your point about satirical/played-up sadness being received as genuine by the audience. Also “Stanley’s Cup”
1:45 is that fucking rivers cuomo from weezer
South Park
My guy is not getting demonitised after this video 💀
Nice
Bro shouted out a huge youtuber @vailskibum