South Park goes for a big cliffhanger, altering a main character, and ending a marriage.
Last night's mid-season finale of Comedy Central's South Park is a potential game changer. The episode begins as Stan (Trey Parker) turns ten. Soon after, he starts to see the things he likes as crappy. Literally. But a strange thing happens when, instead of his tastes maturing, Stan finds everything crappy. This drives away his friends, who get tired to his diagnosed cynicism. Stan's father, Randy (also Parker), resisting getting old, pretends he likes the things the young kids do, even though they sound crappy to him. His wife, Sharon (April Stewart), says she isn't happy with Randy, and hasn't been in some time. He agrees. They divorce and sell their house. As of the end of the episode, Stan moves into an apartment with his mother, and Kyle (Matt Stone), Stan's life-long closest pal, is now best friends with Cartman (Parker).…
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I watched this episode recently, and I have to disagree with comments that the show has lost creativity or any other comments like this one. To me the episode was real it seemed like a breath of fresh air. The fact is you have to understand South Park has been on for a long time now, and if frastic changes don't take place after a while, then you loose the wow factor. To me personally South Park will never become stale or loose is edge, because its the characters in itself you watch not what goes on. So that said, everything could change, plot, circumstances, divorces, whatumacallums, but regardless, what happens in South Park will always be something you will want to watch.