South Park is an animated series that has been running since 1997. Despite having over 300 episodes, the series still manages to make entertaining episodes and make insightful commentaries about current events, even if it is sometimes offensive.
The most recent season, season 23, first aired in late 2019, and its themes and comedy haven't aged at all. The season's focus is mainly on Randy Marsh's obsession with Tegridy Farms, but also focuses on issues like detention centers, plant-based foods, and media streaming. Oftentimes, Cartman is the one who is teaching life lessons through some of his more selfish actions.
10 Cartman Gets Sent To The Detention Center
After hearing what Cartman did to Kyle, Stan gets Cartman sent to the Detention Center as well. Cartman arrives at the facility in a good mood, heartlessly singing It's A Hard Knock Life to the other children there since he had nothing to lose.
Once Cartman realizes exactly what he did to Kyle was particularly awful, he shows remorse, which is rare for him.
9 The Detention Center Workers Don't Understand Kyle Until He Makes Superhero References
When Kyle first arrived at the Detention Center, he is pulled aside for being different from the other children. The workers murmur amongst themselves that they want to avoid being racist, although they ironically already are.
Kyle tries to make them see that they're being cruel to the children there, but they don't get it until he decides to explain the problematic situation using superhero references. They easily understand his words then, although they still manage to misconstrue them.
8 Stan Isn't Even Surprised His Father Killed Winnie The Pooh
During the entire season, Stan, his mother, and his sister are completely miserable. Stan's father, Randy Marsh, moved his entire family to the middle of nowhere to run a weed farm. It's clear early on that the rest of Randy's family is frustrated, irritable, and has completely given up on him.
Randy becomes addicted to the very thing he sells, and his product is all he can think or talk about. When he gets back from his trip to China, Stan notices the honey and blood, and without a hint of surprise, calls him out before leaving to write more angry songs about him.
7 A Pig Wrangler Is Hired To Catch Cartman
Some children absolutely despise getting their shots. It's not surprising, given that they come with a small amount of pain and needles are frightening. Cartman always finds a way out of it, stripping down, covering himself in grease to make himself hard to catch, and running around while squealing like a pig.
Due to the fact that vaccinations were required by South Park Elementary, the townspeople tried everything they could to give Cartman his shot, including hiring a pig wrangler, who makes a huge event of it.
6 Cartman's Mother Becomes Artistic
After some internal struggle, Liane Cartman decided that she didn't want to force her son into doing something he didn't want to do. She climbs into the arena and throws herself over him, taking the shot for him.
Eric Cartman seemed touched by her actions, and when he is next seen in the doctor's office, he appeared calm enough to accept his shot. However, he discovered that because of the vaccine, his mother had become artistic. There had been claims of this side effect, giving viewers the impression that they misspoke, but this was not the case.
5 Cartman Supports The School's New Food Options
Cartman spent the entire fourth episode of the season fighting against the students who were trying to make the school's lunch menu healthier. They wanted vegan options, but all Cartman wanted was his delicious, unhealthy foods. Without telling him, the school agreed to replace the meals with processed, meat-like foods.
They all expected him to get angry, but instead, they listened in horror when Cartman revealed that the food was perfectly okay with him because its production was bad for the environment. Cartman is so notoriously awful that getting his approval means that they're doing something wrong.
4 The White Family Inadvertently Helped Randy In His Trial
Randy had done so many awful things for the sake of his business, putting profit over everything else and rubbing his money in everyone's faces. He was charged with blowing up all of the home-grown marijuana in South Park, so the only family that supported him was the White family.
Although it wasn't intentional, they helped Randy win his case by accidentally making their adoptive child look like the Joker with sunscreen. Naturally, South Park took "Joker's" appearance way too seriously.
3 The Gaming Club Beat Heather
Heather Swanson was Woman's ex-boyfriend, who couldn't stand the fact that Woman broke up with him. Heather entered the Strongwoman competition to beat her, and succeeded.
She proceeded to call Woman out, bragging that she was better in every way. She even attempted to demean her in front of her students, but the Girl's Gaming Club challenged Heather and beat her at every board game that they played.
2 Ike Crying When His Mother Brags About Her Fecal Transplant
Sheila Broflovski gets violently ill when she gets a bacterial infection called C-diff, requiring her to get a fecal transplant. Kyle immediately warns Ike that they can never tell anyone what kind of procedure their mother received, as every child in town would make fun of them for it.
On a shopping trip shortly after, Sheila proceeds to tell everyone willing to listen about her procedure. Ike, unable to stop her, wails in horror and agony.
1 The TV Servicers Never Arrive On Time
Clark Malkinson is a technician for Park County Cable who is tired of the fact that everyone would rather have the new streaming services rather than basic cable. Although he says that his business is suffering, it's quickly revealed that it is because of how slow the service is.
When he promises to be somewhere between a certain time, he arrives at the last minute. Before arriving, he casually goes bowling, shopping, grabs a bite to eat, and does other things that keep him from being on time.
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