r/southparksucksnow

Does anybody notice how back in seasons 19-23, Stan was mostly reduced to being an side character who only got two episodes focused on him and otherwise was just there to react to Randy's wacky shenanigans with almost nothing else beyond that. Like in Season 20 for example, Stan barely does anything throughout the whole season besides breaking up with Wendy and joining the Wieners Out Movement with Butters and overall had the same amount of relevance as a character like Clyde or Craig. He overall was becoming much less prominent to the show at this time as Randy became an borderline main character starting in seasons 18-19 with the whole lorde and whole foods story lines and was overall getting much more screen time and lines than his own son

I feel like Cartman's been castrated over the course of the show. His schemes aren't as intense as they used to be, he wins even less and the wins he does get aren't that cool. Outside of the whole Heidi arc and getting Kyle sent to ICE, nothing he does is that messed up.

A good example of what I mean would be him in TMI vs him in Mexican Joker. In the former, he gets away with making his therapist's wife kill herself. Sure, he loses at the end of the episode, but he still gets away with indirect murder.
Contrast that to Mexican Joker. The episode opens up with him getting Kyle sent away by ICE, but almost immediately after, Stan calls ICE on him. He gets punished almost immediately after so it lacks impact when he does do messed up stuff.

I feel like we won't have him pulling Scott-Tennorman level stuff again because it'd either blow up in his face before it can be completed or he'd instantly get comeuppance for it so he looks more pathetic and not an actual threat. Butters is more capable of starting shit than he is nowadays.

TLDR; take Cartman off his meds.

A lot of ppl give Kyle shit over letting Stan go in Ass Burgers, but you gotta remember that he tried calling and talking to him repeatedly, and Stan didn’t answer. Besides, Stan’s depressed mood was starting to bum him out. I don’t blame Kyle at all.

He literally told Wendy he tried to call him multiple times and talk to him. He tried taking him to the movies and doing stuff they liked, but Stan was still depressed and nothing worked. Even when he was working with Cartman, he still was happy for him that he was seemingly getting out of his depression and even walked right back to him when Stan said “Kyle, I love you”.

Yet, ppl are so desperate to portray Kyle as a bad friend that they ignore all the context that makes his decision make sense. Kyle IS a good friend to Stan. Would a bad friend call his best friend multiple times to try to talk to him? Would a bad friend try to cheer his friend up by taking him to places where they know they can have fun? No, of course not.

Besides, there are ppl who’ve been in Kyle’s shoes and they say the same thing: It’s hard to deal with and you hardly even know what to do. Add that onto the fact that Kyle is 10 years old, and his decision to let Stan go makes a whole lot more sense.

TL;DR - Kyle didn’t “abandon” Stan, he tried talking to him and cheering him up multiple times and Stan continued to be depressed. Once that started to seriously affect Kyle’s mental state, he decided to let him go to avoid feeling depressed as well. Which is completely understandable.

I think it should focus on The New Kid Helping Call Girl like the casa bonita dlc and the camp dlc. What do you guys think?

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cross keyword "if" because i think that it did happen and they just lied to explain why its not there and made the seasons in a hurry which explains the delays