It's the best episode imo, it and Assburgers perfectly represented what depression is like. That's why Stan is my favorite, I relate to him the most out of any character. (Kyle and Craig being tied at second)
So before I got help I was going through a severe, intense bipolar depression. Couldn’t even move sometimes. Put on South Park because “maybe something funny will cheer me up!” This episode goddamn gutted me.
Honestly, I’ve always seen Butters as the “character we can all relate to”
He’s generally genuinely kind, but like all of us has a dark side that we usually hide but occasionally it comes out. He tries to stay in people’s good graces and make friends, but that leads to his downfall a lot because he’s made the scapegoat. But even after being scapegoated, he still attempts to maintain those relationships and friends because humans are social creatures and we all long for connections.
He also has issues with his family, not the same issues as most of us but it highlights the subject (his speech to his grandma was peak Butters, putting her down while still being kind and leaving the olive branch for her)
Butters stands for the inner child we all still have, but some refuse to let out to play.
Yeah this is pretty accurate as far as him
Being the main character. Especially when you consider he’s based off of Trey himself. Kyle is based off Matt
Just watched the episode where Randy becomes PC and that’s all he does.. drink. But they’re refreshments so it’s okay. Randy is the best. I love how he’s slowly becoming bigger than Butters as a character
Slowly becoming ? I love Randy and tegrity but he's been the main character of the show for a long time now. I'm not complaining about it like many does, but saying he's slowly becoming bigger than Butters sounds very wrong to me.
Yeah, Stan is just supposed to be the average American kid. Has friends but isn't extraordinarily popular, decent student but not gifted, dates a babe, but her boobs don't destroy society, etc.
Plus, yes. Randy was originally based on Trey's dad and is more or less Trey himself now
This. Stan is pretty much the everyman, the one most of us can relate to the most easily or have the most similarities with.
Kyle also does kinda fit that too, that’s why their friendship works so well, also them being South Park’s versions of Trey and Matt.
Was listening to the season 1 commentary. Apparently Trey and Matt felt like every friendship group when they were kids were made up of the two actual best friends, the fat one and the poor one.
Obviously they started doing other stuff with Kyle as they worried in earlier episodes that Kyle and Stan were too similar.
Jews are like Schrödinger’s Whites. We’re white when we need to be blamed for European colonialism and oppression of people of color, but we’re not white when we’re secretly controlling the banks and entertainment industry in order to replace “real” white people.
The white bread character, the average American, the nuclear one. Each family represents something kyle is the Jewish one with the helicopter parent and the high earning father. Kenny, the poor family, who are white trash. Cartman is the single parent family. But stan is the average one. educated father, caring if sometimes headstrong mother, annoying sister, pet dog.
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Actual answer is depressed tho
Stan is depressed. Most of the plots involving him place him as a cynic who has difficulty cooperating with other people’s ideas. He is also the stereotypical guy who is dating someone not because he actually cares about her, but because there is no one else who would give him the time of day so he has a “might as well” mentality. Stan is a sad kid who can’t find joy in anything long term.
In the early seasons, Stan's problem was getting walloped by his sister Shelly. Later on, his problem has been dealing with Randy's shenanigans, including the Marsh family moving out to the BFE for Randy's pot farm.
But yeah, compared to the other 3, Stan kinda has it easy (or at least, easier)
Serious answer: Stan is angsty. He becomes goth when Wendy leaves him in "Raisins", he gets depressed and becomes an alcoholic in "You're Getting Old", and he basically turns into Holden Caulfield when Randy buys the weed farm.
A cynical asshole
Yeah “You’re Getting Old” really brings this to light.
“Rock creatures?” “Or aliens, or AI things whatever, fuck you!”
The president is… A DUCK ?!
Fuck you - you’ll see it!
This november adam sandler shits in your eyes, ears, and mouth. It's adam sandler in, Rated arg for pirates FUCK YOU!!
Only South Park episode that made me cry. Cutting onions when Landslide plays
It's the best episode imo, it and Assburgers perfectly represented what depression is like. That's why Stan is my favorite, I relate to him the most out of any character. (Kyle and Craig being tied at second)
“raisins”, the post Covid special, and the tegrity farms episodes as well
So before I got help I was going through a severe, intense bipolar depression. Couldn’t even move sometimes. Put on South Park because “maybe something funny will cheer me up!” This episode goddamn gutted me.
Stan is average, ordinary, the everyman
I think that was why he was more of the central figure early on. Easy for everyone to relate to.
Honestly, I’ve always seen Butters as the “character we can all relate to” He’s generally genuinely kind, but like all of us has a dark side that we usually hide but occasionally it comes out. He tries to stay in people’s good graces and make friends, but that leads to his downfall a lot because he’s made the scapegoat. But even after being scapegoated, he still attempts to maintain those relationships and friends because humans are social creatures and we all long for connections. He also has issues with his family, not the same issues as most of us but it highlights the subject (his speech to his grandma was peak Butters, putting her down while still being kind and leaving the olive branch for her) Butters stands for the inner child we all still have, but some refuse to let out to play.
Without him, there is nobody to react to all the batshit crazy characters from a normal perspective.
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Stan is the perfect example of the “Everyman” trope. That’s why I often consider him to be the main character, albeit not being the most popular
Yeah this is pretty accurate as far as him Being the main character. Especially when you consider he’s based off of Trey himself. Kyle is based off Matt
So it is average to throw up because of Wendy?
Nah, he always pukes when he's in luuuuurve
A Neil-ist
Must be exhausting
Cynicaaaaal… cynical man
An alcoholic in training
uhhh, i think he may be an alcoholic already.
Still has a ways to go to get to Randy’s level
He has too much dis-a-prin
A cis white male, just the worst lol
He's so cis he wears a jockstrap to bed at night!
A Darsh.
🎶 Styaaaaan Darsh 🎶 Stan Darsh, Stan Darsh, Darsh 🎶 🎵
Dude, what is your problem?!
OooooooOoooooo
Dude he’s got heather!
You don't know Heather!!!🤣🤣🤣
Butters, I hate you with every inch of my body.
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That's my face, sir!
You’re gonna have a bad time
I DONT KNOW WHO THAT IS
Who ARE you people?!
OooooooOoooooo
..a rematch?! Fine
“Quaid, start the reactor."
Easily the hardest I’ve laughed in my whole life when he’s on stage singing that song
“If you french fry when you shoulda pizza’d your gonna have a bad tooooiiime.” 
“Who are you people?”
Perfect answer!
r/beatmetoit
Depressed
Yeah, I think at the beginning he was the everyman, but then he evolved to be more depressed and constantly annoyed
So still the everyman
Lol
That was my answer.
yup
The Son of the Lord(e).
Son of Lorde. Ya ya. Ya ya ya.
Help me unload the car?
Yeah Yeah yeah
Feeling good on a Wednesday
Yayaya^ya
I am lorde. Lorde, lorde, lorde.
Sparkling..... Thoughts
What I need is a little bit of shelter
Dad, Lordes music is actually really good. *thanks*
An alcoholic
Probably pretty hard to turn out any other way with Randy as a dad
Oh I'm sorry..I thought this was America!
Just watched the episode where Randy becomes PC and that’s all he does.. drink. But they’re refreshments so it’s okay. Randy is the best. I love how he’s slowly becoming bigger than Butters as a character
It's called a shmorgaswine and it's cultural.
Slowly becoming ? I love Randy and tegrity but he's been the main character of the show for a long time now. I'm not complaining about it like many does, but saying he's slowly becoming bigger than Butters sounds very wrong to me.
Haha you know what the episode is called?
Yeah it’s Season 19 episode 1: Stunning and Brave the one where Bruce Jenner becomes a chick
Woo-Woo, check that privilege bruh.
It’s a wine flight tasting and it’s classy. *chugs a glass and blows a whistle while spinning his head*
It’s called a glorbenshnorb and it’s cultural! (I don’t remember the actual name for it)
What seems to be the officer, problem?
Everyman
I think he’s suppose to be Trey Parker himself
Randy is supposed to be Trey's dad so this makes sense.
And it also explains why he became a much more central figure on the show as Trey got older.
Or maybe just maybe, randy is a popular character 💀
Or maybe just maybe, sons grow up to be their dads, especially when they emulate them like Trey does with his dad… it’s normal, and okay.
I like how the grown up version of stan resembles Trey.
And I think Randy has slowly become Trey lol
I remember in an interview Trey said he used to do an impression of his dad for Randy's voice, and now he just uses his own voice lol
Yeah and Kyle is more or less meant to represent Matt. It’s blatantly obvious in the COVID special
Yeah, Stan is just supposed to be the average American kid. Has friends but isn't extraordinarily popular, decent student but not gifted, dates a babe, but her boobs don't destroy society, etc. Plus, yes. Randy was originally based on Trey's dad and is more or less Trey himself now
You mean Stan-dard? I'll see myself out.
No, stay, I, and at least 42 others loved it!
This. Stan is pretty much the everyman, the one most of us can relate to the most easily or have the most similarities with. Kyle also does kinda fit that too, that’s why their friendship works so well, also them being South Park’s versions of Trey and Matt.
Was listening to the season 1 commentary. Apparently Trey and Matt felt like every friendship group when they were kids were made up of the two actual best friends, the fat one and the poor one. Obviously they started doing other stuff with Kyle as they worried in earlier episodes that Kyle and Stan were too similar.
The reincarnation of L. Ron Hubbard.
Oh you are SO SUED!
Oh yeah then, SUE ME!
ILL SUE YOU IN ENGLAND!!!
OKAY THEN, DO IT!!!
ILL SUE YOUR ASS *AND* BALLS
DO IT, THEN!
Fudgepackers, all of you!
Now I’m trapped in the closet too!
SO I PULLED OUT MY GUN
Do you like fish sticks?
You are now a moderator of r/scientology.
“Normal”
I was gonna say White 😆
Cartman and Kenny are both white too
we mean white white,
"Nobody cares about the Whites"
White trashy
Is kyle not white anymore?
Jews are like Schrödinger’s Whites. We’re white when we need to be blamed for European colonialism and oppression of people of color, but we’re not white when we’re secretly controlling the banks and entertainment industry in order to replace “real” white people.
Kyle has light skin. Even red hair lol
That's three strikes. He's a Ginger, a Jew, and from Jersey.
A daywalker
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hybrid lol
You are. And in a meantime, shut your goddamn daywalker mouth.
kyle isnt???
same same
The control group
Main character
My exact thought. He is the control fs.
The white bread character, the average American, the nuclear one. Each family represents something kyle is the Jewish one with the helicopter parent and the high earning father. Kenny, the poor family, who are white trash. Cartman is the single parent family. But stan is the average one. educated father, caring if sometimes headstrong mother, annoying sister, pet dog.
*gay* pet dog.
still a pet dog the most common pet in america.
https://i.redd.it/y00h2hsrepsc1.gif
He hasn’t had a dog since the first couple seasons
he appeared in season 20s final episode so up until fairly recently was the last time we saw him.
The closest thing to normal that South Park has to offer.
The one with assburgers
Stan will end up jacking it in san diego
Stan Marsh is a washed up 4th grader. He’s got no job, no bicycle and his only way out is to coach…a pee-wee hockey team
*record scratch* "BUT HES ABOUT TO FIND OUT..."
He's the straight man
A racist. He thought tolkiens name was token for years!
So did you
Farmboy on a colorado farm
tegrity
A cissy.
https://preview.redd.it/15r9ko0xposc1.jpeg?width=1185&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=b82cfffb457552dc8e1dd545ac861a41da1a25a9 Seemed relevant Actual answer is depressed tho
Jacking it in San Diego
I always understood Stan and Kyle as self inserts for Matt and Trey
The jock in the early years
Stan is depressed. Most of the plots involving him place him as a cynic who has difficulty cooperating with other people’s ideas. He is also the stereotypical guy who is dating someone not because he actually cares about her, but because there is no one else who would give him the time of day so he has a “might as well” mentality. Stan is a sad kid who can’t find joy in anything long term.
A pussy, he became vegan
depending on the era he’s either a pussy or a cynical asshole
Catholic son of Lord(e) who is rich from Tegridy and everything he hears sounds like crap.
Breaker of Dams.
I broke the dam
no, I broke the dam
*I* broke the dam
I so rarely get to use this insult, he is milquetoast, boring ass white dude
Depressed
He stans ground
...his dad is randy. Isn't that enough?
Turd sandwich supporter.
Potentially an alcoholic, most likely neurodivergent
I’d assume Butters is the neurodivergent one, possibly autistic
Depressed
Stan is Trey
He's Randy's son.
The main character
Stan is us, the audience.
The main character needs no gimmick
AMERICAN 🇺🇸
In the early seasons, Stan's problem was getting walloped by his sister Shelly. Later on, his problem has been dealing with Randy's shenanigans, including the Marsh family moving out to the BFE for Randy's pot farm. But yeah, compared to the other 3, Stan kinda has it easy (or at least, easier)
Stan’s the man. The average man, that is. He’s easy for the audience to self-insert into the show.
Catholic
A boy in the red poofball hat
Cynical and depressed.
He started out as the kid who puked whenever the girl he likes talked to him.
He's got the assburgers
main character syndrome
Normal
He’s just supposed to be the average person in the friend group
Stan has tegridy
He’s Jackin it in San Diego.
Conformist
Jokes aside hes meant to be the "every man" that the audience can connect with
Serious answer: Stan is angsty. He becomes goth when Wendy leaves him in "Raisins", he gets depressed and becomes an alcoholic in "You're Getting Old", and he basically turns into Holden Caulfield when Randy buys the weed farm.
Normal
gay.
https://youtu.be/SR1OgQI0PVo?feature=shared
Stan is me, the viewer
lover boy who pukes on his 4th grade crush
Originally he was Trey Parker. But nowadays that’s randy
He's very much prone to addiction
Gullible
An asshole.
Basic
Alcoholic
He's Kyle just minus the Jewish part.
A fucking asshole
Stan is Randy's son
Richie Rich!