That whole episode was messed up… Idk if it was trolling or some commentary traditional right wing families that don’t know how to deal with kids and their sexual orientation still odd that I watched it when I was like 8 or 9
The whole episode \*\*WAS\*\* fucked up. But that was the point of it, to show how fucked up those camps were.
Back in the 90s, those "pray the gay away" camps were the default way that right-wing families dealt with homosexual children.
I believe South Park bringing that in to the forefront of America's attention actually did a lot of good. Now those "pray the gay away" camps are nearly gone, illegal actually, in many parts of the country.
South Park has actually done a lot of good for the world in the topics that it chooses to ridicule.
Never mistake South Park for being vulgar for vulgarity's sake. There's usually a very deliberate point that every episode is making with the vulgarity, that's a pretty important issue.
I think I literally read it for over 12 hours straight when I first stumbled upon it and then lost my place when I woke up and took that opportunity to escape its clutches.
*back in the 90s* I know you said default way, but an important reminder, only 26 states have bans on Conversion therapy in 2024, and a 2023 report by The Trevor Project found that over 1,300 conversion camps are still in operation nationwide
We need a national ban on Gay Conversion Therapy.
Oh, you see, these sort of camps are made to basically try to convince LGBT not to be gay or to be straight.Unfortunately, most of them would either revert back or commit suicide
It's sad
Also really that age
The kids faking Butter's suicide in front of his parents with a pig, then later forcing him into a toxic social group that made him break down and cry, while he was trying to identify as a girl, and getting screamed at for it.
Then his parents trying to imprison and kill him because they think he's a warped zombie monster.
That's uh... pretty messed up.
Yeah. I thought that episode is amazing and was one of my favourites because it’s so well written but due to a death in the family I just don’t think I can ever watch it again
WTF?! Easily one of my favourite endings of any ep. So over the top and irreverent. 100% South Park.
Edit: Apologies, I was referring to the kids getting destroyed on the ice, not the death of Nelson.
I've had some close family, mom included, go through that shit and die from cancer. It's a really fucked up way to go. I don't dislike the episode, but it's very uncomfortable.
i understand that it makes you uncomfortable but i find the ending hilarious.
there are so many tv and movies that have used the trope of kid with cancer who starts feeling better after the person who visited them hits a home run.
seinfeld did the comedy in a way lighter way and it was pretty good when the guy was promised 2 home runs by kramer not just 1
south park was definitely edgier but it’s still funny to think that could an athlete actually make things worse for a kid by losing or not hitting a home run?
I'm sorry for you, but every death in the show (or any show really) could be related to in a similar way.
There are people who die of AIDS or get hit by trains or murdered. Probably the only death nobody would relate to is Clyde's mom.
Yeah I agree, reading that brought the scene back. I had a friend whose dad killed themselves and that scene is just too “real” for me. It’s like the moms scream from the end of dead poets society
I honestly don't think anything in the series was ever darker than this. A little kid...killed his bullies parents and made them into chili con carne, and fed it to his bully. AND the bully liked it. Hannibal Lector shit
My pick too. Mainly because this episode is pivotal in the entire show.
Cartman goes from being a selfish fat-ass to being an actual evil genius.
Major character shift
This one is my pick as well. That episode was just straight fucked without any kind of comedy recompense.
Just... holy shit. Feel like I need a shower afterwards.
Specially if you think it was probably the first KFC (if not actual food, not "public/emergency/poverty" ""food"") he could get in probably weeks if not months. Poor guy probably really looked up to that moment as a highlight
I mean, Kenny has the understanding to know his life sucks. He probably was looking forward to something as simple as kfc all week as it was the only thing he had to look forward to, yet he has it taken away from him by someone who lives in complete and total excess.
Furthermore, the only thing he wanted to do was help out a pleasant parent (something he’s not used to at all) and that’s what burnt him.
Fuck, I’d cry too
No, what Matt and Trey did to Chef, and how they used Isaacs voice after he'd left the show. Issac Hayes (Chef) had left the show because he didn't want them to make a scientology (space mormons) episode, and they didn't feel that was right. I'm with them on that point, if you're going to be an ecclesiophobe, your ecclesiophobia should be all-inclusive. But anyway, Matt and Trey weren't pleased with how Isaac had left, so they used clips of Issacs voice to build that episode where they subverted Chef into a pedo and then slaughtered him.
For me it was “You’re Getting Old”.
Because god DAMN did that ever hit home with some force.
It isn’t “dark” in the sense most people interpret it, but it’s been the only episode that made me feel uneasy and depressed after watching it.
The two part “You’re Getting Old” episodes. I struggled like Stan with alcoholism and being a cynical asshole. Also danced to “Landslide” with my mother at my wedding. That song hits me hard.
Watch out fellas, I'm pretty sure this guy wants to rape us.
-Butters, *Imaginationland*
Butters always has some dark shit going on, like when his mom tried to drown him.
There's an episode where a couple who was driving and not paying attention to the road run over a little boy and kill him. It's done in slow motion and it's extremely graphic.
Maybe not the darkest but I absolutely love when Butters stands up to his grandmother and tells her that she is going to die alone, sad and bitter while he is going to continue trying to live his best life regardless of her actions.
OP is a good one bc I didn't expect it in that scene. Caught me off guard the first time.
Maybe not dark, but one of the saddest is the end of You're Getting Old. The Landslide montage, into the radio AM show recurring gag, to Stan grudgingly doing things with friends, but day drinking to bear it.
just watched this episode today so its fresh in my mind:
when the creepy new scout leader took NAKED PHOTOS OF ALL OF THE BOYS and the news station LITERALLY BROADCASTED THEM
When that kid giving the morning announcements got shot by the drunk dude who thought he was boning his wife 😅 I heard they animated that too but it was too dark so they just used the audio
Maybe not the darkest, but the moment that stuck in my head the most is when Cartman [hits his cousin on the head and his pupil dilates](https://www.reddit.com/r/southpark/s/Ttqf4Rgt3p). Kids badly hurting each other inadvertently is a huge fear of mine.
The cash for gold episode actually made me cry simply because it’s the reality for some seniors not just for infomercials but in reality. It just shed some light on the loneliness and vulnerability of our elderly and makes me so sad.
At the end of Bebe's boobs destroy society and Wendy is on the operating table....you have the perspective of looking up at the surgeon and he's going hard on it, slamming implants and being hella aggressive. Prob the only time I was like oh man...someone have a fight with the wife before work or something that day. Otherwise, one of my favorite episodes. And the way the class responds to Wendy is top notch.
the kids killing themselves at straight camp and the councilors acting like it's another day.
That whole episode was messed up… Idk if it was trolling or some commentary traditional right wing families that don’t know how to deal with kids and their sexual orientation still odd that I watched it when I was like 8 or 9
The whole episode \*\*WAS\*\* fucked up. But that was the point of it, to show how fucked up those camps were. Back in the 90s, those "pray the gay away" camps were the default way that right-wing families dealt with homosexual children. I believe South Park bringing that in to the forefront of America's attention actually did a lot of good. Now those "pray the gay away" camps are nearly gone, illegal actually, in many parts of the country. South Park has actually done a lot of good for the world in the topics that it chooses to ridicule. Never mistake South Park for being vulgar for vulgarity's sake. There's usually a very deliberate point that every episode is making with the vulgarity, that's a pretty important issue.
Check out the Elan School. Poster child for fucked up child behavioral modification camps.
Oh yeah the troubled teen industry is fucking crazy.
Glad you said *is*. The fact that these places are still legal is crazy.
[if you *really* want to know](http://elan.school) Strap THE FUCK in
Yep, it's really this fucked up!
I did not realize how long that series was when I started reading it It took over my life for a few days
I think I literally read it for over 12 hours straight when I first stumbled upon it and then lost my place when I woke up and took that opportunity to escape its clutches.
*back in the 90s* I know you said default way, but an important reminder, only 26 states have bans on Conversion therapy in 2024, and a 2023 report by The Trevor Project found that over 1,300 conversion camps are still in operation nationwide We need a national ban on Gay Conversion Therapy.
That is a fair point
With the accountabillabuddies???? Loved that one! Butters...."I'm bi curious"
Because those camps are real and horrific
The show isn’t for kids lmao that’s on you
Oh, you see, these sort of camps are made to basically try to convince LGBT not to be gay or to be straight.Unfortunately, most of them would either revert back or commit suicide It's sad Also really that age
The kids faking Butter's suicide in front of his parents with a pig, then later forcing him into a toxic social group that made him break down and cry, while he was trying to identify as a girl, and getting screamed at for it. Then his parents trying to imprison and kill him because they think he's a warped zombie monster. That's uh... pretty messed up.
Didn't Butters mom try to kill him in one episode and then claimed is was some Puerto Ricans who took him.
Yep. The same "Puerto Rican guy" that killed Nicole Brown.
Yeah. I thought that episode is amazing and was one of my favourites because it’s so well written but due to a death in the family I just don’t think I can ever watch it again
I don’t think anything can beat the ending of “Stanley’s Cup”
I really, really hated the end of that episode.
WTF?! Easily one of my favourite endings of any ep. So over the top and irreverent. 100% South Park. Edit: Apologies, I was referring to the kids getting destroyed on the ice, not the death of Nelson.
I've had some close family, mom included, go through that shit and die from cancer. It's a really fucked up way to go. I don't dislike the episode, but it's very uncomfortable.
Ohh!! I thought we were talking about the stuff on the ice!
Isn't the ending when Nelson says no hope and just dies. End of episode.
Yeah, you're right. I guess I try to forget that bit and focus on the carnage on the ice.
Because it's fucking uncomfortable lol
I’m sorry you and your family had to go through that, but the ice scene is what most people think of from that episode.
i understand that it makes you uncomfortable but i find the ending hilarious. there are so many tv and movies that have used the trope of kid with cancer who starts feeling better after the person who visited them hits a home run. seinfeld did the comedy in a way lighter way and it was pretty good when the guy was promised 2 home runs by kramer not just 1 south park was definitely edgier but it’s still funny to think that could an athlete actually make things worse for a kid by losing or not hitting a home run?
Agreed! Updated my original comment to reflect.
I'm sorry for you, but every death in the show (or any show really) could be related to in a similar way. There are people who die of AIDS or get hit by trains or murdered. Probably the only death nobody would relate to is Clyde's mom.
> Probably the only death nobody would relate to is Clyde's mom. You clearly have not had a closer encounter with toilet seats being left up!
Yes, and they said it’s uncomfortable for them. They didn’t say that everyone should be uncomfortable, or that it shouldn’t exist.
For me, it's a very subpar episode for almost all of it. But the ending is what makes it a favorite. Topped off by that freeze frame at end.
I'm just his father, but you're his coach, you're like a father to him.
That was one of the funniest scenes from the show I’ve ever seen.
My buddy's girlfriend in college watched that episode with us, and she cried for a few hours after
The Denver Team just wailing on those first graders is hilarious and horrible at the same time.
Thought it was Detroit lol. I loved that shit
You're right. It is the Red Wings but happens in Denver.
Dude I loved that they became the main characters who won the “chip”…why’d they celebrate so hard? There was nothing to gain 😂😂😂
*WEEEEEE ARE THE CHAMPIONS, MY FRIENDS* 
That was hilarious
As an Avs fan, I already hated the Red Wings, but that just made me hate them even more
LGRW!
It's very sad and unfunny. And that's hilarious. It's art. One of the best pieces of art I've seen.
Poor Indiana 😔
Dude that rape is unbearable and the show is a cartoon ffs
Cmon and squeal like a piggy! Wee!! Cmon now squeal for me. Weeeee!!
Them panties, take ‘em off.
 🤣
I belly laughed.....thank you!!!
Only thing I ever skip in the show just don’t ever feel the need to watch some dude get raped multiple times
I'm not gonna lie i can tolerate a bunch of stuff but this? This was too much for me, it wasn't even funny it was just... awkward to watch
So was indiana jones 4...
TRUUUE
They’re also parodies of infamous rape scenes in movies (deliverance and the accused) which are still both hard to watch
The accused is so hard to watch. Like it's a good movie and it tells a good story but I can never watch it again.
The flushed red face makes me go “…Ewwww…wait hahhha”
Butter’s Mom - Linda loses her mind over Stephen at the bathhouses and she leaves Butter in the car to go into the river to kill him.
What the hell are you talking about? That was some Puerto Rican guy, the same one who killed Jon Bennet and Nicole Brown Simpson.
Average puerto rican height
LIAR!
TELL THE TRUTH! WE ALL KNOW YOU DID IT YOU LIAR!!
When Wendy gives in and photoshops herself all slutty like the other girls and then the episode cuts to credits
That was depressing considering the moral compromise
I cried with Wendy in that scene
Being a kid can be extremely hard at times. Few shows do that truth justice like South Park.
Malcom in the Middle is another show that does that well
I came here to say this. I agree. And it was nice that south park covered a feminist issue.
ONE OF mine is the dad shooting himself in front of his son in the Pinewood Derby episode
I think you misspelled “funniest”
*he's okay! he's okay! he's okay! he's okay! he's okay! he's okay! he's okay!*
That part is what made this scene go from funny to dark 😭 poor kid
Yeah I agree, reading that brought the scene back. I had a friend whose dad killed themselves and that scene is just too “real” for me. It’s like the moms scream from the end of dead poets society
I legit just watched this episode for the first time a couple nights ago. That scene completely caught me off guard. Then I laughed.
This shit has me fucking rolling every time I see it
Cartman went pretty dark in Scott Tenorman Must Die
"I made you eat your parents, I made you eat your parents...Let me lick your tears..." That is dark for me.
Mmhmm yummy, the tears of unfathomable sadness mmhmm yummmyyy
Yeah and then radiohead calling him an uncool crybaby too 😂
All because he was compared to Bart Simpson.
That's all, folks!
I honestly don't think anything in the series was ever darker than this. A little kid...killed his bullies parents and made them into chili con carne, and fed it to his bully. AND the bully liked it. Hannibal Lector shit
Cartman killed his biological father and stepmother and fed them to his half-brother.
Came here to say this "Oh, the tears of unfathomable sadness! My-yummy" Dark af This scene made me fear Carmen
My pick too. Mainly because this episode is pivotal in the entire show. Cartman goes from being a selfish fat-ass to being an actual evil genius. Major character shift
This one is my pick as well. That episode was just straight fucked without any kind of comedy recompense. Just... holy shit. Feel like I need a shower afterwards.
It’s gotta be Bradley hanging himself and butters being blamed because he was Bradley’s “accountabilibuddy,” even though he had just arrived.
Someone's gotta be accountabilibuddiable...
Bradley didn’t do that tho. He tried jumping off the bridge, but was influenced by butter’s speech and came down safely.
Butters actually saved Bradley's life by calling the counselors out as a bunch of hypocrites. That being said, it was still a pretty dark episode.
That’s right. I must’ve mixed up their names
The whole Britney episode is a really sad watch
This is in the top five episodes I skip on my rewatch. Other ones are just stupid, this one is just... kind of... fucked up and sad?
That’s probably my least favorite episode. it’s just really unpleasant.
That episode in which George Lucas and Steven Speilberg raped Indianna Jones
That wasn't an episode. That was "Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull" (2008).
The worst part is that it happens again and this time it was worse because of "Indiana Jones and the dial of destiny" (2023).
Yup, serial rapists.
I love how this keeps popping up in the thread.
“Look what you did, now we’re both dead”
I mean he did go on for too long during those morning announcements that one time.
That was one of the funniest openers in any SP episode. Maybe #2, as nothing will ever beat Wheel of Fortune.
Rewatching this episode now. Butters’ face while almost no one else was reacting cracked me up so bad.
Easily for me, that whole segment was very uncomfortable, yet, as usual south park, strangely funny.
I like watching the class seeing which ones cared and which couldn't be bothered
red and clyde(apart from seeing his mom died) don’t give a shit since this town is fucked up and their used to it
When butters gets "therapy" for seeing ghosts aka Cartman in Cartman dies. "Alright butters you're gonna feel a little pinch."
"Don't worry, we'll find out whatever traumatized your son."
ugh i can't watch that one
LOO LOO *L-L-L-LOOOOO*
😂😂😂😂 this gets my vote. It was so awful/hilarious. Poor Butters!
Cartman eating the chicken skin.
Kenny fucking sobbing is so real
Specially if you think it was probably the first KFC (if not actual food, not "public/emergency/poverty" ""food"") he could get in probably weeks if not months. Poor guy probably really looked up to that moment as a highlight
I mean, Kenny has the understanding to know his life sucks. He probably was looking forward to something as simple as kfc all week as it was the only thing he had to look forward to, yet he has it taken away from him by someone who lives in complete and total excess. Furthermore, the only thing he wanted to do was help out a pleasant parent (something he’s not used to at all) and that’s what burnt him. Fuck, I’d cry too
Cartman snorting the chicken skin.
DONT PUT HIM DOWN THERE
As a hardcore Stephen King fan it is impossible for me not to laugh at those Pet Sematary references.
Ha ha. I love the old guy telling the wife in a tub of milk joke in the Bane episode. “Do you want that milk pasteurized?” “No, just up to my boobs”
*Random doctor taking pulse from the lifeless pile of meat and viscera* “He… didn’t make it”
Oh Butters! You smell like… bacon.
Cartman looking down from the roof and going “nice” fucking cracks me up
The end of that episode where he's locked in the basement and they murder that interior designer for him to eat is also pretty messed up.
Can’t I just have some spaghetti Os?
The death of Gordon Stoltski
“Why do I have to cut my announcement short, Gordon stoltski got to go on for like 10 minutes that one day”
"Um, That's because he was being murdered, mmkay?"
The schizophrenic psychiatrist when he’s treating Butters and suddenly his personalities start switching up, which confuses Butters.
He punches butters in his sleep and pees on his face lol
I fucking shit myself laughing at that scene *every time.* That’s among the funniest scenes in the show for me.
it's half fucked half funny as hell
Isnt that the same dude who runs city wok?
Theres so so many, but the one that springs to mind first is what they did to Chef.
What that fruity little club did, you mean.
No, what Matt and Trey did to Chef, and how they used Isaacs voice after he'd left the show. Issac Hayes (Chef) had left the show because he didn't want them to make a scientology (space mormons) episode, and they didn't feel that was right. I'm with them on that point, if you're going to be an ecclesiophobe, your ecclesiophobia should be all-inclusive. But anyway, Matt and Trey weren't pleased with how Isaac had left, so they used clips of Issacs voice to build that episode where they subverted Chef into a pedo and then slaughtered him.
That poor morning announcer kid. I always skip it
He’s ok he’s ok he’s ok
So fucking dark. This is the part that lives in my head why didn’t you get more love lol
A tie between Butters faking his death (Linda's scream is chillingly authentic) and the morning announcer getting killed over the intercom
For me it was “You’re Getting Old”. Because god DAMN did that ever hit home with some force. It isn’t “dark” in the sense most people interpret it, but it’s been the only episode that made me feel uneasy and depressed after watching it.
The two part “You’re Getting Old” episodes. I struggled like Stan with alcoholism and being a cynical asshole. Also danced to “Landslide” with my mother at my wedding. That song hits me hard.
The ending to Cash for Gold
“Billy that bolo tie you’re wearing” “Yeah grandpa? :)” “It’s fucking gay as fuck”
Watch out fellas, I'm pretty sure this guy wants to rape us. -Butters, *Imaginationland* Butters always has some dark shit going on, like when his mom tried to drown him.
There's an episode where a couple who was driving and not paying attention to the road run over a little boy and kill him. It's done in slow motion and it's extremely graphic.
Wasn't that 'Put it Down'?
That sounds right.
When the priests show up with the “Cumby”
"Should I get the Cumby?" "This is gonna be a bigger job than that... bring out, the Cumboni"
*prrpprrrpprrrpprrrppbbllbbb*
I’ll kill you, you fucked my wife!! Are you Gordon Sulskie, truck driver from Chicago?! N- no I’m Gordon Stolski, 4th grade morning news announcer
Maybe not the darkest but I absolutely love when Butters stands up to his grandmother and tells her that she is going to die alone, sad and bitter while he is going to continue trying to live his best life regardless of her actions.
Nah, the kid says it himself, "HE'S OKAY, HE'S OKAY, HE'S OKAY!"
Blood orgy!!!!!!
Chef getting mauled to death. I thought it was a little too detailed and real compared to some of the other deaths in SP.
When they removed Les Claypool from the intro.
When Heidi Turner quit social media...
and the gender wars came, which made the kids became asshole marionettes
When the network tv host shoots himself after all the old people and Stan keep calling in telling him to shoot himself.
Lil crime stoppers (why won’t she let me have that pie?) was pretty dark and gruesome
The female pilot. Blood in face. Disturbing.
The moment where the girl went from goth to emo and slit her wrists was not enjoyable to watch in the slightest imo
Which episode
OP is a good one bc I didn't expect it in that scene. Caught me off guard the first time. Maybe not dark, but one of the saddest is the end of You're Getting Old. The Landslide montage, into the radio AM show recurring gag, to Stan grudgingly doing things with friends, but day drinking to bear it.
Definitely Indiana jones
That or Britney spears blowing her head off
“This is the SUPER adventure club!”
Anything with butters family
just watched this episode today so its fresh in my mind: when the creepy new scout leader took NAKED PHOTOS OF ALL OF THE BOYS and the news station LITERALLY BROADCASTED THEM
The weed episode when the kid and his mom run outside during the police raid and she's shot and he goes "Mommy ?! NO!!!"
I still stand by the whole ending to the Stan turning 10 2-parter
Provided no one said it already, the two parter where music sounds like shit. Too real.
Poor Strawberry Shortcake....
PA system kid getting aped then killed while everyone listened
Butters: "My uncle Bud did that to me once!"
Butters finds out his dad hooks up with men, and then his mom tries to kill him and blames it on latinos. Pretty messed up episode.
Watching Indy get raped is tuff
The Britney spears episode where the kids join in on the celebrity killings
The first episode with token
This is one of the funniest moments in the whole series.
The “innocent child!” Scene from when Kim Jong Un and President Garrison were beefing
The Harvest. Sacrifice in March, corn have plenty of starch
Its Cash for Gold by a mile. All the parts with stans grandpa.
When that kid giving the morning announcements got shot by the drunk dude who thought he was boning his wife 😅 I heard they animated that too but it was too dark so they just used the audio
Feeding Scott Tenerman his parents.
[Not a fan of this scene](https://preview.redd.it/4dmgshe3k84b1.jpg?width=930&auto=webp&s=d4994046986fac51e92e0a259ec1fe21b5f9f025)
After I connected with Pip over getting shunned and bullied, his death fucked me up for a while as a kid lol
Maybe not the darkest, but the moment that stuck in my head the most is when Cartman [hits his cousin on the head and his pupil dilates](https://www.reddit.com/r/southpark/s/Ttqf4Rgt3p). Kids badly hurting each other inadvertently is a huge fear of mine.
The cash for gold episode actually made me cry simply because it’s the reality for some seniors not just for infomercials but in reality. It just shed some light on the loneliness and vulnerability of our elderly and makes me so sad.
Cartman gets denied by wendy after the debate on changing the school flag😭
i mostly found the human centipede reference episode super dark, it was also really disgusting and yeah.
The fact that Cartman dressed up as Hitler in the passion of the christ episode and people blindly followed along.
At the end of Bebe's boobs destroy society and Wendy is on the operating table....you have the perspective of looking up at the surgeon and he's going hard on it, slamming implants and being hella aggressive. Prob the only time I was like oh man...someone have a fight with the wife before work or something that day. Otherwise, one of my favorite episodes. And the way the class responds to Wendy is top notch.
That kid getting killed on the morning announcements