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** [[Double Standard Abuse (Female on Male)]]: Revolves around Stan being beaten and everyone being sympathetic toward him over it... until they find out that the one beating him up is his sister. Then they mock him and call him a pussy. This is despite the fact that Stan's sister is older and bigger than he is, and is also a violent sociopath.
** [[Double Standard Rape (Female on Male)]]: "Nice..."
* [[Downer Ending]]:
** The Season 15 mid-season finale episode {{spoiler|"You're Getting Old"}} and its somewhat serious tone is likely to be debated among loyal fans for awhile. Either it is set up as a turning point in the series, or Parker and Stone {{spoiler|hit the [[Reset Button]] again in the subsequent episode "Ass Burgers"}}. Essentially, by the end, {{spoiler|Stan, who has celebrated his 10th birthday and become too cynical to hang around Kyle, Kenny and Cartman, is teased as splitting from the other three. His parents, Sharon and Randy, split up as Randy admits his man-child attitude is a cover for his unhappiness}}. Juxtaposing these points across Fleetwood Mac's "Landslide" and having no music play over the end credits, the episode creates intrigue on whether the show's character dynamic will be changed again, only this time without the [[Plot Coupon]] of {{spoiler|Kenny being [[Killed Off for Real]] in Season 5 and continuing to stay dead throughout Season 6}}. Not to mention that Kyle and Cartman, two characters who historically hate each other, are seen {{spoiler|playing video games together and smiling, a scene that may be [[Nightmare Fuel]]}}.
** The subtext of the episode, that Matt and Trey are "getting old" and outgrowing the show, led to speculation that they may be planning to either end or radically change the series. This turned out not to be the case, as they have since renewed the show for two more seasons and the next episode ends with all the changes of the previous one being undone (albeit with a lingering note of ambivalence - see below).
** In the return episode "Ass Burgers", the four boys, as well as Sharon and Randy, {{spoiler|have reunited tenuously by the end of the episode, again set to "Landslide"}}. Kyle and Cartman {{spoiler|go back to hating each other}}. The episode still ends on an ambiguously bitter note, as it is suggested that Stan {{spoiler|has not really overcome his cynicism, but merely learned to repress it for the time being}}.
* [[The Drag Along]]: The characters generally take turns with this. Craig spends two whole episodes [[Lampshade Hanging|lampshading]] this. But after years of improbable adventures it was about time somebody called them on it.
* [[The Dragon]]: Kenny or Butters usually act as this to Cartman.
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