#south park cows

[lesliemeyers]

you know how it is with cow days

[buttfrovski]

mf was dancing at the pink pony club

[4allthebears]

Ginger Cow but it’s Kyle’s fursona…

[shiftythrifting]

[crab-people-overlord]

I was reading through someone else’s post who makes a great point about how both ‘Ginger Cow’ and ‘Humancentipad’ are both just…. painful episodes of Kyle suffering to watch, but how ‘Ginger Cow’ expands more on Kyle’s dynamics with the others so is an important one to not skip over. I already had an analysis of this episode queued up, but decided to share now lol.

What sets the two episodes apart is that ‘Humancentipad’ doesn’t really add much to any of the canon for the show, so you honestly don’t miss much if you skip that episode. It doesn’t really demonstrate any new dynamics or canon for any of them. We already know Cartman manipulates his mom and enjoys Kyle's suffering. And we already know Stan and others will try to help Kyle when he's in trouble. It's South Park business as usual.

But "Ginger Cow"? Even though this episode is similarly painful to watch, it’s very important in how it develops the relationships between ALL of the main four boys in relation to Kyle, especially the Kyle-Stan-Cartman triangle.

There's something very telling and interesting about how Cartman torments Kyle in this episode. It's not just his usual "ha ha Kyle suffers" routine - it's way more psychological and to an extent, more sophisticated than his usual tactics (funny to call breathing in farts sophisticated, but… eh, in the way he uses it as torture, it is). Cartman basically creates this whole elaborate scenario where Kyle has to CHOOSE to subject himself to humiliation, which is so much more twisted than just directly trying to cause him pain through the same remarks he usually does. He weaponizes Kyle’s own martyr complex against him, which is kind of genius in a fucked up way.

In the B plot, you have Kenny and Stan who just do not understand why Kyle is going along with Cartman’s whims. Stan has many scenes in which he confronts Kyle. He is genuinely trying to understand why Kyle is going along with this and not giving up - and Kenny to a lesser extent is in the background backing Stan up.

Stan tries many different tactics to get Kyle to stop succumbing to Cartman’s farting, and when he sees that Kyle is too stubborn to stop, he then tries to see where Kyle is coming from. He really respects Kyle, and in his mind, if Kyle won’t stop, there must be a reason for it, right? But Kyle won’t open up to the ‘why’ of it all. At one point, Stan starts his line of questioning again. “... Dude, we’ve been friends for a long time. Can you just at least tell me why you like Cartman’s farts so much?.... You like… how they smell? How they taste?.... Should I try them?”

He offers to try them himself to understand, which is WILD lmfao. But he just genuinely is so confused as to why Kyle is letting himself be tortured to the point that he offers to go try it as well, and if that isn’t a bro being a bro, then I don’t know what tf is. Of course, Kyle exclaims, “NO”, wanting to save him from the same fate as what he has to go through. Kyle is justifying it in his mind as he really does think he is being the chosen one to save humanity here.

While this episode is hard to watch, I do genuinely find the Stan and Kenny dynamics hilarious and underrated. The repeated scenes where Stan goes to recap his conversation with Kyle are so funny. At one point, Stan says, “I don’t get it, Kenny,” to a Kenny that’s been waiting patiently outside. Kenny just shrugs and says, “Dude, maybe he’s, like, mentally ill or something”, lmaoooo.

And then the moment where Stan goes on the big screen as he calls Kyle is genuinely funny to me as well. He tries to tell Kyle he found out Cartman’s been lying, and Kyle is like, “Duh, dude. Why the fuck do you think I’ve been going along with it 😭” And that’s when Stan finally understands why Kyle’s doing it. But he still tells Kyle he thinks he’s being a dick about it all, but ultimately decides to help Kyle out. I think the part where Stan tells Kyle sternly that he needs to apologize to Kenny as well is so fucking funny (and then Kenny’s cheery ‘It’s okay, Kyle!’) is everything lmfao.

Stan and Kyle’s dynamic here particularly is interesting to me because it is SO similar to their dynamic in the ‘Butterballs’ episode, just in reverse where Stan is the one lecturing Kyle for getting up his ass for trying to be a ‘savior’.

Stan mentions something like this many times, but when Kyle compares himself to Gandhi, Stan replies, “You know, I don’t think when Ghandi starved himself he was all ‘Dude look how fuckin’ awesome I am for starving. Check me out!””. This is pretty much the same parallel as Kyle telling Stan he was gonna end up naked and jacking it in San Diego in “Butterballs”. Both those episodes are painful for me to watch, but I do love how it shows how both Stan and Kyle care about each other enough to call each other out on their bullshit like real friends should.

I think that both Stan and Kyle both have moments where they get so caught up in trying to be the ‘hero’ that they don’t realize they’re being more performative and making justifications rather than actually helping. (other examples include ‘A Scause for Applause’ for Stan, and ‘Crack Baby Athletic Association’ for Kyle.) Note that I think these episodes are more the exception rather than the rule for both characters as I really do think both try their hardest in their own ways to be good, but those episodes are examples of what I mentioned above and add interesting depth to both their characters.

p.s. there’s a deleted scene where Stan and Kenny actually go to the doctor to try to find out what’s wrong with Kyle and it’s so cute lmfao. It’s giving the time stan went to the doctor to try to give up his kidney for Kyle. It’s short, but also shows how much they truly work hard behind the scenes to help their friend out. One of the screenshots provided is from that scene.

[gingerale13]

Happy yaoi day guys

Doodles with @ivvyzzspark she draws South Park stuff!!

I'm not cropping all that you can zoom in

And if you want more doodles I posted a LOT on my alt account here :D

[oxydrawing]

I made this back in December but I still really like it. When I posted it on IG someone commented "I REMEMBER U FROM TUMBLR" and I felt like dying hahahah.

[bovineblogger]

These cows from a Southpark game?

VIDEO GAME: SOUTH PARK

honestly. i do not like animals with south park eyes, though these fellers seem really round and sweet. lovely

PERSONAL RATING: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ 5/5

[kennytheworkingclasshero]

I have a long post/analysis to make about ginger cow and kyle’s character but I’m too tired and sick to make it now but it’s coming

[stanleys-marsh]

i know tegridy farms is all about marijuana, however, i truly feel that stan would hate the farm a little less if it had more animals there (he would def hate it a lot more if randy exploited said animals or something tho. i mean we'll lose that kid to veganism one day, i just know)

BUT let stan have at least a chicken as a pet, it would be cute 😭

[devilsrecreation]

lmao what if they all met?

So we have:

Lucifer Morningstar and Satan (Hazbin Hotel and Helluva Boss)

-decided to put both of them cuz “Lucifer” and “Satan” are used interchangeably when referring to the Devil

The Devil (Cuphead)

HIM (Powerpuff Girls)

Satan (South Park)

Luke (Reincarnation)

Red Guy (Cow and Chicken)

Chernabog (Disney’s Fantasia)

Luc (Close Enough)

That would either be the funniest or the most terrifying crossover jfhygfg

[kycum]

Best player?

[buttfrovski]

watching south park is fun till u watch that one disgusting episode that you'll remember the rest of ur life and visibly wince everytime you remember it

[slaket-and-sprash]

If Satan is such a bad guy why is he depicted as a FLAMING (no pun intended) gay in litterally every cartoon? Checkmate, christians

[ra9d011]

“Oh my god it’s worst than we thought…. THEY MADE HIM EMO”

[fennecfiree]

butters as a cow.

that is all i have to say.

jk its not

i have a butters keychain on my backpack (it has beads that say "butters") and i have some fond memories of it hanging down the wrong way and saying "b utters"

butters as a cow

i am done speaking now

b-utters