#south park is weird in that time did progress in the early seasons but doesn't really anymore

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You know what would have been interesting, if South Park had continued aging the boys up over time.

Not in sync with real world time or anything, they don’t have enough episodes a season for that to be satisfying.

But the boys used to age in the early seasons even if it was really slowly.

They started out as (mostly) 8 year olds in the 3rd grade, by the end of season 4 however they’d all (except Kenny, he’s a year behind the others) become 10 year olds in the 4th grade.

I’m not even saying that they need to age a year every 4 seasons. It’s just that we’re on season 26 now, and the boys have been in the 4th grade for the past 22 seasons with no signs of them ever reaching 5th grade or turning 11.

I think it would have been interesting if they got a year older every 10 seasons if they really intend to just have the show go on basically for ever. Then at least the status quo would get shaken up more permanently every once in a while.

If they did that then the boys would be 6th graders right now, and would be in their last year before becoming teenagers. Not to mention other child characters would also progress with the siblings like Ike, Karen, Keven, and Shelley also getting older.

Keven and Shelley would be 15-16 year olds, and able to do things like get licensees which could change up family dynamics. Heck maybe Shelley could finally get that head gear off and have less intense braces and start to grow as a person.

Ike and Karen would be nearing the ages the boys were when the show first started. Ike would be 5 and in the 2nd grade (he got accepted into kindergarten at age 3 remember), while Karen would be 8 and in the 3rd grade. So she’d be exactly the boys’ age when the show started.

I understand why they didn’t choose to continue to age the boys up. South Park Elementary is such a massive part of the show. It’s one of the first places to ever appear on the show period, after the bus stop.

The boys being elementary schoolers doing and experiencing everything in South Park is also such a large part of the show (hilariously enough, similar to how the boys’ being kids doing all of this crazy stuff is basically the bed rock for Phineas and Ferb).

But if they were so worried about keeping the boys’ in elementary school, why’d they age the boys out of 3rd grade in the first place? They basically undid all of the real changes that came from them moving up a grade anyways. Their new 4th grade teacher was eventually replaced by their old 3rd grade teacher, the composition of their class was basically identical.

Though they could age the boys another year and keep them in South Park Elementary, as it’s K through 5th grade. So it’s not like they couldn’t age the boys up at least another year and keep them in Elementary School.

I just think seeing the boys actually grow up some would be interesting. Seeing them leave South Park Elementary and start middle school would definitely shake things up. Especially considering the boys made such a big fuss about moving from 3rd grade to 4th grade.

I honestly could see Kenny and Kyle specifically, majorly freaking out about being so far away from their younger siblings for the first time.

Kenny’s such a mama bear when it comes to Karen, that I could easily see him trying to get held back a year to try and stay at South Park Elementary. To remain close enough to Karen to fight anyone who tries to pick on her.

While Kyle has never had to deal with Ike not being either at home with their mom or in the same school as him that I could definitely see him have some kind of freak out about it. Along with their parents often leaving Kyle to look after Ike and take care of him to some degree.