South Park's HAPPY ENDING!? (Return of Covid Breakdown) 

They actually made us feel bad for Cartman. Incredible.

The fact that they were able to make me feel bad for Cartman of all people just shows how well-written this special was. Kudos to Matt, Trey, and the rest of the crew.

Eric sacrifices his personal happiness for the happiness of everyone. In that he proves that he wasn't faking it. He truly was a good man at last.

Everyone is talking about Cartman, but Butters definitely deserved a better future

As someone who was homeless for over a decade, I legitimately feel awful for cartman here like holy shit dude.

The ending was so bittersweet everyone else had a better life but seing cartman like that was just sad

Cartman's best ending came at the expense of everyone else's lives being shittier Which, you know Is very Cartman at its core.

Man, it's not even Cartman I feel bad for. It's his family. It's one thing if a man loses everything after having tried to redeem himself, it's another if a whole family ceases to exist.

Cartman’s sacrifice has more depth than we think. Cartman gave up his life for everyone to have a happy life, but to spare his family the experiences he had as kid. He truly was a great dad and husband. But unlike Kenny’s sacrifice in the movie, there was none for Cartman here.🙁

This is so far Eric’s biggest sacrifice he has ever done.

I feel like Cartmans wife made a great observation that ever since he was with Kyle and Stan again they brought out the worst in him. She was able to get to the core of him and show him the love he wanted and needed in his life. There could be some parental issues as well since he became the father he never had but wanted and his wife was the exact opposite of his mother. I would of loved for him to find his wife again and still have a good life while changing if not still having some anger issues from his friends but distanced himself from everyone but Kenny. (His wife could even of hated going back to his home town for the holidays because "you always act differently when you are around those old friends of yours other than Kenny"

It's hearthbreaking to know that ...no matter what, Space Jam 2 can never be unmade on our timeline .

I really feel like they nailed these 2 specials, I really hope they keep going all out with the concepts poor cartman though

A reminder to everyone we still have like 12 more specials So there’s a chance that Cartman can turn his life around

“ Timmy can walk and talk “ when I saw that my jaw almost hit the floor lol

Cartman pretty much saved everything, he gave up his perfect life just to save everyone and he ended up being homeless and a shit person. He almost stopped Kyle but he actually did show that after all he actually did care about his family and did not "do it all just to shove it to Kyle's face" as a lot of people said so. Sad ending for Cartman but do remember he's the true hero of this.

Watching the final scene with Cartman was literally one of the saddest things I've ever seen on TV. I cried. It really points out how we are all only one set of circumstances away from losing everything. I spent several years homeless due to my poor behavioral choices and addictions and homeless cartman really reminded me of myself in those moments. 11/10 character portrayal.

4:21 Let's not forget a third aspect of Butters that has been hinted at in previous episodes: his ability to display truly effective entrepreneurial qualities/overall business savvy (Butter's Bottom Bitch), as well as being able to rally people towards certain causes (Let Go, Let Gov, and Sarcastaball). It's so well done in that it's so subtle, yet so consistent. Great video!

Considering there are still a ton more specials, I want to see the Kids go through High-School, that'd be really funny watching them explore sex, alcohol and drugs.

Butters did run a successful pimping business No wonder he was deemed too dangerous

Seeing them as canon adults is so surreal Butters is as incredible as always

The thing that interests me about Cartman's futures is that he is not a character you can redeem without ending the show. He's become the most consistent and entertaining antagonistic force within south park and to remove him from that role especially as we approach season 24 would be very tricky. But some of you may say, they just did that. These two specials showed he could be a good guy, and that's only half true. As soon as he realised HIS happy ending was on the line he wanted to maintain it, showing despite it all he still has his Selfish streak but thanks to the positive influences of his family he's able to do what must be done for the greater good...and of course it being south park he gets screwed over. But as South Park is FAR from over the same can be said for Cartman, he's still gotta be the selfish monster we get so much entertainment out of. Maybe he'll get a happy ending, maybe not but in order for him to have a happy ending the show kind of has to end.

Adult Kenny is such a cool dude. I hope in future specials, he can be more of a character and not just Doug from The Hangover.

The whole special was amazing and expectation-subverting but it's interesting to think about that, really, it's either Kyle or Cartman who is happy. It's also interesting that Kyle's kids in the ending look so alike to Rabbi Cartman's kids, it makes me wonder who the mother is since they never showed her. In general the ending was such a double-edged sword, it made me happy to see everyone happy and Sharon and Shelley alive but Cartman deserved better. It really seems like it's Kyle & Stan Vs. Cartman in every reality, and they can't all win. I wonder if this ending is canon now, and how the following special is gonna integrate it.

nice to see them getting out these specials quickly! Thanks for covering all these adult comedies and other shows! Keep up the good work man.

Another heartwarming Cartman scene. In the intro, Cartman actually ATTENDED Zoom class to wish Stan Happy Birthday. This is the guy who always pretended his computer crashed to get out of Zoom class. #CartmanDeservedBetter

Although Cartman did do a selfless act, people are forgetting that Cartman destroyed his OWN future lol. Stan and Kyle did not intervene with anything. Whatever adolescent/teenager/young adult Cartman did with his time/ life right after their adult versions came and convinced them to repair their friendship was entirely all on him. Sure, Cartman being separated and isolated from his friends likely forced him to reflect, mature, and change for the better, but even when the friendship was repaired and renewed, he still had the freedom to make better choices and to become a better version of himself, BUT it was entirely up to him to do so. Kyle saying that he did nothing with his life is a clear implication that over the years Cartman did nothing to self-improve, thus leading him to where he is now, unfortunately. Is this the ending we wanted for him, absolutely not! Does he deserve it considering all of the terrible things he must have done during his childhood up to where he is now, perhaps.

I was genuinely upset to see Cartman's ending. I know he's done some really terrible things in his childhood but especially after seeing him in a better place with a loving wife and children in part 1... I wanted to see him happy too with everyone else. Maybe I'm too soft I dunno.

After years and years of despising him and wishing he would finally get what he deserved after all of the horrible and truly despicable things he’s done… I cannot believe Trey and Matt got me to feel sorry for Cartman of all people.

My only issue with the ending is that the boys just leave Cartman outside, barely even acknowledging him. I get why they would do it, seeing how Cartman is clearly as bad (maybe worse) than he was as a kid, but it would have been nice if they at least went out to give him a some Dennys Applebees pot pie and saying “Merry Christmas Cartman” before going back inside.

You forgot to Mention how Jimmy got to do the offensive humor he really wanted to do in the fixed Time Line

While I can see why their are alot of comments saying that they're sad for Cartman's future, I feel there is something unsaid about it. OG Future Cartman became a better person because he got away from Kyle. Without Kyle around, Cartman had no reason to be anti-sematic and actually embraced Jewish belief. But when he returned to being around Kyle, he embraced his old manipulative ways. Just like with Cartman's kids, Kyle brings out the worst in him. So yeah, in a future where the boys stayed friends; Cartman stayed the horrible piece of shit he was. No, it's not Kyle's fault. Like in alot of episodes, Cartman is the mastermind of his own misery.

I have hated Eric Cartman on a personal level since I was a child. It warms my heart to see him in this position.

Cartman sacrificed his own happiness, his own fulfilling future, for the happiness of everyone else in South Park. His ending would seem funny and deserving to those who haven’t watched the last special but to us it’s heartbreaking because you saw a redeemed character fall to such a tragic ending.

Everyone who feels bad for Cartman is forgetting that he orchestrated "kill Kyle" plan to begin with, and he instilled the hatred for Kyle in his kids, which led to the situation. So it is not his sacrifice, but the group's desire to stay friends, which makes him miserable in the end. Its being friends with Stan, Kyle and Kenny that destroys his future.

I think, I know, why Cartman becomes a good person in the bad future. He is a contrarian and is at his happiest, if others are suffering. So, he makes them suffer. Especially Kyle. But if Kyle suffers without his input, he can live life happily and openly.

The way I see Cartman's fate is that when the boys restored the timeline to the status quo, it also restores the boys' behaviors and habits which include Cartman's. Given how problematic Cartman is, him being a homeless bum is the logical conclusion...

Wait... Kyle's kids call stan "Uncle Stan"... Grunkle Stan?

24 years and this show is still amazing with excellent writers that know their fan and know how to treat them

I don't like the ending not because I feel bad for Cartman but because it's not a logical conclusion. He's too smart to be broke. His hatred of people motivates him to do big things, not to drink himself. I also think it's stupid to show the future. Stan and Wendy are nearly 50 and still not settled down. Now any Wendy and Stan story has no stakes.

On the special itself, it was pretty good but I kind of hoped we would get more interactions of them with their younger selves. I feel that it could have probably been a three part story, with TROC being a transition episode, because more interactions with themselves would have been extremely interesting. The stuff they did with Butters was extremely fun and something that was shocking but totally in line with his character. The moments with Randy and Stan were that mix of sad and humorous that South Park is good at, especially with that scene outside of the school. The Alexa stuff was quite funny even if a little pointless, and I'm glad we got to see more of the aged up characters again. However, the ending felt so out of character for literally everyone, at least in my opinion. I don't think that Kenny, Kyle, Stan or even Butters would just leave Cartman to wallow out on the streets. I wonder if in the future seasons/specials they'll explain how Cartman's character became to be that way but considering past seasons it just doesn't make sense. In Jewpacabra, Kyle literally carries Cartman back home even after making fun of Jewish people the entire episode. Kenny continued to message him in the original Post Covid timeline even after their broship broke up, which doesn't occur in this timeline, so it doesn't make sense how they practically shun him out in the final seconds of the special. Cartman also seems extremely smart/manipulative and has found success before with his Christian Rock Band and other endeavours. It also isn't really the smartest decision narratively to explain how the future will pan out in the now fixed timeline as they may be limited to telling the story in a way that ends with what we have currently. A lot of people also explain how Cartman deserved it for his past actions but considering Kyle has nuked all of Canada, and the boys are all juvenile in some level, it doesn't feel earned. Considering the fact that he was 9/10 when most of the series takes place, it kind of gives off the message that people deserved to suffer terribly for things they did when they were younger. Obviously, it doesn't excuse the fact that he has done some actual heinous things but in this context when we have seen him grow it just doesn't feel justified.

It's hard to make a character like Cartman. He's absolutely an asshole, who has summoned Cthulhu and tricked a dude into eating his own parents, but you can't help but feel sad when his family gets erased. That's not an easy feat

I like to think that Kyle and Stan are the real toxic people to Cartman. It is mostly due to when they went their own way Kyle became a loner and Stan becomes an alcoholic. Meanwhile Cartman becomes a well respected rabbi with a loving family.

I don’t think Cartman deserved this but I don’t hate it because we’ve seen like 5 Cartman futures now

The episode and series in general made me open my eyes. I struggled so much last year that I almost forgot what love was. After the episode was over, I gave a hug to my cat, this show inspired me to rescue her after my other one passed away years ago. Thank you Matt & Trey. You made me feel stronger

The only thing that wasn't resolved is what happened to the future versions of the boys. Did they go back to the future like Kenny did and there are now two timelines: one where they fixed their friendship and one where the didn't? If so there is a timeline where Cartman still has his family and everyone else is miserable, and one where everyone is happy and Cartman is a homeless alcoholic. Or are they stuck in the past. That's what I'm curious about.

Butters pitching NFTs in the old age home had strong Saul Goodman vibes

I really felt bad for Cartman, and that was amazing they could make me feel that way. I actually understood why he fought so hard against the guys to keep the loved one that he had, and then to set that aside to help his friends find a happy ending at the cost of his own was very selfless of him.

At 9:04, you didn’t mention that Wendy is no longer married and is rekindling her relationship with Stan (also, something tells me that regular kid Cartman would rather want to grow homeless instead of Jewish, knowing him)

Characters who #DidNothingWrong - Walter White - Griffith from Berserk - Askeladd from Vinland Saga - Sang-woo from Squid Game - Eric flipping Cartman!

Just cutting each other some slack is such a nice message!

I still kind of wished cartman kept his family in the end. He genuinely had became a better person and lost everything for it

It's crazy to think about how Cartman was exhibited as a pretty decent person up until he started being around adult Stan and Kyle again for the funeral but slowly he changed more into the Cartman we expect him to be. Maybe Cartman just needed to get away from his friends to truly be happy.

def feel conflicted about cartman, but do the bad things hes done in the past represent what he deserves in the happy ending? is cartman doing all those bad things as a kid a constant in every reality? something to think about for if its justified. we only saw 1 instance of him doing good as an adult. just a devils advocate possibly bad take :)

This brought tears. My present is the bleak future of my past. It's a past that can't be changed. But empathy and forgiveness could change my future. I really needed to hear it.

I really loved how, during the middle of the special, you didn’t know whether or not the kids were gonna try and go back and change the past, or if Randy was going to cure covid in the future. I loved how it turned out lol

I was really hoping for Cartman to at least be a mechanic at the end smh

Kenny & Cartman Saves The Future. If it wasn’t for Kenny developing a time machine and Cartman sacrificing his family and happiness, the future would’ve stayed shitty.

i just finished watching the second part and got this notif literally right after 💀

My theory is that Cartman’s dependence to Kyle destroyed him. It fuels his toxicity, but he chooses not to leave. And it would have been such as easy thing to fix! If future Cartman excluded his younger self from the game, he would’ve been happy. And it wouldn’t have affected anyone else! The reason Kyle and Stan had a bad future is because Kyle and Stan were no longer friends. They didn’t need Cartman, and Cartman needed not them. I also don’t believe the Tegrity affected their private lives, only made everyone else’s much better. So Butter’s (for example) improved outside of the boys’ relationship.

I really loved the Victor Chaos and exploiting nfts and how there Ponzi scheme.

The fact that you can feel bad about cartman shows what incredible writing this South Park has

I was waiting for you to post this lol. I loved this 2 part exclusive event.

The moment at 9:17 when watching this episode was one of best moments in south parks story telling i felt sad and missed these characters and that they were the last old versions of the characters was really sweet

I really feel the South Park team should release an alternate cut, the cartman cut if you will, which changes his future to something better. I kinda feel its important, especially in this day and age, to show positive outcomes for those who are being selfless. It really sucks that the only character who had everything to lose if the future was changed had lost it, especially considering it weighed heavily on him and put faith in that he would still meet his wife and kids. He should have been rewarded for the selfless act rather than messed up for it. It also sucks that a character who had redeemed themselves in one lifetime would get that taken away as well. I liked how they showed that cartman can change for the better, that really bad people can change, kinda brings some hope. But they took all that away in this ending....

I wouldn't say this is the 2nd special but the 4th part in the covid series. love the video my dude!

I had no idea these specials were coming out. I just watched this a year late! (which really doesn't change anything since I didn't get spoiled but still...) These were great. Really worked well. Looooved seeing the adult and older versions of all these characters. And yes, that ending was rough on Cartman. I really had hope for a sec, when Kyle came to Stan saying he was here, that the show would surprise me with, certainly not the Rabi Cartman of the downer future, but maybe still a happy and lively, possibly nicer, version of the Cartman we know but man... that was pretty sad. Also almost cried with Stan embracing his mom and sister.

The whole Cartman writing was master craft levels for me, but seeing as Cartmans examples of immorality number literally in the hundreds. He got what was coming to him. He ALWAYS fucks the Pangolin.

I can't believe I actually felt genuinely bad for Cartman seeing that honestly almost got me teary eyed,you know a show is doing a fantastic job when they actually manage to make you feel bad for the biggest antagonist

Poor Cartman. Now he’s the living embodiment of The Road To Hell Is Paved With Good Intentions.

i think something rather interesting that people seem to not be picking up on is the fact that cartmans fate was always in his hands. its clear from the first timeline that all he needed to do to become a more fulfilled person was to simply leave south park, and this new version of himself simply chose not to for whatever reason. what i find even more tragic is that he most likely would have been in better grace with the gang, being able to talk long distance and show that he was trying to be a better person, as opposed to just appearing to have done a complete 180 and a full change of heart (literally everyone and their mother would have found rabbi cartman suspicious as all hell). but it's clear he chose to fester on his hatred, not wanting to improve himself. regardless, you're going to have a hard time getting me to shed a tear over the man who tricked his half-brother into eating their biological father over the matter of almost 20 bucks, happy alternative life or otherwise

I think these specials really give Matt and Trey a lot more creative freedom and space to breathe, from the usual 6 day per episode grind. I remember that they used to go on a retreat before the start of every season, but with Covid that just became impossible to do with all of the writers. I think also just having the time lets Trey be happier with the final product. These specials feel complete in a way I haven’t felt in a South Park episode in a while.

I felt really bad for Cartman but it was mimicking Endgames where they change everything back but the only character that got the better ending, Tony Stark, loses his life in the end

So glad Kevin was finally included He's still so adorable after all these years

One detail i noticed that a lot of people don't seem to be talking about is that the anti-tegridy timeline future cartman, kyle and stan couldn't return to their future. They are still in the current timeline. We might see them again in future episodes

Old video, I know, but I thought this since this special released. I always assumed that, yes, Cartman was getting that "perfect" Jewish family to annoy Kyle, at least at the beginning. He definitely would have done something so extreme just to get back at someone for something small. I assume that Cartman could have changed in one of a off screen life moments; he could have changed upon getting to know his wife, seeing her and how happy he actually makes him or he could have changed upon the birth of his first child, as the birth of one's own child is very often said to be a largely positive life changing moment. I think that it would be unlikely but not impossible if he changed while transitioning to the Jewish faith because he probably started that transition early after the group splits therefore he is still filled with that revenge energy rather than the happiness he gains.

I was laughing so hard when we learnt that the "expert" who told clyde that he would grow boobs on his head if he get the vaccine was in fact future clyde that was tenet level of forshadowing

I can't believe everyone has fallen for the biggest Cartman scam ever. He tries to kill Kyle in this special! For no reason other than Kyle knows Cartman is still a shit person and no one else sees it. It's the same formula we've seen so many times. Yes Cartman may have genuinely loved his family but he was still very quick to turn back to his old manipulative ways. New future Cartman has no idea he 'once' had a family. If he wanted to change his life around he still could have. It's Cartman. He's comic relief, not a character we should feel sorry for.

So are we just NOT gonna talk about the big poofy headgear all the workers are wearing in the future?!?!

The ending is an alternative reality and not canon. Why? Because in the real world Space Jam 2 is a thing, forever. Which I think is pretty clever detail the writers included for people that get attached to this storyline.

Timmy saying "God bless us, everyone" was a nice touch.

9:27 you forgot that he actually got promoted to manager

I feel so bad for Cartman. I was so happy that he changed his ways. its so sad he can only be happy in chaos

I truly felt the most sympathy for Eric the most. His original future counterpart sacrificed his own happiness to save the friendship of his own close friends only to have a future with him hating all of them and never having the family and life changes he previously had. Which makes me feel like Kyle robbed him from the life he should Been his.

I thought that the last piece of tegridy actually symbolised forgiveness. Randy gave it to Stan in the only scene where he finally tells Stan that it wasn’t his fault, of course he changed his mind briefly after that but. Still I think that tegridy weed represents forgiveness in the finally because it finally let people say that “Maybe it was partly my fault.” Idk if I’m right, just seemed interesting to me.

What bothers me about cartmans new future its that we saw that he can actually become a better person, its not like i want cartman getting to live his life free from any consequences bc he is in fact a horrible person in the present, but seeing that he can improve and be a better person and then in the other timeline where we see he become a homeless alcoholic its kind of depressing, but we can choose to see it as karma for his past horrible actions which its kind of deserved if you think about it.

Clyde also apparently didn't have a happy ending in the revised future. He was nowhere to be found, not even mentioned.

Will you make a video on the pajama day episode?

The fact that cartman is happy in the worse possible timeline also the timeline where he ends his friendships with Kenny Kyle and Stan is the one he is happy in being friends with Kyle and Stan and Kenny only brought his life down

i loved this special so much, but are we ever going to get back to regular episodes? Or is it just specials on paramount+ from here on out?

This episode makes me feel literally everything. I legit felt bad for Cartman after seeing him pull his life together and sacrifice it all.

I actually almost cried, hearing about Cartman's ending. I rarely ever cry as an adult due to the shit I've experienced in my life so far, so that should say something.

I love how clyde's creditble source was himself

Cartman really just needed to still be separated from the friend group regardless so his future could've remained the same. His erased Jewish wife says that he turned into this different person thanks to being in the town of South Park and near Kyle. That's what screwed him up. They basically needed to invite only Kyle, Stan and Kenny to the game and leave Cartman out.

I kinda of got the vibe from both specials that Cartman was still a narcissist faking hos way through a normal life. When he checked on his family in the attic and his daughter said she was writing a diary, it seemed like he was trying not to laugh - like a thing he'd work hard to do as a kid just for some horrible, bad taste Jewish jokes. I don't blame Kyle for refusing to let his family stay and not believing him - he was the butt of harassment from Cartman for years. Even so, alcoholic homeless Cartman doesn't seem right, either. In my brain, he'd probably be some management type who kissed ass to get where he was and pretends to be a "normal" guy, and constantly use his tiny bit of power to belittle his underlings when his higher-ups aren't paying attention.

I have a theory: there were episode in 2002 (My Future Self 'n' Me) in which Cartman became CEO of a time-traveling company (And time travel invented Keny), then he traveled in time and said about it to past Cartman. However he don't believe in it and said that he would eat unhealthy food and doing drugs, after that future Cartman into drug addict plumber. So theory ''Return of COVID'' ending it's actually 3rd timeline, while in 2nd Cartman stay friend with boys and basicly took Butters place as Keny Investor, became his CEO, but after he back in time Cartman ruin his life and became drug addict, which would led him to became homeless (in ''My Future Self 'n' Me'' he was like 35-40, while in paramount special he is 50 years old and lose everything)

"I **** that pangolin every single time" belongs on a T-shirt

I mean, I'm not the only one here, but I'm iffy on Cartman's new fate. For one, I feel bad for him. Cartman truly loved his family and showed that an asshole like Eric was redeemable; he sacrificed his happy ending so that everyone else could. That said, there's a part of me who felt Eric deserved it. For goodness sake, it's CARTMAN; he's been a piece of shit for over twenty years, and as Butters claims, he had this coming for living a life of psychopathy and hate.

This video notification was how I knew this came out, so I could go watch it! And oh man was it hilarious.

It's more of a Terminator time loop, not back to the future.