r/southpark • u/DipstickPinesGFO Southpark Fan • Oct 24 '23
3 picks for the saddest (permanent) death in South Park gross
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u/Clamato-e-Gannon Oct 24 '23
Awe ya I forgot about this kid. That was actually such a really sad moment. Shelly laying in bed and Randy trying to explain it away. RIP vegan kid.
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u/seawavegown Oct 24 '23
I hate this death in particular because it seems so tacked on and unnecessary. I also find it hard to believe Randy breaking that pipe would flood the entire room
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u/eat_my_bowls92 Oct 24 '23
I still cackled through the episode, but it is one of their meaner and unnecessary deaths.
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u/DullBicycle7200 Oct 24 '23
What about the kid who died from cancer at the end of Stanley's Cup?
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u/ScaryCrowEffigy Oct 25 '23
In all fairness, that’s supposed to be the joke since the life preserver is essentially entirely situational and the unlikeliness of drowning in a land locked state like Colorado. The irony of it being the source of comedy
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u/IMAPURPLEHIPPO Oct 24 '23
I get that it felt maybe tacked on from a character/story point, but for the comedic point it had to happen. The whole point of the life preservers was to serve as the brick joke.
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u/micmea1 Oct 24 '23
I mean butters shoe brought down a ceilings worth of scaffolding and lights.
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u/seawavegown Oct 24 '23
Sure, but that's given time to shine by showing the whole situation. When Randy breaks that pipe, it looks minor. Like, if the next shot wasnt the news raport, no one would have thought it had that much impact, so instead of being a visual over the top joke, its more of an afterthought
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u/BunBison Oct 24 '23
What about Jason white? Nobody ever cares about the whites...
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u/AndyJaeven Oct 24 '23
Didn’t they bring him back in the newer seasons?
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u/North_Church Southpark Fan Oct 24 '23
Chef
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u/Wyden_long Custom Flair Oct 24 '23
It’s chef and it’s not really close. Aside from being there since the beginning, he was always the one who seemed to actually listen to the….CHILDREN…and his musical talent was also a staple early on. The end of Chef at the time was really sad and painful in a lot of ways, and I’m glad they’ve been mostly cleared up. But Chef dying was really the first time I cried watch South Park, because it felt like true loss.
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Oct 24 '23 edited Oct 24 '23
It will never happen though. Chef’s a Scientologist. Well, ok Isaak Hays is and he took such a vile stand on the show because they dared to mock El Ron Hubbard. All of a sudden he takes a stand! That’s why they did him dirty in the last episode and pieced his voice together. Lol “I want to make love! To you. Children.”
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u/MysticDragon14 Oct 24 '23
It turns out that his scientologist agent quit the show for him without his permission when he had a stroke
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Oct 24 '23
Ohhhhhh…
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u/North_Church Southpark Fan Oct 24 '23
Yea. It wasn't because of Isaac, it was that fruity little club that took him from us.
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u/Flawzimclaus82 Oct 24 '23
To be fair, Isaac Hayes technically hasn't been a scientologists for years now.
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u/scatteam_djr Oct 24 '23
watching it as a kid hurt so much yo, i wasn’t used to characters dying like that especially how it happened. i was used to off screen deaths and farewells as a kid. the chef we love u line hit me hard
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Oct 24 '23 edited Nov 07 '23
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u/BlizzPenguin Oct 24 '23
Is Chef dead? I remember the end of the episode had him come back like Darth Vader.
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u/ChadleyChinstrap Oct 24 '23
They retired the character so technically yes. The reason they were able to make that last episode after hayes left is because they owned all of his previous voice work as chef, and still do, so technically they could bring chef back but I doubt they will, especially after hayes son said he never actually quit the show or made those comments, the church did on his behalf
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u/ScaryCrowEffigy Oct 25 '23
Honest I think it’s best he stays retired out of respect to Hayes but I also hate where they left his character off. His last appearance left him as a cyborg and controlled by a group of pedophiles. Darth Chief just kinda rubs me the wrong way since it’s a character assassination over something the actor wasn’t actually in control of at the time.
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Oct 25 '23
They used him as the final boss (or maybe it wasn’t the final boss, but he’s close to the end of the game) in the stick of truth. I always assumed that was their way of saying “look, we brought chef back one last time so you can kill him off for good”
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u/GfsAreXpLoss Oct 25 '23
In an alternate universe Chef didn't get brainwashed by that fruity club, and there is world peace
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Oct 24 '23
What about the kid doing the radio announcing
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u/ad-tom-music Oct 24 '23
Gordon Stoltsky, fuck that was brutal
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u/theebloodywhet Oct 24 '23
No I'm Gordon Stoltsky, fifth grader who reads the morning announcements
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u/DipstickPinesGFO Southpark Fan Oct 24 '23
Oh shit I forgot about him. Literally the whole school heard him die that was traumatizing
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u/IMAPURPLEHIPPO Oct 24 '23
Watching butters gambit of emotions and then seeing Clyde and Red’s indifference to the situation as a whole makes me laugh so hard.
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u/bighairybeardudee Oct 24 '23
By far the hardest I’ve laughed at this show was the death of Gordon Stoltsky
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Oct 24 '23 edited Oct 24 '23
Same, it’s absolutely brutal but im in tears laughing everytime.
you’re Gordon Stosky, 40 year old truck driver from Chicago?
NO! I’m Gordon Stoltsky, 3rd grader who reads the morning announcements!
The thought of him seeing a 3 ft tall 3rd grader and being like “yeah that looks like a 40 year old truck driver” 😂 😂
Now look at you. We’re dead. We’re all dead
Gunshot
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u/ShinyPlatypus91 Oct 24 '23
Bus driver from the early seasons. Such a happy and gentle soul, was taken from us far too early.
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u/DipstickPinesGFO Southpark Fan Oct 24 '23
Rip Ms. Crabtree 😢
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u/Coldcock_Malt_Liquor Oct 24 '23
We wanted to love her but the fat bitch wouldn’t let us….
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u/stillinthesimulation Oct 24 '23
I know she hadn't been in any recent episodes but god damnit she deserved better than this!
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u/AliceMMD Oct 24 '23
choksondik, her name was HILARIOUS, and the part where every time she rises her arms and she shows her saggy tits had me on the floor
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u/NOODLETHEFOURTH We don’t know about no phones Oct 24 '23
her death had me laughing for a while though
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u/Zenith2777 Oct 24 '23
My favorite gag with her is the fact that nobody ever brings up her name for jokes besides ones that don’t involve the dick part. “Ms choksondik more like Ms Choksonrocks!”
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Oct 24 '23
Dont forget the kid that shit his pants and eric pretty much made them kill themselves by jumping off the roof.
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u/NeoNemeses Oct 24 '23
Eric did not make him kill himself. He was dead the moment he shit his pants.
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Oct 24 '23
If you think about it. Being vegan DID in fact save his life so his parents were right. Moment he tasted meat, he ended up drowning.
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u/IvanTheTerrible69 Oct 24 '23
That was actually the life floaty; ironically, even though he learned to live without it, it was the one thing that could have saved him.
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u/kremedelakrym Oct 24 '23 edited Oct 24 '23
Out of the given examples Chef, since he’s the only main character that is omnipresent in the earlier years of South Park. Saddest death though has to be the kid with cancer that needs Stan to win while coaching in the episode Stanley’s Cup. The end is pretty fucked
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u/BuggiesAndCars Oct 24 '23
Can you... make me not have cancer?
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u/Mookies_Bett Oct 24 '23
One of my top 5 all time episodes. Just needlessly fucked up and dark from start to finish in the most hysterical way. The juxtaposition of "Let them play! Let them play!" To a bunch of kindergarteners getting brutalized and beaten bloody by pro NHL players for a whole 20 minute hockey period gets me in tears every time.
"I hate you coach... I fucking hate you..."
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u/CupcakesWii Oct 24 '23
Jason, Pip and Chef, because they were some of the characters from the very first episode/pilot
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u/BunBison Oct 24 '23
This makes me wonder if Ned, uncle jimbos friend, is officially dead because he was killed off by manbearpig in one of the later seasons.
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u/Radialpuddle Oct 24 '23
I’m pretty sure he was shown in a recent episde
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u/Small_Statistician_4 Southpark Fan Oct 24 '23
in several recent episodes in fact.
bike parade. season 22
vaccination special season 24
post covid 1 season 24
and Japanese toilets. season 26 (for now)
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u/AnnieApple_ Oct 24 '23
I remember being really sad at Bradley’s death. He came out of his shell too.
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u/bsipp777 Oct 24 '23
I’m surprised nobody has mentioned Satan, there from the beginning, great character who was there when people needed him, heroically gave his life fighting manbearpig. Rip Satan
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u/onetimequestion66 Oct 24 '23
I know it’s not permanent but when Kenny is dying of a muscular issue and Stan tries to grapple with the grief and just misses out on saying goodbye
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u/DipstickPinesGFO Southpark Fan Oct 24 '23
This death is the whole reason I made the “permanent” point. 😭 I cry. Saddest death
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u/onetimequestion66 Oct 24 '23
It really surprised me how good of a job they did with it lmao that whole episode felt like a guy punch
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u/Nerd_Knight Oct 24 '23
"Hello there children"
"Hey Chef"
"How's it's going?"
"Bad"
"Why bad?"
"We got RickRoll'd"
"Well okay children, as long as you............OH MY GOD! CHILDREN! What have I told you about the dangers of the internet?!"
"That there's a time and a place for everything and it's called college"
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u/_Staghound_ Oct 24 '23
The mole...
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u/cliffypoo Oct 24 '23
The Shellie song is so unbelievably sweet. One of my favorite moments of the show. His death was one of my biggest laughs as a result. 😭
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u/Jefcat Craig Tucker 🖕 Oct 24 '23
Larry Feegan’s death was sad and funny too.
I hated PiPi so I’m glad he’s gone.
Chef was a victim of Scientology and that pisses me off.
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u/Crtoyt_backup Oct 24 '23
What episodes are the first and second slides from??
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u/xdeltax97 Southpark Fan Oct 24 '23
Chef and nowhere near as close as tragic especially due to the real life circumstances with Isaac Hayes.
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u/Jigsaw8200 Oct 24 '23
Chef. When he made his decision to go back to the Super Adventure Club, and the boys are talking to him, saying how much they care and love him, you could feel that was from Matt and Trey's heart. They really were going to miss him.
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u/Sl1pperypenguin Oct 24 '23
Chef was the only adult the boys truly trusted and counted on, I was actually sadder from this death than Kenny’s real death.
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u/figurethisoat Oct 24 '23
Feegan the vegan fell in love, and then died?
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u/DipstickPinesGFO Southpark Fan Oct 24 '23
He fell in love, ate a slim Jim, took off his life preserver, and then fucking died.
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u/W1D0WM4K3R Oct 24 '23
It should be noted that if he had a life preserver, he wouldn't have died. Shelly killed him
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u/Towel4 Oct 24 '23
I know it’s brief, but the Pinewood Derby episode, when the other kid’s dad shoots himself when they lose to Stan and Randy. Then the kid stands over his dead dad exclaiming “IM OKAY! IM OKAY! IM OKAY!”.. that scene went on a few seconds too long and was a little real.
That, or when Clyde’s mom gets stuck in the toilet and her bowels are sucked out. “IM READY TO GO. LET ME GOOOO” (or something along those lines).
The cartoony deaths never bothered me. There’s a handful they decide to make “super real” for some reason.
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u/VerySpicyLocusts Southpark Fan Oct 24 '23
Oh shit they got rid of Pi Pi? (I haven’t watched Streaming Wars) Without him who are they gonna use to make fun of Italians, as a man with Latino and Italian blood I demand to have the Italians dunked on.
Also Chef was the saddest death I miss him so much, a part of me sorta wishes they had another black soul singer take up the role but I can definitely see that being a bad idea
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u/TheOne-Piece-is-Real Oct 24 '23
Chef was the saddest. Considering the VA had a huge falling out with Trey and Mat. So they destroyed his character the best they could before killing him. Then the VA eventually dies. That was just a sad situation all around.
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u/AnonIHardlyKnewHer Oct 24 '23
Chef 100%
This is one of the reasons I prefer keeping art and the artist separate. Chef was an amazing character, a staple to the world, and he was the only intelligent adult who cared about the kids. He was even STILL on the kids side when he thought they raped and murdered their teacher and did shady shit to get them safe.
Chef died such a brutal death as a fuck you to the voice actor when they could have just recast him and even used Chef in future episodes as a fuck you to him
Idk I just hate that the kids only safe adult is gone, I bet Chef would of helped Stan figure out his depression a lot more and so many other problems
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u/AMF_Shafty Oct 24 '23
honestly the whole “Leslie vs PC Principal” saga was great, and him ending it with that skull obliterating punch was perfect, but i definitely miss Leslie and her dynamic with PC Principal and the rest of South Park
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u/Eastern-Start-813 Oct 24 '23
This by far, utterly devestating, what a way to go out 😂
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u/DipstickPinesGFO Southpark Fan Oct 24 '23
Oh fuck I didn’t even think about this one. Clyde is traumatized he’s gonna need so much therapy
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u/MrSixString907 Oct 24 '23
Shelly, I'm sorry your little friend was killed by Spider-Man tonight. Just know that, for Spider-Man to have done what he did, he must've had a really good reason... Spiderman works in mysterious ways Shelly, and wherever he is, he loves you.
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u/Zimsgirlfriend Oct 24 '23
How about ze mole from the movie?
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u/aventurefrog Oct 24 '23
☝🤓But he died before kenny reverted everything, so technically it wasn't a permanent death
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u/pamergatch925 Oct 24 '23
Who's the first guy
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u/DipstickPinesGFO Southpark Fan Oct 24 '23
Larry Feegan, died by the vengeful hand of Spider-Man in the episode Broadway Bro Down
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u/Conscious_Turn_3882 Oct 24 '23
i think the vegan kid. chefs death was a bit comical. while the vegan kids was too, hes just a kid, and it was very sad to see him build the courage to remove it to immediatley die bacuse it was off.
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u/GuidanceWhole3355 Oct 24 '23
Chefs are honestly the saddest especially when he comes back to the super adventure club because it felt a bit over the top with the fall, but I blame Scientology cronies for ruining this, as his son revealed that he didn't mind the ripping they did on scientology
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u/lockedoutofmymainrdt Oct 24 '23
Chef by far.
A long term cast member quit the show on bad terms and then tragically passed away in real life shortly after. Im confident SP would have written him off more respectfully if they could have known too, but as it stands its just tragic all around
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u/NortonsGapingAsshole Oct 25 '23
The kid do read the morning announcements that the dude brutally murdered was My favorite
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u/Shadowz040398 Oct 25 '23
Forget the saddest permanent death. Kenny dies will always be the saddest episode in my book
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u/Pudubat Oct 25 '23
The father of that kid that lost the Pinewood derby and shot himself because he couldn't take the loss and his poor kid saw it.
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u/Sims2Enjoy Oct 24 '23
First one, it felt more sudden. I watched the episode where Chef dies without knowing context so I thought it was an one off thing, also I was kinda expecting him to die in that episode
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u/Jewel_men10 Oct 24 '23
Satan was the ruler of hell and ManBearPig killed him, leaving hell without a ruler
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