South Park, “You’re Getting Old”
South Park is a lot of things. It’s bold, brash, unafraid, confrontational. It makes social points with the subtlety of a jackhammer, and the humor of a stubborn, vulgar philosopher. It… examines aging with grace and sadness? The ending curveball of “You’re Getting Old”, in which Stan’s tenth birthday precipitates many quiet tragedies in the town, haunted critics and viewers alike, scoring Stan’s descent into ennui with Fleetwood Mac’s “Landslide”.