You're Getting Old

"You're Getting Old" is the seventh episode of Season Fifteen, and the 216th overall episode of South Park. It aired on June 8, 2011.

Synopsis
After Stan celebrates his 10th birthday, he begins to see everything differently. The other boys think he's become a major buzzkill and start to avoid hanging out with him. When Stan and Kyle have a major blow up, the very fabric of South Park begins to unravel.

Plot
At Stan's 10th birthday party at Wally's Pizza, Kyle gives Stan a Tween Wave CD, which Sharon, Stan's Mom immediate takes away, declaring that she's forbidding the boys from listening to Tween Wave. Meanwhile, Randy and Sharon are having a fighting after Randy finds out what Sharon has done and he doesn't want to admit that Tween Wave sounds like shit because then he would be an "old person" so he listens to it anyway. After a news report about Tween Wave, the other mothers ban the music as well. As Stan goes to bed, he listens to the album on his ipod stashed under his bed and it sounded like someone shitting in his ear. After learning that Cartman, Kenny and Kyle can't hear the difference, Stan goes to the doctor and learns that he suffers from cynicism and as such will begin to see everything and everyone as shit.

Randy begins to resort to tweenaged habits as he continues to listen to Tween Wave because his failed dreams of being a rockstar causes him to be unable to consider the Tween Wave music as shit as he's getting older. This prompts Randy go on stage and play guitar and fart into the microphone at the bowling alley under the alias Steamy Ray Vaughn, this "abuse to his breeches" catches the attention of two farmers. While at Kenny and Cartman whatch Kyle play L.A. Noire at Kyle's house, Stan enters and immediately begins complaining that things are shitty. So in an effort to appease Stan the guys go for ice cream sundaes and Stan complains that the sundae is shit, aggravating his friends. During a special duet with Steamy Nicks, a woman that Randy found in a Tween Music chatroom, Sharon barges in and demands to know what he is doing. Stan is then seen sitting alone in a diner because all his friends have told him that they are are sick. When he suddently notices them walking along outside. Stan joins the boys while they see X-Men: First Class under the condition that Stan doesn't complain. However, during the trailers for the new Adam Sandler movie, Stan sees it as shit shitting on shit and as a fountain spewing shit and Kyle warns him. Then during the trailer for the new Jim Carrey movie everything seems like shit to Stan and Kyle warns him again. Finally, during a trailer for a movie about a duck being president Stan has another outburst and the guys leave the theatre complaining about how annoying Stan has become. As Kenny and Cartman walk away from Stan, Kyle stops for a moment to tell Stan that he's changed, as this happens Stan sees Kyle spewing shit until Kyle is just a piece of shit. Stan and Kyle then walk away from each other.

Sharon and Randy are fighting about Randy's schemes from previous episodes when Randy admits to Sharon that he's unhappy and she admits that she's unhappy too. Meanwhile, the farmers are evesdropping and steal Randy's pants while Randy and Sharon fight. Sharon states that "people grow older, people grow apart". During a musical montage set to Landslip by Fleetwood Mac, we see: Stan sitting at Stark's pond when Kyle approches, hesitates and leaves him alone, Sharon and Shelly packing in the kitchen, Randy explaining the divorce to Stan, the house going up for sale, Randy driving away with the house in the rear view mirror, Stan sitting on the motionless swing in the backyard as he stares at the shit in the sun, Stan continuing to see everyone around him at his school as shit, the farmers who stole the pants getting apprehended with other clothing, Kyle and Cartman at Kyle's house playing video games while they smile, Stan walking down main street when a passing duck sprays shit at Stans face. Finally the song ends as Stan is lying on his bed in a bare room and the the screen fades to black and the credits roll in silence.