YMMV / South Park: Post Covid

• Alternative Character Interpretation:
  • Has Eric Cartman truly reformed and become Jewish or is this a long elaborate prank on Kyle, as the latter claims it to be?:
    • In the past, Cartman has gone through many lengths to make fun of and abuse Kyle while his Heel Face Turns are only temporary which suggests the latter. However, Cartman is actually polite to Kyle for the most part, seems to genuinely love his wife and children, and was shocked to see them swear at Kyle, suggesting that it could also be the former, especially since he decides to take his family away from South Park after Stan and Kyle decide to finish Kenny's work and return everything to normal since he doesn't want to get rid of his current life.
    • Cartman's kids started cussing at Kyle midway through, even with Cartman's discouragement. Another way to look at it is that in retrospect, Cartman didn't start out bad and then turned good (assuming he did), but rather that Kyle was a negative influence who turned Cartman bad in the first place.
    • Or perhaps, Cartman did convert to Judaism as a joke... but he genuinely embraced his new faith and enjoyed being a pious family man more than he enjoyed bullying Kyle. Given how genuinely in love he seems to be with Yentl, and how affectionate he is with his children, it's easy to ponder if Cartman's turnaround was a case of Love Redeems. Cartman might still tell Kyle "Gotcha" out of nothing but principle, but still remains pious.
    • Alternatively: Yentl and the children are also "Alexas", just with more agreeable personalities.
  • Did Sharon and Shelly's ghosts really appear to Randy at the ruins of Tegridy Farms or was Randy just hallucinating them? Considering how much the rest of the family hated Randy and his marijuana farm combined with Randy's Never My Fault attitude, it's most likely the latter.
  • Kyle comes across as relatively successful in life, especially compared to Stan, but he apparently still lives in South Park and works for the elementary school. Is he as pulled-together as he seems, or is he "stuck" at the same point in childhood the previous special left off at?
    • Given that he has the least drastic personality and life changes among the four and is the only one who still resides in South Park, it points to the latter being the case.
  • Did Stan's Alexa wife come programmed with an abrasive personality, did Stan program that himself, or was she a regular AI who somehow became hateful just from being around Stan? The sequel clarifies that it's the former, as Kyle's Alexa wife is shown to be just as abrasive.
• Alternative Joke Interpretation: The Running Gag of Jimmy setting up stereotype jokes only to subvert them with Anti-Humor due to changing cultural norms can be taken two ways. On the one hand, it could be another Political Overcorrectness gag, depicting pop culture as overly sensitive to "offensive" comedy. On the other hand, it could be mocking comedians who rely on stereotype jokes, but can't adapt to using other types of humor in a changing climate. That said, at the end of South Park: Post Covid: The Return of Covid where things are better, Jimmy is shown making his classic jokes without any fear, making the interpretation lean towards the former.
• Angst? What Angst?: After coming back from time-travelling (maybe), Kenny doesn't seem very concerned about the fact that all of his lab assistants violently exploded from the inside out, leaving blood stains and body parts everywhere. Given that this is South Park however, this reaction is definitely intentional.
  • It could also be interpreted as how Kenny himself is so used to death and dying that gore just doesn't phase him at this point.
• Big-Lipped Alligator Moment: The Blade Runner reference with live-action geisha billboard on the old folks' home. At no point is it explained what it is or why it's there, it's just a surreal little set decoration that nobody acknowledges.
• Harsher in Hindsight: When Wendy's husband Darwin introduces himself to Stan, he says that she has told him a lot about Stan, followed up with "how's everything going with the family?", causing Stan to excuse himself to get drunk. This seems innocuous enough, but we later find out that Stan's mother and sister were killed in an incident he was partially responsible for and Stan is estranged from his father as a result. Evidently, Wendy failed to tell Darwin everything, or she did and he lacked the thoughtfulness to avoid asking such an inconsiderate question.
• Jerkass Woobie: Stan has become a bitter alcoholic who lashes out at everyone, but given everything he's gone through in the past 40 years, it's easy to understand why he's the way he is and why he hates being back in South Park. The show deconstructs this by pointing out how, though he wasn't responsible for what happened to him, he is responsible for how he reacted to it.
• Nausea Fuel:
  • Stan has to shove his hand up the corpse of Kenny's ass to get a flash drive covered in feces, which grosses Cartman out to the point where he pukes on Kenny.
  • Kenny's staff rupturing into paste is animated in loving detail.

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