YMMV / South Park S 22 E 01 Dead Kids

• Crosses the Line Twice:
  • The schoolchildren constantly treating the ongoing shootings as an Unusually Uninteresting Sight.
  • Sharon's struggles about the school shootings is quite heartbreaking. Randy believing she is acting up due to having her period or menopause, however, becomes funny.
• Fridge Horror: If nobody except Sharon cares about the school shootings, does that mean some of the parents don't care that their own children have already died?
• Harsher in Hindsight: Weeks after the episode aired, a fatal high school shooting happened at Butler High School in Matthews, NC, with the school opting to remain open (albeit with some classes cancelled) after the lockdown was lifted.
• Iron Woobie: The kids are so used to enduring being shot at almost daily at school that they prioritize a math quiz over being killed. Even Stan gets shot at the end (with none of his parents caring) and he hardly seems phased in the next episode.
• She Really Can Act: April Stewart does a remarkable job of making Sharon relatable, especially when she furiously snaps at Randy in front of the middle school for his callousness towards the school shootings.
• They Wasted a Perfectly Good Character: For an episode that hardly does anything with him, it's strange that Kenny doesn't die onscreen during any of the featured school shootings.
• The Woobie: Sharon Marsh, whose worries and concerns about kids getting killed in school shootings are met with complete indifference from the rest of the townsfolk, particularly from her husband who even mocks her over her situation.