10 Best Heartwarming Lessons South Park Ever Taught Us

10. Be Patient And Respect Your Elders

South Park has never minced words with what it perceives the older generations to be, but on occasions we've seen a deliberate contrast in which the vulnerable elderly have been pushed around by the young.

In the season seven episode "Grey Dawn", after a spree of car fatalities at the hands of elderly drivers, residents in South Park over the age of seventy have their drivers licenses taken away from them. In a strange turn of events, the elderly residents rally together and take the town by siege and it's up to the children to stop them.

When the siege ends, Stan's father begins to scold his dad once again, only this time to be lectured by Stan about treating his own father like a child.

This message is reinforced later in the series in the episode "Cash For Gold" in which Stan watches the exploitation the elderly are susceptible to with daytime shopping channels.

They're profound statements that reminds us that just because we think we might know more than our grandparents nowadays, doesn't mean we have to dismiss and even condescend to them. We're alive today because of them. Sometimes it's nice to be reminded of that.