10 Oddly Wholesome South Park Moments

10. Satan Counsels Stan Through Addiction

Freemium Isn't Free (Season 18, Episode 6)

As Jimmy pushes the Terrance and Phillip freemium game on the kids of South Park, nobody embraces it as much as Stan. He quickly becomes addicted to the “free” game and spends hundreds of his parent’s hard-earned dollars on the app.

Randy, oblivious to his own relationship with alcohol, identifies that Stan has the same “demons” as his gambling addict grandfather. Despite Randy’s efforts, it is “The Prince of Hell” who talks Stan through his turmoil.

Satan takes a scientific approach explaining the role of dopamine problems in humans who have “access to all the s**t they want”. He reassures Stan that there’s nothing “spiritually wrong” with him. Satan mocks the addict counsellor staple that those who are addicted are filling a hole in themselves with the diatribe; “well, who’s not filling a f**king hole, right?”

Though Satan claims he is motivated by a drive to preserve nuanced temptation, and uses Stan’s body to combat the Canadian Devil, it is a wholesome moment seeing the evil deity and ex-lover of Saddam Hussein show a soft side.