10 Exact Moments These TV Shows SHOULD Have Ended

7. "You're Getting Old" (Season 15, Episode 7) - South Park

The mid-season finale of South Park's fifteenth season, "You're Getting Old", totally threw fans for a loop, both with its unexpectedly emotional ending, and also the fact that it felt like a concrete ending for the hit animated series.

The episode focuses on the onset of Stan's depression, where he views everything around him as crap (literally), and was written to reflect creators Matt Stone and Trey Parker's own existential angst as they entered middle age.

In what's probably the least-funny South Park episode ever, Stan's parents separate and the episode concludes with Stan's cynicism worsening, defying the show's typical formula of conflict resolution.

Immediately after the episode aired, there was intense speculation from fans that it served as a meta-commentary on Stone and Parker being fed up with making the show, and even that it may have been a surprise series finale.

But of course it wasn't, and the show quickly returned to its typical formula, with its 23rd (!) season set to air later this year.

As a result, You're Getting Old was a brilliant one-off that, all things considered, probably should've been saved for whenever Stone and Parker decide to wrap the show up for good.

Nobody comes to South Park for its heart-wrenching emotion, and that's precisely why this deeply dramatic and personal episode was so damn effective.