6. South Park Is Just A Retelling Of The Gangs Youth As They Remember It As Children
South Park frequently features some outlandish premise that unfolds in some absurd way and it usually involves some, if not all, of the four main characters. Despite all the craziness that goes on, all four characters are still fundamentally children and children generally remember stuff from a different point of view. Well, a fan took this whole children's memory thing and expanded it to explain why everything in South Park can get so outrageous and outlandish: All of the main characters are adults and every episode is a retelling of a story from the gang's youth in a sort of How I Met Your Mother kind of way. Due to the passing of time, the recounting gets skewed, biases creep in, and embellishments of events are inevitable, hence why some South Park episodes can get extremely weird. This theory does make some plausible sense. Some of the episodes' conflicts are quite childish but are given extra weight because the characters experienced them when they were kids.
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