Kyman analyzation book

Pt. 13 analyzation on ygo/assburgers

( I know I already did one but I feel like I did a sloppy job so you might see the same things from the other one but more elaborate)

when i watched you're getting old and ass burgers, i was immediately drawn to the change in stan and kyle's relationship. when stan grew depressed and suffered through alcoholism, it shocked me how quick kyle was willing to ditch his, proclaimed by him, "super best friend" because of it. i'm not faulting kyle, if someone makes you feel bad then you have no obligation to be their therapist. but it's worth inspecting how throughout the entirety of the two episodes, kyle didn't ask stan once what's wrong or check up on him.

and kyle is probably so avoidant of checking up on stan because he acts on his own comfort. when throughout the day, stan is constantly spewing something cynical, you'd expect him to check up on him, but instead he lets stan off with a warning, that if he kept being cynical he wouldn't hang out with him. and it's also probably a combo of kyle not doing so well w/ sadness in general?? like when stan was sad about his break up with wendy, kyle's immediate thought was to distract him and show him there's more fish in the sea by taking him to raisins. when really all stan needed was to express his emotions and process them (like when he got sad about his break up w/ wendy and joined the goth kids and, what do you know, by expressing and processing his emotions he was able to move forward + you're allowed to feel sad after a break up??). it just proves to me that kyle isn't comfortable with sadness (at least with stan).

and it's funny kyle acts on his comfort, because as soon as stan gets depressed, kyle hangs out w/ cartman??? like if anyone should make you uncomfortable it's cartman, and it makes it worse that all these two do is fight and bicker. but kyle chooses to hang out w/ him regardless and...really enjoys his time with him. he has his alone time w/ him, takes his time to look at him and smile, he engages in conversation with him w/o a single line of banter, he was more than willing to help cartman make money and help him in his burger business. all these scenes portray kyle as being comfy w/ cartman, and it's probably why he decided to spend his time alone w/ him when stan was sad, BECAUSE he knows he's comfortable with cartman.

cartman is someone i think kyle knows he needs, he's someone whose feelings are never complicated, he's rarely actually depressed and never cynical. and kyle sticks by cartman despite his opposing, infuriating beliefs—but kyle needs someone to challenge his mindset and that's why i think he's so, for a lack of a better words, obsessed with him. he finds it interesting that someone could have such views, to be so out of the ordinary, and typically that would be out of someone's comfort level, but for kyle, arguing w/ cartman is IN his comfort level (i point to when the parents accompanied the kids at the bus stop and they're like "pretend we're not here, do what you normally do" and kyle immediately insults cartman lol).

while on the other hand, stan feels complicated emotions, he gets depressed and he virtually shares the same beliefs as kyle. stan is someone too unpredictable to kyle, and he's so willing to leave him when things affect him, he's so willing to do something that makes him feel happy even if it's at the expense of stan. and it just appears to me that kyle doesn't need stan. he seems fulfilled with cartman, and when stan catches him in his lie about being sick (in actuality he didn't wanna hang out with him), kyle is like "oh awkward sorry dude you're just a debbie downer :(" and just goes back to cartman (and cartman definitely caught on this all btw he has these "is he bothering you babe" attitude when stan confronts kyle)