South Park: The Truth Behind Wendy Testaburger!

Story:
The name’s Chris by the way. And I just want to start of by saying When it comes to Relationships like Love between a man or woman even remembering it from your childhood, things can either get heartwarming or rather hard to deal with especially in reality. Why you may ask, because even Television seems to portray it pretty well for either the better or worse.
I give great examples for shipping characters in Animated Shows like Rick and Morty, Adventure Time, Gravity Falls, Over The Garden Wall, My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic & My Little Pony: Equestria Girls, The Amazing World of Gumball, The Loud House, OK K.O.! Let’s Be Heroes, Phineas and Ferb, Star vs the Forces of Evil, Regular Show, Steven Universe and much others in the like. But when it comes to Unhealthy relationships that go to far at times, that’s when I start thinking about the Longest Running Adult Animated Show on Comedy Central that goes by the name, “South Park”. Why you may ask? It’s because there can be some ships that can start off either as adorably lovable to straight up unhealthy and dirty.
And one of the biggest examples to one of them, I have to go with Stan and Wendy. Like Oh my god that ship has really gone downhill and lost most of its chemistry to this very day and is one of the biggest reasons to why South Park has been just as mean-spirited as it already was. Why is because that the character, Wendy herself went from being a Cute, Lovable, Kind and hell even Badass Girlfriend to a straight up Mean, Nasty, Spoiled, Whiny, Sassy, Salty, Annoying, and Ungrateful Bitch. The reason to why I say that is because of how she progressed over the seasons with Stan. I mean no matter what Stan does, she always gets so Pissed at him for no good reasons once so ever, well I mean there are some moments I remember in the show where Stan actually does or says something to her that is a bit insulting to Wendy but that’s besides the point.
With Wendy going threw just as an amount of Drama then Stan, things can go a bit too far at times. Literally every single episodes that I give an example for that seems to explain everything perfectly are “Chef Goes Nanners”, “Raisins”, “Dances with Smurfs”, “Skank Hunt”, “Butters' Bottom Bitch”, “You Have 0 Friends”, “The Hobbit”, “Go Fund Yourself”, “Gluten Free Ebola”, “Oh, Jeez”, “Bass to Mouth” and I can just go on and on about how messed up their relationship can be. I mean sure they’re are some redeeming moments with the two like in the movie, “South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut”, and episodes like “Tom’s Rhinoplasty”, “The List”, “Super Fun Time”, “Breast Cancer Show Ever”, “Elementary School Musical”, “Insheeption”, “Ass Burgers”, and even the game “South Park: The Fractured But Whole” it was revealed that Stan and Wendy were once again back together after the events in episodes, “Skank Hunt” and “Oh, Jeez”. And to top it all off in the sequel movie to “South Park: Post COVID” which is “South Park: Post Covid: The Return of Covid” where in the scene when it’s the alternate future when Stan and everyone else is all grown up adults and have all matured perfectly after everything, Wendy wonders to Stan if they’d like to spend time together during New Years. So yeah, that’s kind of how their relationship turned out and redeemed itself after everything, case closed.
All of that however just isn’t really the case and dosen’t seem like enough to make their relationship any better or at least making anymore sense to me, if anything, it’s just not enough in my opinion. All I can say is that I really enjoyed how they used to be in earlier seasons whenever Stan would always be nervous to be around her mostly and always vomiting on her and also always being very jealous to who ever else she flirts or spends more time with, but hey, we can all understand that that’s how boys can be when they have crushes on girls.
However, they way they’ve both turned out is just disappointing because of how both of them can be pretty nasty to each other every now and then. Weather if it’s Stan cheating on Wendy or Wendy cheating on Stan which both of them tend to dump on each other, it just never seems to be explained on why they do such stupid things to each other, and if anything Wendy is a lot worse than how Stan can be at times because She always so mad and snaps and spats at him for things that he dosen’t even do, They just aren’t good for each other anymore, and of course that clearly whenever there can be times where I want to avoid watching the show anyway. I don’t hate the ship but I’m just very disappointed on how much it’s changed nowadays. So about the love between the two itself,
I just so happened to just now get my answers to why their relationship has turned out to be poorly written and less progressive over the years. It all started when I went to a live Q&A Panel on Comedy Central with Trey Parker and Matt Stone themselves who just so happen to be the creators of South Park and always seem to perfectly explain why they don’t bother focusing on important things in there show currently. When I’ve given just about enough time to answer enough questions to fans alike, I finally got the chance to ask the two if they were doing anything new recently and they’ve simply answered that they’ve been working newer episodes for season 25 and now planning developments on the upcoming 26th Season now that they’ve just got done with making the 2 new movies “South Park: The Streaming Wars” & “South Park: The Streaming Wars Part 2” which me myself so happened to enjoy watching myself and comes to show that South Park itself on the other hand as of right now is doing just fine when it comes to comedy and sense of humor, so it’s still very funny to say the least. And let’s not forget the fact that they also said they are now going to do “The South Park 25th Anniversary Concert Experience”.
That is when I asked them about something that had to do with Stan and Wendy’s relationship and why they haven’t progressed correctly. What I asked them is that
“Have you ever bothered making any newer episodes where Stan or Wendy finally meeting the errors of their ways to each other or Stan having enough of Wendy’s bullshit and doing something about it or at the very least Stan and mostly Wendy herself apologizing to each other about everything they’ve done and finally finding better ways to stay together and mature for the better?”
Trey then suddenly paused at that very question looking rather confused and hell even Matt looked just as embarrassed by that question. After a few seconds of silence and no response, Trey suddenly answered me by asking me why I would ask that. I responded to back by saying that why he and the writers made the character, Wendy Testaburger as one of the most unimportant and forgettable characters in the show but just simply explaining by bringing up past episodes on where ever Wendy Is being a bit too hard on Stan over stupid reasons that wasn’t even his fault mostly and wondering how they can easily fix it by just making a new episode without the same old clichés between the two characters. Trey then started to think for a second and finally answered by simply saying
“You know what? That is actually a good question and a question that I’ve never been asked before by a fan. As a matter of fact and about that, I’ve just so happened to actually make an episode revolving around Stan and Wendy’s relationship which may explain The Ending of The Return of COVID movie. I’ve actually had it perfectly written, animated and well voice acted by the crew and especially the voice of Wendy, “April Stewart” happily agreed to help out with working on the thing. And it also just so happens to dedicate in a loving memory of Wendy’s old voice actress, “Mary Kay Bergman” that passed away in 1999 after making the Bigger, Longer & Uncut movie from a Suicide incident. And like hell it was even going to be either a conclusion to Season 25 or a premiere special to Season 26 which takes place after the Streaming Wars trilogy and to start a new story arc partly based on Stan and Wendy’s relationship. The only problems is that the reason why I don’t bother airing the thing or at least not yet is because of truly messed it can be threw out and how it can just might destroy Wendy’s character and setting in some ways. Yes, I know the show itself is very offensively messed up and controversial enough as it is but I just think that this one is probably one of the most hardest me and Matt have done. But if your that interested, maybe you can be the first to view it and maybe I can easily contact you once this Panel is over.”
Once Trey had given me a full explanation on what episode I was trying to talk about, I was not only curious but very excited to see how they can finally easily pull off another character development episode that can finally focus on Wendy for the first time. Once that Q&A ended, I’ve finally managed to give the creators my email that way they can give me some kind of MP4 file on that very episode and everything else I remember from that day is Trey telling me that I must not tell anyone or even dare post on social media like YouTube and just wait for it to actually air if their able too.
Two days after that experience, I’ve finally been notified by Google Gmail from Trey Parker himself giving me the linked file to the unaired episode to with it being named as “Don’t Go Breaking My Heart” to which I kind of laughed at it considering the fact that it seemed like a stupid name for a simple episode and I know for a full on fact that Trey and Matt could do better than that with simply naming random episodes, also considering the fact that the title of the episode itself is to reference and parody on that song with the same name.
Once I’ve downloaded it on my computer, I eventually clicked play on it without any hesitation once so ever and I was greeted with the Iconic South Park Intro until it finally cutted to the episode itself with Stan, Kyle, Cartman and Kenny simply making it to school like most of every episode. The scene then cuts to show Mr. Garrison’s classroom starting up the day.
“Alrighty Children, I just want to start of by saying that Wendy is absent today, she will not be attending school until she feels better.” Mr. Garrison said to the class without any good explanations once so ever.
After a short moments of Mr. Garrison starting his usual teaching, the scene then cut to the locker hallway rooms where Kyle, Cartman and Kenny put all their stuff in their lockers. Then suddenly Stan shows up on screen greeting his friends in the process.
“Oh, hey Stan. What’s up?” Kyle said and asked Stan.
“Hey dude, and by the way, haven’t you guys noticed that Wendy has been absent for the past 3 days this week?” Stan asked.
“Uh, Well yeah but… Why do you care so much dude? I’m sure she’s just really sick.” Kyle said as he grabbed his binder out of his locker.
“I know but, I’m just wondering if I can actually do anything to help her. I mean me being the fucking idiot I am with always hesitating to actually spending time with her and helping her like a good boyfriend should just makes her mostly shut me out like I’m never good enough for her anymore.” Stan admitted in a pretty rather concerned kind of way.
“Look dude, Wendy is just a dumb Bitch that dosen’t know what she’s talking about. So why bother worrying about her anyway?” Cartman said in a rather rude and sassy expression like usual.
“Oh Shut Up Cartman! You should know for a full on fact that Wendy would never hate me no matter what me and Wendy go threw!” Stan yelled at Cartman.
“Whatever dude, at least your dumb enough to even love her in the first place After she literally dumped you with Tolkien one time.” Cartman responded back.
“Enough already Cartman! If it’s his decision to love and care for Wendy then it’s his decision!” Kyle snapped.
Suddenly Butters then showed up on screen greeting the main four with his happy go lucky expression.
“Well hello there fellas! What are y’all chatting about today?” Butters asked the four boys.
“Look, it’s none of your business, Butters. I’m just worrying about Wendy. I mean come on! She’s been gone for 3 days. I’m sorry I’m being a bit too dramatic and ridiculous about it but I just wonder if she’s okay.” Stan said in a stressed out tone.
“Look dude, we get your worried about Wendy. But what are we supposed to do about it? If you want to help her then just yourself, okay?” Kyle responded.
“Fine. I’ll go see what’s going with her after school’s over, okay? I’m sorry I’m bothering you just by whining about her again.” Stan said after a quick sigh.
Then suddenly I hear someone say “Hey.” Offscreen when suddenly the screen then cut to Bebe which so happens to be one of Wendy’s best friends.
“Look Stan, you really want to know what’s really going on with Wendy? Well since you and her are still together recently I’ll just this once tell you what’s been going on since i’m her friend.”
Stan and his friends looked rather confused on what Bebe’s trying to tell him as if it was something really important like how everything can be important in this show whenever it comes to episodes revolving around one or two characters.
“She hasn’t been doing well, as a matter of fact she’s been doing pretty bad herself.” Bebe revealed as she looked as if she was starting to get nervous to even continue speaking.
“What the fuck are you talking about?” Stan asked.
“I’m talking about the bad and abusive relationship with her parents.” Bebe answered without any hesitation.
“What’s that supposed to mean? As a matter of fact, that makes no sense. Aren’t Wendy’s parents in a normal healthy relationship? And don’t Wendy’s parents love and care for her a lot?” Stan asked with a confused and yet worried expression.
“Yes but all that is until there was an incident between the two and that it had something to do with Wendy. All I know is that they’ve recently argued and blamed each other about a family member murder that has happened. And with all that she hasn’t been attending school recently.” Bebe answered.
“And I don’t want anymore questions on the subject. I don’t know what else is going on with her right now. but I think you and Wendy both should break up again and this time from now and never see each other again at least to not risk your own life just by helping her. if you want to figure it out then do it and figure it all out yourself. I’m sorry, but I can’t talk anymore and please don’t tell anyone else about this or else I’ll might get in trouble.” Bebe said as she walked away.
Stan then stood there in shock and such confusion and took a moment to realize that there just might be more to it. The scene then cut to Mr. Mackey’s office where Stan makes his way in to the room greeting him in the process.
“Stan? What are you doing here in my office? Ain’t you supposed to be in class right now?” Mr. Mackey asked.
“Yes but, I just want to know if Wendy’s okay. She’s been gone for 3 days and really want to do the right thing this time for all the embarrassing things I’ve done to her.” Stan said as he sat down.
“Alright M’kay. All I know is that she hasn’t been in school because she’s either been sick or hurt for the past weekend. So please just run along and see what’s wrong with her after school’s over M’kay.” Mr. Mackey answered without anymore explanation.
Stan then just sighs and walks out the room without nothing being said.
“Hey dude, how’d it go?” Kyle asked as he greeted him once more.
“I don’t know. She must be dealing with a lot right now at the moment. It’s just best that I let her be until she’s ready to go back to school and talk to me when she feels like it.” Stan answered.
“Well I guess that sounds good dude. Come on dude, Why don’t we just forget about her for now and go see a movie after school. The new Terrance and Phillip movie you wanted to see is finally out today.” Kyle said as he walked him back to class.
The scene then cut to Stan making his way back home from the bus without a single word being said. Then it then showed midnight where Stan is shown in bed in a full frame of his face shown looking rather concerned and a little depressed like how he can usually be in the whole show. It’s then showed a depressing montage with music played in the background of the past 2 days of the week with Stan being in class without Wendy as the episode went on. Then once it was the weekend,
Stan finally has had enough and finally decides to investigate and visit Wendy’s house without a word being said. Stan then suddenly gets stopped by his mother Sharon and asking him
“Stanley? Where are you going? It’s 3:00 in the afternoon, sweetie. Where could you possibly be going while I’m trying to make you dinner?” Sharon asked with a sort of concerned and worried expression.
“Nothing mom. I’m just going to play some basketball with Kyle.” Stan answered.
“Oh! Alright sweetheart. But please just be safe and you can be out for 1 hour because you don’t want to miss dinner.” Sharon ordered him.
“Sure Mom. I won’t be out for long, I promise.” Stan responded as he made his way out the door.
The scene then cuts to show Wendy’s house and with Stan making it to the doorway. Once Stan is about to knock on the door, he suddenly hears a blood curdling scream coming from the inside of the house. In shock, he looks threw the window to see what was going on and he saw Wendy’s mom brutally beaten and shot in the chest sobbing profusely until she had her final breath and dead.
“You made me do this shit, bitch! This all your fault and you know it you disgraceful scum of a daughter!”
Some man said inside of a house. Stan then suddenly managed to break threw the window by punching it with a heavy amount of force and in almost an instant he made his way inside the house seeing where the screaming and yelling was coming from. And what I saw made me shocked and pretty uncomfortable too say the least. It was Wendy on the floor horrified and with tears in her eyes facing none other then her dad, Mr. Testaburger with an extreme death glare on his face holding a gun and belt. Also to give more details on their appearance Mr. Testaburger was shirtless with bruises on him as if him and his wife were actually fighting as brutally as possible and as you think. Also Wendy herself looked as she had her jacket and shirt taken off and her hat removed to show her wearing nothing but a bra on her top era of her body but still seemed to have wore her bottom clothes. That is until Mr. Testaburger suddenly grabbed Wendy on the back of her bra as she tried to run and escape the house and then the bra suddenly ripped into pieces and came off to which made her covering her breasts to which is until she was grabbed by her father and got punched in the face profusely by her father over and over again. He then restrained her to the couch and began to smack her in the back with his belt again and again. That is when they show detailed imagery of Wendy’s back as there bruises and cuts starting to form showing blood coming out of it as well as it coming from her mouth, nose and forehead. Once her dad has stopped spanking her with the belt, he eventually got his gun out and attempted to murder her by finishing the job by simply shooting her in the head. Once Wendy slowly turned around, It showed Wendy’s brutally beaten face as if looked almost how Eric Cartman had been beaten up by her in the “Breast Cancer Show Ever” episode. It was also shown that tears started to roll down her face mentally disabled manner.
Stan finally had enough of watching Wendy getting abused by her father and runs right towards them stopping him from shooting her in the process by saving Wendy by holding her in a rather quick pace and grabbed a knife from his pockets he saved in case of emergencies.
“Stan?! What the fuck are you doing here?!” Wendy shouted in both shock and fear.
right when Mr. Testaburger pulled the trigger, the bullet got hit by his knife’s blade and aimed shooted right towards his mouth causing him to choke and landing on the window causing the glass to shatter into pieces and him getting stabbed in the back by the bottom glass of the window door which had killed him right then and there. Stan then took a breath staring at Wendy’s now dead parents and then turns to Wendy with a rather relieved but concerned look on his face.
“A- Are you oka-“ Stan said until he was suddenly unfinished with his sentence by Wendy giving him the biggest kiss right on the lips like how she’s never kissed him before in the whole franchise. Wendy then teared up with a big smile on her face answering him by saying “Yes. Of course I’m okay.” Stan then smiled back at her being very relieved and then took her to her room trying to find her some bandages and a blanket to cover up her half naked body.
The scene then suddenly cut to Wendy’s face now showing a sad expression.
“Stan…” Wendy said.
“Yeah?” Stan responded back to her.
“I need to tell what happened and why it happened.” Wendy said as she then cleared her throat.
“My grandparents that so happened to be my mom’s parents were killed by my dad. And it was all my fault because I’m just so tired of being perfect and I know that I never would be good enough for them. My parents loved me with all their hearts but I never loved them back. I hated my parents so much because they never letted me do whatever I want nor did they ever pay good attention to me whenever I only wanted to be free from this fucked up town. Considering the fact that I had such strict parents, I wanted them all dead some how so I made some of my friends pretend that my grandparents had killed my dad’s parents by actually killing them.”
Wendy then looked down and began to tear up once more and sob.
“And that probably one of the most stupidest decisions I ever made in my life, so I know for a full on fact that I’m going to jail for it and then going to hell whenever I die. It’s all my fault. I’m a terrible person. I’m a monster. *sniffs* I’m terrible.” Wendy sniffled as she began sobbing some more.
“Hey. Come on. Wendy, your not a bad person. I know who you are, you would never do such horrible things because you are the most smartest and nicest people I know and that’s why I love you. And don’t let those people not let you change for the better and follow your dreams. I know you would never do such things to hurt me, right?”
Then that was when Wendy looked at Stan for a second and looks down covering her mouth gasping and the next scene shows flashbacks of every single past episodes that I have mentioned in the very beginning of the story of where ever Wendy would continuously get pissed and dump Stan numerous times in the like. That was when Wendy had realized that all the things she has done to Stan wasn’t good either and suddenly began having a mental breakdown by saying
“You really don’t remember do you? Stan, I- I- I love you… so much, but I now realize that I didn’t love you enough. And remember the time when you called me a Bitch? Well… you’re right, I am a Bitch. I’ve never been good to just as much as you’ve never been good to me. The reasons to why I dumped you so many times is because I just never thought you weren’t good enough for me and just another one of those dumb and scumful boys of the school like Eric Cartman and would never be there for me when I actually need help, but I was wrong. I was wrong about you. I was wrong. Please forgive me. What ever I've done wrong, I'll never do them to you again, I promise. Stan. I- I- I’m so sorry. I’m sorry for everything. Sorry for dragging you into to this and for all the pain and torment I caused you our whole life. I’m sorry.” Wendy was now crying and even actually bawling and breathing heavily in a complete mental breakdown covering her eyes in the process.
Stan then tried to comfort Wendy just by softly calling out her name. Wendy then immediately hugged Stan showing just as amount of love then how she’d ever has before to which then Stan hugged her back.
“Wendy, it’s okay. I don’t care how much you say you hate me, because I know from the very bottom of my heart that you deep down inside, you still love me, though you just don’t admit it much. If anything, it’s my fault too for never spending enough time with you or at least helping you like a good boyfriend should. So I’m sorry too for anything that I’ve done to you too.”
Wendy then put her head on to Stan’s chest and continued to sob in guilt and shame.
“Shhh. It’s okay, I’m here.” Stan said comforting her as he held Wendy by her back and shoulders.
"I mean hey, at least there are some good times we've had although it just wasn't enough." Wendy said wiping her tears as she brings up flashbacks of every good moments between the two from everything I've mentioned in the start of the story.
Stan then laid Wendy down in her bed and grabbed a blanket and then wrapped it around her body and held her out of her room.
“You should get some rest now. I’ll take you to my house and call a doctor to make you feel better.” Stan said.
And with that being said, Stan walked her out her house and straight to his house to where by the time he got their, it was the evening. Stan then knocked on the door which then Showed his dad, Randy greeting him in the Process.
“Stan?” Randy said with a pretty shocked look in his face.
“Dad please. I need to go to my room and call the doctor if you mind.” Stan said as he made his way inside the house and up the stairs to his room.
“Stanley Marsh! Where the hell have you been?! It’s been way past your dinner time and I’ve been worried sick abo-“ Sharon yelled Angerly until she was suddenly back talked by his son, Stan with him snapping by saying
“Not now Mom! She needs her rest so don’t wake her up! We’ll finish this conversation later. But now is not the time. One of you Please just call the doctor or so fucking help me I’ll run away from both of you and this shitty place. Wendy needs me.”
Randy and Sharon just stand there looking rather shocked at what Stan had just said. Stan then makes his way to his room and simply putting Wendy in his bed tucking her in in the process. Stan then leaves the room with the door shut so she can sleep. It then shows Stan in the table arguing with his parents for a short amount of time until there was a knock on his door which showed not only a doctor but a police man.
“Is something wrong officer?” Sharon simply asked in a rather concerned, worried and curious kind of way.
“Yeah, um. Do you know a girl that goes by the name of Wendy Testaburger?” The officer said in a rather serious tone.
Sharon and Randy both look at each other for a second and then Sharon says
“Yes, she’s my son’s girlfriend. As a matter of fact she’s here right now.”
“Yeah. I knew you were going to say that. Because I just want to tell you that her father was under arrest for murdering her wife and mother and father in law. That was until he wind up being dead himself and normally we just take out the trash by sending them to the hospital to get cremated.” The officer said as he made his way inside the house and towards Stan.
“Hey son, I just wanna thank you for doing the right thing. To be honest that was pretty brave and generous of you to save a life of an abused 10 year old girl. Now just want to ask you since she no longer has a home to live in since her parents no longer have rights to live their anymore, do you want me to take her to a foster care where she can get adopted by new parents and have a new family or do you want her to stay here with your family?” The officer asked.
“I want her to stay here with me. I mean not that I want her to be adopted by my parents but that way we can both be together forever.” Stan answered.
“I see. Well I don’t really care how you work this out but just to warn you kid it’s now your responsibility to keep her safe and out of harm’s way from now on.” The cop then walked out and letted the doctor come in.
Once the doctor had fixed Wendy up while still unconscious and when it’s was night time, it then showed Stan going to bed sleeping with Wendy to which me myself had actually found pretty cute and adorable.
And then screen faded to black and it then showed one month later with Wendy now living with Stan and having a new built room all to herself. Stan and Wendy are now in Stan’s bedroom laughing to each other finally spending good time together which actually really made me feel good and very glad that their relationship is finally improved and that they’re now finally getting along perfectly.
“Thank you so much Stan. I mean if it wasn’t for you finally maturing over the years, you really now know how to get me back on my feet.” Wendy thanked Stan.
“Hey don’t mention it Wendy. Besides, at least we can finally spend more quality times together, if you know what I mean.” Stan said as he winked at her.
they begin to start chatting with each other happily and continue laughing for the remainder of the episode.
The final scene showed the remains of Stan’s house in the background for a few seconds before fading to black and then it showed the end credits just like that. “Wow.” I said to myself by just sitting there watching the credits. This episode seemed like something that comes straight out of fanfiction. Yet again not only South Park made a very dark humored episode that even once again had to kill off some characters but also managed to once again give it a perfect ending and conclusion to Stan and Wendy’s unhealthy relationship. Although, it’s just a real shame that episode hasn’t really happened yet nor it will ever happen at all and yet the ship of Stan and Wendy are still pretty unchemistried to this very day.
And I just really hope that Trey and Matt reconsider their decisions and air the episode at whenever South Park ends Or at least just at some point from here on out. Both Stan and Wendy deserve better. Stan and Wendy both deserve a break after everything.
I just want Stan and Wendy to be happy together without anymore problems, that’s just all I want.