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A lot of people say things about this episode being wrong and not funny at all. Have you people ever watched South Park? THIS is the episode that offends you? I happen to find this episode extremely funny. It pokes fun at the cliché Hollywood sports films, most significantly the Mighty Duck movies. Instead of everything working out, the team overcoming the odds and whatnot and everyone being happy in the end, things go terribly wrong. In a hilarious manner as well. The people that get mad at this have to understand one thing....its a CARTOON. Its always been a cartoon. Relax a little and laugh. The ending is the direct opposite of what every Hollywood movie ending is, and that is the joke Matt and Trey are trying to get across. It's not meant to be taken seriously.

I don't often laugh at movies or episodes, I usually just smile and laugh on the inside but the Steve Irwin jokes and the ending of the episode made me cry of laughter.

I don't understand why people don't like this episode, it depicts the other side of a typical Hollywood sports movie and everything works out for the OTHER side (the father accepts his son etc.) but the kid with cancer dies and everyone lies in a pool of their own blood on the side we saw. I just laughed and laughed at the end of the episode and when the kid flat-lined I laughed even harder because I totally didn't expect that to happen nor did I expect the pee wee team to get crushed like that, I was sort of expecting some fudged up miracle to happen South Park-style and make it all end well and it was such a pleasant surprise.

Stan: "How are you doing?"

Kid with cancer: "I feel pretty good, except for the cancer."

Brilliant episode, I feel bad that everyone is dissing it because it might make Trey and Matt feel like they didn't do a good enough season finale but they did! I haven't laughed this hard since Manbearpig.

Hollywood movies, Hollywood sports movies, all the same, the person at the hospital wanting the victory, the better teams all around, the many difficulties but always the Hollywood ending is there. Here we have a happy story, a professional hockey team from Detroit is playing the final match and at the end of the second period the score is tied 2-2 but then the miracle happens: they will play the last period against a different team, not a professional one, actually a pee wee hockey team! So they destroy their new rivals, they scored 29 times, 31-2 is the final score, they are the champions, they are celebrating, obviously "We Are the Champions" by Queen is playing but no one of us is satisfied, our team was the one that was brutally destroyed, our team had in Stan its coach and our team was the one in which young Nelson played but unfortunately he is now at the hospital with all of his hopes into our team. This is certainly a sad and strange episode, is a difficult one for Stan since one day he was the paperboy and now everybody wants answers from him, he now leads the team and they will be looking for their Hollywood story, they have someone at the hospital to play for, the find a really good player (Ike) and he will join the team, they play the very important game after all the emotional stuff but the Hollywood ending never arrived for them.

If you check on this site you will find that people don't really liked this episode but hell for me Stanley's Cup is fantastic and definitely one of my favourites from Season 10.. The first time I saw it I was with my cousin and we were like "what the f***?" after the last scene at the hospital but just today I saw it again and again there was not a period of time without a laugh and again I was like "what the f***?" by the end and I think you will be thinking something like that but also I think you will laugh a lot, Stanley's Cup is really hilarious, I loved it (plus Blur's very best song is here in a really great scene and Randy is hilarious).

Finally I finished watching the entire Season 10 of South Park, great Season in my opinion and here is my order (certainly the number 1 is my favourite): 14.Mystery of the Urinal Deuce 13.A Million Little Fibers 12.Smug Alert! 11.Hell on Earth 2006 10.The Return of Chef 9.Miss Teacher Bangs a Boy 8.Tsst 7.Manbearpig 6.Stanley's Cup 5.Cartoon Wars Part I 4.Cartoon Wars Part II 3.Make Love, Not Warcraft 2.Go God Go 1.Go God Go XII

Seems to be a while since anyone posted to this. Anyway, everyone missed the point. The episode wasn't a send-up of sports movies, the episode was poking fun at fanatical sports fans. It had noting to do with sports movies.

I've only recently watched South Park and have now seen every episode. Stanley's Cup was, with no doubt, the best of them all.

It was all there: the father asking Stan to talk to his son because Stan is his coach, Stan's father taking Stan's past failure all to seriously, the Red Wings intent on winning at all cost-even if that means creaming a team of kindergarten kids, the fans so blinded by their fanatical enthusiasm of spectator sports they can't see it was suppose to be an exposition game and not a real match, "We are the Champions" playing at the end of the game while the kids lay bleeding on the ice.

The kid dieing at the end cinched it.

Great stuff.

I love the social commentary of South Park, but in this episode the show ended with a social commentary about hockey and the Red Wing/Aves rivalry. As a Red Wing fan, I loved the ending and couldn't remember laughing as hard.

It was sad with the Nelson dying, but the funny part was everyone looked Stan, as the coach, for inspiration. "You're his coach, you're a father figure to him," Nelson's dad screams at Stan.

The episode was also unique because it featured only Stan, with Kyle having a one scene appearance.

A complete classic. GO WINGS!!! (I'm sure they could score more than 30 goals on a team of 5-yr olds.)

It's a nice episode with some very funny moments. I think what's so nice about it is that it's an unusual side of Stan to see - him helping a gang of little kids out. Also, he was getting asked a lot of questions which he couldn't answer. Normally I'd have nothing more than the sound of chuckling to say about South Park, but the ending of this one was very sad. It's the first episode I've watched and come away feeling really bad! Fair enough if thats part of the "Andy Kaufman" plan but it just wasn't fair :( I hope they revisit this storyline or the pee wee squad or whatever they're called again! I hope Ike gets justice for being beaten up and Nelson justice for dying!!!

I feel like if this episode had ended differently, it would have been one of my favorite episodes of all time. It started out so awesome! It was witty, funny, and entertaining, like a South Park Episode usually is. But there was just something somewhat cruel about the ending. Not necessarily offensive, but just bad satire. Satire is supposed to make you think, but this just fell flat. Just seeing the little kids getting beaten up the Red Wings and Nelson dying at the end...that's terrible. Not to say I didn't laugh a bit, and I wouldn't really want the ending changed. People have the right to express their views, even if I don't agree with them. I just think that there could have been a more satisfying end to what was otherwise a great episode.

Not the best episode of the season, but pretty close. The thing that many people don't see to get here is that the end simply reveals that this was the other team's film all along! Kyle never had a chance in the first place - because it's NOT his story, we're just seeing the flip side of a typical Hollywood flick. As his team lie bleeding and ruined on the icy floor, the direction cleverly changes and we see that in fact it's the opposing Manager's emotional journey that's seen HIM through to victory, and our team were merely supporting characters in that movie.

This is my take on the episode anyway, and I think the SP creators need to be congratulated for not taking the easy way out - having the little kid die at the end was sad but hilarious - and that's life, it's not all quick fixes and easy wins, it's tragedy and heartache and...yes...cancer too.

I have been a massive South Park fan for many years but felt compelled to review this episode after not having seen it before, and working my way through the ones that I had missed in the past.

An episode that uses a Hollywood sports movie troupe to explore some very dark and important themes, the stark contrast of the humorous parts of the episode with the deadly serious parts is an incredible experience, this particular show is as serious as cancer and a beautiful exposition of the human condition and the ending is sublime, for every "winner" in life there has to be a "loser", and because this isn't Hollywood, sometimes the fate of the losers is unfair, but life is sometimes unfair.

First off, I decided to start watching South Park last year. I personally hate today's PC culture with all my heart, so I decided that a show like South Park is perfect for me. I'm moving on to season 17, so I'm getting close to the end.

This episode is probably my favorite so far. At first, I was put off by its IMDB rating which is pretty low for South Park standards, especially since I found the IMDB rating to be pretty representative of how I eventually end up liking the episode.

However, this is an exception. The episode felt a bit weird until it got to the end. Not bad, but slightly weird. However, the end just blew me away. I'm not a person that gets offended easily and I found most of the "offensive" stuff in South Park so far to be pretty mild for my standards. But this, the ending of the episode, with the 5 year old kid dying after his team gets beaten up by a bunch of adults actually offended me at first. It was so unexpected. Then, after I had the time to take it all in, I obviously remembered that this is South Park, and that I love dark humor. So, I see the fact that I was actually offended at first as a massive achivement for the episode. It is very hard to offend me and doing so is a huge accomplishment, which is why I love the episode so much.