<P> In its original American broadcast on June 8, 2011, "You're Getting Old" was watched by 2.295 million viewers, according to Nielsen Media Research . </P> <P> IGN review of "You're Getting Old" </P> <P> Reaction to "You're Getting Old" was positive . Critics pointed to the self - referencing aim of the episode in growing older and redefining senses of humor as well as cynicism . While Ramsey Isler of IGN found the episode to be largely humorless and monotonous, he interpreted this as intentional on the part of the show's creators, who he believed had grown weary of creating the series . Isler called the final moments of the episode "the most somber material the series has ever produced...providing the emotional soundtrack for a montage of images that just rip the heart out of any South Park fan", giving the episode an 8.5 / 10 . HitFix's review on the episode focused on its personal philosophic themes, with reviewer Alan Sepinwall stating "But what was interesting about Stan's existential crisis, and how he struggled to like anything, is that the show's philosophy has often largely been about how other people care too much about things...Yet here, Stan's lack of passion--and the Marsh parents'--was clearly shown to be a bad thing for them ." </P> <P> Sean O'Neal of The A.V. Club commented on the "finality" of the episode, noting that although the creators were still under contract until 2013, "there are already scores of people questioning on IMDB boards and Twitter whether it was, in fact, a surprise series finale ." O'Neal saw the use of the Fleetwood Mac song "Landslide" (the only song in the episode that does not feature the sounds of defecation) in the episode's closing moments to have served as "both a parody of a self - serious drama's season finale and an actual, self - serious, dramatic season finale ." James Poniewozik of Time remarked that the episode moved him to tears, commenting that it is "one of those episodes that managed to combine the many different things lesser South Park episodes do individually: pop - culture parody, scatological hilarity and stories about childhood ." He described the dialogue between the Marshes as "stunningly genuine," summarizing the episode as "simultaneously one of the most juvenile episodes South Park has ever done, and possibly its most mature ." </P>

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