Help, My Teenager Hates Me!

is the fifth episode of the twenty-fifth season of the American animated television series South Park.

Fourth grader Kyle Broflovski begs his father Gerald to allow him to purchase an Airsoft gun so he can play with his friends Stan Marsh, Eric Cartman, and Kenny McCormick.

As the boys and the adults head toward Eric's home for a victory meal, Randy, brandishing his rifle, asks the other men if he should "take them out now", but Gerald stops him, saying that they still have a few more years before the children "turn into monsters".

While [Trey] Parker and [Matt] Stone are undoubtedly commenting on the real-life challenges that can come with raising an adolescent—the selfishness, the lethargy, the irritability—the flatlined demeanor feels out of place on a show like South Park."

He also noted that the final Airsoft battle scene featured "jerky camera movements reminiscent of gritty war films like Saving Private Ryan, Black Hawk Down, and The Hurt Locker.