Thursday, March 18, 2010

Turd in a punchbowl.

Southpark did it again..and expectedly so. Season 14 premiers with an episode on sexual healing with tiger woods, bush, letterman et al in tow. Sweet.

Check it out online at http://www.southparkstudios.com/episodes/267106

The episode draws on the American ( and in general, human ) tendency to blame their own faults on others. In this case, it turns out that sexual addiction amongst rich americans is due to an alien wizard who has cast a spell. Poor chap has only 2 minutes of fame where he is brutally shot to death by Butters and Kyle. Kyle and one more guest character ( who is part of the president's SWAT team) try to convince others that the fault lies with themselves. But they get brushed aside as the proverbial "Turd in the punchbowl".

Ultimately American society (of Rich Americans) is freed of this addiction and Tiger Woods returns to professional golf. Nice.

The flip side is that the new XBox game on tiger woods gets boring as he and his wife stop fighting in the game and tiger woods starts playing real golf. Golf gets boring again. Stan and Eric discard the game to go play outside.

SouthPark rocks. Its a great sarcasm on reality.

2 comments:

  1. I'm sure the episode was well thought out. :-)

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  2. Hey, I liked your post, and the moment I read it, I tried watching the episode online. Unfortunately it did not even open with the poor n/w I have.

    But you know what? here's an example of how many people on this earth think alike :)

    http://fskrealityguide.blogspot.com/2010/03/turd-in-punchbowl.html

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