Just Us Nerds

This week’s South Park was the best of the season, which admittedly is only a minor compliment. While I was dreading the return of Towelie, and was none too pleased at the complete absence of the boys, I have to admit I found the conversations between Oprah’s minge and her asshole to be almost as funny as an old episode of Pinky and the Brain. The parts with Towelie were, as expected, more social commentary than humor. The points they made about Oprah turning on James Frey are valid, and ones I’ve thought about before, but they weren’t all that fresh or funny. The minge and the asshole, however, with their dreams of Paris and their gun wielding antics made me laugh a season record of six times. That’s over double any previous episode. Of course, that is nowhere near the number I would hope for, but at this point I’ll take it as a positive sign that Parker and Stone are starting to recover their senses of humor.