In what I suppose we could call a tradition, if twice in four years a tradition makes, Comedy Central's "South Park" has again offered a special day-after-the-election episode. It accomplishes what, for a cartoon, seems a miraculously rapid integration of more

So something happened really recently: Star Wars was bought by Disney. So South Park , in their standard fashion, decided to use something else as a framework to tell the real story they wanted: the presidential election. Thus was the story of " Obama Win more

What time is it?! Why it’s thinly-veiled allegory time on this week’s episode of South Park , " A Scause for Applause ." Last week's " A Nightmare on Face Time " may have been the Halloween episode, but this week is all about something even scarier: what more

Well, I figured there was going to be a dud in the bunch eventually. This half of season 16 of South Park has been consistently of really good quality, but all good streaks come to an end. " A Nightmare on Face Time " is that glorious letdown. more

This week's "Going Native" started off strong as Cartman came bursting into the cafeteria with news that Butters had just beaten up the lowly and diabetic Scott Malkinson. Following a barrage of blunt (and decidedly spot-on) observations about the other b more

How far will one show and its staff go to make a joke about Ben Affleck? Would they basically structure a whole unrelated plot around maybe a few snide references to him and the movie  Argo , then at the end have a joke at his expense be the solution more

As with many South Park storylines, "Insecurity" began with a misunderstanding of Three's Company proportions as Ike mistook his parents' sexual roleplaying for his mother banging the UPS man; a simple slip-up, but one that would ignite an explosion of pr more

This week,  South Park  tackled a real hot-button issue: home security systems! Those are still a thing apparently, and " Insecurity " at least took them on with humor – and Batman references. So, it all started out as a goofy sitcom misundersta more