South Park “Sexual Healing” Review

Well it’s finally here, South Park has returned for its 14^th season.  In this season opener, the Tiger Woods scandal causes the media and the public to search for answers as to why rich and famous men want to have sex with multiple people.  It is determined that the reason for this is that these men are sex addicts and after a test is developed to spot the addiction, Kyle, Kenny, and Butters are judged to be sex addicts.  The episode, titled “Sexual Healing," lampoons several aspects of the Tiger Woods Scandal, the media’s apparent obsession with these types of scandals, and of the idea of sex addiction being taken seriously. 

I loved the episode and several scenes made me laugh-out loud.  A particularly funny part of the episode was the new edition of Tiger Woods PGA Tour is not a golf game but a Mortal Kombat like game where Woods and his wife, Elin Nordegren, fight.

Another laugh-out loud moment was the death of Kenny, who accidently died while trying autoerotic asphyxiation  in a Batman costume.  Another great moment was when they were doing experiments on monkeys in order to find the cause of the sex addiction.  In the scene, the scientists dump a bucket load of cash on a monkey, who then begins to go around and hump the other monkeys, until he is caught by his monkey wife and made a pariah by the rest of the monkeys.  The ending is hilarious when Stan and Butters fighting the alien wizard, who is really just a right thinking SWAT officer that was tied up and made to wear a giant mask, who the men say is the cause of the addiction and Stan shoots the SWAT officer several times.  The only thing I didn’t really like about the episode was the part where the SWAT officer tells everybody that there is no sex addiction and that wanting to have sex with multiple people is a normal part of being a male.  I didn’t like this part because the moral of the story part is always done by one of the four main characters, usually Kyle, and to have a random character we hadn’t seen till this point do it just felt weird.

       Well that will do it for me for this week, see you next week for my review of the next episode.

My Introductory Post

Hello everyone, or anyone, out there reading this article, my name is Mark Sonnenberg. Over the next few months I will be writing articles on this blog about one of my favorite TV shows of all time, South Park. For 13 seasons, South Park has been the number one source of cutting-edge satire. Each week I will post a new article talking about South Park. Season 14 does not begin until March 17, 2010, so in the weeks leading to the premier, I will discuss topics such as the top South Park episodes, top Cartmen moments, general South Park news that interests me, etc. Once the season starts, I will post a review and recap of each week's new episode. That's all for this week, next week I will discuss the top South Park episodes of all time.