Toilets are the last bastion of American freedom
TRAGEDY
STRIKES IN SOUTH PARK
as
season 16 premieres with a double bill
MARCH
23rd from 10PM only on
COMEDY CENTRAL UK
by Cristina Massei
South Park is back with its grotesque satire of the American
culture, and it all starts with Clyde’s mum obsessively trying to educate the
kid to put the toilet seat down. Clyde of course ignores her, until she falls
down the toilet and dies. And this is just the beginning.
On the background the eternal fight between sexes on the infamous
toilet seat debate, the Government takes over in a cross between nanny state
and that American love for uniforms and sterile exercise of power; Michael
Moore’s theory of fear exposed in Bowling for Columbine immediately comes to mind.
The Toilet Safety Administration starts with toilet safety belts, to continue
with metal detectors, cameras and fully clothed TSA officers presiding people’
biological functions.
It’s time then to attack the sadly well established suing culture
when the matter ends in a federal courtroom, as a dodgy lawyer tries to get
compensation for Clyde first and then for the taxpayer from the defunct
inventor of the ‘toilet machine’.
What always strikes me about South Park is how its storylines can
be so unreal yet so totally realistic, and what keeps attracting me to this
series is the opportunity to have a laugh even when staring human stupidity
right in the face. It made it to the 16th series and rightly so: may
South Park continue and may toilets remain America’s last bastion of freedom.
At least the toilets.
South Park fans can watch Season 16 premiere episode Reverse Cowgirl from Saturday March 17th on Virgin Media TV On
Demand and Virgin Central, and on Sunday March 18th on Sky Anytime. The episode
will be available to download from iTunes on Saturday March 17th.
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