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  1. ‘South Park’ Recap: ‘Obama Wins!’South Park has created four Presidential election episodes in its 16 seasons. In 2000, “Trapper Keeper” staged an election and a recount in […]
  2. ‘South Park’ Recap: ‘A Nightmare on Facetime’Poor, delusional Randy. On this week’s South Park, he buys a Blockbuster for $10,000; its initially unclear if he purchased a store or the […]
  3. ‘South Park’ Recap: ‘Going Native’Butters has the rage. We’ve seen it before. You can’t be that nice and positive and not have a breaking point. When Butters loses it, we […]
  4. ‘South Park’ Recap: ‘Insecurity’On this week’s South Park, we’re forced to take a peek into Gerald and Sheila’s sex life. They both apparently enjoy a UPS man fantasy. Gerland […]
  5. ‘South Park’ Recap: ‘Raising the Bar’On this week’s South Park, Kyle agonizes over how our standards have gotten so low, Token becomes a maniacal reality television show producer, […]
  6. ‘South Park’ Recap: ‘Sarcastaball’South Park’s mid-season premiere opened with a professional football game. For about 30 seconds it seemed like they’d done the impossible. Had […]
  7. South Park Recap: ‘Cartman Finds Love’There’s a new girl at South Park Elementary. All the guys are excited, but when Cartman finds out she’s black, he makes it his mission to pair […]
  8. South Park Recap: ‘I Should Have Never Gone Ziplining’So South Park went live action. And Stan is apparently the best looking of the group. But we’ll get back to that later. This week, South Park […]
  9. South Park Recap: ‘Butterballs’Season 16 has not been especially even for South Park so far. It was hard not to hope that somehow last season’s standouts would translate into […]
  10. South Park Recap: ‘Jewpacabra’Cartman is easily the most unsympathetic character on South Park. Anti-semetic, racist, exclusionist, and classist, he makes truly offensive […]
  11. South Park Recap: ‘Faith Hilling’On this week’s episode of South Park, the boys become obsessed with meme culture. Though it’s a little early to be making any grand […]
  12. South Park Recap: ‘Cash for Gold’After last week’s gross-out episode, South Park went dark with “Cash for Gold,” managing to take on capitalism, consumerism, and the […]
  13. South Park Recap: ‘Reverse Cowgirl’In the Season 16 premiere of South Park, “Reverse Cowgirl,” Clyde Donovan leaves the toilet seat up and accidentally causes his mother’s death. […]
  14. In Defense of 1941Unpopular Opinions is a new weekly column in which a writer takes a stand against popular opinion, whether it’s asserting the true merit of a […]
  15. Rich, Beautiful and Surprisingly Virtuous: A Whit Stillman PrimerWhit Stillman only has only four films to his name, and like most directors who can manage to craft a career out of a few highly personal, […]
  16. South Park Recap: ‘The Poor Kid’Can you find a joke in any situation? That’s what the Season 15 finale of South Park got us to ask ourselves on this week’s episode “The Poor […]
  17. South Park Recap: ‘A History Channel Thanksgiving’This week on South Park the boys discover that Thanksgiving is actually the result of an intergalactic truce between the alien nations Plymouth […]
  18. South Park Recap: ‘1%’South Park is on a roll. After last week’s great episode where we discovered that all Broadway shows are written by bros, they’ve returned with […]
  19. South Park Recap: ‘Broadway Bro Down’This week’s episode was masterful. The concept was simple — what if Broadway was secretly made by and for bros? The execution was streamlined […]
  20. South Park Recap: ‘Bass to Mouth’“Bass to Mouth” started out so strongly. It positioned itself to be a bizarre commentary on Gossip Girl, celebrity email hacking, and school […]
  21. South Park Recap: ‘The Last of the Meheecans’“How much longer can we keep doing this? It’s like, the same shit just happens over and over and then in a week it just all resets until it […]