Slay Me South Park

South Park slayed us last night. We realize that describing a TV show loses a lot in the translation ("I guess you had to be there"), but we'll give it a shot:

The theme revolved around surgical alterations: a white boy who likes basketball wants to be black, a man wants to be a woman, another man wants to be a dolphin. They all get their wishes.

The man who gets the sex change operation wants every experience of being female. At one point s/he talks with a female friend about periods and realizes s/he's never had one. S/he concludes that s/he must be pregnant. "Yahoooooo!" s/he glees, "Now I can get an abortion!"

S/he goes to the doctor and plops hermself in the stirrup chair and says, "All right, doc. How we gonna do this? You gonna dismember it with a vacuum or scramble its brains?" The doctor then explains to herm that s/he can't have an abortion. S/he gets indignant, "Don't tell me what I can do with my body!" The doctor further explains that s/he can't have an abortion because s/he can't get pregnant. Soft reflective music starts playing in the background, and s/he says, "You mean, I'm never going to know what it feels like to have a baby inside me and to scramble its brains?"

Again, you probably had to be there, but it was funny stuff. South Park has a way of highlighting the absolute absurdity of different things and last night it had abortion in its sights. As we've mentioned in an earlier post, its too blasphemous at times for us to watch very often (we don't know whether last night was a re-run or not), but once in awhile we tune in and normally find it hilarious.

(Aside: There was a funny scene when the dolphin man sought a restroom at a sporting arena and became indignant when they didn't have one for his situation: "This is trans-species discrimination!")