This week's South Park featured Towelie, or Towelyey as he spells it, as the subject of an intervention. Throughout the years Towelie has been a superb character, "he's great at cleaning up spills and 100% machine washable." He's an ordinary towel, but he's addicted to marijuana, crystal meth and crack. Finally they take his story to the logical end, an intervention, and rip on the popular A&E show in the process.
Summer is upon us and the boys are nervous that Towelie will ruin it. They get him a job at Camp Tardicaca as, what else, a towel. But he is failing at this job because all he does is get high. "Who hired that towel? It can barely walk, let alone dry someone off."
The side-plot of the story takes place here. Camp Tardicaca is a camp for the mentally and physically impaired. Some of the campers are based on old Warner Brothers cartoon characters, such as Elmer Fud. Jimmy, popular at this camp, is leading the blue team in a color war. His nemesis, Nathan, captain of the red team, tries to get Jimmy killed through various schemes throughout the episode. Each one of these schemes backfires because Nathan's sidekick Mimsy (a Lennie Small from 'Of Mice and Men' type character) cannot complete simple tasks. This culminates in Nathan being blown up by half a pound of C4, bitten by a black mamba snake, shot at by bow & arrow by a group of natives, and humped by a shark. This side-plot was average. The only really funny parts here were the shark humping and Jimmy playing a song on the ukulele.
The episode climaxes with the intervention. This is the single greatest scene of Towelie's South Park career. They go around the room and everyone reads prepared statements. From Butters, "Towelie, over the past couple years I have seen drug addiction affect you in the following ways. You are not the towel you used to be. Whereas you used to be fluffy and absorbent, you now are crusty and unable to absorb the smallest amount of water. Will you get help today?" Kyle, "Towelie, over the past few months I have watched you go from an ancillary character with a few amusing catch-phrases to a dried out spooge rag covered in the giz of a thousand older men." Cartman is next and of course uses the floor to rant about Kyle and the Jews. Kyle protests, but because "you must let him finish", a constant in the real show, the intervention leader allows Cartman to finish. They cut back to Camp Tardicaca and then back to the intervention where Cartman is still ranting, and seemingly gone through over 100 pages. Towelie rejects the ultimatum and becomes irate. They then bring out Towelie's son, wash-cloth, and this cuts him deep. So deep that he is willing to seek treatment. "Towelie is definitely one of the most addicted towels we have ever seen here. He's probably the second most psychologically damaged towel I have come across since treating Kirstie Allie's towel, which had seen some, *pause*, nasty stuff."
All in all I thought it was a 8 out of 10. Given that the last two episodes were epic, and that this was the half-season (smh) finale, expectations were high. The Camp bit was a miss. It was not an epic, but in no way disappointing. Cudos, SP, on a great first half to season 14.
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