"Crippled Summer" was written and directed by series co-creator Trey Parker, and it was rated TV-MA L in the United States. It originally aired on Comedy Central in the United States on April 28, 2010 and served as the mid-season finale of the fourteenth season before a months-long hiatus for the series.[1] Parker and fellow series co-creator Matt Stone originally planned for the tenth season episode "A Million Little Fibers" to be about Towelie's struggle to overcome addiction in the style of the television series Intervention, with the children and residents of South Park coming together to help him, just as it was done in "Crippled Summer". However, after writing portions of the story for the tenth-season episode, they found they did not know where to bring the story or how to resolve it. As a result, they completely revamped the episode and focused it on talk show host Oprah Winfrey and the controversy surrounding the James Frey book A Million Little Pieces, rather than Towelie's addiction.[2] "Crippled Summer" also marked the first appearance by Towelie since the "A Million Little Fibers", and the first appearance of Nathan, Jimmy's disabled nemesis, since the eighth season episode "Up the Down Steroid".[1]
"Crippled Summer" served as a parody of Intervention, the A&E Network documentary series about people struggling with various addictions. Throughout the episode, information about Towelie's drug addiction is presented on completely black screens with white letters. This device is used frequently in Intervention. The interviews with Towelie's friends and footage of their pleas to get help are also characteristic of the reality series.[1][3] During one of Towelie's interviews, he quotes "feels like I'm walking on sunshine" after huffing air duster cans. Both the quote and his actions are from Season 5, episode 9 of Intervention, where they interview "Allison".[4]
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Carlos Delgado of iF Magazine pointed out that although the episode mocked drug addicts and disabled children, it did not face the kind of censorship "200" and "201" did, which he suggested proved that censorship was born of fear rather than ethics. Delgado also said the comparison of disabled children to Looney Tunes characters "should remind us all that such cruel portrayals of disabled people have been going on for years".[11] Others criticized the episode. MTV writer Adam Rosenberg thought the episode "just wasn't very funny", and said it missed an opportunity to continue the creative edginess demonstrated in "200" and "201". Rosenberg found the jokes about disabled children "pointlessly mean", and said the fact that they are allowed where depictions of Muhammad are censored "makes a point about the absurdity of what is and isn't TV-acceptable".[12] The television website TV Fanatic praised the Towelie storyline and the use of his son "Washcloth", but said the jokes about the disabled children were unfunny and irritating. The site called it "by far the weakest of the season" and a disappointment following "200" and "201".[13]
Liane is the single mother of 10-year-old Eric. She has a kind and soft voice and shows great deference towards him. Like her son, she denies Eric's obesity, and also says he's big-boned; Liane likes to give him food smothered between normal and junk food, notably in "Cartman Gets an Anal Probe", she gave him a "chocolate chicken pot pie with icing on top".[8] Though Eric and Liane share a great bond with each other, in later seasons, she feels stern about his poor actions, which resolves further in later episodes.[9][10] Notably, in "PC Principal Final Justice", Cartman and Liane argue, until the former pulls out a gun, in which the latter also responds in the same way, and gets Cartman to listen to her.[11] Liane has also felt tired of her son misbehaving in recent episodes,[12] from being embarrassed at Eric for not getting his shot to her losing her job and moving from their original home to Coney Island Hotdog.[13][14]
In light of its relevance, I have to include another one of the current season's episodes. A lot of people are complaining about the PC theme in South Park's 19th season, but I think it's particularly on-point. In this episode, Cartman wants his little slice of the internet to be a safe space. He doesn't want anyone to say or do anything that offends, hurts, or insults him. Others soon jump on the bandwagon, demanding their own safe spaces. They wrap themselves in safe bubbles where they're never challenged, disagreed with, or forced to face the consequences of their actions. Uhm... 2ff7e9595c
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