Sexual Healing (South Park)

"Sexual Healing (South Park)"

"Sexual Healing" is the first episode of the fourteenth season of the American animated television series South Park, and the 196th overall episode of the series. It originally aired on Comedy Central in the United States on March 17, 2010.

Plot

The new edition of the Tiger Woods PGA Tour series of video games incorporates elements of the alleged physical altercations Woods had with his wife regarding his extramarital affairs, while the gameplay involves relatively little golf simulation. Cartman, Stan, and Kenny become big fans of the game. Meanwhile, scientists at the Center for Disease Control determine that sex addiction is a disease reaching epidemic proportions. They decide to screen schoolchildren for the disease, and Kenny, Kyle, and Butters are diagnosed as sex addicts. Kenny is killed after attempting autoerotic asphyxiation, while Kyle and Butters are sent to attend a therapy session for sex addicts. Others at the meeting include Woods and several male celebrities who are part of the recent phenomenon of rich, successful men who have been branded as sex addicts.

When performing an experiment on chimpanzees, the CDC determines that money is somehow responsible for infecting males with the disease. Because an image of Independence Hall appears on the back of a $100 bill, they believe the origins of the disease can somehow be traced there. They submit their findings to President Barack Obama, who reveals that a virus for sex addiction had previously been brought to Earth by extraterrestrials. He orders a SWAT team to raid Independence Hall in search of the "wizard alien" that is responsible for the sex addiction epidemic. Because Kyle both feel that sex addiction is not a disease, but rather a natural male desire that can be kept under control with the proper discipline, others believe that he is somehow immune from the "spell" of the wizard. He is brought to Independence Hall along with Butters and are both given bolt action rifles by the SWAT team, just as the wizard alien reveals itself. Kyle and Butters shoot the wizard alien dead, and its spell over sex addicts is broken. Woods announces he is cured of his sex addiction, and the next incarnation of his video game once again focuses on golf. Cartman and Stan reject the new game, and they proclaim that "golf is stupid again".

Popular Culture References

• Stan and Cartman's video game parodies the Tiger Woods sex scandal
• The Monkey apologizing on his talk show is likely a spoof of David Letterman's confession during The Late Show With David Letterman
• When the idea of an alien in Independence Hall is suggested by Barack Obama, he mentions Independence Day.
• Kenny dies wearing a Batman costume.
• The doctor mentions David Carradine and INXS lead singer Michael Hutchence as examples of autoerotic asphyxiation death

External links

• "Sexual Healing" at SouthParkStudios.com
• "Sexual Healing" at IMDb
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