The show was clearly trying to ape “mind-bending” sci-fi films of recent years, and pulled off the spoof quite well. ![]() The reveal that Cartman was in fact in a virtual reality world when he tricked Butters into believing that he was in a virtual reality world was a really smart one, but the best aspect of “Grounded Vindaloop” is the way it just keeps adding on more and more until finally concluding with one final insane note: it felt like more of an episode or Rick and Morty or American Dad than South Park and, once again, I say that in a good way. Granted I would have been totally fine if the whole plot of the episode was Butters being tricked into believing he was in virtual reality when he wasn’t (the first third certainly convinced me there was a ton of funny material to be mined from this set-up), but it didn’t take long for the episode to go firmly off the rails…in a completely awesome way, mind you. It was a pretty awesome set up sure (Butters kicking his father in the balls and getting stabbed by a hooker do to his belief that he was in an Oculus Rift had me in stitches), but I was waiting to see just what the series would do to spice the pot, so to speak. I’ve been saying that pretty much every week for the last three or four episodes sure, but I think that’s a good thing - I thought things started out rather rough, but this second half has been pretty damn great so far, and “Grounded Vindaloop” serves as strong evidence as to why.Īs I broke down in the opening paragraph, the episode starts simply enough: Cartman’s being a dick again, Butter’s is being too innocent, and things go horrible awry. ![]() But man oh man, did “Grounded Vindaloop” turn out to be so much more complicated than I ever expected.Īnd in a way, that’s truly the genius of the episode, which is far and away the best episode I’ve seen of South Park all season. So when “Grounded Vindaloop” began with Butters, and it became quite clear that Cartman was playing a trick on him, I got immediately excited for the episode. Some terrific episodes have been based around Butter’s being naive (“Butter’s Very Own Episode,” “Butter’s Bottom Bitch,”) and even more great episodes have been based around Cartman exploiting his naivety to play dirty tricks on him (“AWESOM-O,” “Casa Bonita”). How great is the character of Butters? I’m not sure he’s my absolute favorite South Park-ee (as I’ve said many a-time, Butters is pretty much tied for the honor with Randy Marsh) but there’s something about his innocent, lovable nature that just makes him a terrific character for the show to play around with.
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