"Sexual Healing" is the first episode of South Park's fourteenth season.Since the season 13 finale, there have been many events that Trey & Matt could parody.This episode revolvs around Tiger Woods and the affairs he had.The plot of the episode involves people trying to figure out what makes rich men have sex with various women.They test the boys for "sex-addiction"(which is what they think the rich men and celebrities have) by showing them a picture of a naked woman and asking the color of the hakerchief the woman was holding.Kyle, Butters and Kenny do not notice and the men think they show early signs of "sex-addiction".Meanwhile, Stan and Cartman play a video game relating to Tiger Woods fighting his wife, which makes them take an interest in golf games.The episode is a fairly good parody with some hilarious moments, but overall it's nothing special.
6 Reviews
despite what some wannabe critics may think.
teenspirit223 March 2010
I'll keep this short... Despite what some wannabe critics may think south park are still on top of the game. Trey and Matt just say what we all know and think. Tiger woods recent interview after this show aired about his "sex addiction" could not have came out at any better time. I laughed for a good 20 minutes
This show continues to get better with each season, more people should read between the lines a little more and open themselves to whats really going on around you.
Also i really hope they decide to go back to making 16 episodes per season
This show continues to get better with each season, more people should read between the lines a little more and open themselves to whats really going on around you.
Also i really hope they decide to go back to making 16 episodes per season
A masterpiece of a season premiere
at least ¾ of it
RainDogJr1 April 2010
Warning: Spoilers
The recent articles that were post on the South Park Studios site leaved me a couple of thoughts, but not really new thoughts: the guys, Trey Parker and Matt Stone, are hilarious geniuses ("Are you more proud of the fact that "South Park" was briefly banned in Russia, or that an episode was pulled in Mexico because of its depictions of Felipe Calderón and the Mexican flag?" PARKER: "I don't even know where Russia and Mexico are"; "When you first signed on to do "South Park" for Comedy Central, how long did you really think it would last? PARKER: "It's pretty funny, too, because there's tons of interviews, right after its first year, when people asked us, "How long do you think you can do this?" And there were so many times that we would answer back, "Well, it's not like we're going to be doing this when we're 40." I turned 40 in October". STONE: "And I'm almost 40. But we won't be doing it when we're 50". PARKER: "It's not like we're going to be doing it when we're 45") and the new season is going to be freakin' amazing (the 200th episode, with the return of Tom Cruise and some other stars, and "a big Tiger Woods show, sort of a Tiger Woods show that isn't a Tiger Woods show").
Then it came the video clip, the first advance of the season 14 premiere. It reminded us what the guys did on the Obama/McCain 2008 show, but this time the speech was a little different. I think one of the great things about Sexual Healing is that while it was announced as a big Tiger Woods show (I mean, with that first video clip) it is not indeed a Tiger Woods show. The "actual" Tiger Woods only appears like for less than a minute however the way the season premiere begins indicates the contrary, indicates that it is going to be a darn crazy and big Tiger Woods show. So, overall that fact is one of the great things but before going on with the conclusions, I want to point out the amazing things of the first minutes of Sexual Healing. We have the video game thing (the coolest golf video game ever)
Then it came the video clip, the first advance of the season 14 premiere. It reminded us what the guys did on the Obama/McCain 2008 show, but this time the speech was a little different. I think one of the great things about Sexual Healing is that while it was announced as a big Tiger Woods show (I mean, with that first video clip) it is not indeed a Tiger Woods show. The "actual" Tiger Woods only appears like for less than a minute however the way the season premiere begins indicates the contrary, indicates that it is going to be a darn crazy and big Tiger Woods show. So, overall that fact is one of the great things but before going on with the conclusions, I want to point out the amazing things of the first minutes of Sexual Healing. We have the video game thing (the coolest golf video game ever)
Tolerable celebrity-packed start to season 14
Horst_In_Translation2 November 2021
Warning: Spoilers
"Sexual Healing" is the first episode from the fourteenth episode of the long-running television series South Park. I would not say it is one of the best or worst episodes this show has to offer, but you have to give credit to Parker and Stone for still coming up with this level of entertainment and quality after so many years (especially because they are not only in charge of the writing and directing, but also the voicing of many characters, a bit of a two-man show from beginning and very likely until the end) and this even happened over ten years ago if we look at the year 2021 now. Well, fittingly with 2020 and 2021, there is also major focus on a bit of an illness now, but sex addiction is probably not linked to certain viruses. More to money as we are told here in a bizarre experiment that involves apes. The thing that stays in mind the most about this show was a running gag about how golf video games can actually be exciting with the right approach. Kinda funny how EA Sports really went for stories and not just exclusively the game anymore in more recenet releass like FIFA most of all. So a bit of unintentional foreshadowing here. I doubt this was already the case back at the beginning of the previous decade. Anyway, this idea brings Tiger Woods a great deal of screen time here, but as I stated in the title of my review, you will find many other familiar faces here. These include Letterman, Roethlisberger (I will admit I thought it was Reggie Bush because of one quote, I know nothing about American Football), Thornton, Duchovny, Michael Douglas, Bill Clinton etc. You can easily check out the list if you wanna know all the names of famous people struggling with sex addiction back then. It can also be said that it is pretty impressive how nicely they animated these celebrities in here. Easy to identify. We still get the names of those mentioned in something that almost feels like a bit of a list of shame. Oh yeah, Batman is in it too in a pretty bizarre connection to the subject. At least they left David Carradine out though or let's say his name is not mentioned. His unusual death happened less than a year before this episode aired.
On the downside, the inclusion of Obama and this alien wizard did not feel too great for me. Maybe the weakest part of it all and a bit of a pity this story got more screen time as the episode continued. What do we learn from it? Don't get caught. Oh yeah, also a decent episode for Butters (or should I say Bummers?) fans. He is featured a lot in here with the bush mystery from beginning to end. All in all, I enjoyed the watch. Could have been better and could have been worse, but there was not really a moment when I considered giving this a thumbs-down. I mean even the alien wizard part is somewhat saved with the absurdity when there really shows up a creature like this in that very special building. The biggest strengths were elsewhere though for example when we see the class sitting there so innocently staring at the one performing this handkerchief experiment. Or also with the golf video game how it bores the kids again in the end and it's also always these small moments with which Parker and Stone shine with their creativity, the small comments and quotes like how one character found something specific in the water level or how a pre-nup (somehow I thought wrongly it was "pren-up") can make for a good laugh. Or how over 90% of teenagers are about to become sex addicts, again according to this experiment. Oh yeah, final note: Kenny dies in here too once again and for once he is wearing something other than his usual orange outfit there. Still, you cannot really see his face as usual. Tough moment for Batman fans maybe. Go watch it if you like South Park. If you got to season 14, then you don't really need a recommendation from me though even if this is also a fairly decent watch if it is the first ever episode you see from this seemingly endless show. No need for chronology.
On the downside, the inclusion of Obama and this alien wizard did not feel too great for me. Maybe the weakest part of it all and a bit of a pity this story got more screen time as the episode continued. What do we learn from it? Don't get caught. Oh yeah, also a decent episode for Butters (or should I say Bummers?) fans. He is featured a lot in here with the bush mystery from beginning to end. All in all, I enjoyed the watch. Could have been better and could have been worse, but there was not really a moment when I considered giving this a thumbs-down. I mean even the alien wizard part is somewhat saved with the absurdity when there really shows up a creature like this in that very special building. The biggest strengths were elsewhere though for example when we see the class sitting there so innocently staring at the one performing this handkerchief experiment. Or also with the golf video game how it bores the kids again in the end and it's also always these small moments with which Parker and Stone shine with their creativity, the small comments and quotes like how one character found something specific in the water level or how a pre-nup (somehow I thought wrongly it was "pren-up") can make for a good laugh. Or how over 90% of teenagers are about to become sex addicts, again according to this experiment. Oh yeah, final note: Kenny dies in here too once again and for once he is wearing something other than his usual orange outfit there. Still, you cannot really see his face as usual. Tough moment for Batman fans maybe. Go watch it if you like South Park. If you got to season 14, then you don't really need a recommendation from me though even if this is also a fairly decent watch if it is the first ever episode you see from this seemingly endless show. No need for chronology.
A pretty weak start to the season!
TOMNEL21 March 2010
Over the past seven seasons, South Park has shortened their number of episodes to fourteen per season, with a split in the middle, making only seven at a time. That gives these guys half a year to make seven South Park episodes, each episode taking less than a week to make, and even with that amount of time, they still bring us more duds now than ever. This weeks episode is perhaps one of the worst episodes Trey and Matt have ever produced.
Tiger Woods is the celeb being satirized this week. Scientists are shocked when they find that several male celebrities have been sleeping with other women, when they have perfectly fine women at home. They decide to check if the reason behind this is something in the water or food, so they test the kids at South Park Elementary for sex addiction, and find Kyle, Butters and Kenny are addicted to sex. After Kenny passes away due to his addiction, Kyle and Butters go to sex addiction therapy with several celebrities. Chaos ensues as all the secrets come out about the supernatural truth behind the sex addiction.
This episode is short on being funny, and full of being stupid and annoying. Some critics praised a high point of the episode being Butters's sudden fascination with a certain area of hair on a woman. This was perhaps one of the most annoying running gags, and made Butters almost intolerable in this episode, with his constant shouting and one set mind. The Tiger Woods video game that is being played throughout, starts as an amusing gag, but is brought back for so many jokes it grows very repetitive.
The twist at the end of an episode can make or break an episode, but usually due to the strong quality of the rest of the episode, the ending doesn't completely mar the episode. This was a bad episode, and the ending was so utterly ridiculous, and though it does have a message, it's a dumb one.
Watching this episode brings back flashbacks of watching the awful mid-season premiere "The China Probrem", and sitting there in silence. This is probably the worst episode since that one. Hopefully Trey and Matt and the other staff writers can come up with some quality episodes this season.
My rating: * 1/2 out of ****. 30 mins. TV MA-L
*Kenny's death was a small highlight in the episode, as it was one of his funniest and more surprising deaths. Kudos for that.
Tiger Woods is the celeb being satirized this week. Scientists are shocked when they find that several male celebrities have been sleeping with other women, when they have perfectly fine women at home. They decide to check if the reason behind this is something in the water or food, so they test the kids at South Park Elementary for sex addiction, and find Kyle, Butters and Kenny are addicted to sex. After Kenny passes away due to his addiction, Kyle and Butters go to sex addiction therapy with several celebrities. Chaos ensues as all the secrets come out about the supernatural truth behind the sex addiction.
This episode is short on being funny, and full of being stupid and annoying. Some critics praised a high point of the episode being Butters's sudden fascination with a certain area of hair on a woman. This was perhaps one of the most annoying running gags, and made Butters almost intolerable in this episode, with his constant shouting and one set mind. The Tiger Woods video game that is being played throughout, starts as an amusing gag, but is brought back for so many jokes it grows very repetitive.
The twist at the end of an episode can make or break an episode, but usually due to the strong quality of the rest of the episode, the ending doesn't completely mar the episode. This was a bad episode, and the ending was so utterly ridiculous, and though it does have a message, it's a dumb one.
Watching this episode brings back flashbacks of watching the awful mid-season premiere "The China Probrem", and sitting there in silence. This is probably the worst episode since that one. Hopefully Trey and Matt and the other staff writers can come up with some quality episodes this season.
My rating: * 1/2 out of ****. 30 mins. TV MA-L
*Kenny's death was a small highlight in the episode, as it was one of his funniest and more surprising deaths. Kudos for that.
Going, Going, Gone...
bowakawa26 March 2010
When you think about South Park, you think about the shocking laughs and controversies it has had over the season; but you also think about the sort of, touch it used to have. I mean it obviously wasn't touching but it made you grow to feel for the show.
I think South Park started to lose its touch in season 9, that was kind of were there was no more magic in the air. Season 10 did kind of strike back, but the last three have been utter cop outs.
If this is what is to be left of South Park, and if it goes the way of the Simpsons, i will not watch, not because of lack or interest, i think i will not be able to do it with season 1-8 in mind.
I think South Park started to lose its touch in season 9, that was kind of were there was no more magic in the air. Season 10 did kind of strike back, but the last three have been utter cop outs.
If this is what is to be left of South Park, and if it goes the way of the Simpsons, i will not watch, not because of lack or interest, i think i will not be able to do it with season 1-8 in mind.
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