South Park has always been adept at combining fringe plotlines with the absurd to create some truly silly episodes. This is one of those episodes, and while certainly not the best mash-up of these sort of sensibilities, it’s still a lot of fun. The boys are off in the mindset that conquering in Magic: the Gathering is pretty much the manliest thing you can do, which isn’t given much context other than the fact that these are young boys. When their needs still aren’t sated, they’re sent on a quest to do “hardcore dude shit” which ends up leading them to the basement of City Wok to watch some true, manly carnage: watching a bunch of roosters play Magic: the Gathering. There’s also actually a much larger issue at hand here with cock magic, where roosters are being forced to play Magic against their will, in a sweeping epidemic that is ruining the town. The boys don’t know what they’re getting into. It’s kind of wonderful to hear Magic jargon and RPG lingo thrown about over shots of roosters staring intently at each other. It’s a lot of stupid fun, even if it this entire thing is all predicated off of a childish joke. It almost feels like this thing was designed out of a dare of doing something with “cock magic,” and this probably pulls as much as you can from the limited idea. Meanwhile, Randy attempts to help the boys with cock magic, taking it in a very different direction, in what just feels like a very funny digression, but ends up being a welcome B-story that fills a good deal of screen time fortunately. The cock magic trend that’s spreading in town reignites the flames of Randy’s genital skill that got him kicked out of college. All of this material, particularly his performance at a child’s sixth birthday party, is exceptional stuff and one of the better Randy plots in awhile in my opinion. Like us on Facebook and follow us on Twitter for all news updates related to the world of geek. And Google+, if that’s your thing!
