Leave it to South Park (Wednesdays, 10:00 p.m. ET) to base an entire storyline around a bodily function and elevate it into a political statement.  Yet that is what the program did on the April 1^st episode. This premise is rank enough as it is, but when the bodily function in question is particularly crude, the result is a perfect recipe for being named Worst Cable TV Show of the Week.

The boys of South Park rush home to catch the next installment of flatulent Canadian duo Terence and Philip, whose entire comedic repertoire consists of passing gas.  Instead, their favorite program is pre-empted by the female version of the show – a distinctly female version.  The announcer tells viewers, “The Canada Channel presents the Queef Sisters. Katherine and Katie Queef: two Toronto girls who love shooting air out their vaginas. It's a Queef sisters’ special on Channel Canada.”  The boys watch in horror as the sisters undergo vaginal exams and … ahem … do the Q in their gynecologist’s face. Repeatedly.  The girls at school point out the boys’ apparent hypocrisy.  They love it when Terence and Philip pass gas, but cannot stomach Katherine and Katie’s brand.  When the girls find out that a student can make herself ahem they convince her to do it in Butters’ face. 

With the popularity of Katherine and Katie on the rise, men all over the country are up in arms about the practice.  Women, however, use it as a rallying cry for independence and self expression.  Even Martha Stewart gets into the act.  “Just like most women out there, I’ve really gotten into queefing lately.  There's a lot of fun and interesting ways we can decorate our queefs,” she instructs, “and just make them more dynamic for the holidays.”  The camera pulls back, revealing Martha Stewart squatting on a counter, her pants around her ankles, genitals exposed. Her crotch is blurred.  She goes on, “What we’re gonna do is just cut out some paper like this. Cut out little stars, little moon shapes.  We’re gonna just jam those up.”  She inserts the cut-outs into her vagina.  “And then put some simple little sparkles from the hobby store ‘cause they come in a little tube which make them very easy to just shoot right up the old...there we are.”  After Martha finishes inserting items into her orifice, she passes gas, shooting confetti and sparkles into the air.  She concludes, “See how pretty that was?  It’s a good thing.” 

Meanwhile, Terence and Philip start dating their rivals Katie and Katherine.  But it’s a volatile mix (and not just the gaseous type).  Terrence (completely naked) yells at Katie, “You stupid bitch. What the [bleeped ‘f***’] is wrong with you?”  Katie throws a vase, which misses Terrence. She wears sexy underwear, a thong with the maple leaf on front. 

“I'm not your sex toy, you [bleeped ‘f***ing’] pig!” she responds.

“You don't queef in bed while we're having sex!” Terence demands.

Katie curses back, “[Bleeped ‘F***’] you. You don't [bleeped ‘f***ing’] slap me.”

The lights come on, exposing Phillip and Katie in bed together, mid-coitus.  Philip asks, “Could you please keep it down?  We're trying to have sex over here.”

Terrence explains, “She queefed while we were having sex.”

“Sick.” Philip adds.

“What's the big deal?” Katherine wonders, “I've been queefing in this bed the entire time.”

“What?” Philip screams, “Gross!”

Phillip slaps Katherine and Katherine punches Phillip.

Eventually, the Colorado state Senate bans the practice outright, prompting Stan’s mother to deliver a ridiculous speech about double standards and gender inequality. 

Critics love to heap praise onto this show, lauding it for its biting social satire.  But one little speech doesn’t make up for an entire episode of denigrating women.  And behind whatever thinly-veiled social commentary, this episode is just an excuse to make fart jokes … no matter where they come from. 

For an incessant barrage of offensive humor about a single bodily function South Park has been named Worst Cable TV Show of the Week.