Wednesday night marked the premier for South Park’s 15th season. For an avid fan that has watched the show since the first episode, (I still remembering watching TV and seeing commercials for the very first episode and thinking it looked odd but I would give it a chance) and I must say, this episode really concerned me. As an avid fan, I’ve always enjoyed that South Park repeatedly pushes the envelope. I think we as Americans have far too much censorship on our Television shows the way it is; so it always makes me smile to see them attempt to push through this bubble that American parents have created.

Let’s take Wednesdays episode for example. If you’ve seen The Human Centipede then you already know a great deal about South Park’s newest episode. In this episode, Apple and Steve Jobs are attempting to create their best and most flawless version of their technology ever by attempting to create a human/machine hybrid. They have taken three victims, Kyle, a Japanese man and a woman who have all unwillingly agreed to allow Apple to use them as test subjects by accepting their Terms of Service (ToS) when they downloaded the newest version of iTunes.

This is where it gets messed up and if you’ve seen the Human Centipede then you know what’s coming. Apples thought is to take these three humans and perform surgery on them by removing two of their mouths and sewing them together from ass to mouth, creating a three person human centipede. The Japanese man has an iPhone attached to his head (through the use of magic and tape) while the woman has an iPad attached to her ass, which leaves poor Kyle in the middle.

Now for me, after watching this episode I had to think back to the last two-part episode South Park did featuring Muhammad. They argued with the network that they should be allowed the right to Free Speech and able to express their artistic value and that we shouldn’t give in to threats and censorship. In the final scenes where the boys are expressing their thought on the matter to certain officials was almost the exact same argument Matt Stone and Trey Parker had with the Comedy Central executives. So it really makes you wonder how messed up our American censorship is that they wouldn’t allow one image of a particular person, but they let the showing of three people, sewn together as we watched one man shit into a little boys mouth, who then passed that along to the woman.

American Television. Gotta love it!