A pretty good one after a couple of mediocre episodes to start the season. The BP (excuse me, DP) stuff is a little dated, but the company was certainly worthy of a takedown. The diagrams of the drills gangbanging the earth and moon was classic.
I also liked the Clockwork Orange riff, which I recognized instantly.
How quick is the production time on one of these shows? Hindsight Man wanted Bret Favre to know he shouldn’t have sent real pics of his penis. Wasn’t that just a couple of weeks ago?
They intentionally keep a very quick turnaround, in part so they can respond to current events stuff like this. I know it isn’t uncommon for them to go from nothing to a finished episode inside of 6 days, and according to a commentary they recorded Woodland Critter Christmas was the fastest episode, clocking in at I believe 36 hours from their settling on a theme to airtime.
(Apparently they were so badly stuck that after a while they just started telling the animation department “Animate some scenes with talking animals” and wrote around those.)
I think that was my favorite part of the entire episode. It took me a second to figure out what they were doing, “I’ve seen that before, I’ve swear I have, those damn eunuch Jezebels. Oh…”
First time I noticed the fast turnaround was Elian Gonzales, the little boy that got snatched out of the closet by the swat team and sent back to Cuba. Happened Easter weekend, was in the South Park episode a few days later.
Actually the fastest turnaround was About Last Night - it aired less than 24 hours after Obama was elected president, and was about Obama being elected president. The stories say that the episode finished building about 90 minutes before it was set to air.