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Mar 31, 2005 Print This Post

//MOOD: Don’t know, really //ITUNES: “Piano Concerto No. 5 in E-Flat major”

It’s ironic that Terri Schiavo has passed away because today I was going to blog about it. Well, not precisely, I was going to blog about Kenny McCormick.

Last night, on South Park they killed Kenny. Twice, actually. Because a day after he died they put him on life support and parodied Terri Schiavo’s situation. In South Park’s usual pointed way, they addressed all the major issues in this case. I appreciated Cartman’s line:

“Your side is wrong for the right reasons. Our side is right for the wrong reasons.”

Then, they read Kenny’s last will, which stated that if he was ever in a persistently vegitative state he did not want to be on national television. That made me think about how unfortunate it is that this woman has become an unknowing pawn on both sides of the fence. It’s also really sad to see how this issue has torn her family to pieces.

I also appreciated South Park’s sub-plot, which was that the angels needed Kenny to defeat Satan in a giant siege on Heaven and they were just about to go to war when his soul was sent back down to Earth. I liked hearing Michael the Archangel say:

“Oh my God, they killed Kenny…again.”