Review
| - So if anything, “Tweek x Craig” is critical not of homophobia, but of something much more general, something that’s become the target of many, many South Park episodes since the show first aired: following a trend without doing the research. The only reason anyone thinks Tweek and Craig are gay in the first place is because of the aforementioned erotica, which gets drawn by a bunch of Asian schoolgirls simply because they think the two boys are cute. There’s no logical reasoning behind any of it other than the girls’ own sexual quirks, but that doesn’t stop everyone from taking the romance seriously. And that central joke—an entire community buying into something that’s so untrue and so silly—is a hallmark of South Park if there ever was one. The plot of “Tweek x Craig” isn’t as scathing as it is universal and observant, its lightness also making room for one of the funnier and odder Cartman storylines we’ve seen in quite some time.
- Suffice to say, Tumblr will be aflutter this week, as South Park got about as close to confirming the Craig/Tweek ship as they'll ever get in tonight's episode. Of course, we knew that was never actually going to be the case, but it still made for a fun -- and funny -- episode, along with a surprisingly enjoyable Cartman/Cupid Me storyline.
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