Yes, “South Park”’s season premiere tonight –on the way to parodying “The Swan” and all that- actually began with a direct homage to “Myra Breckinridge.” I didn’t just imagine it. Though I suppose I’m part of about .0001% of the show’s audience that got that. Andrew Sullivan probably is too.
“West Wing” was even better- the sort of political-gamesmanship episode that they do best. But my favorite part of all was Ray Wise (Leland from “Twin Peaks”) as the governor of California. It was one thing for Schwarzenegger to get elected to that office after all the groping stuff, but we’re supposed to think a man can win an election after he killed Laura Palmer?
Posted by Stephen Silver at March 9, 2005 11:03 PM