Review: South Park “A History Channel Thanksgiving”

After watching a Thanksgiving special on The History Channel, the boys believe that aliens were involved in the original feast.  But, questions remain… was the first Thanksgiving dinner haunted?  Is alien technology responsible for stuffing?  The truth could change Thanksgiving for everyone.

Spoilers Below

So have you guys seen the movie Thor? Well if you are one of five people out there that haven’t here’s the rundown for that movie. Odin runs a world called Asgard and they are at a bitter war with the Frost Giants who keep trying to take back their sacred casket. Thor tries to intervene to settle their dispute but gets banished to Earth where he wakes up, gets hit by a car driven by Natalie Portman, shows her a map of his world, and then goes back.

Well this week’s South Park did an outstanding job of ripping this premise off. But, instead of Thor, replace him with an alien Pilgrim from outer space, who comes from a world that houses stuffing mines at the behest of the Native America Indians who have their own planet and are trying to steal all the universe’s stuffing.  And, just like Thor he is hit by a truck driven by Natalie Portman, but instead of being found by S.H.I.E.L.D. they are found by the History Channel and brought into custody.

Why the History Channel you ask? Well, after the kids are given an assignment to study the culmination of the first Thanksgiving, Cartman thinks of a brilliant idea to just watch The History Channel because as he puts it “is probably playing Thanksgiving specials backtoback! We can learn everything we need!” Naturally, the History Channel gets wind of their book reports and for some reason think the info the kids got from their specials, counts as personal experiences. Stan Marsh is then interviewed as a history expert but the one that gets me is Kyle the Devry Institute grad/Professor of Thanksgiving.  During Kyles interview, he says that aliens were the Indians which causes The History Channel to go into a full-fledged investigation which is how they end up with Thor-pilgrim.

As expected, all the stuffing is taken, so the only way to get Thor-pilgrim back is to travel through the worm-hole which turns out to be Natalie Portman’s pussy. Nice!

What can I say? This week’s episode speaks for itself and is an instant classic. They say comedy hurts and this one definitely did for a couple reasons. 1) I was a fan of the Thor movie 2) I am a DeVry grad(although they had a point) 3) I watch the History channel but I do hate the Ancient Aliens show. Having said all this, I was in tears the entire episode and I think this may be the one that gets the Emmy nod. The History Channel definitely needed a reality-check and it was delivered ten-fold.  Now, if you’ll excuse me, I’m off to a DeVry alumni dinner where they will be serving  Stove-Top stuffing, and they will be showing a Pawn Stars marathon(gotta love that Chum Lee!)