This episode will be very highly reviewed by fans of South Park who have been watching from the beginning. This episode felt like an older episode of South Park, not parodying anything in particular and relying on the characters, along with a funny plot.
In this hilarious episode, the boys manage to steal a list of their rankings from cutest to ugliest from the girls. When Kyle finds that he is last on the list, after Cartman, he becomes depressed and begins to hang out with the ugly kids. Meanwhile, Stan and Wendy try to find how this could have happened, and find a huge conspiracy. Not that this should have any effect on my rating of this episode, but it felt like an old episode in so many ways. Stan (along with Wendy) and Kyle had the main plots, while Cartman, Kenny and Butters had a sub-plot at the beginning of the episode, so all the boys have screen time. Kenny, after nearly 40 episodes, finally does die again, in one of his most hilarious deaths. This episode finally felt like it was about the boys, and they didn't just throw them in to make a viewpoint. I think the main thing that this episode had, that has been missing from almost the entire eleventh season, is the innocence of a child.
Humor can be just as funny mixed with emotion as it is in non-stop ripping on someone or something else.
My rating: **** out of ****. TVMA 22 mins.