Leave it to Matt and Trey to turn a presidential election into Ocean’s 11.

The worst part about the preceding?  I’m SERIOUS.  That’s the worst part about it.  South Park actually turned the presidential election into Ocean’s 11.

For those of you who missed it, let me recap:  John McCain and Barack Obama were, unbeknownst to the rest of us, part of a team of master jewel thieves that included Sarah Palin (who actually wasn’t the bubblehead everyone thought her to be) and Michelle Obama (not actually married to Barack!), and they were in the middle of an extremely long term plot to steal the Hope Diamond.

They planned to fight a long and brutal campaign, insuring that Obama’s Democratic base would celebrate raucously into the night and McCain’s Republican base would wind up suicidal and paranoid.  This ensured that the country would be distracted for eight solid hours following Obama’s planned election.

They continued on until we discovered that they had a man on the inside of a coroner’s organization–well, I won’t spoiler that one because it’s just TOO DAMN FUNNY FOR WORDS.

Anyway, it was nice to see that some of the gravitas had been pulled out of the whole situation and instead replaced with enormous nodes of funny.  Not even Saturday Night Live (or cohort Mad TV) could react this quickly, and South Park used its first-mover advantage to the utmost.

When I can actually laugh, out loud, at an episode of any TV show, my opinion of it goes up drastically.

I lulz’d.

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