The Cissy
Randy has a secret. Eric becomes "Erica" in order to use the girls' bathroom.
LIGHT SPOILERS
I was worried after the mostly
miss last season and the weak start to this new season and I was litterally on an episode-to-episode basis of considering to drop it if one more bad one comes by, 'cause I don't want a repeat of last season and I have other things I could be doing.
Thankfully since the last one was pretty good, I stuck around for
"The Cissy".
This was excellent. This is as close to the series I knew and loved years ago, as we've gotten in two or three years now. Mind you it's not completely as spot on, but damn near it. It's well written, no wasted scenes, everything ties together, and the plot device Trey and Stone have been using whereby the episodes continue on from the last to the next, not only worked but it drove the plot in a hilarious and disturbingly belivable way for Randy.
Eric's plan backfires and works against him, touching on the news stories in the last year and-a-half of certain schools allowing kids of the opposing gender to use the other gender's bathroom if they identify as the other gender. And this episode leaves open the possibility to do something with Wendy's character that could lead to good results.
I don't want to spoil Randy's secret, but let's just say he's got a side gig.
I don't know what film the show's composer,
Jamie Dunlap, was parodying (it's obvious something is being parodied), but the score was grating sometimes.
I gave the episode an eight-star rating on IMDb, 'cause it deserved it.
Wendy: "What the hell do you think you're doing?" [to Cartman, who has entered the girls' bathroom]
Eric: "I'm going to the potty."
Wendy: "This is the girls' bathroom!"
Eric: "All right, I need to tell you something, Wendy: I'm transginger."
Wendy: "What?!"
Eric: "Did you notice the bow? I'm not comfortable with the sex I was assigned at birth so I'm exercising my right to identify with the gender of my choice, now get out of my way I have to take a shit."
