South Park took a winding road to find a funny, gratifying end. If somewhere along the way you drifted off into an Inception -like trance, I don’t blame you. South Park bends the means of the Oculus as a way to enter broader virtual reality - melding the trippy storytelling of Inception with the rules of Total Recall and The Matrix. The Oculus Rift –a virtual reality headset with 3D gaming capability–is a real product in development and is currently on pre-order. Those are some of the classic episodes in South Park ’s canon and “Grounded Vindaloop” fits the mold. The Nintendo Wii, Okama Gamesphere, PSP, Xbox One and PS4 all brought us crazy adventures. Matt and Trey seem to find some of their best inspiration from the video game world. We find out it has been Stan with the Oculus on the whole time and when he takes off the headset, the scene ends with the boys as live-action characters. Stotch, Butters, Cartman, Kyle and Kenny disappear. Stan finally agrees and computer versions of Mr. Steve the Oculus guy asks if the service is up to par. They find a grounded Butters who says they’ve been taking turns with the Oculus and he went too far with it (safe to assume he was actually stabbed by a hooker). Steve the Oculus guy tells them that Butters first called customer service. They’re all stuck in a Customer Service “Vindaloop” as they call it in India. That isn’t the case because Cartman says he’s sure he’s a computer. Now Kenny is in the Oculus and Kyle suggests they’ve all been taking turns with the headset from the beginning. Cartman says he was the one sent to convince him it was real (Confusion sets in). Kyle (in what we can assume is an alternate reality after he puts on the headset) pays a visit to Cartman. Steve says there’s been a “total recall” of the headsets and Kyle will have to go into the virtual reality to wake Cartman up. The boys visit Cartman’s room only to find him in Oculus glasses passed out. Butters then calls Kyle to him that he’s been grounded and he doesn’t know why. Cartman then pays a visit to Butters warning him that they’re in a virtual reality. Then Cartman gets a call from Steve the Oculus guy who says Cartman is the one in a virtual reality (OK, this all makes sense so far). Cartman finds Eric in his room, passed out with real Oculus glasses on (we can assume this is reality and everything preceding it therefore didn’t happen). Butters gets stabbed by a hooker (What else is new?). Rarely do we recap shows, especially South Park, but this episode was madness:Ĭartman tries to trick Butters (It works).
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