During the camp talent show, Nathan rigs Jimmy's ukulele with a charge of C-4 and sets it to explode when Jimmy plays his solo. Mimsy repeatedly misunderstands Nathan's instructions, resulting in Nathan falling victim to his own sabotages: nearly being bitten by a venomous black mamba placed in his team's canoe, falling victim to an attack by a hostile Indian tribe living near the campsite after following the wrong map, and being anally raped by a shark that responds to a mating call whistle. This sub-plot is also narrated in the same style as Intervention. Meanwhile, at the summer camp, young bully Nathan and his dimwitted lackey Mimsy plot to sabotage Jimmy Valmer's team during the athletic competitions so Nathan can win the camp championship. ![]() Later, Towelie reveals he has completed rehab and is now living with his girlfriend and son. Towelie refuses their pleas until Butters reveals he has brought Towelie's child, "Washcloth", which finally prompts him to accept the offer to go to a rehabilitation clinic in Rancho Palos Verdes, California. Cartman instead reads a long collection of anti-Semitic remarks, infuriating Kyle Broflovski, but the interventionist allows him to continue without interruption until he is finished. All the boys except Eric Cartman confront Towelie and plead with him to enter treatment for his addictions. However, Towelie persists in drug use and fellating strangers in the supply closet, and is fired by the camp. The boys help him get a job at Lake Tardicaca, a summer camp for kids with physical and mental disabilities, as a towel to dry off the campers. His life continues in a downward spiral, leaving him in heavy debt and offering oral sex to strangers for money in the alleys. Having run out of money for hard drugs, Towelie starts getting high off of cans of computer duster. He previously had a girlfriend named Rebecca and conceived a child with her (a washcloth), but he was kicked out of their home due to his persistently getting high. ![]() Towelie's history is shown, using interview clips and on-screen captions (in a parody of Intervention), starting with years of drug addiction to cannabis, crystal meth, heroin and crack. The drug addiction of Towelie, a living and talking towel, is growing so overwhelming that the South Park boys make attempts to help him. ![]() According to Nielsen Media Research, "Crippled Summer" was seen by 3.56 million viewers, making it the most watched cable show of the night, and outperforming even some prime time network shows that evening. "Crippled Summer" received positive reviews, though some commentators expressed disappointment that the episode did not respond to the controversies surrounding the show's depictions of Muhammad in the previous episodes, " 200" and " 201". ![]() Several of the disabled children in "Crippled Summer" are made to resemble characters from the Looney Tunes cartoon series, including Elmer Fudd, Beaky Buzzard, Sylvester the Cat, Pete Puma, and Porky Pig, as well as non-Looney Tunes characters Droopy and Fat Albert. Parker and fellow co-creator Matt Stone originally planned an Intervention parody around Towelie for the tenth season episode " A Million Little Fibers", but those plans were eventually scrapped. The story of Towelie's addiction is presented as a parody of the reality series Intervention. The episode was written and directed by series co-creator Trey Parker, and was rated TV-MA L in the United States. In the episode, the South Park children try to help Towelie overcome his drug addiction, while Nathan and his lackey Mimsy plot to destroy Jimmy during athletic competitions at a summer camp for disabled children. It originally aired on Comedy Central in the United States on April 28, 2010. " Crippled Summer" is the seventh episode of the fourteenth season of the American animated television series South Park, and the 202nd overall episode of the series.
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