A Colorado man, Gary Brooks Faulkner, has taken the hunt for Osama bin Laden into his own hands, and in his pursuit was arrested crossing from Pakistan into the nearby Afghan province of Nuristan.  The Associated Press reports he was arrested with a pistol, 40-inch sword, night-vision gear, a dager and some hashish.  His brother, Dr. Scott Faulkner, who lives in Colorado told CNN, "My brother is not crazy.  He is highly intelligent and loves his country and has not forgotten what Osama has done to this country."  The crazy part of this whole ordeal is that, according to his sister, Deanna Faulkner, his kidneys are failing and that he needs dialysis.  She told the New York Daily News, "He only has 9 percent kidney function, and the only thing that can cure him is a transplant," she told the Daily News. "He needs dialysis three times a week.

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The fun thing about South Park episodes is that they’re offensive—usually so tastelessly so that it makes easily offended people pretty ticked off, normal people sometimes offended (or at least say, “Hey now, that’s not right,” in a mildly offended tone)—and the rest of us freaking crack up. Here are ten of the most offensive songs of South Park.

10. “Kyle’s Mom is a Stupid B****”

This is one of those songs that can get stuck in your head all day if you hear it. I actually think that maybe that is why it’s so offensive, moreso than the lyrics themselves…!

9. “Honey, Babe, Be Mine”

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Sometimes when I'm watching South Park, I feel like a practical joke is being played on a nation full of viewers. About ten minutes into "Crippled Summer" I realized that I was sitting through a half hour parody of cheesy 80's summer camp movies reimagined as a cavalcade of mentally handicapped characters... only not. The layers of silliness in this episode are actually deeper than anything else over its entire run. I don't know if it was out of an uncharacteristic set of reservations Parker and Stone might have had about depicting retarded characters or if it was just a late-period indulgence, but they opted to turn all of the kids at, sigh, Camp Tardicaca into references to old cartoons. I don't care what anyone says, something was being smoked in the writer's room when this episode came across the idea board.

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So, did Matt Stone and Trey Parker actually make another episode featuring Muhammed with a big, anti-censorship speech at the end, or did they make one, long free speech satire? Pop over to the South Park Studios website and you'll get an equally ambiguous message about them not being able to stream their "uncensored" version of the episode "201". I wouldn't put it beyond those guys to play such a massive practical joke. They've certainly pulled off bigger pranks in the past. If Comedy Central did in fact censor large chunks of the episode, then we truly are living in an absurd era. Also, should South Park Studios get the opportunity to webcast the potentially mythical uncut version, it'll be another nail in the coffin of television as a viable medium. TV with its reliance on big-name sponsors and corporate committee thinking is on the wrong side of the free speech debate, which in a just society wouldn't be a debate at all. Yet here we are, watching a bunch of cartoon characters doing excessively silly things next to a man-sized censorship box while spouting bleeps covering up the most common name in the entire world.

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When a show has been on for a really long time, it's probably doing more service to its long-standing fans than to newcomers. Even shows like South Park that have no obligation to continuity whatsoever get more mileage out of giving existing fans the nod of an inside joke than they do by coddling the uninitiated. So, when Trey Parker and Matt Stone saw that they were coming up on their 200th episode, they ultimately decided to reward those who have stuck with the series from the very beginning. This week's episode is primarily a series of references to various points across the show's history, but it goes a little farther than that.

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A surefire way to screw something up is to try too hard. More and more often, this seems to be what kills an episode of South Park. Rather than play to the show's strengths (crude humor, unique shock value, attention to detail), a bad episode spends all of its energy focusing on its premise, even when that premise isn't very good to begin with. This is the TV equivalent of going to a restaurant where the chef emerges from the kitchen to describe the merits of the food he cooks, only neglecting to actually let you eat any of it. It's hard to describe South Park as being lazy, exactly. It's still visually impressive, well-acted and even strangely affecting, but the ideas themselves end up falling short too frequently these days.

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One thing I've always appreciated about South Park is that it allows me to say that I've seen incredible, unusual things. From the very first episode this has been true. Back then we who watched the show could say, "Last night I saw a giant satellite dish grow out of some kid's ass", and it has only gotten weirder since. This week, fans of the show can say, "Last night I saw a parade of middle-aged men smoking pot while bouncing down the street on their gigantic testicles". Even more amazing is the fact that this sentence refers to a moment of cogent social commentary.

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Last week, the latest season of South Park opened with a fairly mediocre episode that tried far too hard to make cutting social satire. The problem is that it was too topical and it focused on a theme about which most people, frankly, wouldn't disagree. The average viewer, especially those who tune in to Comedy Central, isn't going to come down on the pro-celebrity side when it comes to rich, powerful people have illicit affairs. In this week's episode, Parker and Stone concentrated more on a long-lasting cultural moor with a heavy helping of the limit-pushing intensity that makes this show good. This also lent a significant bit of meta commentary on the role of South Park itself in our society.

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What actually constitutes a season of South Park? Trey Parker and Matt Stone's hit animated series has been going for fourteen straight seasons, but it takes an MIT theoretical physics team to come up with an equation for when we can expect new episodes. The 13th season supposedly ended a few months ago and this week we got the premiere of the next. The only indication that we're looking at new material is that the story in "Sexual Healing" is more outdated than the usual lickety-split response of your average episode of South Park. After fourteen seasons, if this episode is the best the folks at South Park Studios can do, maybe it's time to consider whether or not a fifteenth is worth the effort.

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Has it really been 200 episodes already? Wait—has it only been 200 episodes? Either way, on April 14, the newest episode of South Park will hit the 200 mark, proving to people everywhere that potty mouth language, toilet humor, and badly-drawn cartoons can provide long-lasting entertainment for the masses for much longer than anyone could have anticipated.

In honor of the 200th mark, South Park studios is hosting a big online congratulations party for Matt Stone and Trey Parker, creators of South Park, as well as the rest of the South Park crew who makes the show happen each week. They’re inviting fans from all over the globe to take part and submit in a photo, video, or other representation of what South Park means to them.

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