"We will name him Sparkles."

You can thank me for your nightmares later.

In the hours following the election, both McCain and Obama delivered stirring speeches about the importance of unity and national healing. However, neither of those speeches hold a candle to the absofuckinglutely BRILLIANT South Park episode that aired twenty-four hours later. Which, believe it or not, was all about delivering a message of unity and national healing.

Seriously, I'm still blown away by the fact that Parker and Stone managed to make a hilarious episode entirely about John McCain and Barack Obama, without once ever actually mocking either McCain or Obama. Plus the ending was so beautiful. They slammed that one right out of the park.

In other news, Soul Eater continues to have the most unique and expressive animation on Japanese television this year. (Yes, even better than Kaiba.) The fact that this shows through in spades even during an action-less, purely character-development episode is somewhat astounding.