'South Park' Season 15, Episode 11 Recap - 'Broadway Bro Down'

Considering the fact that Trey Parker and Matt Stone won a buttload (that's the technical term) of Tony awards for their musical "The Book of Mormon," it was only a matter of time before they started taking some jabs at Broadway through "South Park."

I'm sure we all remember back when they lost at the Oscars to Phil Collins, right? Same deal, only this time they won.

Thus, the boys showed off their newfound Broadway insider knowledge on last night's "South Park" episode.

The story goes like this: Randy discovers that Broadway musicals are actually filled with subliminal messages planted by the "bros" in charge (Sondheim, Elton John, Andrew Lloyd Weber et al) in order to convince women to give blowjobs to the guy that takes them to the show.

After he takes Sharon on a whirlwind tour of Broadway (naturally), Randy decides to write his own musical to convince women to give out blowjobs on football Sunday. But the Broadway Bros intervene and tell him that his musical, titled "The Spooge-Covered Blowjob Queen," lacks subtext. What? They're crazy.

Meanwhile, a romance is blossoming between Shelley and Larry Feegan, whose parents are vegans. Not only do they make him follow a vegan diet, they also make him wear a life jacket at all times so he doesn't drown. But when Shelley tells them that they should let him make his own choices, he falls immediately in love with her. And he eats a Slim Jim.

Randy's schemes backfire when he finds out that Shelley and Larry have gone to see "Wicked," so he runs there to stop the show. "It's time to put an end to Broadway once and for all" he says, as he puts on a Spider-Man suit and commences swinging all over the theater, knocking people over, opening up a water main, and eventually ending up hanging from the ceiling by his ankle and putting the production into a hold.

Oh, and Larry gets killed in the resulting flood because he wasn't wearing his life jacket. Ha.

So what are they saying here? The Spider-Man reference is obvious: the big-budget, effects-heavy disaster of a show "Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark" may not have been the death of Broadway, but it was close (and nearly killed an actor, too). Were the comments from Lloyd Weber and Sondheim about lacking subtext comparable to feedback the boys may have gotten about their own "Book of Mormon?"

All subtext in this episode aside, the main goal is clear: subliminally convince us that we'll all get blowjobs if we go see "The Book of Mormon" when it tours and comes to our town.