Reviews and commentary on Comedy Central's Ugly Americans

This week, I come back to a series I loved like a brother … or maybe a really weird cousin. It’s ‘Ugly Americans’!

The return of ‘Ugly Americans’ comes with some fantasy parodies, hot camp counselors and unethical mining practices. Basically, everything you remember about summer vacation, right?

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I wish they hadn’t ended such a funny freshman season with this ho-hum episode.

The 2nd-to-last episode of the season gave me an excuse to use the phrase “robot ejaculation”. For that, I’m eternally grateful, but who would have guessed the episode would end on a tender moment?

Every week, I become more and more convinced that ‘Ugly Americans’ deserves its place next to ‘South Park’ on Comedy Central’s Wednesday lineup. While this week’s premise has been done before, the jokes and bits inside the episode tickled me pink … or troll green.

Thanks to ‘Survivor’, CBS took the early lead in the final sweeps event of the season. You can bet that American Idol will have something to say about that next week. Over on cable, why isn’t anyone watching ‘Party Down’?