Taming Strange

"Taming Strange" is the fifth episode in the seventeenth season of the American animated television series South Park.

When informed by someone off camera that this is wrong, the Canadian Minister of Health confronts his wife over the fact that she once explained to him that she queefed in his face for this reason.

Foofa shocks the others when she agrees with this, saying that she wishes to play to adult audiences and add sex appeal to her persona.

As soon as Conners sits down, however, Mackey excoriates her for failing to take responsibility for the malfunctioning system that she has only just been placed in charge of and fires her.

Meanwhile, Foofa and her new manager, Ike, have been cultivating a new, adult image for her and plan for her to give a raunchy performance at the MTV Video Music Awards.

When Mackey reluctantly accepts this, the engineer removes all the Intellilink hardware and software from the building and burns it, before pulling out a pistol and shooting himself in the head.

Realizing Kyle is right, Ike tells Foofa that while rebellion is part of growing up, he would rather let it happen naturally instead of pushing it.

In South Park, Kyle is happy to see that the effects of Ike's early puberty have faded and that he has returned to normal.

Series co-creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone called this episode one of their favorites from season seventeen, mainly because it contains a large amount of the Canadian humor that has been featured prominently throughout South Park's history, an example of which is the character "Fancy Fwend", so called in the script but only identified as the Canadian health minister's friend in the episode itself.

Club's Marcus Gilmer awarded the episode a grade of B−, summarizing his review with: "Despite some good laughs, it wastes a great premise by trying to do too much.