In 13 seasons, "South Park" has evolved from the potty-mouthed extremism of the early days into the sharpest-minded piece of satire available on television. Season number 14 kicked off on Wednesday night (March 17) with a take on one of the biggest media stories of the past few months: Tiger Woods. The episode, called "Sexual Healing," sharply sent up the storm of opinion and moralizing the crept up around the revelation that the legendary golfer had a series of extra-marital affairs, leading to an embarrassing incident involving a car accident and a closely-examined public apology. With the recent news that Woods would be returning to the golf course for the Masters in a few weeks, the timing could not have been better.

The main story thread saw most everybody in America (including Barack Obama) trying to stamp out sex addiction. They begin with a scientific experiment involving a chimp, a handful of cash and a whole lot of humping, and by the end of the episode the military is raiding Independence Hall in Philadelphia in search of the alien (who is also a wizard) responsible for infecting the male population with the urge to constantly have sex. It was on-the-nose while still being clever, which is a balance that the makers of "South Park" have mastered brilliantly.

While not all of the gags worked (why was Butters obsessed with pubic hair again?), the jokes mostly landed, and the speech given by the soldier at the end did a nice job at introducing some level-headed pragmatism to the proceedings. In one of the episode's most cutting scenes, Woods attends a sex addiction support group with David Letterman, Bill Clinton, David Duchovny, Charlie Sheen and a host of other celebrities with problematic private lives.