“South Park” Cheats Clavicular, Looksmaxxing and Sephora in Season Climax Episode

Ike Enters Halo-Style Battle, Stan Gets Lost in the Back Room and Randy Gets a Facelift

The newest South Park continues the Comedy Central animated series' return after its highly political run in 2025, this time with a plot built around South Park Elementary's newest trend: halo battles. The 22-minute satire also pokes fun at beauty retailer Sephora, the hit horror film Backrooms and the hot-look trend, while including several callbacks to longtime fans.

The season 29 episode, "You Like Your Face?", opens with Kyle's adopted younger brother, Ike Broflosky, in a school aura fight. The Canadian tyke has a knack for the usual petite public display and soon runs into the school's top cutie, Chad, who happens to look a lot like (and share the same attitude with) a very attractive, scandalous clavicle face.

"South Park" deals with halo battles in the midseason episode

"South America" in the new episode is literally big tech billionaires.

Meanwhile, Sephora has the town's pre-teen girls in a tizzy. When Stan and Wendy arrive, the store is packed, and he quickly loses her in the crowd of screaming kids at the flashy makeup counter, where the clerks apply cream to the girls' faces and ask the question that gives the episode its title. It's crude, and feels inorganic in the scene, but damn, it made me laugh, even when the gag later came back for a second round.

Searching for Wendy deep inside the Sephora store, Stan watches his surroundings go from off to off, Avalanche the hell out of him. Yes, she's wandered into a Backrooms parody and ends up pissing off the store's big bad: an older makeup girl who chases the young heroes, gun-toting face cream and splattering everything in sight a few feet below, as they flee Sephora, perhaps forever.

Meanwhile, Randy Marsh, Stan's ever-adventurous father, decides to pay attention to this craze for a unique look and have his face rated by users. His low score makes him feel very bad. After a few quick shopping sprees at you-know-where, Randy undergoes a quick and dramatic transformation, looking like he's in fourth grade and soon roaming around South Park Elementary, where Aura War madness is everything. It is so strong that in one contact, Butters is seen during his aura battle with Faith Hilling.

As the nauseating and perhaps watery episode of the season comes to a close, it looks like Halle Ike's battle will end in defeat. Lil Randy then arrives and, in an act of violence that many viewers have been waiting for, beats the crap out of Chad, who again is a

"Sorry, I thought it was South America!" Lil Randy screams repeatedly as he is taken out, a great ending to a great episode.