Flash forward a dozen years, give or take, and a now grown up Matt works an office job, hungry for approval and yearning to fit in as the inner politics of Don Dorx’s company begin to shift from foods to the mobile market. It’s through Dorx Mobile that Tim and Eric share a cute cameo as themselves here—a rarity for the series—with them acting as directors for a Dorx spot. Soon however Dorx is the last thing on Matt’s mind when he learns that a tornado has ravaged his family home and taken out everything in their possession. The devastation of the tornado is crippling, but what’s even more staggering from the natural disaster is what it ends up bringing to the attention of Matt’s family.

The prologue from Matt’s childhood that we saw earlier unsurprisingly connects to the events of the recent tornado in St. Charles County. As a result of Matt never being able to give up his favorite hand hobby, the family’s septic tank slowly accumulated his semen through the years, and now said septic tank has been ripped loose and set asunder St. Charles County. “People are smothered in your seed,” Matt is told, as his family begins to get into the specifics and speculate the volumetric density (we’re talking river-levels here) of the young man’s ejaculate.

Even before the episode reaches this point (which it doesn’t take long to arrive at), the direction feels awfully clear with all of this reading like an extended piece of sketch comedy. Stark tragedy and sheer excess paired with the details of Matt’s semen continue to be used to build comedy and the dry atmosphere and tense tone through all of it works in the episode’s favor. This semen snafu continues to lead to escalating trouble for the community until the ultimate brash decision is reached that Matt’s testicles must be removed. It’s the only fitting punishment that makes sense for all of this. It’s the right deadpan direction to play everything. Lance Reddick spouting tornado severity rhetoric while shifting into spunk speak is also never a bad thing.

Matt’s unorthodox punishment comes at the behest of Father Krang (a very welcome Kurtwood Smith), and as his surgery begins to go under way it becomes clear that the Father’s thought process is very Old Testament. Instantly you can tell that there’s a lot more going on with Krang than meets the eye, with the idea of him even having some sort of evil stranglehold on the community not being out of the question.

One of “Tornado’s” greatest assets is the clip at which it moves along. While it felt like “Sauce Boy” squandered a lot of its double runtime, “Tornado” never really slows down and Matt’s balls are gone well before the halfway mark. What follows, in very typical Tim and Eric fashion, is simply watching the shattered remains of Matt’s life as he lives with his punishment and tries to make something of what he still has. Gilford does a great job at making Matt easy to empathize with and actually care about his plight. We’re hurt to see his life go to hell, and we share his beleaguered nature as the world continues to turn on him. If he gave a detached, unrealistic performance all of this would feel a lot hollower. Matt is soon pushed to his breaking point, and when Reddick’s character offers him a proposition to “fix” all of this, it quickly becomes clear that repercussions will soon begin to come into play.