South Park Studios reports that their previously-announced, promoted and overhyped “Return of Lemmiwinks” has been…well, I’m not sure what you’d call it. For whatever reason they won’t make public, it will not air with these first six episodes of Season 8, nor will it air in the fall. Yet they say Lemmiwinks will return. Curiouser and curiouser.

For those of you who don’t watch the show, Lemmiwinks is a school gerbil who was…inserted into a man. If you don’t know what I’m talking about, it’s that Richard Gere urban legend. Faced with death, Lemmiwinks began a magical journey through the intestines to the accompaniment of a 1970s balladeer. It’s all a big parody of the Rankin-Bass version of “The Hobbit.”