Show begins 27th season covering Trump’s lawsuit against Paramount and cancellation of Stephen Colbert’s show, depicting Trump in bed with Satan
South Park has kicked off its 27th season with a blistering episode taking aim at Donald Trump and its newly minted parent company, Paramount, just one day after signing a $1.5bn deal with the network.
The premiere episode, “Sermon on the Mount,” sees Trump in bed with series regular Satan and covers topics including Trump’s lawsuit against Paramount, the cancellation of The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, wokeness, Trump’s attacks on Canada and more.
Unlike other characters, Trump is depicted as an actual photo of the US president on an animated body. There is also an extended scene featuring a hyper-realistic, deepfake video of Trump, completely naked, walking in a desert. There are repeated suggestions that Trump’s genitalia are small.
I LOVE The Constitution and Humor (Trump is the FUNNIEST Person on the “Planet”) but Matt Stone and “Trey” Parker need to be DEPORTED for This! THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER!
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Australia here. Had to get Paramount+ just to watch this as soon as possible. Stayed up till 1:30 this morning waiting for the season drop. Nothing. Pirated it. Hardest I laughed in a long time. Guess its time to unsub then
PBS FTW, been digging their stuff since I was a toddler watching Sesame Street lol. Their PBS Eons channel (on YT…) is great, when I was watching more video content I enjoyed their streaming service for a range of stuff too, can’t remember what it was called now though.
So yeah give em some bucks folks and watch cool stuff, they really need it.
On one hand, this is pretty ‘leopards ate my face.’ On the other hand, I fully expect them to get their pound of flesh, and then some on this issue.
Update: 9 minutes into this episode. Yup. I approve.
They certainly aren’t blameless in the story of how we got to where we are now, but I do appreciate and think it’s commendable that these two have realized the danger we’re in and changed their tune. It’s not exactly on brand for them to portray anyone real as outright evil besides Streisand and Saddam. Debatably John Edwards
Granted I haven’t watched the show since right before Randy started selling weed so maybe I’m remembering South Park wrong
What do you mean change their tune? They have always made fun of Trump or Mr Garrison.
Fuck off, South Park. Trey and Matt are as responsible as anyone for the “both sides are flawed therefore both sides are equally bad” bullshit that gave a generation a pass to try to play off intellectual incuriosity and cynical laziness as some kind of principled position.
This is the 3rd comment I’ve read about South Park being “both sides”.
No shit they are both sides. Everyone is fair game for them, no ones safe from satire or mocking. It’s the whole point of the show.
That said they were duped by the “both sides are flawed” rhetoric for longer than they should have been. A Gen X myopia.
I forget which episode it was where they made it clear they understood they’d been duped, but it was after J6 as I recall.
It rings hollow when one side is the usual shitty greedy politicians and the other is for fascism.
No shit they are both sides. Everyone is fair game for them, no ones safe from satire or mocking. It’s the whole point of the show.
They pick who to mock and how thoroughly. I haven’t watched the show in probably a decade, but up until this they were using Mr Garrison to portray “Trump”.
Theoretically, nobody’s safe, but in practice anything left of GWB is portrayed as a whiny baby, a stupid hippy, or whatever.
At least they seem to realize that “left wokeism” isn’t the top threat in the country anymore, even if they were suckers for buying that it was in the first place.
Edit: I don’t know what to tell you guys, they even have characters in this episode that are like “just because wokeism went too far in one direction doesn’t mean we should go too far in the other”. They really do seem to believe that because liberals are annoying to them that they’re just as bad as concentration camp Trump.
they even have characters in this episode that are like “just because wokeism went too far in one direction doesn’t mean we should go too far in the other”.
This sentiment drives me up the fucking wall… No, it didn’t go too far. Shut the fuck up.
in practice anything left of GWB is portrayed as a whiny baby, a stupid hippy, or whatever.
Yeah, no shit… they’re making fun… they aren’t going to portray anyone in a good way. That’s the point. Bring it on!
Have you considered the way they portray anything right of GWB? If you just want to laugh at others but get mad when it makes fun of characters you relate to, that’s a you problem.
they even have characters in this episode that are like “just because wokeism went too far in one direction doesn’t mean we should go too far in the other”
Said by their stereotype redneck character that uses slurs every line… use your brain.
Have you considered the way they portray anything right of GWB?
Yeah, like the loggers clearing out the jungle. They portray them as heroes. Or the one where the tobacco companies are portrayed as heroes.
It’s not out and out libertarian propaganda because I think there’s a lot more emphasis on the jokes. But it’s pretty fucking close.
like the loggers clearing out the jungle. They portray them as heroes. Or the one where the tobacco companies are portrayed as heroes.
🤦 Watching lemmy users discover how a joke works in realtime. Amazing. Are you familiar with the concept of satire? It’s a really tough one to grasp, apparently
Nothing about their comment implies they didn’t get the joke.
“both sides are flawed”. Clearly you don’t watch South park.
Giant douche vs turd sandwich?
I need to rewatch the episode to be sure but is it not commenting on how American elections are voting against the worst of two bad options instead of voting for a good candidate? Not “both sides are the same”?
I seem to remember it being a disappointing bothsiderist thing.
I feel like I remember Stan giving a monologue specifically about having to pick between two bad choices though…
Yes. “Everything is fair game” except for the narcissism of their own Libertarian party.
Did you hate the Colbert Report for being too conservative too?
Satire is just really confusing for some
Who are the heroes? The people who watch this show
Thanks for letting everyone know you’ve never watched South Park. Your comment can be ignored.
This is how I know you have either never watched South Park, or that you entirely misunderstand the show.
Do you think you have some kind of “gotcha” here or something?
Got tired of trying to explain the logic to people who couldn’t or wouldn’t understand it. For the ones who can, this image is all it takes.
Having watched it without contributing a dime to Paramount, I have to say that was amazing.
Me too. I watched it twice tonight.
I cried laughed when they called him a retarded removed. Multiple times. I had a heart attack of the Ai video at the end.
Removed removed?
The AI video was amazing.
Ya. Lemmy won’t let me post the word F agg ot.
The Guardian has contacted the Stone, Parker and the White House for comment.
Nice.
I was sorta wondering how the whole season ended up all on paramount given how they have felt about the distribution but now I get that they wanted it. all of it. to be all on paramount.
Mr Burns finger peaking “Excellent”
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