By Joshua Tyler
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Mere days after the world learned about creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone’s $1.5 billion deal with Paramount, South Park returned to television for its 27th season. The season’s first episode, “Sermon On The ‘Mount,” has one and only one target: Donald J. Trump.
In their fervor to attack the American president, South Park’s new season went beyond the show’s normal bounds into full-on live-action mockery, concluding with a segment which looks as if it must be AI-generated, in which a naked Donald Trump crawls through the desert and communes with his tiny, talking genitalia.
It’s the timing that’s noteworthy. This week, Paramount settled a lawsuit with the president, a lawsuit that conspiracy theorists claim led to the cancellation of Stephen Colbert’s low-rated Late Show. Meanwhile, the South Park team notoriously creates episodes in under a week, which allows them to be topical. So in typical Matt & Trey fashion, South Park’s season premiere embraced those Trump/Paramount conspiracy theories and went guns blazing at the president.
Scenes celebrating the end of wokeness, with Eric Cartman as the only character upset about its demise, added some political balance to the episode. But the 27th season’s first story exists mostly to flash humiliating nude video of Trump.
In this new world of South Park, by the way, Trump is inexplicably Canadian. Maybe that’s something the show will address later in the season, but it’s a weird twist that I’m pretty sure no one saw coming.
If there’s one thing in South Park’s premiere that both conservatives and liberals are likely to agree on, it’s probably the viewpoint of the Devil. He seems very disturbed that Trump’s hiding the Epstein files. I guess even Satan isn’t that evil.
