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On July 25 2025 05:00 KwarK wrote:
It feels an awful lot like how right wing comedy boils down saying "bacon" and imagining a purple haired vegan who is triggered.

Imagining how triggered a straw adversary might be something and then throwing yourself a parade to celebrate is not effective.

On July 25 2025 05:32 Sadist wrote:




South park is not right wing comedy. I know they were with the whole log cabin republican thing but i dont see how they can be conflated with being right wing....

Have you watched them over the years or seen the book of mormon?

On July 25 2025 06:00 Doublemint wrote:
South Park is quintessential 'Murica.

100% Free Speech, really up to the edge where it hurts and maybe in some cases beyond, while calling out hypocrisy where they see it. and all that for shits and giggles an in service of a very silly show. so that silly people living in a very silly world can have a laugh.

I am not sure you can strictly call it left or right. the targets and topics they tackle have always been controversial and the goal just pushing the envelope. and they are more often than not in the habit of making very powerful enemies.

organized religions? horrible "organized religions" a.k.a Scientology - they demystified it for a broad audience by explaining the "teachings" so accurately up to the point where they could not be sued - while simultaneously throwing shade at prime Tom Cruise and for added bonus Travolta lol.

and Scientology in their prime sued everyone and was feared and a shadowy force to be reckoned with, especially in Hollywood.

to this day I fondly remember the Book of Mormon episode, a classic masterpiece.

EXCLUSIVE: The White House went on the offensive Thursday morning as an irate Donald Trump fumes over last night’s South Park Season 27 premiere that depicted him as a Satan-canoodling and less than well-endowed pompous bully, to put it mildly.

“The President is seething over the childish attack by South Park,” an administration source tells Deadline this morning. However, as annoyed as POTUS is over Trey Parker and Matt Stone‘s cartoon depiction of him as a shamelessly unclothed Emperor and a mocking, AI-generated PSA during the episode titled “Sermon on the ‘Mount” that depicted the MAGA chief naked in the desert, the White House was not blindsided by the satire.


Looking up the food chain of events, Skydance was warned of the episode’s content earlier it seems. With FCC approval of Skydance’s drawn-out merger with Paramount imminent, the administration was also given a heads up over the what was going to be in the South Park premiere, I’m told.

Reps for the David Ellison-led Skydance did not respond to request for comment on the episode. Contacted by Deadline, Paramount had “no comment” on the matter.

On the other hand, with nothing yet from Trump himself on social media, the White House was more than eager to go on the record and on the counterattack.

“The Left’s hypocrisy truly has no end – for years they have come after South Park for what they labeled as ‘offense’ content, but suddenly they are praising the show,” White House Assistant Press Secretary Taylor Rogers told Deadline this morning.

“Just like the creators of South Park, the Left has no authentic or original content, which is why their popularity continues to hit record lows,” Rogers added, in direct contrast to the $1.5 billion agreement Paramount and the South Park duo just inked this week. “This show hasn’t been relevant for over 20 years and is hanging on by a thread with uninspired ideas in a desperate attempt for attention. President Trump has delivered on more promises in just six months than any other president in our country’s history – and no fourth-rate show can derail President Trump’s hot streak.”

Of note, Rogers did not mention the Skydance-Paramount merger in the remarks. The $8 billion merger is currently up for review by the FCC.

The new South Park episode certainly mentions the deal, in addition to toggling between Stephen Colbert’s recent late-night axing, efforts to kneecap diversity programs, and Trump’s penchant for suing critical media outlets (like CBS, who settled with POTUS for $16 million earlier this month over what was called a “meritless” 60 Minutes suit). A cowering 60 Minutes itself, Jesus in the school system, going to war with Canada (an old South Park trope) censorship and corporate kowtowing were also in the mix.

Even the successful cutting of public broadcasting’s funding got a cameo. “Who the hell does the president think he is?” South Park’s whining Cartman exclaims in the premiere about the blows against NPR. “The government can’t cancel a show. I mean, what show are they going to cancel next?”

Of course, with a deft reference to Saddam Hussein and 1999’s South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut movie in the cartoon affair between Trump and Satan, it was the “pro-Trump messaging” at the end that really took last night’s episode to a new level unmatched in the first six months of the heavy-handed former Celebrity Apprentice host’s return to power.

In a nod to Trump’s assertion that there was a PSA side deal in his settlement with CBS, the scene comes as the town of South Park settles a fictional multibillion-dollar suit from POTUS for $3.5 million.

“Trump. His penis is teeny-tiny, but his love for us is large,” the fake PSA narrator concludes, leaving nothing to the imagination. The South Park team has put up a HeTrumpUs site to house the self-described “synthetic media.”

You can see what that messaging looked like here, but be warned, it is graphic and very NSFW:

Just days after signing a hard-fought and lucrative five-year-deal with Paramount, South Park creators Parker and Stone are scheduled to appear at San Diego Comic-Con on Thursday. Can you guess what they might discuss?

On July 25 2025 05:00 KwarK wrote:
It feels an awful lot like how right wing comedy boils down saying "bacon" and imagining a purple haired vegan who is triggered.

Imagining how triggered a straw adversary might be by something and then throwing yourself a parade to celebrate is not effective.

On July 25 2025 08:04 Billyboy wrote:

With Trump you do not need to imagine you just wait for him to be the thin skinned whiney baby and cry about it on Twitter.

He is apparently going after the view now as well, lol. I wonder when his fans are going to catch on to the fact that he is not against cancel culture he embraces it. He wants a media as free as north Korea's. Big merger goes through right after Colbert firing, what a coincidence.

On July 25 2025 05:00 KwarK wrote:
It feels an awful lot like how right wing comedy boils down saying "bacon" and imagining a purple haired vegan who is triggered.

Imagining how triggered a straw adversary might be by something and then throwing yourself a parade to celebrate is not effective.