South Park has not held back in making Donald Trump the center of attention in the current season of the controversial comedy series. In the latest episode, however, creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone may have surpassed themselves in creating a “nightmare” experience that has had people wanting to bleach their eyes to try and get rid of the images they have seen.
South Park’s new episode, “Sora Not Sorry,” brought the usual mix of Trump, JD Vance, Satan, and a demon baby – just a regular Wednesday night in the White House, according to the show. While the show’s other storyline involved a deep-fake epidemic overrunning South Park, up in the animated White House an animated president was getting animated over what to do about the spawn of Satan.
What began as a desperate meeting with Vance on the matter quickly escalated into something else entirely, as Trump and his cohort shifted things to the hot tub in the bedroom…and to the soundtrack of “I Want to Know What Love Is” by Foreigner, things quickly headed south in South Park.
“OMG I cannot unsee that,” was the comment from one user on X. Another added, “Thanks for the nightmares I’m gonna have tonight South Park. A third compared to the scene to another controversial product of Parker and Stone’s warped creative collaborations, Team America: World Police, saying the “hilarious” scene had even upstaged the debauchery seen in the puppet movie that shocked America over two decades ago.
Why ‘South Park’ Has Gone Full Throttle on Trump
In the last several months, there have been several controversies surrounding celebrities speaking out against the current administration in the U.S. However, if there is one thing that Parker and Stone have never shied away from, it is controversy. In fact, as the pair recently said in an interview with the New York Times, when it comes to what is taboo and what they shouldn’t be doing, they are “attracted to that like flies to honey.”
During the same interview, they explained the simple reason that this season of South Park has seemed to be more political than usual.
“It’s not that we got all political. It’s that politics became pop culture. We’re just very down-the-middle guys. Any extremists of any kind, we make fun of. We did it for years with the woke thing. That was hilarious to us. And this is hilarious to us.”
South Park is the kind of show that people will say “can’t be made now.” Yet, here we are. South Park is still going strong, bringing new reasons for people to talk about it, new ways to keep itself in the headlines, and new storylines to keep it going through several more seasons and beyond. Maybe there are no shows and movies that “can’t be made now.” Perhaps it just takes someone with the guts to do it and the belief that, in the end, none of it really matters in the grander scheme of life.
- Release Date
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August 13, 1997
- Network
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Comedy Central
- Directors
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Adrien Beard
- Writers
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David A. Goodman, Nancy M. Pimental, Kenny Hotz, Philip Stark, Dave Weasel, Dan Sterling, Susan Hurwitz Arneson, Trisha Nixon, David R. Goodman, Tim Talbott, Pam Brady, Robert Lopez, Dani Michaeli, Kyle McCulloch, Karey Dornetto, Jonathan Kimmel, Jane Bussmann
