South Park is back — and it’s hitting harder than ever. The LGBTQ community cheered South Parks joke about “small penis” and gay sex. At least when the brunt of the joke is against President Trump. In the jaw-dropping premiere of its 27th season, South Park delivers an episode so outrageous it blurs the line between satire and current events.
From micro-penises to Jesus Christ himself, the show has one question: What’s left to parody when reality is already extreme? The episode opens with Cartman lamenting that NPR has been canceled and he can’t mock liberals anymore. The school principal quotes the Bible, Jesus gives speeches at assemblies, and news anchors refuse to criticize the president — all out of fear of lawsuits. Cartman realizes,
“Everyone hates the Jews, everyone’s fine with using gay slurs… now I don’t know what I’m supposed to do.”
Instead of their usual Trump parody, this time, the real Donald Trump appears. A photo of Trump is pasted over a construction paper body, voiced with the same tone and theme music once used for Saddam Hussein. Satan, now Trump’s boyfriend, gets a rude awakening. In bed, Satan complains,
“You haven’t been working! You’ve been doing your stupid memes and just fucking around.”
Trump responds by dropping his pants to reveal a micro-penis. Satan says,
“I can’t even see anything, it’s so small,”
The Trump character slaps him and threatens to sue Satan. Throughout the episode, Trump threatens to sue nearly everyone, including Jesus, who tells students he’s only speaking at schools due to “ a lawsuit and the agreement with Paramount.” The episode skewers Paramount directly, mocking its $16 million settlement in Trump’s 60 Minutes lawsuit and the cancellation of The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, just days after Colbert criticized the deal.
Series creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone have also inked a $1.5 billion deal with Paramount+, which includes 50 new episodes. But they are not hiding their frustration with the company’s Skydance merger. By the episode’s end, Trump is shown forcing South Park to air a series of pro-Trump ads. The first PSA shows a live-action Trump stripping in the desert, revealing a googly-eyed micro-penis. The ad concludes,
“Trump. His penis is teeny-tiny, but his love for us is large.”
This is Parker and Stone’s line in the sand: South Park won’t hold back to avoid lawsuits — even if the rest of the media, including their own network, does.
In related news, Queer News Tonight just reports the LGBTQ news of the day and does not endorse tiny penis or gay sex with Satan.
