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So, About These Crazy, F-cked Up New 'South Park' Episodes.(Rolling Stone, November 20)
https://www.rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv-movie-features/south-park-new-episodes-donald-trump-jd-vance-micropenis-1235465044/Parks and Desecration
So, About These Crazy, F-cked Up New ‘South Park’ Episodes …
Ever since the Micropenis Who Would Be King season premiere, the show has been on a hot streak of speaking vulgarity to power
By David Fear
November 20, 2025
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Mostly, however, it was the fact that the MAGA culture that has metastasized and infected everyday life like a particularly virulent strain of venereal disease made for a ripe target for outrage. “It’s not that we got all political,” Parker recently told the New York Times. “It’s that politics became pop culture.” Stone then explained how this unprecedented run of episodes that speak vulgarity to power are simply the latest iteration of what they’ve always done. “Trey and I are attracted to [taboos] like flies to honey. ‘Oh, that’s where the taboo is? Over there? OK, then we’re over there.'”
Which makes sense: If Trump, the various sycophants and cronies who make up his administration, and the MAGA vanguards at large are some of most thin-skinned, easily offended public figures right now, they’d be exactly the sorts of targets South Park would naturally take aim at. (“South Park has never been Matt and I sitting there going, ‘OK, what’s offensive? What can we do that’s offensive?'” Stone claimed in that 2011 doc. “We just are sort of offensive people.”) And it turns out Parker and Stone’s crude, crass ways of taking on the crude, crass authority figures making life hell for millions is one of the few ways to cut through the endless noise. People may have a hard time parsing the doublespeak and outright lies coming out of the White House and its various outposts, or understanding exactly how so many of its current policies are racist and inhumane; no one needs a translator for Trump is a horny, insecure grifter with an abysmally small ding-dong. That’s universally understandable.
The same goes for the close-ups of J.D. Vance and Trump’s O-faces during a raucous bout of sex, images which have already scarred a generation. And for Noem shooting puppies with a machine gun during an ICE raid in heaven. And for Carr, a troll who never met a snarky meme he couldn’t turn into a desperate bid for edgelord status, being covered in two tons of cat litter. And for the person who is supposed to represent leadership and the epitome of American ideals being in an abusive relationship with the Horned One. (Some may scoff that bringing back the same gag they used in 1999’s South Park: Bigger, Longer, Uncut is lazy, but it’s worth reminding folks that the last time they did this, it was with a dictator that the U.S. went to war with, and not a sitting president.) Those aren’t even the funniest “Oh, wow!” bits — we’d personally nominate the song played at a fundraiser, which says the quiet part out loud about the way Christianity has been co-opted by the powerful. But they’re certainly the gags that make you gag enough to pay attention.
In other words, nothing’s shocking, until something so genuinely shocking comes along that you can’t help but take notice. That line would seem like an impossible one to find and cross in 2025. Parker and Stone definitely found it, and their willingness to giddily cross it with exponentially grosser results have given us some of craziest, most fucked up and creatively satisfying South Park episodes in ages. It’s allowed Parker and Stone to do what they do best — dirty jokes, sure, but also: call out hypocrisy and extremism. They aren’t partisan, or, per their own repeated assurances, married to a political ideology. They’re just anti-bullshit, and they’re having a great time calling out a legion of bullshitters who regrettably have way too much power over all of us. The show has already addressed the “South Park is too political now” backlash, in its own self-mocking way. Both Parker and Stone have said they’re just doing this for the moment, and that next year will be different. But until that happens — bring on the Trump/Vance sex marathons and the rocket-shitting bureaucrats! We’ll take any capital-R Resistance we can get right now.
So, About These Crazy, F-cked Up New ‘South Park’ Episodes …
Ever since the Micropenis Who Would Be King season premiere, the show has been on a hot streak of speaking vulgarity to power
By David Fear
November 20, 2025
-snip-
Mostly, however, it was the fact that the MAGA culture that has metastasized and infected everyday life like a particularly virulent strain of venereal disease made for a ripe target for outrage. “It’s not that we got all political,” Parker recently told the New York Times. “It’s that politics became pop culture.” Stone then explained how this unprecedented run of episodes that speak vulgarity to power are simply the latest iteration of what they’ve always done. “Trey and I are attracted to [taboos] like flies to honey. ‘Oh, that’s where the taboo is? Over there? OK, then we’re over there.'”
Which makes sense: If Trump, the various sycophants and cronies who make up his administration, and the MAGA vanguards at large are some of most thin-skinned, easily offended public figures right now, they’d be exactly the sorts of targets South Park would naturally take aim at. (“South Park has never been Matt and I sitting there going, ‘OK, what’s offensive? What can we do that’s offensive?'” Stone claimed in that 2011 doc. “We just are sort of offensive people.”) And it turns out Parker and Stone’s crude, crass ways of taking on the crude, crass authority figures making life hell for millions is one of the few ways to cut through the endless noise. People may have a hard time parsing the doublespeak and outright lies coming out of the White House and its various outposts, or understanding exactly how so many of its current policies are racist and inhumane; no one needs a translator for Trump is a horny, insecure grifter with an abysmally small ding-dong. That’s universally understandable.
The same goes for the close-ups of J.D. Vance and Trump’s O-faces during a raucous bout of sex, images which have already scarred a generation. And for Noem shooting puppies with a machine gun during an ICE raid in heaven. And for Carr, a troll who never met a snarky meme he couldn’t turn into a desperate bid for edgelord status, being covered in two tons of cat litter. And for the person who is supposed to represent leadership and the epitome of American ideals being in an abusive relationship with the Horned One. (Some may scoff that bringing back the same gag they used in 1999’s South Park: Bigger, Longer, Uncut is lazy, but it’s worth reminding folks that the last time they did this, it was with a dictator that the U.S. went to war with, and not a sitting president.) Those aren’t even the funniest “Oh, wow!” bits — we’d personally nominate the song played at a fundraiser, which says the quiet part out loud about the way Christianity has been co-opted by the powerful. But they’re certainly the gags that make you gag enough to pay attention.
In other words, nothing’s shocking, until something so genuinely shocking comes along that you can’t help but take notice. That line would seem like an impossible one to find and cross in 2025. Parker and Stone definitely found it, and their willingness to giddily cross it with exponentially grosser results have given us some of craziest, most fucked up and creatively satisfying South Park episodes in ages. It’s allowed Parker and Stone to do what they do best — dirty jokes, sure, but also: call out hypocrisy and extremism. They aren’t partisan, or, per their own repeated assurances, married to a political ideology. They’re just anti-bullshit, and they’re having a great time calling out a legion of bullshitters who regrettably have way too much power over all of us. The show has already addressed the “South Park is too political now” backlash, in its own self-mocking way. Both Parker and Stone have said they’re just doing this for the moment, and that next year will be different. But until that happens — bring on the Trump/Vance sex marathons and the rocket-shitting bureaucrats! We’ll take any capital-R Resistance we can get right now.
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"Oh... look at Trump having gay sex with Vance! Aren't they stupid?"
This kind of shit just reinforces the idea that "gay is bad" and "gay is meant to be ridiculed". I hate them for that.