I agree it was really lazy writing, just seemed to try to get under the president’s skin rather than entertain anyone.
I did like the 60 Minutes part, though, with all the hosts afraid to say anything that would upset the president. Nice job skewing the cowards at Paramount (they just got their merger approved, so good for them, I guess).
I am 100% certain this was the goal, and the reason people liked it. The episode is not supposed to stand on its own, it’s counting on you despising Trump as much as they do and reveling in his skewering.
And Trey Parker’s response to Trump’s attack on his show:
[deadpan] “Oh. We’re terribly sorry.”
I wondered what that was all about, when they broke down Mr. Garrison’s door.
Yeah, that was the beginning of the slow breaking down of the fourth wall. Before Jesus gave his whispered sermon on the mount, South Park still believed it was an actual small town. By the time Trump sues them, South Park is fully aware they are a show that needs to placate him to avoid being canceled.
I’ve never thought the show was all that funny overall, and last night’s episode wasn’t to me, but the satire? Totally worth it.
As I write this, it’s already been viewed more than 3 million times.
I haven’t watched South Park much since early college, but I watched that episode. It was delightful knowing that its target is so bothered by it.
My mom thought the bit at the end was hilarious.
I see what you did there.
He has to pay women to have sex with him, and the women are disgusted by him even though they get 5 or 6 figures for sleeping with him. How is he not a loser? His wife won’t even hold his hand, she’s so disgusted by him. And she made millions by being married to him.
As far as his base, they voted for a child rapist because they know if women are too educated and wealthy, that women won’t sleep with them anymore, so they voted for someone to take away women’s rights so women have less options and independence. And they like him because they know they can’t compete in an open society where they have to compete with women, black people and immigrants for jobs. Trump is DEI for the incompetent and overprivileged.
So don’t get your hopes up about these people realizing whats cool and whats not. Cool people don’t vote for a child rapist because they’re angry that women don’t want them.
It was a good episode though.
Sorry, that was rude and off topic.
It was a good episode. I liked how Jesus had to mutter so you had to listen to his speech 2 or 3 times to get all of it.
Watched it twice! Balls like lion hilarious!
For those that didn’t like the episode, it might be important to have some context. As much as this episode was aimed at Trump, it was also Matt and Trey shitting on Paramount. If you weren’t up to speed on the Paramount drama, a lot of this episode may have seemed over the top simply for the shock value. Matt and Trey really appear to be attempting to bait Trump into suing Paramount.
Some of the recent videos by Blooms and Johnny 2 Cellos have covered it.
Here’s their most recent videos:
Does anybody know why they have Trump signaled as Canadian? He even threw in an “aboot”.
It’s just odd and funny.
I think Hussein spoke that way and maybe this will end up being resurrected Hussein.
My 91-year-old mother voted for him all 3 times, because she’s that dyed-in-the-wool Republican.
So I was actually pretty disappointed by this episode. Obviously I’m all for attacking Trump, but… it wasn’t very clever, and it didn’t seem very insightful. The attacks on Trump weren’t very funny nor were they a very good reference to actual events. The only joke that actually landed for me was Cartman trying to kill himself with the EV.
IMDB has this episode rated as the highest rated episode of South Park ever and that’s absurd, it wouldn’t even crack the top 50, probably not even top 100, as an episode on its own merits. People are just highly rating something that attacks Trump, like a reverse review bombing.
It even seemed sort of confused about its message regarding the Jesus subplot. Jesus is being forced into schools except Jesus is the one telling South Park not to stick their heads out because they’ll get retaliated against – the whole Jesus thing was kind of a mess. If they were going to use Jesus, they should’ve used it in a “you guys claim to love Jesus and yet Trump is the absolute antithesis of everything Jesus stood for” kind of way. It would be quite easy to integrate Jesus into this episode in a way that made sense, they just.. didn’t.
That said, it is very brave. They are making this episode at significant personal risks to themselves and they probably know it. I admire it on this basis. I just wish they’d made it funny and insightful as the best south park episodes tend to be.
Maybe it’s not smart because they’re trying to piss off Trump, and so smart humor would probably go above his head. So they’re just slamming him with stupid shit like small dick jokes that they know will piss him off even though they’re comedically boring. I can understand that, but this brougth a whole lot of eyes to south park, they could’ve put in some clever commentary with the dick jokes too.
I think the jokes are written specifically at a level Trump would be maximally offended by. They might have been making fun of Trump, but they were going after Paramount.
I think the joke is that we’re way past that. Jesus doesn’t even want to be there and wouldn’t be if it weren’t part of a lawsuit. He’s telling them to just keep their heads down and not to make waves or Trump might cancel them, like he did with Colbert.
Trump has managed to get somuch control over so many things, even Jesus is being forced to do things against his will.
Think of it like a public school being forced to hang the 10 Commandments. They can/should push back, but they might feel it’s better to just hang them up (and ignore them) than to refuse and risk Trump’s ire.
Also, to reiterate what I said earlier, a lot of this episode was directed at Trump and Paramount. It seems like Matt and Trey are hoping Trump sues Paramount which will throw a wrench in their merger. I’m not going to rewatch the videos right now, but IIRC in one of them it was stated that the show was supposed to start airing months ago and they had every intention of keeping this season free of Trump/politics since they were getting tired of doing that. But then all the drama with the merger happened and this is where we are.
IIRC, them planning to get out of politics, and probably having parts of this episode written months ago, are why Mr Garrison is back to being a normal South Park citizen and not the president.
Yes, one of the commentaries I was listening to mentioned that they often turn in episodes very close to air times, and that’s why there were so many references to events that happened only days before. They very likely had a less Trump-centric episode, but they pivoted at the last minute.