Mere hours after signing a new $1.5 billion five-year deal with Paramount, South Park creators Matt Stone and Trey Parker dropped a Season 27 premiere episode that went full scorched earth on the network’s recent dealing with President Donald Trump, including references to the 60 Minutes settlement and the recent Colbert cancellation. It’s an episode that has everything from Cartman mourning the death of NPR, aka his favorite funny show because it’s where liberals whine, to Jesus himself begging the citizens of South Park to shut up lest they get cancelled next. Fans on X called the South Park Season 27 premiere “maybe their best episode ever” and “MAGNIFICENT.” Given how Stone and Parker bait their litigious enemies, you might want to stream the must-watch masterpiece before it potentially gets yanked off streaming.
South Park has never shied away from controversy, but last night’s episode courts it with wild abandon. The episode opens with Cartman’s mom explaining that the president has cancelled NPR, which leaves him furious. Things only become weirder as he goes to school and discovers that woke is officially dead. PC Principal has rebranded himself as “Power Christian Principal,” literally forcing Jesus on the students in school.
When Stan’s dad hears about Jesus in the public school, he refers to ChatGPT before organizing the town against the president. However, they when they arrive at Mr. Garrison’s house, he’s just watching the most recent season of The White Lotus. His husband explains that he’s not been in politics for years.
Which brings us to South Park‘s version of the Trump White House. Trump is depicted with a photorealistic face and a very small penis. We see him threaten to sue anyone who makes fun of him and cozying up in bed with Satan, who compares him unfavorably with his ex, aka Saddam Hussein.
As the residents of South Park begin to protest the president, we see 60 Minutes anchors nervously report on the story. Jesus arrives to address the crowd in hushed tones, revealing he doesn’t want to be in schools, but Trump has sued him into the gig. Jesus lays out how a president shouldn’t have the power to accept bribes or sue citizens before begging the South Park characters to just “shut up.” He asks, “Do you really want to wind up like Colbert?”
The town of South Park eventually settles with Trump, promising him millions of dollars that will come from budget cuts to key community services and a pro-Trump PSA. Then we see a live action clip featuring a deep fake version of Trump stripping himself naked in the desert as a voiceover attests to his deep love for us all. Deadline is reporting that the footage is from an unfinished 2022 film Parker and Stone were working on called Deep Fake: The Movie.
You can watch the clip at HeTrumpedUs.com, a play on the omnipresent “He Gets Us” ads.
The episode ends with Cartman and Butters, wrongfully believing they are dying by suicide in Butters’ parents EV, telling each other they love each other.
South Park‘s streaming future was recently up in the air due to the pending Skydance/Paramount merger, with Stone and Parker calling the situation a “shitshow” that was “fucking up South Park” on social media as recently as July 2. Yesterday’s deal came together in the final hours before the planned Season 27 premiere. Stone and Parker used their platform to vent their own frustrations, pulling no punches.
The South Park Season 27 premiere is now streaming on Paramount+. Who knows for how long.