South Park Season 27 uses Donald Trump (and Satan) to tease a classic horror concept

This episode contains spoilers For “South Park” season 27, episode 4, “Wok is dead”.

Getting to an erratic liberation calendar is nothing new for “South Park”, but it has become a real asset in its 27th season. The successful series Comedy Central has witnessed a renewal of interest since its first of the wild season “Sermon on the” Mount “, which was broadcast in July. Lampooning Donald J. Trump as a Saddam Hussein style figure which displays its tiny adult, coupled with an official response from the White House on the quantity of representation, has always been” South Park ” Relevant that never. Each new episode is delivered with the anticipation of television of the more cooled by water, especially now that the creators of the series Matt Stone and Trey Parker know that Trump is not to fear that they cannot follow given the current administration of the current administration. make.

“Wok is dead” is largely concentrated around Butters (Stone) integrates into the craze of Labu to impress Red (Mona Marshall) during his birthday party. The girls of “South Park” cannot have enough, going so far as to fight in the corridors of the school and perform satanic rituals in their rooms. It is as hilarious as they are insightful, given that the Labu trend made me feel disconnected from what young people consider popular. I opened the first Labu unpacking video that I saw during the first commercial interruption of curiosity, only to see that Parker and Stone had really done their homework. (“Cute !!”. The episode focuses mainly on the butters that make its best to find the rare labu that Red wants, but he ends up binding to Trump (Stone).

While the story of Butters takes blows on Trump’s international prices, which soar the Labubus at an exorbitant price, the B-Plot updates the situation between Satan (Parker) and Trump, and that’s probably what you expect. It turns out that the “South Park” version of Satan has not, let’s say, secretaries of ice engine from puppies who watch over him. Rather, he got pregnant with Trump’s baby. The idea of ​​Satan Brague on a positive pregnancy test is funny in its own right, but it also plays on a trope of horror film which could potentially take into account later this season.

There was this source of tension throughout this season concerning the abusive relationship between Satan and Trump. It looks like we are all trapped under this administration, of course, but the previous episodes have shown that Satan feels particularly linked to any reason. He even entrusts in the hilarious representation to the chubby cheeks of the vice-president JD Vance (Parker) in the middle of the rose garden demolished to want to leave for months, but he affirms that the dark tides of fate are approaching quickly. He surely launches a worrying spell on future episodes, now that the orange man overthrew the prince of darkness. Although the very nature of pregnancy is a new development this season, there is in fact a certain priority in the show.

In the beloved episode of “Woodland Critrers Christmas” of season 8, Stan (Parker) meets a cluster of animals that end up using it to help cause the arrival of the anti-Christ. The story of the twisted class of Cartman then sees Kyle (Stone) becoming his incubator possessed on earth, but he quickly begins to regret his decision. He encourages the mountain lion qualified to make an abortion through his buttocks, how much Santa (Parker) draws a premature “immaculate” on the newborn villain. This also creates a precedent for male characters on “South Park” to give birth in their fares, even if this episode is technically one of the big tales of Cartman.

There is another interesting thread with Satan’s new baby bump, since there is already an anti-Christ in the world of “South Park”. The first episode of the “Damien” season is a hilarious parody of “The Omen” which sees the holder of Satan who wreaked havoc to school to carry out his father’s mission. Aside from this episode, however, Damien was largely relegated to the status of a background who does not really interact with his red grandfather, nor the other students. We are already bringing Satan in the fold of the series, so there is a slight possibility that the little demonic scamp also returns by learning the news that he has a new brother on the way.

The funniest aspect of the entering Butt Baby saga is not so much pregnancy itself, of course. This is the way he gives Parker and Stone Free Read to run away with more Trump on his face.

Anyone who has paid a minimum of attention to the news cycle recently is aware that the real Trump deals with the legitimate members of the press in an antagonistic way, while defending Fox News almost every chance that he obtains (via Newsweek). He even brought contributors like Pete Hegseth and Jeanine Pirro to embody huge roles in his office. The chain becomes practically something of a lottery to see which candidate will be on board afterwards. But while “South Park” has taken its fair share of kicking at Fox News throughout its mandate, “Wok is dead” sees the show take a golden opportunity to kill two birds with a stone (and its best friend Trey).

It is the perfect follow-up of the episode “Sickofancy”, which saw various world leaders and Tech Bros confuses bribes Golden in Trump to go on its own side, except here that the Fawning is done with the hosts of Fox News. They are all SO In addition to them to get Trump’s hot gossip on his supposed relationship with the King of Hell. They even stand outside the lawn of the White House like fans next to an arena. It’s not so much What They ask but how They ask for it. The most repeated sentence through “Wok is dead” is a variation on “Are you F *** ING Satan?” It is mainly Parker and Stone using the oral tip of Trump’s brilliant media coverage to call it an impious entity directly on his face on a recently essential network.

The creators of “South Park” are more than aware that Trump is a person happy with triggering with regard to the proceedings concerning the unflattering representations of himself, but they courageously continue to challenge him anyway. Some of the rare creative on television are ready to sting the bear at this stage. For example, there is a subtle genius in a journalist for Fox News helicopter commenting on Trump out of a house with screaming children while the real one is currently involved in the Jeffrey Epstein scandal. Parker and Stone can hide behind their $ 1.5 billion agreement with Paramount and Comedy Central, at least with regard to the security of their broadcast. It is an easy joke, but they know that having characters say things like “almost the country thinks that you are funny than you are funny because it will do it absolutely Put yourself under his skin.

Meanwhile, each episode of season 27 has so far left wires open to be potentially extended later, notably Mr. Mackey (Parker) abandoning his position with Ice, the marshes Finally Leaving the TEGRIDY farms, and the consequences of an pregnant Satan. Time will tell us how and / or if it all will come together.

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