“Explicit and outrageous”: South Park is back with its most gratuitous episode since Naked Trump | South Park

EEven outside of its notoriously tight weekly production schedule, South Park has always operated on an unpredictable schedule, sometimes taking years between seasons. This time around, we’re moving from one season to the next after just five episodes (which, admittedly, arrived in biweekly installments, not counting the abrupt season finale that was pushed back a week due to a missed deadline).

Tonight’s episode, titled Twisted Christian, kicks off season 28. At South Park Elementary, the principal of PC — PC standing for Power Christian since his politically motivated conversion early last season — tries to put an end to his students’ obsession with the “6-7” TikTok meme, not because it’s insufferable or disruptive, but because it considers it “satanic numerology crap”. Rather than seek help from the school’s new guidance counselor, Jesus Christ, he turns to the world’s leading expert on the Antichrist: billionaire Peter Thiel. (Thiel’s caricature in the series – a sunken, skeletal face with bulging bug eyes – is right up there with Kristi Noem’s from earlier this year in terms of nastiness.)

Thiel delves into the story of the Antichrist, revealing that Satan’s divine punishment after the Heavenly War was to shrink his asshole to the size of a pinhole, “so that [he] I could never have a butt baby… until Mr. Donald Trump came along, whose penis is so tiny it could actually fit in Satan’s asshole. Trump’s penis size? Somewhere between 6 and 7 cm. All of this is predicted in Revelation 6:7, of course.

We are also shown a scheming JD Vance, who appears to be the one pulling the strings rather than Satan or Trump. He does everything in his power to prevent the birth of his boss’s unholy offspring, including giving his benefactor Thiel unlimited access to all government databases while convincing Trump to resort to abortion.

Donald Trump takes a back seat to the other characters here, although several scenes are devoted to his nether regions (including a few attempts at masturbation using a pair of clamps), making this by far the most explicit and scandalous episode since last season’s premiere.

Meanwhile, in South Park, Jesus suffers a crisis of faith after spending time with the PC director and other Maga Christians (“You need a way to intimidate people and you’re using the Bible to do it!”), while Eric Cartman’s unhealthy obsession with the “6-7” meme turns into a full-blown case of demonic possession, replete with violent projectile vomiting a la The Exorcist. It turns out he may hold the key to stopping the apocalypse. Jesus eventually gives in to peer pressure and adopts a Christian lifestyle, while Cartman heads to Washington DC, where a face-to-face with Trump is almost inevitable.

Even though it picked up where the last episode left off, it had the feel of a season premiere, putting all the pieces in place for the remaining five episodes and what is sure to be a wild conclusion. As evidenced in the feature film South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut and season 11 of the Imaginationland saga, South Park is capable of telling legitimately epic stories, and the one they’re currently in has all the makings of another classic.