While the media are dominated by fear, animation creators launch a scanned criticism of the President of the United States Donald Trump
This article contains spoiler of the 27th season of South Parktransmitted to Paramount+.
Almost three decades after debut From South Parkhis creators Trey Parker AND Matt Stone They are still able to view impeccable times.
The launch of season 27 of the animated comedy came a week after the CBS canceled the THas last show with Stephen Colbertapparently to appease the government Trump and lubricate the wheels for a fusion between the Fundamentalchecking the company of CBSand the Skydance Media.
It only happened a few days later Parker AND Calculation close a new five -year agreement and $ 1.5 billion with the Fundamental for streaming rights of South Parkwhich meant that this would be the first new episode to be made available the following day in Paramount+instead of HBO Max. And debuted the evening before the appearance of Parker AND Calculation In a panel in Comic-Con In San Diego. The stars rarely aligned so perfectly for the duo to try to achieve the biggest goal possible, at a time when they have the biggest place as possible on themselves. And they had fun.
The episode “Sermon on the ‘mountain” It begins to focus mainly on parish issues inside its small village in Colorado. Cartman it is dismayed to learn that the presidential government has canceled the NPRwho only heard laughing at all the liberal voices that complained about public radio. While other symbols disappear, including the PC director now bringing the literal Jesus Christ to his school and has renamed himself as Power Christian director – Cartman passes through an existential crisis.
Because if no one else is defending liberal values, your person is no longer transgressive. In the meantime, the father of All, RandyHe claims that Jesus who appears in a public school is illegal and convinces his friends Redneck that perhaps the president brought his agenda too far. Assume that the President of the United States is the Mr. Garrison – who worked as a substitute Donald Trump In the program at the end of 2010 – but he retired from politics to spend time with his boyfriend Rick.
From there, the action moves to the White House, where an animated version of Trump – with a photojournalist head and a soft mouth (usually a symbol of South Park For the Canadians) – it is soon portrayed, in a short time, as: a return that promotes a fundamentalist Christian agenda as disguise to steal money from the government and the American people; An crying narcissist who threatens to elaborate anyone who does not bajule and denies having a micropenis; and a complete dictator who – like Saddam Hussein In the movie South Park: bigger, better and without cuts “It’s literally in bed with Satan.” And the devil is no happier in this relationship than it was at that moment Saddam. It is undoubtedly even more miserable.
It is a frank and frank attack Trump – including an animated front nudity of the aforementioned micropeni. And it happens at a time when many in the media – in particular, the company leaders of Parker AND Calculation “They are terrified by the underlining that the president acts as a fascist, or that the only cause or person to whom he apparently matters is himself.” The episode is relentless with Paramount, who plays several journalists from News of the CBS Fear of saying everything that can corner the president and generate a judicial case.
It turns out that Christ has also returned only to South Park Because he was sued and is so dissatisfied with all the crimes perpetrated in his name by Trump As much as all the others in the city. (The title of the episode is a game of words with the name Paramount.)
Friends of Randy say that this is not what they wanted when they voted Trumpclaiming that compassion for others is not bad and that there is no problem taking care of at least a little on the environment. However, they also end up being prosecuted and ordered to pay for millions of dollars, as well as recording a public service announcement in their support. Unfortunately, what they probably seem to get even more TrumpBoth the slightly imaginary version of the series and the real version. Cut in a live action scene generated by Trump Wandering in the desert, gradually removing the clothes to reveal his naked and obese body, until the sand collapses and his micropenis appears, with wide eyes and an acute voice that says: “They are Donald J. Trump and approval this message”.
On the one hand, it seems ironic Parker AND Calculation be the only ones to pursue Trump So difficult, by the philosophy that governs South Park For so long it was that the care of everything is stupid and that essentially there is no difference between the two main political parties in the United States – an attitude that has infiltrated different generations of people who grew by observing the series and therefore helped to create an environment in which an self -centered and delirium convention as Trump It could be elected twice. Said that, Parker AND Calculation Occasionally he showed regret for this attitude: in 2006, they were incessantly mocking attempts To gore To warn people of climate change and, in 2018, they made an episode in which the satirical goal was now the negotiations of climate change, while Gore He received literal excuses from the characters.
But the long story of Parker AND Calculation In mocking seriousness in many ways it makes them the ideal presentation system for an episode like this. Colbert Has been deleted because the president is sensitive and anyone who makes jokes about him despises, but but Colbert I was also preaching to converts. The fact of South Park I brought this ferocity – not only deriding TrumpBut be so direct and relentless in his criticism of him: he will have much more impact and will attract more attention than a famous and clearly liberal television conductor who says the same things.
Desperate times mean that you cannot afford to question the credentials of all those who are on your side, even if it is only temporarily. Parker AND Calculation They can be very politically evasive, so the couple could once again insist on the fact that their main objective is to play the devil’s lawyer for any conventional wisdom of the moment.
The White House issued a statement that complained of the episode, but until the time of drafting this text, the Trump He hadn’t answered yet. Of course, everything that says or public will only attract more attention to this portrait in a flattering way, but its impulses historically controlled this kind of thing is not strong.
In this regard, Parker AND Calculation They will talk to 6,000 people at the San Diego Convention Center, with their words instantly broadcast on the Internet. Given their traditional lack of respect for the authority – including the people who pay them – it would not be surprising if they had abandoned this episode in part because they knew that it would have hindered the approval of the agreement Skydance for the Fccand/or because they really expect it Trump Try to process them: $ 1.5 billion are the definition of “fucking” money and a dispute would only attract more attention to the episode, not to mention a program that is rarely commented with both volume and frequency as the 90s and 2000s.
In delicate times like this, some things must be said aloud, even if they are full of children’s jokes on the penis. When many of your colleagues are afraid of making criticism, even if it’s just a superficial comment, Parker, Calculation AND South Park They simply embarked us. The reasons do not count. At the end of the episode, Cartman renounce your suicide attempt after Butters It helps him to convince him that there is always hope for a return to the world in which the hateful trolling of Cartman It will again be a minority voice that opposes the main current. We can all have the same hope.
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