Entertainment, ‘South Park’ went too far (and is therefore glorious) while the media is dominated by fear, animation creators launch a scanned criticism of US President Donald Trumppor Writing

This article contains spoilers of the 27th season of South parktransmitted at Paramount+.

Almost three decades after the debut of South parkits creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone They are still able to display impeccable timing.

The launch of Season 27 of the animated comedy arrived a week after the CBS canceled the THe Late Show with Stephen Colbertapparently to appease the government Trump and lubricate the wheels for a fusion between the Paramountcontrolling company of CBSand the SkyDance Media.

It happened only a few days after Parker and Stone close a new five -year agreement and $ 1.5 billion with the Paramount for streaming rights of South parkwhich meant that this would be the first new episode to be made available the next day in the Paramount+instead of HBO MAX. And debuted the night before the appearance of Parker and Stone in a panel in Comic-Con in San Diego. The stars rarely aligned themselves so perfectly for the duo to try to reach the biggest possible target, at a time when they have the greatest possible spot about themselves. And they enjoyed it.

The episode “Sermon on the ‘Mount” It starts focused mainly on parish issues inside its small village in Colorado. Cartman is dismayed to learn that the presidential government canceled the NPRthat he heard just to laugh at all liberal voices complaining on public radio. As other symbols disappear – including the Director PC now bringing the literal Jesus Christ to his school and renamed himself as Director Power Christian – Cartman goes through an existential crisis.

Because if no one else is defending liberal values, your own persona is no longer transgressive. Meanwhile, the father of Stan, Randyargues that Jesus appearing in a public school is illegal and convinces his redneck friends that perhaps the president has taken his agenda too far. They assume that the US president be the Mr. Garrison – that worked as a substitute for Donald Trump in the program in the late 2010 – but he retired from politics to spend time with his boyfriend Rick.

From there, the action moves to the White House, where a animated version of Trump – With a photorealist head and a soft mouth (usually a symbol of South park For the Canadians) – it is soon portrayed, in a short time, how: a resorter that promotes a fundamentalist Christian agenda as a disguise to steal money from the government and the American people; A weeping narcissist who threatens to process anyone who does not Bajule and denies having a micropenis; and a complete dictator that – as Saddam Hussein in the movie South Park: Greater, better and without cuts “It’s literally in bed with Satan.” And the devil is not happier in this relationship than he was at that time with Saddam. He is undoubtedly even more miserable.

It is a blunt and blunt attack Trump – including an animated frontal nudity of the aforementioned micropenis. And happens at a time when many in the media – in particular, corporate heads of Parker and Stone “They are terrified of pointing out that the president is acting as a fascist, or that the only cause or person he apparently cares is himself.” The episode is relentless with Paramount, portraying several reporters from CBS News afraid to say anything that can antagonize the president and generate a court case.

It turns out that even Christ only returned to South park because he was sued, and he is so unhappy with all the crimes perpetrated in his name by Trump how much everyone else in the city. (The title of the episode is a pun with the name Paramount.)

The friends of Randy claim that this is not what they wanted when they voted in Trumparguing that compassion for others is not bad and that there is no problem caring at least a little about the environment. However, they also end up being prosecuted and ordered to pay it millions of dollars, as well as registering a public service announcement in their support. Unfortunately, what they make up probably seems to just get even more Trumpboth the slightly fictional version of the series and the actual version. Cut into a live-action scene generated by Trump Vagging through the desert, gradually taking off his clothes to reveal his bare and obese body, until he collapses in the sand and his micropenis appears, with wide eyes and a shrill voice that says, “I am Donald J. Trump and endorsement this message.”

On the one hand, it seems ironic that Parker and Stone be the only ones to pursue Trump so hard, since the philosophy that governs South park For so long it was that care about anything is stupid and that there is essentially no difference between the two main political parties in the United States – an attitude that infiltrated several generations of people who grew up watching the series and thus helped create an environment where an egocentric and delirious convender as Trump It could be elected twice. That said, Parker and Stone occasionally showed regret for this attitude: in 2006, they relentlessly mocking attempts Al gore to alert people about climate change and, in 2018, they made an episode in which the satirical target was now the negotiations of climate change, while Gore received a literal apology from the characters.

But the long history of Parker and Stone In mocking seriousness in many ways makes them the ideal presentation system for an episode like this. Colbert It was canceled because the president is sensitive and despises anyone who makes jokes about him, but Colbert I was also preaching to the converts. The fact of South park have brought this savagery – not just mocking Trumpbut being so direct and relentless in his criticism of him – he will have much more impact and will draw more attention than a famous and blatantly liberal TV host saying the same things.

Desperate times mean that you cannot afford to question the credentials of everyone who are on your side, even if it is only temporarily. Parker and Stone They can be very politically evasive, so the pair may once again insist that their main goal is to play the devil’s lawyer for whatever conventional wisdom of the moment.

The White House issued a statement complaining about the episode, but until the moment of the writing of this text, the Trump had not yet answered. Certainly, anything he says or publishes will only draw more attention to this portrait at all flattering, but his impulses control over this kind of thing historically is not strong.

About that, Parker and Stone They will speak to 6,000 people at the San Diego Convention Center, with their words being instantly transmitted throughout the internet. Given their traditional disrespect to authority – including people who pay them – it would not be surprising if they abandoned this episode in part because they knew it would hinder the approval of the agreement of Skydance for the FCCand/or because they really expect that Trump Try to process them: $ 1.5 billion is the definition of money “fuck”, and a dispute would only attract more attention to the episode, not to mention a program that is rarely commented with as much volume and frequency as it was in the 90s and 2000s.

At delicate times like this, certain things need to be said aloud, even if they are packed with children’s jokes on penis. When so many of your colleagues are afraid to make a criticism, even if it’s just a superficial comment, Parker, Stone and South park They simply embarked on it. Motivations don’t matter. At the end of the episode, Cartman gives up on your suicide attempt after Butters helps him convince him that there is always hope of a return to the world where the odious trolling of Cartman It will again be a minority voice opposing the main current. May we all have the same hope.

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