South Park has returned — and isn’t holding back.
After taking a week’s hiatus, the animated parody series skewered President Donald Trump, Vice President J.D. Vance, and Federal Communications Commission Chair Brendan Carr on Wednesday.
Trey Parker and Matt Stone, who created Comedy Central’s hit animated series, had said in a joint statement on Sept. 17 that a new episode wouldn’t air because they had missed a deadline.
“Apparently when you do everything at the last minute sometimes you don’t get it done,” they said. “This one’s on us. We didn’t get it done in time. Thanks to Comedy Central and South Park fans for being so understanding. Tune in next week!”
But the series jumped right back into politics, where it caught viewers up on the story of Trump expecting a baby with Satan. The character later realized that a baby would end life as he knows it, so he set about trying to trick Satan into losing the baby.
More than once, the traps that he set for the expectant red guy ended up harming Carr, like when the animated president cooked Plan B into soup that Carr swooped in and ate. He survived the Plan B Trump trap, but eventually, Carr ended up in the hospital.
“I’m afraid he may lose his freedom of speech,” a doctor said of the First Amendment flip-flopping FCC head.
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The animated Vance then visited Carr, menacingly telling him that he shouldn’t do what the gang wants and take down a politically divisive online poll about Kyle’s mom, who is Jewish.
“We can do this the easy way or the hard way,” the cartoon vice president said to Carr, parroting the real-world FCC leader’s own words when he suggested that Jimmy Kimmel, the host of ABC’s late-night talk show Jimmy Kimmel Live, be taken off the air.
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Kimmel was suspended by ABC’s corporate owner, Disney, following comments he made on his show about the “MAGA gang” response to conservative activist Charlie Kirk’s suspected killer. Kimmel was back on the air Tuesday — at least in most places — and scored big ratings.
The latest season of South Park premiered on July 23, although new installments of the show now air every other week instead of weekly, as it has done in the past.
