South Park creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone have responded to their Season 27 premiere, which noticed a less-than-impressed response from the White Home to the present’s depiction of President Donald Trump.
The episode, which aired on Wednesday night time and is streaming on Paramount+, depicts Trump in mattress with Devil, makes references to the president’s urging for individuals to maneuver on from the so-called “Epstein checklist”, and includes a deepfake PSA sequence wherein Trump is portrayed as stumbling by the desert, getting bare, and revealing a speaking micropenis, which states, “I am Donald J. Trump, and I endorse this message.”
The White Home’s indignant response to the South Park episode was palpable, with White Home spokesperson Taylor Rogers saying in an announcement printed by ABC Information, “This present hasn’t been related for over 20 years and is hanging on by a thread with uninspired concepts in a determined try for consideration.”
Parker and Stone appeared on a panel at San Diego’s Comedian-Con Worldwide on Thursday, throughout which the pair have been requested if they’d anticipated the response to their South Park episode. “We’re terribly sorry,” Parker responded, staring out to the viewers.
‘South Park’s Trump-bashing Season 27 premiere has the White Home fuming
Through the panel, Parker stated South Park‘s producers requested the animated micropenis within the deepfake sequence be blurred.
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“They like, ‘OK, however we’re gonna blur the penis,’ and I am like, ‘No you’re not gonna blur the penis,’” Parker stated. Stone chimed in saying, “We put eyes on the penis. If we put eyes on the penis, we can’t blur it. That was an entire dialog with grown-up individuals for about 4 fucking days.”
“As a result of then it is a character!” stated Parker.
The Season 27 South Park premiere, aptly titled “Sermon on the ‘Mount,” additionally took jabs at Paramount, days after Parker and Stone signed a $1.5 billion cope with the corporate for international streaming rights to South Park and 50 new episodes over 5 years. Specifically, the episode roasts Paramount’s $16 million settlement with Trump, wherein the president alleged “deceitful” modifying of a 60 Minutes interview with former Vice President Kamala Harris. The settlement has been criticised by press freedom advocates and notably, The Late Present host Stephen Colbert, the latter who labelled it a “huge fats bribe,” days earlier than his present was unceremoniously cancelled by Paramount-owned community CBS — which claimed it was unrelated.
Within the South Park episode, there is a 60 Minutes section displaying reporters terrified to make anti-Trump statements (“he is in all probability watching”) and a storyline wherein Trump sues the city, ensuing within the residents being slapped with a hefty settlement payment and an order to run pro-Trump PSAs just like the aforementioned NSFW deepfake nude scene.
“You guys noticed what occurred to CBS? Yeah, properly, guess who owns CBS? Paramount,” says Jesus (sure, Jesus) throughout a key scene within the episode. “Do you actually need to find yourself like Colbert?”
