Since securing a $1.5 billion payday from Comedy Central's parent company, Paramount, for five years of new episodes with reruns streaming on Paramount+, Parker and Stone have been ferociously skewering the administration in the opening episodes of season 27. The premiere roasted Paramount and President Donald Trump, who's succeeded Saddam Hussein as Satan's boyfriend. (Caution: Spoilers ahead.)
Episode two, which aired August 6, features two parallel storylines. Clyde Donovan has started a white nationalist podcast, and despite its unpopularity with his schoolmates, it's working for him. "Prove me wrong," he says to a small crowd. "That sounds like a very female and Jew thing to say. If you guys don't like it, why don't you come debate me on my podcast?" Clyde's trying to cover his bases financially, as he explains to Mr. Mackey in the counselor's office. "My nut's about $60 a week," he tells Mr. Mackey. "As a kid, if you can do a podcast, say some really divisive shit, you can make your nut."
When PC Principal bursts in and suddenly fires Mr. Mackey due to government cuts, Mr. Mackey's forced to confront his own nut, which leads him to an ICE recruitment ad that appears on his phone. It has a jazzy jingle: "We don't ask for experience, just show up/We don't care if you've read a book, or grown up/If you're crazy, or fat and lazy, we don't care at all!" Mackey is hesitant, but his nut is $8,000 a month.
The storylines branch from there: Cartman is pissed that Clyde's stolen his anti-Semitic edgelord shtick and tries to take his podcast crown, showing up in a Charlie Kirk fashy haircut and repeating lines verbatim that Kirk has spewed on his show. Kirk, enjoying the attention, reveled in it on X after the show aired.
Kristi Noem shows up at Mr. Mackey's ICE orientation, and when her face isn't slipping off onto the floor due to the botox wearing off, she's shooting puppies and glamorously drinking wine once her hair and makeup team reaffix her face. J.D. Vance is a new entry — like Saddam and Trump, Vance's face is photorealistic, a true mark of evil in the South Park universe. Vance appears in a white suit next to Trump, also in a white suit like Mr. Roarke from Fantasy Island, while Vance is given the body of Roarke's assistant Tattoo and an exaggerated accent.
Mackey wins accolades from Noem for his roundups: "If they're brown, they go down," Noem hollers as they round up dark-skinned angels in heaven. Mackey and Clyde both end up at Mar-a-Lago with Trump and Vance, where rooms are filled with older men getting massages from young women, including Dora the Explorer.
Round two marked another win by Parker and Stone against the Trump administration; we'll have the popcorn ready for round three.
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