Trey Parker and Matt Stone may be getting a call from corporate soon.
The South Park creators’ latest episode, “Sora Not Sorry,” tackled the ever-escalating world of AI as two plots unraveled in Colorado and Washington. While Butters, his friends, and Detective Harris dealt with a disturbing deepfake epidemic at South Park Elementary, a cartoon President Donald Trump and Vice President JD Vance schemed around the White House trying to figure out what to do with Trump and Satan’s demon baby.
Eventually, Trump and Vance are depicted moving things from the hot tub to the Lincoln Bedroom… and things quickly devolve from there. The lovemaking soundtracked by Foreigner’s “I Want to Know What Love Is” elicited understandable horror from the far corners of social media. With one X commenter writing, “Thanks for the nightmares I’m gonna have tonight South Park.” Another lamented, “OMG I can’t unsee that,” alongside a GIF of Homer Simpson washing his eyes with bleach.
In response to a screenshot of the hot tub scene posted by South Park, an X user declared, “That was hilarious. Trump & Vance upstaged the puppet sex scene in Team America.”
South Park has leaned heavily into politics and the MAGA storyline for its current season, and its latest episode arrives days after the New York Times published its interview with Parker and Stone. “It’s not that we got all political,” Parker said. “It’s that politics became pop culture.”
Stone added that “new taboos” had emerged amid a fear of speaking out against the Trump administration. “Trey and I are attracted to that like flies to honey,” Stone said. “Oh, that’s where the taboo is? Over there? OK, then we’re over there.”
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