South Park Takes on Betting Markets, Trump, and the FCC

South Park returned with a brand new episode on Wednesday, centered on on-line betting, Israel’s warfare on Gaza, and President Donald Trump’s makes an attempt to abort a child that’s due after he impregnated Devil. However FCC Chairman Brendan Carr appeared to take probably the most abuse throughout the episode, one thing that was to be anticipated after Carr tried to get Jimmy Kimmel Live! removed from ABC. Spoilers forward.

South Park unexpectedly did not ship a brand new episode final week following the loss of life of MAGA influencer Charlie Kirk. And whereas creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone mentioned it was as a consequence of their very own procrastination, there was hypothesis that it could have had one thing to do with Kirk’s loss of life. South Park did an episode mocking Kirk’s type of debate on Aug. 6, a month earlier than he was killed on Sept. 10, and that episode has been pulled from the rerun schedule.

However the comedy present didn’t handle Kirk in any respect on Wednesday, even when it touched on among the downstream results of his homicide. The episode put Brendan Carr, this month’s nice villain in opposition to free speech, by the ringer as he takes a tumble down some slippery stairs, explosively shits his pants, and is ultimately hospitalized whereas making a Nazi salute.

The episode opens with the boys studying about prediction markets like Polymarket and how one can make bets on-line. One of many bets obtainable is whether or not Kyle’s mother will strike Gaza and destroy a Palestinian hospital, one thing that enrages Kyle, who objects to the anti-semitism inherent within the concept and tries to contact somebody to get the guess taken down. Kyle tries to complain to the betting firm, run by Donald Trump Jr., earlier than he’s directed to a collection of various companies, additionally overseen by Donald Trump Jr.

Finally, Kyle is instructed he must get in contact with the FCC, for the reason that guess is “offensive” and the federal communications regulator apparently handles something offensive today. In the meantime, Cartman realizes he can work all of Kyle’s outrage to his benefit, getting individuals to guess that Kyle’s mother will certainly order a strike on Gaza, whereas Cartman bets in opposition to it.

Trump, who’s largely been the main target of Season 27’s quick five-episode run to this point, works exhausting to get Devil to have a miscarriage, spiking soup with an absurd quantity of Plan B. Devil doesn’t need the soup, however Carr dives in, getting diarrhea so explosive that he zooms across the room earlier than crashing out the window into the sky.

JD Vance returned as a personality from the Seventies TV present Fantasy Island, seemingly sycophantic and making an attempt to counsel presents that President Trump may give to Devil’s youngster. Vance warns that one reward, a kitten, might be poisonous for pregnant individuals, provided that toxoplasmosis could cause miscarriages. This, in fact, offers Trump the concept to outfit the White Home attic with a bunch of cats and kitty litter, which might be launched by a lure door onto Devil. Assuming Trump can get Devil to face in the correct place. Once more, the FCC chair bears the brunt of Trump’s scheming, getting buried beneath the mountain of kitty litter and cat shit.

Cartman panics when he learns that Kyle’s mother is heading to the Center East, anxious that she may very well hit Gaza and his guess will probably be ruined. However Kyle’s mother didn’t journey to Israel to enact violence, simply give Benjamin Netanyahu a bit of her thoughts.

Brendan Carr, battered and bruised, is visited by Vance within the hospital, the place the vp reveals himself to be extra than simply Trump’s lackey. Vance is aware of precisely what he’s doing by making an attempt to get Devil to have a miscarriage. As a result of he is aware of that if Trump and Devil had been to have a child, it could be competitors throughout Vance’s ascendancy to the presidency.

Viewers by no means study what occurs to Carr, nevertheless it looks like a secure guess that he’ll return in future episodes. And that’s constant together with his present trajectory in actual life. The FCC chairman efficiently campaigned to get Jimmy Kimmel pulled from the airwaves, however that was short-lived. Kimmel returned on Tuesday, and the New York Times studies that he’s nonetheless going to exert most strain to get liberal voices purged from the airwaves.

President Trump, who additionally bought Stephen Colbert cancelled, dropped the pretense Tuesday that the “controversy” round Kimmel had something to do with Charlie Kirk’s loss of life.

“I can’t consider ABC Faux Information gave Jimmy Kimmel his job again. The White Home was instructed by ABC that his Present was cancelled!” Trump posted on Truth Social.

“One thing occurred between then and now as a result of his viewers is GONE, and his ‘expertise’ was by no means there. Why would they need somebody again who does so poorly, who’s not humorous, and who places the Community in jeopardy by taking part in 99% constructive Democrat GARBAGE,” Trump continued.

Then Trump made it clear that he’s by no means going to cease.

“He’s yet one more arm of the DNC and, to the perfect of my information, that will be a serious Unlawful Marketing campaign Contribution,” Trump wrote about Kimmel. “I believe we’re going to check ABC out on this. Let’s see how we do. Final time I went after them, they gave me $16 Million {Dollars}. This one sounds much more profitable. A real bunch of losers! Let Jimmy Kimmel rot in his unhealthy Scores.”

On paper, South Park has been secure from cancellation, if solely as a result of Carr and the FCC solely regulate the foremost broadcast stations, not cable. However Trump can apply strain to personal companies in any variety of methods. Disney is reportedly making ready for simply that within the wake of Kimmel’s return.