cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/33408045
Show begins 27th season covering Trump’s lawsuit against Paramount and cancellation of Stephen Colbert’s show, depicting Trump in bed with Satan
South Park has kicked off its 27th season with a blistering episode taking aim at Donald Trump and its newly minted parent company, Paramount, just one day after signing a $1.5bn deal with the network.
The premiere episode, “Sermon on the Mount,” sees Trump in bed with series regular Satan and covers topics including Trump’s lawsuit against Paramount, the cancellation of The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, wokeness, Trump’s attacks on Canada and more.
Unlike other characters, Trump is depicted as an actual photo of the US president on an animated body. There is also an extended scene featuring a hyper-realistic, deepfake video of Trump, completely naked, walking in a desert. There are repeated suggestions that Trump’s genitalia are small.
So this was absolutely incredible. Anyone else seen it?
This is being reported as being unrelated, and I also think this is better for a different community. Could you add some context for how it is related to Canada? I haven’t seen the episode myself. Else it might be better for places like !television@piefed.social or !casualconversation@piefed.social.
If you were looking to discuss with other Canadians specifically, maybe we could use casual discussion community for that purpose?
The Canadian Prime Minister was in it.
I wasn’t sure whether to put it here but yes, Canada’s involved in this episode so I thought other Canadians might want to know or talk about it. The thing with throwing it in a different Canada-discussion commhnity is that likey very few would see it and discuss, because we’re still relativey small overall. For that reason I think the approach which gets more people interested in Canada to see content relevnt to Canada is to use the topmost Canadian community - /c/Canada. As the number of users grows, the increased noise in this community would necessitate moving more topics to more specific communities, and at that point they’ll get more engagement there.
I’ll unpin my comment and dismiss the report :)
That makes sense to me. Maybe we can encourage people to post them as text posts, with the link in the body and a title that makes it seem more like a discussion starting post?
At the same time, it’s not too difficult to check on the posts on a case by case basis at our current size, and by the time that’s no longer possible we would have the momentum to support other communities. So it’s not a big deal
Yes baby, and thank you for your work!
c/SouthPark would love it! We’re a Canada-centric south park fan community.
Right wing shill mod. No surprises, people who pursue positions of power are all utterly fucking rotten. You’re no exception 🤢.
Lol give your balls a tug there bud
Mod is asking if an American show about an American politician is relevant to Canada
Did something from my comment give that impression? I haven’t removed the post yet if that’s the concern.
Someone reported this post as being unrelated to the topic of this community (Canada), and I’m following up on it by asking the poster to add context for why they posted it here. Most likely the post will stay up since it has a lot of discussion already.
Tone down the aggressive far right FUD flinging already. Are you even Canadian?
I really can’t tell if this is serious or sarcasm because of the original comment, but I’ll reply with the assumption that it’s serious:
The reason I followed up is because (as the other comment said), it seemed like news about an american show, discussing american political issues. While those issues are directly affecting life here in Canada, this community often gets complaints about having too much american news and content. We can already see and follow along with the same news in other communities, and some users come to this space to get away from all that.
Sometimes I can dismiss a report outright if I can see the relevance, and other times I might leave a comment asking about it, such as this post. The author replied with the justification and the post was left up.
Yes, I’m Canadian, and you’ll find that my post history reflects that
Is there /s missing?
WTF is this?
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I saw some of the clips (cause I havent sailed the high seas in awhile) but what I saw was in the category of “holy shit, I cant believe they did that” in their mockery of Trump. I mean its one thing to insinuate President Small Hands is, uh, tiny where it matters, but a very realistic looking Dirty Don with his miniature manhood was hilariously over the edge. Incredibly brave considering Mr. Micro loves to sue anyone or everyone who offends his overblown ego, but I think the boys know that in the court of public opinion a suit against a very popular comedy team isn’t going to go well for Donnie.
Between this episode and Powell cutting him off at the knees in a live interview, the Orange Turd hasn’t had a very good week. I dont think even the lovely Ms Leavitt can save his ass this time.
This is the power of being on the air for 28 years, expecting to get cancelled since the start, and not caring if they do anymore. They can embrace risky content.
Given CBS cancelled their top show, and is owned by Paramount, maybe this is the last show season that will finally set them free 😂
I think they’re begging them to get canceled. As if to prove to everyone still in disbelief that freedom of speech is dead under Trump. Which they’ll probably succed in, should they get canceled.
As if to prove to everyone still in disbelief that freedom of speech is dead under Trump.
At this point they may be the first liberals disappeared to the gulags.
They just got renewed for 5 years for $1.5 Billion, so I am thinking that either paramount can kiss the sale of their business good bye or kiss a lot of money good bye after settling with Trump then again with the creators of South Park.
Edit fixed some spelling.
This is beautiful 🥹
As much as I love their direction, i still have trouble taking their commentary seriously because they played a part in creating the gen X/Millenial bump of wierd conservatives who think they’re smarter than everybody because they’re “independent” conservatives.
Like their central ethos was “caring about people is for losers”.
The anti-climate change, pro-Walmart, pro-Starbucks whatever-era was annoying as fuck. Like you said, it’s not directly South Park but their annoying fans taking their shit too seriously.
Internet threads talking about climate change had some “man bear big” bullshit going around.
The thing is that I watched South Park during that time too and I loved a lot of the episodes. I just didn’t take their commentary too seriously. I’m just like, “well they’re obviously wrong”. I was a Richard Dawkins fan and had no problem with them skewering him at the time either.
They at least admitted they were wrong on Man Bear Pig. Agree on the sentiment though they share a big part in creating the “enlightened centrist” bullshit
Ah the enlightened centrists! I have a couple of such friends who are confidenty wrong all the time.
The anti-climate change, pro-Walmart, pro-Starbucks whatever-era was annoying as fuck
They were ripping on all of those things. Man Bear Pig wasn’t climate-change denial it was commentary on climate change denial.
Can’t blame south park for conservatives not getting shit. That’s their thing.
I meant that the fans were annoying as fuck. I think my post was to highlight that I enjoyed the episodes but hated the fans that came out of it.
Trey and Matt aren’t like climate scientists or whatever, they’re comedy writers with a political edge. Even if they’re blatantly wrong with their commentary I don’t really blame them. It’s that we take them too seriously.
Fair. I don’t interact with the people you do. But what you saying does explain why SP felt it necessary to spell it out in season 22. I’m guessing the guy in this scene is a parody of the folks you’re talking about.
I always saw manbearpig as a scathing criticism of how everyone ignored Al Gore because the effects of climate change weren’t visibly in front of us.
Like their central ethos was “caring about people is for losers”.
Worse even, IMO, their strategy of “attack every position so we can’t be seen as biased” meant their effective ethos was “caring is for losers”
Yeah there’s definitely some of that. I don’t know if they made these people or these people flocked to SP because they see some of themselves in it. I guess people who don’t have established belief systems can be influenced that way. I’ve always viewed it from a leftist lens and perhaps I see what I want to see and miss what I don’t. They’re often ambiguous enough to let me do that. I can totally see how that could and perhaps does work differently for others.
What people take away for themselves is a function of their already-existing bias. I watched south park during a formative period of my life and the lesson I took away is that everything can be laughed at, and how ridiculous some of the things we take for granted are.
If you haven’t, just sit down and watch it.
The ending just about killed me. Couldn’t breathe for a few minutes there.
Ending is available on HeTrumpedUs.com which is shown on end the PSA.
This is art doing its job.
South Pork
Aww he loves ewe.
He has been a baad boy. All them sheeply screwing ewe!
Is it up on the comedy central site already? Gonna watch it if so
I sailed the high sea’s to watch it, I have no intention of paying or giving data to a US company to watch it.
Matt & Trey got theirs. They don’t care if we don’t pay Paramount.
I set radarr up on one of my pi’s to get the episode. At the end of January through to mid April, I think, I was trying to write scripts (I barely know my way between a if and a fi but the scripts where written in bash) to automatically download things but when I finally got it working I told some friends about it who than smashed my hard work with telling me about the arr apps.
I think I started with Jackett because it worked with my scripts and Transmission. The friend introduced me to Sonarr and Radarr so I set them up to replace my scripts. Something happened a little while ago and my home lab freaked out and decided to stop working so I had to rearrange my stuff. I went deeper into checking out the *arr apps and discovered that prowlarr would be so much better than Jackett.
If something happens again I may look into other options but hopefully my current setup will work.
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