South Park is, without question, the smartest show on television. Despite it being a mix of dirty jokes and fart humor, beneath that surface is a show willing to say what the vast majority aren’t willing to about today’s society. It’s why South Park continues to be a favorite for many Americans, and continues to exist in the midst of an ever-changing media landscape.
At some point, if you become popular enough, you will be lampooned by South Park creators Matt Stone and Trey Parker: two men who have been unafraid to make fun of people who really don’t want to be made fun of for years.
This time, they took aim at Disney/Lucasfilm studio head Kathleen Kennedy and woke culture itself, which has demanded that anyone and everyone be replaced with “diverse” characters.
In the latest episode, one of the four main characters, Eric Cartman, is describing a bad dream he keeps having to a therapist he’s seeing. Cartman notices that all of his friends are being replaced by “diverse” versions of themselves. Cartman himself has been replaced with a black woman, and as he goes through his school, he notices that everyone he cares about has been replaced with a Hispanic, Asian, or black version of themselves.
According to the dream, it’s all Kathleen Kennedy’s fault.
Eventually, he finds the real version of Kathleen Kennedy and gets an explanation as to what was going on. Apparently, Kennedy found the “pander stone” in her universe, an artificially intelligent object that creates the same movie over and over again, while still making a lot of money. However, as Kennedy used the pander stone more and more, it angered the audience, forcing her to use it more out of spite.
Soon, the over-use of the pander stone opens a portal to other universes, allowing another Kennedy to come through, one that seemed fused with Cartman. This Kennedy takes over and is now making everything more “diverse.”
“That’s actually the best explanation I’ve heard as to why Disney movies all suck now,” says Cartman.
Earlier this year, Parker and Stone tackled the ridiculous self-victimization of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle, a couple that was enjoying a stint by painting themselves as the hated black sheep of the Royal Family. The episode featured a duo who resembled the duo in every way save they were from the Royal Family of Canada. They went on a “Privacy Tour,” while effectively forcing everyone to pay attention to them, including one of South Park’s main characters, Kyle Brofloski.
(READ: South Park Demolishes Harry and Meghan, Thus Retaining Its Status as the GOAT)
While it’s unclear if South Park was responsible for Harry and Meghan’s star fading from the public, it surely started happening after the episode.
This is the same show that stuck its middle finger directly at China, going so far as to have one of their characters say “f***, China” in an episode about Chinese censorship. Hilariously, it was another episode that went after Disney for its continued bending of the knee to the communist Chinese government.
All in all, South Park continues to prove that it’s one of the more important shows on television — as it’s one of the few willing to speak the truth.
