South Park returns for its 22nd season September 26th on Comedy Central. The examiners of America’s petri dish have never looked at a specimen quite like the post-normal Trump dystopia.
Creators Matt Stone and Trey Parker masterfully spoofed candidate Trump through Mr. Garrison’s hypocritical bigotry but struggled to reconcile his victory in Season 20.
Wisecrack argued the season long narrative convoluted the revolving story plots.
While memberberries, trolling, and Trump correlate, the season’s conclusion flounders at tying together whatever theme they wanted to convey.
Stone and Parker had prepared for Hillary Clinton to win the nomination titling an episode “The Very First Gentleman” but pivoted away.
They’ve gambled on the election several times using the betting odds to determine plot lines before Barack Obama won both of his terms.
A confluence of Trump’s surprising victory and risking an entire season’s arc on Hilldawg, for once, befuddled the unflappable duo.
In the following season, South Park mostly averted Trump and serialization. In the finale “Splatty Tomato” Garrison gets an assist in avoiding Fox News traps.
“Thank God for The Whites”
The show found its ground again clowning current discourse each week ribbing Netflix for green lighting every project, putting seniors out to pasture, smart speakers taking ‘er jerbs!
Still, Stone and Parker couldn’t completely avoid Trump buddy which brings us to 2018. A question looms for me, how will South Park cohabit with Trump this season? Should they even attempt to address our collective numbness to his rhetoric and policies?
Every comedian, late night, and satirical news host already riffs on Trump daily. South Park stands above all of them yet will demeaning him only add to the rabble? Will they get lost in the noise or possibly recapture the smack down they put on society?
We’re living in a world where The President faces no consequences for any rhetoric or policies. Tomorrow a tape can leak with Trump uttering the n-word upsetting most, not all, of the country for a few days.
Anyone else would get fired or resign from their job.
Trump pimped himself as a deal maker and a fiscally responsible stable genius yet wants a military parade costing tax payers an estimated $90 million and requesting $25 billion for a wall he said Mexico would pay for.
We can disagree about how we structure our government, how much tax to collect and spend. America was founded on the right to disagree, but we’ve lost discourse.
I’m guilty of it too. As Kyle once humbly said “one fourth of Americans are retards.” We’re all wrong sometimes. Unfortunately the current President attacks those who correct him like Mao Zedong and Richard Nixon.
The little mountain town will have their opportunity to dissect the country. Can they decipher The Giant Douche or will they avoid him all together?
Would avoiding him make us eventually question and dethrone South Park as the satirical lords?
All these questions make this 22nd season perhaps the most intriguing season since “You’re Getting Old” the half way point of season 16.
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