South Park's History of Presidential Parody

[@bored588]

i'm waiting for them to bring satan back and bring up diddy, remember even satan himself said "I dont want to do it, if diddy did it" that line now has double meaning.

[@_booth7992]

Manbearpig killed satan right?

[@Userbotted]

@@_booth7992maybe diddy could carry satan’s torch lmao

[@TheNewSchmoo]

@@_booth7992 Yeah but where was he going to go? Detroit?

[@fungusghoul]

​@@TheNewSchmoo No, they literally show him go up to heaven in a show of dramatic irony. Boy's desd dead.

[@personthing7733]

@@Userbotted that would be pretty funny considering satan's line

[@BarnOfTrinkets]

Garrison should just show up at South Park elementary all pissed off, slams his stuff on the table and complain that he lost the 2024 election to Donald Trump.

[@BarnOfTrinkets]

Stan Replies: That's gay. - Life carries on.

[@Soectator]

I actually really like this idea

[@tylergully8724]

That’s actually really good

[@chrisunruh8217]

I think they should pull a 180 like they did with manbearpig and admit they were wrong about Trump. The popular vote has spoken. People don't see him as the chaotic monster he was made out to be, and South Park dropped the ball and just went with the same obvious depiction that other TV shows have done. They missed out on portraying the hysterical reaction to Trump. They missed out on having one or two of the boys being a supporter, and having some actual insightful conflict. It was just the same shit, except for making him Garrison.

[@loveg0110]

They were not wrong about trump though? You Americans are crazy

[@SpencerJ289]

The Obama election episode will forever be their best election video. Turning the whole thing into a giant heist was genius pure gold.

[@Ehregott]

what he did not cover was the commentary this also provides: That no matter who gets elected - the American Public still will be robbed in one way or the other, paralleling their Turd Sandwich and Giant Douche Commentary.

[@elijahfordsidioticvarietys8770]

Politics have fallen so far since the days of 2008.

[@CyberLance26]

I have noticed that when Obama was president these shows never really made fun of him or joked about him in any negative ways it was more jokes about how great and cool he is or they made jokes about people around him that interacted with him and they never joked about him being stupid or incompetent or other negative stuff like with other people. And im talking about these shows in general and not only South Park.

[@kukikukito]

@@CyberLance26 it was all propaganda and media control since he ended being one of the worst things to reach the white house

[@Horvath_Gabor]

@@CyberLance26 Because Obama was a pretty inoffensive president, all things considered. He came after Bush, who was wildly controversial, and then he was followed by Trump, who was even more controversial. Biden didn't have much to make fun of either (other than being old and senile), because while he was making some silly public statements, his actual policies and media presence were pretty milquetoast, and now we're getting Trump again, which is... probably going to be a wild ride.

[@brynmisk]

"Afraid" is not the word. They just want to avoid being stuck with another gag character that they despise writing.

[@BigStankyToes]

my immediate thoughts, its just..not a good writing move

[@billyhatcher643]

i bet thats the situation right there they dont want to do the same shit they did before it did get annoying after a while but if they do it once in a while id be ok with it

[@kylegreene1356]

Nope! COP OUT. Never stopped 'em before Fanboy. I'd argue them being a dick to Terri Schiavo is a bigger low point than being up to date with politics for a show that prides itself on being UP TO DATE

[@connor4435]

@@kylegreene1356are you honestly saying that Garrison as trump for those 5 years genuinely made the show funnier or more enjoyable? They are making a comedy show first and foremost and being forced to parody people who are basically parodies of themselves in their own right does not make for a funny tv show

[@ln7929]

They say that but they still did alot of trump episodes even after his presidency and are probably gonna continue if he gets reelected

[@ajzeg01]

Looks like they’re losing Mr. Garrison again for 4 years.

[@KryXun]

nah, they should just ignore Trump, he doesn't even exist in South Park to begin with. No need to force that garbage into South Park, Matt and Trey said so themselves they didn't like season 20, Garrison Trump saga. We don't need part 2.

[@magapiff1]

@@KryXun it would be kinda fun seeing a single episode story of Garrison finding someone else to play Trump just to fully separate him from being the parody. maybe the boys help hide Garrison from the US government so they don't take him away then at some point Canadian Trump shows up for revenge and Garrison pins the presidency on him

[@nickthelaststand]

​@@KryXun I believe they hated writing for it because they originally had that whole season planned around Hilary winning instead of Trump. However when she lost they had to scrap that idea which produced a meh season to be honest.

[@KryXun]

@@nickthelaststand Also, I was wrong, I was rewatching some old South Park and they showed Trump, he's in the "IT" episode when Garrison builds his alternative to flying machine. Trump is one of the rich people he shows IT to.

[@LTRand]

They could write it off as member berry tape worm. Something that infested him so you can write an episode of separating that from Mr. Garrison and have the character return to "normal", yet at the same time have all the memories and shame.

[@BugsyFoga]

After how season 20 ended up, It’s probably best to stay far away from that

[@60NineK]

season who? dont remember her

[@BugsyFoga]

@ exactly

[@Lum_Fao]

JEZAS CHRIST YU PLL LOVE DRAMA

[@pshekchik]

Idk, season 20 story was pretty fun (the only thing that was lacking is Cartman's story imo)

[@BugsyFoga]

@@pshekchikWas a disaster behind the scenes though

[@maya993]

I genuinely believe that they wrote themselves into a corner with the Trump Garrisson thing and simply didn't want to end up in that position again.

[@dean_l33]

Then re-invent it otherwise I'm going to have to call them pussy

[@I_cant_sneed]

They did, they should have just used actual trump here and there like every other celebrity and politician they used. the fact they didnt want to give trump the satisfaction of being in the show really ended up biting them bad.

[@devildogkogg8353]

It was basically by accident too, because they were fully expecting Hillary to win so they could retire Garrison from being trump, since he'd be canonically out of the race and able to resume his life. They had to 180 their story in one day and Garrison was the major casualty of this

[@aikou2886]

Yeah, that was weird. More like a liberal weirdo having a temper tantrum because hillary didn't win so they didn't want to have him in the show at all. I know they planned the season for a female president so I don't get why they couldn't do something funny with it (like Trump impersonating hillary for example).

[@localmenace3043]

That’s literally the reason. Plus it’s boring and it got old really fast.

[@HopefulRain]

I’m actually surprised and a lil disappointed they did nothing with Biden

[@aleksabanjevic8316]

It was honestly strange, like, no one actually liked him, even the left didn't like him, literally no one would be mad if he was made fun of.... Maybe that's the issue, low hanging fruit? At least with other politicians, some ppl would be mad

[@Samuel-tq9jx]

Really the only joke is he’s old and can’t articulate a coherent sentence. Not much content. There is a lot of free content on the other side but Jesus that is a fight they may actually be too scared to take on.

[@sprprops1]

Considering SNL wouldn't dare make fun of Biden until recently it's interesting south park didn't do a single episode about him

[@ThePreciseClimber]

@@aleksabanjevic8316 South Park is all about low-hanging fruits!

[@TheSapphireLeo]

​@@aleksabanjevic8316Probably because it could be seen as promoting ageism and abelism?

[@josephst.george7841]

My middle school teacher used the 2000 election episode to teach us about that election, except they censored the parts of the episode that were inappropriate, so the entire thing was about 6/7 minutes total

[@BarnOfTrinkets]

Biden should have been Stan's Grandpa. Season 20 - Present are hit and miss episodes now.

[@cordyceps7531]

facts, to that second part

[@BarnOfTrinkets]

@@markborishnikoff5485 I disagreed with Matt Stone and trey Parker's opinion about them hating the first few seasons because I thought that was golden age south park. It is south park. My problem Im facing, and I don't want to lose interest in my favourite show is that it's becoming less cartoon and more of a sitcom. South park is and always will be a cartoon. It was a funny offensive raunchy fun and naughty cartoon that aired when you couldn't get away with much on tv. I don't like that they are starting to explain the jokes now, now Kenny dying for example. He has super powers? I hated that so much. It's a cartoon. I will never forget in space jam when bugs Bunny says that anything is possible in cartoon land. Kenny should be able to die and come back the next episode because it's an unrealistic offensive cartoon. It's just trying too hard to become a sitcom series.

[@DrSpaceman42]

S19 onwards is unwatchable imo

[@cordyceps7531]

@@DrSpaceman42 Same. Although, Put It Down is the only episode past that point that I'm willing to watch.

[@rivaraptor4277]

Bro I was WANTING an episode about the Chinese spy balloon so bad. It would be about Mr Kim making giant floating city wok ads that end up flying over the entire US and its mistaken as a spy balloon

[@Imbalto]

Its pretty impossible to satirize when the real world produces "THEYRE EATING THE DOGS"

[@neptune030]

its already a joke

[@Z3R0NU11]

Genuinely the best clip to come out of trump besides the paper landing on the table

[@JWCustoms]

😂🤣😂

[@Amenema]

This is pretty much exactly their reasoning too, it was funny when their lampooning was extraordinary based off exposing the fallacies, but now it’s already ridiculous so there’s nothing to make fun of, on top of the fact that it’s so transparently stupid and already over covered by media, it’s just boring low-hanging fruit that everyone has already made every conceivable joke about. There’s nothing to expose anymore.

[@bored588]

They already did that. it would be repeating a joke. well, it was dog shit, and lets not forget cartman playing with his dog in, the wrong ways. SouthPark could parody a parody, the writers can always make something already ridiculous, even more ridiculous, such as the whole Muhamad thing, its ridiculous that a group of people would go that far to prevent a simple animated version of a prophet to be shown on tv, so what did south park do, make it even more ridiculous. it would be easy to make the dog thing more ridiculous, could have city wok start selling dog.

[@claytonrios1]

I think they're just sick of covering presidents after Trump has been so dominant in American political discussions for almost a decade. Anyone would be tired of talking about politics for a while after that.

[@mr.x2855]

and imagine if you are not even American

[@claytonrios1]

@mr.x2855 I think people in other nations are sick of him as well.

[@STEPHxCA]

He’s hella funny tho lol the jokes write themselves if you don’t let legacy media here brainwash you

[@Matt-sk6hi]

​@@STEPHxCA Not really he has been doing the same jokes for 8 years now. Thump needs some new material.

[@apolloandwarrior_3229]

​@@Matt-sk6hi it's just sad at this point

[@LadyAndreaRose1701]

Its impossible to parody an election like this! It's already a parody of itself

[@jessicahutchinson9347]

They already covered the giant douche and turd sandwich so idk what other content they can make of this

[@Woodsmanparks]

​@@jessicahutchinson9347 I will always reference that episode until the end of time

[@powerist209]

Stil as Johnny2Cellos, even many of their takes didn’t age well. Especially comparing Kerry and Bush as “Douche vs Turd” since they thought Iraq War isn’t that dumb (keep in mind, hindsight and maybe most of the right takes have wrong metaphor like comparing it to German invading Sudetenland with Kurds or assume that Saddam is some sort of saint). Also the butterfly ballot critics being portrayed as kids who don’t know how to make simple check mark didn’t help.

[@alihorda]

More like hard to parody anything. Biden and Harris are boring. Trump was made fun of too many times. What to do here?

[@DSVlad]

@@alihorda bro the dude's son was banging whores and smoking crack, that was prime comedy material

[@TheDuckyDino]

I kinda hope Season 27 begins with a fake out that reveals that both Kamala and Garrison lost against Duck President or something, maybe as a way to make fun of 3rd party voters.

[@Johnny2Cellos]

That’s pretty good

[@orrorsaness5942]

@@Johnny2CellosKamala and Garrison lost to RFK. He is an anti war candidate so…

[@powerist209]

The thing is that I think that would be an issue since most South Park viewers are Libertarians. Like show can make fun of Republicans or Christian conservatives, but at the same time rooted in their ideology (especially when they try to cover viewpoints-like environmentalism and social issues, especially the latter where they aren’t equipped to do so in more social conscious internet culture for better or for worse unlike in previously “sound bites and headlines” informed audience-instead of Hollywood celebrities that look more like attack on the supporters.) And the moment Trump was invited to Libertarian party conference (also before that splintered with Neo liberal disillusion after 2008 recession and younger people no longer interested in it afterwards) they would hesitate making fun of their own fan base. Especially more overt things like that.

[@TheDuckyDino]

@@powerist209 I don’t think the average libertarian would care that much about being made fun of on South Park lmao. Plus Matt and Trey make fun of things they like all the time anyway.

[@neworldfool9625]

They would 100% make fun of Libertarians. They make fun of literally everyone else. Thing is 3rd party candidates aren’t really funny, it’s just tragic.

[@mupty]

In an interview that Matt & Trey did for Team America, they were asked why they didn't parody George W. in that movie. Their response was "If you want to see Bush-bashing in America you only have to walk about 10 feet to find it. Trey and I are always attracted to what other people aren't doing." In hindsight, this makes the fact that they went after Trump to the level that they did extremely hypocritical. Watching television around the 2015-2016 season was absolutely awful because just about every television show/sitcom...even the non-political shows, were shoving so much "Trump bad, immigration good" propaganda down the viewers throats. South Park had an opportunity to provide everyone an escapism from the political chaos that was occurring in media at the time, but instead they just did the exact same thing that the news, The Simpsons, Family Guy, and just about any other show on were doing. I have not watch the show past Season 20 with the exception of a few episodes/specials that stayed far away from this redundancy.

[@sardonically-inclined7645]

Not afraid as much as wise enough not repeat an unnecessary event.

[@GloriousGandalf]

They wrote themselves into a corner in 2016, and people still showed up to watch it. Mr. Garrison is Trump? That was a new and funny idea at the time. Now it's been eight years. It's been done. It's overdone. Matt and Trey are bored with the gag, and so are (some of?) the fans. You're right. It's simply wise not to do it again and be forced to do four more years of Trump jokes. No matter which side of the American political spectrum you fall under, I'm sure most fans are tired of Mr. Garrison as Trump.

[@dean_l33]

@@GloriousGandalf Maybe just create a new character to parody Trump or you know just introduce Trump in

[@arendvancraeynest7381]

Wait... The annoying neighbor from That's My Bush also played president Richard Martinez on Cory in the House! That's actually genius.

[@LegendStormcrow]

Never watched that, but that guy was vaguely familiar. Cory In The House was around the last time I had cable.

[@Phantom1356]

I never felt sorry for them with the Garrison /Trump episodes. They were stupid enough to wrap a canon character into a political figure, they can't bitch about it.

[@snavsmatiq]

Its still interesting to note how rabid the media was with trump, then flipping a 180 and babysitting biden. It adds to the feeling of "why is no one talking about this?"

[@JaggedBird]

To be fair, Biden was in the early stages of dementia during his time as president. It's why Harris took over during the recent election. It's a shame they didn't do anything with that...

[@BessieRiggs]

If they did a 2024 election episode or something, it would need to focus on the media cabal pushing false narratives of outlandish polling in support of either the giant douche or the turd sandwich.

[@onestopshockblockcockblockcop]

It still baffles me how people believe that the media was harsh on trump and soft on Biden when in reality it was the other way around.

[@jordanclark4635]

When you’re including South Park as media you’re already looking too broad to make any point

[@JaggedBird]

@@jordanclark4635 that and Biden has dementia so the 'babysitting' is understandable...

[@michaelmarsh1723]

"We're tired of covering Trump" **he gets elected for four more years, oWo**

[@motor4X4kombat]

People just want to make america boring again

[@thebatterymill]

He should just make small cameos like some of those other presidents

[@MeanBeanComedy]

​@@thebatterymill Bingo.

[@thebatterymill]

@ and we can have a cool new teacher too

[@Majinhero]

​@@thebatterymillwhat if mr garrison becomes president and trump is the replacement teacher?

[@drowsy1579]

I’m glad they aren’t covering it, I see too many political ads as is.

[@leergutlars]

I'm European and the last few weeks of social media just were filled with Kamala and Trump hatred... Like idk just don't ruin the stock market again and SHUT THE F UP. Literally every Topic was the elections and I'm sick of it.

[@GrayD_Fox]

I heard that

[@TheSapphireLeo]

​@@leergutlarsThat is also fascist and that and money should end, along with agriculture, for fruit baring forests, globally?

[@aerickmon3350]

@@TheSapphireLeonobody wants to hear for the millionth time a green plan for the stock market Everybody knows money should be done for it but nobody has settled on where it’s coming from so it’s a discussion not worth having

[@kjbrace12]

If they’re tired of parodying Trump, how come they continue to make Garrison a parody of Trump. Just end the whole thing if you’re not going to cover the election.

[@octapusxft]

I hope that they will not repeat the Garrisontrump. Let Mr Garrison remain himself instead of a stand in for someone else.

[@omg_julius5294]

They will have to, this is why you shouldn’t have voted for Trump for south park’s legacy’s sake, lol

[@octapusxft]

@@omg_julius5294 I am not even in the same continent as USA ;)

[@omg_julius5294]

@@octapusxft me neither(;

[@skimshady]

@@omg_julius5294they don’t have to it’s a cartoon world not a 1:1 recreation of the real world. That’s why they have a team of writers

[@omg_julius5294]

@@skimshady if they ever need the president in any plot they cannot just abandon garrison Trump they have to figure out a reason why it would need to change if it changes

[@dawisekrakken7026]

They all avoided Biden and Harris and the skits that could be made about them is pure comedy gold but they keep going back to Trump.

[@hassanalkhalaf1115]

Someone else said Biden should have been Stans grandpa and I can picture that perfectly!

[@zu__880]

That actually sounds like a brilliant idea.

[@SGTwizardfist]

They missed out on gold because politics, its lame.

[@dawisekrakken7026]

@ those that diddle kids tend to support Biden by not making fun of him. Just look how long it took SNL to make fun of them. Same with comedians… barely any one of them made fun of Biden but kept trashing Trump and MAGA. 😂

[@AnalyticalMenace]

Do they?

[@gubigubigubigubi]

South Park just randomly refusing to use actual real Donald Trump pretty much killed that show for me. Every other politician they directly use the person. But for what ever reason they did the whole stupid ass Mr.Garrison stand in for him and it really just ruined the whole show.

[@gumpyflyale2542]

I think they thought he was gonna lose in 2016

[@mupty]

Trump made a non-speaking cameo in the episode "The Entity". Of course that way back when the entertainment industry didn't had raging TDS like they do today.

[@ChillConservative2k15]

Yeah South Park has to take the L avoiding Biden all this time.

[@wjmoore17]

Donald Trump is the first person to break South Park. They overplayed their hand in 2016 and nothing has been the same since.

[@SOLO_4_LIFE]

They realized they were on the wrong side of history politically.

[@SamWickens]

I think another element here is that South Park has lost the edge they used to have over other other sources of comedic commentary - their speed. It used to be that South Park could have an episode making fun of current events as little as a week after it happened and the rest of the cable ecosystem had no chance of catching up. These days, even in the most optimistic circumstances, by the time South Park has spent a week making an episode about something stupid Trump says, the internet has already run every possible comedic angle into the ground and audiences are sick of hearing about it. They can still comment on general trends in society from their own perspective, but doing direct satire of specific events like campaign speeches or debates is way harder now without just boring people.

[@rlinders9972]

Honestly, the reason why I was really hoping to see South Park parody Biden was simply because the rest of the media wouldn't, and even when the media did all they'd makes jokes about were "lol he's old and forgetful", which was far tamer compared to how Trump (and Bush, Clinton, heck even Obama) would be mocked.

[@BobBlargingson]

Occam’s razor. They critique republicans more often because the creators seem to be middle left

[@aleksabanjevic8316]

Didn't they state multiple times they are right leaning?

[@blau6832]

American middle-left or actual middle-left? From what one can tell from the show itself, they seem left-libertarian, though that's over more than two decades.

[@basillah7650]

they are 100% democrats not make fun of obama bin laden or brandon joe.

[@aleksabanjevic8316]

@basillah7650 you do know that even most people who are left leaning don't like Biden?

[@Ausamte]

Matt and Trey aren't the same as they used to be they're not that fearless anymore

[@ronnato162]

Liberals have been using violence on people who insult them so they might avoid making fun of Kamala and Biden for safety reasons.

[@kamakiriad]

@@ronnato162 They were literally willing to show Muhammad on air in the face of Al Qaeda threats. This is blatantly misguided

[@dedster3164]

​@@kamakiriad it was literally more than 10 years ago

[@BigKat182]

@@kamakiriad Glad someone else already said it but yes they USED to be fearless. Now its all milquetoast. It's not that crazy to suggest they're not the "anti-culture" fighters they once were. Stuffs still funny but when's the last time they really went up against something actually controversial. Hell the screeching about how Trump 'stole' this election could be an episode in and of itself, pointing out the hypocrisy of both sides claiming to have been cheated when they lose but unwilling to hear the other when they win. They could still take their overall centrist or, picking fun at both sides approach. They've literally become the thing they claimed to hate, they're no more controversial than Family Guy, that show that will pick fun on the subjects everyone has already deemed it ok to pick fun at (Only Fans, Prime drinks, Ozempic. Really daring today aren't we?

[@notaprinny]

@@kamakiriad And when they did that, there weren't that many people in America who would attack them physically over it.

[@omarmansuri7099]

Garrison Trump really ended up backfiring huh.

[@FlameLFH]

Basically, Matt & Trey sit on the fence so hard that it splits them in half.

[@uckbritley1305]

Only in America is it a sin to not worship the Red soulless lizardpeople or the Blue soulless lizardpeople

[@FlameLFH]

@uckbritley1305 Spoiler: You can have political beliefs without worshipping politicians.

[@beardedwonder8333]

I mean they were more than happy to go after almost every other president and even us conservatives thought the Trump ones were funny, but suddenly Biden takes office and they disappear for a few years… it is kinda weird. Which hey I don’t really care about, I would almost prefer they went back to older style South Park and just entered politics here and there instead of full seasons of politics.

[@blau6832]

Hey there, you seem like you can actually be talked with on political stuff as someone who considers themselves conservative. And that on the internet, mind you! I'd really like to talk to you.

[@beardedwonder8333]

@@blau6832 yeah sure I’m up for some political banter.

[@blau6832]

​@@beardedwonder8333I should say for transparency, I'm not a US citizen, I live in the EU (and am happy for it), and lean left, mostly the worker's rights and 'mind your own business' kind. So, what do think of Trump and the Reps winning? Did you root for him?

[@beardedwonder8333]

@blau6832 So complete transparency I am conservative, I have a 2 year degree in firearms technology, I’ve worked in the firearm industry for 5 years and I’ve been shooting competitively for 2 years… So I have to vote like my career depends on it. Alright now that my political side is established, I am very happy he won. Under Biden Harris families with our income are drowning, and it’s really not too fun. Think about it like this Charlie Kirk brings this up a lot, under Trump to buy a home income was 75k~ yearly (I’m using usd I don’t know the conversion) under Biden Harris that yearly income to buy a home has doubled. Now obviously there’s more reasons I’m happy such as the 2a, taxes, ideology/religious reasons…etc. we can get into that later. For workers rights of course I think those are great as do a majority on both sides, I think the difference between us is that most liberals don’t realize that they can leave a garbage job to find better, meanwhile I and most others that think like me understand that moving up should be the goal. If garbage companies want to keep worker then they need to change their ways and treat and pay them better. Unfortunately McDonald’s here was a bad starting off point for the better pay thing, a meal used to be 7-8usd now they are 11-13usd… lol So it kinda proved the point that higher pay will mean more expensive food.

[@CrypticCobra]

@@blau6832 I'm also a "mind your own business" kinda person but it's hard for me to even say what way I lean with that because I view both sides to have vastly overreaching policies. If anything I'm on the "defund the government" side of things. (and that doesn't mean I suppose defunding the police, I say give them better training/wages, and stop funding so much political sht)

[@builttoscalevideos]

If I had to guess, Matt and Trey just didn’t want a repeat of 2016 and write an entire season only for it to be completely scrapped and rewritten within such a short span of time when the results came in. I’m guessing their thinking is that they’ll come up with better material if they know what the outcome actually is.

[@damiang888]

My money is on Trump fatigue and not having someone interesting in the Democrats side. Maybe if Biden was still the candidate there could be some kind of gag.

[@TheVileOne]

@@damiang888 I mean this video actually points out that Parker and Stone had fatigue about all the President Bush jokes, which I totally understand. They did it themselves a bit but after eight years they wanted to find fresh territory. Also, this whole process playing out is more like actual satire than anything that South Park would do.

[@frankielovejoy9928]

@@damiang888 Honestly, I don't blame them if that's the case. Whether people like or hate Trump, listening to every news source, TV personality or comedian go on and on about whatever random thing is going on with Trump every other week is exactly what the video says: It's just exhausting. It's overdone. It's boring. It doesn't feel like real news. I want to be able to watch the news without something like Trump getting trolled by teenagers getting in the way. I just don't care anymore.

[@dansmith1661]

Trump or Kamala, what a difficult outcome to predict.

[@hmlandis1370]

@@dansmith1661 To be fair, I kind of thought she'd win (even though she was terrible).

[@nunote2362]

they wanted so bad to avoid having trump on their show, they gave him one of their core characters and backed themselves into a corner for it. "we're not gonna give him the satisfaction of being in the show" would've been much easier if they had him show up in person for 1 or 2 episodes and disappear. their anger against him caused their own problem here.

[@YodaOnABender]

It’s annoying that they put the show on hiatus rather than just… not fucking make an episode about the election

[@Johnny2Cellos]

They’re making a movie

[@YodaOnABender]

@ so why not just say that instead of “we just don’t wanna cover the election this time”?

[@THISHANDLEHASNOTBEENTAKEN]

​@@YodaOnABenderBecause it's funnier

[@YodaOnABender]

@@THISHANDLEHASNOTBEENTAKEN how? They aren’t even telling a joke here dude

[@Johnny2Cellos]

They said a lot of things in the interview and cited the election as one reason they were glad they weren’t doing it this year.

[@saparapatepete]

I would argue that Biden is a gold mine for parody. Democrats's denial of his state, all his gaffes, or even how Biden's absence during his campaign was when his popularity was at his peak among many others,....that been said, maybe Matt and Trey thought that was all over done or they just didn't want to make so many Trump Garrison episodes and having Biden would logically bring Trump/garrison back.

[@erics8192]

If there was ever a president who was ripe for satire it was biden

[@jmann6130]

Maybe Biden could have been in Deep Learning where he gets replaced with a Chatbot.

[@eldest808]

Biden is literally Comedy Gold

[@jmann6130]

Looking back it would have made a lot of sense at the time

[@EnigmaticGentleman]

I do think its partly a shame, as a politics guy I think Kamalas campaign is something that they could seriously get a lot of good and unique material off of. Trump though, yeah I could use less of him in my satirical media to say the least.

[@Johnny2Cellos]

The Kamala texts for SURE would have been featured if they had done the season this year

[@a1rg3ar31]

You can make jokes about literally anything about her. She's a complete clown show.

[@joshuacollins9316]

@@a1rg3ar31not as meme-able as Trump. He’s way funnier. She’s more boring. He literally did a clip that looks like he’s deepthroating a mic this week lol

[@jerilee5057]

What could you say about Harris? She’s overall a fairly moderate candidate. What jokes could you possibly make about about an uninteresting person without sounding like a Facebook meme?

[@carlhartmann5925]

Kamela isn’t nearly interesting enough while Trump is a too low hanging fruit to be worth plucking.

[@MrMordo85]

BILLIE?! don't you realise, Biden was in the show all along, he's represented by Stan's grandpa, Billie

[@benmoorman4087]

lol

[@RogelioCarrasquillo]

When he says that trump was the first president to clam a election was stolen i laughed because he must not have heard Hillary Clinton and Al Gore say the election was stolen from them.

[@frosty848]

You are talking to kids. so Obama is like there first President.

[@zekebrunt]

This lol

[@garret6464]

“No, it doesn’t kill me because he knows he’s an illegitimate president,” she said. “I believe he understands that the many varying tactics they used, from voter suppression and voter purging to hacking to the false stories - he knows that - there were just a bunch of different reasons why the election turned out like it did.” - Hillary Clinton

[@ColeJohnson-fk5jw]

Hillary wasn't a president lol

[@DeerBonesBaby]

Yeah but Clinton and Gore didn't talk about it being stollen for four months and rally a group of supporters to attack the capital

[@kingQ28]

What it sounds like is Matt and tre are “crying over spilled milk” when they themselves are the ones who got the milk out of the fridge poured a glass then knocked it over. No one told them to do the trump Mr Garson thing they did this to themselves 😂. Stil great show though

[@bassboi02]

You could argue that they probably used Trump jokes/coverage too much, and kinda beat the dead horse, so to speak. You could also argue that Matt and Trey wanted to get back to the boys' adventures again, both of which I agree with, but there's one thing that you have actually mentioned but completely overlooked somehow; Matt and Trey make fun of EVERYBODY. My concern is that they have barely even mentioned Biden or Harris for this election, which is weird since they have portrayed almost every single major world leader/candidate since the Bill Clinton election. We are talking about two guys would fought tooth and nail to portray the prophet Muhammed on screen, despite death threats from literal terrorists, but won't even come close to Biden or Harris, who, in my opinion have just as much comedic potential as Trump. Their insanely ridiculous polices, illegal dealings with other world leaders, extremely poor use of tax dollars and federal funds, poor handling of the Covid-19 crisis, censorship, Harris visually seeming visibly intoxicated on screen, Biden suffering apparent dementia, Hunter Biden's illegal business dealings, Harris' policies deriving from actual communist manifestos, the list goes on and on and on. Like I said before, I'd agree with you if the content was overused and Matt and Trey wanted something not that well covered already, but these are the same guys that received death threats for portrayals of religious figures and have covered nearly every world leader and candidate for as long as the show has been out. My question is, despite everything we know about South Park, it's history, it's portrayals, and it's creators, why will they not even come close to Biden and Harris?

[@F-UppetsOfficial]

They're waiting to see what happens to prevent rushed plotlines and inconsistantcies, it's taxxing to be on top of current events and make a good cartoon. Although, Garison fanart is likely very very very wild considdering the past few months.

[@rageplai9555]

I mean, they did like 2 episodes involving Obama. That's literally all they needed to do, they didn't need to do arcs like they tried for Trump/Garrison

[@christopherblue2004]

True, if your a show that makes fun of everything relevent you’re only, maybe, gonna have like 1 or 2 politica; episodes.

[@ZeallustImmortal]

Yeah for sure. I do hope they do an episode or 2 about Kamala and Trump, but literally only one or two.

[@CrypticCobra]

Still would have been nice to get 1 about Biden :/ Not asking for much there.

[@learn905]

the biggest think to me is how will these age if southpark goes for another 20 years the garrison trump thing will be really stupid and likely politics that are irrelivant in that age you can go back and watch the first few seasons of southpark because they were timeless. the garrison trump stuff is something that will age like dollarstore milk

[@CrypticCobra]

@@learn905 Southpark is well known for focusing on critique of modern events. No modern event “ages well”

[@notaprinny]

I understand feeling that the Biden hate is overdone, but they couldn't do ONE episode over FOUR years acknowledging him? Even a one-off Family Guy type of skit where they just cut to him doing something stupid? Hell, you want a perfect thing to show him for, the Hunter Biden laptop (and yes, it is real, the media even says it's real now).

[@malachisguides]

I bet theyre pissed. Not about the political ramifications, but because they're mad that they can't have garrison back. I mean - it's rheir own fault. If they'd turned, say, Cartman's mom into hillary and then HILLARY won, they'd be just as annoyed right now.

[@jokesonyou5629]

We are finally unburdened by what has been. 😂🤣😅

[@OnizukaAllMighty]

From what I have understood is, if they parodied most presidents, they should have done that to Biden as well, at least couple episodes, it wouldn't have hurt anyone If you commit to do something, then do it till the end, basically they came out as superficial and selective all of a sudden

[@CrypticCobra]

Just write him as a brain-dead puppet (which is what he has been for the last few years) and it then excuses the fact that he doesn't show up in any more episodes.

[@orrorsaness5942]

@@CrypticCobrathis And just let actual Trump be president this time, and let Garrison be Garrison and let Garrison be glad that actual Trump wins

[@Undertale_Green_Official]

@@orrorsaness5942 Honestly if they brought in normal trump it would be interesting if him and garrison fought or smthn over who the better trump is And then by the end, trump dies or smthn so they don’t have to write him anymore (because they just don’t want to which is why we haven’t gotten president episodes in a while) and have garrison show up at the White House and get kicked out because that’s not how elections work Then have like, douche head or smthn take office,or something to that affect

[@orrorsaness5942]

@@Undertale_Green_Official or JD Vance

[@libRteedude]

That's my perspective too. SOUTH PARK always postured itself as the show that made fun of everyone, so ignoring Biden (a guy who absolutely could be made fun of for things he did, even before his presidency) just reeks of either laziness or bias.

[@thisisaname5589]

They give interviews talking openly about how much they despise Trump, and you think it's unreasonable to assume that they are acting out of malice against Trump. How did you manage to remove your own brain surgically? Seems miraculous.

[@skycastrum5803]

As a Trump voter, I don't care too much. Instead it's just funny that he's apparently caused them so much issue after they underestimated the support Trump had.

[@dominic6720]

exactly. this whole comment section is a big cope lol, matt and trey are funny but they have a massive bias that's glaringly obvious. but people will put their blinders on

[@samuel-wankenobi]

They just don't want president Garrison back

[@IE-39]

Meh, everyone being mad at South Park because they think they're pro-politics on the side they dislike is right on brand.

[@maybe8985]

They’ll never do better than the 2008 election episode, it was their BEST presidential administration episode.

[@k-trashradio5163]

My theory is theres just nothing funny left to say about the elections in the US. American politics and politicians have pretty much BECOME an episode of south park. You can make the subject funny anymore

[@MokoES]

yeah i think the more funny approach is looking at the public reaction rather than the actual election

[@drunkenmmamaster419]

True

[@aerickmon3350]

Once they hit the sandwich vs douche analogy there’s nothing new to say

[@sp-og9xy]

They realized that they can't both sides out of this election.

[@RockyRZ]

Trump is literally better.

[@wyattrox11]

RIP To Garrison’s Love Life till 2028

[@kkn_d7194]

😂😂

[@MoodyLia222]

LOL

[@WitchLunaEstrella]

Some people don't seem to understand that sometimes, people are quiet on a subject because they just don't have anything to say.

[@flamanolo]

Hahaha 😂 weird how Hunter Biden’s lawyer is the same lawyer that represents Trey and Parker

[@flamanolo]

Didn’t party ??

[@uberbyte7467]

Funny how trump is friends with both diddy and Epstein

[@aldovk6681]

Simple... there's a bias, there's no big mistery

[@Broccoli4966]

???

[@Shwompe]

Problem with south park is its become a lot more of a satire news program rather than an adult cartoon. Great to see them returning to there roots abit more in the past year or so

[@riku2193]

If I was on the losing side I wouldn't want to cover it either.

[@MoreImbaThanYou]

Didn't Matt and Trey say at some point, that they were republicans?

[@riku2193]

@@MoreImbaThanYou Didn't a trans shooter say they were a trump supporter? You can say anything. I havn't seen one thing that Matt and Trey has done or produced that would make me think they are republicans. If they are republicans they must be Rinos.

[@brotherendy]

​@MoreImbaThanYou I'm pretty sure they said they don't align with either side

[@MoreImbaThanYou]

@@brotherendy Maybe my memory is wrong then. Can't find any source of what I said either.

[@cindy8966]

@@MoreImbaThanYouThey said they hate republicans and really hate democrats about 20 years ago, but nowadays they take a centrist to slightly left leaning stance in their commentary without necessarily supporting either political party.

[@JohnJerome-b3o]

People are forgetting Matt and Trey became business owners with Casa Bonita, and realized it's not a bonus venture they can do on the side of the show, but a very real time consuming commitment as managers.

[@nrnehigie7382]

I beg of South Park not to do anymore trump parodies. They were funny at first but they then dragged on. Just forget trump. Stick to the status quo.

[@bowenwheeler9322]

I love the turd sandwich giant douche episode, it's pretty damn accurate no matter the election😂

[@60NineK]

Vote or die -P diddler

[@ghostflame9211]

Every 4 years, that episode gets more and more gold 😂

[@jonperez5380]

He's not wrong

[@r.babylon2885]

I honestly refer to candidates like this in real life now. Regularly.

[@flamingkittyumad]

turning fence sitting into an artform

[@bosik111]

More like sick of covering elections, last one costed them like two seasons in unintended consequences.

[@CrypticCobra]

They could have just written (when Trump actually won the IRL presidency) that Mr. Garrison comes back to south park pissed that some random businessman named Trump came out of knowere and stole the election from him. It's a throwaway joke that would then have freed Garrison from the roll.

[@orrorsaness5942]

@@CrypticCobrathis

[@SirAbyss]

Looks like they're gonna make Garrison Trump again. Fuck.

[@powerist209]

Well, considering Project 2025 and that spectrum on politics treating South Park as icon might have issues. I mean I think the moment when Libertarian party of all people invited Trump to speak at their rally might have been “it’s over” for them (keep in mind, as much as Matt and Trey hate Trump, their libertarianism has been main political root of their show along with audience…being seen as alternative to liberal leaning Family Guy and Simpsons).

[@erictheredguy]

Yea America is to sexist and racist. Any white man would've beat trump

[@orrorsaness5942]

@@powerist209true

[@orrorsaness5942]

They don’t have to. Just let this Trump be actual Trump being an anti war candidate and is opposed to The Military Industrial Complex and Pensuke and let the whole thing only be like, 4 episodes of the anti war guy, which would be an unexpected but funny and wholesome route they can show to actual Trump

[@stonedmason614]

@@powerist209 That was our convention where we were picking our candidate, not a rally.

[@ExeEspe-by2ct]

The "Canadian" version of Trump can be seen as Stephan Harper, whom despite being less extreme than trump mirrored trump's policies when he was in office 4 years earlier

[@robn880]

It's smart to avoid. What Trump joke hasn't been made? Besides, no joke gets dated more quickly than political jokes. They probably could have had fun with Kamala, but still not worth it.

[@bobtailsquid]

They shouldn't have used Mr garrison for Trump they should have just used to Trump for Trump

[@maverickdarkrath4780]

They wrote themselves into a corner because they were confident trump would lose

[@PROGCANAL]

They always DID they always go hard in republicans but democrats go Easy pissy

[@adamgreenspan4988]

ManBearPig

[@rustyshackleford234]

Man imagine if they actually went through with making a season during the 2024 election. It would be 2016 ALL OVER AGAIN. Probably a good choice that they decided to say nothing about it.

[@masondaubenmire3503]

I think that Biden and kamal didn’t really have anything worth parodying. Trump hand a new meme about him every week, and the other presidents had scandles

[@zeromech1450]

I understand what you are saying but it still leads back to them not writing as well as they should have or could have. They were biased. You even quoted them "we arent gonna give him the satisfaction. We will make our own trump character" its their own fault because they didnt think ahead and they let their bias influence the writing.

[@worlds-biggest-mbn-fanboy]

Trump stuff isnt funny anymore tbh

[@michaelmccarthy4892]

What's to be afraid of? It's just the same jokes rehashed that got them stuck in a creative black hole for four years, they're probably bored and rather wait out this out until they have some actually creative ideas.

[@M4gnetar11]

They dont want a repeat of season 20. Although I enjoyed that season a lot, I agree it really went off the rails and the election portion was like, the worst part of it. I like the note they ended on with Garrison saying "we'll see", because that's kinda where I'm at with this whole thing.

[@XDarksoulX1129]

i think theyve been bought by this point.

[@kwitshadie6539]

I mean, after 8 years you’d expect that the Trump jokes would run out by now.

[@Blasted2Oblivion]

They probably would if he hadn't been keep it going himself.

[@Eien.]

Sorry but this comes off more of, they fucked up with not wanting to depict actual Trump so now we have to excuse their recent bad writing.

[@tykinnamon9831]

Are YOU afraid to cover 200 & 201?

[@r.babylon2885]

Dude I didn't even get to see those episodes until last year

[@BENZIEBOX]

Lol he mentions it all the time.

[@fuzzvalley]

Post-result, I'm glad they didn't want to cover it, because they'd now be stuck putting Garrison back in as the president for 4 more years. At least now they can ignore it and keep him as he is.

[@TLtheDude]

I honestly feel like covering the 2016 election really messed with their willingness to cover elections, especially with how much it overtook that season

[@Epicalover99]

I think they should call Garrison Trump by name, but justify it with him being Garrison's *alter ego*

[@eaofdeath187]

When a normal politician does something stupid it's fun to mock them, when a politician is stupid all the time it just becomes sad.

[@powerist209]

Which wouldn’t be bad if it somehow got people to get into reactionary politics. Like Musk, 4chan, and even X/Twitter. As stated in the video, even it didn’t do well when say…Climate Change/Man Bear Pig being mocked (keep in mind, it was only in US that was treated as hot button issue while other countries had known about it…that or just it was assumed as making fun of person than issues and never questioned creators on their opinions). That or it was funny when satire community is liberal leaning but mainstream is Reagan era “wholesome conservative facade” with crass and rude being seen as sign of rebellion before people like Trump make it normal.

[@kyosokutai]

@@powerist209 Musk is a trust fund baby manchild and 4chan can't decide on a pot to piss in.

[@klunke6726]

Trump has a unique idiolect which is why people like you see him as a joke, even tho he is right on many policies and yes wrong in some other policies

[@aerickmon3350]

And very very boring

[@hassanalkhalaf1115]

I dunno if Dubya is normal but he definitely is stupid and they made him funny

[@redwarrior118]

Garrison Trump was barely funny imo. His bright spots were when he was interacting with Hillary and the kids. Pretty weird they didn't do any Joe Biden jokes either. I understand not doing Kamala as she mirrors Hillary in alot of ways. Maybe more identity politics skits?

[@mayro4803]

At this point real life has become South Park. Mark and Trey can't compete with that.

[@Detah_]

Most of this election has been a real life South Park parody. They can't top it.

[@AbigatorM]

when people start to get angry at your satire, you got satire right.

[@youthgirl0821]

I’m glad they aren’t. I want them to rip on Sean “Baby oil” Combs aka “butt play” Diddy.

[@dlbutters7164]

How convenient...

[@michaelrusso906]

Of course they're afraid. They're multi millionaires who don't want to rock the boat.

[@shesholdingcorn]

I dont think theyre afraid, i think they're just worried they'll get it messed up. Like they'll predict it wrong and the episodes wont be funny in retrospect like some of the 2016 election ones.

[@jpmnky]

Wild. Every Presidential election has been each one I’ve voted in during my lifetime. In 1997, the beginning of Clinton’s second term, I was 16 years old. And at 43 South Park is still going strong as ever. Never would’ve imagined this show would still be a thing in the mid 2020s.

[@ethangottschall8136]

Ok, ok, very cool... Wait, isn't voting at 16 illegal?

[@hubaldotorres4841]

South Park should poke fun of Kamala Harris, Diddy, 4B Movement, cybertrucks, Venezuelan migrants, Tren de aragua

[@Agent_N7]

I wouldn't be surprised if after 2016, they'll wait and do it post mortem because of how blindsided they were and had to scrape together an entirely different episode, too much work, I'd imagine

[@BasicName02]

I think South Park is just done man. Mini seasons, short movies, selling out to paramount plus. Seems like the creators are collecting a final check

[@buggydclown5393]

Say good bye to mr.garrison cuz trumps back baby😅

[@sarahcox1197]

15:15 Al Gore was actually somewhat of a hard battle, both times you fight him. In fact I had to grind and level up for the 2nd one

[@stevenedwards8353]

I don't buy the "they didn't have as many opportunities to parody Biden because of the pandemic" or "they were just tired of election year content" excuses, when literally their last regular episode, "Spring Break" was about Trump.

[@Johnny2Cellos]

I think if you’d watch that episode with maybe a bit more of an analytical eye it’s clear that it’s not really an episode aimed at political bashing. It’s actually a pretty impressive character piece focused on Garrison not wanting to fall back into an old lifestyle so he doesn’t lose the love of his life.