When South Park Predicted the Election

[@Johnny2Cellos]

HEY YOU! The one about to confidently comment “they made 2 versions” before you’ve even watched the video! STOP, give the video a watch, and consider the literal clips of Trey Parker and interview of Matt Stone where they admit that they, in fact, did not do this!

[@DustinBruce-sc3nh]

I can't wait to see how many people both didn't watch the video, and didn't read this comment.

[@Johnny2Cellos]

@@DustinBruce-sc3nhit’s too many already

[@DustinBruce-sc3nh]

@@Johnny2Cellos I’m not surprised in the slightest 😂

[@kfizz]

They made both and edited to be the winner.

[@wademarshall2364]

Sneakily they actually made 3 versions

[@slayparty]

in one of the seasons' commentaries one of them says they make their election episodes based on nevada's polls, hence why they were so confident about hillary

[@thepeoplescouncil2619]

Is Nevada a bell-weather?

[@Rootiga]

People who try to predict the future are morons, anyone with a brain knows polls mean literally nothing

[@mrdeadpool2849]

More specifically, they go with Vegas odds

[@Josep_Hernandez_Lujan]

@@mrdeadpool2849 They've only been wrong twice, Trump '16 & Truman '48

[@Dinkbass]

I peft vegas for this reason. My family pretty much disowned me for voting trump​@@mrdeadpool2849

[@thecatadors911]

“OH BAMA UR SO FINE, UR SO FINE U BLOW MY MIND HEY OBAMA! Yea, HEY OBAMA!”- Randy Marsh

[@vee1267]

God I miss how relatively sane US politics were in 2008. Back then 14-year old me could watch such an episode of South Park and laugh. Now in 2024 it feels like we’re ACTUALLY LIVING IN an episode of South Park, and not in a fun way

[@Shapoufiiie]

Bro, I know. 😞

[@amayzinrayzin8783]

So true things have gone down hill so fast it really does feel like a episode of south park, but unfortunately a bad episode

[@ffc1a28c7]

that's what happens when there has been 8 years of fascist buildup in half the country's population lol

[@palwatcher6903]

the only political joke I remember was "thanks Obama" from that era because of Obamacare and drones strikes. now it's like a ton for both sides.

[@exDivinityFPS]

@@palwatcher6903 We went from "Thanks, Obama" to "THEY'RE EATING THE DOGS!" Like, did they drop the bar when they were lowering it? Did James Cameron hire Oceangate to lift the bar?

[@ellicel]

This is easily one of the best episodes. The Ike reveal at the end especially really elevates the story

[@spaceace4387]

The only kind of funny part about this episode was the very end when Stan tells Randy “Dad, your boss called you’re fired”. And then Randy is like “what? I thought there was going to be change, change…..”

[@BQuanchi]

I'm realizing even if they did do episodes about the election, it would be so much harder to pull off. Feels like it recent election cycles, it takes days to confirm the results of the election. It feels weird to think we used to be able confirm the elected U.S. President on Election Day.

[@Thekoodie]

The blame is at the feet of those who believe election corruption is rampant and a conspiracy is in place to deny their candidates a win, when in reality elections have always been remarkably accurate and fair, with the issue now that the policies being used to "stop" the "corruption" only hurts legitimate voters, particularly those of minority parties.

[@johnleriger8730]

We still can

[@zombieblaster5754]

its because its rigged now. countless videos of workers throwing away votes or even changing them.

[@dragostego]

​@@johnleriger8730 Mail in ballots (and specifically the laws preventing them from being counted before election day) are the major delay now.

[@deletedTestimony]

God I hope we do that.

[@elwen8525]

They literally bet everything on black

[@matthewp2794]

Lol

[@jackstraw262]

They bet it all on the hard 08

[@matthewtarpey8587]

They made two episodes, one for both candidate winning….duh

[@elwen8525]

@@matthewtarpey8587 if you watched the video they said they literally just guessed which one was gonna win and if they didn’t guess right they would have just put some commentary on

[@lamakicker69]

Not really, it was pretty obvious that Obama was going to win. It wasn’t even close.

[@RanterInShades]

I think Obama’s likability is a big part of what made the 2008 and 2012 election episodes come so easy to Matt and Trey, and that’s also what makes their 2016 fumble all the more sad because you can tell they genuinely thought Hillary Clinton would win even though she did not have the likability that Obama had and was just as unlikable (albeit for different reasons) as her opponent.

[@Michael-bn1oi]

Very true. Everyone underestimated how extremely unlikable Hilary is.

[@Missquerade]

I think she would have won had she been more likeable, a less spotty past, and showed more empathy for people there was just something missing about her that I didn't like and that made Bernie Sanders more likable.

[@charlemagne111027]

She also would have won if the country operated on equal voting instead of having every branch of the federal government act as affirmative action for rural voters.

[@anubis7457]

@@Missquerade Well, that and y'know Russia running an undercover smear campaign against her on social media and the FBI declaring an "investigation" into her emails right before the election that turned up nothing. She had a lot of big groups against her, but yes she was also unlikeable.

[@Jynxxx5]

True, I was a kid during the whole election and I only liked him because he “reminds me of grandpa and has a dog” lol, kid logic

[@JulesM434]

Tired of rewatching reruns so these videos are my South Park fix until the next season drops. Then once that's done do it again lol

[@javiremo]

Have you watched the Casa Bonita documentary? It's excellent, and it makes you want to rewatch the OG episode and Dikinbaus after it.

[@JulesM434]

@@javiremo Not yet but now I definitely got to, It sounds interesting.

[@mulqueen2023]

​@@JulesM434 I watched it the day it came out. It is honestly really funny and actually really insightful as to how they got the idea to buy it, from releasing it for public access. Matt and Trey voiced a bunch of the characters around the restaurant and those bits are just hilarious 😂 please watch it soon, it's so worth it

[@pierren___]

When is it

[@MASTEROFEVIL]

Yeah. Nice to get some commentary

[@mathieuleader8601]

Garrison being a McCain supporter now that's some tasty irony

[@thegatorhator6822]

I almost asked why but then I remembered (non-us citizen, your politics are just entertainment to me not something that matters or I can influence.)

[@env0x]

Garrison is literally a walking heap of irony

[@sonicrose8430]

I remember as a first grader in 2008 us kids just wanted Obama to win cause his name sounded funny

[@spaceace4387]

Most people wanted him to win because he was black, and that’s it.

[@sonicrose8430]

@@spaceace4387 I don’t really ever hearing that very much back then. His re-election race I remember people bringing up race all the time but in 2008 at least where I lived, no one really cared

[@spaceace4387]

@@sonicrose8430 Ummm, did you watch the news? The left was kneeling at the alter for him nonstop because he was black. We heard non-stop “first black president”, and if anyone disagreed with him we were immediately accused of being racist. Race was a major fact in the 08 election and it was because the left wanted it to be.

[@harpiessnow]

@@sonicrose8430 Really? Every kid in HS was talking about how if they could vote, they would vote for Obama cause he's black. Just about most people that I knew, who could vote, their number 1 reason to pick Obama was because he was black. No one could ever explain a SINGLE reason, policy wise, why they would vote for him. They just wanted him to be the first black president.

[@sonicrose8430]

@@harpiessnow I was in elementary school I don’t remember things as vividly but from what I recall most of our parents that voted for him didn’t really do it for race but more like his personality and how he spoke about things. Looking back it seems like they all just really liked the word change without any context behind it or further detail, or perhaps they were clawing for a reason to tell us why they voted for him lol. After those first 4 years though he everyone where I lived was voting red though lmao (we were a pretty red county for California)

[@claytonrios1]

If only South Park could accurately predict every election...

[@brendolbreadwar2671]

Yeah that's exaclty what I was thinking

[@andrewellisonlee]

Nah, Killary wouldn't have been good for anyone.

[@TheGreatestJediOfAllTime]

@@andrewellisonleeif you still think Trump hasn’t completely wrecked our political discourse, you’re in a cult bud.

[@brendolbreadwar2671]

@@andrewellisonlee he isn't arguing that Hillary should have won..?

[@andrewellisonlee]

​@brendolbreadwar2671 right...

[@Spongebrain97]

I like how this episode is a good companion piece to the Obama Boondock's episode. Almost nostalgic for 2008 and remembering the vibes

[@Shapoufiiie]

Those were the peaceful times, back when I was a kid and I didn't have to worry about what was going on.

[@NobodyAsked-xh8cs]

If the Boondocks was still around, it would demolish South Park because Boondocks doesn't need to add anything to be funny.

[@patriot459]

Cellll-a-brate Obama come on! (Randy proceeds to refill his beer from the keg) It’s Obama bama.

[@ItsAVolcano]

It feels like this episode made them overconfident and likely led to them going all in on Garrison Trump.

[@Yarharsuperpirate]

@@drt1605 Yeah I can get on board with them holding off on election related episodes. Another 4 years of Trump jokes would also get incredibly old with this series. And I think they know it A major rule of comedy, is knowing when a joke has run its course.

[@Guciom]

@@drt1605 They did not doo even a single Biden episode so why they can't just ignore Trump like him?

[@xB1GW1GGLYx]

​@@Guciom Obama was just a regular boring old president. Trump is a character and easy to riff on

[@TY-wi1xl]

Don't forget they also got too confident with canadian Trump. They must not have thought Trump would get so far.

[@xythrr]

​@@Guciomlmao did u edit ur comment from obama to biden??

[@malachisguides]

6:40 omg I never even saw that scene or knew Obama's grandma died, that is so dark 😂😂😂

[@waddlesworks]

Now I would love to see a badly dubbed version lol (anyway great video! Love it whenever you post it :D)

[@claymathewselevator8121]

Garrison being McCain supporter is hilarious in hindsight

[@12DAMDO]

this the episode that made everybody go "this would make a great South Park episode" every time something happens

[@JD-iu6rv]

I want to visit another universe and see the Commentary McCain version of the episode lol

[@endeavor44]

I want to see the original episode they had storyboarded for the Hillary win

[@edluke3415]

​@@endeavor44 they made a episode about Hillary winning. When she lost they didn't air the new episode of South Park that week and made one where Garrison won.

[@endeavor44]

@edluke3415 yeah that's exactly what I said dude thanks

[@edluke3415]

@@endeavor44 you're welcome

[@endeavor44]

@edluke3415 you didn't add anything to my comment. I am not welcome, you tried to mansplain something that was already laid out in better words than you could come up with.

[@SamButler22]

"Oh my God, he didn't win, we're going to riot" hmm

[@strangerinastrangeland3613]

Sounds like Jan 6th lol

[@spaceace4387]

@@strangerinastrangeland3613 Sounds like Summer 2020 and 2016. Hillary supporters even sent death threats to electors in an attempt to overturn the election. Get over Jan. 6, no one cares about it anymore and it was just a few broken windows. You’re playing the victim. I also noticed you didn’t seem too concerned about 7-13 or 9-15.

[@pXnTilde]

@@strangerinastrangeland3613 Well, that wasn't the first time there was a riot there

[@Guciom]

@@strangerinastrangeland3613 But where are the undercover FBI agents?

[@foureducks1248]

​@@strangerinastrangeland3613 or it sounds like late 2016 to early 2017... and the violence is gonna be worse when he wins this time.

[@ifionlyclout]

I love when shows talk about current events it makes them feel so connected

[@kirche7]

makes them feel dated, actually,

[@waywardlaser]

Always happy when you post a new South Park video

[@jolly1559]

i think douche and turd has aged amazingly, would you please review that one next

[@Derekivery]

No matter who wins in 2024 they should do that thing where they dub/commentary over the scene

[@codenamelarry6518]

This episode aged like fine-wine.

[@SecretMagician]

This and "It's a Black President, Huey Freeman! "In the Boondocks were amazing episodes on commentary about the Obama election.

[@env0x]

@@SecretMagician the Boondocks was so far ahead of its time man... they still be predicting stuff with their old ass episodes

[@FriedIce3]

Lets gooo, new Johnny video

[@nicholebowden2513]

I still quote "Boom, baby" to this day.

[@MoonlightXYZ]

About last night is easily somewhere in my top 5 episodes.

[@deadpool1092]

Member when they based an entire season around "Mr Garrison" losing to Hillary so when the election turned out with "Mr Garrison" winning they had to completely pivot and put out the worst season they ever did? That was crazy.

[@porcupiney]

love your videos so much mr. 2cellos! i would be super interested to hear you tackle south park’s “most hated” episode and consequentially unfortunate character - none other than pip!

[@NickCC4823]

Lolol these next set of Garrison episodes finna be crazy

[@billyhatcher643]

i dont know if theyre gonna do it but id like to see if theyll do it but im happy with the turnout i completely forgot who the other person was until this year

[@JohnSmith-bn5mi]

I think they were going to slot in and out basically 5/6 smaller pieces. If you watch the episode with that in mind, you can actually SEE/HEAR the precise moments that they'd have inserted a new bit. It makes sense the McCain version wouldn't have been too different. These moments get fjrther between as the episode goes on, so it may be just an artifact of production.

[@claymathewselevator8121]

This episode is how my cousin learned Biden was Obama’s VP

[@Fishing-RC-Florida]

The South Park Obama episode and the boondocks Obama episode are very eye-opening when watched again in 2024

[@Blasted2Oblivion]

The moment you asked how they guessed, I assumed the same. That they filmed both and used the one that was right. It's fun to learn new things.

[@BunBunny01]

I literally watched this episode last night and it became my favourite one. And now you uploaded this. What a funny timing lmao

[@danielsantiagourtado3430]

Love your content Johnny 🔥🔥🔥🔥

[@jmkqfnvyl87]

This is prob the only time they guessed right. They had pre production planned nearly an entire live action series around Gore wining in 2000 buthad to change it cause they guessd wrong and so we got "that's my bush" They be missed it more times than not. I can see why they don't want Todo another one like that

[@Abdullah_D_Luffy]

Why is anyone shocked? It was so easy to predict. Why would they ever make a McCain one? The two are smart, it’s not coincidence that the episodes express a message each episode.

[@HotTripod78]

ive never watched south park in my life and I just watched a whole video explaining one episode. I want to watch south park now.

[@Johnny2Cellos]

😂

[@TheBasshunterWolf]

I absolutely love the ending with Ike saying boom baby!

[@melpomene1492]

We need artists doing art the way they want/need to. The audience does not tell artists what to create. If the audience knew what they needed, they would be the artist.

[@waynetubbs3809]

Is the 4th graders in South Park Elementary School going to get a new teacher?

[@Mostdefinitelynotabot]

I remember watching this live and being blown away on how they did it.

[@somniumvr5340]

funny enough i knew about your other channel because i sleep to vids like that, and happened across them

[@theruoc147]

I remember wishing they made a sequel in 2012 with Obama doing another heist

[@trashhbeast6090]

it wasn’t just a heist parody it’s also commentary saying they are working together to gain money lol which is true

[@donsolos]

Our uniparty here to not represent our interests

[@TheHollomap]

Absolutely one of my favorite south park episodes

[@r3ked272]

Now I want to see the drunken dubbed over version

[@kingck101]

Guess mr garrisons lil campaigning paid off

[@cbfdxbxsb]

Drunk Mystery Science Theatre 300 with Matt & Trey actually sounds really awesome.

[@tykinnamon9831]

I predict... that I will once again be asking for 200 & 201 after the election.

[@alexpav845]

Excellent video 🔥

[@Theonetruewonderfly]

Not gonna lie, this is the last time I watched an episode of South Park. It was partly "life circumstances" - I dropped cable just a few months later. But I also stopped paying attention to the show around that time. I was more into Family Guy around those years anyway. But I really do remember watching this South Park episode live.

[@juggawheels420]

Whats great is they also arent afraid to revisit something crazy years after it happened for an episode

[@JohnSmith-zw8vp]

Even MORE surprising was how quickly after the 2000 election (a week or so maybe?) they did an episode based off that!

[@JeremyB8419]

The amount of people, who think there’s some sort of massive overwhelming change between who wins the presidential elections, is mind boggling lol

[@Mavuika_Gyaru]

Trump won in 2016 and it completely destroyed the republican party. And women are dying in parking lots. Trump had a very impactful presidency, in the worse way possible

[@ADreamingTraveler]

I was about to type out how the president doesn't really have that much power anyway when they get elected but then I remembered the supreme court ruled the other month that the president is basically immune to do anything he wants now. So that's going to be fun when we get a president that really abuses their power. If people thought Trump abusing his presidential power was bad then they're in for a rude awakening now that they can't be charged for anything they do if they do it while they're the current president. The president should not have that much power.

[@SubparUser]

With how great the commentary is for Cannibal the musical, I would love to see this drunk "McCain won" episode.

[@maybe8985]

Season 20 doesn’t deserve the worst season title, season 23 or 25 does.

[@klassrummet4472]

That dub with Randy saying he is sad while clearly cheering would have been hilarious!

[@donsolos]

That did sound pretty funny

[@ahahhahahahaahahh]

So about last night

[@Justme-rt4gj]

6:52 Definitly a very funny and very well executed premiss which is why this is one of my favorite South Park Episodes.

[@eltobi10]

"The Oceans 11 movie was good, the other ones were just ridiculous". Reminds me of a friend who I went to see James Bond (it was his first Bond movie) with and he said "the stunts are just not realistic at all". Its a movie, a freaking movie 🙈

[@Cursedzeba]

They should make a new election episode with no candidates named 😂 or even giant douche and turd sandwich and its just people loosing their minds on both sides saying the same things about each other😂

[@claymathewselevator8121]

Love this episode

[@lforlight]

For the unknowing viewer, I think you've forgot to point out the unique aspect of South Park, which is the show's quick episode creation pipeline. Animated shows usually take weeks or even months to make. South Park can and usually get an episode entirely made within a week. This quick production allowed them to make these topical changes within less than a day.

[@jrodgers211]

They didn’t predict. They had 2 episodes in the can

[@Johnny2Cellos]

They literally didn't I cannot believe how many of you are commenting misinfo before watching the fucking video lmfao

[@markmeadows7569]

@@Johnny2Cellosthey had two episodes buddy

[@pedrorosa9893]

That one my favorite episodes

[@blasterblake6617]

I would enjoy like a special edition episode where they actually do what they said. Like it's a re-release that has them doing the commentary

[@real.sugarcone]

I think the scene where McCain gave his losing speech would have been very funny in the MST 3000 version. They probably would've done a bit where McCain had only prepared the losing speech and had to awkwardly adapt it into a victory speech 😂

[@focusedonfuture3255]

Not hard to predict that. Everyone knew he was going to win

[@yepyep87]

The music in the end is pretty sick. We need full track!

[@sharkyyy134_bs2]

Johnny 2 cellos

[@OrangeZ1987]

Johnny 2 cellos

[@GamingGardevoir]

Johnny 2 cellos

[@ilovemesomme]

Please review The Boondocks 2008 election episode next.

[@L1ncore]

I still dont get why obama looks so grey

[@Johnny2Cellos]

It’s weird I wonder if it was a product of the HD remasters

[@isambo400]

I would give anything to hear the McCain victory commentary

[@Eric_1991]

Man, simpler times...

[@claymathewselevator8121]

Little did Garrison know he’d be next president after

[@jorgealan997]

My favorite south park episode

[@alienvisitor123]

Matt and Trey should’ve done episodes this year without including any election coverage. 2025 sounds like forever from now.

[@alli457]

We don't know when exactly in 2025 it's going to be, so we could easily be getting new content two or three months from now.

[@zachfinemusic]

My only problem that I had with this episode was so many of the voices on the heist team were the same. I feel like they should’ve had a voice actor for Obama.

[@Deadkiller-cr5ni]

9:45 biden also appears in the vaccination special on the Q anon conspiracy board

[@fredo7540]

How have I never seen this episode

[@112VZ]

"INSANE magic trick" bro the odds were 50/50 at worst 😭

[@Johnny2Cellos]

They released an episode with direct quotes from the acceptance speech less than 24 hours later that's what felt like magic

[@eddardstark5034]

I would argue south park made it's mark as a topical show when they spoofed the Elian Gonzales raid.

[@Neckbeardlevel]

I'm pretty sure this was Kimberly Brooks' first episode of South Park, voiceing Michelle Obama.

[@claymathewselevator8121]

My friend watches this episode every Election Day

[@StoopidMonkiy]

Funny enough, season 12 also has 2 pandemic episodes 😂

[@joju997]

I used to think there wasn’t a whole second episode, I thought they just had second cuts of every line. At one point I counted the number of voice lines that they’d have to do two versions of, and the number of other lines that would change. I was sure there weren’t any that they couldn’t easily swap out.

[@Johnny2Cellos]

It wouldn't work at all half of the episode is Obama supporters partying

[@nexigram]

The thing I liked about this episode was how worked up everyone was about the outcome of the election, but not only were the candidates not interested in doing anything for them, they also had these trivial, wildly selfish, motivations were for winning. And in the end literally nothing changed about their lives anyways. Just felt very poignant at the time.

[@JesusDykes]

Well I don’t think they’re gonna be able to avoid him now 😔

[@TheZenithin]

I know they won't but imagine how hilarious it would be if they touched on it now. Depicting the current office as a comatose old man and a drunk chick who won't stop laughing.

[@jamesdietz29]

How do they defy expectations if the expectation is that they would defy expectations?

[@droojohnson]

Why did the arrow noise give me a fucking heart attack tho

[@kurisu7885]

I see this video while watching this same episode.

[@cooswrld]

i always just assumed they made 2 episodes 🤷🏻‍♂️

[@Fluffypro]

Are you planning to do a video on the history of all the presidents in South Park? Maybe add in Gore and Hillary too?

[@Johnny2Cellos]

Exactly that, already in production lol

[@Fluffypro]

Never mind. I still hope the president video includes Al Gore.

[@Fluffypro]

@@Johnny2Cellos Should be interesting. The thing that surprises me the most is that for a show that does commentary on current events you don’t see the president that often until Garrison / Trump. And that was just because they made a planed to be one off episode where a main character filled in for Trump and Trump wasn’t expected to win by Matt and Trey.

[@tnlwithtrixiekat478]

Waiting to hold my tongue till I watch.

[@Johnny2Cellos]

You’re the first

[@SlabbyMess]

I just watched the oceans movies for the first time and I thought they would be alot better