[Editor’s note: The following contains spoilers for South Park, Season 28 Episode 2, “The Woman In The Hat.”]
In a particular Halloween episode of South Park, creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone took a second to acknowledge the haters, because the boys complain that South Park (the city, in fact) sucks now, Stan going as far as to say it’s “due to all this political shit.” They even level out that Kenny’s been largely absent from the most recent season: “I haven’t even heard you say something in like 4 months,” certainly one of them says, which Kenny acknowledges in his ordinary muffled method.
To reclaim their city, they launch a South Park Sucks Now marketing campaign to create a neighborhood for many who need change. (Southparksucksnow.com, at time of writing, simply redirects to the official South Park web site. There’s additionally now an unofficial /r/southparksucksnow on Reddit.) Nonetheless, SPSN truly finally ends up being a meme coin scheme launched with the assistance of Kyle’s Cousin Kyle. Stan specifically is determined to make some cash, as his household’s now needed to transfer into his grandfather’s nursing house following the loss of Tegrity Farms.
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In the meantime, the cleaning soap opera on the White Home continues as Devil calls Trump out for flattening the East Wing for his ballroom — not as a result of Devil thinks it’s a nasty factor that Trump demolished the historic construction, however as a result of Devil thought that Trump was doing it to construct a nursery for their pending baby.
The demolition causes an extra drawback for Trump, although: Demolishing the East Wing unleashed a “wrath,” and he’s now being haunted by a Melania-shaped specter, which finally ends up bringing a lot of the White Home squad collectively for a really Halloween-y seance. This consists of senior advisor Stephen Miller (extra Renfield-y than ever), FCC chairman Brendan Carr (mummified by casts to heal his current accidents, he’s “misplaced his freedom of speech”), the all the time ghoulish Kristi Noem, and Pam Bondi, who leads the seance. Bondi’s bought her personal supernatural woes: Her nostril retains getting lined in smears of what paranormal investigators would possibly name “rectoplasm” — however as a result of it’s South Park, it’s crap. Trump’s crap, very particularly.
The seance practically exposes JD Vance and Peter Thiel’s ongoing scheme to kill Trump and Devil’s child (not a sentence I ever anticipated to sort, I confess) and does get horrific sufficient to trigger Kristi Noem’s face to soften off. Cousin Kyle, who’s come to the White Home seeking to strike a crypto cope with Don Jr., is appropriately terrified — earlier than getting hauled off to jail for the crypto scheme.
On the finish of the episode, the boys resolve to profit from their present circumstances, whereas different plotlines like Devil’s being pregnant and Cartman’s 6-7 possession/abduction by Peter Thiel stay unresolved for future weeks. And whereas there have been scarier Halloween episodes… The picture of Kristi Noem’s face crawling round by itself will linger for a while.
Following its premiere on Comedy Central, Season 22, Episode 2 of South Park — “The Girl within the Hat” — will likely be obtainable to stream on Paramount+ starting Saturday, November 1st.
