“South Park” Season 28 delivered a Thanksgiving particular on Wednesday, which noticed the residents of the Colorado mountain city working within the annual Turkey Trot whereas United States Secretary of Struggle Pete Hegseth tried to bust Palantir co-founder Peter Thiel out of jail.
The episode opens with the South Park Metropolis Council debating who ought to sponsor the Thanksgiving 5K. Lots of the city’s residents fell on laborious instances in latest months, that means native companies and former sponsors can’t discover the funds. Nevertheless, there may be one overseas entity that’s flush with money and desirous to spend.
The present then cuts to a live-action business for the annual South Park Turkey Trot that includes the sponsor for 2025: Saudi Arabia. The advert units this 12 months’s prime prize at a whopping $5,000, but it surely additionally makes positive to say that “disparaging remarks in direction of the Saudi Royal household are strictly prohibited.”
In the meantime, on the Park County Police Station, Sergeant Yates will get an surprising go to from Hegseth, who calls for they launch Thiel from custody.
In grandiose style, Hegeth rappels from the roof into the station. Flanked by two Nationwide Guard troopers live-streaming on their telephones, he tells his viewers, “Hey, what’s up, guys? That is Pete Hegseth with the Division of Struggle! We’re right here to infiltrate this police station and extract a P.O.I. ’trigger that’s what we do!”
Regardless of his efforts to intimidate Sergeant Yates, he simply kicks Hegseth out, denying his request to launch Thiel.
Trey Parker and Matt Stone introduced the present again to extra typical “South Park” antics this week after primarily specializing in Donald Trump-centric storylines in earlier episodes. Parker and Stone have put the president in some significantly compromising positions all through Seasons 27 and 28, together with in mattress with Devil and Vice President JD Vance. Within the Season 27 Premiere, they deepfaked Trump right into a political PSA which boasted about his “teeny-tiny” manhood.
Whereas exhibits like “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” and “The Late Show With Stephen Colbert” have caught warmth from Trump for a lot much less, “South Park” has largely prevented the president’s crosshairs. Throughout a latest look on The Daily Beast’s “Last Laugh” podcast, comic Patton Oswald mentioned Trump respects the success of “South Park,” and that’s why he hasn’t introduced the hammer down.
“‘South Park,’ not solely does it make insane quantity of some cash, it will get insane scores,” Oswald mentioned. “And Trump can solely be so indignant at that, as a result of what Trump finally will respect, even when it doesn’t respect him, is one thing the place the numbers are via the roof, and the cash is thru the roof. He can’t have a look at ‘South Park’ and see how good it’s, and he can’t have a look at one thing like John Oliver and see how equally good it’s. All he can consider by way of, have a look at this man’s numbers, have a look at their numbers, and that’s the one approach he sees the world.”
