New ‘South Park’ Episode Mocks Trump’s Taxpayer-Funded Ad, Depicts Town ‘Infested’ By Billionaires Obsessed With Joe Rogan’s Podcast

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The second episode of the latest season of "South Park"—which has renamed itself "South America" in a dig at President Donald Trump—aired on Wednesday and mocked "AI-loving" billionaires who are obsessed with appearing on podcasts like Joe Rogan's and skewered Trump's controversial taxpayer-funded TV ad.

Key Facts

The episode, "Billionaire Weenietown," focuses on the side character Butters, who rages in school about the town's "billionaire problem" and blames their data centers for power cuts at his home.

Instead of making them appear like the rest of the show's characters, "South Park" depicts billionaires as small, rodent-sized, anthropomorphic male genitals and doesn't identify any of them by name.

"Billionaire Weenietown" is depicted as a small, gilded mound in Butters' backyard with data centers, banks, and palatial buildings, prompting the South Park character to call in pest control.

The billionaire town's mayor then warns its residents that they may be starting to annoy people and demands that they stop drawing attention to themselves by going on the Joe Rogan podcast and boosting their social media following with their takes on issues.

The mayor later does a presentation on "proper billionaire etiquette" and demands that billionaires shouldn't go on podcasts to "talk about peptides" or go on social media to "feed COVID conspiracies by discussing their wife's six miscarriages."

The episode ends by portraying an AI deepfake version of Trump using the toilet, whose genitals fly off, while the audio from his controversial taxpayer-funded ad declaring a "final battle" against the "deep state" plays.

Tangent

The B-plot of the show revolves around Butters' parents lamenting his anger against billionaires and AI data centers. The plot takes a jab at anti-vaxxers as Butters' father Stephen wonders if his son's apparent liberal-leaning stance on the issue is the result of him being vaccinated as a child against measles. Stephen blames his wife Linda for letting Butters get the vaccine and loudly declares: "I knew what that vaccination would do to him, because I listen to podcasts."

what do we know about south park's name change?

The first episode of the 29th season of South Park aired earlier in September with one big change , both the show and its titular town were renamed "South America." The change is meant to mock President Donald Trump's renaming of Lake Ontario to "Lake America" amid an ongoing trade spat with Canada. While announcing the name change, the show's creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone said the move was "inspired by the bravery and patriotism of Apple and Google," who updated their maps to display Lake America after Trump's order. The duo also mocked the parent company of their network, Paramount Skydance, saying: "We especially want to thank our parent company Paramount -- a Skydance Capitulation," the creators said, following the Paramount-Skydance merger that closed last year."

forbes valuation

Forbes estimates both Parker and Stone 's net worth to be $1.4 billion. The South Park creators became billionaires last year after signing a new $1.5 billion deal with Paramount. The five-year deal allowed the media giant to secure streaming rights for the popular animated comedy for its Paramount+ service.

further reading

'South Park' Will Target 'Stupid Billionaires' And Data Centers In New Episode (Forbes)

'South Park' Changes Branding To 'South America' In Latest Trump Trolling (Forbes)

This article was originally published on Forbes.com