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.
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.
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.
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
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
@@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
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.
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.
@@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.
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
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.
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.
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
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).
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.
@@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
@@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.
@@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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
“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
@@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.
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
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.
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.
@@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
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.
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.
@@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.
@ 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. 😂
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.
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
It feels cheap to me. The most important quote from South Park is "either everything is ok to make fun of, or nothing is". They spent 4 years making trump jokes and it would be nice to balance it out by getting just one episode, one *scene* that pokes fun at Kamala or Biden. Otherwise they're not practicing what they preach.
“Either everything is ok to make fun of or nothing is” is a completely different sentiment. It doesn’t mean “if you make fun of one thing you have to make fun of everything” lol
Thanks! I do think they’re very adamant that they should be allowed to make fun of everyone and everything, but that also means they wanna make the show the way they want to. Being told that they have to make fun of something is likely just as annoying as being told that they aren’t allowed to make fun of someone.
@@Johnny2Cellos I am looking forward to seeing what 2025 brings to South Park. Incidentally, did you ever do a video covering Lianne's evolution as a character?
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
@@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.
@@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.
@@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.
@@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.
@@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?
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.
@@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
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?
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
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 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
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.
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.
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.
@@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?
@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.
@@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)
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?"
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...
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.
@@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
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
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).
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
They had 4 years to make fun of Biden and Kamala but didn't. I used to respect them because they made fun of both sides but the last several years has been a joke.....and not a good one.
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
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
I think one of the reasons is like Joe Rogan said: make fun of Trump and it's fair game, make fun of Biden and it's like you're making fun of a senile old man.
They never shied away from dark humor before, and they could have satirized the administration or the situation rather than him personally they probably just regret tying their show to politics the way they did, people have a tendency to overcorrect
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.
They rarely comment on international geopolitics, they're almost purely domestic. why single out Israel? They dont mention russia, the saudis or literally any other country other than canada. And they rip on jews 24/7
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
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.
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.
@ it’s a good thing she didn’t win she’s not a good candidate did you see how many times she changed opinions id say she’s worse then Biden trump makes me feel proud to be American again
With the current state of media literacy being what it is, they really need to think about how they write this stuff. The threat of people misinterpreting anything they say feels like enough reason to avoid this election.
The problem isn't media literacy. It's willful ignorance. I still people copy lines Cartman said from "Joining the Panderverse" and they just ignore the fact that YOU'RE NOT SUPPOSED TO AGREE WITH THE RACIST SEXIST MURDERER THAT MADE A KID EAT HIS PARENTS
@TheTundraTerror It used to just be called literacy, but it's not just books that people struggle to grasp the point of anymore. I'm very sorry if you don't understand the words I used. Your playlists are decent indicators for why I don't take you seriously.
So much as concept of "media literacy" being much more aware now. Like most just know South Park as some "comedy show with toiler humor", broadcast format meant that few got a chance to watch it consistently, and not many were aware of creator's views that the main point tends to get muddled (like ManBearPig would be interpreted as making fun of Al Gore than Climate Change itself, Team America would be assumed as parody on War on Terror and action movies, or South Park being assumed as liberals since they made conservative christians angry and tend to have LGBT cast).
@CinnamonGrrlErin1 They should embrace it and quit being old fuddy duddies. Trump is the South Park president, he makes jokes, wacky comments and insults other politicians for their incompetence, come on. In the 80s and 90s we used to wish politicians would be so entertaining, now everyone's pretending like they preferred boring, establishment politics. Oh our precious institutions! Our precious government agencies! Our poor corporate media under attack!! So ridiculous...
@@chrisunruh8217 Any person with half a brain could recognise that most people’s issue with Trump isn’t because he’s a silly little guy or just generally rude… Most people wouldn’t mind those qualities if he weren’t either a fraud nor a rapist. Which he is both. Double whamy.
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.
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.
I honestly feel like covering the 2016 election really messed with their willingness to cover elections, especially with how much it overtook that season
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.
South Park is the best social satire ever. I’m 60 and have been watching it from day one. My 35 year old son calls me to talk about episodes, I raised him right.
They've never hid their biases before tho. Like, they've actively shown their distaste for candidates in every election they've covered in South Park. Political jokes are just not funny when everyone else is doing them.
I don't know why people keep forgetting that Matt and Trey don't care about politics or anything of the sort, they only care about what they think is hilarious(to themselves mostly)
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.
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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.
Manbearpig killed satan right?
@@_booth7992maybe diddy could carry satan’s torch lmao
@@_booth7992 Yeah but where was he going to go? Detroit?
@@TheNewSchmoo No, they literally show him go up to heaven in a show of dramatic irony. Boy's desd dead.
@@Userbotted that would be pretty funny considering satan's line
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.
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I actually really like this idea
That’s actually really good
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.
They were not wrong about trump though? You Americans are crazy
"Afraid" is not the word. They just want to avoid being stuck with another gag character that they despise writing.
my immediate thoughts, its just..not a good writing move
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
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
@@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
They say that but they still did alot of trump episodes even after his presidency and are probably gonna continue if he gets reelected
The Obama election episode will forever be their best election video. Turning the whole thing into a giant heist was genius pure gold.
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.
Politics have fallen so far since the days of 2008.
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.
@@CyberLance26 it was all propaganda and media control since he ended being one of the worst things to reach the white house
@@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.
I’m actually surprised and a lil disappointed they did nothing with Biden
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
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.
Considering SNL wouldn't dare make fun of Biden until recently it's interesting south park didn't do a single episode about him
@@aleksabanjevic8316 South Park is all about low-hanging fruits!
@@aleksabanjevic8316Probably because it could be seen as promoting ageism and abelism?
After how season 20 ended up, It’s probably best to stay far away from that
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Idk, season 20 story was pretty fun (the only thing that was lacking is Cartman's story imo)
@@pshekchikWas a disaster behind the scenes though
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.
Then re-invent it otherwise I'm going to have to call them pussy
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.
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
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).
That’s literally the reason. Plus it’s boring and it got old really fast.
Looks like they’re losing Mr. Garrison again for 4 years.
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.
@@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
@@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.
@@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.
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.
We are finally unburdened by what has been. 😂🤣😅
Garrison Trump really ended up backfiring huh.
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.
and imagine if you are not even American
@mr.x2855 I think people in other nations are sick of him as well.
He’s hella funny tho lol the jokes write themselves if you don’t let legacy media here brainwash you
@@STEPHxCA Not really he has been doing the same jokes for 8 years now. Thump needs some new material.
@@Matt-sk6hi it's just sad at this point
Its impossible to parody an election like this! It's already a parody of itself
They already covered the giant douche and turd sandwich so idk what other content they can make of this
@@jessicahutchinson9347 I will always reference that episode until the end of time
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.
More like hard to parody anything. Biden and Harris are boring. Trump was made fun of too many times. What to do here?
@@alihorda bro the dude's son was banging whores and smoking crack, that was prime comedy material
Its pretty impossible to satirize when the real world produces "THEYRE EATING THE DOGS"
its already a joke
Genuinely the best clip to come out of trump besides the paper landing on the table
😂🤣😂
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.
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.
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.
You are talking to kids. so Obama is like there first President.
This lol
“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
Hillary wasn't a president lol
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
Biden should have been Stan's Grandpa. Season 20 - Present are hit and miss episodes now.
facts, to that second part
@@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.
S19 onwards is unwatchable imo
@@DrSpaceman42 Same. Although, Put It Down is the only episode past that point that I'm willing to watch.
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
Not afraid as much as wise enough not repeat an unnecessary event.
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.
@@GloriousGandalf Maybe just create a new character to parody Trump or you know just introduce Trump in
I’m glad they aren’t covering it, I see too many political ads as is.
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.
I heard that
@@leergutlarsThat is also fascist and that and money should end, along with agriculture, for fruit baring forests, globally?
@@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
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.
That’s pretty good
@@Johnny2CellosKamala and Garrison lost to RFK. He is an anti war candidate so…
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.
@@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.
Yeah South Park has to take the L avoiding Biden all this time.
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.
Someone else said Biden should have been Stans grandpa and I can picture that perfectly!
That actually sounds like a brilliant idea.
They missed out on gold because politics, its lame.
@ 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. 😂
Do they?
Wait... The annoying neighbor from That's My Bush also played president Richard Martinez on Cory in the House! That's actually genius.
Never watched that, but that guy was vaguely familiar. Cory In The House was around the last time I had cable.
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.
If there was ever a president who was ripe for satire it was biden
Maybe Biden could have been in Deep Learning where he gets replaced with a Chatbot.
Biden is literally Comedy Gold
Looking back it would have made a lot of sense at the time
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
It feels cheap to me. The most important quote from South Park is "either everything is ok to make fun of, or nothing is". They spent 4 years making trump jokes and it would be nice to balance it out by getting just one episode, one *scene* that pokes fun at Kamala or Biden. Otherwise they're not practicing what they preach.
“Either everything is ok to make fun of or nothing is” is a completely different sentiment. It doesn’t mean “if you make fun of one thing you have to make fun of everything” lol
@@Johnny2Cellos That's fair. My apologies if I sounded biased. Hope you are doing well, loving the videos!
Thanks! I do think they’re very adamant that they should be allowed to make fun of everyone and everything, but that also means they wanna make the show the way they want to. Being told that they have to make fun of something is likely just as annoying as being told that they aren’t allowed to make fun of someone.
@@Johnny2Cellos I am looking forward to seeing what 2025 brings to South Park.
Incidentally, did you ever do a video covering Lianne's evolution as a character?
That doesn't mean they have to make fun of the election or Kamala and/or Biden if they don't want to.
They just don't want president Garrison back
Basically, Matt & Trey sit on the fence so hard that it splits them in half.
Only in America is it a sin to not worship the Red soulless lizardpeople or the Blue soulless lizardpeople
@uckbritley1305 Spoiler: You can have political beliefs without worshipping politicians.
It’s annoying that they put the show on hiatus rather than just… not fucking make an episode about the election
They’re making a movie
@ so why not just say that instead of “we just don’t wanna cover the election this time”?
@@YodaOnABenderBecause it's funnier
@@THISHANDLEHASNOTBEENTAKEN how? They aren’t even telling a joke here dude
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.
More like sick of covering elections, last one costed them like two seasons in unintended consequences.
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.
@@CrypticCobrathis
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
@@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.
@@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.
Trump or Kamala, what a difficult outcome to predict.
@@dansmith1661 To be fair, I kind of thought she'd win (even though she was terrible).
If I was on the losing side I wouldn't want to cover it either.
Didn't Matt and Trey say at some point, that they were republicans?
@@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.
@MoreImbaThanYou I'm pretty sure they said they don't align with either side
@@brotherendy Maybe my memory is wrong then. Can't find any source of what I said either.
@@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.
"We're tired of covering Trump"
**he gets elected for four more years, oWo**
People just want to make america boring again
He should just make small cameos like some of those other presidents
@@thebatterymill Bingo.
@ and we can have a cool new teacher too
Donald Trump is the first person to break South Park. They overplayed their hand in 2016 and nothing has been the same since.
Matt and Trey aren't the same as they used to be
they're not that fearless anymore
Liberals have been using violence on people who insult them so they might avoid making fun of Kamala and Biden for safety reasons.
@@ronnato162 They were literally willing to show Muhammad on air in the face of Al Qaeda threats. This is blatantly misguided
@@kamakiriad it was literally more than 10 years ago
@@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?
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.
The Kamala texts for SURE would have been featured if they had done the season this year
You can make jokes about literally anything about her. She's a complete clown show.
@@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
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?
Kamela isn’t nearly interesting enough while Trump is a too low hanging fruit to be worth plucking.
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
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.
@@CrypticCobrathis
And just let actual Trump be president this time, and let Garrison be Garrison and let Garrison be glad that actual Trump wins
@@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
@@Numb1RatedSalesman1997 or JD Vance
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.
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.
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.
@@blau6832 yeah sure I’m up for some political banter.
@@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?
@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.
@@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)
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?"
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...
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.
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.
When you’re including South Park as media you’re already looking too broad to make any point
@@jordanclark4635 that and Biden has dementia so the 'babysitting' is understandable...
I hope that they will not repeat the Garrisontrump.
Let Mr Garrison remain himself instead of a stand in for someone else.
They will have to, this is why you shouldn’t have voted for Trump for south park’s legacy’s sake, lol
@@omg_julius5294 I am not even in the same continent as USA ;)
@@octapusxft me neither(;
@@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
@@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
Poor Mr Garrison, he's relapsing again
They’ll never do better than the 2008 election episode, it was their BEST presidential administration episode.
Comedians are not allowed to make fun of obama its hollywood law
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
Looks like they're gonna make Garrison Trump again.
Fuck.
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).
Yea America is to sexist and racist. Any white man would've beat trump
@@powerist209true
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
@@powerist209 That was our convention where we were picking our candidate, not a rally.
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.
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.
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.
I think they thought he was gonna lose in 2016
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.
Occam’s razor. They critique republicans more often because the creators seem to be middle left
Didn't they state multiple times they are right leaning?
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.
I love the turd sandwich giant douche episode, it's pretty damn accurate no matter the election😂
Vote or die -P diddler
Every 4 years, that episode gets more and more gold 😂
He's not wrong
I honestly refer to candidates like this in real life now. Regularly.
turning fence sitting into an artform
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
yeah i think the more funny approach is looking at the public reaction rather than the actual election
True
Once they hit the sandwich vs douche analogy there’s nothing new to say
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.
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.
@@powerist209 Musk is a trust fund baby manchild and 4chan can't decide on a pot to piss in.
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
And very very boring
I dunno if Dubya is normal but he definitely is stupid and they made him funny
Well there is always Freedomtoons to fill the void.
They had 4 years to make fun of Biden and Kamala but didn't. I used to respect them because they made fun of both sides but the last several years has been a joke.....and not a good one.
BILLIE?! don't you realise, Biden was in the show all along, he's represented by Stan's grandpa, Billie
lol
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
True, if your a show that makes fun of everything relevent you’re only, maybe, gonna have like 1 or 2 politica; episodes.
Yeah for sure. I do hope they do an episode or 2 about Kamala and Trump, but literally only one or two.
Still would have been nice to get 1 about Biden :/ Not asking for much there.
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
@@learn905 Southpark is well known for focusing on critique of modern events.
No modern event “ages well”
Yes. They are. We had a zombie in the white house for four years, constantly stumbling over himself, and yet they didnt comment on him a single time.
How can they be tired of covering Trump when they never did, Turning mr. Garrison into a Trump caricature is not covering Trump
i think theyve been bought by this point.
I'm tired too. Delighted they took a break.
RIP To Garrison’s Love Life till 2028
😂😂
They realized that they can't both sides out of this election.
Trump is literally better.
I think one of the reasons is like Joe Rogan said: make fun of Trump and it's fair game, make fun of Biden and it's like you're making fun of a senile old man.
Because you are :D
Nah
Make a joke that’s one in a million vs make a joke that’s one in a billion
Neither are funny anymore
They never shied away from dark humor before, and they could have satirized the administration or the situation rather than him personally
they probably just regret tying their show to politics the way they did, people have a tendency to overcorrect
and if you make fun of Kamala you make fan of a black woman... which will cause half the country to call you hitler and the other to call him based.
South Park is a safe space for people who don't want to think too hard about anything.
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.
cowards comes to mind.
It's certainly afraid to critize Israel and the grip it has on America.
would kill for an AIPAC episode except the I stands for Italy
@@DSVlad with a joke about Tifa and the Senate
They rarely comment on international geopolitics, they're almost purely domestic. why single out Israel? They dont mention russia, the saudis or literally any other country other than canada. And they rip on jews 24/7
@@DrSpaceman42 Israel's influence over American politics is a domestic issue
@@DSVlad k
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
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.
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.
Hahaha 😂 weird how Hunter Biden’s lawyer is the same lawyer that represents Trey and Parker
Didn’t party ??
Most of this election has been a real life South Park parody. They can't top it.
They shouldn't have used Mr garrison for Trump they should have just used to Trump for Trump
They wrote themselves into a corner because they were confident trump would lose
We need a episode roasting Kamala harris
Unfortunately she didn't win, so we're stuck with this Garrison shit
@ it’s a good thing she didn’t win she’s not a good candidate did you see how many times she changed opinions id say she’s worse then Biden trump makes me feel proud to be American again
@@emagenevanhorn1543 Idk, man id like bernie sanders to win instead of trump
@@worlds-biggest-mbn-fanboy I'd like someone who doesn't have a D or an R next to their name to win, but thats never going to happen
With the current state of media literacy being what it is, they really need to think about how they write this stuff. The threat of people misinterpreting anything they say feels like enough reason to avoid this election.
The problem isn't media literacy. It's willful ignorance. I still people copy lines Cartman said from "Joining the Panderverse" and they just ignore the fact that YOU'RE NOT SUPPOSED TO AGREE WITH THE RACIST SEXIST MURDERER THAT MADE A KID EAT HIS PARENTS
I have never seen two words that makes me take a person less seriously than "media literacy".
@TheTundraTerror It used to just be called literacy, but it's not just books that people struggle to grasp the point of anymore.
I'm very sorry if you don't understand the words I used.
Your playlists are decent indicators for why I don't take you seriously.
@@TheTundraTerror The irony of this comment 😂
So much as concept of "media literacy" being much more aware now.
Like most just know South Park as some "comedy show with toiler humor", broadcast format meant that few got a chance to watch it consistently, and not many were aware of creator's views that the main point tends to get muddled (like ManBearPig would be interpreted as making fun of Al Gore than Climate Change itself, Team America would be assumed as parody on War on Terror and action movies, or South Park being assumed as liberals since they made conservative christians angry and tend to have LGBT cast).
Are YOU afraid to cover 200 & 201?
Dude I didn't even get to see those episodes until last year
Lol he mentions it all the time.
Some people don't seem to understand that sometimes, people are quiet on a subject because they just don't have anything to say.
I can only imagine Matt and Trey's disappointment today
yea same. i love it
@CinnamonGrrlErin1 They should embrace it and quit being old fuddy duddies. Trump is the South Park president, he makes jokes, wacky comments and insults other politicians for their incompetence, come on. In the 80s and 90s we used to wish politicians would be so entertaining, now everyone's pretending like they preferred boring, establishment politics. Oh our precious institutions! Our precious government agencies! Our poor corporate media under attack!! So ridiculous...
@@chrisunruh8217 Any person with half a brain could recognise that most people’s issue with Trump isn’t because he’s a silly little guy or just generally rude… Most people wouldn’t mind those qualities if he weren’t either a fraud nor a rapist. Which he is both. Double whamy.
@@chrisunruh8217 Congratulations, you didn't get it.
@@chrisunruh8217 What are you even yammering on about? Take your meds
How convenient...
Meh, everyone being mad at South Park because they think they're pro-politics on the side they dislike is right on brand.
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.
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.
It's not afraid. They just pick sides and self censored. Simple as that.
answer to title: yes
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.
100%. Theres no exceptional reason not to joke about them otherwise.
I love you, Johnny. Thank you and you just keep making these wonderful videos. They're the highlight of my day whenever I see a new one.
I honestly feel like covering the 2016 election really messed with their willingness to cover elections, especially with how much it overtook that season
Of course they're afraid. They're multi millionaires who don't want to rock the boat.
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.
So glad they finally learned that baking their own politics into the comedy was a bad idea
Honestly who needs parodies in this economy
South Park is the best social satire ever. I’m 60 and have been watching it from day one. My 35 year old son calls me to talk about episodes, I raised him right.
It's because they can't hide their biases, so they avoid the topic this time
Yea it's super obvious
They've never hid their biases before tho. Like, they've actively shown their distaste for candidates in every election they've covered in South Park. Political jokes are just not funny when everyone else is doing them.
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
dude they had alot to dish out when it comes to biden ....hell freedom toons did better parodies then south park
I don't know why people keep forgetting that Matt and Trey don't care about politics or anything of the sort, they only care about what they think is hilarious(to themselves mostly)
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.
Yes, because the last time they tried to predict a political candidate winning they irreversibly screwed up their show beyond repair