I’m trying to work out where to begin. Do I start by telling you the latest episode of South Park saw President Donald Trump going to a Planned Parenthood, stripping down, and exposing (for the first time on the show) his anus and (for the umpteenth time) his micropenis, while sitting in a set of stirrups? Or do I say that the same episode saw him masturbating in the Oval Office behind the Resolute Desk with a pair of tweezers? Or later, in the presidential bedroom, with a pair of chopsticks? Trying to explain South Park in the year 2025 feels like both a fever dream and an endlessly pornographic one—which, if we’re being honest, is probably what the show has always truly been.
Wednesday night’s episode—the sixth in the show’s headline-making 27 th season—comes three weeks after