Posted on 07/24/2025 9:44:28 AM PDT by MinorityRepublican
The media conglomerate Paramount announced Wednesday afternoon that the creators of “South Park” had agreed to produce 50 new episodes over the next five years in a deal reportedly valued at $1.5 billion.
Ten hours later, “South Park” creators Matt Stone and Trey Parker excoriated Paramount — and aggressively skewered President Donald Trump — in the premiere episode of the Comedy Central show’s 27th season.
In the episode, Trump (voiced by Stone) sues the town of South Park for $5 billion after they challenge Jesus Christ’s presence in their elementary school. The townspeople are prepared to fight back, but Jesus Christ (also voiced by Stone) urges them to settle.
“You guys saw what happened to CBS? Yeah, well, guess who owns CBS? Paramount,” Jesus Christ says at the episode’s climax. “Do you really want to end up like Colbert?”
Paramount is under intense scrutiny for appearing to kowtow to the Trump administration ahead of a proposed blockbuster merger. Stone and Parker were clearly riffing on their corporate parent’s eventful summer.
On July 2, Paramount agreed to pay $16 million to settle a lawsuit from Trump, who alleged that CBS’ “60 Minutes” had deceptively edited an interview with former Vice President Kamala Harris. CBS denied that claim.
On July 17, CBS announced that it planned to cancel “The Late Show With Stephen Colbert” in May, calling the move “purely a financial decision.” But many of Colbert’s fans cried foul, arguing the comedian was being penalized for his anti-Trump humor.
Both developments came as Paramount is preparing to be sold to Skydance Media, an entertainment production and finance company run by David Ellison, the son of Oracle mogul (and Trump ally) Larry Ellison. The corporate tie-up requires federal approval from the Federal Communications Commission.
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Will they bleep out and censor their mocking of Jesus Christ like they did for Mohammed?
They lost me when they had kids peeing on each other. I could take Mr. Slave and Big Gay Al. I turned it off for depictions of homosexual rape with Indiana Jones. It has outlived anything I want to watch and the LGBTQ themes got worse and worse.
Still like “Night of the Living Homeless.”
Clearly you’ve never watched South Park
Great leap you are making, and why be so uptight?
I sincerely hope that before you meet your Maker, you realize how wrong you are. The triune God loves you, but He has made it clear in His Word that He will not share His glory with anyone, and that includes those who think comedy ridiculing the LORD is ok. It is not. It is sacrilege and blasphemy. Is a laugh worth losing your soul?
Exactly. They even trolled the presenter when receiving an award a few years back saying they’re Republicans.
You are free to have your opinion, just as I have a certain opinion, and I respect and appreciate you for not getting into a name-calling session. But I've always thought that God must have a sense of humor to put up with us in general.
I think he’s got more of a “shake my head” response. Peace.
1.5 BILLION for 50 18 minute cartoons?
Wow
Paramount + streaming
They are like SNL. Just not funny anymore. I miss episodes like The Sexual Harassment Panda.
I guess they had to tone it down.
It’s depraved entertainment.
A lot of people here like it, as you can see. I always found that for every one episode that I liked, there would be ten of them just like you said. When I left prison counseling years ago, I quit watching it entirely, because the inmates all liked it, and it made my classes and counseling groups go really well. Always launched good discussion.
Plus I did a good Mr. Mackey imitation at the time.
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