South Park Re-Writes Election Episode to Reflect Trump’s Victory

It would seem that the creators of South Park had to do a lot of last minute scrambling to account for Donald Trump‘s historic upset victory in the 2016 presidential election.

Wednesday’s new episode was originally titled “The Very First Gentlemen,” in reference to former president, Bill Clinton. After his wife Hillary Clinton was surprisingly defeated on Tuesday, the episode was re-written and given a new title of “Oh, Jeez” to reflect the catchphrase of the show’s Trump stand-in, Mr. Garrison.

South Park threads frequently bring out the ignoramus brigade trot out the lie that the South Park creators are OK with satirizing Christianity, but are too chicken to satirize Islam.

The season fourteen episodes "200" and "201" were mired in controversy for satirizing issues surrounding the depiction of the Islamic prophet, Muhammad. The website for the organization Revolution Muslim, a New York-based radical Muslim organization, posted an entry that included a warning to creators Parker and Stone that they risk violent retribution for their depictions of Muhammad. It said that they "will probably wind up like Theo van Gogh for airing this show". The posting provided the addresses to Comedy Central in New York and the production company in Los Angeles. The author of the post, Zachary Adam Chesser (who prefers to be called Abu Talhah al-Amrikee), said it was meant to serve as a warning to Parker and Stone, not a threat, and that providing the addresses was meant to give people the opportunity to protest.

Despite al-Amrikee's claims that the website entry was a warning, several media outlets and observers interpreted it as a threat. Support for the episode has come in the form of Everybody Draw Mohammed Day, a movement started on Facebook that encourages people to draw Muhammad on May 20. The "200" episode, which also depicted the Buddha snorting cocaine, prompted the government of Sri Lanka to ban the series outright.

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They should have left it alone. Then the next episode can start with one of them waking up from a bad dream or such to the news that Trump won after all and the story can pick up from there.

It would all be so much funnier as the years go by.

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