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Express Tribune
5 days ago
- Entertainment
- Express Tribune
‘South Park' targets Kristi Noem, ICE, and JD Vance in new episode
The second episode of South Park's 27th season, titled 'Got A Nut,' continues the animated series' sharp political satire, this time zeroing in on Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, Vice President JD Vance, and ICE officers under the fictionalized Trump administration. The episode follows Mr. Mackey, South Park Elementary's school counselor, who is fired due to federal budget cuts to the Department of Education—an apparent jab at real-life spending reductions. Seeking income, Mackey joins Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), enticed by a $100,000 salary and signing bonus, reflecting the show's criticism of recent DHS recruitment policies. ICE's hiring process is mocked for its lack of background checks and qualifications, and agents are portrayed as masked and shameful of their roles. Kristi Noem appears throughout the episode in exaggerated form. In a fictional ICE training video, she declares she once put down her dog 'by shooting it in the face,' echoing a real-life confession in her 2024 memoir. The show turns this moment into a recurring gag, with Noem shown graphically killing puppies—including a service dog at a Dora the Explorer concert and even Superman's dog Krypto. Her character is further exaggerated with melting facial features requiring constant patch-ups by makeup artists. 🚨SOUTH PARK DOES IT AGAIN In their new episode Kristi Noem's Botox melts as ICE carries out a raid to deport Dora the Explorer but finds she's been s*x trafficked to Mar-a-Lago and is giving a massage to an old man. They are pulling ZERO punches! 🔥 — CALL TO ACTIVISM (@CalltoActivism) August 7, 2025 JD Vance is also introduced in the episode, depicted as a toddler-sized version of the Vice President who shadows Trump around Mar-a-Lago, resembling the character Tattoo from Fantasy Island. Trump himself is again portrayed as a cartoonish villain, shown in bed with Satan and mocked for his physical features and ego. This episode had me in pieces. The world is laughing at us and rightfully so. #SouthPark — Nene🇵🇸🇱🇧 (@idreamofnene23) August 7, 2025 The episode doesn't limit its satire to individuals—it also critiques broader societal themes. Clyde, another student, becomes a rising manosphere influencer, triggering jealousy in Eric Cartman for stealing his provocateur status. This subplot offers commentary on toxic masculinity, internet fame, and misinformation, all wrapped in typical South Park irreverence. Created by Trey Parker and Matt Stone, South Park continues to hold little back in its portrayal of political and cultural figures. 'Got A Nut' reinforces the show's longstanding approach to satire—crude, unfiltered, and often uncomfortably close to reality. Though divisive, the episode reflects the creators' ongoing critique of Trump-era politics and American extremism.
Yahoo
5 days ago
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
South Park doubles down on its dog-blasting troll war with the White House
Like it or not, South Park has taken on a weirdly heavy role in our culture at the moment, one in which the actual residents of the actual White House both attack, and try to co-opt, the show's messaging, massively elevating the series' profile, and its function as a cultural barometer. Said meter, meanwhile, continues to point straight at a full-on war with not just Donald Trump, but his whole administration, as the show continues to basically dare Trump and his associates to make it important. 'Got A Nut,' the second episode of the show's 27th season, doubled down on that scorched earth approach tonight, building on the swings taken by the show's micropenis-festooned season premiere. That included aggressive attacks on ICE, Charlie Kirk, and most especially Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem, depicted as merciless attention seeker whose obsessive desire to shoot dogs didn't stop with the one she actually copped to killing in her 2024 autobiography. South Park's decision to stop fucking around with surrogate characters like Mr. Garrison and just say 'Kristi Noem loves shooting dogs, up to and including Krypto from Superman' reveals a show all-but-begging for another confrontation with Trump and his associates—see also JD Vance being depicted as the sexually servile Tattoo to Trump's Mr. Roarke, because there's nothing 16-year-old South Park fans love like a good Fantasy Island reference. As ever, creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone seem content to swing haphazardly between puerile jokes about 'masterdebaters' and Noem's face falling apart with more pointed material about how so many of the people propping up the current administration are just looking to 'make their nut,' whether it's by stoking online anger, or helping ICE literally invade heaven to deport brown people. It's classic troll tactics: Throw everything you can at the target, because something is going to get the blood pressure to rise. South Park has always occupied what feels like an outsized role in American culture: It makes more money, and garners more attention, than any number of shows that might approach cultural material in less bombastic or more thoughtful fashion, simply by dint of being willing to take the biggest, loudest swings. It's an approach that pays off best when reality feels at its dumbest, and now that the show's fully committed to focusing its ire on Trump, the question simply becomes whether the White House will continue to play along—or if the Very Normal Personalities currently occupying it will be able to resist letting themselves be trolled. More from A.V. Club The delightfully nasty Weapons spirals in the wake of unimaginable loss South Park doubles down on its dog-blasting troll war with the White House Rachel Sennott will make a madam out of Aubrey Plaza
Yahoo
5 days ago
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
South Park Just Parodied Trump With A 70s TV Show Reference Many Won't Get
South Park has released the second episode of its 27th season, and it's yet another attempt to take on Trump. This time, they used a TV show reference so dated that most of the animated series' viewers probably didn't get it. Somehow, that makes it more hilarious. The Trump portions of the episode take place at Mar-A-Lago, in a segment meant to be a direct parody of the classic TV show Fantasy Island. Fantasy Island was a drama-fantasy series airing on ABC from 1977 to 1984, starring Ricardo Montalbán as the mysterious Mr. Roarke and Hervé Villechaize as his assistant Tattoo. In the South Park satire version, Trump Roark and mini-me sized J.D. Vance is Tattoo. Set on a tropical island, each episode of Fantasy Island featured guests arriving to live out elaborate fantasies, often with ironic or moral twists. The show blended adventure, romance, and light supernatural elements. Known for its iconic catchphrase, 'The plane! The plane!' Fantasy Island became a cultural staple. Thirty years ago, all you had to do was point and shout, 'The plane, the plane!' in a gravelly voice, and everyone would laugh and say, 'Oh yeah, Fantasy Island!' Those days are gone, but here's South Park with a hilarious deep pull reference anyway. It's a far more creative way to satirize America's 47th president than the previous episode, which seemed mostly focused on trying to find reasons to get Trump naked. Solve the daily Crossword
Buzz Feed
5 days ago
- Entertainment
- Buzz Feed
The Internet Is Losing It Over How "South Park" Portrayed JD Vance
South Park has gone all IN on the Trump administration this season. The paintings. The PSA. And that lil ding-a-ling. This entire season appears to be dedicated to making Trump and his cronies look like dang fools. The second episode of the season was on last night, and it mainly dealt with ICE and the > the Secretary of Homeland Security, Kristi Noem. Kristi Noem's face kept falling off, and she kept on shooting puppies. There was an ICE raid on heaven. There was a Charlie Kirk masterdebater storyline. Annnnd we had our debut of JD Vance. That's him: It looks like they modeled JD after Tattoo from Fantasy Island. As this person said, "They made JD Vance Trumps lil bitch." In one scene, JD even offers to apply baby oil to Satan's butthole. Accurate! I can't wait for who they deal with next!
Yahoo
5 days ago
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
The new season's second episode also went after Kristi Noem and Charlie Kirk.
South Park stepped up its rampage against the Trump administration in the highly anticipated second episode of its new season, targeting numerous conservative figures including Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem and Vice President JD Vance. Two weeks after introducing President Donald Trump as a Saddam Hussein-esque figure having a love affair with literal Satan, Season 27's second episode introduced Vance as Trump's baby-faced servant, dressed and voiced much like the character of Tattoo from the 1970s TV show Fantasy Island. Tiny Vance is repeatedly insulted by his boss Trump, who towers over him.
