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[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 40 points 3 days ago (3 children)

The big question ahead of the newest episode was: what would South Park have to say about all this?

The answer is … not much.

The latest instalment, provocatively titled Conflict of Interest, makes no mention of Kirk

:-/

[–] joyjoy@lemmy.zip 29 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I think the most relevant part is when Vance threatened Brenden Carr

We can do this the easy way or we can do this the hard way

Which is a direct quote by Carr about Jimmy Kimmel.

That's probably the least funny thing I've seen that included the words "Jimmy" and "Carr" since the whole tax fraud scandal.

[–] blimthepixie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 20 points 3 days ago (2 children)

You reckon they delayed the episode about Kirk to thrash something else together so they could release that instead?

[–] magnetosphere@fedia.io 24 points 3 days ago (1 children)

IIRC, they’re insanely fast. I think the turnaround time on a South Park episode is about one week, which is utterly ridiculous.

I don’t know if that Kirk episode will ever see the light of day, or if they’ll make any jokes about Kirk at all, especially while the Cheeto is in power. He’s repeatedly shown that he’s not afraid to abuse his authority.

[–] 13igTyme@piefed.social 7 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I don't know if they are still at a week turn around. They've already had a select few weeks pass where there was no new episode. It's a good chance they just didn't have it ready.

[–] bobs_monkey@lemmy.zip 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)

This season they've specifically said they're on a biweekly release schedule. And then there was last week, which i still suspect they had an episode ready and it was denied.

[–] 13igTyme@piefed.social 1 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

I wonder if they meant twice a month. Kinda of like how getting paid twice a months still means two months with three pay checks.

https://imgur.com/a/q2VbRGA

[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 12 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (2 children)

They did an episode about Kirk not too long before he was shot and it already aired.

[–] KoboldCoterie@pawb.social 10 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I was legitimately expecting a followup with Cartman doing his Kirk act getting shot in the neck, but alas.

[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 12 points 3 days ago

Stan: "OMG! They killed Cartman!"

Kyle (Unenthusiastically): "You bastards..."

[–] blimthepixie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Was that S27E04?

I guess I got the wrong end of the stick for 05 being delayed?

[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 8 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

It was 2 or 3. 4 was the Labubu one.

Kirk wasn't portrayed himself; instead Clyde and Cartman were both parodying him as "Masterdebaters."

[–] blimthepixie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 3 days ago

Ahhh yeah that one.

I'm not American so I didn't get the Kirk reference.

Thought it was on about the loud bald one

[–] OldQWERTYbastard@lemmy.world 7 points 3 days ago (1 children)

They won't touch Kirk again for a loooooong time for fear of political retaliation. The Master Debater episode was pretty great though.

[–] yucandu@lemmy.world 10 points 3 days ago (2 children)

These the guys that put Macho Man Randy Savage in as a trans woman?

The guys that drew Mohammed?

The guys who make half a billion dollars.

You think they're afraid of political retaliation?

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 7 points 3 days ago (1 children)

You think they’re afraid of political retaliation?

Yes. Making fun of transgender folks and Muslims won't threaten your paycheck

[–] yucandu@lemmy.world 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Making fun of transgender folks and Muslims won't threaten your paycheck

What world are you living in where that is true?

It's hard to have a paycheck when you're dead, ask the Charlie Hebdo artists.

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

What world are you living in where that is true?

AmericaWorld.

It’s hard to have a paycheck when you’re dead, ask the Charlie Hebdo artists.

You were far safer in the Charlie Hebdo office in 2015 than anywhere bordering the state of Israel in 2025.

Besides, Comedy Central got a bunch of empty threats five years earlier.

Three years after the inflammatory posts, it was the organizers of the protest who were criminally convicted and thrown in prison.

Matt and Trey continued to post their own brand of inflammatory rhetoric without consequence.

[–] yucandu@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

You were far safer in the Charlie Hebdo office in 2015 than anywhere bordering the state of Israel in 2025.

Are you suggesting that Israel is going to bomb South Park Studios in retaliation or what?

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago

I'm suggesting Israel has bombed vastly more Al Jazeera reporters and AP/Reuters photojournalists than ISIS has bombed Western satirical publications.