South Park's hour-long season premiere tackled police brutality, the coronavirus pandemic, and made a direct plea to its viewers to get out and vote.
“cool to not care,” firmly went against its own core ethos on Wednesday night. Its hour-long season 24 premiere tackled thorny issues like police brutality and President’s poor response to the coronavirus pandemic; it also made a direct plea, asking its viewers to get out and vote.
Dubbed “The Pandemic Special,” the new episode brought the coronavirus pandemic to the show’s title town—which, in addition to the global health crisis, also had to grapple with an increasingly violent and deadly police force. attacked most viciously. Halfway through the episode, the character Stan calls this universe’s president, Trump stand-in Mr. Garrison, and asks him to help save the town and stop the pandemic.
“Why would I do that?” Mr. Garrison says in response. “Stan, this is going to be very difficult for a child to understand. But I made a promise to the American people to get rid of all the Mexicans.” After Stan expresses justifiable shock and confusion at those racist comments—and notes that the coronavirus is deadly for the entire population—Mr. Garrison adds, “It’s killing a lot of them.” He then cites data that the coronavirus has been more deadly to people of color. “I’ve gone over the statistics. All I have to do now is sort of guide the avalanche in the right direction, and I’m fulfilling my promises to the American people. I was doing a crap job until this pandemic happened,” Mr.
Toward the end of the episode, a scientist notes that while life may never return to pre-pandemic normalcy, there could be a path forward to some kind of eventual COVID-19 cure. Then Mr. Garrison arrives and kills him with a flame thrower. As the scientist burns alive, he directly addresses the audience: “Don’t forget to get out and vote, everyone. Big election coming up!”were asked how they would try to parody the president going forward.
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