South Park returned Wednesday after a three-week hiatus and left us with the terrifying prospect of Eric Cartman being the one human to avoid wasting us from the Antichrist.
For causes unexplained, the episode is listed as season 28, episode one — not the sixth episode of the twenty seventh season. Maybe it’s a contract situation with Paramount and South Park Studios, but it surely doesn’t appear to have a lot to do with the plot, which carries on the place it left off.
This week at South Park Elementary, the “6-7” meme is in full pressure and driving the dad and mom and academics mad. For the uninitiated, under-14s have been saying “6-7” after they don’t know the reply, as a fill-in phrase, or for causes they and we are going to by no means know. The genesis of the meme comes from the track “Doot Doot,” by rapper Skrilla in December 2024, and for some purpose, it simply took off. Ultimately, obsession over the joke drives Cartman to puke incessantly. Or is he possessed?
In the meantime, tech guru Peter Thiel enters the story, plotting with J.D. Vance to thwart the start of the Antichrist, i.e., Donald Trump and Devil’s child. Thiel will get Trump to go to Deliberate Parenthood to attempt to sneakily ask a physician to carry out an abortion on Devil, however it’s rebuffed by the physician, who tells him that he’ll want somebody with experience on the Antichrist. Enter Thiel, who marches into South Park Elementary and lays down the regulation with the school in regards to the doable cult the children are obsessed over.
Again on the A-story, Cartman is on the physician’s workplace, too, present process a full-body scan to find out the reason for his well being disaster. However the puke retains coming and it seems they might want to search exterior assist.
Thiel, having commandeered the college’s safety system, downloads all scholar information and begins to look at and report. Cameras throughout the college are watching the children, because the employees is in search of to seek out extra leads on what’s going on with this “6-7” enterprise.
Additionally added into the jam-packed episode is a plotline with Jesus making an attempt to reconcile with fashionable Christianity and happening a double date with PC Principal; his date is a bit of labor named Peggy Rockbottom. It doesn’t go effectively. Again at college, Thiel dubs Jesus a “Nosey Nancy” when he protests the surveillance and is rapidly eliminated by PC Principal; within the health club, he laments the state of affairs with the sporty college chief, who asks him, point-blank, if he’s homosexual.
Trump gags proceed all through the episode: if his sphincter isn’t on full show at Deliberate Parenthood, he’s in mattress with Devil, however rebuffed and masturbating… with chopsticks.
The plot thickens as Vance and Thiel’s partnership is revealed as a scheme to acquire all the world’s information. However he should kind out this Antichrist enterprise, so Thiel heads to the Cartman residence in a pointy homage to The Exorcist. Oh, and he obtained there in an Uber. It took him round six or seven minutes. After he spends time with Cartman, Thiel concludes that he often is the solely hope we’ve got to cease the Antichrist.
“We’ve to unlock the secrets and techniques he holds, it doesn’t matter what it takes,” he declares. Uh-oh.
Again on the Cheesecake Manufacturing unit, Jesus is again on a double date with Peggy Rockbottom and PC Principal, however simply can’t take it, and the warped sense of Christianity that appears to have taken maintain throughout America.
“It is advisable bully folks and also you’re utilizing the Bible to do it, ” he tells PC Principal, as he tries to kick his ass. Jesus then heads out into the suburban sprawl and contemplates life on earth in 2025. He then turns round, walks into “the Manufacturing unit,” stares down PC Principal and pulls Ms. Rockbottom out of her chair and again to his place. He’s going full bro.
The 2-parter ought to conclude in two weeks.
Wednesday evening’s episode is the sixth of the ratings-smashing twenty seventh season of South Park, which debuted on Comedy Central in 1997. Extra new episodes of the most recent season will air on Oct. 29, Nov. 12, Nov. 26 and Dec. 10, based on Comedy Central.