“South Park” is back to once again mock President Donald Trump — and this time, Vice President JD Vance, too.

The Comedy Central show took aim at the president, as well as Vance and Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, in its latest episode, “Got A Nut,” which aired on Aug. 6.

The episode revolves around school counselor Mr. Mackey being fired from his job and, because he’s desperate for money, joining Immigration and Customs Enforcement. A parody ad for the federal agency mocks its recruitment process, with a jingle declaring, “We don’t ask for experience, just show up!”

      • chocrates
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        172 months ago

        I didn’t get it. Was it just that he was short?

        • @joekar1990@lemmy.world
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          It’s an old drama series from the late 70s. Essentially it’s an exclusive private island. Guests were granted so-called “fantasies” on the island for a price. JD Vance portrayed as Tattoo. Tattoo would run up the main bell tower to ring the bell and shout De plane! De plane! to announce the arrival of a new set of guests at the beginning of each episode. In later seasons, he arrives in his personal go-kart, sized for him, and recklessly drives to join the host for the visitor reception while the staff scramble out of his way.

          So the parallels between Epstein island and other things lined up so well overall.

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            Also ran well into the 80’s with new episodes.

            They also rebooted it twice. Once in the 90’s and once recently. I don’t know if Tattoo made a comeback, so only people 35 and up might get that reference.

            • He lived a fairly tragic life. But while on the show he was an asshole, constantly proposing marriage to female employees and demanding more and more pay, even wanting more pay than the star of the show. He was eventually fired because he was just too difficult to work with.

              • @dickalan@lemmy.world
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                Lol, so the guy was an Incel, good fucking riddance to his ass. I did not know these alarming details, thank you. He killed himself because he couldn’t find a wife to make his life easier lol

          • @ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world
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            32 months ago

            Tattoo would run up the main bell tower to ring the bell and shout De plane! De plane! to announce the arrival of a new set of guests

            Like Fantasy Island didn’t have a radio … or a flight schedule. That show has aged like Corinthian leather.

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              It was pretty implied that the islands and Mr Roark were supernatural.The terrible remake made it explicit. Roark seemed to have control of the weather and things would happen to force the characters into learning the lesson they were there for.

              Popular theory is the guests has just died and this was a last chance at being “good” before judgement.

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    Noem’s face crawling across the floor was horrifyingly fantastic. And the dogs…

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    While I find this season hasn’t been terribly well written or even all that funny, I really enjoy watching these episodes. In this time of instability and chaos, it feels somewhat cathartic to see them just go balls-to-the-wall with their insults on these absolute bastards. On a meta level, they seem to be dropping nuance to get reactions from their targets and even hoping to get sued, perhaps looking to shed light on some hypocrisy in their targets. Or maybe they are just Trey and Matt, frustrated at the current political situation and not inclined to give a fuck anymore. Cartman’s confusion is probably just them acknowledging their difficulty parodying people whose entire life is a farce.

    The end credits were a fucking riot, though.

    Illegitimi non carborundum.

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      This episode felt like a south park episode. The first was purely an attack on Trump, which may have been necessary, but it’s not a great episode of south park.

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    How timely with ice just removing its age restrictions. Good stuff.

    • D_C
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      Talking of age restrictions…

      “Do you think you could now be banging 24-year-olds,” Stern asked in the 2006 interview.

      “Oh, absolutely,” Trump responded “I have no trouble.”

      “Would you do it” Stern clarified.

      “I have no problem,” the future president said.

      Stern’s co-host Robin Quivers then asked, “do you have an age limit or would you…”

      “If I- No, no, I have no age–. I mean, I have an age li…” Trump replied.

      Then, when asked to provide his “upper bracket,” Trump said, “I don’t want to be like Congressman Foley, with, you know, 12-year-olds.”

      https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-told-howard-stern-2006-223928455.html (there are more sources for this)

      So 13 is the obese imbeciles age limit … when talking on a national(?) radio show!!

      1. Thirteen. Hmmmm. Why does 13 and tRUMP seem so icky and familiar. Oh, yes, now I remember…
        https://www.courthousenews.com/rape-allegations-refiled-against-trump/
        (If anyone doesn’t want to read this then basically he and Epstein tied up, beat, and raped a 13 years old and then made threats to keep them all quiet)
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      25 minute episode makes a headlines everyday until the next episode comes out which oddly enough isn’t each week because of how culturally relevant the episodes are the fucking president threatened their network.

      I don’t know that there’s ever been a more culturally relevant show… Even back when they’re only like three channels.

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    I wonder if they didn’t purposefully work to encourage this inevitable clusterfuck for content when they downplayed how fucked-up Trump is in Season 20.

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    I love how JD Vance came to the bedroom with Trump and Satan and said ‘would you like me to apply baby oil to zee asshole?’ in a stupid French accent. It was hilarious! Yes I know the whole part was a reference to Fantasy Island, it was hilarious

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      I keep re-watching that part over and over again cause it’s so damn funny.

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    This is the 14 month old puppy Kristi bragged about shooting. She then shot a pet goat that “disgusted” her.