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Mint
4 days ago
- Entertainment
- Mint
How to watch ‘South Park' Season 27 online — stream the Donald Trump premiere episode everyone's talking about
The iconic animated series is back — and it's already sparking major backlash. South Park's explosive Season 27 premiere features a surreal, highly satirical portrayal of Donald Trump, leading to strong condemnation from the White House. Here's how to stream the episode that's making global headlines. South Park returned for its 27th season on Wednesday night with a jaw-dropping episode that wasted no time diving into political controversy — taking aim at US President Donald Trump in a way only South Park can. In the premiere episode, titled 'Sermon on the 'Mount,' the residents of South Park stage a protest against the president. One of the most provocative scenes shows a cartoon version of Trump climbing into bed with Satan — a satirical moment reminiscent of the show's depiction of Saddam Hussein in the 1999 film South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut. When Satan rebuffs him, Trump pleads, 'Come on, Satan, I've been working hard all day,' before revealing his exaggeratedly tiny genitals — drawing audible gasps from audiences online. The episode also marks the return of Jesus Christ to the fictional town, offering biting meta-commentary on corporate media. 'I had to come back because of a lawsuit and an agreement with Paramount,' Jesus explains — likely referencing the reported $16 million settlement between Trump and the studio. He also jokes about the cancellation of The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, which is owned by the same parent company as South Park, and warns the characters not to step out of line: '(Trump) can do whatever he wants now that someone backed down. You guys saw what happened to CBS? Well, guess who owns CBS? Paramount! You really want to end up like Colbert? ... Just shut up, or we're going to get cancelled, you idiots!' Following the episode, South Park launched a promotional website featuring a satirical deepfake public service announcement (PSA). The clip features a digital Trump wandering naked through a desert as the narrator proclaims: 'When things heat up, who will deliver us from temptation? Donald J. Trump. No matter how hot it gets, he's not afraid to fight for America.' The surreal PSA has gone viral, further amplifying reactions across social media platforms. The Biden administration issued a swift and pointed response. In a statement to Variety, White House spokesperson Taylor Rogers accused South Park and its supporters of blatant double standards: 'The Left's hypocrisy truly has no end – for years they have come after South Park for what they labelled as 'offensive' content, but suddenly they are praising the show.' 'Just like the creators of South Park, the Left has no authentic or original content, which is why their popularity continues to hit record lows.' Where Is 'South Park' Season 27 Streaming? South Park Season 27 is available to stream exclusively on Paramount+. New episodes are released weekly on Thursdays, one day after they air on Comedy Central in the United States. The Donald Trump-focused premiere episode, 'Sermon on the 'Mount,' is currently streaming on Paramount+. To access the episode, you'll need a Paramount+ subscription. Two plans are currently available: Essential Plan (with limited adverts): $7.99/month Paramount+ with Showtime (ad-free): $12.99/month Yes — new users can take advantage of Paramount+'s seven-day free trial, allowing you to stream the Season 27 premiere at no cost during the trial window. New episodes of South Park Season 27 are broadcast every Wednesday at 10 p.m. ET/PT on Comedy Central. They are then added to Paramount+ every Thursday.
WIRED
5 days ago
- Entertainment
- WIRED
Paramount Has a $1.5 Billion 'South Park' Problem
Jul 24, 2025 7:13 PM The White House says the show is 'fourth-rate' after it showed Trump with 'tiny' genitals. The controversy comes just as the FCC has greenlit Paramount's merger with Skydance and promised to end DEI. Still from South Park. Photograph: Comedy Central/Everett Collection In an interview with Vanity Fair in September, South Park creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone all but swore off satirizing Donald Trump, noting 'I don't know what more we could possibly say.' We found out what more they could say yesterday, in brutal fashion. The same day Paramount announced a five-year streaming deal with South Park , including 50 new episodes, the show's 27th season premiere mercilessly mocked both president Trump and the network for capitulating to his demands, settling with him over the 60 Minutes lawsuit, and canceling The Late Show With Stephen Colbert . The episode, called 'Sermon on the Mount,' did not hold back on crass jokes aimed at Trump, showing him with a 'teeny tiny' penis both in animation and as a deepfake, and portraying him as Satan's lover in a style reminiscent of the gay Saddam Hussein character from the 1999 movie South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut. The episode aired as Paramount is set to merge with media company Skydance. Politicians and media personalities alike are speculating that its eagerness to keep Trump happy is motivated by gaining the US Federal Communications Commission's approval of the deal, which was made official Thursday evening. Before being fired, Colbert, a late-night ratings leader, described Paramount's $16-million settlement with Trump as a 'big fat bribe' and on Monday's show he said 'the gloves are off' while telling the president 'go fuck yourself.' Between Colbert's remaining season, network colleague Jon Stewart's scathing indictment of both Paramount and CBS, the new South Park deal, and a transformative merger, the company appears to be looking at a period where some of its biggest stars are openly hostile to both it and the president. 'I welcome Skydance's commitment to make significant changes at the once storied CBS broadcast network,' FCC Chairman Brendan Carr—who wrote Project 2025's chapter on the telecommunications agency—reportedly said in a statement Thursday supporting the merger. 'Today's decision also marks another step forward in the FCC's efforts to eliminate invidious forms of DEI.' Paramount did not respond to WIRED's requests for comment. In a statement emailed to WIRED, White House spokesperson Taylor Rogers derided South Park as irrelevant and derided 'left' fans who liked the season opener. 'The Left's hypocrisy truly has no end—for years they have come after South Park for what they labeled as 'offense' [sic] content, but suddenly they are praising the show. Just like the creators of South Park , the Left has no authentic or original content, which is why their popularity continues to hit record lows,' she says. 'This show hasn't been relevant for over 20 years and is hanging on by a thread with uninspired ideas in a desperate attempt for attention. President Trump has delivered on more promises in just six months than any other president in our country's history—and no fourth-rate show can derail President Trump's hot streak.' Paramount's press release announcing the South Park deal—reported to be worth $1.5 billion—describes the show as 'one of the most valuable TV franchises in the world.' It also praises Parker and Stone as 'fearless' and 'boundary-pushing.' But the roasting of Trump in 'Sermon on the Mount' was also something else: mean. Deeply, devastatingly mean. After being accused by the Canadian Prime Minister of being akin to a 'dictator from the Middle East,' Trump lashes out at a White House artist for painting him with a small penis. The small dick theme is repeated throughout the episode, with numerous portraits of him humping things and animals and Satan telling him, 'I can't even see anything, it's so small.' Trump petulantly threatens to sue him, and the artist, and Jesus, and the entire town—basically anyone who pisses him off. It's also implied that he's on the Epstein list. 'Do you really want to end up like Colbert?' Jesus asks the townspeople, who are pushing back against forced Christianity in their kids' school. He calls out Paramount by name, saying, 'we're going to get canceled, you idiots.' The town strikes a deal with the president, forcing them to do pro-Trump messaging—a nod to Trump's claim on Truth Social that Paramount's 'new owners' have agreed to give him $20 million in advertising and public service announcements in addition to the settlement. (Paramount told Deadline the settlement doesn't include PSAs and said it 'has no knowledge of any promises or commitments made to President Trump other than those set forth in the settlement proposed by the mediator and accepted by the parties.') The show is then interrupted by a PSA, where a deepfake Trump stumbles around naked through the desert; this time, his genitals have a pair of googly eyes attached. 'Trump: his penis is teeny, tiny. But his love for us is large,' a narrator says. The ad ends with 'He Gets Us. All Of Us'—'He Gets Us' is also the slogan used for a Christian ad campaign. You can argue that portraying Trump as a narcissistic manchild and focusing so heavily on his appearance is low-brow. But Nick Marx, an associate professor of film and media studies at Colorado State University, says it's also a refreshing change from the defiant messaging of Colbert and others. 'It's fucking funny as hell that they seek to sexually humiliate Trump,' he claims, saying it's an effective troll of what he believes to be the president's 'vanity and insecurity.' 'I think that is the card to play … And I am frustrated that more of the comedians that I love on the left haven't leaned into that really harsh attack of him.' Critics of the episode on X issued complaints that 'the left took over south park,' and 'this show is for libtards' while others outright expressed fear that Trump will get the show canceled, saying'South Park was good while it lasted.' But making small dick jokes isn't woke—it's exactly that type of humor, along with an affinity for saying the r-word and racial and homophobic slurs that helped cultivate South Park 's right-wing audience. Marx thinks that's a good thing for liberals. 'Right-wing humorists, the Joe Rogans and Andrew Schulzes of the world, they're the ones occupying this offensive free speech space. And so anything that the left can do to reclaim artists like Parker and Stone would be a benefit to them.' In a meeting Thursday, the FCC's Carr said he's 'not a ' South Park ' watcher,' NBC News reports. He also said Trump is against 'a handful of national programmers' who 'control and dictate to the American what the narrative is, what they can say, what they can think.' But, while many of his attacks have focused on news organizations themselves—ABC, CBS, NPR, even the Wall Street Journal—censoring cherished entertainers could rile up members of the public who frankly may not care that much about the plight of journalists. That's something that Paramount too, has to contend with now. 'They just inked this $1.5 billion deal that, to me, is a gesture of full and unequivocal support from Paramount,' Marx says. 'The syndication and streaming licenses that South Park draws are worth much, much more than they've been paying Parker and Stone over the years.' He says he wouldn't be surprised if Parker and Stone got away with nothing more than a slap on the wrist. But, as the episode itself indicated, Trump has been relentless with his lawsuit targets and openly bragged about getting Colbert fired and keeping the media in line. Michael Sozan, a senior fellow at the Center for American Progress, says he could absolutely see Paramount trying to tone down South Park 's content, considering that they settled on 'the flimsiest of lawsuits,' predicated on the claim that 60 Minutes edited an interview with Kamala Harris to make it more flattering to her. But he said doing so could 'wake up a sleeping giant': the public. The streamer has also promised Trump it will cancel its DEI initiatives. 'A lot of American people are starting to be more and more aware of how Trump is trying to censor reporters, but now also just entertainment shows that he disagrees with it. That is something that authoritarians do,' he says. People could respond with outrage or boycotts. But he cautions that's not Paramount's only problem, as it clinches the $8 billion Skydance merger. Already Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren have written a letter to Skydance CEO David Ellison, seeking answers about the 'secret side deal with President Trump,' that allegedly offered him future PSAs. Trump has called Ellison's father, Oracle cofounder Larry Ellison, a 'friend.' California officials are also looking into whether the company engaged in bribery related to the deal, as Semafor reported. 'If there's a Democratic administration and a Democratic Department of Justice starting three years from now, or Democratic House or Senate, Paramount also has opened itself up to the possibility of lots of investigations,' Sozan says. It's fascinating that South Park and late-night comics are issuing some of the harshest rebukes of Trump, though Sozan says satire—and joy—are considered by scholars to be an effective tool against authoritarians who 'want to keep people depressed and in line.' He thinks the backlash over Paramount's mounting controversies could be a genuine 'cultural flashpoint.' So far, there's no indication that Paramount plans to censor South Park . Then again, the Skydance merger has only just been greenlit. At the end of the premiere, Cartman and Butters, seemingly stand-ins for Parker and Stone, try to kill themselves because Cartman is depressed that 'woke is dead' and he has nothing to make fun of anymore. 'I think I might be going,' Butters says. 'Yep, sweet death is about to come. I love you man,' Cartman replies. For fans of the show—and free speech in general—let's hope that's not true. But just in case, you should probably watch that episode now.
Fast Company
5 days ago
- Entertainment
- Fast Company
Trump gets the ‘real face' treatment in blistering ‘South Park' satire
President Trump has mocked Stephen Colbert's cancellation and even sued 60 Minutes. Still, the writers of South Park don't seem too worried about potentially becoming his next target. After skipping the 2024 election season, Comedy Central's long-running animated show is back on air for its 27th season, just in time to cover President Trump's second term in office. While the series—whose creators just closed a $1.5 billion streaming deal —has not shied away from mocking pop culture and political figures in the past (previous iterations of Trump as president include 'Mr. Garrison,' a school teacher who later runs for president against Hillary Clinton and wins), the creators are directly targeting the current president this season, going as far as using his real face in place of their traditional animated renderings. In a short 22 minutes, the episode touched on the some of the most controversial recent events in the past few weeks, including tariffs on Canada, the Jeffrey Epstein case, the Paramount-Skydance merger, and CBS's cancellation of The Late Show. To top it off, a scene of the naked president features a small penis (albeit a cartoon one), twisting the knife even more. Comedy Central, where the series airs, is owned by Paramount Global. Real-life faces are back Skipping a caricaturized version of the president, South Park opted to use a real image of Trump, cut open like a marionette when speaking, although the artistic choice is famously not new. In the past, the show has opted for real-life-picture cutouts of certain celebrities and public figures—including some infamous ones. The series website describes such portrayals as 'more of a personal decision' from the show's creators. According to fan roundups collected online, the celebrities and public figures who have been featured with their real-life cutouts include Ben Affleck, Tony Danza, Christina Aguilera, Jeffrey Dahmer, Gene Siskel, Princess Diana, Adolf Hitler, Walter Matthau, Allen Ginsberg, Tiny Tim, Dean Martin, Frank Sinatra, John F. Kennedy, John F. Kennedy Jr., Mao Zedong, Michael Landon, Jerry Garcia, Saddam Hussein, Mel Gibson, Jimmy Stewart, George Burns, and now, notably, Donald Trump. In addition to bringing back the marionette like real-life cutout, the show also revived its in-bed-with-satan trope. Trump is pictured undressing before climbing into bed with the devil, an apparent ode to the show's 1999 film South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut, which featured Saddam Hussein in a similar situation. Not everyone is happy about the episode While many users on social media have praised South Park 's season debut, those in support of the president seem less content with the episode. 'South Park has gone woke. They must go broke,' reads a typical response on X. As expected, the current administration is also not delighted with the show's creative direction. Taylor Rogers, a White House spokesperson, told Entertainment Weekly that the 'show hasn't been relevant for over 20 years and is hanging on by a thread with uninspired ideas in a desperate attempt for attention.' Trump has yet to directly respond to the episode. The super-early-rate deadline for Fast Company's Most Innovative Companies Awards is this Friday, July 25, at 11:59 p.m. PT. Apply today.
Yahoo
6 days ago
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
‘South Park' Lampoons Trump in Shocking Season 27 Premiere as Creators Ink $1.5 Billion Deal
South Park returned to television Wednesday after a nearly two-and-a-half-year hiatus, kicking its 27th season off with a hilarious and, as expected, controversial premiere, where the show took on President Donald Trump, showing a depiction of him in bed with series regular, Satan. Government censorship, the death of wokeness, ChatGPT, and religion in the nation's public schools were the main topics of the season premiere. After Cartman learns of the cancellation of the radio show where 'liberals bitch and whine about stuff,' an assembly is called by series favorite PC Principal, who introduces a guest at an assembly: Jesus Christ. Before the first act break, the town's parents are rioting and a cutout of President Trump turns up, as the plot shifts to the White House and a president at odds with Canada and lying naked in bed with Satan, with his small penis on full display. More from The Hollywood Reporter Jeff Daniels Takes Aim at Trump and His Supporters: "I Hope You're Losing Tons of Money" White House Calls 'The View's' Joy Behar an "Irrelevant Loser" After She Says Trump's "Jealous of Obama" Five Things to Know About Donald Trump's "AI Action Plan" for Government Regulation In a promo clip for the episode, the return of a series favorite is touted in voiceover and PC Principal is introducing fellow series regular, Jesus Christ. The clip featured Cartman saying, 'The government can't cancel the show, I mean, what show are they going to cancel next?' The episode follows Trump as he finds himself in crisis, as his South Park supporters turn on him over Jesus entering the education system. After shimmying through a White House lawn party, the president finds himself on a call with Randy Marsh (Stan's dad). The call ends with Trump threatening to sue the people of South Park for $5 billion. Trump is back in bed with Satan in the following scene, where the devil confronts the president about rumors that his name appears on the notorious 'Epstein list.' 'It's weird that whenever it comes up, you just tell everyone to relax,' Satan says, adding that Trump reminds me a lot of someone else he dates, an allusion to his beau in the 1999 movie South Park: Bigger, Longer and Uncut, in which Satan is romantically involved with Saddam Hussein. By the end of the episode, Paramount and the cancellation of The Late Show With Stephen Colbert come up as Jesus pleads with the people of South Park not to mess around with Trump. The town settles Trump's lawsuit for $3.5 million, but must also produce pro-Trump public service announcements; check out the disturbing NSFW deepfake ad below, which gives Trump's 'teeny-tiny' manhood its close-up. The premiere of the 27th season of the enduring animated series, known to cannonball into the pool of politics and pop culture and leave no party or person safe from its scathing satire, comes just as Paramount Global and creators Matt Stone and Trey Parker's company, Park County, reached a new licensing deal. Their agreement allows South Park's new season to debut as scheduled and for a run of 50 new episodes over five years, which will all debut on Paramount-owned Comedy Central. The companies added an expansive new streaming partnership (via their joint venture South Park Digital Studios), which will bring the South Park library to Paramount+ in the U.S., where it will remain in the HBO Max library for now, and globally. New episodes will also stream on Paramount+ in the U.S. the day after airing on Comedy Central. The deal was said to be valued at $1.5 billion. The deal comes after a behind-the-scenes legal dispute between Park County, Paramount Global and Skydance, which is set to assume control of Paramount in the coming weeks. 'This merger is a shitshow and it's fucking up South Park. We are at the studio working on new episodes, and we hope the fans get to see them somehow,' Parker and Stone wrote in a social media post July 2, after Comedy Central announced that the season 27 premiere had been pushed by a few weeks. Stone however said earlier today that he, Parker and their team are grateful and thanked Paramount co-CEO and president of Showtime/MTV Entertainment Chris McCarthy and COO Keyes Hill-Edgar for years of great partnership. 'We are grateful for this opportunity and deeply honored by the trust placed in us. This is about more than a contract — it's about our commitment to this organization, our teammates, and our fans. We're focused on building something special and doing whatever it takes to bring championships to this city.' Best of The Hollywood Reporter 'The Studio': 30 Famous Faces Who Play (a Version of) Themselves in the Hollywood-Based Series 22 of the Most Shocking Character Deaths in Television History A 'Star Wars' Timeline: All the Movies and TV Shows in the Franchise Solve the daily Crossword
Metro
6 days ago
- Entertainment
- Metro
South Park fans convinced Donald Trump will cancel series over 'teeny tiny' manh
Last night, South Park season 27 premiered to the delight of fans who were concerned the series was doomed to TV purgatory. One person, however, who might not be so delighted about the satirical cartoon's return is President Donald Trump. The opening episode, 'Sermon on the Mount', mercilessly mocked Trump, portraying him as a litigious sex pest who is in a relationship with Satan. South Park also made several (quite literally) below-the-belt jokes about the US Commander-in-Chief's penis. During one scene, when Satan and Trump are getting intimate, the president exposes himself to the Devil and declares, 'Come on, Satan, you know you can't resist this.' To which the Devil replies, 'I can't even see anything because it's so small.' Following the episode, a fake public service announcement aired, which showed an AI version of Donald Trump wandering through the desert naked. As the president collapses in the desert, his penis (which can talk and appears to have googly eyes) declares, 'I'm Donald J. Trump and I endorse this message' before a voice over states, 'Trump! His penis is teeny-tiny, but his love for us is large.' Following the episode's premiere, fans were shocked and amused in equal measure, with many speculating how the notoriously thin-skinned president might react to the show. Our South Park historian and deputy TV editor Tom Percival explains his thoughts on the significance of Satan sleeping with Trump… Jokes are never funny after you've explained them. Still, as a journalist, it's fallen to me to explain the Trump gag, and this is a callback to the show's earlier seasons. You see, South Park has a long tradition of showing Satan in relationships with problematic men. In South Park: Bigger, Longer and Uncut, Satan was in a similar relationship with Saddam Hussein until the pair had a rather dramatic break-up. The South Park co-creators Matt Stone and Trey Parker may then be attempting to draw parallels between the former Iraqi leader and President Trump; they've even animated the pair in the same fashion. What are the similarities? Well, I don't think we have the right to dictate that to you. 'OMG South Park went straight for the jugular with Trump! The ending is amazing,' wrote @Pookerella on X. 'If you haven't watched the new #SouthPark… watch the new South Park. Maybe their best episode ever,' added @BlackMagicSama 'They told us what we all know,' wrote @TylerandAndrei. 'They are definitely going to try and give #SouthPark the Colbert treatment.' @DowntownHWV meanwhile, perhaps summed it up most succinctly when they wrote, 'Trump is going to lose his sh*t'. Other fans, meanwhile, couldn't help but point out that Paramount, who own the network that airs South Park, just paid Trump $16,000,000 to settle a 60 Minutes lawsuit. This decision has been seen by critics as Paramount capitulating to the White House. 'The new #SouthPark is an absolute masterpiece and a shot across the bow to all those companies currently capitulating to Trump. Paramount should be ashamed,' wrote @BlackMagicSama @defonotfranklin said, 'This is why I love South Park. They don't give a f**k and want to give us a clear message that Donald Trump is a piece of sh*t. F*ck Trump. F*ck idiotic MAGA supporters. F*ck Paramount. 'Holy smokes, South Park just went scorched earth on Trump for their season 27 premiere,' added @WUTangKids. 'Paramount is gonna love this after giving Trey Parker and Matt Stone a cool $1.5B streaming deal'. Of course, not everyone enjoyed the episode @ajonestherapist branded the episode 'lazy ' and 'woke'. 'It has become self-aware of its own cultural cache and relevance,' he continued. 'It's leaning into it with the subtlety of Marvel humour.' @gregorytangelo was similarly upset by the episode, claiming the series had 'jumped the shark'. 'Matt & Trey succumbed to the cancer of recalibrating storylines to trash Trump—without sarcasm, irony, or laughs' he wrote. 'The show used to poke fun at everything and everyone; now it's just a partisan hatefest—and only sociopaths want to watch that.' Sadly, at the time of writing, South Park season 27 is not available to stream in the UK. That said, we do know that brand new episodes of South Park season 27 at some date in the future and be available to stream on Sky. Meanwhile, @RandMatthews 'South Park has gone woke. They must go broke.' More Trending Sadly for Mr Matthews, it might be a while before the South Park team goes broke. The co-creators have reportedly signed a deal worth $1.5 billion with Paramount to keep the show on the air for another five years. 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