SOUTH Park has aired its first episode since the assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk.
After last week’s show was pulled due to timing issues, the episode didn’t mention Kirk’s murder at all and instead took aim at President Donald Trump and the Federal Communications Commission.
South Park’s depiction of late conservative activist Charlie Kirk[/caption]
MAGA activist Charlie Kirk smiling at Utah Valley University before he was assassinated while speaking to the crowd[/caption]
In the latest episode, President Donald Trump attempts to abort his baby with Satan[/caption]
Season 27 of the satirical cartoon has mocked Trump and his Make America Great Again movement heavily, and the fifth episode was no different.
The latest episode, titled Conflict of Interest, continued the season’s storyline, which follows Trump expecting a baby with Satan, and depicted Trump attempting to abort their offspring.
While Trump and Satan were in the spotlight, the episode clearly targeted FCC chairman Brendan Carr after the recent scandal with Jimmy Kimmel Live!
FCC CHAIR MOCKED
Last week, Carr threatened to revoke ABC’s broadcasting license if it didn’t pull Kimmel’s show off the air over his comments following Kirk’s killing.
As Trump tried to terminate Satan’s pregnancy in the episode, Carr is repeatedly hurt and humiliated as he tries to speak to the president.
The Trump-appointed official was shown falling down a flight of stairs, eating poisoned soup, and being crushed by cat litter.
At the end of the episode, a baby-faced version of Vice President JD Vance visits Carr in the hospital, and the doctor tells him that Carr might “lose his freedom of speech.”
Then, Vance threatens Carr and references the exact threat that the FCC head told ABC over Kimmel: “We can do this the easy way, or the hard way.”
The late-night host’s three-day suspension sparked widespread backlash and worries about government censorship.
The new episode aired just one night after Kimmel’s return to the air, where he said he never intended to make light of Kirk’s death with his statement painting suspected assassin Tyler Robinson as MAGA.
Kimmel also slammed Carr’s comments as a “direct violation of the First Amendment.”
The new episode came after the show took an unplanned hiatus for two weeks.
UNPLANNED HIATUS
Weeks before Kirk was shot and killed while speaking at a Utah Valley University student event on September 10, South Park parodied the Turning Point USA founder in an episode on August 6.
Days after the assassination, Comedy Central pulled a scheduled rerun of the episode, which featured Eric Cartman impersonating Kirk by hosting debates with college students.
Timeline of Charlie Kirk shooting
Conservative commentator Charlie Kirk was fatally shot in the neck while speaking at an event at Utah Valley University on Wednesday, September 10
Tuesday, September 9
8:29 am MDT – Shooter arrives on the Utah Valley University campus, as seen in surveillance videos.
Wednesday, September 10
11:52 am – The shooter, described as a college-age individual, arrives on campus before maneuvering onto a rooftop.
12:00 pm – Charlie Kirk is scheduled to host a debate in the UVU Fountain Courtyard.
12:10 pm – A shot is fired at Kirk from 200 yards away and hits him in the neck. The event is immediately evacuated and a man is taken into custody.
1:02 pm – President Donald Trump posts a call to pray for Kirk on Truth Social.
1:37 pm – UVU closes campus, cancels classes, and tells students to leave campus immediately.
1:50 pm – Officials confirm Kirk is in critical condition to the Associated Press.
2:40 pm – Trump confirms Kirk has died, hailing him “great, legendary” in a post on Truth Social.
4:21 pm FBI Director Kash Patel shares on X that the ‘subject for the horrific shooting’ is in custody.
4:30 pm – Utah Governor Spencer Cox, speaking at a press conference, brands Kirk’s death a ‘political assassination. Cox adds there is a ‘person of interest’ in custody and a man arrested earlier has been released.
7:59 pm – Patel, the FBI director, confirmed a second subject taken into custody in connection with Kirk’s shooting was released after being interrogated by law enforcement.
Thursday, September 11
7:15 am – Officials hold a press conference where they announce they have “good video” of the suspect and they recovered the “high-action bolt rifle” in the nearby woods.
9:55 am – Visuals of the suspect are released as officials ask for the public’s help in identifying the individual in the photos.
10:44 am – FBI offers a $100,000 reward for information leading to the arrest of anyone involved in Kirk’s assassination.
10:00 pm – Tyler Robinson is arrested on Thursday night in St. George, Utah, after his dad turned him in. He’s booked into the Utah County Jail.
Friday, September 12
6:00 am – Trump announces a suspect was in custody during an appearance on Fox & Friends. “I think, with a high degree of certainty, we have him,” the president said.
7:30 am – A press conference is held with FBI and Utah government officials, including Cox and Patel, where the Utah governor confirmed, “We got him.” The suspect is identified as 22-year-old Tyler Robinson from Utah.
When the rerun was replaced with another episode, Andrew Kolvet, Kirk’s close friend, spoke out to insist Kirk loved the show’s spoof of him and would’ve wanted it to air.
The rerun being replaced meant the show hadn’t run in two weeks already because the current season airs on a biweekly basis.
Then, the week after the Kirk rerun was yanked, show creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone announced the fifth episode of Season 27 would be delayed a week because they failed to meet their deadline.
“Apparently when you do everything at the last minute sometimes you don’t get it done,” Parker and Stone said in a statement.
“This one’s on us. We didn’t get it done in time. Thanks to Comedy Central and ‘South Park’ fans for being so understanding. Tune in next week!”
Some fans speculated the show was censored because it was too close to Kirk’s death, but Stone told the Denver Post, “No one pulled the episode, no one censored us, and you know we’d say so if true.”
Kirk speaking during a campaign rally for Trump in Glendale, Arizona, in August 2024[/caption]
