• UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
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    22 hours ago

    The big question ahead of the newest episode was: what would South Park have to say about all this?

    The answer is … not much.

    The latest instalment, provocatively titled Conflict of Interest, makes no mention of Kirk

    :-/

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      20 hours ago

      I think the most relevant part is when Vance threatened Brenden Carr

      We can do this the easy way or we can do this the hard way

      Which is a direct quote by Carr about Jimmy Kimmel.

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        5 hours ago

        That’s probably the least funny thing I’ve seen that included the words “Jimmy” and “Carr” since the whole tax fraud scandal.

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      22 hours ago

      You reckon they delayed the episode about Kirk to thrash something else together so they could release that instead?

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        21 hours ago

        IIRC, they’re insanely fast. I think the turnaround time on a South Park episode is about one week, which is utterly ridiculous.

        I don’t know if that Kirk episode will ever see the light of day, or if they’ll make any jokes about Kirk at all, especially while the Cheeto is in power. He’s repeatedly shown that he’s not afraid to abuse his authority.

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          20 hours ago

          I don’t know if they are still at a week turn around. They’ve already had a select few weeks pass where there was no new episode. It’s a good chance they just didn’t have it ready.

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            17 hours ago

            This season they’ve specifically said they’re on a biweekly release schedule. And then there was last week, which i still suspect they had an episode ready and it was denied.

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      17 hours ago

      They won’t touch Kirk again for a loooooong time for fear of political retaliation. The Master Debater episode was pretty great though.

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        17 hours ago

        These the guys that put Macho Man Randy Savage in as a trans woman?

        The guys that drew Mohammed?

        The guys who make half a billion dollars.

        You think they’re afraid of political retaliation?

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          7 hours ago

          You think they’re afraid of political retaliation?

          Yes. Making fun of transgender folks and Muslims won’t threaten your paycheck

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            5 hours ago

            Making fun of transgender folks and Muslims won’t threaten your paycheck

            What world are you living in where that is true?

            It’s hard to have a paycheck when you’re dead, ask the Charlie Hebdo artists.