South Park co-creator Trey Parker has issued a gloriously sarcastic apology after the premiere episode of the show’s 27th season drew outrage from The White House.
ICYMI, the adult animation held no punches in its skewering of President Donald Trump during an episode titled “Sermon on the ‘Mount” which aired earlier this week.
Among other barbs, the episode featured an AI-generated (and stark naked) version of Trump crawling into bed with Satan, as well as a narrator who said the president has a “teeny-tiny” penis.
Naturally, the controversial episode — which also featured jokes directed at South Park’s streaming home, Paramount — prompted the wrath of the White House, with spokesperson Taylor Rogers describing the series as a “fourth-rate show” in a scathing rebuke.
Now, Parker has said he is “terribly sorry” for all the hullaballo, and while you can’t read the sarcastic tone in print alone, this is the guy who created South Park, so the irony simply cannot be lost.
Parker issued the apology during a panel at San Diego’s Comic-Con International, where he appeared alongside co-creator Matt Stone.
When asked about the reaction to the episode, Parker, stoney-faced and deadpan, looked directly at the audience and declared “we’re terribly sorry”.
It’s about as convincing as the White House protesting it was unbothered by the episode (yeah, right), but it wasn’t Parker’s only revelation about the antics surrounding the premiere.
Elsewhere in the animation panel — which also featured Beavis and Butt-Head creator Mike Judge and actor Andy Samberg — Parker lifted the lid on the producer notes he got for early drafts of the episode, saying the higher-ups suggested that they blur Trump’s penis.
“They said, ‘OK, but we’re gonna blur the penis,’ and I said, ‘No you’re not gonna blur the penis,’” Parker said.
Only a show like South Park could offer a workplace that includes important deliberations on the visibility of the president’s Johnson (no, not President Lyndon B. Johnson).
As a compromise, Stone said they made the decision to put eyes on the penis (nightmare fuel), which would make it its own character would therefore avoid being blurred.
“If we put eyes on the penis, we won’t blur it,” Stone said.
“That was a whole conversation with grown-up people for four fucking days.”
The White House is yet to respond to Parker’s ‘apology’ (they’re totally uninterested in a show that “hasn’t been relevant for over 20 years”, remember?), but my guess is that Trump is reeling after going from self-appointed Superman to “teeny-tiny” penis wielder in a matter of days.
PEDESTRIAN.TV has reached out to Satan, who also featured in the episode, for comment, but only received what sounded like gurgling fireballs in response.
Lead images: Jon Kopaloff/Getty Images and Paramount
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