Tonight’s episode of “South Park” might be their most deft satire of this crazy season.
The kids are playing with a Predictive Betting app where they can place bets. One of them is about Kyle’s mom — they’re Jewish — attacking a Palestinian hospital.
Also in this episode: Satan is still pregnant by Donald Trump, who’s trying to do everything he can to get rid of the baby by either poisoning Satan or making him fall down a flight of stairs.
The main foil of this episode: Brendan “We can do it the easy way or the hard way” Carr, head of the FCC, who is like Coyote to Trump’s Roadrunner. Carr gets poisoned, has blasting diarrhea, and falls through a trap door in the White House.
There’s plenty of other stuff, because Matt Stone and Trey Parker fill every second of every frame. A real gem is JD Vance as Tatou from Fantasy Island plotting against Trump.
But the stakes are higher than just having fun. Kyle’s mom, Sheila, is outraged that people are demanding her opinion about Gaza. She’s doesn’t know they’re betting on her to do something crazy. When she’s asked her opinion, she says it’s a tragedy for everyone on both sides. But that’s not what they want to hear.
She asks of her friends: Don’t people realize the conflict is between Israel and Palestine, not Jews and Palestine?
As the odds go up on Sheila mom going Rambo on Gaza, she goes to Israel to castigate Benjamin Netanyahu. Netanyahu tries to throw her out of his office, but she may still be there lecturing him. “You’re making life for American Jews impossible,” she says, wrapping himself in Judaism.
As she says to him, “We can do this the hard way or the easy way.”
PS Look out for a line about Hollywood celebrities telling how to think about this subject. Mark Ruffalo, Hannah Einbeinder, Javier Bardem, pay close attention.
