South Park‘s latest episode kicked up the season‘s plot in ways no one predicted as it skewered the international tariffs that President Donald Trump has imposed since he reentered the Oval Office and also perhaps set up the end times for humanity, when Satan himself made a surprising revelation.
The episode’s plot mostly centers on South Park 4th grader Butters in a sticky situation when he finds out what the girl he is cruising on, Red, has a birthday coming up and the only thing her little heart desires is a Labubu doll, the popular stuffed animals that have become a collectible and also a bag charm. The only problem for young Butters — other than the fact that the dolls are driving young girls in South Park to get into fights and elsewhere, into a dark Satanic fugue state that ends with one little girl hanging herself — is that tariffs keep driving up the price of the sought-after dolls. From $85 to $120 overnight. Woof.
“You think I pay a tariff?” the City Wok owner chuckles in a direct nod to the American people. “No, no, no, you pay a tariff!”
Meanwhile, the press is hot on the tail of a killer story: President Trump and Satan are an item. The official line is that Satan has been “traveling with” the president, and Trump insists he and Satan are “just sort of hangin’ out,” but as the audience at home knows, the two are ensnared in a traditional narcissist-empath relationship. The story breaks and the whole world knows of Trump’s infidelity with the Dark Lord — but he ultimately has something more important to tell everyone.
Before that reveal, Fox News gets the South Park treatment as its on-air presenters say they loooooove the coupling and keep asking, with delicious wordplay, “Is Donald Trump fucking Satan?” The on-air personalities even take a moment to demonstrate how intercourse might play out between Trump at 6’3″ and Satan, who is physically twice Trump’s size. The animated Fox News personalities then display a clear idea of this physical act of love, on air, for the conservative-leaning audience.
A despondent Satan, who is holding a mystery box, is soon approached by a cut-out head representation of Vice President J.D. Vance, who provides a shoulder for the Dark Lord to cry on.
As for the A-plot, which in many ways is back-burnered to become the B-plot as the episode moves forward, Butters eventually manages to win a chance to get his beloved Red a Labubu in a claw grab machine. She opens it at her party and lo and behold, a rare Labubu is all hers. She asks Butters to come upstairs, where he films the girls as they sacrifice a live chicken to open a portal letting in some demonic forces arise, and who turns up? Trump and Satan.
Soon enough, Satan is telling the people the full truth: he is pregnant with Trump’s baby. Will this mean the end times? How could this happen? Fox News has the answer, of course, because this is South Park.
“Yeah, demonic pregnancies work a little differently. The term is ‘butt baby,’” a Fox News staffer remarks.
The next episode of South Park is scheduled to air on Sept. 17 at 10. p.m.