This article contains spoilers for South Park (Not Suitable for Children).
Summary
- "South Park (Not Suitable for Children)" tackles contemporary issues, satirizing OnlyFans and social media influencers.
- The special highlights the absurdity of social media trends with a parody of Prime called Cred, mocking the trend of equating street credibility with drinking a popular energy drink.
- South Park continues to mock celebrities, with a spot-on spoof of social media influencers like Logan Paul, and explores the concept of artificial scarcity through a limited supply of a fictional energy drink called Mega Cred.
The latest South Park special, dubbed “South Park (Not Suitable for Children),” has plenty of hilarious jokes that definitely aren’t suitable for children. The new hour-long special format is perfect for South Park’s creators. Instead of committing to a full season at a time and having to come up with a new storyline every single week, Trey Parker and Matt Stone can just make a one-off streaming event whenever they come up with a new idea. There’s no pressure to follow it up next week with something new and they don’t have to trim it down to 22 minutes; they can make each special as long as they want.
In “South Park (Not Suitable for Children),” Parker and Stone turn their sharp satirical aim on a few contemporary issues. The new special tackles the popularity of OnlyFans and the power that social media influencers have over today’s children. In true South Park fashion, the special goes for the jugular in its lampooning of celebrities, the media, and society as a whole. From the influencer auction to all the ridiculous flavors of Cred to the pornographic images of “miners,” there are a ton of great gags in the latest South Park special.
10 "I Got Cred, Bitches!"
South Park's perfectly named spoof of Prime energy drinks
“South Park (Not Suitable for Children)” satirizes the Prime energy drink craze with a fictional drink called Cred. This is the perfect name for a parody of Prime, especially to make the point the special wants to make. The name Cred equates drinking a hot new energy drink with having street credibility. Every line about the drink Cred could also apply to the characters’ street cred. There’s also a great musical number, “I Got Cred, Bitches,” mocking the viral TikTok song “We Got Prime, Boys.”
9 South Park's Creators Take A Jab At Their Own Culpability
"What kind of scumbags would push adult things on something they know kids will watch?"
Early on in the special, PC Principal and Vice Principal Strong Woman find out about the OnlyFans pages that the kids have access to and the Cred energy drinks they’re buying based on their favorite influencers’ corporate sponsors. They’re disgusted by the influencers, corporations, and pornographic models who profit from selling lewd or unhealthy products to impressionable children. But there’s a meta element to this scene as Trey Parker and Matt Stone acknowledge that they themselves produce content that’s inappropriate for children (much like this ironically titled special) when they know children will inevitably end up watching it.
8 Logan LeDouche
South Park's thinly veiled caricature of Logan Paul
No celebrity is safe from the satirical wrath of South Park. Sometimes, the show uses the celebrity’s real name, like Tom Cruise or Barbra Streisand. But when they’re targeting a type of celebrity – like, in the case of “South Park (Not Suitable for Children),” social media influencers with a young fan following – then they’ll present them as a composite character. Logan LeDouche is a spot-on spoof of influencers like KSI, MrBeast, and of course, Logan Paul.
7 "F*** You, Mom!"
Clyde's stepmom gets more than she bargained for
Way back in the season 16 premiere “Reverse Cowgirl,” Clyde accidentally killed his mom by leaving the toilet seat up. All these years later, in “South Park (Not Suitable for Children),” his dad has a new girlfriend named Janice, who turns out to be the big bad of the special. The rivalry between Clyde and Janice resulted in some hilarious lines, like when Clyde asks Janice if he can call her “Mom,” just so he can say, “F*** you, Mom!” This is a classic example of the comedy formula of setup and payoff.
6 Randy Creates An OnlyFans Page
This is such a Randy thing to do
When Randy finds out a South Park Elementary teacher is making $10,000 a week via OnlyFans, a lightbulb goes off in his head. He immediately goes home and sets up his own in a bid to supplement his income and keep up with the rise in gas prices. This is such a Randy thing to do. He’s always trying to think of ways to make a quick buck and he has absolutely no shame. The bit gets even funnier when Sharon starts her own competing OnlyFans , instantly accrues more views and subscribers than Randy, and Randy becomes obsessed with “beating” his wife.
5 Everyone Wants To Skirt Responsibility For Their Kids' Well-Being
"We can't control what our kids drink or what they watch – they're your kids!"
When South Park Elementary holds a meeting for all the parents to discuss the revelation that one of the teachers has an OnlyFans page, no one wants to accept responsibility for the kids’ well-being. PC Principal tells the parents to keep a closer eye on what their kids are consuming, but Butters’ dad objects to this level of ability and tries to claim that it’s the school’s responsibility to look after his son. This joke works so well because it points to a fundamental flaw in human nature: no one wants to own up to their responsibilities.
4 All The Cred Flavors
From Peppa Pig Peppermint to Big Boy Blueberry
One of the funniest running gags in the new South Park special is the increasingly absurd flavors that Cred has to offer. The Cred flavors get more and more ridiculous as the episode goes on: Jungle Punch, Slay Lemonade, Gooble Grape, Cherry Bubblegum, Purple Snowglobe, Watermelon Strawberry, Big Boy Blueberry, Oatmeal Nummy Nums, Jelly Roll Midnight Waffle House. These ludicrous recurring flavors tie into the joke that these products technically aren’t marketed towards children, but clearly target that demographic. Flavors like Summer Popsicle, Peppa Pig Peppermint, and Candy Wandy Gummy Yums are blatantly designed to appeal to kids.
3 The Influencer Auction
"Who would like to own this influencer? We'll start the bidding at 20 – do I hear 20?"
When Randy starts getting more subscribers, he’s signed by an agent, who enters him in an influencer auction where up-and-coming social media influencers are sold off to corporate sponsors. The room of bidders is full of big tech companies and foreign governments. Influencers are being sold to Mattel Toys, Stoli Vodka, and the Chinese government. The razor-sharp satire of this scene is complemented by the hysterically incomprehensible gibberish of the auction’s carnival-like announcer.
2 The Artificial Scarcity Of Mega Cred
There's a bloodbath at CVS
When the other kids find out Clyde’s Cred isn’t real, Cartman’s Cred affinity group loses its cred. But they get a chance to earn that cred back when Clyde finds out about a limited supply of “Mega Cred” coming to a CVS pharmacy a few towns over. This whole leg of the plot satirizes the notion of artificial scarcity: a company with the resources to create a lot of their product will only release a small amount of it so customers will fight over it. This results in a bloodbath at CVS with gruesome slapstick.
1 Pornographic Images Of "Miners"
South Park's Trey Parker & Matt Stone are the masters of crude wordplay
Arguably the funniest joke in South Park’s new special is the shocking misdirection at the FBI office. When Randy is arrested by FBI agents for streaming his OnlyFans page to child viewers, they show him “pornographic images of miners.” This gag sets up the depiction of illegal imagery, then subverts expectations with some crude wordplay. What the FBI agents show Randy is a series of old-timey photos of coal miners with exposed penises. There are a ton of great jokes in this special, but this is the most unexpected (and hilarious) of the bunch.
