Overview
Towelie goes to Washington, D.C.
Our Take
This week, South Park takes aim at the current administration’s federal takeover of Washington, D.C.
We get to see the long-awaited return of the fan-favorite character Towelie, who arrives in Washington, D.C., only to find it militarized with tanks and armed troops patrolling the streets. This is a lampoon of the president’s recent decision to deploy National Guard troops and federal law enforcement to the capital, a move he said was to combat crime and improve the city’s appearance. The move has been criticized by D.C. officials as an “unsettling and unprecedented” authoritarian action.
The episode also continues the show’s lamenting of ChatGBT, ICE taking visa-carrying workers off of farms, and lays waste to the increasingly douchey tech industry largely ruined by Patagonia sweaters and micro-dosing ketamine.
Overall, I’m not sure we got anything brand-new in parody department as the show has touched on all of these topics before but the hilarity of watching a bunch of famous people on a Disney fast pass line to Trump carrying crappy gifts is one of those scenes for the ages. With it we got to see a number of characters the show has lampooned before but just for brief moments we get to see them again in various capacities, most notably Towelie voiced by Vernon Chatman.
Whether or not this week’s episode spells the end for Randy’s weed empire, I’m not totally convinced just because we’ve been teased before and he’s always managed to save it. That said, seeing Randy lean into being a model for the tech industry that not only has it’s problems in front of the camera but behind it could bode well for future episodes where there’s a deeper pool to pull from. I also don’t fully buy that Towelie is staying in DC as he always seems to make his way back from trouble no matter what it is.
Oh, and that airplane is definitely going into Satan’s asshole, no question.