South Park returns with sharp satire of Trump and Carr amid Kimmel controversy

South Park returned to Comedy Central on Wednesday with a new episode that wastes little time skewering President Donald Trump and Federal Communications Commission Chair Brendan Carr, in part as a response to last week’s suspension of late-night host Jimmy Kimmel after Carr threatened ABC over his show.

Built around the show's recurring theme of prediction markets, the episode features the kids betting on Kyle’s mom while much of the country debates whether Satan’s pregnancy with Trump will yield a boy or a girl. Trump, depicted as antagonistic toward the pregnancy, devises a series of traps meant to sabotage Satan and, by extension, what Carr fears about free speech, but the traps repeatedly backfire on Carr instead. The episode does not name Kimmel, but it leans into the broader press and political frictions surrounding his suspension and return to television.

As the plot unfolds, Trump greases a stairway to try to make Satan stumble, only for Carr to slip on the trap himself. In another sequence, Trump mixes a soup with Plan B, and Carr consumes it, suffering diarrhea so explosive that it becomes a plot point in the satire. A third trap uses cat feces to trigger a toxoplasmosis infection, with Carr ultimately being buried under litter. In the final scene, Carr lies immobilized in a hospital bed with a neck brace, feces pooling beneath him, as a doctor warns that if the toxoplasmosis parasite reaches his brain, he may lose his freedom of speech. A tiny Vice President JD Vance—portrayed on screen as Tattoo from Fantasy Island—enters and tells Carr he has been trying to sabotage the pregnancy, arguing the baby could become the next in line for the presidency instead of him. He cautions, “That baby cannot be born,” and repeats Carr’s own ominous line: “We can do this the easy way, or we can do it the hard way.”

South Park is not referencing Kimmel by name in the dialogue, but the episode clearly taps into the real-world clash between late-night television, the FCC and political pressure that prompted last week’s suspension and subsequent return by Kimmel. The show’s creators continue to mine current events through the lens of the town’s children and their mock-prediction markets, a device that blends satire with social commentary.

The comedy series remains off the air until Oct. 15, after which it will resume on a biweekly schedule through Dec. 10. The episode airs on Comedy Central and streams on Paramount+ the following day, keeping the show in step with the network’s streaming-first approach for the latest installments.