I loved this episode. South Park pissed me off when they used kid gloves to mock Trump in his first term, but they're redeeming themselves in my eyes. This is the first time I've looked forward to seeing an episode in over ten years.
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Apparently they had both endings ready, pending the election results, but they didn't expect Trump to win. Then they had to just roll with it going forward. It's hard to make satire of something that already feels like a satire in real life.
Nah, that was a lame excuse. They've had no problem excoriating celebrities for doing minor dumb stuff, but they don't even try to really tear into neo Hitler? This feels like a correction of a past wrong.
What was the past wrong you are referring to? They spent entire seasons mocking Trump. I'm not sure that any of their satire targets got that many episodes dedicated to them.
It was treating him like he was just some goofball rather than an existential threat to the US. The same thing most other things making fun of him did/do.
And that's just the people that watched in on "dry land."
You won't see my 3 watch throughs in that statistic.
If you’re using Plex you might
Interesting! Good thing I'm not!
my 3 watch throughs
If you watch it more than three times, you're just playing with it.
I watched it once. Got sent to a few weed and porn sites, but that's alright. It was decent, pretty entertaining.
Are you raw dogging? You need adblockers, brotha.
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A bit of a Streisand effect. I haven’t watched South Park in years, but I heard about this episode because trump was complaining about it. Otherwise I probably never would have noticed
With all the drama around Colbert, it was hard to ignore. I was hearing about it long before Trump tuned in.
Much more curious to see how Paramount execs respond, since the Skydance merger is what's driving their servile behavior.
The merger has been approved now, though.
The moment broadcasters realize there is a financial incentive to make fun of Trump
they do, they’ve been milking trump from both sides this whole time.
CNN pissed me off with that shit in 2015. Trump wasn't a serious contender to begin with, but all our media was non-stop talking Trump because the buffoon got eyes on the screen. And here we are.
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I mean, that's the billion dollar question.
Will Paramount call this a win-win or will they scuttle their billion dollar acquisition to save the Skydance merger?
I pirated it, add one more to the count
Same. The actual view count is definitely much higher.
Say there internet friend, as someone who torrented from the Pirate Bay back in the day where are people torrenting these days?
Same or similar as back in the day. Some use private servers and some have automated stuff to grab new stuff to automatically, populate their self hosted streaming server with it to have their own curated netflix with any shows and movies from any source they desire and none of the filler.
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Still #1 torrent popularity for 6 days going now.
can't be, Trump said nobody watches South Park anymore
He knows what's popular with the people, I'm sure he was right, this is just libtard wokeist marxist communist abortionist feminist maoist stalinist anti-white propaganda.
This thing has been viewed a ton more on the high seas due to the fact that nobody wants to support Pee Sky Plus anymore.
My educated guess (not including the free snippets they ran on cable shows and posted their own yt) is that close to 50 mil have seen the entire clip. Probably twice that have seen the crucial snippets of it at least once.
Trey and Matt already got paid anyway.
Pretty good numbers for an irrelevant, fourth-rate show
5.4M more than the latest Simpsons, to put irrelevant fourth-rate shows in perspective.
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I can't believe the white house wasted valuable government time to respond to this episode.
Every moment the current administration wastes is immensely valuable to the American people. It’s when they are working that it’s bad for us
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