There’s an investigation into a child sex trafficking ring, plus the US President and his deputy engage in some of the most disturbing scenes the show has ever put on screen. It’s quite the episode
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his week’s episode of South Park opens with Santa Claus peeing in the face of a fourth-grade girl. It turns out to be an AI-generated video created by Butters as revenge against his former crush, Red, who cruelly manipulated him in a recent episode by pretending to like him in exchange for a rare Labubu doll. After learning of the video, Red decides to fight fire with fire, making her own AI footage of Butters molesting beloved Studio Ghibli character Totoro.
This kicks off a war of attrition among South Park Elementary’s student body, who use the Sora 2 OpenAI video generator – a real-life tool that allows users to create customised videos – to churn out videos of one another engaging in all manner of sexual and scatological behaviour with the likes of Popeye, Bluey and Droopy Dog (who poos in Kyle’s mouth). The adults of South Park can’t distinguish between AI and reality, so the town’s hapless police force think they have stumbled on a vast child sexual abuse ring.
As all this is happening, we catch up with Eric Cartman, last seen two episodes back being abducted by billionaire and antichrist expert Peter Thiel after undergoing some kind of demonic possession. Thiel’s plans for Cartman are still unclear, but in the meantime, he uses Sora 2 to throw Cartman’s worried mother off their trail, sending her AI videos of her son pretending to have a blast in the nation’s capital.
