In the latest entry into the sporadic but pretty great South Park Halloween episode canon, creators and showrunners did not present a traditional Halloween episode centered around the holiday, but a biting and spooky satire of the Trump administration and suggests some otherworldly repercussions for the very real demolition of the White House’s East Wing.
The situation for Stan Marsh and his family is getting grim: the four have been living in a motel since Tegredy Farms went kaput earlier in the season, and now they will be moving in with a very unwilling Grandpa Marsh in his assisted living home. Stan is not pleased and is looking for a way out of there, like now.
In Washington, D.C., we find lovebirds President Trump and Satan gazing on as the East Wing of the White House is bulldozed and destroyed. But Satan, it seems was misinformed by his beau and thinks the construction is for a nursery for their little bundle of Antichrist, who, looking at the size of Satan’s bump, will arrive soon. Putting their domestic argument aside, they are off to the Oval Office to attend a security briefing.
In the meeting, they learn that someone might be trying to stop the baby from being born — and three characters are, in fact, doing that exact thing: Peter Thiel, who is hellbent on stopping the Antichrist; Vice President J.D. Vance, who wants a happy Trump for his nefarious career ladder climb; and Trump in the Oval Office meeting. United States Attorney General Pam Bondi is told she has human shit literally on her nose as she lays on the brown nosing to Trump, assuring him that there is no way this will happen to the greatest president of all time.
But the bombshell comes when it’s revealed that by demolishing the East Wing of the White House, the Trump administration has unleashed some sort of vengeful supernatural wrath. The president explains that he’s been noticing a creeping feeling and seeing what looks like a woman in a hat appearing in the mirror and the hallway.
Back at South Park Elementary, Stan is at his wits’ end after spending too much time in the facility with his family. After grousing about it with the boys, he then breaks the fourth wall in what turns into a biting satire on the crypto space and ushers in the return of Kyle’s relative, the nerdy and wheezing Cousin Kyle Schwartz as the crypto scam’s money man. Let’s let Stan explain phase one of his scheme.
“How many weeks has it been now, dealing with one stupid thing after another?” Stan says to the show’s audience (and is talking about the show here, in case you don’t catch on). “The truth is, I think a lot of people are afraid to admit it. Yeah, everyone knows South Park sucks now and it’s because all this political stuff is being totally bogged down in it. Remember when we used to do stuff, ever since all this political crap took over.”
He’s maybe right. Here’s more.
At 1600, the president continues to see something appearing in the mirror and the hallway of the White House. Viewers then get to see the South Park rendering of Trump in the shower, micropenis on full display. As he towels himself off, what appears to be a woman with a hat is again in the room. But who is she and what does she want?
To expose the truth, it seems. After a grotesque rendering of Trump advisor Stephen Miller allows Cousin Kyle into the White House for a meeting with Donald Trump Jr. to do some cryptoscamming, or “take a big dump” on investors — something Trump the younger says he loves through an unending grin — the entire Trump administration, or at least the ones we’ve seen depicted on the show over this and last season, are conducting a seance led by an even more shit-nosed Bondi.
Bondi (with the shit now all over her face), is leading the seance and quickly becomes a conduit for whatever the spirit or entity haunting Trump’s White House wants to say. It has something to do with “lies,” which are being told by a man. Bondi, speaking for the apparition, mumbles something about “Epstein” — which Trump quickly shouts down. “He lies… corruption… lies…” Bondi garbles, speaking for the ghost.
Suddenly, Cousin Kyle breaks down as he runs out of the room. He can’t take it anymore, the apparition is right, crypto is a scam, and he’s ashamed of what he’s been doing. It allows the rich to launder money and get richer, he confesses while sobbing. Trump and his gang of administrators remain silent as the episode closes and it’s back to the status quo… at least for now.
Alls well that ends well this Halloween episode, which didn’t have any real Halloween included. Except for Stan, who is tragically is back at the assisted living facility at episode’s end.
