Here Is the Ruff Credits Scene That Comedy Central Cut From This Week’s ‘South Park’

U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem had a meltdown when she heard about how South Park made fun of her face, and now we’re worried that she’ll take her anger out on some poor pet stores when she sees what Comedy Central had to cut.

Wednesday’s spectacular second episode of South Park Season 27, “Got a Nut,” took on the Trump administration’s policy of mass deportation and the emboldening of Immigration and Customs Enforcement to snatch any Latino-looking person off the streets, or out of a Dora the Explorer concert, or from the very kingdom of heaven. At the center of the satire was Noem, whose spearheading of ICE’s mass kidnapping campaign showed off her melting, surgery-destroyed face and her graphically canicidal tendencies. 

While Noem objected to South Park’s superficial attacks on her appearance, she held her tail between her legs when it came to her character’s graphic murder of multiple dogs throughout “Got a Nut,” including a mass-shooting that Comedy Central cut from the cable airing. 

For fans who watched “Got a Nut” on cable or a TV streaming service, the episode ends slightly awkwardly with Mr. Mackey and Clyde Donovan fleeing Mar-a-Lago as Noem’s ICE glam squad all unite in song — but, in the Paramount+ cut of the episode, Noem closes her South Park debut with a credit scene that adds untold adoptable puppies to Noem's already impressive canine kill count:

Noem, who admitted to “euthanizing” her perfectly healthy but poorly behaved 14-month-old dog Cricket with a bullet to the back of the head in her 2024 book No Going Back: The Truth on What’s Wrong with Politics and How We Move America Forward, called South Park “lazy” and “petty” for their attacks on her appearance. However, since Noem admitted that she never actually watched “Got a Nut,” South Park fans could argue that the harsher burn was having her snipe Krypto the Super Dog out of the sky above Mar-a-Lago.

Although Noem had hoped that her anecdote about executing a young, healthy pup whom she failed to train properly would demonstrate her ability to make tough decisions and do dirty but necessary work, the story instead painted the Republican leader as violent, callous and rash, attributes that her record as DHS head have only reinforced. Now, as Noem is showing the American people that she can’t take a joke nearly well as she can take the shot, even Comedy Central’s censors can’t save her from her bloody reputation.

If Noem ever does decide to watch “Got a Nut,” I hope that she watches the cable version instead of the streaming cut — that credits sequence might just teach an old dog some new tricks.