This Is the Only Time Joe Biden Appeared on ‘South Park’

South Park’s weekly bi-weekly roasts of the Trump administration (and their asinine responses) have become worldwide news. The show was recently the subject of a CNN segment, in which one panelist suggested that the Trump takedowns were simply par for the course when it comes to South Park, remarking that “I think this is what they do. I don’t know what they did with Biden, but they probably had clips of him falling asleep or something.”

Yeah not so much.

A number of right-wingers have attempted to brush off the show’s pointed satirical messaging by suggesting that being lampooned on South Park is some kind of celebrity honorific. Like Vice President JD Vance, who proudly proclaimed that he “finally made it” after showing up as a chubby-cheeked, baby oil-carrying, Fantasy Island-coded sycophant. 

But contrary to what you might have heard on CNN, ex-President Joe Biden hasn’t gotten much attention from the show at all. In fact, his only canonical South Park appearance was in 2021’s “South ParQ Vaccination Special.” His presence was limited to a single photograph that’s been defaced with devil horns, which can be seen on the White family’s bulletin board full of QAnon conspiracy theories along with snapshots of Hillary Clinton and Vladimir Putin. 

Years earlier, Biden nearly showed up in the Season 12 episode “About Last Night…,” which ridiculed liberal euphoria in the wake of Barack Obama’s electoral win (and suggested that the new President-elect and John McCain had secretly collaborated on a plan to burgle the Smithsonian). But Biden’s scene was ultimately cut.

Some MAGA conspiracy theorists have suggested that Trey Parker and Matt Stone never parodied Biden because their longtime attorney Kevin Morris represents — and has provided financial support — to Hunter Biden, which would probably be the first time in history that a lawyer’s client list has dictated the content of a Comedy Central cartoon.

More realistically, as some fans have pointed out, this was more likely because South Park produced fewer episodes during Biden’s presidency. And it’s not like the show has ever held back when poking fun at Democrats, such as Al Gore and Bill Cosby’s best friend, Bill Clinton.

U.S. presidents on both sides of the political aisle have popped up on South Park, but none of them have received nearly as much attention as Trump. Regardless of how much screen time they previously allotted to Biden, Obama or George W. Bush, it seems pretty clear that Parker and Stone hate the country’s current leader even more than they do the musical stylings of Russell Crowe.