‘South Park’ Tortures FCC Chair Brendan Carr in New Episode

Warning: This story contains spoilers for Season 27, Episode 5 of South Park. 

South Park has strong opinions about government censorship, as demonstrated by the series of increasingly serious accidents a top Trump official faced in the newest episode. 

Federal Communications Commission Chair Brendan Carr was already having an embarrassing week. After strong-arming Jimmy Kimmel off television last Wednesday, he was then called a knock-off mobster and authoritarian kudgel for the Trump administration by everyone from politicians to celebrities. In the midst of his pitiful victory lap for taking out Jimmy Kimmel Live!, Carr’s celebrations were cut short when Disney and ABC announced that the host would be returning to television on Tuesday night. 

But even getting mocked and impersonated by the legendary Robert De Niro on Kimmel’s record-smashing return episode wasn’t the most belittling moment of Carr’s week. Instead, it would come from South Park. Although the show is clearly pivoting from the topic of Charlie Kirk and right-wing “masterdebaters,” Trey Parker and Matt Stone haven’t shied away from wading into the thick of the biggest American controversies. 

In Season 27’s Episode Five, Carr is trying to get Donald Trump’s attention regarding a controversial betting app. Carr wants the government to intervene, but getting Trump’s approval proves difficult, because the president is trying to force Satan to have a miscarriage of the couple’s butt baby. In fact, Trump’s efforts to trick Satan ensnare the clueless Carr instead.

First, Carr trips down a flight of oiled-up stairs (à la Home Alone). After he lands with a painful animated thud, Trump busts out laughing: “Hahahaha! The FCC guy must have shitty ankles.” 

The FCC guy’s suffering is far from over, however. Next, we see Carr once again try to get Trump’s attention, while sporting a neck brace. Unfortunately for Carr, he interrupts Trump’s attempts to sneak Satan a pile of Plan B hidden in soup. Satan refuses the soup, and Carr takes a few bites instead. Instantly, Carr is overtaken with such forceful diarrhea that he’s rocketed around the room and out of the White House. He continues to zip around the screen like a deflating balloon, all while poop keeps erupting from his ass. It’s visceral.

The gag goes on from there, when Trump lays a trap of cat litter for the pregnant Satan. Once again, a desperate Carr, now in crutches and two casts, foils this attempt too. We see the FCC head get pulverized by a ton of cat shit, then fall through the floor. 

Finally, we see Carr in bed at the hospital, with all four of his limbs immobilized. His neck is braced, he is rendered silent by the tube shoved down his throat, and poop is staining his underwear. He’s only able to issue groans of pain when a doctor comes in to inform Carr that he’s suffering from toxoplasmosis, a parasitic infection caused by exposure to cat feces. The doctor then informs a worried (baby-sized) JD Vance that if the toxoplasmosis reaches Carr’s brain, he may lose his freedom of speech. 

Carr’s story line ends with a very mafia-esque threat from Vance. It’s revealed that Vance has been plotting to get rid of Satan’s butt baby with Trump all along, and Carr has been ruining the vice president’s plans. “If you continue to interfere, I will make things very difficult for you,” Vance warns. “We can do this the easy way, or we can do this the hard way.”

Stone and Parker evidently took the extra week they had to make the show and spent that time drumming up an imagined justice for Carr’s instrumental role in trying to muzzle freedom of expression. The gentlest interpretation of South Park’s Brendan Carr? He’s an idiot who is so full of shit that it’s impairing his already limited brain function.