‘South Park’s Peter Thiel Is Somehow Less Creepy-Looking Than the Real One

Isn’t it ironic that the deranged megalomaniac who has spent the last month ranting about how Greta Thunberg may be the Antichrist has a more Satanic appearance than anything that the blasphemous animators of South Park could conjure?

In tonight’s new episode of South Park, “Twisted Christian,” Trey Parker and Matt Stone pointed their iconoclastic comedy sights at one of the most ruthless and powerful individuals in the world: tech mogul, surveillance king and right-wing power broker Peter Thiel. As one of the most influential and deep-pocketed Republican donors, the Palantir founder has secured nearly one billion dollars in government contracts since Donald “Saddam Hussein” Trump returned to office in his efforts to dramatically expand the government’s mass surveillance projects. 

As if that wasn't creepy enough, as of late, Thiel has also been hosting a series of lectures in San Francisco about how he believes the Antichrist may already walk among us, and Armageddon is nigh if we make any attempt to curtail our greenhouse gas emissions.

So much of Thiel’s extreme belief system and his plans to expand his influence over the daily lives of every single American appear to be cartoonishly evil, but even South Park couldn’t make their parody of Thiel look as demonic as the real thing. 

In “Twisted Christian,” P.C. Principal (who, in the Season 27 premiere, rebranded as Power Christian Principal), brings in the tech mogul and political puppet-master to explain the dangers of the Antichrist, which Donald Trump and Satan conceived in the latter’s ass earlier this season, to a South Park Elementary that’s been taken over by the Generation Alpha “6-7” meme. Thiel quickly deduces that, much like the Labubu craze that earned a South Park parody just two episodes ago, the “6-7” joke has Satanic origins, and he orchestrates a takeover of South Park Elementary in order to install the Orwellian surveillance system needed to monitor the meme.

Surprisingly, “Twisted Christian” ends on a cliffhanger as Thiel decides to take a possibly possessed Cartman back to D.C. to help him find a way to stop the coming of the Antichrist. Considering the real Thiel's close ties to deceased financier and sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein, even darker times may be ahead for poor Cartman when the next South Park episode airs in two weeks.

While South Park has never been the kind of show to back away from a fight or shrink under political pressure, Parker and Stone must be very careful in their handling of the notoriously litigious Thiel in the coming episodes. With Trump already gunning for the series after it roasted him in the Season 27 premiere, South Park just made another powerful and merciless enemy in Thiel, whose plans for revenge often take years to come to fruition.

Maybe South Park was trying to soften the blow and avoid invoking Thiel’s wrath when they nearly made him look human in “Twisted Christian” — compared to the real thing, Thiel’s character model is downright flattering.