Randy Becomes A Ketamine-Snorting, Elon-Style Tech Bro in Tonight’s New ‘South Park’
In tonight’s new South Park episode, “Sickofancy,” Randy Marsh tested out the theory that all you need to succeed in 2025 America is ChatGPT, a bribe for Donald Trump and enough ketamine to fill Churchill Downs.
Back when South Park first dropped the trailer for its ongoing 27th season, the snippets of possible future episodes indicated that, after seven years of constant cannabis consumption, Randy was finally ready to move on to a new drug and “fuck around with the government” in what we assumed would be his Elon Musk parody arc. Then, tonight, in “Sickofancy,” after ICE abducted all the migrant workers from Tegridy Farms, Randy attempted that foretold transformation from a simple marijuana farmer to a tech mogul with shady ties to the federal government, snorting himself into constant K-holes along the way.
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Unfortunately for Randy, in his hurry to become an A.I.-powered tech giant and ketamine addict, he skipped a crucial step in the Musk model of success: be born the heir of an Apartheid emerald baron. You’d think a former geologist would remember that part.
In “Sickofancy,” after ICE reduces the Tegridy Farms staff to just Randy and Towelie, Randy resolves to work on his issues and address the effect that the failing business has had on his family — by using ChatGPT as a therapist and making it generate a B.S. business model for Tegridy Farms (turned Techridy) based around ChatGPT. How, exactly, Techridy is supposed to become a multi-billion-dollar business using the A.I. technology that literally anyone can use is unclear to everyone including Randy, but what the Techridy CEO does know is that he’s going to need a shitload of ketamine and a branded pullover to pull it off.
According to Randy, all the most successful tech entrepreneurs microdose ketamine in order to maximize their brain’s ability to use ChatGPT, but, much like Elon Musk himself, Randy turns that microdose into a macrodose pretty much immediately and completely fries his brain. While lost in a K-hole, Randy even sends his business partner Towelie to Washington, D.C. with a bribe for Trump that he believes will ensure nationwide cannabis legalization, only for Towelie to learn from a New Hope-style hologram that he, in fact, is the bribe.
Unfortunately for the doomed Techridy, Randy’s plan doesn’t work in winning over the executive branch, and he didn’t actually become a tech mogul just by branding himself as one and snorting massive amounts of horse tranquilizer. All the drugs and buzzwords just made Randy an erratic, backstabbing megalomaniac who loses all his friends and builds nothing of his own.
In other words, ketamine didn’t turn Randy into a genius inventor — it just turned him into Elon Musk.
