‘South Park’ Voice Actress Teases That There Was ‘A Lot of Screaming in My Booth’ Ahead of Tonight’s Episode
It’s Labubu week at South Park Elementary School, and South Park’s foremost voice actress is belting her lines harder than fourth-grade girls bash each other against the lockers.
In tonight’s new episode of South Park, Trey Parker and Matt Stone are taking on the topical issue of President Donald “Saddam Hussein” Trump’s tariffs and the straining effect that the policies have had on the already struggling American consumer. And, in proper South Park fashion, the show will examine this serious national issue through the decidedly un-serious lens of the latest fad in pre-teen fashion as the students of South Park Elementary erupt in violence over the collectible monster plush toys called Labubus.
Over the last year, the Hong Kong-based toy brand has captured the hearts, minds and wallets of the TikTok generation with its child gambling mechanism — er, “blind box gacha model” — and the price-hike that the Labubu community has suffered due to Trump’s tariffs will take center stage in tonight’s South Park episode, according to the teaser released yesterday.
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In case all that doesn’t capture the attention of South Park fans who have already made Season 27 one of the most talked-about seasons in South Park history, April Stewart, who voices Wendy Testaburger, Sharon and Shelly Marsh, Liane Cartman and just about every other female main character on the show, enticed fans by revealing that the tariffs have the triggered the Garmlich Effect in the girls of South Park.
If the South Park teaser and Stewart’s volume warning seem a little excessive considering that the source of the episode’s conflict is a bunch of ugly keychains that just went up in price by $6, they are — but that isn’t exactly unrealistic. Reports of literal fistfights over Labubus have been growing increasingly common as the market for ultra-rare toys continues to heat up, so it makes too much sense that the kids of South Park Elementary would be swinging at each other and screaming obscenities over the soft, squishy status symbols.
After all, it wasn’t that long ago that the boys of the South Park universe were murdering each other and burning down drug stores over PRIME sports drinks. It’s high-time that the girls got their chance to turn hyperbolically violent over hype-fueled garbage.
