‘South Park’ Roasts Kid Rock, Decades After Collaborating With Him
This article contains spoilers for the South Park episode “Wok Is Dead.”
The most recent episode of South Park managed to poke fun at the “demonic” Labubu hysteria, rip into Fox News’ sycophantic vacuousness and reveal that Satan is, in fact, pregnant with President Donald Trump’s demonic “butt baby.” And in the final minutes of the show, they found time to dunk on alleged musician and unofficial foreign policy advisor Kid Rock.
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After getting confirmation that Trump is, indeed “fucking Satan,” Fox News reaches out to Kid Rock, who is crying on his couch. Don’t worry, they’re joyful tears. “I just honestly didn’t think the President was fucking Satan,” the “All Summer Long” singer blurts out. “But now knowing that he has been this whole time, I’m just so happy.”
It’s easy to make fun of Kid Rock now that he’s synonymous with bigotry and going full Rambo in order to save America from a case of beer, but this isn’t actually the first time that he has popped up on South Park. In Season Eight’s “Up the Down Steroid,” Cartman fakes having a disability in order to compete in the Special Olympics, and in a conspicuously offensive moment, watches a Kid Rock music video for research.
But years before that, Kid Rock actually worked with the South Park franchise, contributing a song to the soundtrack for South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut. The album contained a number of covers of songs from the movie, like the version of Saddam Hussein’s ballad “I Can Change” performed by the Violent Femmes.
Meanwhile, Kid Rock and his hype man, the late Joe C., covered Eric Cartman’s “Kyle’s Mom’s a Big Fat Bitch.”
Yeah, it doesn’t quite have the same energy as the original.
Kid Rock’s involvement with the South Park movie was nearly far greater. Trey Parker and Matt Stone once revealed that Paramount wanted to release a tie-in music video featuring Kid Rock, using a pre-recorded song of his that could be edited together with sound effects of South Park characters.
Parker told the studio that it was “so anti-South Park,” and begged them not to do it. They insisted, so Parker and his collaborators refused to cooperate. “They got ‘really fucking angry’ and threatened to sue us,” Parker recalled.
Presumably he won’t be contributing a tie-in video for this week’s episode, either.
