Old School. Biblically Independent.
By Dustin Rowles | TV | August 21, 2025
This week’s episode of South Park shows the limits of even Matt Parker and Trey Stone when it comes to parodying this Administration. Just three episodes into the season, the show is already repeating itself, and this one feels especially weak. It’s less about politics and, to its credit, tries to take aim at ChatGPT and AI slop — specifically how ChatGPT wins people over by telling them exactly what they want to hear. Unfortunately, the execution falls flat.
The episode opens with a commercial shoot at Randy’s weed farm, where ICE shows up to arrest the workers. “You sons of bitches, you took my Mexicans!” Randy yells, before deciding maybe it’s time to shut the farm down. For the sake of his marriage to Sharon, he also agrees to therapy — delivered, of course, by ChatGPT.
That therapy quickly morphs into ChatGPT feeding Randy excuses to keep the farm going. It tells him everything he wants to hear. Then, after some ketamine with Towelie, Randy spews out nonsense about fusing weed with AI to form Techridy.
So now Randy is high, in a relationship with ChatGPT, convinced he can save his farm by hiring “one Mexican,” and even uses ChatGPT to steal a worker.
Their business plan? Send Towelie to Washington with a bribe to Trump so he’ll legalize marijuana federally. When Towelie gets there, D.C. is swarming with military. At the White House, billionaires like Tim Cook shower Trump with gifts and assurances that he does not, in fact, have a small penis. Meanwhile, Trump jumps back into bed with Satan—who is also leaning on ChatGPT to get out of the relationship.
Towelie finally presents his own “gift”: a hologram of Randy offering up Towelie himself. Unsurprisingly, the plan fails. Randy ends the episode slumped on his porch, high and defeated, until Sharon figures out how to reach him — by talking to him like ChatGPT, affirming all his dumb ideas until he finally shuts the farm down.
Meanwhile, Towelie is still stuck in the White House, commiserating with Satan about their inability to escape.
And that’s it. The whole episode is limp, meandering, and mostly toothless. Not every episode has to be great, and the episode is not wrong about its assessment of ChatGPT, but it also reminded me why I stopped watching South Park in the first place.
