Old School. Biblically Independent.
By Dustin Rowles | TV | September 25, 2025
After taking an extra week off because they “didn’t get last week’s episode in on time,” South Park returned and, instead of addressing the Charlie Kirk situation, went after a, uhm, less controversial topic: Israel and Gaza. They also skewered FCC Chairman Brendan Carr for good measure. So no, no one can accuse Matt and Trey of soft-pedaling this week in light of Carr’s crackdown.
The episode centers on a new betting app that lets people wager on anything, including whether Satan’s butt baby will be a girl or a boy. But the main focus is a bet on whether Kyle’s mom will strike and destroy a Palestinian hospital. Why would Kyle’s mom destroy a Palestinian hospital? Because she’s Jewish, and since people conflate Judaism with Israel, American Jews are being blamed for what’s happening in Gaza. American Jews have nothing to do with it, and suggesting otherwise is the kind of anti-Semitism that makes Kyle’s mom even angrier, and what if she channels that anger into striking a hospital in Gaza?
Of course, it’s absurd that Kyle’s mom, a woman in Colorado, would destroy a hospital in Gaza, but the odds are long and the payout big, so everyone bets on it anyway. Meanwhile, Cartman antagonizes Kyle’s mom to manipulate the odds in his favor so he can win big on her not destroying a Palestinian hospital. But he panics when she gets so furious she decides to go to Israel and “do something about it.”
Cartman becomes so worried that she might actually strike a hospital that he helps Kyle cancel the bet. This requires contacting various administrative agencies, all of which are overseen by a special liaison: Donald Trump Jr., except for the agency responsible for handling offensive matters. That’s Brendan Carr.
Carr spends the episode trying to get the President’s attention about canceling the offensive bet, while the President simultaneously schemes to make Satan miscarry his butt baby, realizing another child would be too much work. He tries to poison Satan, push him down stairs, and infect him with toxoplasmosis from cat feces.
Brendan Carr accidentally foils Trump’s plans by becoming the target of all the President’s schemes, eventually ending up in the hospital. Vice President Vance visits him there, furious that Carr keeps interfering with Trump’s attempts to kill the butt baby. “We can do this the easy way,” Vance tells him, “or we can do this the hard way.” Carr can’t respond, however, because toxoplasmosis has rendered him speechless. Ahem. (An earlier scene also sees Brendan Carr propel himself through the air by the power of his, uh, diarrhea).
Meanwhile, in Israel, Kyle’s mom “found the person responsible for all this and gave him a piece of her mind.” That person? Bibi Netanyahu (whew). “Just who do you think you are? Killing thousands and flattening neighborhoods, then wrapping yourself in Judaism like it’s some shield from criticism. You’re making life for Jews miserable and life for American Jews impossible.”
Bravo, South Park.
