South Park kicks the literal shit out of FCC chair Brendan Carr

To be fair, Carr campaigned just as hard to be South Park‘s latest administration whipping boy, after a week of throwing his weight around to try to get the broadcast TV networks to toe the line and stop saying mean things about his boss. We’ve noted that Parker and Stone have spent the last few months basically daring administration officials to respond to them this season, and this might be the most aggressive provocation yet, as they depicted Carr being poisoned, pushed down stairs, and covered in cat shit as part of a comedy of errors involving Trump trying to get rid of his unborn child inside Satan’s butt. In case the previous sentence didn’t make it clear, South Park isn’t all that interested in doing nuanced satire right now—although the show did take some more thoughtful pokes at the ever-increasing prevalence of online betting in American culture—but it remains shocking and bracing to see how far the series will go when it’s on the offensive.

All that and the show weighed in on the Israel-Gaza conflict, tapping Kyle’s mom—who, like most of the show’s adults, can veer wildly in how villainously she acts—to pointedly note that the current fight in the region is “not Jews vs. Palestine, it’s Israel vs. Palestine.” From there, she traveled to Israel personally to have it out with Benjamin Netanyahu, asking him, “Just who do you think you are, killing thousands and flattening neighborhoods, then wrapping yourself in Judaism like it’s some shield from criticism?” So, yeah: That week off has definitely not mellowed South Park out.