![]() ![]() Randy is wasting tons of water on his Tegridy Farms, and he’s also engaged in a war with his across-the-street neighbors Credigree Weed, a Black-owned rival outfit started by Steve, Randy’s former partner and the father of Stan Marsh’s friend Tolkien. Not helping that situation is the wanton use of H20 by the area’s newly empowered weed farmers, led by Randy Marsh, who’s now mockingly called “Karen” by everyone he meets in a jab at his incessantly entitled and demanding behavior. With ManBearPig wreaking havoc on nearby mountain streams, South Park faces a severe drought. With no N95 masks in sight, Parker and Stone’s latest (available now) opens on a South Park wracked by a shortage of water brought about by ManBearPig, the mutant hybrid-species demon from Hell who was first introduced back in season 22 courtesy of Al Gore. Okay, perhaps the second of those isn’t really an emergency, but it’s nonetheless the jokey subject of South Park: The Streaming Wars, a super-sized chapter of Trey Parker and Matt Stone’s long-running animation franchise that turns out to be funniest when it’s dumbest, and weakest when it leans into its lunatic satire. ![]() ![]() While the pandemic may not be over, everyone’s had just about enough of it-including South Park, which in the wake of its recent two-part Post COVID event (the maiden installments in a $900 million deal to produce expanded spinoff movies for Paramount+) has shifted its attention to different twin crises facing the nation: climate change and the ubiquity of streaming platforms. ![]()
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