hotair.com BY JOHN SEXTON
I’m not a regular South Park watcher but I’ve seen episodes I thought were pretty funny. Over the past week people have been talking about this upcoming special called “South Park: Joining the Panderverse” which premieres later this week. From what I can gather, no one knows the exact plot of this thing. The official synopsis says it has something to do with AI.
In SOUTH PARK: JOINING THE PANDERVERSE, Cartman’s deeply disturbing dreams portend the end of the life he knows and loves. The adults in South Park are also wrestling with their own life decisions as the advent of AI is turning their world upside down.
But what’s clear from the trailer is that the show is mocking the tendency of entertainment corporations to recast various parts with actors of color. So in the special, at least four of the kids who make up the regular cast have been recast as minority women.
Somehow, South Park has never recast its heroes as girls before. However, that is set to change with Joining the Panderverse, whose trailer sees South Park’s lead characters Butters, Cartman, Kenny, and Stan transformed into women of color. Only Kyle remains unchanged and seems to notice the difference. It is not yet clear whetherSouth Park’s next two-part special will revive one of the show’s best traditions by focusing on Halloween and Christmas, but it is likely that the change in the main characters will be caused by something going badly wrong in the show’s universe…
