To think I’ve spent approximately 15,000 man hours on the topic in 2015, and they nailed it in just over half a minute.
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The promo video for the Season 19 premiere shows Cartman taking a dig at the Deflategate scandal, sounding off about how he’s going to “pull a Tom Brady” by appealing his four day detention sentence and ask to get no detention at all. “I’m gonna Tom Brady this thing”, he says to his friends.
The story follows the violent intolerance emanating from South Park Elementary’s new principal as a result of the non-inclusive language preferred by the children and townspeople. You’re only giving me one. “‘You’re going to give me NO days of suspension!” The cartoon went to town on Tom Brady’s DeflateGate debacle, even incorporating National Football League commissioner Roger Goodell into the episode. Brady appealed, and a federal judge overturned the decision on September 3.
Titled “Stunning and fearless “, the episode’s jumping off point, the heretical thought that Caitlyn Jenner isn’t quite a hero, also runs with other themes from the world of sports (Brett Favre insufficiently enthusiastic in his clapping for Jenner at the ESPY awards). The former Olympian, 65, introduced herself on the July cover of Vanity Fair, while South Park was between seasons.
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When asked by Entertainment Weekly in August if the perspective keep shifting to older characters in “South Park” season 19, Parker joked, “Expect a lot of Stan’s Grandpa in season 19”.
