“South Park” returns tonight for Episode 3 of Season 17 in “World War Zimmerman”, which airs on Comedy Central at 10pm EST. The show will spoof the George Zimmerman and Trayvon Martin case, which became the subject of a media firestorm after the last season of “South Park”. According to a press release from Comedy Central, in tonight’s episode, “Cartman is deeply disturbed by a single person who he sees as a thread to all humanity. He races around the country to put an end to Patient Zero, the ticking time bomb that is Token.” Scroll down to the end of the page to check out a preview clip released by South Park Studios.
In last week’s episode “Information Murder Porn”, creators Matt Stone and Trey Parker spoofed Minecraft, the latest big hit in the video game world. The show was based on a typical trick they like to pull – reverse the roles of the parents and children. The kids of South Park were worried, last week, that their parents were watching too much “murder porn”, or TV shows in which spouses kill one another, and after one such murder takes place, the kids put a parental lock on the channels which air those shows. As Forbes notes, the only way the parents could get past the lock was to answer the question “How do you tame a horse in Minecraft?” When parents started playing the game in order to get access to the “murder porn”, that triggered a whole new set of problems, with parents acting the game out in real life.
In tonight’s episode, according to the press release, “the world faces death, destruction, chaos and Eric Cartman”. It seems likely that Cartman will be playing the self-appointed cop, which has been rich fodder for comedy in the past and in this case will probably strike nerves – or funny bones – for the parallels to the George Zimmerman case. The “ticking time bomb that is Token”, for those who aren’t in the know, refers to the show’s only black character, who is also the richest kid in South Park. Mother Jones writes that the episode also takes its cues from the summer zombie movie "World War Z", in which star Brad Pitt hunts for a "Patient Zero" in addition to the 2012 death of Trayvon Martin in the town of Sanford, Florida. Tune in tonight at 10pm EST on Comedy Central to check out "World War Zimmerman" when it airs.
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