‘South Park’ Mocks Putin, Prepares for Nuclear Attack in New Episode

South Park creators always find a way to mine the untapped comedic potential in any current event and this week was no exception.

Episode ‘Back to the Cold War’ airs on Wednesday March 2. South ParkWe tackled the Russian/Ukrainian crisis. The episode began with the kids telling their teacher they are worried about Russian President Vladimir Putin. They are actually expressing their concern in a way that is not as serious as the school counselor, Mr. MacKay. Getting his 1980s groove back, he bombards the school with multiple nuclear war drills while playing ’80s pop classics.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LUVL6Ew0HTo

Along with the drills, Mr. MacKay submits budget requests for a bomb shelter and “20 VHS copies of Red Dawn.” 

Butters will also be participating in an equestrian contest. As Comedy Central had teased earlier in a press release, “A lot is riding on Butters’ ability to crush the competition in the all-important dressage championship.” You see, Butters is competing against a little Russian boy named Davey Solokov and Davey’s pony is a Russian Etruscan.

Alas, for both boys, Butters’ parents and Mr. MacKay are losing their minds, convinced that the fate of the world depends on who wins the competition. Butters is unlikely to win the competition because his horse Melancholy keeps peeing during practice, and also humps other horses. South Park, after all). However, when Melancholy tries to hump Davey’s horse in the final, Davey falls to the ground and Butters is crowned champion.

After his “win”, Mr. MacKay sprints up to the podium and makes a fiery speech, which Putin watches closely. By this point, MacKay has realized he’s enjoying the Russia crisis way too much because he wants to relive his youth.

MacKay: And I just want to say to the Russians that if I can change you can change. I know how it is when you’re getting old, you know, and you start getting aggressive because your dick doesn’t work the way it used to.

Putin: Da.

Mr. MacKayHowever, just because we don’t have the right dicks doesn’t mean that it’s wrong to go back to how things used be. Sting immortalized it with the words, “We all have the same biology no matter what ideology.”

The past was South ParkHas mocked communist China’s censorship and use of Mohammed imagery, safe spaces, and trans-athletes competing against women among many other domestic and international topics. Riffing about Putin and current tensions with Russia this week was right up their alley.