The Most Toothless ‘South Park’ Attacks
sacrifice a child in order to ban smoking and Mel Gibson… okay, that one was eerily accurate.
But, in retrospect, some South Park burns were surprisingly off-the-mark and way less biting than they easily could have been, such as…
Dr. Oz
Butters about bullying, only to press too hard and get attacked in front of his audience.
Paramount
We get that this was well before his hydroxychloroquine and crudité days, but Dr. Oz was already known to be a notorious peddler of health misinformation. He was basically the John Edward of medicine, but while the former was branded the “Biggest Douche in the Universe,” Oz’s time on South Park left him relatively unscathed.
R. Kelly
Jared Fogle
The first Jared-centric episode was a mostly lighthearted takedown of the irritating khaki-clad mascot for America’s grossest sandwich chain. Jared was really just there for the show to make jokes about his weight-loss claims and also to serve up a farcical misunderstanding about aides/AIDS in order to establish the amount of time it takes for tragedies to become acceptable comedic subject matter.
Jared showed up again as one of the celebs trying to sue the town of South Park in the episode “200.” Then, shortly after the real Cartman’s plan to distract PC Principal.
Which, arguably, is a pretty easy, insubstantial way to reference the horrific crimes of a guy who was already a recurring character on the show. Like, they were way harder on Sarah Jessica Parker, and she, we can’t stress this enough, didn’t go to jail for child pornography. To be fair, the South Park guys eventually tore Jared a new one — but it didn’t happen in the show itself, but rather in the Fractured But Whole video game, in which Jared is a big boss that needs to be defeated, all while uttering taunts such as: “How’d you kids like to see my famous footlong?”
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