On South Park, Donald Trump and JD Vance Consummate Their Relationship

OpenAI’s generative AI platform doesn’t have many fans in the creative community, and it seems you can count Trey Stone and Matt Parker among them. The South Park duo largely center this week’s episode, “Sora Not Sorry,” around the AI video platform, with a plot in which Butters ignites a school-wide scandal after seeking revenge on his ex-girlfriend, Red, by using Sora to generate a video of her farting and getting urinated on by Santa.

Red retaliates with a Sora video of her own: one in which Butters is molested by the Studio Ghibli character Totoro, shown during a school assembly. Detective Harrison Yates responds to South Park Elementary and, believing Butters was the victim of an actual assault, attempts to interview him, only to be interrupted by Studio Ghibli creators who threaten Butters with a cease and desist. “It takes hundreds of artists three years to make Totoro. And in two minutes you spit out your shit,” they exclaim. “You cannot just do whatever you want with someone’s IP!”

To Detective Yates’ horror, more Sora-generated videos featuring South Park students begin popping up, including one of Kenny being assaulted by Popeye and another of Droopy Dog pooping into Stan’s mouth. Unable to get any answers, Detectives Yates and his partner, Detective Murphy, decide to try to gain the students’ trust by going undercover dressed as Rocky and Bullwinkle: “We’re getting no cooperation… Kids won’t talk to a cop… We’ve got to go undercover as one of these predators,” they rational.

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Meanwhile, Peter Thiel — who believes Cartman is the key to ridding Trump of the Antichrist and is thus still holding him hostage — uses Sora to keep Cartman’s mother at ease by sending AI-generated videos of her son. Hilariously, the videos he sends Mrs. Cartman feature early-era South Park references: “I haven’t even talked about Cheese Poofs in five years,” Cartman tells Thiel. “This is the world you live in, kid. Anyone can make you do anything they want,” Thiel responds.

Over at the White House, Donald Trump finally admits to his Vice President, JD Vance, that he doesn’t want Satan’s baby. Their relationship soon crosses a new threshold when they find themselves scheming in a hot tub; one thing leads to another, and POTUS and VPOTUS get hot and heavy to the sounds of Foreigner in the Lincoln Bedroom.

In the final act of the episode, Butters, Stan, and Kyle find themselves in a courtroom with Bluey, who alleges, “They made me do things I’d never normally do.” Butters eventually cops to the truth, blaming Cartman for turning him on to Sora 2. Ever so slightly putting the puzzle together, the detectives decide to trace the videos Thiel has been sending Cartman’s mother, leading to Thiel’s arrest and Cartman’s freedom. “Looks like we just busted a huge community of online predator rapists called Sora 2,” proudly declares Detective Yates.

However, along the way, they also stumble upon video footage from the Lincoln Bedroom of Trump and Vance’s dalliance, stored on Thiel’s computer. “When Fox News sees this, they’re not going to be happy,” Detective Murphy surmises.

Fortunately for Trump, he has a good explanation: “It’s fake — it’s all Sora 2.”

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