If you’ve seen #cancelsouthpark trending on social media and were confused, here’s whats going on. The 22nd season of South Park is premiering this Wednesday, September 26, at 10 p.m. and the first episode features—yes, a school shooting. And as you can imagine, the topic isn’t going over great with some people. Check out some of these tweets using the trending hashtag:
I can’t believe South Park is going to do a school shooting episode! That is so vile and offensive! The government needs to shut down their show right now! #cancelsouthpark
— Krazy Chan (@krazychan) September 14, 2018
I have a feeling the boys are about to piss off a lot of people! #cancelsouthpark pic.twitter.com/W3u7oxyH4f
— 🏈 Joe Schiavi 🎃 (@ScoundrelPrez) September 20, 2018
I honestly don’t know if #cancelsouthpark is a real thing the creators plan on doing, or if its setting up them making fun of outrage culture on Twitter
— Tyler (@Tadpolius) September 16, 2018
South Park is going to address the normalcy of school shootings in the premiere episode of season 22, the title of the episode is “Dead Kids”. The episode has a description that reads “Randy is desperate to help Sharon get her emotions under control and Cartman unexpectedly fails his math test.” You wouldn’t be able to gather what the episode is about just reading that, but if you take a look at the teaser you can start to understand where the #CancelSouthPark approach came from. The past few seasons haven’t shyed away from touching on politics, with Mr. Garrison becoming a Trump-like figure and last season ending with Garrison dropping a nuke on Canada. Check out the full preview below:
