In case you missed it, “South Park” reshared the Paramount+ exclusive post-credits scene for the second episode of Season 27.
The post-credits scene, shared to the official “South Park” X account on Monday, shows United States Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem walking into a pet store and opening fire on the puppies inside. One dog manages to escape the store, but Noem quickly catches up to it and brutally guns it down.
It’s unclear why the scene was included on Paramount+ and not in the Comedy Central premiere. “South Park” is produced on a week-to-week basis to ensure new episodes are acutely relevant, so it is possible the animators didn’t have time to include it in the episode’s linear premiere, and instead, decided to attach it to the streaming release.
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Noem was a main character in the Aug. 6 installment, in which she was depicted as the puppy-killing leader of ICE. In the episode, she raids a local production of “Dora the Explorer Live!” and sports a face that constantly melts off due to failing plastic surgery.
After the episode’s premiere, Noem fired back during an appearance on Glenn Beck’s radio show. She called her “South Park” portrayal “so lazy” and “petty.”
“It never ends, but it’s so lazy to constantly make fun of women for how they look,” Noem said. She maintained that she did not watch the episode because she was “going over budget numbers and stuff.”
“It’s always the liberals and the extremists who do that,” she added. “If they wanted to criticize my job, go ahead and do that, but clearly, they can’t, they just pick something petty like that.”
The joke surrounding Noem’s dog-killing habit stems from a book excerpt in which she admitted to shooting her dog, Cricket, because it was too aggressive.
“South Park” Season 27 has been one of the most politically charged in the series’ history, drawing reactions from more than just Noem. The season’s first episode made national news for depicting Donald Trump begging for sex from Satan. The White House was quick to respond to the episode, saying in a statement, “This show hasn’t been relevant for over 20 years and is hanging on by a thread with uninspired ideas in a desperate attempt for attention.”
From Variety US