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"Wok Is Dead"
South Park episode
Episode no.Season 27
Episode 4
Directed byTrey Parker
Written byTrey Parker
Production code2704
Original air dateSeptember 3, 2025 (2025-09-03)
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"Wok Is Dead" is the fourth episode of the twenty-seventh season of the American animated television series South Park and the 332nd episode of the series overall. It premiered on September 3, 2025.[1] It focuses on the Labubu fad and the impact of rising prices due to tariffs. The episode title comes from the name of the City Asian Pop-Up Store that sells the Labubus, which used to be the City Wok Chinese restaurant.[2][3]

Plot

The girls at South Park Elementary have begun regularly fighting with each other over Labubu toys. One of the girls, Red, approaches Butters at recess and asks him for a rare Labubu for her birthday. He heads to an Asian pop-up store to do so and is asked to pay increasingly high prices for the toys due to tariffs causing price increases. Concurrently, Jesus investigates the Labubu toys and learns they are being used for demonic rituals. Butters manages to get the requested Labubu and goes to Red's birthday party, where she summons Donald Trump and Satan. Jesus arrives at the party and confronts Satan, causing Satan to confess that Trump has impregnated him, making him unable to leave the relationship.

Reception

In a review for Slate, David Mack described the episode as "shockingly fast with its parody", while praising the parody of Fox News.[4] Writing in The Guardian, Stuart Heritage contended that the episode "represents the first disappointment of the season".[5] He wrote that the Trump-satan gag "feels a little lazy". Dominic Patten of Deadline Hollywood praised the episode, noting that the story mixing Labubus, a megalomaniacal Trump, Satan, Jesus, and tariffs, "played as much to the childish impulses of its main characters as it did to Trump's madness – which has proven to be a very successful and poignant potion this year."[6] Rafael Motamayor of /Film praised the episode's satire on the current administration, calling it, "equal parts absurd and hilarious," and compared it to the season 3 episode Chinpokomon.[7] William Hughes of The A.V. Club complimented the lack of subtlety and deliberate childishness of the plot.[8]

In an analysis of Season 27, Matthew Rentezelas wrote in The Cornell Daily Sun that the show's "interweaving Trump's policies and behaviors into these seemingly non-political plotlines," like the Labubu fad and the impact of tariffs, "illustrates how Trump has managed to infect practically every aspect of day-to-day life."[9]

References

  1. ^ Morrow, Brendan (September 4, 2025). "New 'South Park' episode skewers Trump with a shocking Satan twist". USA Today. Retrieved September 12, 2025.
  2. ^ Kelly, Keegan (September 4, 2025). "No Comedy Show Has Explained How Tariffs Work Better Than 'South Park'". Cracked.com. Retrieved September 15, 2025.
  3. ^ Lammers, Tim (September 4, 2025). "'South Park' Season 27 Recap Of Trump And Labubu Episode". Forbes. Retrieved September 19, 2025.
  4. ^ Mack, David (September 4, 2025). "South Park Aims Its Weaponized Juvenility at Fox News. It's Kind of Ingenious". Slate. ISSN 1091-2339. Retrieved September 12, 2025.
  5. ^ Heritage, Stuart (September 4, 2025). "Donald Trump is having a lovechild with Satan: South Park sets up future chaos". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved September 12, 2025.
  6. ^ Patten, Dominic (September 4, 2025). "South Park' Returns With Trump & Satan's Big Announcement, Labubus, Jesus & Tariffs: Really, What More Does A Good Old American Satire Need". Deadline Hollywood. Retrieved September 12, 2025.
  7. ^ Hughes, William (September 4, 2025). "South Park prods at tariffs and Fox News, but keeps its eye on the "pissing off Trump" prize". The A.V. Club. Retrieved September 19, 2025.
  8. ^ "South Park Season 27 Wages Hilarious War on Two Very Different 2025 Menaces". /Film. October 18, 2025.
  9. ^ Rentezelas, Matthew (September 9, 2025). ""Relax, Guy!": The Cathartic Power of South Park's New Season". The Cornell Daily Sun. Retrieved September 15, 2025.

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