Isn’t it crazy to think how long South Park been a part of our lives? It’s been alive and inappropriate since 1997, over a quarter of a century. Who would we be without those troublesome boys and their weird parents? All jokes aside, South Park has aged well, which isn’t always true for mature audience themed animations. This particular animation is here to stay, at least for a little bit longer.
This article takes a closer look at the horrible world of Season 20 and why it’s so great. Some newer episodes are a bit hard to get into, but not season 20. It’s loud, in-your-face, non-stop offensive entertainment at its finest. Together we will remember the stories of those particular friends when internet trolls got the better of us and even more so during the great Member Berries crisis of 2016. Good memories, indeed.
Member Berry
Member berries have the size and general appearance of grapes, but are very acidic. Each member Berry speaks in a soothing voice, reminding the surrounding people of nostalgia from long ago, when times were better and children played outside more, listening to Africa by Toto. Everything has collapsed except for these lovely Member Berries and their memories. People are slowly realizing that the Member Berries are kind of dark, conservative, far-right, racist extremists who might remember fantastic things from the old days. Yet they also want to bring back the ‘old ways’, which are horribly biased and mean.
Given the state of America and the presidential election hovering over our heads, this is hilarious and nails the point competitors were trying to make. Make America great again by bringing back the basic and right ways.
Giant shower or a turd sandwich
The presidential campaign is underway and on one side there’s the Giant Shower, Mr. Garrison, and on the other, the Turd Sandwich, Hillary Clinton. Meanwhile, the online school board is attacked by a troll known as Skankhunt42, who ends up being none other than Kyle’s father, Gerald. Gerald is going mad with power since becoming the most powerful internet troll the world has ever seen.
J. J. Abrams
The boys and girls of South Park Elementary are divided over Skankhunt42’s trolling. The boys find it funny and refuse to have their rights taken away. The girls, on the other hand, find it all stupid and humiliating. They even refuse to stand for the national anthem, causing waves of fighting over what to do about it.
Then, like a miracle, JJ Abrams, the creator of Lost, intervenes and recreates the national anthem to make everyone happy. He says it is acceptable to stand or sit during the National Anthem, causing Mr. Garrison to panic as he wants to go against what he should be doing but is now confused.
TrollTrace.com
Gerald is secretly Skankhunt42, the megatroll, but when he learns that Denmark plans to launch TrollTrace.com, he must make tough decisions or risk being exposed alongside Cartman. So Gerald joins forces with another lead troll who goes through Dildo Schwaggins to drag Denmark into such a dark place that they give up on social media altogether, thus canceling the launch of TrollTrace.com.
I’m never gonna give up on you
Gerald and Schwaggins proceed to break up their team when they are rude to each other. Finally, Hillary Clinton secretly meets with Gerald and asks him to get rid of TrollTrace.com for good. Gerald then flies to Denmark dressed as an ambassador and is placed in a room full of other internet trolls. To his disbelief, the trolls tell him that the government has made a deal with Denmark, and that the suitcases that would explode are only playing the whimsical song. I’m never gonna give up on you by Rick Ashtley.
Lennart Bedrager allows Gerald to make one call, but has to tell the person answering his true identity, so he calls Ike and has him log in as Skankhunt42. Sheila, Kyle, and Ike’s mom catch Ike doing this and get to the bottom of it. Bedrager then locks Gerald up and makes him watch as he unleashes the ultimate trolling when he puts the trolls and the TrollTrace.com people in the same room. Bedrager finds it hilarious to watch them slaughter each other endlessly and wishes for these trolls to take over and stir the world. Gerald eventually throws him over a railing, killing him.
The gender war: boys versus girls
The development of Skankhunt42 has angered all the girls and women of South Park. They begin to believe that all boys and men are evil and dump their boyfriends to work together. When Butters gets dumped, he takes things a little too far and decides it’s time for the boys to take back what is rightfully theirs by busting out their wieners in public.
Of course, this is pointless and stupid and angers the women more until the other boys beg Butters to stand down so their sex isn’t eliminated. Butters, crazed with fear, decides to launch SpaceX and escape to Mars with Cartman and Heidi. Later they meet Elon Musk and realize they don’t want to go to Mars and blow up SpaceX.
The last countdown
As tensions mount as the presidential election approaches, Mr. Garrison becomes nervous about winning. They still encourage him even when he tells everyone not to vote for him because he doesn’t know what he’s doing. Clinton tells people not to believe anything he says, so everyone thinks he knows what he’s doing.
Towards the end, Mr. Garrison accidentally hits a Member Berry and becomes crazier. He wins the presidential election and tries to run away. It doesn’t work, and the member’s berries end up at the Pentagon, where their leader discusses his plans to retrieve the original Stormtroopers.