WARNING: The following contains spoilers for South Park’s “South ParQ Vaccination Special,” which aired Wednesday on Comedy Central.
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, South Park’s kids struggle to adjust to life. They’re lucky enough to be back in school, but when the vaccines roll out, and teachers aren’t on the priority list, they’re faced with the depressing possibility of having to be home-schooled again.
As a result, the boys try to steal vaccines to ensure their teachers are taken care of. However, during the “South ParQ Vaccination Special,” QAnon infiltrates the town and almost destroys their plan, as well as people’s wellbeing.
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When Mr. Garrison returns after his Donald Trump-like stint in the Oval Office, Mr. White and other racist citizens in the Colorado town formulate a plan. They think Garrison wants them to enact some mysterious scheme, and at their meetings, they’re revealed to be a QAnon cell, believing in outlandish conspiracy theories and politics to paint a divided America.
Now, they’re spreading an anti-vax sentiment, making it known people like Bill Gates are microchipping them. However, they also believe they need to go incognito and form Tutornon, a network of “teachers” that home-school kids. Parents are eager to hire them because they’re cheap and the school’s problem with vaccinating educators. This allows the hateful group to start seeding out dark thoughts across town, infecting the home-schooled kids’ minds to ensure South Park’s future is something QAnon can control.
As such, kids like Craig are taught why America has to be purged, with Scott Malkinson and Butters believing in violence. This leads to a brutal confrontation when Cartman’s crew tries bringing the vaccines to the teachers. Butters and Co. have formed the “Lil Q’ties” — basically kiddie QAnon — and attack the boys. It’s a riff on Netflix’s controversy with Cuties, where many people felt it oversexualized teens and proved Hollywood is run by pedophiles, which is exactly what Tutornon keeps telling their students.
Ultimately, Garrison saves the town and gets vaccines for everyone, but QAnon and the Lil Q’ties are far from gone. Butters confirms he joined because he needed something to get him out of the basement. With the other kids drastically programmed, too, it’s a twisted hobby they’re not going to let go of — especially as COVID-19 doesn’t leave room for extracurriculars. Other townsfolk, including the “shaman” from the raid on Capitol Hill, are still present. So there will likely be future fights due to QAnon adults and impressionable youths believing a militant attitude is actually proper patriotism.
South Park’s “South ParQ Vaccination Special” is currently available on Comedy Central.
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