In the second episode of “South Park” (or, rather, “South America”) Season 29, an impassioned Butters sets out to rid South Park of “billionaire weenies” — which, as it turns out, are literal penises — when their data centers start getting in the way of him and his favorite thing: Dr. Pimple Popper.
Because of the data centers being built in his backyard, Butters’ television loses power constantly, thus making him unable to relax to the videos. “And you know why our electricity went out? Because of the goddamn billionaires that are building data centers right in our backyards,” yelled Butters. “All these little weenie billionaires do is suck up all our resources and leave us with nothing.”
Butters’ parents, on the other hand, begin to fight over their child’s anti-billionaire and anti-AI beliefs, which they decide must be the result of the measles vaccine Butters got in order to attend school. “I knew what that vaccination would do to him because I listened to podcasts,” yelled his dad. “But you couldn’t take time out of your precious day to listen to podcasts, could you? And now your son is a libtard.”
As it turns out, the weenie billionaires in Butters’ backyard are exactly that: weenies. But tensions are rising in their own town as some of the billionaires are being too public, including by appearing on Joe Rogan’s podcast. “Now that we are growing so rapidly, we must be careful,” said the leader of the weenies. “There are so many of us billionaires now; we might be starting to annoy people. That’s why I talked before about the importance of not drawing attention to ourselves.” When Butters calls an exterminator to get rid of the billionaire town and their data center, he explains, “This is some new strain of billionaire. They like to go on podcasts and get into public arguments with Mark Ruffalo.”
As Butters continues to try to rally the town against the billionaires, the weenies must take matters into their own hands by buying the local news media to stabilize their public enemy, “as any good billionaire should.” “But now, can someone tell me who went out and got in a public argument with Macklemore? God damn it, we had it figured out,” said the lead weenie. “I bought the news so we can make us seem nicer, and then some little penis decided Macklemore needed a good talking to… Nobody cares what you think about Macklemore.” (The comment was a jab at Robert Kraft, the billionaire New England Patriots owner who made headlines earlier this month for what amounted to a ban on the rapper from performing at a number of stadiums while on tour with Ed Sheeran.)
It wouldn’t be an episode of “South Park” without a Trump appearance, and sure enough, the audience got a glimpse of the president at the very end. As he sits down to go to the bathroom (while listening to his own speeches), his very own billionaire weenie flies out of his unzipped pants.
Following the second episode’s debut, it appears that creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone are going full steam ahead with the “South America” name change, which was announced earlier this month ahead of the Season 29 premiere. (The decision was a comedic jab at Trump’s recent moves to rename locations including Lake Ontario as Lake America, New Mexico as New America and the Gulf of Mexico as the Gulf of America.)
The premiere — the first episode since taking on the name “South America” — hit 4.2 million viewers in three days, Variety previously reported.