When the FBI gets wind of this, they naturally cast the blame on Kyle’s Mexican Joker archetype. 10 photos. With Randy’s dark turn here, I wonder if it’ll be a bit like the two-season-long Cartman-Heidi relationship, where a bright new development for a character is brought down by their worst tendencies. It aired on December 12, 2018. Based on Trey and Matt’s history, we can be confident that they will ultimately provide satisfying answers to all the questions they’ve created. Matt Stone (2) April Stewart (1) Kyle tries to win his freedom by warning the Border Agents that their cruelty may be the origin story for a Mexican Joker. Internet Service Terms Watch South Park: Mexican Joker from Season 23 at TVGuide.com. Bike Parade is the tenth episode and season finale of Season Twenty-Two, and the 297th overall episode of South Park. Randy has alienated everyone in South Park, including his own family. Assuming the detention center will be making a return in future episodes, I’d like to see the guards’ motivations fleshed out a bit more. In typical South Park fashion, the guards miss Kyle’s point entirely, doing everything from putting on puppet shows to performing dangerous shock therapies on children to prevent this from happening. Copyright © 2020 It’s Christmastime in South Park, but things are not so merry now that a city ordinance has been put in place banning alcohol during the holidays. The Pandemic Special S24, E1: Randy comes to terms with his role in the COVID-19 outbreak as the on-going pandemic presents continued challenges to the citizens of South Park.

This is the main problem with “Mexican Joker,” an often entertaining episode with quite a few enjoyable moments, but not enough structure to make a coherent point. Randy fights against home-grown and Kyle goes to camp. The show has taken on Saddam Hussein, Osama bin Laden, politicians of every stripe and self-important celebrities. Aired Wednesday 10:00 PM Sep 25, 2019 on Comedy Central. See All Trivia, Notes, Quotes and Allusions, The Assassination of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story, Please read the following before uploading. Cartman objects when the school starts admitting girls into its Board Game Club. South Park (TV Series) Mexican Joker (2019) Photo Gallery. Pop culture obsessives writing for the pop culture obsessed. Remember: Abuse of the TV.com image system may result in you being banned from uploading images or from the entire site – so, play nice and respect the rules! One of South Park’s most admirable qualities has long been its ambition. Referencing The Dark Knight, Randy blows up every marijuana garden in town, re-establishing himself as the town’s only source. Meanwhile, Kyle attempts to free all the children by converting them to Judaism, granting them the same immunity he has. “Mexican Joker” has some good gags, and gets in some solid shots at the horror of Trump’s immigration policies, as well as the naked opportunism of Big Tobacco supporting the flavored vape ban. Watch South Park - Season 23, Episode 1 - Mexican Joker: Randy fights against home-grown and Kyle goes to camp. Seems like a waste of baby.”. The new girl at school has diabetes, and Scott Malkinson assumes that the two of them must be soulmates. When he’s arrested for committing crimes that were attributed to “Mexican Joker,” no one will help him. Mexican Joker (S23E01) is the first episode of season twenty-three of "South Park" release... More Mexican Joker (S23E01) is the first episode of season twenty-three of "South Park" released on Wed Sep 25, 2019. Since no one wants to face the holidays sober, the town reaches out to Randy to come up with a Christmas Special. Randy becomes nervous, however, when he notices that sales have gone down. Add Image. This is where things get a bit tricky; the guards are rather casual about the vileness of their actions. Back in South Park, Cartman sees an El Salvadorian family taken away and separated from each other by ICE agents and comes to the most Cartman conclusion possible: “Well, this is nice.” Observing how easy it is to place a call to ICE, he makes an anonymous threat against Kyle’s family, and the Broflovskis are separated as well. I’m curious to see if they’ll use this all season. Apple TV & Privacy Support. This is a clear reference to the recently proposed ban on flavored vape juices, and as Randy joins forces with Big Weed to make the ban happen, the show makes the point that many others have made; regardless of the actual danger proposed, companies like Philip Morris only support the ban because it helps their bottom line. In fact, its goal seems to be to offend as many as possible as it presents the adventures of Stan, Kyle, Kenny and Cartman. With the season 23 premiere, "Mexican Joker", South Park pulls two of the biggest discussions in both politics and pop-culture and mashes them together in … Here, they already have enough going on to satisfy an entire season’s worth of storylines. This sets up a plotline that could be followed throughout the season: Randy’s newfound lust for cash, has compromised the, ahem, integrity that inspired him to go into the business in the first place. The best hope for “Mexican Joker” is that when all is said and done, it will look better in the context of a fully realized story.

Apple Inc. Not only does the show tackle current events at a rapid pace, and with remarkable candor, it’s also often at its best when it takes on multiple subjects, and draws connections between them that others would fail to notice. What they’re doing is obviously wrong, but they don’t seem to act with much malice, with their ultimate goal just being to cover their asses. Stan, Cartman, and Kenny see a way to get their hands on the latest video game “Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order.”.

Despite the chaos at the Amazon Fulfillment Center, the Bike Parade is still on. But in the case of this individual episode, it felt a bit rushed and unfinished. When Vice Principal Strong Woman loses an athletic competition to a surprising new competitor, she and PC Principal are thrown into an emotional tailspin. I get that this scene is trying to parody the flawed logic of these films, but it left us with an awkward, unsatisfying ending. Oh, and Kenny is killed in many episodes. Not only does the show tackle current events at a rapid pace, and with remarkable candor, it’s also often at its best when it takes on multiple subjects, and draws connections between them that others would fail to notice. That said, there are times when the show gets a bit too ambitious for its own good, and just ends up being all over the place. Randy comes to terms with his role in the COVID-19 outbreak as the on-going pandemic presents continued challenges to the citizens of South Park. 10 photos. It almost works, but in a confusing scene where the guards think they’re in a superhero film-style flashback, Kyle angrily tells them that the Mexican Joker doesn’t exist, so they assume they’re in the wrong flashback, and just leave the kids there. As much as a lot of this works, problems arise when the ICE plot is taken further. Consider season 21’s “Put It Down,” which mocked both Donald Trump’s chronic over-tweeting and Logic’s well-intended-but-preachy “1-800-273-8255” video. The show manages to address the horror of the situation without being excessively heavy-handed, an impressive feat considering how full of clapter Trump-era comedy has been. Randy battles home-grown weed; Kyle is placed in a detention camp after Cartman reports him to ICE. About South Park Season 23 Join Stan, Kyle, Cartman, Kenny, and Randy as they explore the wonders of the human biome, tackle the consequences of immigration, and get banned in China.