The episode – entitled Royal Pudding – airs in the UK on Friday and, by the sound of things, the royals can expect to get off lightly. In fact, Wills and Kate won't even appear in it. They'll be replaced with a Canadian royal couple who look a bit like them, and the plot seems to be more about funny Canadian pronunciation than, say, a vicious satirical skewering.
That said, South Park could have hammered the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge with its entire arsenal of venom and the resulting episode would still look like a misty-eyed piece of pro-monarchy propaganda compared with its past treatment of British royals. The 2007 episode The Snuke, for example, culminated with the Queen inserting a handgun into her mouth and pulling the trigger. And then there's Princess Diana, shown in 1999 singing a song called Christmas Time in Hell, underneath a sprig of burning mistletoe.
Not that anybody still feeling the glow of post-wedding patriotism should feel slighted. South Park's ire is as fleeting as it is indiscriminate. Everyone from Kanye West to Jesus Christ has wandered into the show's cross hairs in the past. At this rate, Pippa Middleton must only be about three headlines away from her own episode."
The Guardian
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