WHY ARE THEY LAUGHING?
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Why was six afraid of seven? Ask the teenagers who won’t stop saying both numbers, to the abject confusion of their parents. Even the middle-schoolers of South Park field obsessed with saying “six-seven.” The meme, which began with the song “Doot Doot,” by Skrilla, and blew all the way up to it Kai Cenat’s Twitch stream marks a firm divide in generational comedy. Anyone above 14 years of age doesn’t understand it, and everyone below thinks it’s the funniest thing they’ve heard all year. What do Trey Parker and Matt Stone have to say about it?
The October 15 episode of South Park was technically the first episode of season 28. That makes season 27, which began airing on July 23, just five episodes long. Below, everything that happened in the surprise season 28 premiere of South Park.
The “six-seven” epidemic has infected South Park Elementary. To stop the “Satanic” numbers, “Power Christian” Principal brings in Palantir founder and Gawker toppler Peter Thiel, who sings that he “knows about the Antichrist.” He teaches the kids about Satan’s incoming “butt baby” with Donald Trump but gets annoyed, then suspicious, at their “six-seven” chants whenever he mentions the numbers. Thiel, capitalizing on parents’ anxiety, tells them that their kids are in a “cult involving the numbers six and seven” and demands all their data.
It’s then revealed that Thiel is working with JD Vance, who also wants Satan’s baby to remain unborn so that he doesn’t have to fight him off in the DC power struggle. To help Thiel out, Vance gives him access to “every government database.” In reality, Palantir has received over $100 million in government contracts to compile data from multiple agencies, including the Department of Homeland Security and the Pentagon, creating potential for the Trump administration to merge personal information on Americans.
Cartman’s mom, meanwhile, becomes concerned about his behavior after her son leads her into saying “six-seven” multiple times, then laughs so hard he throws up for “six or seven” nights in a row. She brings him a doctor, who cannot find the source of his “illness.” Thiel then zeroes in on Cartman because he is “more possessed” than the other kids. He goes into Cartman’s bedroom and, upon seeing how much Cartman throws up whenever he hears the numbers “six or seven,” declares he must take Cartman to DC That’s where Towelie is at the moment, so it looks like we just might get a reunion.
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