‘South Park’s Season Premiere Is Already Inspiring Street Art
It’s been less than a week since South Park’s Season 27 premiere aired, and the relentlessly Trump-skewering episode has clearly made a big impact on the world. Although it somehow didn’t screw over Paramount’s $8 billion merger with Skydance Media. In addition to making worldwide headlines and eliciting a sternly-worded statement from the White House official tasked with commenting on Comedy Central cartoons, the episode has now inspired at least one street artist. And, depending on who you ask, it may have even killed a certain ex-pro wrestler and Mr. Nanny star.The image from the episode that’s become low-key iconic in just a matter of days is that of Trump in bed with Satan. While the scene tees up one of many jokes about Trump’s borderline microscopic junk, it also recreates the toxic dynamic between the Prince of Darkness and Saddam Hussein, as seen in South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut. And even though it’s been more than two decades, Satan still has that framed Skeet Ulrich portrait hanging above his bed, apparently.Mere days after the episode aired, Los Angeles residents noticed that someone had spray painted Trump and Satan’s bedtime tableau on the side of a building at East 4th Street and Los Angeles Street. Photos of the painting have been spreading online, with many folks celebrating the recreation of one of pop culture’s most brutal presidential roasts. The painting was seemingly the work of ZSORRYON, aka writer and artist Rod Benson.Benson has created a number of other pop-culture-themed street murals that similarly feature characters such as Super Mario, A Goofy Movie’s Max, Daria and Ramona Flowers from the Scott Pilgrim series.But the South Park-inspired painting is obviously a far more loaded statement. As GRAFF TV pointed out, “The scene mirrored the South Park episode, but this was no parody. This was protest. As hundreds of thousands of cars passed during the weekend commute, the message was unmistakable: L.A.’s criminal artists are watching and they’re not staying quiet,” adding that “while ICE raids continue to tear through Southern California, the city’s graffiti vandals have become its frontline messengers.”South Park characters appearing in works of street art isn’t a wholly new phenomenon, although the Trump/Satan painting is arguably a far more incendiary image than, say, Cartman turning into Garfield the cat for some reason. The mural popping up so soon after the episode aired, and quickly spreading on social media, also serves as further evidence that South Park isn’t totally irrelevant, as the White House’s Secretary of Cartoon Affairs claimed.
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