Overview
- The Season 28 installment aired Wednesday and centered its satire on generative-AI deepfakes and their real-world consequences.
- Viewers flooded social media with shock and disgust, sharing clips and saying the episode left them uncomfortable or 'traumatized.'
- White House spokesperson Taylor Rogers dismissed the program as irrelevant for 'over 20 years' in an official statement.
- The narrative framed deepfakes as tools for both fabricating damaging content and providing plausible deniability for compromising footage.
- Cameos of family favorites like Bluey and Totoro drew separate criticism, while Parker and Stone reiterated that politics has become pop culture and more episodes are slated through December.