Fans praise ‘best in the world’ writers after Harry and Meghan get the full South Park treatment as the Prince and Princess of Canada who demand ‘privacy’ during a worldwide tour to promote his autobiography ‘Waaagh’
- South Park’s ‘The World-Wide Privacy Tour’ episode yesterday featured a Canadian prince and his wife, taking shots at the Duke and Duchess of Sussex
- The pair ‘try to find privacy and seclusion in a small mountain town’, but their loud demands for privacy and campaign to sell their books annoys the locals
Fans and critics alike took to social media to respond to South Park’s latest satire on the Duke and Duchess of Sussex.
Creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone’s follows a young royals the Prince and Princess of Canada flying around the world on a Global Privacy Tour to promote his book ‘Aaargh’
The couple finally settle in the quiet town of South Park, Colorado, where they upset the locals with their loud requests to be left alone, and the story ends as the prince rejects a rebranding exercise and chooses instead to live ‘a normal life’ without magazines and Netflix shows.
South Park’s creators have published controversial satire since 1997. The duo’s animation has taken aim at a mix of targets, including major and minor religions, pop singers, Republican and Democrat presidents, climate change activism and climate change denial.
Following the release of Wednesday’s episode, many were quick to publish their reactions online, saying even 25 years on the show ‘has the best writers in the game by far!’
The prince and princess are seen deciding to flee Canada, after ‘bashing’ the monarchy
The latest South Park aired on Comedy Central on Wednesday taking aim at Harry and Meghan
The episode focused on a red-headed prince and his wife from Canada who become frustrated with public attention after a family feud.
The show has used Canada as a stand-in for other countries before. In Season Nineteen, the new Canadian President – who carries more than a resemblance to Donald Trump – looks to build a huge border wall to keep the Americans out.
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As Kyle’s adopted Canadian brother, Ike, cries over the death of the Queen of Canada, the royal couple are booed at the funeral by other royals because they have been ‘bashing the Canadian monarchy’.
The episode follows the couple as they lobby for their privacy on daytime television and ultimately moving to South Park, where the prince has a realization that self-branding has made him into a product.
The show attracted new viewers who said ‘I have never ever heard of this show till now but THIS is hilarious! They summed up exactly how we all see this annoying duo.’
A former watcher who said they had got bored with South Park ‘years ago’ said they might watch the controversial episode, ‘which, [by the way] is precisely why Trey and Matt did a Harry and Meghan episode,’ they said.
‘They will ruthlessly mock anything.’
‘It just means [Harry and Meghan] are famous enough to draw viewers.
South Park is notorious for going after figures from popular culture.
While some recent seasons have toyed with ‘themes’, ridiculing political correctness, gentrification and advertising among other topics, the show has generally been very broad in who and what it satirizes over the past 26 seasons.
Routine portrayals of the Mormons – the creators also wrote hit show ‘The Book of Mormon’ – have drawn criticism from members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
The portrayal of different religious and social communities has drawn wide backlash from across the political spectrum for many years.
While many fans enjoyed the narrative, others had less positive reactions.
One viewer, who says they have been a fan since the debut in 1997, said the show was not a ‘tribute’ but ridicule of Harry and Meghan.
Another questioned the satire itself, saying the creators were ‘just grasping at straws’.
Somebody gave a more average review of the episode at ‘6 out of 10’.
The original tweet from South Park was viewed 265.1k times and liked 3,823 times.
A Twitter user said that Twitter was allowing targeted harassment by related accounts dedicated to targeting the couple.
Below, MailOnline has included a run down of the key moments, for better or for worse.
Prince and Princess of Canada attend Queen’s funeral despite family feud
The episode opens with Kyle’s younger brother Ike, adopted from Canada, inconsolable at the news that the Queen of Canada – who resembles the late Queen Elizabeth II – is dead.
The Prince and Princess of Canada are seen at a large state funeral, where they are booed by the rest of the royal family, accused of bashing the Canadian monarchy.
The episode begins as the Prince and Princess of Canada attend the Queen of Canada’s funeral. The late monarch bears a striking resemblance to Queen Elizabeth II
South Park’s cartoon couple may be fictional, but they are undeniably inspired by the Sussexes
Couple appear on TV show demanding a right to privacy
Against the backlash, the couple appear on breakfast television to demand their privacy.
Arriving on the set of Good Morning Canada with a book to promote, the prince holds aloft a placard reading ‘We want privacy’, while the princess’s banner reads: ‘Stop looking at us.’
The host asks the prince: ‘So you hate journalists?’
‘That’s right,’ he replies.
The host then asks whether, in reporting on the royal family for his new book, ‘Waaagh’, he has now become a journalist himself, despite hating them.
‘We just want to be normal people – all this attention is so hard,’ the prince replies.
The couple are challenged by the host who questions how sincerely they want privacy, and the royals storm off the set.
The prince and princess arrive on the set of Good Morning Canada to boos, holding aloft placards
The prince of Canada has written a memoir, entitled: ‘Waaagh’
They embark on worldwide ‘we want privacy’ tour while shouting at bemused locals – and kangaroos
The couple board their private jet, and embark on a worldwide ‘we want privacy’ tour – complete with dancing rainbows and a catchy theme tune.
They visit France and India where they chant their pro-privacy slogans to bemused locals – and even a field of kangaroos during a pit stop in Australia.
The prince and princess tick off US states where they try to settle – at one point landing in Colorado, where the princess holds aloft a megaphone at a police cordon, chanting: ‘We want privacy’.
Deciding Canada has no future for them, the prince and princess embark on a ‘worldwide privacy tour’
The couple board their private jet, still holding their placards reading: ‘Stop looking at us!’ and ‘We want our privacy!!’
In Paris bemused locals look on as the couple chant: ‘We want our privacy!!’
They move into South Park ‘for privacy’
Eventually they land in South Park.
‘Look at this town! There’s just something about it,’ says the prince, standing on a hill overlooking the snowy scene.
‘If we moved here, people would think we’re really serious about wanting to be normal.’
A private jet then pulls up at their new house – which is opposite Kyle’s home.
The royals clash with Kyle by drawing attention to themselves with a bullhorn, lights, and fireworks while he’s trying to sleep.
The pair do not immediately get on well with their new neighbours. As their furniture, including a drum kit, is carried in the prince sits on the lawn playing the drums.
‘Hey you! What are you looking at? Haven’t you ever heard of privacy?’ yells the prince, when Kyle peers out at his new neighbours.
At school, Kyle complains to his Cartman, Stan and Kenny about the new arrivals.
‘They have this huge jet parked in front of my house and they keep on wanting me to buy their book,’ he says.
The pair hang banners above their house demanding privacy, and hold loud parties on their lawn with fireworks.
‘Why are we so mad today? Because we want our privacy,’ the prince shouts.
When the prince begins playing polo on the lawn, smashing Kyle’s window, the South Park local can’t take it any more. He rants to his school friends: ‘The prince plays drums all day – I don’t even think he has a job.
‘She just seems to boss him around.
‘Why did they even leave Canada anyway?’
Kyle’s friends tell him they have had enough of his complaining about the Canadian prince and princess.
‘I’m sick of hearing about them!’ Kyle says.
‘I can’t get away from them! They are in my f****** face!’
The prince and princess move into a house opposite Kyle, and soon make their presence known
The pair stage noisy privacy protests, their house festooned with a banner reading: ‘Leave us alone’
Royals paper the outside of Kyle’s house with magazine covers of the Princess’ face
Kyle wakes one morning and finds the house has been covered with magazines featuring the princess.
They include a cover strongly resembling that of The Cut magazine after it ran a cover interview with Meghan last summer.
When Kyle confronts the royals, the princess yells: ‘He victimized me!’
The prince springs to his wife’s defense.
‘This is an outrage!’ he cries. ‘We’ll see how he deals with my blue penis!’
This appears to refer to a case of frostbite detailed in Harry’s autobiography, Spare.
Kyle arrives home to find his house plastered with magazine covers featuring the Princess of Canada after clashing with the couple. One appears to resemble a real-life cover of The Cut magazine that featured the Duchess of Sussex
Prince and Princess clash with Kyle at branding agency
The prince and princess turn to a crudely-named marketing agency for help protecting their privacy.
‘There’s this horrible spy who lives across the street from us,’ the prince explains.
The branding manager says he already has a file on the princess, which she created several years ago.
‘I have your brand already: Sorority girl, actress, influencer and victim,’ he tells her.
The prince’s brand is decided as: ‘Royal prince, millionaire, world traveler, victim.’
Across the street, the Prince and Princess of Canada can be seen peering through a window as Kyle takes in their handiwork
Prince appears to leave wife after declaring that he wants real privacy – only for her to remain silent about his wish
The prince, inside the agency, suddenly has a lightbulb moment and realizes that he doesn’t want to be a brand.
‘Trying to make ourselves into a brand just turned us into products,’ the Canadian prince declares.
‘No more magazines and Netflix shows, we can just live a normal life!’
He stands to leave, and walks towards the door – but his wife remains inside the branding company.
‘Come on honey, we don’t need this place!’ he says. ‘Honey?’
The prince leaves alone.
Kyle rejoins his friends, who invite him out to play.
The prince then arrives, and asks if he can play too.
He brings out his drum kit.
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