'South Park' Declares War on Billionaires — Literally — in Season 29's Second Episode

'South Park' — now officially 'South America' — spent its second episode of Season 29 exterminating billionaires, and it rendered them as literal penises.

Trey Parker and Matt Stone's latest installment, which follows a premiere that drew 4.2 million viewers in three days, sends Butters on a campaign against what he calls 'billionaire weenies' after their data centers begin disrupting the one thing that keeps him calm: Dr. Pimple Popper videos.

The premise is blunt. Data centers built in Butters' backyard knock out his television's power, making his relaxation videos unwatchable. 'And you know why our electricity went out? Because of the goddamn billionaires that are building data centers right in our backyards,' Butters yells. 'All these little weenie billionaires do is suck up all our resources and leave us with nothing.'

The anti-vax subplot

While Butters mobilizes the town, his parents diagnose his anti-billionaire, anti-AI convictions as a side effect of the measles vaccine he received to attend school. 'I knew what that vaccination would do to him because I listened to podcasts,' his father shouts. 'But you couldn't take time out of your precious day to listen to podcasts, could you? And now your son is a libtard.'

The joke folds two cultural flashpoints into one household argument: the podcast-driven vaccine skepticism that surged during the Trump era, and the friction between AI infrastructure and ordinary consumers — data centers across the country are straining local power grids, a concern the episode literalizes through a child's interrupted streaming.

Weenies with a PR problem

The billionaires, it turns out, really are weenies — and they have their own governance issues. Some have grown too visible, appearing on Joe Rogan's podcast among other platforms. 'Now that we are growing so rapidly, we must be careful,' the leader of the weenies says. 'There are so many of us billionaires now; we might be starting to annoy people. That's why I talked before about the importance of not drawing attention to ourselves.'

When Butters calls an exterminator to remove the billionaire colony and its data center, the exterminator identifies the species: 'This is some new strain of billionaire. They like to go on podcasts and get into public arguments with Mark Ruffalo.'

The weenies' solution to their reputational crisis is buying the local news media — 'as any good billionaire should.' The lead weenie's frustration is specific: 'But now, can someone tell me who went out and got in a public argument with Macklemore? God damn it, we had it figured out. I bought the news so we can make us seem nicer, and then some little penis decided Macklemore needed a good talking to… Nobody cares what you think about Macklemore.'

The Macklemore line lands as a jab at Robert Kraft, the billionaire New England Patriots owner who made headlines earlier this month for what amounted to a ban on the rapper performing at several stadiums while touring with Ed Sheeran.

Trump closes the show

No episode would be complete without a Trump cameo, and this one arrives in the final seconds. The president sits down on the toilet, listening to recordings of his own speeches, when his own billionaire weenie flies out of his unzipped pants.

The 'South America' era begins

Parker and Stone appear committed to the show's name change, announced earlier this month ahead of the Season 29 premiere. The rebrand from 'South Park' to 'South America' parodies Trump's own renaming push — Lake Ontario as Lake America, New Mexico as New America, and the Gulf of Mexico as the Gulf of America.

The premiere's 4.2 million viewers over three days suggests the audience has followed the show through its rebrand. With episode two, 'South America' has made its target list explicit: tech wealth, media consolidation, vaccine conspiracies and the president himself — all in one 22-minute package.