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‘South Park’ Serves Up a Steaming Pile of Beef Satire — and a ‘GTA VI’ Sneak Peek

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South Park returned to Comedy Central on Wednesday with a fresh episode t hat was full of shit, quite literally, as the cost of inflation, elite food trends, and President Trump’s recent tariff pause on beef became the unexpected topics skewered by the Emmy-winning, long-running animated show. But maybe more importantly, the episode featured new footage from the year’s most anticipated release, Grand Theft Auto VI .

The reveal came as the boys from South America (née South Park) visited a cattle ranch, where Ruth Chris, a character introduced here who is not an actual person but looks an awful lot like Ruth’s Chris Steakhouse founder Ruth Fertel, gives them a preview of “what’s coming in November.” (Recall that the release of GTA VI next month is the metaphor Trey Parker and Matt Stone are drawing for the upcoming midterm elections.) The footage shows main character Jason Duval fighting a man on Vice Beach and involves a bag of dog crap that here, perhaps, represents partisan politics.

“Look at that, the…

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