Just about a year ago, ‘South Park’ creators reach $1.5-billion streaming deal with Paramount.

So yeah, that's fuck you levels of money.

Most people refer to "fuck you money" as enough money to be able to say "fuck you" to anyone. They're a little bit different in that they started off by saying "fuck you" to anyone, and then got obscenely rich by doing that.

At this point they could absolutely live off the residuals from Baseketball or Orgasmo and still be just fine with what they've got in the bank.

Yeah, they signed a deal for $2b guaranteed (as in, even if the show got cancelled tomorrow, they'd still get paid in full) and probably with some great if not total protections against censorship.

It's the kind of deal that no sane TV exec would agree to (especially with the likes of Parker & Stone), but I guess the execs just wanted the show THAT much.

And they're taking great advantage of those loose if even existent reins! ✊🏻😄

This has been their thing for decades now!

I don’t really like South Park but I have always respected their level of “fuck you.” As an example, they went to the Oscars on acid in 2000.

You don’t have to have money to say fuck you, just an appropriate level of contempt.

I think they’d be doing this anyway.

about 1.5bn worth of it.

Trey and Matt each have at least a billion in wealth, so yes.

Fuck Yeah

I mean Team America is a solid satire until it ends in an unironic endorsement of US imperialism.

Holy crap that would be incredibly. Perfect name too.

only if the show is running for office. given the current supreme court don't be surprised if a television show is soon allowed to do that. corporations are people after all, why wouldn't a television show be?

The other day, I commented that I couldn't tell if the headline that Trump wanted to change New Mexico to New America was real or satire. And reading this headline, I also couldn't tell if it was real or satire.

Although, South Park is satire, so I guess them doing it is... both real and satire?

Yeah this is how the internet has been functioning as of late.

Idiots have always taken South Park at face value, rather than realising they’re the ones it’s making fun of. That’s the nature of satire. You can’t fix stupid.