Why The Penis Needed Eyes: South Park Makes a 1.5 Billion Dollar Joke | SDCC 2025

South Park creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone have had a helluva week. After signing a 1.5 billion dollar deal with Paramount for the new season and streaming rights for their long running animated show, the new season premiered with a news-cycle-destroying episode which included a joke about President Donald Trump’s penis. IGN’s Brian Altano, Clint Gage and Publisher John Davison talk about how the creators got around blurring the tiny “First Member,” how this fits in with South Park’s craziest moments, and the role Stephen Colbert and The Late Show played in a weiner joke at the center of a deal worth billions of dollars.What did you think of the “Trump’s tiny penis” joke? What are the most offensive moments in South Park and does the new episode qualify?