Greater than 25 years in the past, South Park: Larger, Longer & Uncut was launched to nice fanfare. Among the finest elements of the film was its soundtrack, which included the Oscar-nominated unique quantity “Blame Canada.”
Again then, the track’s lyrics had been fully farcical, as the connection between the USA and Canada wasn’t ever actually in query prefer it was within the film. Now, although, within the wake of Donald Trump‘s tariff-driven commerce struggle with the U.S.’s northern neighbor, the tune takes on a brand new which means… and South Park‘s creatives know that higher than anybody.
Comedy Central launched the trailer for Season 27 of the long-running grownup animated collection, which can premiere on July 9. In it, the present teases a whole lot of political and popular culture commentary bits forward, from the Statue of Liberty being taken down by the French to Sean “Diddy” Combs becoming a member of Starvin’ Marvin in area to planes crashing in all places.
The teaser additionally options a military of Canadians marching on to struggle — presumably with the U.S. After Randy Marsh makes a thinly-veiled joke about Elon Musk (saying, “I’m simply gonna do some ketamine and f**okay round with the federal government a little bit,” as a reference to his reported use of the drug and, after all, his controversial tenure heading DOGE), a well-recognized chorus performs: “Blame Canada.”
Followers had been fast to level out the appropriateness of the track selection.
“I rewatched the south park film from 1999 the opposite day and was laughing at how oddly related Blame Canada is right this moment. So humorous that they introduced it again within the trailer,” one fan noticed.
One other fan commented on the stylistic sarcasm that got here with utilizing a slower rendition of the track’s hook, writing, “I genuinely love the way in which they put the dramatic Blame Canada cowl over all this as a result of I’m so sick of the present Hollywood films at all times taking a 20+ yr outdated pop track and placing all these pauses and dramatic notes on them.”
“Blame Canada as a track for this teaser simply matches so nicely with this yr good lord lmao,” one consumer wrote. “‘BLAME CANADA’ gave me Goosebumps,” wrote one other fan.
“Diddy, Canadians, Planes and ketamine? Yeah I’ll be there,” one particular person wrote.
South Park, Season 27 premiere, July 9, Comedy Central