Someone linked this imageboard post (spoilers & video clips) where a poster summarizes the Season 22 episodes Unfulfilled and the sequel Bike Parade.

The episode is about Amazon dominating their town, with Bezos being the villain. They do the whole A plot, B plot thing and so there are some slow and eh parts, but what makes this episode really surprising is there are whole sections where they quickly summarize Marxist class theory with no real criticism or making fun of it, like some of their soapbox moments. It’s not even said in academic language like ‘bourgeoisie’ and ‘proletariat’, it’s simple, calm, blunt explanation about how the owning class exploit workers.

South Park, a notoriously contrarian US Libertarian-preaching show, uncritically platformed Marxist ideas at length. [snip] The episode commentary for Unfulfilled has Matt Stone saying “the really big thing which Trey was super excited about was I really wanted to do a lesson about Marxist economics and Marxist critiques of capitalism”. The commentary also suggests the stuffing of Josh in a box might be an intentional metaphor for the dehumanization of workers.

They’re probably not going to be great episodes for entertainment or plot but I think this unexpected turn is enough to deserve a review.

(Tagging @AnarchoBolshevik@lemmygrad.ml)