In the latest special of South Park, “Joining the Panderverse,” writers Matt Stone and Trey Parker turned their sights to woke Disney, specifically producer Kathleen Kennedy – the current president of Disney-owned Lucasfilm.
The special is part of several exclusive Paramount+ South Park special episodes including “South Park: Post Covid,” “South Park: Post Covid: The Return of Covid,” “South Park the Streaming Wars,” and “South Park The Streaming Wars Part I.”
In the episode, a character portraying Kennedy delivers a long monologue to Cartman explaining how Disney became woke.
She says Bob Iger, the famed once-and-future CEO of the Disney corporation, took her to the “Disney Archives” and revealed to her the “Panderstone,” a purple gemstone with magical AI powers able to create “the same movies over and over again while appealing to absolutely everyone.”
JUST IN: New South Park episode blasts Disney and says all their movies “suck now” and specifically blames Lucasfilm president Kathleen Kennedy.
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“The Panderstone worked great—for a while,” Kennedy says, before launching into a lamentation about the hate mail that began to pour in from “racists” who were mad there were “diverse women characters in the lead.”
“I decided I would show them, I would make movies to defeat all the bigotry in our society. But instead of doing any real work, I turned to the Panderstone. It made things so much easier. Soon I was using the Panderstone over and over again to fight all the ugly feedback which in turn was growing stronger and stronger.”
She relates how the Panderstone grew too strong, which caused an adversarial interdimensional being to emerge from a portal which ejected Kennedy from her universe and into the South Park universe.
Cartman replies with a sigh: “That’s actually the best explanation I’ve heard as to why Disney movies all suck now.”
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Kennedy came to lead Lucasfilm when Lucas sold the company to Disney in 2012. Since then, it has released a trilogy of Star Wars films and numerous spinoff movies and TV shows set in the Star Wars universe. Many Star Wars fans accuse Kennedy’s leadership of being responsible for what they perceive as shameless pandering to unspoken diversity quotas regarding race, gender, and sexual orientation in Hollywood.
Kennedy has said recently that Disney intends to take Star Wars even further away from George Lucas’ original story in the future, and announced the character Rey from the new trilogy J. J. Abrams directed will be getting her own movie.
“And I think it offers just tremendous opportunity to introduce new characters and start with something fresh, because we culminated with what George [Lucas] was creating, and now we take all of that and move it to the next chapter,” she said.
While Lucas and Kennedy have retained an amicable relationship in the public eye, Lucas has complained in the past about Disney ruining his franchise and has indirectly expressed disappointment in Kennedy’s reinterpretation of the Star Wars universe. In a 2012 interview, they butted heads on the question of evil in Star Wars, and many fans took Lucas’ answer as him implicitly mocking Kennedy to her face.
Read Tom “the Biz Doc” Ellsworth’s case study on Disney and the return of Iger here or watch the full video below:
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