I watched the Harry-and-Meghan "South Park" episode

"South Park" has been around for 26 seasons. I stopped watching it regularly years ago, but my buddy Tom reminded me a long while back that the show is available online at SouthPark.cc.com. Despite knowing this, I never got back into the habit of watching the show which, truth be told, seems to have gotten staler over time. I don't hate the series, and I love the fact that it skewers any and all comers (creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone are libertarians; they take potshots at everybody). As a social project, I think "South Park" is awesome. As pure comedy, well... it's okay. It's long past its heyday. 

Nevertheless, given the recent brouhaha, I was curious to see the latest episode devoted to lampooning Prince Harry and his American wife Meghan Markle. The British public thinks Meghan is a witch who has essentially hypnotized Harry into becoming a royal-hater; the two have basically self-ostracized. They've done hundreds of TV interviews and toured around on different shows, all while unironically claiming that they only want privacy (while also claiming—and this comes mostly from Meghan—that the royal family is racist, as is a significant portion of the British public). "South Park" inevitably devoted an episode to parodying this ridiculous couple, and now, it appears the couple intends to "sue South Park" (which probably means suing Comedy Central) for the show's supposedly mean-spirited parody. Good luck with overcoming America's free-speech hurdle.

The episode dumps on both Harry and Meghan (including a hilarious moment with Harry's blue penis), but in the end, it takes the side of the British public by insinuating that Harry has a spark of good in him while Meghan is at bottom a soulless void, an attention whore through and through. (Near the end of the episode, Meghan is literally portrayed as utterly empty inside.) Various rightie commentators have called Meghan a "D-list actress who parlayed her way into the royal family," and I can see what they mean. As people pointed out after the Harry-Meghan Netflix documentary came out, Meghan lied about being awkward with curtsying when there's TV evidence that she was able to perform a perfect British curtsy for years. And it's hard to take seriously Meghan's accusations that she has suffered terribly from prejudice given her beauty (although, frankly, I don't find her that attractive). Harry, for his part, is guilty of being misguidedly loyal to this woman. If he were a better judge of character and had more of a spine, he'd be rid of her in a millisecond so he could be free to find a proper British woman instead of this garbage incarnation of all that's bad about America.

If Harry and Meghan are so sensitive that they feel the typical leftist need to stifle free speech, well, this doesn't help their case—it only confirms that they're the turds that everyone thinks they are. Meanwhile, if you want to watch the "South Park" episode, which is titled "The Worldwide Privacy Tour," just click here. Warning: there are, unfortunately, commercial interruptions. A lot of them.