South Park Gets Labubu Fever, And Butters Pays The Price — Plus, Trump And Satan Did What?!
South Park took aim at President Donald Trump's sweeping global tariffs this week — in the form of some cuuuuute Labubu dolls.
The girls at school are crazy about the trendy dolls, even getting into fist fights if someone dares to accuse them of having a fake Labubu (or "Lafufu," for the uninitiated). Butters gets a surprise invite to a birthday party for a girl named Red, and she has a very specific gift request: a rare Labubu. Butters goes to the Asian pop-up store — which is actually the old City Wok — and he learns that he needs to buy a mystery box, not knowing what Labubu is inside. Plus, the box is $85, because of tariffs. ("You think I pay tariff?" the City Wok owner laughs. "No no no, you pay tariff!") Butters buys one... but it's not the right Labubu inside. Aw, hamburgers.
Speaking of tariffs: Trump returns from his tariff summit overseas with Satan in tow... but all the reporters want to know is if the two of them are, um, intimate. ("We're just sort of hanging out," Satan insists.) Back at school, Jesus is the new counselor, and he asks the faculty to explain the Labubu craze to him. They tell him it's just a fad, and show him a TikTok where a young girl unboxes her new Labubu... and then uses it in a Satanic blood ritual. Um, OK? The teachers are unfazed, though, and when Jesus tries to talk to the girls' moms, they ignore his advice. He doesn't even have kids!
Butters goes back to the Asian pop-up with his full piggy bank of $88, but now the Labubu mystery box costs $120. ("Tariff went up!") The City Wok guy points him to the claw machine, where he can try to grab a Labubu, but he can't even grasp a single box. While Fox News continues to wonder if Trump is sleeping with Satan — they think it's great if he is; they're just asking — Jesus confronts the City Wok guy about the cursed dolls he's selling. Butters doesn't mind, though: He got the right Labubu! He rushes over to Red's birthday party before Jesus can stop him. Meanwhile, at the White House, Satan is moping because he wants to leave Trump, but he can't... and he blames it on whatever is inside the scary box he's carrying around.
When Butters arrives at Red's party, she rips the gift out of his hands and screams when she sees the rare Labubu inside, hugging him and telling him, "I love you, Butters!" She even invites him to come upstairs with her and "do it" — but she means perform a dark ritual to summon demons. Butters films the girls as they sacrifice a live chicken and chant, opening a portal through which demonic forces arise... and that includes Trump and Satan. Jesus gets there just in time to command Satan to leave this town, but Satan says he's bound to Trump because of what's in his box. He admits that he and Trump are together, and he can't leave... because he's pregnant! Yep, inside his box is a positive pregnancy test.
Fox News' science expert is befuddled (he theorizes that Satan must be having a "butt baby"), and Kid Rock is sobbing... tears of joy, actually. Jesus lays down the law at school, banning Labubus along with TikTok and cell phones, but forget all that: We kind of need to know how this whole pregnancy storyline plays out.
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