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ChatGPT found itself in South Park‘s crosshairs in the third episode of its 27th season, “Sickofancy.” The way the long-running Comedy Central series depicted the AI chatbot has seemingly changed peoples’ opinions of it.
In the South Park episode, Randy Marsh turns to ChatGPT to help him with his marijuana business after Donald Trump’s mass deportations knee-cap the operation of his weed farm.
Randy becomes increasingly reliant on ChatGPT — laying in bed at night talking to it like he SHOULD BE doing with his wife Sharon — which praises him at every turn, eventually leading Sharon to begin speaking to him with ChatGPT vocabulary and cadence in order to get his attention back.
In a viral post, one Twitter user said that ChatGPT has become “unusable” since seeing the episode, which is a sentiment that many seem to agree with given its 5 million views on social media (at the time of this writing).
South Park‘s depiction of ChatGPT has changed peoples’ opinions of the AI chatbot
ChatGPT has been legitimately unusable for me since watching this
pic.twitter.com/9NcAHoZdJ6— SMB Attorney (@SMB_Attorney) August 27, 2025
“Seeing in real time the effects of social commentary in satirical television shows having an impact on the stupid public. Maybe we’re not completely doomed,” one viral response hopefully noted.
People have also started to use a South Park-driven test on ChatGPT by pitching it intentionally bad restaurant ideas to see how it responds. And it’s failing.
— Will Schwendimann (@Schwendipity) August 27, 2025
Bruh pic.twitter.com/iAn3cu07k8
— The Vestless VC (@VestlessVC) August 27, 2025
South Park has been as headline-grabbing as it was in its heyday in recent weeks, as it’s taken aim at massive topics such as the aforementioned mass deportations and AI boom, in addition to Donald Trump, JD Vance, Kristi Noem, Majorie Taylor-Green, Mark Zuckerberg, Tim Cook, Jeff Bezos, “wokeness”, the Epstein Files, the Trump administration’s manipulative use of Christianity, ICE, tech CEOs, and more.