‘South Park’ Gives FCC Chair Explosive Diarrhea in New Episode After Kimmel Drama

South Park is back on the air one week after Jimmy Kimmel Live! was put on indefinite hiatus (and eventually brought back). And, it didn’t play it safe when addressing Federal Communications Commission (FCC) chairman Brendan Carr.

The Wednesday, Sept. 24 episode, titled “Conflict of Interest” — the latest season 27 offering — continued the storyline of South Park‘s fictional President Donald Trump impregnating Satan, except this time the former reality star plotted to get rid of their unborn child by various means.

Each time, however, resulted in Carr being humiliated in one way or another as he accidentally got caught in traps set by the president: Falling down a slippery staircase, having diarrhea that sent him flying around the White House lawn after eating Trump’s Plan B concoction and ultimately, being hospitalized after he was infected with Toxoplasmosis after Trump dumps cat liter on him. The latter nearly cost Carr his “freedom of speech,” too.

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The Comedy Central staple’s latest episode marked the show’s first one back since the ABC-Jimmy Kimmel controversy, and Kimmel’s subsequent return to air following comments the host, 57, made about the death of right-wing political commentator Charlie Kirk.

On Sept. 17, a spokesperson for Disney’s ABC confirmed to PEOPLE that the late-night show was put on hiatus indefinitely after Kimmel’s comments about Kirk, who was fatally shot while speaking at a campus event at Utah Valley University on Sept. 10. Kimmel later returned to ABC on Tuesday, Sept. 23 — days after the real-life Carr commended the network’s move to pull the show.

South Park certainly had a response ready for Carr. The episode followed character Kyle Broflovski as his South Park Elementary classmates — and really, much of the fictional Colorado town — becomes obsessed with a new prediction market app where they can wager on real-time events. One in particular (about the possibility of Kyle’s mom striking a Palestinian hospital), left him frustrated enough to contact the app’s advisor (Donald Trump Jr.) before learning the FCC deals with the “offensive stuff.”

Meanwhile, Trump — who, in the last episode, revealed he was having a “butt baby” with Satan — realized welcoming a child was not for him after Vice President JD Vance informs him of the sacrifices he’d have to make.

The president then pulls all the stops to rid Satan of their child, including attempting to get him to fall down stairs, offering him a secret a Plan B stew recipe and trying to dump cat liter on top of him to infect him with Toxoplasmosis (which the CDC describes as a “parasitic disease commonly spread by eating contaminated food and can cause flu-like symptoms”). Unfortunately for Carr, he ends up continually falling into the traps of Trump, who even laughs at his unfortunate gaffs. “The FCC guy must have s—y ankles,” Trump says after the stair tumble.

While in the hospital toward the end of the episode, Carr learned he had Toxoplasmosis from “exposure to cat feces,” as doctors revealed the news to Vance. “Will the head of the FCC be OK, doctor,” Vance asked, holding a vase of flowers.

“His bones are healing so he may regain full range of morion,” the doctor responded. “But if the Toxoplasmosis parasite gets to his brain, I’m afraid he may lose his freedom of speech. We’ll do everything we can.”

Vance, who told Carr that he was “next in line to be president,” broke the news to the FCC chair that Trump’s baby “cannot” be born. “And if you continue to interfere, I will make things very difficult for you,” Vance said. “We can do this the easy way or we can do it the hard way.”

The episode wrapped with the bet about Kyle’s mom being removed from the app after he called up Trump Jr., while Kyle’s mom expressed her frustration (“It’s not Jews vs. Palestine, it’s Israel vs. Palestine”) and later headed to Israel to confront Benjamin Netanyahu in person.

The Kimmel controversy began when the comedian addressed the shooting death of Kirk in his Sept. 15 monologue, when he said that “the MAGA gang desperately trying to characterize this kid who murdered Charlie Kirk as anything other than one of them and doing everything they can to score political points from it.”

“In between the finger-pointing, there was grieving,” he said, before showing a clip of Trump being asked by a reporter how he was doing amid Kirk’s death. In response, Trump said “very good” before changing the subject to the construction of the new ballroom at the White House.

“Yes, he’s at the fourth stage of grief: construction,” Kimmel joked.

Following Kirk’s death and before the monologue, Kimmel also addressed the “horrible and monstrous” killing of Kirk on social media. “Instead of the angry finger-pointing, can we just for one day agree that it is horrible and monstrous to shoot another human?” he wrote at the time. “On behalf of my family, we send love to the Kirks and to all the children, parents and innocents who fall victim to senseless gun violence.”

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In a statement, Nexstar Media, the largest local broadcast and digital media company in the U.S, shared that it “strongly objects to recent comments made by Mr. Kimmel concerning the killing of Charlie Kirk and will replace the show with other programming in its ABC-affiliated markets.”

The company recently announced plans to acquire rival broadcast company Tegna for $6.2 billion, putting Nexstar in 80% of America’s TV-owning households, per a press release. The acquisition will require final approval from the Trump-controlled Federal Communications Commission.

Carr commended Nexstar for pressuring ABC to pull Kimmel’s show off the air, posting on X that “it is important for broadcasters to push back on Disney programming that they determine falls short of community values.”

Kimmel later returned to ABC on Tuesday, sharing that he “never imagined I’d be in a situation like this” and commending conservative figures who backed his freedom of speech during the show’s hiatus.

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The new South Park episode comes after series creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone announced there would be no new episode airing on Sept. 17, one day before the decision about Kimmel was made public.

“Apparently when you do everything at the last minute sometimes you don’t get it done,” the pair said in a joint statement about their 27th season. “This one’s on us. We didn’t get it done in time. Thanks to Comedy Central and South Park fans for being so understanding. Tune in next week!”

The move followed Comedy Central’s pulling reruns of season 27 episode “Got A Nut” — which premiered prior to Kirk’s death and featured character Eric Cartman adopting his mannerisms. The episode remained available to stream on both Paramount+ and CC On Demand.

New installments of South Park are expected to air on Comedy Central every other week from Oct. 15 through Dec. 10.