On Wednesday night, for the second evening in a row, I cleared my schedule to watch the latest installment of a linear TV broadcast that was neither an awards show nor live sports. Tuesday had been Jimmy Kimmel Live! on the occasion of his return from suspension; Wednesday was South Park . There was intrigue around the new episode. After a blistering opening run to the season where the show drew new relevance for directly skewering the Trump administration — complete with giving the president the Saddam Hussein treatment, not to mention a micro-penis — it drifted into tricky territory in the wake of Charlie Kirk’s September 10 assassination . The second episode from August 6, “Got a Nut,” satirized Kirk, casting Eric Cartman as a Kirk-style campus debater right down to the coiffed

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