{"id":631091,"date":"2026-10-15T05:40:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-15T05:40:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/631091\/"},"modified":"2026-10-15T05:40:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-15T05:40:09","slug":"south-park-season-29-episode-3-brings-aura-battles-to-south-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/631091\/","title":{"rendered":"‘South Park’ Season 29: Episode 3 Brings Aura Battles to South America"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tIn the third episode of \u201cSouth Park<\/a>\u201d Season 29, the gang gets stuck in Sephora\u2019s \u201cBackroom,\u201d Stan\u2019s dad shrinks himself using products from the beauty chain and aura battles take over South America<\/a> (the newly named mountain town), meaning internet lingo like \u201cmogging,\u201d \u201cmaxxing\u201d and \u201cmewing\u201d (along with \u201cchad,\u201d \u201ccringe\u201d and \u201crizz\u201d) are plentiful.<\/p>\n

\n\tIn the episode, titled \u201cYou Like That On Your Face,\u201d Kyle must try to help his little brother, Ike, win his live-streamed aura battle at school against Chad, though his concern over the practice means he isn\u2019t of much assistance. (Kyle calls aura battling and looksmaxxing a \u201cbad combination.\u201d)<\/p>\n

\n\tBut it\u2019s Ike\u2019s lucky day as Cartman steps up to help him prepare. \u201cI\u2019m sure that deep down your brother wants to help. Okay? Maybe he just he just doesn\u2019t know how,\u201d says Cartman while comforting Ike ahead of the battle. \u201cIf I had a little brother, he\u2019d be my special little guy.\u201d So, Cartman takes Ike to Sephora, which the kids of South Park have overrun, to pick up some products to help. (It\u2019s a nod to the ongoing joke that tweens spend ages in the beauty store; \u201cSomething not right in there,\u201d says a man sitting in front of the store. \u201cMy granddaughter wanted to go to Brandy Melville. Then she asked if she could just stop in the Sephora. That was six and a half years ago. There\u2019s something in there men can\u2019t understand.\u201d)<\/p>\n

\n\tBut while Cartman and Ike are in Sephora, they get enticed into going into the backrooms with an employee, which look straight out of Kane Parsons\u2019 horror film. Earlier in the episode, Stan wandered into the backrooms himself, so he knows how to get them both out before the aura battle begins. All the effort to get them out was for naught, though, because Ike doesn\u2019t win the battle \u2014 Stan\u2019s dad, Randy (who is now the size of his son after going to Sephora and thus is forced to enroll back in school) does beat up Ike\u2019s opponent, though, meaning his looksmaxxed face is no longer.<\/p>\n

\n\tThis episode notably lacked any nod to Trump, though mentions of the president as a whole have been brief compared to the previous season, when the president was the show\u2019s focal point for absurd antics. Some examples include plot points like JD Vance seducing Donald Trump<\/a> in order to dodge punishment for trying to kill his unborn baby with Satan, among a long list of others.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe premiere episode of the show, which aired last month, centered around Cartman, Stan, Kyle and Kenny\u2019s newfound love of e-bikes, while the second episode<\/a> was a full-on phallic fest as Butters set out to rid South America<\/a> of \u201cbillionaire weenies\u201d \u2014 which, as it turns out, are literal penises \u2014 and their data centers that are affecting the area\u2019s electricity. The episode also went in on anti-vaxxers, as Butters\u2019 parents blame his anti-billionaire and AI beliefs on the measles vaccine he got. \u201cI knew what that vaccination would do to him because I listened to podcasts,\u201d yelled his dad. \u201cBut you couldn\u2019t take time out of your precious day to listen to podcasts, could you? And now your son is a libtard.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tWith Season 29, creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone are going full steam ahead with the \u201cSouth America\u201d name change, which was announced earlier this month ahead of the Season 29 premiere. The premiere \u2014 the first episode since taking on the name \u201cSouth America\u201d \u2014 hit 4.2 million viewers in three days, as previously reported by Variety<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In the third episode of \u201cSouth Park\u201d Season 29, the gang gets stuck in Sephora\u2019s \u201cBackroom,\u201d Stan\u2019s dad…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":631092,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[156,111,139,69,23813,27811,437],"class_list":["post-631091","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-entertainment","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-south-america","tag-south-park","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/631091","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=631091"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/631091\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/631092"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=631091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=631091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=631091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}