SOUTH PARK SHOCKER! Eric Cartman replaced by Black woman

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Famed cartoon villain Eric Cartman gets replaced by a Black woman in an episode of South Park as the  satirical show takes on the forces of the woke.

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The animated show’s latest targets are now Disney and Star Wars for their often absurd social justice pandering.

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Of course, the whole sequence is simply a nightmare. Even when he wakes and his mother tries to comfort him, Cartman asks his mom to check under the bed for “Disney executives.”

Comedy Central teased the episode: “Cartman’s deeply disturbing dreams portend the end of the life he knows and loves.”

On the episode Friday that aired on Paramount+, called Joining the Panderverse, Cartman — a white fourth-grader — the character discovers he has been replaced on the show by a Black woman. Pals Stan Marsh, Kyle Broflovski, and Kenny McCormick are outraged.

But a lot of viewers — including Elon Musk — were left howling.

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Enter PC Principal who informs the boys: “If you boys don’t think Eric can be a Black woman, then maybe the problem is you.

“You probably don’t like that Indiana Jones got replaced by a female either, huh? You probably have a problem with Black Spider-Man, too.”

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The episode follows on the heels of the show mocking Prince Harry and Meghan Markle for their worldwide privacy tour.

Once clip shows Cartman talking to a psychiatrist claiming that he and his white friends are being replaced by a more diverse cast. Then he rages about Lucasfilm CEO Kathleen Kennedy.

“I wanna scream and I’m like, ‘Why are they replacing every single character with someone who is diverse? But then Kenny’s like, ‘It’s not our fault it’s ’cause of Kathleen Kennedy,’ but then Kathleen Kennedy’s just like, ‘F— it, make it more lame!’,” Cartman tells the shrink.

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He adds: “Disney stock just keeps going down and down and down and then Bob Iger (Disney CEO) is all like, ‘No! No! What’s going on with my stocks?”’

Disney recently shelved the $350 million live-action Snow White after test audiences complained that its rush into social justice fashion is destroying classic stories.

But in classic South Park fashion, the show also turns its guns on the right. While they are ripping Kennedy’s penchant for lazy woke casting, Cartman adds that  “constantly railing at woke stuff is pretty lazy, too.”

South Park, now in its 26th season, has long been the subject of complaints from the perpetually aggrieved. The show and its creators have been sued so many times that the creators told a podcast they “can’t even remember” the times they’ve faced legal action.

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