As if we hadn’t heard enough about “the Dumb Prince and His Stupid Wife” — not Cockburn’s words — now South Park has dedicated an entire episode to mocking them and their faux pleas for privacy.
Throughout the twenty-minute episode, the long-running animated comedy’s writers really stuck the sword into Harry and Meghan, who have found themselves the butt of many jokes after their Netflix documentary and Harry’s moany memoir Spare. Just last week at the Grammys, host Trevor Noah said that James Corden was “living proof that a man can move from London to LA and not tell everyone about his frostbitten penis.”
But in true South Park style — flapping heads, small black eyes and ludicrously over-the-top Canuck accents, eh? — they went a step further than to mock the prince for his private parts. Kyle delivered the most damning soliloquy during his quest to overhaul his “brand,” when he said, “This whole thing is wrong. They’re telling you guys to reduce yourself into products instead of people to be truly understood and loved. Don’t you guys want people to like you for you, instead of who they want you to be?”
“Look, we all have our faults. God knows I do. But if we just tried to present a controlled image of us for people to see, we’re just performers instead of human beings.”
The couple’s penchant for celeb talk shows was also addressed when they went on Good Morning Canada.
The host says to Harry, “You’ve had everything handed to you. But you’re saying your life has been hard and now you’ve written all about it in your new book Waaaagh.”
“Yes, that’s right.”
Meghan adds: “Yah, I just told him you should totally like write a book because your family is like stupid and so are like journalists.”
“So you hate journalists, right?” the host replies. “Now you wrote a book that reports on the lives of the royal family. Right? So you’re a journalist.”
The response: “We just want to be normal people.”
Throughout the episode, the Sussexes are presented as nightmare celebrity neighbors. They move across the street from Kyle for total “privacy.” Harry plays his drum kit in the front yard and sings songs about how he wants to be left alone and the pair let off fireworks. Swap the drum kit for a camera crew and it’s not far off.
After Kyle moans about his new neighbors to his friends, he is told that they are sick of hearing about them. And then comes the conversation that all of us have had over the last few months:
“We just kind of don’t care about some dumb prince and his stupid wife.”
Kyle claims, “I don’t care about them either.”
“So then why do you talk about them all the time? Dude, we’re just kind of sick of hearing about them.”
“I’m sick of hearing about them. But I can’t get away from them. They’re everywhere in my face.”
“Yeah, now you’re putting him in our face.”
“Fine. I won’t talk about them anymore.”
South Park‘s twenty-sixth season is airing on Comedy Central.
