South Park’s recent episode called the “Post COVID” special mocks a future where the only currency accepted is bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies. The hour-long animated sitcom picks up years into the future where the main characters are now all grown up, except Kenny McCormick who is dead.
Stan pays for an overnight stay at the “Super 12 Motel Plus” in the future using Bitcoin
The popular television sitcom South Park featured on Comedy Central has been extremely well known in today’s pop culture since Trey Parker and Matt Stone created the series in 1997. Over the past 24 years, the animated sitcom has aired over 300 episodes and more recently Stan Marsh, Kyle Broflovski, Eric Cartman and Kenny McCormick have dealt with an interesting world. In the latest episode titled “Post COVID,” Stan, who is now an online whiskey consultant, learns from Kyle that Kenny has passed away.
When Stan decides to go to Kenny’s funeral services, he spends his stay at the Super 12 Motel Plus and is greeted by a clerk who explains Stan booked one of the motel’s Mach 10 Super Plus rooms. “Now of course we only take bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies,” the motel clerk says to Stan. “Because… ya know — It’s the future — we’ve all decided centralized banking is rigged so we trust more in fly-by-night Ponzi schemes,” the Super 12 Motel Plus clerk added. “Yeah, I know,” Stan sighs and hands the clerk a card bearing the bitcoin logo on it with a QR code.
Bitcoin has been featured on TV since 2012
Bitcoin has been featured in a number of TV series episodes over the past decade and in various settings. This year, bitcoin was mentioned in the Marvel Cinematic Universe action drama TV show “The Falcon and the Winter Soldier”. Bitcoin has been featured several times in the American comedy drama series “Shameless”. The main crypto asset was also mentioned twice on the American game show Jeopardy.
Before South Park, bitcoin appeared on the shows “Parks and Recreation,” “Mr. Robot,” “Morgan Spurlock Inside Man,” “Navy CIS LA,” “Almost Human,” “House of Cards,” and “The Big Bang Theory.” Bitcoin’s first mention on television was on an episode of “The Good Wife” in 2012 and Krusty the Clown from “The Simpsons” mentioned the cryptocurrency the following year.
