In the Season 25 Premiere of South Park, All Hell Breaks Loose on Pajama Day
South Park returned to Comedy Central on Wednesday for its 25th season, two years, four specials, and an entire pandemic later. “What time is it?” is all we have to ask. “It’s time to put on your pajamas!” “What is this, Nazi Germany?” is another question.
Mr. Garrison’s attempt to casually date two boys at the same time without Marcus, the “narcissistic monster,” finding out about his new crush Rick, became tragic when the youngsters refused to assist him to cover up his affair. PC Principal did the unimaginable by canceling pajama day for their whole class as a punishment for ignoring their instructor, who gives them all he has (!!!).
“We don’t seem to do anything wrong, yet we keep being fed!” “It’s just part of being a child these days,” Cartman stated, to which Butters depressingly replied. (Tragic!) “Fortune favors the bold,” as Matt Damon’s absurd bitcoin ad puts it, so the youngsters refused to give up. Unfortunately, PC Principal remained unmoved, telling the students that it is his responsibility to make choices and stick by them, prompting fascist chants. (“This school smells like a Nazi concentration camp!”)
Mr. Mackey urged the PC Principal not to fight Pajama Day (“It’s like the Met Gala for kids!”), but he refused to change his mind. Mrs. Cartman also confronted PC Principal on his choice, fearing for her son’s safety if he attended school in ordinary clothing on Pajama Day (“He may die!”), but she went rogue and made the issue much worse.
In protest of the school’s fascist anti-PJ policy, all of the adults in South Park began wearing pajamas all the time. It was now “Pajama Time” all the time, with a tune that would certainly be stuck in our heads for the next several days. You know you want to hear this, so go ahead and do it:
But, just as in real life, this blatant mask metaphor rapidly spun out of hand, no matter how cozy-wozy or comfy-womfy it was. Because he didn’t want to wear pajamas to work, a realtor was referred to as a “redneck gun-toting piece of s—t” by one of his coworkers. And at IHOP, customers couldn’t order a Rooty Tooty Fresh and Fruity unless they were dressed in pajamas, producing one of my favorite recent lines: “So I have to be comfy-womfy to get a Rooty Tooty Fresh and Fruity?!”
After a few dubious options — including Butters’ offer to shoot up the school, which Cartman only rejected because it’s been “done a lot” — the boys and girls opted on Wendy’s plan to just apologize to Mr. Garrison. Regrettably, saying it was simpler than doing it. Mr. Garrison blew his top all over again when he noticed the students weren’t paying attention to his update on the Rick/Marcus dilemma (“Does anybody remember what I said when Rick held me tight?!?”).
The settlement was quickly demolished. PC Principal finally broke down when Wendy confronted him on Pajama Day (against the muffled sounds of gunfire and screams). He explained to her that he had always wanted to be a principal because a principle is “something you see as a fundamental truth.” But, because he was clearly wrong about everything, he agreed to allow the students to wear pajamas to class and planned to resign. Wendy suggested that he didn’t have to resign and that people might respect him more if he publicly changed his mind (“Sometimes admitting you’re wrong is the strongest thing you can do”), but he wouldn’t consider it.
PC Principal then had an epiphany. This is a terrible thought. PC Principal came up with a brilliant but terrible idea. Mr. Mackey was completely thrown under the bus when he informed the entire school that it was actually Opposite Day due to a scheduling error. “Anything you’ve been told to do, you can now do the opposite,” he said, allowing the kids to stay in their pajamas without him having to publicly admit his change of heart.
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