Comedy Central’s South Park has been focusing its attention on various of video gaming topics for the past month, targeting free-to-play mobile games and virtual reality tech like the Oculus Rift. That trend continues this week with the animated series’ take on Let’s Play videos, featuring a cameo from the most popular YouTube personality, PewDiePie.
South Park lampoons Let’s Play videos this week, guest stars PewDiePie
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In a promo for Wednesday’s episode of South Park, titled “#REHASH,” Eric Cartman publicizes his new streaming channel where he pledges to discuss Call of Duty. “More specifically, I’m going to comment on my friends commenting on Call of Duty,” Cartman says, dissecting Call of Duty conversations between Stan and Kyle.
South Park Studios put out a second promo for the show, promising the “biggest celebrity cameo ever.” That would be Felix “PewDiePie” Kjellberg, the YouTuber with more than 32 million subscribers.
South Park airs on Comedy Central at 10 p.m. ET and can be watched online.
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