'South Park' Tackled Scabbing Long Before the WGA/SAG-AFTRA Strikes

The Big Picture On July 14, the screen actors' union, SAG-AFTRA, joined the writers' guild, WGA, on the picket line to strike against AMPTP, or the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers. The companies under AMPTP include Paramount Pictures, Sony Pictures, Universal Pictures, Walt Disney Studios, Warner Bros., ABC, CBS, FOX, NBC, Netflix, Apple TV+, and Amazon.

The episode then introduces a South-Park-afied Jeff Bezos, a highly evolved entity with a massive brain and veiny cranium who is omniscient and only speaks telekinetically. It's revealed that Bezos struck a deal with the mayor of South Park to open a fulfillment center in exchange for a Prime Membership. He goes on to walk the mayor through how he uses Prime Memberships and "getting people all their stuff" to incentivize scabbing.

As silly as the circumstances of the episode are, it offers a powerful look into how struck corporations find ways to manipulate people into breaking strikes. They might entice third parties with exciting promotional deals, or convince employees that striking is pointless, and that it's better to just be underpaid. Either way, what they are thriving on, and what Jeff Bezos thrives on in this episode, is the illusion of power.

Strikes Can Only Be Won With Tegrity As more and more strikers begin to get uneasy about the strike and contemplate returning to work at Amazon, Randy Marsh is developing a delivery service for Tegridy Weed. His marijuana business has been booming since the strike because, amidst all the tension, many citizens of South Park had started purchasing weed from him to relieve their stress.

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