South Park's creators have shrugged off Megan and Harry's alleged upset over an episode which mocked the royal couple.
Trey Parker and Matt Stone said they've had so many complaints they can't remember them all over the 26 years of writing for The Comedy Central show. On the show, the two were depicted as a privacy-seeking couple from Canadian royalty who launched a worldwide privacy tour.
The parody couple on the show claimed they want to stay out of the spotlight, striking a similar resemblance to Harry and Megan. The cartoon character wearing the same dusty pink outfit that Megan donned for Trooping the Color in 2019.
A storm of controversy was thrown at the creators of the cartoon show after it aired, with Megan said to be upset and overwhelmed by the show. The Sussexes have since denied claims they were planning to sue over their animated depictions.
Parker and Stone said that they're no strangers to lawsuits and aren't frightened by them. But Parker and Stone have opened up on their controversial history of the show, with much of their work leading to legal action.
Stone and Parker, who are the highest-paid entertainers in Hollywood according to Forbes, discussed their most infamous parodies. It included the 2005 episode "Trapped in the Closet" and "Coming Out of the Closet" about Tom Cruise and his association with Scientology.
They said, "It was all coming from the right. We were considered counterculture. The Catholic League are always on us. It kind of always came from that side. Everyone knew Scientology was so litigious. People in Hollywood were scared of Scientology at the time because they would just sue." Parker and Stone recounted, "I think that got us going.
The Tom Cruise episode was really about getting sued. I mean, poking openly litigious people and seeing where the line is and what you can say. They picked a fight with us and we just went with it. That episode is what that's about. They bullied Hollywood and scared people interfering, saying the word Scientology."
A rep for Harry and Megan said that the couple thought the episode was all "frankly nonsense, totally baseless, and boring," and denied they'd be suing the comedy series.
A source told The Spectator that the couple had refused to watch the entire episode. The statement didn't address claims that the couple's lawyers will be monitoring the show in order to see whether South Park's creators launched any fresh attacks on the pair in the future.
Sources claim to political light that Harry tried to lobby MTV Entertainment Studio bigwigs, who produced the show, in an effort to get the episode blocked, showing that he only cares for his own free speech and no one else's.
A source told Political Light, "Allegedly, Prince Harry desperately tried calling the producers of South Park before the latest episode aired in an attempt to have it blocked. The producer simply refused."
"No one respects Harry anymore," a secondhand Coke on Reddit claimed. That Megan had him make the calls. "My stepbrother is good friends with Matt Stone and Trey Parker. They told him that she apparently made Harry make the calls, and Harry said something like, 'You have it wrong. We never asked for privacy.
In fact, she got a lot wrong.' And the person tasked with fielding the call apparently said something like, 'It's a cartoon, sir,' while everyone around listened in, laughing their asses off. Unbelievable but so Meghan Markle."
