Paris Hilton says South Park parody episode made her 'sick'

I don’t want to start a riot by saying this, but sometimes South Park can take its jokes too far. Don’t get me wrong, its brutality in the name of comedy can, and is, funny more often than not, however, the creators sometimes fail to recognise when the joke has been stretched far too thinly.

One such joke was the parody episode about Paris Hilton, a moment in the show’s history that’s said to have made the reality TV star “sick” after seeing it. Understandable really, considering how it refers to Hilton as a “stupid spoiler wh*re*, as well as depicting her chihuahua shooting itself in a last-ditch attempt to avoid being the socialite’s pet any longer.

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In her memoir, Hilton writes, “The poster featured my face and the tagline: ‘Watch Paris die!' – I didn’t mind that marketing approach, and I wasn’t naïve about why they chose it. I’m the title character, but they also apply that epithet to Britney Spears, Christina Aguilera, Tara Reid, and all the little girls who were fans, which upset me more than anything ugly they could say about me.”

She adds, “It also upsets me that the episode graphically portrays Tinkerbell [Hilton's pet dog] being shot and killed. The thought of that made me sick. I’ve been involved in some pretty edgy media, but I don’t even know where something like that comes from."

Further adding insult to injury, when Matt Stone (one of the creators behind South Park, if you’re one of the uninitiated) was asked about Hilton’s “muted reaction” to the episode, they said it proved how “f**ked up” she was. It’s a bizarre and inaccurate comment that Hilton calls out in her book, saying, “My not wanting to watch his cartoon about my dog being shot and me coughing up ejaculate — that’s evidence of how f***ed up I am."

Whether you agree with South Park’s long list of cutting celebrity parodies or not, it’s fair to say that not every episode hits the mark like its World of Warcraft episode, which has been hailed as “one of the best episodes” in TV history. And regardless of who throws their two cents in, the creators clearly don’t give a damn what anyone but themselves think, which, arguably, is why the show is still going strong.