A 2025 South Park episode titled 'Get a Nut' has put Kristi Noem back in the headlines—and not for policy work. The episode, the second in Season 27, skewers everyone from Donald Trump to immigration officers, but reserves special scorn for Noem, portraying her as a gun-toting dog killer who even shoots Superman's pet dog, Krypto.
Viewers unfamiliar with Noem's backstory may have been shocked—but the animated mockery is based on a very real and controversial admission from the former South Dakota governor's 2024 memoir No Going Back: The Truth on What's Wrong with Politics and How We Move America Forward. In it, she describes in graphic detail how she killed her 14-month-old puppy Cricket—and, later that same day, her family goat.
