"South Park" has always had a knack for being tapped into the pop-culture zeitgeist and often moves quickly to comment on current events. And now it's the first animated sitcom to address the war on Ukraine.
A week after Russia invaded Ukraine, the show's Wednesday episode, "Back to the Cold War," mocked Russian President Vladimir Putin for catalyzing an international crisis.
While Ukrainian cities Kharkiv, Chernihiv and the capital, Kyiv, are under attack, the irreverent series brought attention to the war the best way it knows how: By framing it as an outlandish allegory involving an equestrian dressage competition that pits the gullible character Butters against a stoic Russian competitor.
