South Park to Tackle Prediction Market Apps

South Park's newest episode, 'Conflict of Interest,' lampooned prediction market apps as they sweep through the kids' school.. The show also continues its wild US President Donald Trump-and-Satan storyline, with Paramount treading carefully after pulling a separate episode earlier this season.

Not surprisingly, the largest prediction market, Kalshi, was offering betting on the episode while more traditional gambling sites like BetUS offered various prop bets for each episode this season, "Conflict of Interest" included. 

Very little was known about Wednesday night's episode, as was evident perhaps on Kalshi where betting is mostly balanced for a number of mentions by characters.

From Variety: 

Even during this particularly cagey season of the long-running animated comedy, Comedy Central/Paramount+ have shared episodic teaser clips with the media for consumption and sharing. But not this time. Why? A source with knowledge of the situation tells The Hollywood Reporter that series creators Matt Stone and Trey Parker want the episode to be “as much of a surprise as possible” — so no clip for us.

Feel free to speculate wildly, of course. Guesses almost couldn’t go overboard if they tried — much of this season has been dedicated to the double entendre, “Trump is fucking Satan.” (The show depicts a ridiculous President Trump as being in a sexual relationship with the devil, but also …)

Yes, season 27 goes particularly hard at MAGA and the religious right — even for South Park.

The episode ultimately aired.  

Kyle and his mother went to war with a prediction market apps while Donald Trump inadvertently terrorizes FCC chair Brendan Carr while trying to kill Satan. 

Spoiler Alert: 

Kyle’s mom is determined to find out who created the bet on whether or not she will attack Gaza.

- Jordan Bach, Gambling911.com