South Park kept up its mockery of Kristi Noem by sharing an unaired sequence in which the Homeland Security Secretary visits a pet store and opens fire on the animals.
The sequence is a riff on Noem telling the story in her memoir, No Going Back, of the time she shot and killed an “untrainable” dog named Cricket because he was misbehaving and killing a local family’s chickens.
“I hated that dog,” she wrote, adding that killing Cricket “was not a pleasant job, but it had to be done.” She uses her killing of the dog as a metaphor for her willingness to perform unpleasant tasks.
Her current job includes overseeing ICE raids, which earned her derision in last week’s episode of South Park, in which a cartoon version of Noem was shown shooting and killing dogs in in an instruction video for Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
Mocking her dramatic appearance makeover before she joined the Trump Administration, South Park also showed the former South Dakota governor in heavy makeup. At one point her face melts from apparently deflated Botox.
South Park shared the new pet shop end-credit sequence on X, explaining that it didn’t air on Comedy Central, but does appear on Paramount+.
Noem responded to last week’s episode of South Park on conservative commentator Glenn Beck’s podcast: “It’s so lazy to just constantly make fun of women for how they look. … If they wanted to criticize my job, go ahead and do that. But clearly they can’t — they just pick something petty like that.”
Noem became the head of the DHS in January, and has been accused of staging reality show-type events to draw headlines.
