"I don't wanna do it if Diddy did it!"

In watching an episode of SOUTH PARK, years ago, we learned that the devil plans to give himself a big party.

This was Season 10, episode 11, back in 2006.

I won't bother you with a plot outline, I only want to focus on one point, what seemed at the time a silly bit of word play that now, in 2024, seems positively a prefigurement. What it prefigures I will let you decide.

But the plot has Satan planning for himself a big Halloween party on Earth on the analogy of the Sweet Sixteen parties that rich Daddies among humans throw for their girls, and that were the subject of a reality television series at the time. Satan's is to take place in the fancy ballroom of a ritzy Los Angeles hotel. Some time before the actual party, Satan visits that ballroom with a party planner. The party planner says that "Diddy" had thrown himself a birthday party here recently.

Also, when Satan offers an idea (something like, a big ice cream fountain in one corner of the room) , the planner says "We can do that. Diddy did the same thing."

Satan replies, "I don't want to do it if Diddy did it!"

Satan was unhappy about impugning his own originality as party animal. And the wordsmiths writing the screenplay were having some fun with the sound of that sentence. But I don't think we are meant to infer that Satan was trying to disassociate himself from Sean (Diddy) Coombs.

Now, nearly a score of years later, looking at IRW news stories, I personally have to suspect that Satan might want to make that disassociation after all.

https://www.salon.com/2024/03/30/what-is-pink-cocaine-or-tuci-the-diddy-allegedly-had-smuggled-on-a-jet/

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