The latest season of South Park came to its epic conclusion earlier this week. Having spent a good portion of the 18th season of the acclaimed US show satirising and outright skewering some of the world’s biggest pop stars, creators Matt Stone and Trey Parker went all-out for the finale.

The episode featured appearances from Taylor Swift, Elvis Presley, beleaguered comedian Bill Cosby, late Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain, and late hip-hop legend Tupac Shakur, as well as return appearances from homegrown favourite Iggy Azalea and Michael Jackson.

The episode marked the conclusion of a two-part story revolving around what kids these days consider to be entertainment, which more or less amounts to whatever’s currently trending on Twitter and awful Let’s Play stars like PewDiePie.

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Readers can check out clips from the show below (spoiler alert, but we don’t have to tell you that, right?). According to Consequence of Sound, the plot of the episode revolves around a big-shot TV producer’s holiday special, which combines new entertainment with old.

The special, dubbed ‘The Washington Redskins’ Go Fuck Yourself Holiday Special’, opens with a hologram of the Nirvana singer crooning ‘Up on the Roof Top’, before pulling out and loading a shotgun (yep, they went there). When he pulls the trigger, a flag reading “Merry Christmas” pops out.

Other highlights include Iggy’s bottom duetting with Elvis on ‘A Holly Jolly Christmas’, Taylor Swift joining Cosby for ‘Baby, It’s Cold Outside’, and a secondary storyline involving a Tupac hologram hunting down the hologram of Michael Jackson.

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