Pauline Hanson is launching a cartoon series in the mould of ‘South Park’

Just when you thought 2021 couldn’t get any stranger, here comes Pauline Hanson with her own South Park-inspired cartoon show. 

As reported by The Australian, the One Nation leader is launching Please Explain, a 20-episode series that Hanson wants to use to reach out to young voters (18-35). It supposedly cost upwards of six figures to make too.

Each episode will only last a few minutes and will be released on everything from Facebook, TikTok, Instagram, and Twitter to reach as many possible voters as possible.

Please Explain will be set in a classroom, with Hanson the wise old teacher. She’s even starring in the show herself, voicing her own character. If it worked for Trey Parker and Matt Stone, I guess.

Her students will be some of the biggest names in Australian politics: PM Scott Morrison wearing his Hawaiin shirt from his controversial trip to Hawaii during the bushfires; his deputy, Barnaby Joyce, who looks like a beetroot; Peter Dutton stylised as Lord Voldemort; and Craig Kelly who, combined with those bloody YouTube adverts, is becoming unavoidable.

Former PM’s Malcolm Turnbull and Kevin Rudd will also pop up as “miserable ghosts” intent on disrupting the lesson.

It’s believed that the serie’s first three episodes could arrive as early as this weeks so be on the lookout on social media and remind yourself it’s not a fever dream when you see an animated Hanson scolding an animated Prime Minister in between dance routine clips on TikTok.

Is this unprecedented? Has a politician ever made their own cartoon in a bid to target voters before? Is Hanson also voicing the other politician characters? Do they really think this is what millennials and gen z people will be attracted by this? So many pertinent questions.

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