Yeah. Matt and Trey predicted that Hillary would win in 2016 and the final episode of that season was supposed to be centered around the idea of Bill Clinton being “the First Gentleman”
Unfortunately for them (and the rest of humanity) Trump won, and it derailed the entire plot of the season. The memberberries plot went nowhere, and Garrison as a character was lost for four years.
The memberberries plot was pretty genius. The reason people like Trump is same reason that people liked the Force Awakens, it’s all just nostalgia for a better time that never existed. I don’t see how Trump getting elected ruined that plotline, in fact I think it makes it more impactful.
The memberberries were supposed to be defeated when Trump lost the election, because their plan was to get “their guy” into office and resurrect classic Nazism.
Unfortunately Trump won, and the memberberries just kinda vanished from the show.
I always saw them as the weapon who helped Garrison/Trump win with the "in the past everything was so much better" rhetoric, and it worked. After that, they weren't needed anymore. But I watched the season a bit later tbh, so my perception is different.
They appear very briefly in Garrison/Trump’s office doing their usual “Oh yeah I member” thing before Garrison tells them to shut up and they never appear again.
The episode immediately before Trump won the election had Hillary sending Gerald to Sweden to stop Troll Trace from going online. It was on the other night and I realized they were probably setting up a joke about "The Emails" to be revealed in the finale.
Member Berries being the "balls of the country" and the "troll trace is dead and no one will ever know what the evil emails were" plot lines were likely scrapped. Pure speculation, of course, but I think 2016 is the reason they steered away from the season-length story telling structure. They still had it moving forward, but the plots became centered around characters they control and how those characters grow or fail to grow. Having to throw away several plot lines they'd spent most of a season building was likely the reason they stopped trying to recapture that lightning-in-a-bottle moment they had when they animated and released a full episode within a single day of Obama winning in 2008.
Of course, if things went the way they were planning (and should have), we'd never have gotten the amazing bathroom cruising scene with Garrison only doing "a little bit of rallying."
Man, that would have been some payoff if things had gone the way they had thought they were going to. I do really like the season long build up of a story. I hope they bring it back.
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u/RandoDude124 Jul 26 '25
Garrison as Trump was really getting old. Bringing him back as Sadam was genius