‘South Park’ shows new ‘GTA 6’ gameplay footage

Grand Theft Auto VI is said to take up more than 200GB of space on your PS5 or Xbox hard drive. Thanks to South Park, we now know where some of that data is going.

Matt Stone and Trey Parker’s animated sitcom, which is somewhat amazingly still airing new episodes in 2026, took its ripped-from-the-headlines comedic stylings back into the gaming world on Wednesday night. In a scene from the newest episode, the kids learn about GTA 6, which actually includes some new gameplay footage we haven’t seen before, not even courtesy of Cyberleek.

Because it’s South Park, though, the footage consists entirely of a dog pooping, the protagonist Jason picking up the poop, and Jason hitting an NPC in the face with it.

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Yes, that is all they showed. As a bonus, it’s narrated by Tish Hicks, a voice actress who narrated a gameplay trailer for GTA 5 many years ago, per IGN. According to IGN, Rockstar had previously confirmed that you could use dog poop in this way in GTA 6, and we have seen Jason petting a dog in an earlier clip, but this is the first time we’ve actually seen this particular mechanic in action.

We reached out to Rockstar to confirm if the dog poop clip was legit, and we’ll update this story if the company responds. However, the episode’s credits include a Rockstar callout, which suggests the clip is authentic. A snapshot of the credits circulating online includes this message: “Special thanks: Grand Theft Auto VI footage courtesy of Rockstar Games, Inc.”

This is far from the first or only time South Park has waded into the zeitgeist around a major video game. There have been plenty of references to gaming on the show over the years, perhaps most prominently in the 2006 episode Make Love, Not Warcraft, which took place largely inside World of Warcraft during the peak of that game’s popularity. Maybe Parker and Stone can make a GTA 6 equivalent whenever that game’s online mode launches.

In the meantime, you still have time to preorder GTA 6 ahead of its Nov. 19 release.

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