Harry and Meghan appear in Family Guy as work-shy grifters who post Instagram photos worth $250,000 and earn Netflix cash for ‘no-one knows what’ – months after they were savaged by South Park
The Duke and Duchess of Sussex have been given the ‘South Park‘ treatment once again – this time by Seth McFarlane‘s Family Guy.
In an episode from the newest series of the cartoon satire, main character Peter Griffin compares himself to the royal couple, who stepped down as working members of the British Royal Family in 2020 to move to the US.
Sitting in a bar with his friends as he thinks of ways to retrieve money he is owed, Peter Griffin says he’ll ‘go it alone’ – just like the Sussexes.
The scene then cuts away to the royal couple lounging by the pool in their swimwear while a butler waits on them to hand them ‘millions from Netflix‘.
The satirisation of the Sussexes in Seth McFarlane’s cartoon follows another pasting the royal couple received on South Park earlier this year, which mocked their calls for a private life.
Harry and Meghan are depicted in Seth McFarlane’s Family Guy as workshy grifters who post sponsored content on Instagram in a new episode
In the newest clip, the Sussexes are pictured enjoying fizzy drinks by their pool, while a quintessentially British-looking butler hands them a pay cheque.
He tells the Duke: ‘Sir, your millions from Netflix for… no-one knows what.’
The cartoon Harry flippantly replies: ‘Put it with the rest of them’ in a British accent reminiscent of Dick Van Dyke’s cockney character in Mary Poppins.
As the butler scuttles off, Meghan’s phone buzzes with a notification. She tells Harry: ‘Babe, time to do our daily $250,000 sponsored Instagram post for Del Taco.’
A despondent Harry, staring off into the distance, replies: ‘I shouldn’t have left the made-up nonsense’ – in an apparent dig at the British monarchy.
The satirical cartoon presents the couple as pool loungers who retain their butler, a quintessentially British character
The Sussexes have produced three series for Netflix since they signed an £80 million deal with the streaming platform in 2020
The savage takedown of the couple as work-shy refers to the £80million deal they signed with streaming giant Netflix in 2020.
Following the deal, the couple have released their explosive six-part docuseries, Harry & Meghan, which aired last December.
They also narrated the Live to Lead series, which followed the lives and careers of leadership figures including Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader-Ginsburg.
In August, the couple’s third project, Heart of Invictus, landed on the streaming platform, which followed the couple at the Invictus Games in 2022, held at The Hague in the Netherlands.
Although the satirical Family Guy clip features Meghan posting sponsored content on Instagram, the couple are not known to have made money from such exploits.
The clip comes months after another satirical cartoon, South Park, also took aim at the Sussexes over their calls for more privacy in their private lives, which the cartoon seemed to suggest was hypocritical.
A scene in one episod depicted the couple arriving in Canada after departing the UK as they loudly beg for privacy while drawing attention to themselves.
In the clip, Harry and his wife, who wears the same dusty pink outfit that Meghan donned for Trooping the Color in 2018, along with a near-identical white hat that sits askew on her head, are seen promoting the prince’s book – Waaagh – the cover of which strongly resembles Harry’s memoir Spare.
They storm off during a TV show after being challenged about their motives, before moving to South Park, with the princess declaring: ‘If we moved here, people would think we’re really serious about wanting to be normal.’
But their arrival enrages the local community – in particular Kyle, who lives opposite them.
He complains about their private jet that is parked outside the house and the prince playing polo on the lawn.
‘They have this huge jet parked in front of my house and they keep on wanting me to buy their book,’ he complains to his friends Kenny, Cartman and Stan.
The episode takes multiple, thinly-veiled swipes at the Sussexes, largely questioning their desire for privacy while appearing to draw all eyes upon them.
In one scene, regular character Kyle wakes to find that the house has been plastered with magazine covers featuring the princess’ face.
They include a cover strongly resembling that of The Cut magazine after it ran a cover interview with Meghan last summer.
When Kyle confronts the royals, the princess yells: ‘He victimized me!’
The prince springs to his wife’s defense.
‘This is an outrage!’ he cries. ‘We’ll see how he deals with my blue penis!’ That appears to be a reference to Harry’s frostbitten penis, which he detailed in his memoir Spare.