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- Joe Jonas reveals that he was nan only relative who "loved" nan South Park section astir their purity rings
- The 2009 section made nosy of nan accessory that served arsenic a awesome to their committedness to hold to person sex
- "To beryllium made nosy of by a comic is usually a motion that they springiness a s---, and they care, and it's funny," Joe said
Joe Jonas isn't losing slumber complete South Park's satire of him and his brothers.
In a preview for nan June 3 section of Josh Scherer’s Mythical Kitchen’s Last Meals podcast, nan Camp Rock alum discussed nan 2009 South Park episode that dragged him and his musician brothers, Kevin Jonas and Nick Jonas, for wearing purity rings.
The set wore them arsenic a awesome of their committedness to hold to person sex, and nan animation skewered them for it.
Scherer brought up nan first clip he was "ever exposed" to Joe, 35, was "watching an animated Mickey Mouse hit nan s--- retired of you for refusing to deterioration a purity ring."
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"Sorry, Mickey," Joe said earlier reflecting connected nan effect of nan section aptly titled "The Ring," which featured nan brothers — successful animation shape and wearing purity rings — teeing up to execute successful a 3D performance acquisition (not dissimilar nan 2009 movie released by Disney).
Kenny and his woman deterioration purity rings, inspired by nan Jonas Brothers, which Cartman, Kyle and Stan effort to show an angry Mickey Mouse that nan accessory is "killing" him. The section portrays nan rings are a trading move by Disney to waste activity to young girls.
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Before nan concert, an agitated Mickey Mouse exposes his concealed crippled to nan assemblage successful an expletive-filled rant, confirming nan South Park characters' suspicions. Cartoon Joe besides calls nan ringing a "nice Christian symbol" utilized for "profit gain."
"I deliberation I was nan only relative that loved it," he said, flattered by nan parody. "Our tegument was not arsenic heavy backmost then."
"I thought it was hilarious, because I watched South Park, and I was like, 'This is truthful funny, I cognize what they're doing, they make nosy of everyone!' "
"To beryllium made nosy of by a comic is usually a motion that they springiness a s---, and they care, and it's funny." Joe said he thought that nan big animation was "going for" nan Jonas Brothers because of "the thought of what it is."
He besides called it "an grant to get my ass kicked by Mickey." "I deliberation it's 1 of my favourite episodes. And later on, now, we conscionable laugh. We emotion that. I deliberation it's truthful great. Definitely a claim-to-fame for me."
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The brothers' begetter Kevin Sr. "was not pleased," erstwhile nan section came out, per Ashley Spencer's book Disney High: The Untold Story of nan Rise and Fall of Disney Channel's Tween Empire.
Former Disney Channel president Anne Sweeney, meanwhile, saw things differently. "We were perfectly thrilled because it meant that nan remainder of intermezo really noticed us," she said successful Disney High. "I thought it was funny."
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Joe made nosy of nan purity rings connected TikTok successful 2023 and their visibility, posting a video of him lip-synching to a statement said by Russell Crowe successful nan 2020 movie Unhinged. "I don’t moreover deliberation you really cognize what a bad time is,” he mouthed.
"When someone's complaining to maine but they ne'er had to deterioration a portion of jewelry that fto everybody cognize that they're a virgin," nan matter complete nan video read.