There will be no Cartman, Kenny or the South Park gang, nor more on Donald Trump anfd Satan’s love child tonight.
“Apparently when you do everything at the last minute sometimes you don’t get it done,” the Comedy Central satire’s creators Matt Stone and Trey Parker announced this morning, less than 12 hours before the latest episode was scheduled to air. “This one’s on us. We didn’t get it done in time. Thanks to Comedy Central and South Park fans for being so understanding. Tune in next week!”
In a widely timely and scathing 10-episode Season 27 that has seen South Park episodes dropping every two weeks, the next new episode will now air on September 24th at 10pm ET/PT on Comedy Central and then appear on Paramount+ the next day. After that, the updated schedule is October 15th, October 29th, November 12th, November 26th and December 10th, according to Comedy Central.
Matt Stone & Trey Parker at 2025 Comic-Con (Michael Buckner/Getty Images)
South Park saw its August 6 originally broadcast ‘Got a Nut’ episode pulled from Comedy Central last week for its mockery of Charlie Kirk after the fatal shooting of the MAGA activist on September 10. What was supposed to be the fifth episode of the current season tonight found South Park in potentially fraught cultural waters with backlash from both sides of the spectrum amidst fears of growing political violence.
While providing no specifics on a show that remarkably still has a razor sharp ability to shock (Hello JD Vance and “baby oil”) after all these years, an insider told Deadline that the delay in Wednesday’s episode had to do with “finding the right tone and approach to addressing current events.”
Whether that means Kirk, the White House and Pam Bondi’s threatened crackdown on left leaning NGOs and others on the other side of the aisle or the gender of Trump and Satan’s baby on South Park is the heart of the latest episode is not known. Yet, having been on point and literally ripping storylines from presidential tweets the past two months, it would be very unlikely the show would shy away from what is going on.
It should also be added that today’s delay is not the first time Stone and Parker have hit the pause button. In fact, it’s not even the first time this year.
Among a couple of similar such postponements over the past decade or so, the Season 27 opener was pushed back from July 9 to July 23 as the duo negotiated a new $1.5 billon deal with the then soon-to-be Skydance owned Paramount. In the end, when the ‘S’ermon on the Mount’ episode aired, its Jesus, Trump, lawsuits and settlements themed plots felt like it was happening in real time — on its own time.
Source link
