A week after the show’s controversial season 27 premiere, South Park is taking the week off, according to a video posted Tuesday on South Park Studios’ YouTube page announcing that the second season 27 episode will air on Aug. 6.
While the skipped week comes just after a tumultuous contract negotiation that ended with the show’s creators, Trey Parker and Matt Stone, inking a $1.5 billion licensing deal and a premiere episode that heavily mocked President Donald Trump, the week off likely has nothing to do with either event. South Park has been known to skip weeks as a new season rolls out week over week.
On Wednesday night, an encore presentation of the season 27 premiere will air on Comedy Central.
In the preview for the new episode, the plotline introduced in the season premiere appears to continue, with Trump continuing his relationship with Satan, including some under-the-table groping at a black tie event and, of course, Eric Cartman lambasting everyone around him.
“You can just shut up, Bebe, because you have America and you love abortion,” Cartman yells at his classmate at what appears to be a public forum.
The premiere episode ended with the town of South Park agreeing to pay millions to Trump in a settlement and produce 50 pro-Trump public service announcements. The first one aired following the episode and featured a naked Trump wandering in the desert, hallucinating that his penis is speaking to him.
On Tuesday, South Park also shared on its official Instagram “a little behind-the-scenes” peek at filming that naked Trump scene for the premiere episode.
White House assistant press secretary Taylor Rogers reacted to the episode on Thursday, suggesting it represents the hypocrisy of the political left, lobbing insults at the show while touting Trump’s delivery on his 2024 campaign promises.
The second episode of South Park season 27 airs on Comedy Central on Aug. 6.
