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IF it feels like there hasn’t been a new season of South Park on Comedy Central for quite some time, it’s not just you. The show has not run a new episode since March of 2023; its sparse appearances since then have been in the form of Paramount+ specials, like last fall’s “The End Of Obesity.”
The extended hiatus has been on purpose, and for two reasons. Trey Parker and Matt Stone said they were taking a break through 2024, partly due to the election season (which they had guessed wrong in the past) and partly due to the recent purchase of Paramount by Skydance Media.
In a 2024 interview with Vanity Fair, Parker said he was “waiting for Paramount to figure all their **** out” and Stone added, “We’ve tried to do South Park through four or five presidential elections, and it is such a hard thing to — it’s such a mind scramble, and it seems like it takes outsized importance. Obviously, it’s ******* important, but it kind of takes over everything and we just have less fun.”
Looks like the kids are coming back from break. Paramount released a trailer hyping Season 27 of South Park this week, and it’s rather surprising. Not the content itself — the sequences satirizing recent events of the past few months were to be expected — but the fact that a lot of work has been done already.
Trey and Matt are famous for working by the seats of their pants. Most episodes of South Park are written, animated and completed the week before they’re supposed to air. But what we’re seeing here isn’t meant to run anytime soon: Comedy Central says the premiere date isn’t until July 9.
That makes us wonder if these clips (or entire plots) will survive that long. Something could happen between then and now that the show just HAS to comment on, forcing an episode to be heavily revised or shelved entirely. It’s a highly malleable show until airdate — maybe these scenes will happen, maybe they won’t. South Park returns this summer on Comedy Central.
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