After last week’s explosive Season 27 premiere, South Park will skip this week — but according to a new trailer, when the show returns next week it will take on President Trump once again.
The trailer confirms Season 27 continues with a new episode on Wednesday, August 6 on Comedy Central and the next day on Paramount+, which means South Park unexpectedly skips this week.
South Park’s epic season continues on Wednesday, August 6 at 10/9c on Comedy Central and next day on Paramount+. pic.twitter.com/zLMHM9J4aP
— South Park (@SouthPark) July 29, 2025
Neither Comedy Central nor South Park creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone have explained the skip, but it’s worth noting that during their San Diego Comic-Con 2025 panel last week, which took place the day after the Trump-skewering episode aired, Parker said they were unsure what the next episode would be, revealing the decision was “super stressful.”
Parker and Stone create each episode of South Park week by week, which makes for a chaotic production, but topical shows.
It’s also worth noting that the creators recently admitted that the Season 27 trailer that came out in April included footage made just for that trailer, and not from the episodes. “You seriously think we went and made a bunch of shows ahead of time and we’re banking them for later?” they said. “We just made something up and we’re like, this is what we’re doing! And we’re not doing any of that.”
South Park creators reveal that none of the footage in the season 27 teaser were from real episodes:
“You seriously think we went and made a bunch of shows ahead of time?”#SDCC pic.twitter.com/GAVIsnmTl2
— IGN (@IGN) July 26, 2025
All eyes are on South Park after its Season 27 premiere went so hard on Trump that the White House issued a statement in response.
The teaser shows Trump groping Satan’s leg under a table during a public dinner event. Satan doesn’t look like he’s having a great time. The Season 27 premiere showed Trump lying in bed with Satan, so it looks like their relationship will be a running theme during the show.
But that scene wasn’t the main talking point coming out of the premiere. Rather, it was a scene showing a live-action Trump shuffling through the desert before removing all of his clothes. “His penis is teeny tiny, but his love for us is large,” a “South Park Pro-Trump” PSA voiceover says.
During the Comic-Con panel, Parker revealed the creative duo insisted Trump’s penis was shown in all its glory, even though they received a note from the network asking for it to be blurred. “They were like, okay, but we’re gonna blur the penis. And I’m like, no, you’re not going to blur it.”
Parker and Stone dodged blurring Trump’s penis by adding little eyes and turning it into a character. But even doing that “was a whole conversation with a lot of grown up people for about four f***ing days. It’s a character!”
Parker and Stone were then jokingly warned that there was a subpoena waiting for them among the cards containing panel questions. The response: “That’s fine man, I’m ready.”
In a new tweet, below, South Park revealed behind-the-scenes photos of the Trump desert scene, which confirms it was filmed on location rather than generated with AI, as some had thought.
A little behind the scenes. pic.twitter.com/M25RjoRooE
— South Park (@SouthPark) July 29, 2025
The F.C.C. recently approved Skydance’s $8 billion merger with Paramount, which had needed Trump administration approval. Neither Parker nor Stone addressed the merger, which they had criticized for delaying South Park Season 27’s release date, during the panel, nor did they respond to the White House’s statement.
However, Parker and Stone have a big-money deal of their own: a reported $1.5 billion contract to make 50 episodes of South Park over five years for Paramount.
Image credit: Comedy Central / YouTube.
Wesley is Director, News at IGN. Find him on Twitter at @wyp100. You can reach Wesley at [email protected] or confidentially at [email protected].
