South Park will skip out on airing a new episode this week as Season 27 of the Comedy Central show continues its bi-weekly run of takedowns against the Trump administration.
While past South Park seasons have followed a weekly release schedule, viewers will have to sit through another week without the show as it finds its new groove. Instead, Comedy Central is celebrating the long-running comedy series’ anniversary today, August 13, with what it has declared to be South Park Day (via THR).
This event that will see the network’s programming schedule filled with fan-favorite episodes like Casa Bonita, Fishsticks, and Make Love, Not Warcraft, as well as interviews with creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone and behind-the-scenes footage.
In other words, audiences will have to wait until next week to see the yet-to-be-named third episode of South Park Season 27. Fans were already on the edge of their seats following the latest season premiere, Sermon on the Mount, which saw Parker and Stone unambiguously taking jabs at Donald Trump’s policies, appearance, and more. Its July 23 premiere also saw Eric Cartman and other South Park regulars calling out Comedy Central parent company, Paramount, after the company found itself in hot water due to its merger with Skydance and the controversial cancellation of The Late Show With Stephen Colbert.
South Park Season 27’s second episode, Got A Nut, then followed two weeks later, after a surprise delay that saw it skip a week as well. This new slice continued the show’s scathing criticisms of the Trump administration while shifting its focus over to U.S. Vice President JD Vance and Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem (the latter of which is the subject of a new extended ending that’s not for animal lovers).
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South Park Season 27 has been brutal and seemingly unrestrained, to say the least, making the wait between each episode similarly painful for fans. The show’s latest season is planned to be 10 episodes long, although it’s unclear if it will continue the new bi-weekly schedule it’s enjoyed thus far.
Regardless of the longer-than-usual wait for more South Park, Season 27 has proven to be one of the most successful runs it’s seen since the show began in 1997. Sermon on the Mount managed to secure its place in TV history with 6 million viewers across Paramount platforms upon its premiere, with live viewing numbers up 25 percent for Got A Nut, too.
We’ll have to wait to see what surprises Parker and Stone have up their sleeves for South Park Season 27 Episode 3. While we wait, you can see what the two TV creatives had to say about Sermon on the Mount when they attended San Diego Comic-Con last month. You can also read up on their recent $1.5 billion deal with Paramount, which will see the duo producing 50 episodes of South Park over the next five years.
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