By “South Park” franchise creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone have revealed that their long-running animated series won’t be returning in the back half of this year.
The show’s last proper season, its 26th, aired its six episodes in 2023. Since then they’ve done three standalone specials that streamed exclusively on Paramount+: “Joining the Panderverse” in October, “(Not Suitable for Children)” in December, and “The End of Obesity” just this past May.
Now there won’t be any new “South Park” until 2025. The pair tell Variety that in doing so they will be skipping the 2024 U.S. presidential election between Donald Trump and Kamala Harris:
Stone: “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.”
Parker: “Obviously, it’s f—– important, but it kind of takes over everything and we just have less fun. I don’t know what more we could possibly say about Trump.”
That’s not the only reason though as Parker adds they’re “waiting for Paramount to figure all their s— out” in regards to the studio’s currently pending sale to Skydance.
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