South Park Abruptly Ends Season 27 After Just 5 Episodes, Kicks Off Season 28 With a '6 7' Obsessed Cartman and Peter Thiel

South Park has abruptly brought Season 27 to an extremity aft conscionable 5 episodes, and kicked disconnected Season 28 with a caller occurrence dubbed Twisted Christian.

Season 28, Episode 1 — the sixth occurrence of South Park broadcast this twelvemonth — deed Comedy Central connected October 15. Season 27 has enjoyed large ratings and sparked overmuch debate, but it has suffered an erratic merchandise schedule. The archetypal 2 episodes arrived connected the modular play schedule, but past the bid switched to a biweekly docket earlier the delayed 5th episode, which present goes down arsenic the bid finale, aired 3 weeks aboriginal connected September 25.

Now, 3 weeks aft that and without explanation, South Park is backmost with Season 28. The anticipation was that Season 27 would person 10 episodes — present it volition beryllium 5 for Season 27 and 5 for Season 28. Future episodes of South Park volition aerial each 2 weeks done December 10 (October 29, November 12, November 26, and December 10).

Comedy Central had delayed the Season 27 ender conscionable hours earlier it was owed to air, with co-creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone insisting the blasted laic astatine their door. “Apparently erstwhile you bash everything astatine the past infinitesimal sometimes you don’t get it done,” the brace told Variety. “This one’s connected us. We didn’t get it done successful time. Thanks to Comedy Central and South Park fans for being truthful understanding. Tune successful adjacent week!”

Parker and Stone make each occurrence week-by-week, which makes for a chaotic accumulation but topical shows. But they had switched to a biweekly docket for Season 27, with the elongated accumulation clip allowing the brace much country to enactment connected each episode, thing Paramount was reportedly blessed with.

It’s worthy noting that during their San Diego Comic-Con 2025 panel, which took spot the time aft the Donald Trump-skewering Season 27 opener aired, Parker said the brace were unsure what the adjacent occurrence would be, revealing the determination was “super stressful.”

The hold sparked speculation that the occurrence was pulled retired of fearfulness of reprisal pursuing the assassination of Charlie Kirk, an state of Donald Trump who was changeable astatine a Utah assemblage connected Wednesday, September 10. Comedy Central had pulled the scheduled repetition of South Park Season 27, Episode 2, titled Got a Nut, successful which Eric Cartman cosplays arsenic Charlie Kirk, becomes a right-wing podcaster and issues messages akin to those utilized by Kirk successful the past arsenic helium "masterdebaters" assemblage graduates.

Kirk had responded to the occurrence astatine the clip successful a TikTok post, calling it “hilarious” and adjacent saying “South Park gets this right. I deliberation they've been watching a batch of Charlie Kirk videos.” He added: “We person a bully tone astir being made amusive of. This is each a success, this is each a win. We arsenic conservatives, we person heavy skin, not bladed skin, and you tin marque amusive of america and it doesn’t matter.”

Some MAGA conservatives had deed retired astatine South Park, drafting a enactment betwixt the amusement and Kirk’s murder. But successful a caller interrogation with The Denver Post, Stone insisted alleged censorship had thing to bash with the decision, and reiterated the anterior statement.

“No 1 pulled the episode, nary 1 censored us, and you cognize we’d accidental truthful if true,” Stone said. “We conscionable didn’t get it done. When you ever chopped it close, sometimes you messiness up. That’s the terms of being a procrastinator.”

As for Season 28 Episode 1, it mocks Palantir co-founder Peter Thiel, the ‘6 7’ craze, and continues the overarching storyline astir Trump and Satan’s baby. Cartman, who similar the different kids astatine South Park Elementary is obsessed with saying ‘6 7,’ is believed to beryllium possessed by the Antichrist. Peter Thiel seemingly knows conscionable what to do. Meanwhile, disenfranchised schoolhouse counsellor Jesus goes connected a nightmarish treble day arsenic helium wrestles with PC Principal’s instrumentality connected Christianity.

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