South Park Creator Celebrates Big Money Paramount Deal With Very Intentional Sports Cliche Joke Quote

The South Park Season 27 premiere is acceptable to spell up tonight, July 23, aft creators Matt Stone and Trey Parker signed a large wealth woody with Paramount.

The hotly contested caller declaration for South Park volition spot the long-running Comedy Central amusement proceed adjacent arsenic Paramount works to get its merger with Skydance implicit the line.

Earlier this month, Parker and Stone expressed their vexation astir Paramount’s determination to hold the premiere of Season 27 for 2 weeks — utilizing the show’s societal media accounts to assertion the Paramount and Skydance merger was “f—king up” their show. The brace adjacent enlisted the services of a “bulldog negotiator” lawyer arsenic the enactment implicit their declaration escalated.

Now, the caller woody is official, which means the caller play volition debut connected Comedy Central astatine 10pm ET / PT tonight, July 23. According to The Hollywood Reporter, the statement runs for 5 years and includes 50 caller episodes of the amusement to debut connected Comedy Central. It is reportedly valued astatine $300 cardinal a year, oregon $1.5 cardinal implicit the magnitude of their contract, which makes South Park 1 of the astir invaluable franchises successful television.

Meanwhile, the South Park room volition determination to Paramount+ successful the U.S. and globally. New episodes volition besides watercourse connected Paramount+ successful the U.S. the time aft they aerial connected Comedy Central.

Matt Stone and Trey Parker person signed a large wealth woody to prevention South Park. Photo by Vivien Killilea/Getty Images.

To observe the news, Matt Stone issued a modular remark thanking Paramount executives and expressing his excitement astir the adjacent 5 years. Parker, though, utilized the accidental to contented a precise intentional sports-cliche gag quote:

“We are grateful for this accidental and profoundly honored by the spot placed successful us. This is astir much than a declaration — it’s astir our committedness to this organization, our teammates, and our fans. We’re focused connected gathering thing peculiar and doing immoderate it takes to bring championships to this city.”

How tin 50 episodes of South Park beryllium valued astatine $1.5 billion? According to THR, the wide woody "also functioned arsenic an beforehand connected the streaming revenue, helping to explicate the cost." Park County, Stone and Parker's South Park accumulation company, gets astir 50% of each streaming revenue, adjacent though Paramount owns the amusement itself.

Photo by Vivien Killilea/Getty Images.

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