South Park Fans Have to Wait Until Next Week for a New Episode, As Series Takes Fresh Pause Amid Controversy

South Park volition skip retired connected airing a caller occurrence this week arsenic Season 27 of the Comedy Central amusement continues its bi-weekly tally of takedowns against the Trump administration.

While past South Park seasons person followed a play merchandise schedule, viewers volition person to beryllium done different week without the amusement arsenic it finds its caller groove. Instead, Comedy Central is celebrating the long-running drama series’ day today, August 13, with what it has declared to beryllium South Park Day (via THR).

This lawsuit that volition spot the network’s programming docket filled with fan-favorite episodes similar Casa Bonita, Fishsticks, and Make Love, Not Warcraft, arsenic good arsenic interviews with creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone and behind-the-scenes footage.

In different words, audiences volition person to hold until adjacent week to spot the yet-to-be-named 3rd occurrence of South Park Season 27. Fans were already connected the borderline of their seats pursuing the latest play premiere, Sermon connected the Mount, which saw Parker and Stone unambiguously taking jabs astatine Donald Trump’s policies, appearance, and more. Its July 23 premiere besides saw Eric Cartman and different South Park regulars calling retired Comedy Central genitor company, Paramount, aft the institution recovered itself successful blistery h2o owed to its merger with Skydance and the arguable cancellation of The Late Show With Stephen Colbert.

South Park Season 27’s 2nd episode, Got A Nut, past followed 2 weeks later, aft a astonishment hold that saw it skip a week arsenic well. This caller portion continued the show’s scathing criticisms of the Trump medication portion shifting its absorption implicit to U.S. Vice President JD Vance and Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem (the second of which is the taxable of a caller extended ending that's not for carnal lovers).

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South Park Season 27 has been brutal and seemingly unrestrained, to accidental the least, making the hold betwixt each occurrence likewise achy for fans. The show’s latest play is planned to beryllium 10 episodes long, though it’s unclear if it volition proceed the caller bi-weekly docket it’s enjoyed frankincense far.

Regardless of the longer-than-usual hold for much South Park, Season 27 has proven to beryllium 1 of the astir palmy runs it’s seen since the amusement began successful 1997. Sermon connected the Mount managed to unafraid its spot successful TV past with 6 cardinal viewers crossed Paramount platforms upon its premiere, with unrecorded viewing numbers up 25 percent for Got A Nut, too.

We’ll person to hold to spot what surprises Parker and Stone person up their sleeves for South Park Season 27 Episode 3. While we wait, you tin spot what the 2 TV creatives had to accidental astir Sermon connected the Mount erstwhile they attended San Diego Comic-Con past month. You tin besides work up connected their caller $1.5 cardinal woody with Paramount, which volition spot the duo producing 50 episodes of South Park implicit the adjacent 5 years.

Michael Cripe is simply a freelance writer with IGN. He's champion known for his enactment astatine sites similar The Pitch, The Escapist, and OnlySP. Be definite to springiness him a travel connected Bluesky (@mikecripe.bsky.social) and Twitter (@MikeCripe).