“South Park“Has been one of the most unique produced shows on television for decades, and today that approach came undoubtedly back to bite them.
In a rare statement, Matt Stone and Trey Parker announced that the fifth episode of this season of “South Park” has been delayed and pressed until the next Wednesday after it was intended to be broadcast tonight, Wednesday, September 17. The new section will be broadcast on September 24 instead.
“Apparently when you do everything at the last minute sometimes you don’t,” said Stone and parks in a statement shared with press. “This one is on us. We got it not done in time. Thanks to Comedy Central And South Park fans to be so understanding. Set up next week! ”
It is annoying if you looked forward to what Matt and Trey had in the store this week after consistently spit the Trump administration this season (section 4 revealed that Satan is pregnant with Donald Trump’s children, which made Fox News and Kid Rock burst into happy tears). And it is perhaps even more strange considering that this season, “South Park” has been released semi-weeks.
Just browsing IMDB throughout the show’s history reveals a bunch of random, inexplicable gaps on the release calendar, but never with a new section consistently every two weeks rather than every week, or in this case a two -week gap. It is unclear if the other gaps are due to delays, but a rope informs IndieWire “South Park” missed a deadline at least once before, especially back 2013 and season 17 due to a power outage of all things.
The show announced its schedule for the rest of the season, but we will see if it changes at all in the coming weeks. Section will be broadcast on October 15, October 29, November 12, November 26 and December 10.
Comedy Central has even had to make changes to its recovered schedule for “South Park” lately, and draws it planned on the run of the season’s second episode last week in the wake of the shooting of Charlie Kirk, which the show hit fun on as a “Master Debater.” As we wrote, Kirk at that time called the section “Funny.”
As described in 2012 Documentary Short “6 days to air,” “South Park” has forever had a really wild and aggressive production schedule, especially for an animated show. Over six days in Los Angeles, Stone and Parker manage to write, record (the two make many of the voices themselves) and even animate the series all before it is broadcast that week. The schedule is then divided into seven weeks of production kits rather than 14 weeks straight which is more industry standard.
No one else has such relief in Hollywood or is about things in this way. It is a schedule that is more related to “Saturday night live” than “The Simpsons”, which spreads its animation over as many as ten months and gets all the writing and voice recording done in advance. “South Park” has been doing this since the beginning when the show was a rough animated satire, but now that the animation has developed, that process has not changed. The Duo said on Comiccon this year After the truly wild season premiere that “I don’t even know what next week’s episode will be.”
Buying the show an extra week has helped Stone and Parker become laser -focused and hyperrene in their criticism of the Trump administration, which has made explicit references to Trump’s mood against CBS News, ICE and Kristi Noem, and the number of technical execs that has showered Trump with praise and frivolous gifts. The White House was so insulted that it even felt the need to issue a statement that says the show “has not been relevant for over 20 years.”
In fact, it is undoubtedly more relevant today than it has been in the last 20 years, and none of the unusual rate of release has subdued the excitement for the show and some record grades. It has been so important to Paramount that the new owners in July gave Stone and Parker A Streaming agreement of $ 1.5 billion to keep them and “South Park” around for many years to come.
