“South Park” characters Kenny, Cartman, Kyle and Stan.
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Trey Parker and Matt Stone’s on-again, off-again South Park Season 27 is off again this week, continuing the animated comedy series’ unusually long stretch of episodes.
Parker and Stone returned in grand style with the show’s 27th season on July 23 after striking a $1.5 billion deal with Paramount Global to produce 50 episodes over the next five years. The deal also made Paramount+ the new streaming home of South Park Seasons 1-26 after HBO Max hosted the episodes for the past five years.
What wasn’t revealed about the new deal — at least initially — was the interval in which the episodes would be released.
One thing that’s been consistent in South Park Season 27 is Parker and Stone’s mockery of President Donald Trump, as the duo has largely focused on the commander-in-chief and his “relationship” with Satan. At the conclusion of Episode 4, titled Wok is Dead, on Sept. 3, Satan revealed that he was pregnant with Trump’s baby.
If Parker and Stone are going to continue the Trump and Satan saga in Episode 5, viewers are in for a little wait to see where the storyline goes next.
Cable’s Comedy Central — which airs new episodes of South Park on Wednesdays before it arrives on streaming on Paramount+ on Thursday — announced after the airing of Episode 3 on Aug. 20 what the release schedule would be through mid-September.
As such, South Park returned with Episode 4 on Sept. 3 on Comedy Central (and Sept. 4 on Paramount+), which is followed by another hiatus this week. That means South Park fans won’t get Season 27, Episode 5 until Wednesday, Sept. 17, on Comedy Central and Sept. 18 on Paramount+.
After that, the release date of Season 27, Episode 6 is anybody’s guess. However, if Parker and Stone continue to release new episodes every other week, South Park Season 27 won’t wrap up until the end of November.
Randy and Stan Marsh in “South Park” Season 27, Episode 3.
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‘South Park’ Season 27 Is Slowly Giving The Spotlight Back To The Main Characters
While South Park Season 27, Episode 4 once again targeted President Donald Trump’s policies — Episode 2, for example, went after Immigration Customs Enforcement and Department of Homeland Security Kristi Noem — the series has involved the regular characters of South Park a bit more in the past two episodes.
Randy Marsh and his sole Tegridy Farms employee, Towelie, were central to the plot of Episode 3, while Butters was featured in Episode 4.
However, the show’s political bend was still very much at play in both episodes, as the characters’ paths are intertwined with Trump-focused storylines.
As such, Trump’s global tariff policies were lampooned via the Lububu craze, where Butters was forced to bear the brunt of the upcharges associated with importing the keychain-sized doll from China.
The episode did, however, tackle a topical news issue by skewering the public’s obsessive behavior in collecting Labubus, which, as it turns out, are being used by the girls of South Park Elementary for a Satanic ritual. The subplot surrounding the Labubu craze came full circle, though, when the girls’ bloodbath ritual resulted in the manifestation of Satan — and Trump — and Satan’s revelation that he is pregnant.
South Park Season 27, Episode 5 is set for a Sept. 17 release on Comedy Central and will stream the next day on Paramount+.