South ParkWon't Return Until 2025, Skipping Election Season 'on Purpose' as Creators 'Don't Know What More' to 'Say About Trump'

Mar. 15, 2025

Mr. Garrison as a Donald Trump parody character on South Park.Photo:Comedy Central

Comedy Central

South Parkis on hiatus for the next few months.

Trey Parker and Matt Stone, the creators of the long-running Comedy Central series, are admittedly tired of tacklingDonald Trumpfor yet another presidential election. So much so, that they’ve decided to delay season 27 of the show until 2025 “on purpose” as Trump, 78, sets to face off against Vice PresidentKamala Harris.

“We’ve tried to doSouth Parkthrough four or five presidential elections, and it is such a hard thing to—it’s such a mind scramble, and it seems like it takes outsized importance,” Stone toldVanity Fair.

Stone said that the election is “obviously…f—ing important, but it kind of takes over everything and we just have less fun.”

Plus, as Parker pointed out, the pair “don’t know what more we could possibly say about Trump.”

(L-R) Matt Stone and Trey Parker attend “¡CASA BONITA MI AMOR!” screening at Telluride Film Festival on September 01, 2024 in Telluride, Colorado.Vivien Killilea/Getty

Vivien Killilea/Getty

Given the creators' confirmation that no new episodes will air for the remainder of this year, May’s Paramount+ special,South Park: The End of Obesity,serves as the show’s only release of 2024.

The special, which premiered on May 24, explored how “the advent of new weight loss drugs” had “a huge impact on everyone in South Park,” as Cartman was “denied access to the life-changing medicine,” spurring the kids to “jump into action.”

Before the Ozempic-inspired special, the most recent episode ofSouth Parkaired on March 29, 2023 to conclude season 26.

A still from ‘South Park: The End of Obesity’.Paramount+

Paramount+

“It’s a ‘let’s get in a room, figure it out, and do it right now’ thing,” he said of their writing strategy. “It’s mainly just, ‘We’ve got to get something to put on in two weeks. What are we doing?’ We’ve proven to ourselves that the show does not get better with more time. We don’t need more time.”

Parker agreed, saying, “We take everything a show at a time and a week at a time. And that has always been best.”

Still, though, Stone admitted: “It is not just fun and games doingSouth Park. It’s brutal and stressful and terrifying at times, so once in a while, you get a show that is just fun. It’s rare, but those are the ones that keep it going.”

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source: people.com