{"id":150497,"date":"2025-09-17T20:06:06","date_gmt":"2025-09-17T20:06:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/150497\/"},"modified":"2025-09-17T20:06:06","modified_gmt":"2025-09-17T20:06:06","slug":"south-park-didnt-finish-this-weeks-episode-in-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/150497\/","title":{"rendered":"South Park didn’t finish this week’s episode in time"},"content":{"rendered":"

South Park won\u2019t be new tonight, and for that, series creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone have issued a mea culpa. \u201cApparently when you do everything at the last minute sometimes you don\u2019t get it done,\u201d they said in a statement (via <\/a>The Hollywood Reporter<\/a>). \u201cThis one\u2019s on us. We didn\u2019t get it done in time. Thanks to Comedy Central and South Park fans for being so understanding. Tune in next week!\u201d<\/p>\n

The satirical comedy typically works up to the last minute on new episodes, turning them around in a week\u2019s time to offer extremely up-to-date jokes on current events. Despite this high-wire act, Parker and Stone didn\u2019t miss a South Park deadline for more than a decade. The first time occurred in 2013, and only because a power outage rendered the team physically unable to complete the episode (\u201cGoth Kids 3: Dawn Of The Posers<\/a>\u201c). \u201cIt sucks to miss an air date but after all these years of tempting fate by delivering the show last minute, I guess it was bound to happen,\u201d Parker said in a statement at the time (via <\/a>Entertainment Weekly<\/a>).\u00a0<\/p>\n

The South Park guys didn\u2019t offer a reason for this latest delay. Given how infrequently this has happened over the show\u2019s run, it\u2019s hard not to speculate that the current political climate made this episode a harder nut to crack. Usually, the show tackles all topics fearlessly and ruthlessly no matter what\u2019s going on, but this would\u2019ve been the first episode to air since the murder of conservative commentator Charlie Kirk, whom South Park had parodied earlier in the season. That episode, \u201cGot A Nut<\/a>,\u201d was pulled from reruns<\/a> last week as it was scheduled to air on the same day as Kirk\u2019s death. Some Kirk fans expressed outrage towards the South Park ep in the wake of the shooting, though Kirk seemed to enjoy the parody when \u201cGot A Nut\u201d originally aired.<\/p>\n

After a contract battle<\/a> with Paramount, South Park returned firing on all cylinders in July, skewering Trump, his administration, and Paramount itself<\/a>. The hot-button commentary helped the show break ratings records. Unlike previous seasons, the 27th season has been airing on a biweekly schedule. Per THR, Comedy Central has stated the remaining six episodes of the season will air on September 24, October 15, October 29, November 12, November 26 and December 10.<\/p>\n

Comedy Central pulls South Park episode mocking Charlie Kirk from rerun<\/a>South Park prods at tariffs and Fox News, but keeps its eye on the “pissing off Trump” prize<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"South Park won\u2019t be new tonight, and for that, series creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone have issued…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":150498,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[64,63,134,427],"class_list":{"0":"post-150497","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-tv"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150497","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=150497"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150497\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/150498"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=150497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=150497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=150497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}