“South Park” has been some of the uniquely produced exhibits on tv for many years, and right now that method arguably got here again to chunk them.
In a uncommon assertion, Matt Stone and Trey Parker introduced that the fifth episode of this season of “South Park” has been delayed and pushed to subsequent Wednesday after it was meant to air tonight, Wednesday, September 17. The brand new episode will air on Sept. 24 as an alternative.
“Apparently once you do all the things on the final minute typically you don’t get it accomplished,” Stone and Parker stated in an announcement shared with press. “This one’s on us. We didn’t get it accomplished in time. Due to Comedy Central and South Park followers for being so understanding. Tune in subsequent week!”
It’s annoying when you had been trying ahead to what Matt and Trey had in retailer this week after constantly skewering the Trump administration this season (Episode 4 revealed that Devil is pregnant with Donald Trump’s baby, which made Fox Information and Child Rock burst into completely happy tears). And it’s possibly much more unusual contemplating that this season, “South Park” has been launched semi-weekly.
Simply shopping IMDB all through the present’s historical past reveals a bunch of random, inexplicable gaps on the discharge calendar, however by no means with a brand new episode constantly each different week somewhat than each week, or on this case a two-week hole. It’s unclear whether or not these different gaps are due to delays, however a rep informs IndieWire “South Park” did miss a deadline at the very least as soon as earlier than, particularly again in 2013 and Season 17 as a result of an influence outage of all issues.
The present did announce its schedule for the rest of the season, however we’ll see if that adjustments in any respect within the coming weeks. Episodes will air October 15, October 29, November 12, November 26, and December 10.
Comedy Central has even wanted to make adjustments to its re-run schedule for “South Park” of late, pulling it’s deliberate re-run of the season’s second episode final week within the wake of the taking pictures of Charlie Kirk, whom the present poked enjoyable at as a “grasp debater.” As we wrote, Kirk on the time known as the episode “hilarious.”
As detailed within the 2012 documentary brief “6 Days to Air,” “South Park” has ceaselessly had a really wild and aggressive manufacturing schedule, particularly for an animated present. Throughout six days in Los Angeles, Stone and Parker handle to put in writing, report (the 2 do lots of the voices themselves), and even animate the sequence all earlier than it airs that week. The schedule is then damaged up into seven-week manufacturing batches somewhat than 14 weeks straight as is extra trade customary.
Nobody else has such leniency in Hollywood or goes about issues this fashion. It’s a schedule extra akin to “Saturday Evening Dwell” than “The Simpsons,” which spreads its animation out throughout as many as 10 months, getting all of the writing and voice recording accomplished manner upfront. “South Park” has accomplished this because the starting when the present was a crudely animated satire, however now because the animation has advanced, that course of hasn’t modified. The duo stated at ComicCon this yr after the really wild season premiere that “I don’t even know what subsequent week’s episode goes to be.”
Shopping for the present an additional week has helped Stone and Parker turn out to be laser centered and hyper related in its criticism of the Trump administration, which has made specific references to Trump’s lawsuit in opposition to CBS Information, ICE and Kristi Noem, and the variety of tech execs who’ve been showering Trump with reward and frivolous items. The White Home was so offended that it even felt the necessity to concern an announcement saying the present “hasn’t been related for over 20 years.”
The truth is, it’s arguably extra related right now than it has been within the final 20 years, and not one of the uncommon launch tempo has dampened the thrill for the present and a few report rankings. It’s been so necessary to Paramount that the brand new house owners in July gave Stone and Parker a $1.5 billion streaming deal to maintain them and “South Park” round for years to come back.
