TLDR: They didn’t finish it in time. The delay doesn’t have anything to do with ck.
they haven’t said whether Kirk’s death is related or not, just that they didn’t finish in time. They very well could have made changes because of his death and weren’t able to finish in time.
Changing episodes due to current events and finishing at the last minute is something they’ve done for years.
They also haven’t said whether space aliens were the cause for the episode being delayed…
People are just grasping here lol
You know that is ridiculous fucking comparison.
We haven’t had space aliens suddenly make contact with us since the last episode.
Kirk’s death is exactly the type of shit South Park’s commentary is affected by.
Oh for sure. I do not disagree with anything you are saying, but I do think it’s ridiculous that people are looking at this a a censorship issue already and not just them tweaking to fit events
Reality has become so similar to South Park that South Park is basically just a news outlet at this point. Same thing with The Onion.
Still love them tho. BRING BACK CHEFF
Isaac Hayes died 17 years ago
“No I didn’t, children!”
He had.
I love how South Park releases episodes way more than the 10 episode season dump to binge on.
really? honestly this makes me respect South Park less.
South Park is like It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia, there is a consequence to either show suddenly shying away from harsh criticism of evil people in that it throws ALL THE OTHER shit thrown at much less evil people into a disengenous disequilibrium.
It exposes a hollowness to the vision of South Park I think, South Park has so far pretended to be unable to be offended, to be speaking from an identity that will accept all criticism in return for criticizing all and that will transgress the tone policing of the powerful as a rule.
Well, it has limits doesn’t it? How do those limits impact the narrative mechanism at the center of South Park that drives the show, that nothing is above having mud thrown at it and to pretend otherwise is dangerous?
The answer is likely that South Park is as dishonestly subject to the whims of the rich, powerful and hypocritical as the things it takes aim at and yet does it have that self awareness? Do Matt and Trey really possess that political self-awareness at this point? Maybe, but I am not so sure.
To be fair, they did’t say it was because of the shooting. The article is just baselessly implying that.
This time, however, the news came with a rare statement from creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone: “Apparently when you do everything at the last minute sometimes you don’t get it done. This one’s on us. We didn’t get it done in time. Thanks to Comedy Central and South Park fans for being so understanding. Tune in next week!”
I only remember one time when they were on comedy central where an episode was missed because they had a massive power outage or something. Wonder what the reason is this time.
Hint: The son of the owner of Oracle now gets to say just how much South Park can piss off people in power
Good point, it could just be a coincidence and more importantly if the intensity of the week got to the writers of South Park, well that is a pretty damn valid reason these days.
I just think it is indicative that South Park has found itself in this position in the first place. I think if the criticism of Charlie Kirk was more honest and less cynical it would hold up even after this act of senseless violence. It is the fact that the show didn’t really say much of anything conclusive, to the point that Charlie Kirk himself was hyped about being parodied on the show, that makes it age so poorly in the wake of this exposure of how far rightwing violence has escalated in the US.
A better written takedown of Charlie Kirk would certainly feel uncomfortable right now, but if it had substance it would have also had humanity in a way that I think would have made it way less awkward to rebroadcast the episode in the aftermath of Charlie Kirk’s murder.
A better written takedown of Charlie Kirk would have pointed directly to the likelihood of the cylicity of violence, of how the snake of rightwing hate is always eating itself in a self-perpetuating and self-annihilating ouroboros. Crucially it would have recognized, at least in passing, the crushing sadness and unnecessary loss for all those involved at the heart of this broken ideology even as it lampooned it (It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia walks this line in a much more successful fashion in my opinion).
This is the criticism that is necessary of rightwing ideology, that it SEEKS out and nourishes hate as an explicit objective, not as merely a means to power or as a vehicle of greed but as a deeply held belief system and South Park clearly doesn’t actually want to grapple with that.
Its unfortunate that South Park is increasingly finding itself fighting the exact same battles The Simpsons already won
Don’t judge too soon, might be that the episode will be extra special.
If not, then f them.
True and just because I have this criticism doesn’t mean I don’t enjoy South Park to a degree or don’t think the show can’t evolve to meet the moment, I just think South Park needs to prove it will bite the hand that feeds it in a way South Park has always been willing to criticize others for NOT doing out of selfish desires. It is too early to judge if South Park will do that but if I were the writers of South Park I would be looking at the cancellation of Colbert’s show and conclude that this was a “fight with everything we have moment” if there ever was one.
Get the network you are on to cancel you, start a new streaming service with a new show made by that is advertised as “by the creators of South Park” as the main draw for new viewers, make waves, just DO SOMETHING. This isn’t a time to be meek, in fact it has become desperately dangerous to do so in the US lest the consequences continue to grow.
