South Park creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone revealed in an interview this week that the famed animated comedy show will do something that it has never done before — go an entire year without releasing any new episodes.
The duo told Vanity Fair that the show would not return for its 27th season until 2025 as they wait for “Paramount to figure all their s**t out,” meaning they won’t do any episodes on the upcoming election.
They indicated they were tired of satirizing Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump and are passing up doing more episodes on Trump “on purpose.”
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“We’ve tried to do South Park through 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 said. “Obviously, it’s f**king important, but it kind of takes over everything and we just have less fun. I don’t know what more we could possibly say about Trump.”
They said that it’s a lot more fun for them to stick to producing the kind of classic material that made the show great in the first place. “It’s just way more fun to be like, Oh, Cartman’s going to dress up like a robot,” Stone said.
The show has always premiered a new season every year it has been on air, dating back to 1997. In recent years, it has also released specials on Paramount+ and Comedy Central.
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They said that while culture has shifted because TikTok, the social media app that critics say is controlled by communist China, has incentivized short-form videos, they still see tremendous value in “writing a story and building a frame so that you can do more complicated stuff.”
“We’re the Rolling Stones, man—we’re trying to get out five, six nights a year,” Stone says. “We could do more, but I don’t think it’d be better.”
