“South Park” partial poster.
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Trey Parker and Matt Stone’s South Park is nearing the end of its 28th Season, which has squarely focused on President Donald Trump.
South Park returned on July 23 to Comedy Central, following a two-week delay as Skydance Media and Paramount Global hammered out their blockbuster merger deal. On the day South Park Season 27 premiered, a five-year, $1.5 billion deal was struck for Parker and Stone to produce 50 episodes over the next five years for Comedy Central to stream on Paramount+.
In addition, South Park’s 26-season library of the adult animated comedy moved from HBO Max — where it streamed for the last five years — to the Paramount Global platform.
For the most part, new episodes for South Park Seasons 27 and 28 — which consist of five episodes each — have premiered on Comedy Central on Wednesdays and moved to streaming on Paramount+ on Thursdays, with a two-week break between each new episode.
As such, the South Park Season 28 finale is set to air on cable’s Comedy Central on Wednesday, Dec. 10, at 10 p.m. ET/PT and will begin streaming on Paramount+ on Thursday, Dec. 11, beginning at 6 a.m. ET/3 a.m. PT.
Satan and President Donald Trump in “South Park.”
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The Season 28 Finale Will No Doubt Be Political
South Park, which has always been an equal opportunity offender, this year has been taking aim at President Donald Trump, his administration, his policies and his MAGA supporters.
In an interview with the New York Times (via The Hollywood Reporter), in November, Trey Parker said of Season 27 and Season 28’s heavy political focus, “It’s not that we got all political. It’s that politics became pop culture.”
Oddly enough, Parker added that he and co-creator Matt Stone only intended to lampoon Trump in the first episode of Season 27, but as controversial current events surrounding the president unfolded, so did the commander-in-chief’s storyline.
“We’re just very down-the-middle guys,” Parker told the New York Times. “Any extremists of any kind, we make fun of. We did it for years with the woke thing. That was hilarious to us. And this is hilarious to us.”
Oddly enough, Trump was only featured briefly in South Park’s last episode on Nov. 26, the Thanksgiving-themed Turkey Trot. Instead, Parker and Stone poked big fun at Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, who was sent to South Park to secure the release of billionaire tech investor Peter Thiel from the town’s jail.
Since the premiere of the five-episode Season 28, Thiel has been working with Vice President JD Vance to get the demonically possessed Cartman to Washington, D.C., to prevent the birth of Trump and Satan’s baby, aka the Antichrist.
Whether or not that plan will be successful will be answered with the South Park Season 28 finale, which premieres on cable on Comedy Central on Dec. 10 before streaming on Paramount+ on Dec. 11.