South Park won't return until after the election, creators 'don't know what more we could possibly say about Trump'
South Park won't return until after the election, creators 'don't know what more we could possibly say about Trump'
'South Park' creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone explain why they purposely delayed the show's 27th season premiere until after the 2024 election: 'I don't know what more we could possibly say about Trump.'
Well, if he wins are they gonna postpone for 4 years?
91Might as well just end the show at that point. Satire will have officially died. The Onion will probably turn into a reputable news source.
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They dont need an excuse, they've made enough episodes, it time to close your eyes and rest now Trey
53Agreed
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They went so soft on Trump it's not even funny. Why the fuck did they make Garrison Trump? I think it was the biggest mistake south park ever made.
30Because Garrison is entirely goddamned deranged and it's funny, that's why.
29Because nobody actually thought he would win.
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They also mentioned that Paramount has also delayed things due to the streaming disputes. All espidoes will be available on Paramount in the USA come 2025. That seems convenient. Maybe they wanted to delay and Matt and Trey didn't push back.
29I mean, it's right there in the article lol
While Parker admits that their decision also has to do with having to wait "for Paramount to figure all their s--- out," Stone notes that skipping Trump is definitely "on purpose."
13You and I both know many aren't looking past the headline or comments.
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Just like all Star Trek?
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This is what "creative defeat" looks like.
13I might come out looking like a trump supporter and I am not and I'm also not an American. But I heard the show is a political satire so do they also make fun of biden every now and then? I saw some funny clips of the show about AI and thats it.
I know I'm gonna get downvoted but I want to clarify I'm just asking this cause they can have some content with that too. It's not like America has only 1 problem to make fun of. I read the article and it seems like it's more about "paramount" and their statement may just be for funsies. Please correct me if I'm wrong.
7I assume that you havent seen too many episodes and dont know too much about the history on south park. But they are known for making fun of everyone, and not selecting by a agenda. For example there is an episode about: Mormons, Scientology, a whole series of episodes on the "superheroes" around jesus, there is even an episode where a future civilization is fighting over the meaning of "AAA", which is a atheistic alliance (to hint on the idea, that there will still be war, even if religions go extinct).
The fact that they make fun of everyone is one of the reasons they stood so long.
Btw in the 2016 season, which they released weekly during the last months of the election, their portraial of Hillary Clinton is the one of an extraordinaly stupid and incompetent woman, while their Donald Trump doesnt even want to be president.
20They've been around a long time, but a thing to consider is that in 2015 a great deal of people's entire political discourse was what was portrayed on South Park and/or The Daily Show-Colbert Report. Both on the Comedy Central channel.
They wielded far more influence than many realized.
7They make an episode in a weeks time, there are random episodes, but if they take something out of the news it's news, not history. They are not a political satire series, they pointed out what is wrong in society in general. First time trump was that dumb, it was hard to believe he would really be a serious candidate. They made fun of that, they took it to the top, so, they thought, but the top of their imagination lacks behind the reality we are in now. Biden is old news, trump is the only thing in the media, you can't make satire of trump, there is nothing more to point out.
6Interesting insight. I also feel content is stale rn compared to the beginning of the year.
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My memory is fuzzy, didn't they just make Mr Garrison the coolest he'd ever been before, at least from like the average white American guy's point of view? Were they ever actually being critical?
I assumed they were trying to play both sides since most trump fans wouldn't be able to tell it was satire, similar to Colbert's old show, and they could just say it's not their fault if their "message" was missed by most people that watched it.
3at least from like the
averagestereotypical white American guy’s point of viewWarning: Offensive content
Is this guy actually cool in the eyes of the average white American guy's point of view?
Were they ever actually being critical?
Yes, they write satire. They can't be responsible for Poe's Law.
26Yes, they write satire. They can't be responsible for Poe's Law.
If you do something once, and the impact of the thing you did is not what you expected or could have foreseen, that’s one thing.
If you do the thing every week for thirty years, that means you are at least considering it acceptable collateral damage.
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[conservatives] wouldn't be able to tell it was satire, similar to Colbert's old show
we should've realized america had a serious brainrot problem like 15 years ago when the colbert report was around and conservative politicians would continue to take interviews with him
9To me that was more Jon Stewart. Jon is 10x the savage Colbert is and absolutely eviscerated people he interviewed when they tried to go into bullshit mode.
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I think that's giving too much credit to the man-bear-pig people.
6You mean exactly how they do racist content, passing it off as satire but their demographic isn't that concerned with the winking.
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Would be funny for thwm to just have the 5 second clip from Krazy Kripples.
'We're just satying out of this'
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