'No One Pulled the Episode, No One Censored Us, and You Know We'd Say So if True' — South Park Co-Creator Matt Stone Insists This Week's Delayed Episode Is 'Gonna Be Great'

South Park co-creator Matt Stone has insisted past week’s occurrence was not delayed owed to censorship — arsenic truthful galore person suggested. Rather, Stone insisted it had to bash with simply failing to implicit the enactment connected time.

Last week, Comedy Central delayed the latest occurrence of South Park conscionable hours earlier it was owed to air. Co-creators Trey Parker and Stone issued a connection astatine the clip insisting the blasted laic astatine their door.

“Apparently erstwhile you bash everything astatine the past infinitesimal sometimes you don’t get it done,” the connection read, arsenic reported by Variety. “This one’s connected us. We didn’t get it done successful time. Thanks to Comedy Central and South Park fans for being truthful understanding. Tune successful adjacent week!”

South Park co-creators Matt Stone and Trey Parker. Photo by Jon Kopaloff/Getty Images for Paramount+.

Parker and Stone make each occurrence week-by-week, which makes for a chaotic accumulation but topical shows. But they person switched to a bi-weekly docket for this season, with the elongated accumulation clip allowing the brace much country to enactment connected each episode, thing Paramount is reportedly blessed with.

It’s worthy noting that during their San Diego Comic-Con 2025 panel, which took spot the time aft the Donald Trump-skewering Season 27 opener aired, Parker said the brace were unsure what the adjacent occurrence would be, revealing the determination was “super stressful.”

As acold arsenic we astatine IGN are aware, Parker and Stone person missed the scheduled merchandise of South Park conscionable erstwhile before, owed to a powerfulness outage, but ne'er for not getting an occurrence done successful time.

The hold sparked speculation that the occurrence was pulled retired of fearfulness of reprisal pursuing the assassination of Charlie Kirk, an state of Donald Trump who was changeable astatine a Utah assemblage connected Wednesday, September 10. Comedy Central had pulled the scheduled repetition of the caller South Park Season 27, Episode 2, titled Got a Nut, successful which Eric Cartman cosplays arsenic Charlie Kirk, becomes a right-wing podcaster and issues messages akin to those utilized by Kirk successful the past arsenic helium "masterdebaters" assemblage graduates. Cartman adjacent dishes retired an grant called 'The Charlie Kirk Award for Young Masterdebaters.'

Kirk had responded to the occurrence astatine the clip successful a TikTok post, calling it “hilarious” and adjacent saying “South Park gets this right. I deliberation they've been watching a batch of Charlie Kirk videos.” He added: “We person a bully tone astir being made amusive of. This is each a success, this is each a win. We arsenic conservatives, we person heavy skin, not bladed skin, and you tin marque amusive of america and it doesn’t matter.”

Some MAGA conservatives had deed retired astatine South Park, drafting a enactment betwixt the amusement and Kirk’s murder. Kirk was not mentioned successful Parker and Stone's statement. Now, successful a caller interrogation with The Denver Post, Stone insisted alleged censorship had thing to bash with the decision, and reiterated the anterior statement.

“No 1 pulled the episode, nary 1 censored us, and you cognize we’d accidental truthful if true,” Stone said. “We conscionable didn’t get it done. When you ever chopped it close, sometimes you messiness up. That’s the terms of being a procrastinator.”

The newest episode, the archetypal since Kirk’s death, is owed retired this Wednesday, September 24. Stone said: “It’s gonna beryllium great.”

South Park’s caller episodes person drawn immoderate of the series' best-ever ratings, arsenic good arsenic planetary attention, for their nary holds barred depiction of President Trump. But the episodes are taking longer to produce, with conscionable 4 arriving successful the 8 weeks since Season 27's debut.

Variety reported South Park volition past instrumentality a further 2 weeks disconnected earlier resuming its bi-weekly docket from October 15 to December 10.

Photo by Jon Kopaloff/Getty Images for Paramount+.

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