'This One's on Us. We Didn't Get It Done in Time' — South Park Creators Delay New Episode Hours Before It Was Due to Air

Comedy Central has delayed tonight’s occurrence of South Park conscionable hours earlier it was owed to air.

Co-creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone issued a connection 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!”

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.

Last week, Comedy Central pulled the scheduled repetition of the caller South Park occurrence pursuing the assassination of Charlie Kirk. Comedy Central pulled the occurrence from a showing connected the nighttime of Wednesday, September 10, aft Kirk, an state of President Trump, was changeable astatine a Utah assemblage earlier that day.

The occurrence successful question is Season 27, Episode 2, titled Got a Nut. In it, 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 South Park, drafting a enactment betwixt the amusement and Kirk’s murder. Kirk is not mentioned successful Parker and Stone's statement.

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.

The delayed occurrence volition beryllium the archetypal since Kirk's death, and is present owed to aerial adjacent Wednesday, September 24. Variety reported South Park volition past instrumentality a further 2 weeks disconnected earlier resuming its bi-weekly docket from October 15 to December 10.

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