South Park won't be back until 2025

Because they can't bear to do any more Trump episodes

South Park is taking a break until next year, to avoid having to satirise the American presidential election.

Co-creator Matt Parker told Vanity Fair: ‘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.

His co-creator Trey Parker added: ‘Obviously, it’s fucking 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.’

In 2016, the show addressed the election race directly with elementary school teacher Mr. Garrison (voiced by Parker) successfully running for office in Trumpian style.

When Trump won they had a ’36-hour mad dash to make an episode about the 2016 election after being stunned (like most of the rest of the country) about Trump’s victory’.

The pair were talking to the magazine to promote the film ¡Casa Bonita Mi Amor! which follows the pair buying a struggling Mexican restaurant in Lakewood, Colorado, that they had previously featured in a South Park episode.

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Published: 7 Sep 2024