Whereas the USA is presently within the midst of some extraordinarily sophisticated instances in terms of the relationships between media corporations and the federal government, South Park has performed completely nothing to shrink back from controversy. Season 27 of the Comedy Central present launched again in July, and there was no effort from the filmmakers to shrink back from scorching button points (which, to be honest, is the South Park approach). Due to this, nevertheless, there was some concern in latest days that the delay of the latest episode was a results of censorship – however now collection co-creator Matt Stone has gone on the document easing these worries.
The fifth episode of South Park‘s newest season did not debut as initially scheduled final Wednesday, but it surely has now been placed on the document that the delay was not as a consequence of any form of behind-the-scenes conversations/objections concerning content material. Matt Stone has spoken with The Denver Submit and guaranteed followers that the creatives have been merely unable to hit the mandatory deadlines for the episode to air. Stated the filmmaker,
Nobody pulled the episode, nobody censored us, and you already know we’d say so if true. We simply didn’t get it performed. Once you all the time lower it shut, typically you mess up. That’s the value of being a procrastinator.
“Reducing it shut” has lengthy been part of the South Park inventive course of. Whereas there are numerous animated reveals that takes months to develop single episodes, the manufacturing schedule for Matt Stone and Trey Parker’s creation is accelerated in order that the tales might be as well timed as doable and touch upon present occasions (if you have not seen the documentary 6 Days to Air: The Making Of South Park, I extremely suggest it, and it is at present accessible to stream with a Paramount+ subscription). Season 27 has been working with a distinct schedule than earlier years, as episodes have been airing each different week as an alternative of weekly, however plainly even having an additional week to work was not sufficient to finish episode 5.
It is value noting that this isn’t the primary time that the present has missed a deadline.
To be honest, considerations about censorship are comprehensible. Along with all the controversy concerning the cancellation of The Late Present With Stephen Colbert and the suspension of Jimmy Kimmel Dwell!, the second episode of South Park Season 27 – titled “Bought A Nut” – was pulled from reruns as a result of it makes reference Charlie Kirk (it is nonetheless accessible to look at on Paramount+).
We now have not but gotten any teasers for the subsequent episode of South Park, and we thusly do not know what it is going to be about, however the expectation is that it’s going to air throughout the present’s regular time slot at 10pm ET/PT on September 24.