'South Park' delays new episode hours before airtime: Here's why

[Wicked Blue]

USA Today

A previously scheduled episode of "South Park" is being pushed back.

Comedy Central announced the fifth episode of Season 27, originally set to air Wednesday, Sept. 17, would be delayed another week, to Sept. 24.

"Apparently when you do everything at the last minute sometimes you don't get it done," creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone said in a release. "This one's on us. We didn't get it done in time. Thanks to Comedy Central and South Park fans for being so understanding. Tune in next week!"

A new episode also did not air last week, after a change to the longstanding animation series' release schedule. Instead, the network will likely re-air one of the season's previous episodes. However the season's second episode, which features a parody of Charlie Kirk, continues to be absent from the schedule. Comedy Central pulled the rerun of the Season 27 episode "Got A Nut," in which Cartman imitates the conservative media personality in the wake of his death.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/entertainment/tv/2025/09/17/south-park-season-27-episode-5-delay/86203046007/

[Silent Type]

1. Glad they announced it before conspiracy theories started flying.

[underpants]

2. They're already flying. I saw a documentary on them. Procrastination as an art form.

They, Trey really, do everything last minute. In order to air on Thursday night they have to have the script done done by Tuesday at noon. That allows for the animation to be sent and done in South Korea, songs to be arranged and recorded, and then voices. In the documentary I saw they started putting pencils to paper on Monday night I think.

Pretty much all TV Animation we see is done in South Korea. Five fingers cost more which is why The Simpsons, South Park, Family Guy etc have 4 fingers. God got 5 fingers on The Simpsons.

[BlueTsunami2018]

3. I don't see why they had to pull the "Nut" episode.

It doesn’t depict him being corrected and he claimed to have “loved” it. And why wouldn’t he? It only gave him and his garbage business more publicity.