It appears Matt Stone and Trey Parker had no choice. The South Park creators had said, after the end of the show’s previous season all the way back in 2023, that they were pretty much done with making fun of Donald Trump. Skipping the presidential election in its entirety was both a logistical necessity (as they negotiated contracts with Paramount, which owns South Park home Comedy Central) and a creative decision, the pair admitted to Vanity Fair in September. That’s because parodying so many elections during the show’s nearly 30-year run had been “a hard thing to do,” Stone said, adding that it “takes outsize importance” and can feel like a “mind scramble.”

But there was another reason: “I don’t know what more we could possibly say about Trump,” Parker said at the time.

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