“South Park” returned Wednesday with “Conflict of Interest,” the fifth episode of Season 27, following a one-week delay. The episode, originally scheduled to air Sept. 17 on Comedy Central, was postponed just hours before broadcast. “Apparently, when you do everything at the last minute, sometimes you don’t get it done,” said co-creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone in a statement posted to Instagram regarding the skipped week. “This one’s on us. We didn’t get it done in time.”

The delay was unusual for the long-running series, which produces episodes week by week. Some speculated Comedy Central postponed the episode out of caution after conservative pundit Charlie Kirk was assassinated on Sept. 10. The network had previously pulled a repeat of Season 27’s second episode, “Got a Nut,” which

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