'South Park' quietly ended Season 27, jumping into Season 28 with new episode roasting Peter Thiel

“South Park” is bidding adieu to its short-lived but buzzy Season 27.

The sixth occurrence of the year, which aired Wednesday connected Comedy Central, marks the archetypal occurrence of Season 28, a spokesperson from the web confirmed to The Times. (The occurrence is disposable to watercourse connected Paramount+.)

The crushed down the determination to extremity Season 27, which was primitively expected to person 10 episodes, is unclear. But fans of the long-running satire volition inactive get 4 further episodes this year, if “South Park” co-creator Matt Stone and Trey Parker instrumentality to the docket they outlined. Fans had been speculating astir the commencement of a caller play aft seeing tv listings that coded Wednesday’s occurrence arsenic the archetypal of Season 28.

The caller episode, titled “Twisted Christian,” acted arsenic a continuation of Season 27’s plot, with President Trump grappling with the consequences of impregnating his partner, Satan, and Jesus Christ continuing his relation arsenic a counsellor astatine South Park Elementary. Chaos erupts astatine the schoolhouse erstwhile the viral “6-7” slang, an fundamentally meaningless operation that has taken implicit Generation Alpha, creates disruption. The school’s enactment is acrophobic the slang could beryllium tied to “some satanic numerology,” truthful they bring successful “the highest authorization connected biblical prophecies”: tech billionaire Peter Thiel.

A philharmonic taxable that declares “Peter Thiel knows astir the Antichrist,” plays each clip helium appears connected surface passim the episode, and helium lectures students astir however the “newer, much quality signifier of Satan” is coming. He aboriginal visits Cartman, who is obsessed with the “6-7” sensation and appears to beryllium possessed, and Thiel deems that helium is the “key to redeeming our country” and that helium indispensable instrumentality the lad with him to Washington. Thiel and Vice President JD Vance are scheming to extremity Satan’s pregnancy, and Cartman seems to beryllium the closest happening to a solution they have.

The real-life Thiel precocious gave an off-the-record four-part lecture bid connected the subject, reportedly suggesting that idiosyncratic similar 22-year-old clime activistic Greta Thunberg could beryllium the Antichrist, according to Politico. Thiel, who co-founded Palantir, is simply a self-described “small-O orthodox Christian” and has been a vocal backer of blimpish politicians and a captious donor for Republicans.

The occurrence besides shows Jesus clashing with the main of South Park Elementary, who present calls himself a Power Christian Principal, implicit their competing definitions of Christianity. The main says helium follows the sect of the religion that loves America and doesn’t tolerate cheery people, utilizing a slur. He past tries to acceptable up Jesus with a Christian woman, who, similar his wife, has ample bosom implants, articulator filler and dons a ample transverse necklace. The animation benignant of the women, and their deficiency of cognition astir the religion they assertion to travel devoutly — 1 cites podcasts arsenic her root of accusation — seems to poke amusive astatine what immoderate telephone “MAGA style,” oregon the enhancement of classically feminine features, sometimes to a “cartoonish degree,” arsenic described by New York Times’ main manner professional Vanessa Friedman. The women successful the occurrence deterioration dense constitution and figure-hugging styles.

“I don’t cognize what you deliberation Christianity is, but it has thing to bash with that,” Jesus says, referring to their appearance. He aboriginal tells the principal, “You request a mode of bullying radical and you’re utilizing the Bible to bash it.”

Recent episodes person drawn beardown viewership and, arsenic always, poked amusive astatine topical issues and governmental figures including Trump, migration raids, tariffs and the FCC. Even Paramount, which bought the planetary streaming rights to “South Park” this summertime successful a $1.5-billion deal, has been the butt of respective jokes.

Season 27 had an antithetic cadence of episodes, with the archetypal 2 arriving connected a play schedule, past biweekly earlier the accomplishment of the evident finale of Season 27, which aired 3 weeks aboriginal connected Sept. 25.

The 2nd occurrence drew disapproval for its parody of Charlie Kirk, the slain governmental influencer, contempt the occurrence airing weeks earlier his death. Comedy Central, which is owned by Paramount, announced it volition not aerial reruns of the 2nd occurrence of the latest play aft Kirk was fatally changeable Sept. 10 successful Utah. The occurrence tin inactive beryllium recovered connected Paramount+.

The last occurrence of Season 27 was the archetypal to aerial aft Kirk’s death, but Parker and Stone told the Denver Post the hold was unrelated to its content: “No 1 pulled the episode, nary 1 censored us, and you cognize we’d accidental truthful if true.” The brace issued a connection connected Sept. 17 saying the occurrence wasn’t finished successful time.

Future episodes of “South Park” volition aerial each 2 weeks done Dec. 10.

Times TV exertion Maira Garcia contributed to this report.