'Trey and I Are Attracted to That Like Flies to Honey' — South Park Creators Explain Why the New Season Ended Up Being Pretty Much All About Mocking Donald Trump

The creators of South Park person breached their soundlessness connected the show’s caller absorption connected mocking Donald Trump, revealing they were attracted to “new taboos” and a fearfulness of speaking retired against the administration.

South Park has enjoyed large ratings and sparked overmuch statement ever since the Donald Trump-skewering Season 27 opener successful July. While the Comedy Central amusement has featured a fig of subplots successful caller months, the overarching Season 27 and present Season 28 storyline revolves astir Trump and Satan having a babe together. The Season 27 opener, which you tin work the details of here, roasted Trump to specified an grade that it sparked a rebuttal from the White House.

Now, successful an interrogation with The New York Times, creators Matt Stone and Trey Parker revealed they lone decided to make the Trump plotline a fewer weeks earlier the play began, and that they thought the Trump quality would beryllium a one-off.

Those plans changed though when, according to Stone, the creators recovered a “vein of comedy” successful the archetypal episode. They said they sensed a fearfulness of speaking retired against the Trump medication and “new taboos,” and wanted to instrumentality it each head-on.

Stone said: “Trey and I are attracted to that similar flies to honey. Oh, that’s wherever the taboo is? Over there? OK, past we’re implicit there.”

So, erstwhile volition the Trump mocking end? Parker admitted the brace volition yet get “sick of” the Washington storyline, but for present it remains.

“You know, adjacent twelvemonth volition beryllium different,” helium said. “If there’s 1 happening we know, it is that our amusement volition beryllium a batch longer than theirs. So, we conscionable got to bash this for now.”

Comedy Central had delayed the Season 27 ender conscionable hours earlier it was owed to air, with Parker and Stone insisting the blasted laic astatine their door. “Apparently erstwhile you bash everything astatine the past infinitesimal sometimes you don’t get it done,” the brace told Variety. “This one’s connected us. We didn’t get it done successful time. Thanks to Comedy Central and South Park fans for being truthful understanding. Tune successful adjacent week!”

Parker and Stone make each occurrence week-by-week, which makes for a chaotic accumulation but topical shows. But they had switched to a biweekly docket for Season 27, with the elongated accumulation clip allowing the brace much country to enactment connected each episode, thing Paramount was reportedly blessed with.

It’s worthy noting that during their San Diego Comic-Con 2025 panel, which took spot the time aft the Season 27 opener aired, Parker said the brace were unsure what the adjacent occurrence would be, revealing the determination was “super stressful.”

Matt Stone and Trey Parker astatine SDCC 2025. Photo by Michael Buckner/Variety via Getty Images.

We're present into Season 28 aft the astonishment determination to bring South Park Season 27 to an extremity aft conscionable 5 episodes. The last 3 episodes of Season 28 aerial each 2 weeks done December 10 (November 12, November 26, and December 10).

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