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As “South Park” nears 30 years on the air, the raunchy animated series is back for another season that promises a post-election return more wacky and ominous than ever.
The teaser for Season 27 sees the adult comic show tackling Diddy, Trump round two and … a war with Canada?
Known for satirizing real-life politics and pop culture issues, this time around nothing is off limits from recent airplane crashes and a crisis at the Federal Aviation Administration to American democracy at risk.
In the wacky trailer posted Wednesday, the show previewed a menacing, if not darkly funny season. With gothic writing and red title cards, the tease felt more like the intro to a horror movie than a comedy program.
How the show will tackle Sean “Diddy” Combs, the music mogul turned suspected sex trafficker, remains to be seen, but the trailer showed him in an orange astronaut suit (perhaps a hint at an orange jumpsuit), traveling alongside other characters in some sort of intergalactic switch-up.
Co-created by Trey Parker and Matt Stone, “South Park,” like “The Simpsons” or “Bob’s Burgers,” offers the joy of Sunday cartoons without any of the charming naivete. Instead, the program leans into dark comedy and a “you’re so wrong for that” sensibility.
Season 27 is expected to be no different as the program depicting life in a fictional Colorado town returns to skewer the rise in ketamine use.
As threatening, horror movie-style music plays in the background, a preview of the season shows French characters on boats, stealing back the Statue of Liberty − no doubt a reference to recent comments from a European lawmaker claiming America should return the monument after what he views as a slide toward tyranny.
The previous season of “South Park” premiered over two years ago. The show did not air during the 2024 presidential contest between Donald Trump and Kamala Harris, a choice Parker and Stone told Variety at the time they made “on purpose.”
“We’ve tried to do ‘South Park’ through four or five presidential elections, and it is such a hard thing,” Stone said. “It’s such a mind scramble, and it seems like it takes outsized importance.”
“I don’t know what more we could possibly say about Trump,” Parker added.
While Trump himself is not depicted in the trailer for Season 27, his policies weigh heavily on the material. One shot depicts a violent war with Canada, long one of America’s closest allies, which has since become more foe than friend as the president levied heavy tariffs and threatened to make the country into the 51st state.
‘South Park’ Season 27 release date
New episodes will begin airing July 9 on Comedy Central (10:30 pm ET.)
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