South Park is making every other week its new norm, per Deadline. The series, which has been savagely mocking Donald Trump and his administration since it premiered last month, has been taking an apparently unplanned week off in between each of its episodes. Now show creators Matt Stone and Trey Parker are going to cement the pattern, making fans wait an additional week after each scathing episode. A source told the site, “What they’re doing means this year’s episodes need more time than usual to put together, to finish” since “so much happens right now in just one day with Trump.” The first scheduling break came after the follow-up to its premiere episode featuring a nude Trump was delayed. The wait resulted in the show’s Kristi Noem takedown, which showed the Homeland Security Secretary as a glammed-up, arrest-obsessed ICE agent who enjoys massacring puppies. Another one-week break—this one preplanned—replaced a new episode with Comedy Central’s “South Park Day” to commemorate the premiere of its first ever episode, before giving fans “Sickofancy,” which roasted tech CEOs and their cozying up to Trump. Deadline’s source said the breaks keep the show up to the minute with its scathing takes: “No one’s going to sacrifice getting it right, even if we have to push getting it to air, and if that makes the season longer, so be it.”
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