‘South Park’ Season 27 Can’t Avoid War With Canada

Trey Parker and Matt Stone chose to wait out the 2024 presidential election before releasing the next season of South Park, but now that Donald Trump is back in office and he’s seemingly taking his foreign policy advice from South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut, the “Blame Canada” writers are ready for war.

Earlier today, South Park Studios released the long-awaited trailer for South Park Season 27 alongside its even more eagerly anticipated release date – come July 9th, South Park will return with six severely topical episodes in a shortened season that Parker and Stone will likely follow up with more feature-length streaming specials. The last time South Park had a regular release schedule was at the end of Season 26 back in March 2023, and although many fans are unsatisfied that the more than two-year wait for new episodes will be rewarded with barely two hours’ worth of South Park content, the trailer promises that Parker and Stone will make the absolute most of this brief return to work at their flagship series.

In just 80 seconds of teaser footage and promotional messaging, the South Park Season 27 trailer revealed that the upcoming season will skewer the string of aviation accidents that punctuated the beginning of Trump’s second term, accused sex trafficker P. Diddy and the escalating trade war (and possible actual war) with America’s crass northern neighbors:

Back in September, Parker and Stone admitted in a rare interview that they had deliberately chosen to delay the release of their longest-awaited South Park season ever until after the presidential election, confessing that they had run out of ways to satirize President Trump after they wrote themselves into a corner with the President Garrison arc during his first term. “We’ve tried to do South Park through four or five presidential elections, and it is such a hard thing to — it’s such a mind scramble, and it seems like it takes outsized importance,” Stone said his Stan-like decision to sit the election out. “Obviously, it’s fucking important, but it kind of takes over everything and we just have less fun.” 

While the above trailer may not implicate a pending parody of Trump in the direct sense, clearly Parker and Stone have been paying attention to the political landscape and are ready to express their thoughts through crude cartoon humor. Given that there were about a dozen plane crashes in the short teaser, we can expect the gutting of the FAA by Trump and his allies to be at the forefront of South Park Season 27 along with our government’s escalating acrimony toward Canada – I’m sure South Park’s version of the Great White North is about as thrilled about the trade war as they were with those nukes.

Then, there’s the slightly more subtle knock on Elon Musk baked into the above video as a ketamine-obsessed Randy warns that he’s going to “fuck around with the government a little.” While neither Parker and Stone nor their fans want a repeat of the one-to-one parody of President Garrison, a plot line in which Randy becomes the South Park world’s DOGE head is both hilarious and all-but-guaranteed to get the series officially labeled “woke” by the White House.

Though Parker and Stone may have tired of keeping the show involved in every election cycle, they’re finally ready to address the aftermath – someone’s gotta do something about all those plane wrecks, after all.