After a three-week hiatus, South Park is set to make a triumphant return on Wednesday, live on Comedy Central and Paramount+, and we might just get our first glimpse of Satan and Donald Trump’s little bundle of joy.
According to a press release sent out Wednesday, the new episode, titled “Twisted Christian,” will feature Eric Cartman as he becomes possessed and “may be the key to stopping the Antichrist.” A brief promo clip that was released Wednesday shows Mr. Garrison and another South Park Elementary staffer being told, “Your students appear to be in some kind of cult involving the number six and seven.” Cut to Cartman, Butters, Tweak and other students shouting, “6, 7,” with delight and laughter.
But what does it mean?
To refresh memories about where things left off in the show’s dual backdrops, the titular Colorado mountain town and Washington, D.C., Satan and Donald Trump’s clandestine affair has been exposed by the media, along with the fact that Satan is pregnant with the Antichrist — and due any day now.
The Satan-Trump Washington plot thread and happenings in South Park have tangentially merged throughout the season, notably from a lawsuit the show’s fictional version of Trump filed to bankrupt the town and scandalous PSA that followed. And, at the close of the Sept. 3 episode, the young girls of South Park, aided by Butters, used a cursed Labubu to conjure a demon. Who entered through the portal to hell? Satan and Trump, of course.
The following episode skirted that plot thread to focus more on the Israel-Gaza conflict and Kyle’s mom — who is Cartman’s favorite topic and person to sing about — in a bottle episode, of sorts, that didn’t move the season’s main storyline forward. That is, aside from the hijinks of Trump trying to kill his unborn baby to save his nights at Mar-a-Lago.
Wednesday night’s episode is the sixth of the ratings-smashing 27th season of South Park, which debuted on Comedy Central in 1997 and has skewered celebrities, politicians and anyone it wants to with its unique biting satire since. Additional new episodes of the latest season will air on Oct. 29, Nov. 12, Nov. 26, and Dec. 10, according to Comedy Central.
New episodes of South Park will be available to stream on Paramount+ and on demand with TV providers post-premiere.
