Season Premiere of “South Park” To Simulcast On MTV/MTV2 Proving This Will Be An Event For The Ages
Comedy Central today announced that MTV and MTV2 will simulcast a one-hour pandemic special event of the Emmy® and Peabody® Award-winning series South Park, which marks the first time ever South Park has been simulcast across ViacomCBS brands. The one hour-long supersized episode titled “The Pandemic Special” premieres tonight, Wednesday, September 30 at 8:00 p.m. ET/PT. Comedy Central will have two encore airings at 9:00 p.m. ET/PT and 10:00 p.m. ET/PT.
In the hour-long South Park special, Randy comes to terms with his role in the COVID-19 outbreak as the ongoing pandemic presents continued challenges to the citizens of South Park. The kids happily head back to school but nothing resembles the normal that they once knew; not their teachers, not their homeroom, not even Eric Cartman.
There's got to be some kind of twist that's going to happen with this. I don't know if they're setting up an April Fool's joke now or what's going on, but it seems too strange that they'd suddenly reverse on doing a fourth and fifth season after the show was already renewed and they were even just talking about working on those seasons like a couple months ago or something. Or maybe the two episodes yet to release will secretly somehow each be like a "season" in themselves?