{"id":161405,"date":"2025-08-20T15:23:12","date_gmt":"2025-08-20T15:23:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/161405\/"},"modified":"2025-08-20T15:23:12","modified_gmt":"2025-08-20T15:23:12","slug":"south-park-heads-to-a-militarized-d-c-in-new-episode-promo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/161405\/","title":{"rendered":"‘South Park’ Heads to a Militarized D.C. in New Episode Promo"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tThe Trump Resistance-era of South Park<\/a> continues with the show\u2019s latest season 27 episode. <\/p>\n

\n\tIn a promo for the new episode (below), Towelie heads to Washington D.C. and discovers the town overrun by soldiers and tanks. \u201cWow, Washington D.C.!\u201d Towelie enthuses amid shots of a town overrun by the military. \u201cThis seems like a perfect place for a towel.\u201d The episode is titled \u201cSickofancy.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThe footage suggests South Park is tackling President Trump\u2019s controversial decision to deploy a significant number of federal law enforcement and immigration agents into the nation\u2019s capital as part of a crackdown on crime and homelessness. The White House has said the move has resulted in hundreds of arrests. Critics have called it an unnecessary authoritarian takeover of the District, which has seen its crime statistics fall in recent years. <\/p>\n

\n\tIt comes at a time when South Park \u2014 long famed for refusing to be perceived as taking political sides and mocking all comers \u2014 has taken a decidedly strong and recurring stance this season against the Trump Administration (at least, so far).<\/p>\n

\n\tComedy Central also announced that after Wednesday\u2019s episode, the next episode of South Park won\u2019t air until Sept. 3, and then won\u2019t air again until Sept. 17. In other words, the show will be running every other week for the near future. This follows last week being skipped (the network claimed it was to celebrate the show\u2019s anniversary, and aired a marathon of past episodes), as well as the show skipping a week after its ratings record-breaking season premiere. <\/p>\n

\n\tWhile the network and South Park creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone haven\u2019t commented on the schedule shifts, one might assume they\u2019re using the extra time to edge away from the show\u2019s usual breakneck six-day production schedule and give themselves more breathing room to make episodes at a time when the show is under perhaps unprecedented scrutiny and enjoying a surge of viewership. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\n\tSouth Park\u2018s ratings have been setting records for Comedy Central. The season 27 premiere delivered 6 million cross-platform viewers and had the show\u2019s biggest share in 25 years. The second episode then delivered 6.2 million viewers and had the show\u2019s biggest share ever. <\/p>\n

\n\tThe second episode took aim at Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem and resulted in some back and forth between the Trump Administration and the series. Noem was portrayed as a serial puppy shooter with a face that kept melting off, while the Secretary shot back<\/a>, \u201cIt\u2019s so lazy to make fun of women for how they look.\u201d <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Trump Resistance-era of South Park continues with the show\u2019s latest season 27 episode. In a promo for…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":161406,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[171,27590,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-161405","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-south-park","10":"tag-united-states","11":"tag-unitedstates","12":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115061784837970769","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161405","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=161405"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161405\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/161406"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=161405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=161405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=161405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}