South Park announces Paramount Plus-exclusive “Post-COVID” special
The "exclusive event" will air on Thanksgiving, November 25, on the streaming service
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South Park is coming back next month—but not to Comedy Central, its TV home for the last 24 years. Instead, the series announced today that it’ll be airing its upcoming “Post-COVID” special on Paramount Plus, the first of several exclusive specials set to debut on the Viacom-owned streaming service.
All of this is, of course, part of the extremely complicated (and lucrative) streaming deals that surround Trey Parker and Matt Stone’s faux-construction paper opus, which last aired a full new season back in December 2019, but which has supplemented its coverage over the last two years with two additional specials in September of 2020, and March of this year.
Those two extant specials are hanging out online now on HBO Max, along with the rest of the series’ run, which the rival company secured in a 9-figure deal earlier this year. (It is not a coincidence that Parker and Stone have “buy the novelty Mexican food joint of your childhood memories” money to toss around at the moment.)
These new specials, though, are part of a separate deal, one struck between Viacom and…well, Viacom, in order to keep some new South Park content flowing to the company’s own streaming service, instead of allowing its apparently inexhaustible fanbase to simply prop up a rival company. It’s not clear yet if “Post-COVID” counts as one of the ludicrous 14 movies Viacom ordered from South Park alongside its recent long-term renewal; the press release for the special refers to it only as an “exclusive event.”
“Post-COVID,” set to air this Thanksgiving, November 25, is one of two such “events” announced today; the other will air some time in December. Paramount+ also released a teaser for the special, if you can even consider a 10 second clip of the South Park boys being unconvincingly impressed by the Paramount+ logo a teaser.
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Wow, the first episode of South Park I’ll probably never see.
Oh, sweet, we’re post-COVID?! Time to get back to having my friends and neighbors cough in my face.
I feel like “Post-COVID” is being used with sarcasm in this case.
I don’t even know anymore…maaannn…
Simpsons already did it.
I feel like you haven’t seen South Park much.
Seen a fair amount. Enough to know that when things are taken seriously, it’s a joke, and when I brush other things off, it’s to be taken as social commentary. That’s part of the brilliance of it.
Also available on Plex immediately after airing!
Is that like Channel131?
Im not sure which annoys me. Paramount Plus only or “post covid” because I assure you we are not post covid!
I tend to think South Park will be lampooning this notion.
I’d like to think so, but those guys do have some damn terrible takes sometimes.
Considering the long history of the show being a friendly and palatable vehicle for libertarianism that’s quite an assumption.
They can both annoy you, if you let it happen.
Hell, we’re not even post Malone!
omg. I am exhausted with things titling themselves as “post-covid” specials. It’s not fucking over yet guys! The crowds Ive noticed trying to do this are of the live-theatre nature and I just feel like “okay you want covid to be over so you can get back to working but…. I dont wear shorts in December so that it magically becomes summertime” Jesus Christ. This is only gonna fuel anti-vaxxers.
It appears he’s otherwise engaged:
I was about to cancel the Paramount+ subscription I started on a whim last month just to watch Daria and Beavis & Butt-head, totally forgetting about the South Park deal that will be putting a shitload of content on there…welp, guess I’m keeping this service for the long haul.I believe the “14 movies” is over a span of 7 years, so it’s not SO ridiculous at 2 “movies” per year (movies being in quotes since I read that Trey & Matt wouldn’t really call all of these “movies”, they’ll mostly be more like 1-hour specials like the Pandemic & Vaccination specials, from the sound of it).
Thank goodness Covid is over so we can now do post-Covid specials.Oh, wait, is this like when Parker and Stone said climate change was fake? Pass.