South Park returned to tv on Wednesday after a virtually two-and-a-half-year hiatus, kicking its twenty seventh season off with a hilarious and, as anticipated, controversial premiere, the place the present took on President Donald Trump, exhibiting an outline of him in mattress with collection common, Devil.

Authorities censorship, the dying of wokeness, ChatGPT, and faith in the nation’s public faculties have been the primary subjects of the season premiere. After Cartman learns of the cancellation of the radio present the place “liberals bitch and whine about stuff,” an meeting known as by collection favourite PC Principal, who introduces a visitor at an meeting: Jesus Christ. Earlier than the primary act break, the city’s dad and mom are rioting and a cut-out of President Trump turns up, as the plot shifts to the White Home and a president at odds with Canada and mendacity bare in mattress with Devil.

In a promo clip for the episode, the return of a collection favourite is touted in voiceover and PC Principal is introducing fellow collection common, Jesus Christ. The clip featured Cartman saying, “The federal government can’t cancel the present, I imply, what present are they going to cancel subsequent?”

The premiere of the twenty seventh season of the enduring animated collection, recognized to cannonball into the pool of politics and popular culture and depart no celebration or particular person protected from its scathing satire, comes simply as Paramount and creators Matt Stone and Trey Parker’s firm, Park County, reached a brand new licensing deal. Their settlement permits South Park’s new season to debut as scheduled and for a run of fifty new episodes over 5 years, which is able to all debut on Comedy Central.

The businesses added an expansive new streaming partnership (through their three way partnership South Park Digital Studios), which is able to deliver the South Park library to Paramount+ in the U.S., the place it should stay in the HBO Max library, and globally. New episodes will even stream on Paramount+ in the U.S. the day after airing on Comedy Central. The deal was mentioned to be valued at $1.5 billion. 

The deal comes after a behind-the-scenes authorized dispute between Park County, Paramount World and Skydance, which is ready to imagine management of Paramount in the approaching weeks. “This merger is a shitshow and it’s fucking up South Park. We’re on the studio working on new episodes and we hope the followers get to see them someway,” Parker and Stone wrote in a social media submit on July 2, after Comedy Central introduced that the season 27 premiere had been pushed by a number of weeks.

Stone, nonetheless mentioned earlier right now that he, Parker and their group are grateful and thanked Paramount co-CEO and president of Showtime/MTV Leisure Chris McCarthy and COO Keyes Hill-Edgar for years of nice partnership.

“We’re grateful for this chance and deeply honored by the belief positioned in us. That is about greater than a contract — it’s about our dedication to this group, our teammates, and our followers. We’re centered on constructing one thing particular and doing no matter it takes to deliver championships to this metropolis.”