Pessimistic South Park fans may worry that the creators’ hearts aren’t in the new season, but that’s just because they have never witnessed Trey Parker giggling like a fourth grader at his own jokes.
When South Park made the abrupt move to adopt a bi-weekly release schedule for Season 27/28, it sparked speculation among viewers and critics that, following an extended and often public battle with their parent company Paramount over an extension to their streaming rights deal, the South Park creators were finally burning out from the stresses and responsibilities of the series. After following a weekly release schedule for the better part of 28 years, Parker and his partner Matt Stone decided to give themselves a slightly more relaxed timetable than the loosely structured chaos made famous in 6 Days to Air, but the ever-frenzied South Park fandom worried that this was all just a quiet-quitting situation that, much like the Antichrist, signaled the beginning of the end.
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Thankfully, Parker’s wife, Boogie Parker, just treated the complainers of the South Park audience to a fresh, new, behind-the-scenes look at the show’s current workflow, posting pictures and videos from the making of the latest episode “Twisted Christian” on her Instagram page. One clip shows Parker watching a scene that he both wrote and performed while laughing so hard that you’d think P.C. Principal just said, “6-7”
Thus far this season, the most common criticism among unsatisfied South Park fans has been that, after nearly three decades at the helm of such a massive and time-intensive multimedia franchise, Parker and Stone simply don’t have the passion for the series that they used to have, and the current season is more of a contractual obligation. Well, actually, that’s the second most common criticism — the first complaint is that South Park has gone full woke and won’t stop bullying Donald Trump and his buddies.
But as for the former critique, clearly, Parker isn’t yet at the point of job burn-out where he sees South Park as a chore and can’t find a reason to laugh at his own work. Plus, it’s very possible that the new bi-weekly release schedule (with a couple three-week breaks thrown in here and there) has revitalized the South Park creators’ relationship with the show, and, with so much more time to figure every episode out, Parker finally feels free to kick back and enjoy his own impeccably crafted punchlines.
As for the South Park fans, most of them are taking this behind-the-scenes look as a good sign for the future of the show. In a thread about Boogie’s post on the South Park subreddit, fans celebrated Parker’s ability to still have himself in stitches after all these years. “This is what it’s all about! Most shows after this long, you imagine the creators growing unattached and dispassionate about end product,” one fan wrote. “But nope, you still have Trey sat with his family laughing at his own stuff.”
“Seeing his absolute joy watching it actually makes me like the episode more now,” another user added.
One more fan pointed out, “I’d say that clip was about 6, 7 seconds long.”
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