South Park

[Dr. Ensatsu-ken]

They've made it abundantly clear that they hated writing it just as much as fans did watching it after the joke ran it's course only a few episodes in.

While I'm bracing myself for a return to that, I wouldn't be entirely shocked if they find a way to ignore it. I guess we'll see.

[Daxdiv]

I mean, they did mostly ignore Biden during his term and the fact that they decided to skip the Election this year, so maybe they don't have to talk about politics if they don't want to. They could always lampoon something else.

[Dr. Insomniac]

They'll wind up doing it at least a few times. Trey couldn't help himself and did a Garrison/Trump joke even when Biden was president a season ago.

I listened to a podcast with them and a former Comedy Central president a while back, and Matt mentioned that the 2016 results just threw him into depression for days and how Trey managed to finish the episode that aired that week on time was a miracle.

And I think the issue is that despite what it seems, Trey and Matt said in interviews that they don't actually like doing political satire episodes and would rather do dumb shit with the kids like fans want, but the way South Park's produced means that coming up with entire episodes in a week for 6 to 10 straight weeks is fucking hard, to a point where I remember they said one of the reasons they haven't done another theatrical movie is because the show ends up gobbling up any idea they're brainstorming, so they resort to having to pull a Law & Order and ripping shit from the headlines for material. Because that's easier than thinking "Okay, how can Cartman ruin Butters this time in a way we haven't already done?" And you can tell, since while they've done some great political satire, they've had some glaring blind spots that you wouldn't see in Thick of It, Yes Minister, or even Veep.

Oh yeah, EK mentioning the Whites reminded me that the namesake of their kid did an interview about South Park, and working with Trey and Matt back in college. He hasn't actually worked with them in a long time, and was surprised to find out his character died. He also mentioned that he wished Trey was more like Kevin Smith and did endless sequels to Cannibal the Musical and Orgazmo with the rest of their college friends. And I can't agree on a creative level, but I get why he'd say it.