Trey Parker and Matt Stone didn’t set themselves an easy challenge when they signed a cartoonishly wealthy deal to keep developing South Park for Paramount through 2027. They didn’t only guarantee fresh episodes; they also pledged to make 14 films exclusively for the company’s new streaming service. The first one was released just before Thanksgiving and ended on a cliffhanger. Fans, on the other hand, won’t have to wait long to find out how it came out.
According to Deadline, the sequel to the Post Covid special — named, presumably, Post Covid: Covid Returns — was set to debut in December. You were wrong if you believed it wouldn’t come out till Christmas. It will be released a day earlier, on Thursday, December 16.
At the outset of the pandemic, South Park Studios went on pause, producing no new episodes save for a pair of specials, which, of course, dealt with the once-in-a-generation public health calamity that continues to upend our world. Our everlasting elementary students were, in some cases, furious, disgruntled middle-aged adults, according to Post Covid, who jumped 40 years into the future. Kenny, who became a brilliant scientist but appears to be dead, was the most successful of the group. Perhaps it’s Cartman, who, to the surprise of many, turned from a screaming anti-Semite to a heavenly rabbi inexplicably.
Here’s how Paramount+ describes Covid Returns: “If Stan, Kyle and Cartman could just work together, they could go back in time to make sure Covid never happened and save Kenny’s life. In South Park: Post Covid: Covid Returns, traveling back to the past seems to be the easy answer until they meet Victor Chaos.”
Will the world of South Park end up being a world where COVID was nipped in the bud from the start? Is Cartman, as Kyle proposes, pretending to be a devout Jew in order to “f*ck” with him? Find out on Paramount+ on December 16th.
(Via Deadline)
