Just curious if anyone knows why it’s only been 6 episodes a season. Are the showrunners losing interest and moving on?
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Quality over quantity, dude. Those 6 episodes each season are jam-packed with more laughs and social commentary than most shows get in a full 22-episode run. Matt and Trey are still crushing it.
Matt and trey are 30 years into south park and can’t go at the same pace anymore, we get shorter seasons and a few specials a year instead which is probably better for them and the team and I think has brought a new life into the series with them being able to do much more complicated specials we would have never seen in a normal series.
It also allows them to expand into other media and ventures, they have talked about being so dead after finishing the movie then going straight back into South park and the same when they did the book of Mormon, the video games etc. This way they get to do their own stuff, like casa Bonita, and we still get regular south park while Matt and trey aren’t loosing sleep over deadlines.
It’s all about quality over quantity, south park is back to it’s best after a few rough seasons, just be happy we get new episodes after 30 years and it’s not like the Simpsons where they should have finished 10 years into making the show.
They have a video game release coming too. Hopefully early Spring. This year reopened Casa Bonita and they did the live shows at Red Rocks. Just adding other stuff that’s related-ish that took up time. I’m really excited for the video game snow day. They put a lot of effort into them to make a full length story. I’d imagine that equates to a season of South Park to them.
Yeah it still funny how Comedy Central didn’t just buy them out and the show.
But shorter seasons are because of the streaming deals and the two specials every year (which they might even miss this year) which is a shame as the show has suffered for it
It’s a bullshit reason anyway. Their deal was 6 seasons and 14 specials or whatever it was. Not 14 specials and 6 shorter seasons if you have time. I don’t know why they’ve been allowed to get away with it but if I was paying them I’d feel a bit short changed tbh.
agree. I don’t think the special shows were good enough to make up for the shorter season and the weaker episodes overall
Comedy Central didn’t just buy them out and the show.
they SAVED comedy central. It was a nothing channel until South Park.
I think the issue is that Matt and Trey are desperately tired of doing South Park but they’re getting thrown such obscene levels of cash to pump out half an episode every few months that they just can’t.
After 20 or 30 years it must be so boring to keep doing the same shit. Hell the ad campaign for season 20-ish was “Cancel South Park”
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All CC has is new south park
Everything else is reruns and that also includes south park.
South park, Seinfeld and Parks and Rec reruns is 90%+ of CC
And The Office. With Trevor Noah leaving TDS, it took away a huge anchor they had, and unless they find someone who can make the show their and make it as good as Jon Stewart, John Oliver or Trevor made it, then they’re gonna play hell keeping it as a solid draw. He’ll, I used to never miss it, now I’ve been ambivalent about catching it at the regular time, I’ll just watch it later streaming.
You think the cancel South Park bitwas a literal “please we don’t want to do this show anymore” cry for help?
That’s what it sounded like to me at the time, but then they just mocked the concept of “cancelling” things that aren’t TV shows, like a small town. And South park continued, and I stopped worrying about it. The 6 episode seasons are a worse omen.
I agree partially. I think they still have an interest in doing South Park, just not 10-18 episodes a year like they used to. A lot has changed for them in the last 26+ years. They’re older, they have a family, kids. South Park just isn’t top priority anymore. Which is fine. I’m happy to get what we’re getting. They can still put out some great episodes once in a while
Did it truly suffer from it? I feel the longer seasons had a lot of fluff like Randy’s weed farm
Meanwhile The Pandering was amazing and I enjoyed the two movies on Covid.
Watch streaming wars, it explains what they did, and why it’s only specials and current topic satire now… Wish there was weekly episodes
I just hate that they stop airing the new episodes on Comedy Central.
And I know they haven’t because I check my DVR settings regularly and they haven’t aired anything new really besides 4 episodes last year that got recorded.
It definitely frustrated me as it’s one of my favorite shows but I’ve given up on it because now it seems only streaming is the path to the show now and I can’t afford more streaming services
Cash-grabbing capitalism and a serious side job with paramount
I think there are a few reasons for the shorter seasons.
Firstly, they agreed a pretty big deal to make “specials” for Paramount+ so that takes up some of their time and creative energy.
I think it’s probably got something to do with quality over quantity as well. They have probably seen how The Simpsons has declined and they are probably trying to avoid the same fate.
Finally, I do think it could be a motivation thing. Trey and Matt are now very wealthy men and Trey especially probably wants to prioritise spending time with his daughter or playing Baldur’s Gate 3.
I believe they are doing a lot of hour long specials in between the seasons.
Guess you missed the starting seasons of 20 something episodes, which got whittled down to 16, then 12… just lazy for the most part. Most american companies are and don’t even try to put out a full season of any show.
For reference look at the majority of anime shows, 22 to 28 episodes per season.
They’ve been doing this thing for 25 years, give it a rest. We’re getting around 3-4 hours of the show every year, that’s not bad at all. Certain assembly line animes having more episodes per season doesn’t really change that.
Or maybe, just maybe, they like putting out a FULL season every season.
People really don’t consider the fact that we’re still getting new episodes of a show that started in the 90’s. I can think of four shows from the 90’s or older that are still going today. This is extremely rare. I’m grateful!