South Park Season 26 Needs An Early Season Staple

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While it is currently unclear when South Park season 26 will begin airing, a September or October start date could allow the show to bring back a classic staple of the show's earlier, sillier years. South Park has changed a lot since the show’s first few seasons in the late 90s. Once a gross-out cartoon comedy whose primary objective was to shock and offend viewers,South Park has since morphed into more thoughtful satire (although the show is by no means opposed to using crude, goofy humor to get satirical points across).

For some fans, this change was for the better. After all, some of South Park’s most hated episodes come from its early seasons, before the show had committed to using its characters as a vehicle for political, social, and cultural satire. However, some of South Park’s most beloved outings also originate from these same seasons, before the show’s wild sense of humor was reined in (somewhat) by its social commentary.

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For example, South Park’s Halloween specials used to be some of the show’s most inventive outings. EarlySouth Park Halloween episodes were a chance for the series to abandon the show’s already-threadbare connection to the real world and kill off characters with aplomb, plunge the titular town into chaos, and generally break the few storytelling rules that South Park has. Like The Simpsons Treehouse of Horror Halloween specials, South Park’s Halloween episodes allowed the already-anarchic cartoon to tell sillier, more ambitiously weird stories than ever before. However, there has not been a South Park Halloween outing since 2019’s disappointing “Tegridy Farms Halloween Special,” (season 23, episode 5) meaning