Why South Park Season 25 Is So Short & Why It Changes The Future

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Here's why South Park season 25 is so short. South Park has never been a typical television show, and season 25 ending after only six episodes might be ringing some serious alarm bells for fans of the long-running adult animated comedy — here’s what the development means for the future of the series. Most television shows, particularly prime-time cartoons, would be in trouble if a season ran only 6 twenty-minute episodes long. The Simpsons season 33, for example, is scheduled to contain over twenty episodes and that number is normal for most sitcoms on American network television.

However, there has never been anything normal aboutSouth Park. From the fact that the series began life as a viral email Christmas card to its boundary-pushing content (and shockingly swift production schedule),South Park is an outlier in terms of most television traditions. The risqué animated satire has produced 25 seasons and a theatrical movie but, in its time on air,South Park has been protested, praised, challenged, awarded, and banned in equal measure.

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Now, the controversial series faces a new challenge. South Park season 25 is already over after only six episodes, leaving fans with the show’s shortest season so far. What does this mean for South Park’s future? Although the show’s prospects may seem dire, the future of South Park as a series is not at risk. In August 2021, South Park creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone signed a deal valued at an eye-watering $900 million with Paramount, guaranteeing that they would provide another fourteen movies and six seasons of the franchise. Four of the feature-length South Park movies mentioned in the deal have already aired