'South Park' Returns to Comedy Central for Season 27 After 2-Year Break — Watch the Teaser! (2025)

South Park’s upcoming season is not holding back as it tackles the latest trends, current events and tragedies of the world.

Season 27 of South Park is returning to Comedy Central on July 9, over two years after fans last saw a new episode of the beloved series. On Wednesday, April 2, a brief trailer teasing the show’s return highlighted one overarching theme: “Times have changed.”

“Shelley, have you been taking ketamine? Because I think it could really help you,” Randy (voiced by co-creator Trey Parker) asks his daughter (April Stewart) in the opening scene.

Chaos follows, with clips of the town of South Park on fire, the Statue of Liberty being taken down and Diddy (who is currently facing criminal charges for sex trafficking) flying through space with the kids.

Then comes a series of plane crashes — topping off the references to the many unsettling markings of the past few months.

“Oh crap, we're all going to get fired!” Butters (voiced by co-creator Matt Stone) exclaims from an air control center amid another explosion.

From there, a war with Canada seemingly ensues, along with the emergence of artificial intelligence, a flash of some dirty toilets, an infection with the bird flu and even more plane crashes.

“Where are you going?” Randy’s wife wonders as the preview comes to an end.

“It's okay, Sharon. I'm just going to do some ketamine and f--- around with the government a little,” he replies calmly. “See ya!”

South Park was created by Parker and Stone in 1997 and has been renewed through 2027, making it cable's longest-running scripted series as it inches toward its milestone 30th season.

Although its most recent season finished airing in February 2023, South Park released a special in 2024 called South Park: The End of Obesity, which took on the topic of Ozempic use.

That wasn’t the series’ first timely special. South Park: Post COVID came out in 2021 and South Park: Joining the Pandeverse in 2023. They all stream exclusively on Paramount+.

It was no secret that there would not be a new season of South Park until 2025. The creators revealed in September that they delayed season 27 “on purpose” to avoid airing amid the 2024 presidential election between now-President Donald Trump and former Vice President Kamala Harris.

"We’ve tried to do South Park through four or five presidential elections, and it is such a hard thing to—it’s such a mind scramble, and it seems like it takes outsized importance,” Stone told Vanity Fair at the time, noting that the election is "obviously...f------ important, but it kind of takes over everything and we just have less fun."

Plus, Parker pointed out that the two "don’t know what more we could possibly say about Trump.”

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South Park premieres on July 9 on Comedy Central.