Scene from “South Park” Season 28, Episode 3, which is titled “Sora Not Sorry.”
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Trey Parker and Matt Stone’s South Park is back this week after its Halloween episode. What time does it start on cable and streaming and what will the show pick apart next?
South Park, which has been releasing new episodes every other week this season — with a couple of three-week breaks sandwiched in between — is on its third episode of Season 28 after completing the five-episode Season 27 on Sept. 24.
South Park Season 28, Episode 3 — titled Sora Not Sorry — will begin airing on cable on Comedy Central on Wednesday at 10 p.m. ET/PT and will start streaming on Paramount+ at 6 a.m. ET/3 a.m. PT on Thursday.
Since the beginning of Season 27 in July, South Park has been consistently mocking President Donald Trump, his administration, his policies and even his MAGA followers. Now, after seven consecutive politically charged episodes, it appears that Parker and Stone — at least judging from a new 20-second teaser video episode and summary on X — may be backing away from the White House for a week.
In a post on South Park’s X account on Tuesday, Comedy Central teased Wednesday’s episode by writing, “Butters’ Al revenge plan backfires, igniting an epidemic of fake videos at school that leaves Detective Harris struggling to tell fantasy from reality.”
A 15-second promotional video in the post gives a little more insight into South Park’s skewering of artificial intelligence, as Kyle yells in the presence of Stan, Kenny and Butters in a hallway of South Park Elementary, “You shouldn’t use AI to make revenge porn, Butters! That’s going to totally backfire!” Butters then replies, “Eh, what’s gonna happen?”
The clip then cuts to a shot of a trio of girls in a school bathroom as one of them says to Butters’ girlfriend, Charlotte — who is staring angrily at her smartphone — “You should go tell the principal.”
See the promotional clip in the embedded X post below.
How Political Will This Week’s ‘South Park’ Episode Be?
In South Park’s Halloween special on Oct. 31, Parker and Stone continued their full-frontal comedic assault on President Donald Trump and his administration, taking aim specifically at U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi and Senior Advisor Stephen Miller.
In addition, the episode brought Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem and Federal Communications Chair Brendan Carr back into the fold. A partially concealed First Lady Melania Trump also appeared as a specter-like figure throughout the episode — titled The Woman in the Hat — giving the story more of a Halloween flavor.
Perhaps the most startling development of the show was how Parker and Stone effectively called out their Trump-heavy creative direction season by having Stan say, “South Park sucks now because of all this political s—.”
The anti-political stance didn’t last long, though, since Stan creates a “South Park Sucks” cryptocurrency, and in turn, Kyle Broflovski’s cousin Kyle Schwartz travels to the White House to ask Donald Trump Jr. to protect the digital coin.
In all likelihood, there will be some follow-up on the season-long storyline involving Trump Sr. and Satan, who are expecting the birth of the Antichrist. Also, since billionaire tech investor Peter Thiel, Vice President JD Vance and are plotting to use a demonically possessed Cartman to stop the birth of the Antichrist for the VP’s political gain, the new episode could touch upon that series subplot as well.
South Park Season 28, Episode 3 comes out a couple of days after the New York Times (via The Hollywood Reporter) asked Trey Parker and Matt Stone about the show’s political bend this year.
Parker told the publication that originally, the mockery of the president was only going to be one episode. However, as controversies involving Immigration and Customs Enforcement raids, the president’s global tariff policies and others began to take center stage in the news cycle, the skewering of the Commander-in-Chief continued.
“It’s not that we got all political,” Parker told the New York Times. “It’s that politics became pop culture.”
Despite the show’s bashing of Trump and the right wing this season, Parker added that he and Stone remain equal opportunity offenders.
“We’re just very down-the-middle guys,” Parker told the New York Times. “Any extremists of any kind, we make fun of. We did it for years with the woke thing. That was hilarious to us. And this is hilarious to us.”
South Park Season 28, Episode 3 begins Wednesday on Comedy Central at 10 p.m. ET/PT and starts streaming on Paramount+ at 6 a.m. ET/3 a.m. PT on Thursday.
Source: https://www.forbes.com/sites/timlammers/2025/11/11/what-time-is-new-south-park-episode-this-week-and-whats-it-about/
