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South Park’s Halloween Special Skewers Trump and Says It ‘Sucks Now’

The Oct. 31 episode doubled as a programming stunt and a reset, signaling a return to a biweekly Wednesday rollout with streaming after premiere on Paramount+.

Overview

  • The second episode of Season 28, titled “The Woman in the Hat,” shifted from its usual Wednesday slot to air as a Halloween special on Oct. 31.
  • Stan voices the show’s self-critique with the line “South Park sucks now,” acknowledging fan frustration over heavier political storylines.
  • The installment satirizes President Trump’s real-world East Wing demolition and portrays a spectral Melania, with Pam Bondi leading a seance and sporting recurring “rectoplasm.”
  • A parallel plot riffs on crypto culture through a meme coin concept, echoed by a marketing move that routes southparksucksnow.com to the show’s Comedy Central page.
  • Producers and outlets indicate the series returns to a biweekly Wednesday cadence with episodes listed for Nov. 12, Nov. 26, and Dec. 10, available to stream on Paramount+ after broadcast.