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.