Advertisement 'South Park' will completely ignore Donald Trump next season After an election-heavy season 20, the Comedy Central show is going back to its "kids will be kids" roots Share Shares Copy Link Copy

South Park's historic 20th season had its moments, but the lightning-fast, absurdist news cycle out-South Park-ed South Park. Unfortunately, the non-stop barrage of election related news was an impossible feat for Trey Parker and Matt Stone to keep up with.The entire story arc was thrown off by one moment the entire world, let alone Parker and Stone, never expected: the election of Donald Trump as president of the United States. Throughout the election, the South Park writers never used the man's name or showed his face. Instead, Donald Trump was replaced with a made-over Mr. Garrison, who sported a parodied Donald Trump look. But even that, according to an interview with Trey Parker, was enough to suck South Park into the cycle that caught every other comedy show. "We fell into the same trap that Saturday Night Live fell into, where it was like, "Dude, we're just becoming CNN now," Parker said. "We're becoming: 'Tune in to see what we're going to say about Trump.' Matt and I hated it, but we got stuck in it somehow."So, going forward into Season 21, Parker says they're going to ignore Trump entirely.This season I want to get back to Cartman dressing up like a robot and with Butters, because to me that's the bread and butter of South Park: kids being kids and being ridiculous and outrageous but not "did you see what Trump did last night?" Because I don't give a ... anymore. We probably could put up billboards—"Look what we're going to do to Trump next week!"—and get crazy ratings. But I just don't care.