Why Are South Park's SEASONS getting SHORTER!?
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- Опубликовано: 8 апр 2023
- South Park is now rolling out 6 episode season since the start 2021 with seasons 25 and 26 and the future of the show sticking to this series order but luckily Trey Parker and Matt Stone are still in charge of the show and even creating a new 3D game which hopefully is similar to The stick of truth and Fractured But Whole. South Park is also creating 14 tv movies with the next installment releasing later this year
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Possible theory-
Kenny found a way to slowly but surely end his suffering,
And what better way then to stop the gods of his world then to shorten the seasons of the world which keeps him bound.
By ending the seasons Kenny will finally be able to grab hold of the cold but eternal embrace of death.
Because without a series his universe would utterly crumble releasing the gods iron grip on an already un redeemable world.
heycan u please tell me where'd u get the video where matt and trey to ban the show to promote the show plz
@@blite3270 Hi, it's 'South Park anti league commercial'
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The reason the seasons are shorter is because of the streaming contract with HBO they have for new episodes, while their networks parent company now has Paramount us and signed them to 6 new seasons and some specials. They're old contract does not indicate how many episodes are required for a season so they are producing minimal amounts of episodes while producing the specials for Paramount Plus
Thanks for clearing that up, the contract is a confusing one, I wonder how it will play out after lawsuit?
The HBO deal requires 10 episode seasons but they’ve been only getting 6
They're also doing a game I hear and we'll they basically halt production during this normally
The two specials that end up getting made are also the length of 4 episodes. 4 + 6 = 10, they're still technically fulfilling the 10 episode quota they've set a while back.
@@JM-fr5ge They made 6 + 2 Specials that's equal to 4 Episodes. That's what it meant.
I’ll say since the South Park episodes have got shorter I think the game should be a little bit longer now at least they should have more story in it that’s all I’m trying to say
Eh its just because they have to make paramount special and they put a loophole in there contract cause their gonna be pretty busy (so the game might just be the same size but 3d?)
@@cloud99955There was a rumor that it may be a chose your own adventure (good or evil), so it would make sense why it's taking longer. From what I know this may be their last game, and the whole storyline has led up to that kind of conclusion.
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Did they announced a new game?
Wasnt "The Fractured But Whole" like 18 hours? Even more with DLC (which was fantastic)? By modern standards thats pretty good
The only thing about having such short seasons is that we may never reach episode 400 it would be good that if south Park does eventually end it ends on an epic 400 episode
Why 400 and not 420? Joke..hah,.hah.
@@muntingnoah The great Towlie episode
Or 420 lol
Exactly.
I mean, they're getting older, and working on other projects as well, opening Casa Bonita, they've been working on pretty big games and their DLCs which are worked on similarly to the shows, meaning it is a ton more work, since they are really long games, and apparently working on a third. They are also making 2 specials/movies a year. So yeah. It's not like we're getting that much less South Park, we're just getting less in the form of TV shows.
I definitely agree that I can't see the show going past season 30. There's only so many concepts to base episodes on. It's frankly amazing that the show has lasted this long, and we will still have a huge treasure trove of episodes to rewatch when the show does come to an end. That being said, it's hard to say anything with certainty.
There's also something that I desperately want to see before the show ends.
@@Owen_loves_Butters and that is?
yeah but new concepts keep coming based off whats happening in the world
They’ve said they want to beat the Simpsons for number of seasons… they’re not going anywhere.
leaving us on a cliffhanger I see....
They're flat getting burned out. They have said as much and indicated so through the episodes for years. and considering I'd rather have a shorter season with higher quality than strained episodes on a one week schedual
No. They just have multiple contracts with multiple streaming services, and they make 2 specials a year. With an average of 10 episodes to a season, they broke the season down into 6 episodes, and 2 specials. They haven't burned out, they're just hustling and doing shit nobody has ever done before, because they can.
They started with a joke about kanye anyone could have made, did a really funny episode about the Canadian royal family, admit they outsourced to chat gpt, made an amazing episode where butters stands up for himself & we see Kenny's face, then end with maybe garrison runs for president again. Whatever direction they're trying to go in, it's inconsistent at best
@@David-qi2ck Inconsistent? You do realize that majority of the show is unserielized, and doesn't follow a storyline? It's kind of hard to be consistent with political satire, considering there's so much political controversy going on lately. So whatever point you were trying to make, is redundant.
@@tastefulsubstance They're burned out, the quality isn't there anymore, it's too topical, to much based on current events. The old South Park was amazing, back then, they had passion. Now they're too busy with Casa Bonita, Book of Mormons, Red Rocks concert, they've become like Elon Musk- multitasking and distracted.
Viewership is going down because cable is dead, South Park is all over streaming and blew up on Tiktok
Streaming Wars was only just so good, but the Covid Specials were absolutely special.
🤓🤓🤓🤓 no they weren’t.
Definitely, covid specials are so good
@@joelxyso least annoying DBZ pfp
I’m sure burnout is a factor but you have to also remember that 10 episode seasons became commonplace for EVERY studio and streamer. There’s exceptions sure, but shorter seasons are cheaper to produce and can hold attentions spans a bit better. I’m sure industry trends had more to do with it than Matt and Trey wanting to scale back.
And is why I love 90's and early 2000's shows more, each season had like 25+ episodes.
@@Dead_Hitoriyeah the Simpsons were like that they even had 25 episode seasons
It's sad seeing the show each season getting shorter and shorter
like a short person.
@@henrybeat ha
And worse and worse
Creators are getting old
Nah they are amazing @turboterps
No matter the reason why the seasons have gotten shorter, this newest season was amazing and really felt like watching when I was a kid
they were definitely in their bag in the newest season. Granted, that bag wasn't as deep as the earlier seasons but still good
One thing I especially hate about Tegridy Farms is the amount of times they troll the audience that they’ll finally get rid of it and leave only to go back on it at the end of each of the episodes. It’s happened like at least five times now.
They are trolling you lmao
Basically a fuck you from Matt and trey since they get to do whatever they want.
Like streaming wars part two? With his song? I mean yeah they’re still on the farm, but Randy isn’t really acting like he used to. He’s kind of acting like his normal goofy self like in Japanese toilet bowl. I just don’t think they can come up with a reason to move them back to their old house.
I can’t believe Trey Parker says he regrets the first 3 seasons but not Tegridy Farms
I love tagatiy farms, it saved the series
It can be shorter, they can have specials, or games etc…..but the show has still excelled well beyond ANY other show in its 25th season. Yes it has drifted or not been on fire, but even a bad SP show is leagues above any show like Family Guy or Simpsons now. We still get some gems, we bet cultural markers to say oh man yep this was this time. I won’t be suprised when soon we end the series it’s heading there but for now I enjoy that we get what we get with Trey and Matt both still in charge. It’s a rare feat for any show animation or not. In another 3-4 years when we likely hear they are ending the show we all will be grateful we got a crazy ass show for almost 30 years
I disagree that they're gonna be done with the show soon cause why would they sign a 7 year contract if they were feeling so-so on making new episodes?
big money
half a billion speaks quite loud
if that is the case then they can't be too sick of it lol
900 million dude
Same
It's because they took so many mental health day
I’ll just be honest, you’re getting old was the best episode in the show and if they ended the show there I would’ve been perfectly happy. Yes there have been some great seasons and episodes after season 15, but any finale South Park tries to make if they end will never top the end of You’re Getting Old.
tbh that episode was boring to me, you have no taste
@@jaymatt6443 it was boring to you so that means everyone who disagrees with you is wrong?
@@bobbybingo4506 “in my opinion your wrong and have no taste!” Is what you want me to say?
@@jaymatt6443 Its just kind of a weird thing to say
“This guy likes an episode that I don’t like? I’m gonna be a dick about it!” is kinda how it comes off
@@jaymatt6443Bro I think you're getting old
season 26 was fucking hilarious and i love how they rip on modern day stuff. cant wait for the return of president garrison
It was so awful lol
they've always ripped on modern day stuff, it's just been 25 years
Meh
It was horrible. What's wrong with you?
@@hatenate2070 your literally calling someone a horrible person because they like a cartoon season 💀
Southpark is like a fine wine it gets better with age IMO. It went from toilet humour to a more matured toulette humour
I think it's because the world is becoming more ridiculous and sideways, South Park can't make fun of it because it's actually true.
The reason they cut down on episodes "per season" is because they sold a certain number of seasons to different streaming services without defining the number of episodes they would put out per season
Loved the Tegridy Farms season so much ngl. But this last season was fucking incredible IMO.
I'm glad a lot of fans enjoyed it still, 'Tegridy Farms' definitely had it's moments
There's still life in the old South Park yet. Keep the faith folks
yeah lots to look forward to still
can you blame matt stone and trey parker? they've literally been making episodes since the mid/late 90's
SP started in 1997, so it's been almost 25 years.
As long as the quality is there and it still makes me laugh I’m fine with the 6 episodes a season
Season 23&26 were so funny.
the last episode of the serie could be them going back in time or things evolving backwards and the last scene being the boys taking the bus like in the first episodes, in the simple old style with minimal details that feels less digital and them having a normal and straightfoward conversation, of them being them.
but let's hope the last episode doesn't happen,, at least not anytime soon
same
I don’t know what everyone is talking about because I loved season 20 and they just kept getting better, and Randy is without a doubt my favorite character and hope so much they don’t reduce his role because his antics are the funniest part.
The episodes are good nobody is saying there not we are just wondering why seasons went from 17 to 10 to 6 and once even just 4 episodes they should have just put season 24 25 26 together
The WHOLE series always great
the latest season was mostly really good. Quality > Quantity.
Haven't seen the full vid yet so may come back to edit.
As long as they make 2 45 minute specials and 6 episode seasons I’m okay
Man, I miss it when South Park seasons had 14 episodes, hopefully they go back to that in the future. it was nice having seven episodes in the spring and seven episodes in the fall. If they go back to doing that, then they would have a lot to talk about.
The "game of thrones" trilogy was actually based on The Lord Of The Rings. The boys characters were all mostly seen already as far back as season six episode thirteen, The Return of the Fellowship of the Ring to the Two Towers.
I disagree, Randy-centric episodes are excellent and they've been able to utilize his character for satirical takes on current society.. SP is still going strong, hope they never stop
I never said this lol, I think Randy centric episodes are great and some of my favorites. Tegridy Farms just desensitized us to his crazy stories as had too much focus
if you have been watching South Park since the beginning... You can 100% tell something was off with the studio with the making of the episode: "you're getting old"
when watching it felt like the writers we extremely stressed out
The last season should be an homage to their humble beginnings. How cool would it be if they animated it by hand and went back to over the top potty humor, crude violence and celebrity bashing.
At the very least, I want the 10 episode seasons back, as they seemed like good minimal season-lengths
story short : we should be gratefull that the show is still alive :)
Your my fav account to go to for south park content I would LOVE to see a video about fractured but whole because I work so much and dont have the time to play that game 😂
cheers dude, haha I know the feeling I have no time to play any games at mo. I'll see what I can do, it's a good game though def play it when find time
I was never a South Park fan (because CC was locked behind a paywall and I was 12) but thanks to TT I got into it and HBO Max having the episodes I’ve been able to get into it
I would say it would be bold to have the final south park be notban episode or specials but a game . The 3rd to complete the trilogy , it would give us the fans an intimate and participation to the finale , like getting us the viewers not part of the ride but is the ride to the finale of south park. It would be a huge rish but hey 15 to 29 hour down to the 100% would be a nice sendoff and a game would be a perfeft medium to put it all out there all the batshit balls to the walls they got in the game for us to partake .
I'm from Latvia. SOMEHOW some local TV channel was showing South Park one night 20 years ago :D I just remember my mom laughing at the bit where Kenny got pulled into a moving walkway and came out the other end a puddle of blood :D
4:06 really, because Human CentiPad is like my favorite episode and was the episode that actually got me into south park. The first episode I saw was The Tale of Scroty McBooger Balls because I hated Catcher in the Rye and the clips of them dunking on it were exactly what I needed then, but then the rest of the episode didn't exactly click. Human CentiPad on the other hand was great start to end. Back then I was a super hater of apple (mainly because I was surrounded by the iCult at the time where people were obsessed with apple anything purely for the status symbol and not because the tech was actually better), and to see "Steve Jobs is evil and is all hype, Cartman wants an ipad purely for the status symbol and not for functionality, and Gerald is ostracized because he isn't a member of the iCult," that just hit all the notes.
Always get bummed seeing how short each season gets as time goes on. Great synopsis!
I just don’t see why they just don’t give themselves some time or write it a couple months before seems like a lot of pressure to write it in 6 days
Really like your videos dude😂
thanks mate, means a lot
I think the creatorsare just getting older and I don't think we'll get too many more seasons to be honest
“They…took…my…job!”
It because the deal with hbo max and paramount there’s 6 season episodes plus the 2 paramount specials in the summer both specials are considered the last 4 episodes of the season technically making the season 10 episodes it sucks for sure but i can understand making episodes and having to make 14 different specials is alot of work for sure!
I honestly wish i could go back and watch the entire show for the first time I know it'll end eventually but we still have a while we got specials and idc if the seasons r shorter i'll go and watch those 6 episodes every year when we get them My only wish is that we get more of the core 4 cause there truly the best characters in south park
Great video. I did enjoy the documentary too.
appreciate it dude
Because they are filthy rich now and just doing it for the love of the game. We are lucky to have it at all 25 seasons later
Those guys were burned out 15 years ago. I'm surprised they make any episodes at all anymore.
I think it’s like sports stars, they’ve just made so much money now they just don’t care anymore
6 regular episodes, 2 specials that when added together equals about the runtime of 4 episodes combined.
Nahhh I thought the streaming wars was really fun and creative, especially the song from Cartman, I thought it was kewl
Same here, the streaming wars special was a fun watch can’t understand why people don’t like it much
@@najibosman6497 respect to you good sir!
The Critter Christmas episode to this day is my favorite episode lol
Whenever I introduce someone to South Park, I show them Critter Christmas first, immediately followed by the Imaginationland Trilogy. To this day, they are my favorite episodes of the show. S+ tier South Park
6:24 Sonic Youth. He and I are both fans apparently.
Member berries, hilarious
PP was brought back to parody Paramount Plus
viewership on live tv may be down, but South Park is one of the most popular tv shows on hob max-a platform with 95 million subscribers and tik Tok has partially influenced a massive rediscovery of the show. Viewership is so good paramount was made their own streaming service and ordered more specials. If anything would end South Park it would probably be the lawsuit which will most likely take up lots of their time.
I think the tegridy farms, personallu the storyline was awsome. And i think it was a good change to southpark
same here it was a funny change of pace.
In the 2010s I remember they had a spring season too.
0:39 This explains a lot... 💀
I read the title as "Why Are South Park CHARACTERS Getting Shorter!?"
lol thats my next video, stay tuned
South Park turned into one of those shows that barely make episodes, but when they make one we just know they're going to be amazing.
I help after the specials deal they can go back to 10 episodes or 14 episodes , or they may what to make a other deal with paramount but I help we can have 10 to 14 episodes again
It amuses me seeing Americans surprised by a 6 episode season, when 6 episode seasons have been the norm for British sitcoms since the 70's.
They also said in an interview that they want to work on other things
the 6 day eps are really annoying but im looking forward to the long specials for more content :)
Without really watching the video, I can say that it's probably because we're almost at 30 seasons now, and there aren't as many ideas for short stories. As such, by making them shorter, you can still produce the show at a steady pace and not have to worry about having a brain cramp trying to make 20 new episodes
You can't even consider a season a season any more, at best each season is half a season
They actually tried to do the serbo-jewish-double-blouff, since they had made a contract with HBO for around ten seasons, but tried to release those specials and count each one in as a season, thus making almost a billion dollar for ten specials. Unfortunately it didn't work out and they had to stick to the seasons. Also a reason, why the whole post-covid special was kinda cut short with an ending not really satisfying to say the least.
I think it's fine I love the specials and don't mind 6 eps
SIMPLE: Quality over quantity.
And then, Season 26 and the Panderverse special were 🔥🔥🔥
16:11 Does it count for streaming? Most people watch through the south park website now
Going down to south park gonna have myself a time
Ive watched every episode of every season. I love it all,no complaints. Been watching it since the 90s.
343 Episodes? The Loch Ness Monster said he gonna need about 350
Where can I find the full video of 0:54?
Idk if you need 17 minutes to say “because they have two separate exclusive streaming deals and Viacom only orders 6 episodes a season with 2 hour long specials a year”
sure if you have a terrible attention span and assume what the vid is before watching it
I just hate how half the content each year is now blocked off from people who don't have internet, it's always felt like a brick to the face when shows do that. We're becoming too reliant on internet and sooner or later it may be our downfall when we put *too* much on it
the show isn't going anywhere. they signed contracts for a certain number of episodes with hbo and a certain number of specials with paramount plus. and it was what the special streaming wars was about.
I am fine with 1 episode seasons as long as it continues with mat and trey.
Member when we got many episodes each season? Member when they mostly did tv-shows with 20+ episodes instead of a few each season? Kinda miss when we got ALOT of episodes each seasons of South Park. The longest are season 2 with 18 episodes. Wish they did atleast 1 season with exactly 20. But i understand why they became shorter.
I member
I member too
Matt and trey said as of right now theyre half way through the show
Here's what I think they got a wave after the harry and Megan episode and after 2 odd decades of controversy after controversy they pretty much can't be cancelled. I think now there focusing on improving quality and taking there time to hand pick the episodes and there topic to Make more classic bangers.
I need a video on exactly WTF "Matt&Trey" are. Why do we always get them as a unit? Do they both share a single resume?
I was completely fine with the Randy seasons
South Park has been on the cutting edge of societal decay since day one. I LOVE SOUTH PARK!
It would be no big deal but now we're paying the same price for a season that's much shorter. The Pipi episodes are some of the VERY BEST
TL:DW - Even god tier geniuses get tired.
Honestly think it’s to not run out of ideas
4:37 .My favorite part of this video
dammn
of course it is
My guess is they are paid by the series not by the episode
It is legit so tragic watching the season get whittled down. If I was shocked when I found out the new seasons were only 10 episodes I was livid when I only got 6 episodes.
it's still 10, 6 + 2 specials equals to 10 episodes
@@eren7350 yeah when you look at it that way your correct!
In all honesty, I enjoyed tegridy farms. I did however watch them more straight through rather than weekly. I just like how Randy kept digging his own holes deeper and deeper.
With all the insanity going on in the world, you'd think Matt and Trey would have a goldmine of material to work with.
I think they should keep Randy’s spin off as the six episodes and South Park for the films
I love the tegrity farms season! I loved it
The 6 days to air, used to be an impressive boast but now it's just an excuse to reduce the episode count.