South Park will officially be on screens through to 2022. Season 23, which is scheduled to start later this month, also happens to coincide with the long-running cartoon's landmark 300th episode. That being said, it doesn't appear that Matt Stone or Trey Parker have any plans to celebrate the occasion with a special episode.
"Well, we did the 200 two-parter and that was a disaster. We've learned the past few years to let the momentum of the season take us," Parker told The Hollywood Reporter, referring to South Park's Season 14 episodes, "200" and "201," which aired back in 2010. That two-parter included jokes revolving around the prophet Muhammad. Comedy Central would subsequently edit both episodes, only airing them once. Neither episode has officially been made available for streaming.
The last time Stone and Parker felt pressure to deliver some form of celebratory episode was during Season 20. Stone explained, "I think we felt the heaviness of the 20th season, some show-defining thing. We've tried that. I like the past couple of seasons where it's like, take the pressure off and let the thing be what it is. And we're better at doing that."
Starring Trey Parker and Matt Stone, South Park Season 23 premieres Sept. 25 at 10 pm ET/PT on Comedy Central.