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'South Park' blows deadline for first time ever
Entertainment Weekly ^ | Oct 16, 2013 | James Hibberd

Posted on 10/18/2013 9:07:20 AM PDT by Hillarys Gate Cult

h my god, they blew a deadline!

For 13 years, South Park creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone have famously delivered episodes to Comedy Central just before their deadline. Unlike pretty much every animated show on television — many of which are written several months in advance — South Park has remained topical by creating a show from scratch starting six days before air.

But Comedy Central says South Park Studios lost power for three hours on Tuesday (images below). “From animation to rendering to editing and sound, all of their computers were down for hours and they were unable to finish episode 1704 ‘Goth Kids 3: Dawn of the Posers’ in time for air tonight,” the network said in a statement. This is the first time in South Park‘s 240-episode history that a show has not aired as planned due to a blown deadline.

Trey Parker said in a statement: “It sucks to miss an air date but after all these years of tempting fate by delivering the show last minute, I guess it was bound to happen.”

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Thought they were doing something cheeky this week like an inside joke to their fans. Was surprised nobody here mentioned this yet. TV listings still shows the episode description for the new show on the current repeats that were supposed to be the new episode. Goth episode airs next Wednesday
1 posted on 10/18/2013 9:07:20 AM PDT by Hillarys Gate Cult
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To: Hillarys Gate Cult
‘Goth Kids 3: Dawn of the Posers’

Speaking of posers, goth kids aren't worthy of holding the bear skins of real Goths like those who sacked Rome. If those "goths" were to run into a real Goth, they would melt into a puddle of tears, eye liner and hair dye.

2 posted on 10/18/2013 9:19:07 AM PDT by KarlInOhio (Everyone get online for Obamacare on 10/1. Overload the system and crash it hard!)
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To: Hillarys Gate Cult

Due to this week’s tragic events in Hawaii, the Lemmiwinks episode of South Park will not be shown tonight. Instead, we present the all new and slightly better episode, AWESOME-O.


3 posted on 10/18/2013 9:46:54 AM PDT by Lonely Bull
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To: Hillarys Gate Cult

They should have blamed it on the Republican shut-down of the whole US economy!!!

Oh, wait...that is the next episode.


4 posted on 10/18/2013 9:57:39 AM PDT by Cletus.D.Yokel (Catastrophic Anthropogenic Climate Alterations - The acronym explains the science.)
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5 posted on 10/18/2013 10:21:01 AM PDT by EEGator
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6 posted on 10/18/2013 10:28:08 AM PDT by Obama_Is_Sabotaging_America (If Americans were as concerned for their country as Egyptians are, Obama would be ousted!)
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To: Lonely Bull
LICE CAPADES was a GREAT episode!
7 posted on 10/18/2013 10:30:53 AM PDT by Obama_Is_Sabotaging_America (If Americans were as concerned for their country as Egyptians are, Obama would be ousted!)
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To: EEGator

Best episode ever!


8 posted on 10/18/2013 10:44:49 AM PDT by Reagan Disciple (Peace through Strength)
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***South Park has remained topical by creating a show from scratch starting six days before air. ***

I remember when feds went in and seized Elián González. That happened on a Sunday night. That Wednesday, South Park mocked it in which Kenney is shot dead by fed agents in a similar situation.


9 posted on 10/18/2013 10:50:26 AM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar (Sometimes you need 7+ more ammo. LOTS MORE.)
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To: KarlInOhio
If those "goths" were to run into a real Goth, they would melt into a puddle of tears, eye liner and hair dye.

Maybe. Most of the goths I knew were so stoned they would just stand their and say "dude..." while getting killed.

10 posted on 10/18/2013 11:07:10 AM PDT by Durus (You can avoid reality, but you cannot avoid the consequences of avoiding reality. Ayn Rand)
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Oh my god, they blew a deadline!

Usually they just blow each other.

Funny show, though, sometimes.

11 posted on 10/18/2013 11:08:56 AM PDT by Moltke (Sapere aude!)
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To: Reagan Disciple

Definitely a top one. I really enjoyed the WoW episode as well.


12 posted on 10/18/2013 1:21:28 PM PDT by EEGator
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