South Park Season 22 begins September 26, 2018

[Big-Will]

Read this article for confirmation of this date as well as San Diego Comic Con news!.

[stevesut1]

Good to know, thanks.

[kfgg]

Gives me about 3 months to prepare my brain.

[GforGoomba]

Finally I can keep up with the latest episodes instead of having to randomy watch past ones!

[taka-tim]

Let's start challange #5th_grade Please grow up boys!

[EthanTheGeek1998]

I wish the first episode of Season 22 will start off where the season 21 finale left off...

[kfgg]

I hope things turn out well. I really do. This is the only show I care about. The most recent marketing seems like it got people's attention and hopefully they'll care too. I've found a lot of people who have not watched in years that are surprised the show still runs.

I know with the way cable is (Too expensive, everybody cutting to internet-only) there's no way the ratings will ever be the same. That's an issue for cable, but the numbers on Hulu shows how popular South Park still is.

That said, I'm still watching on TV. That's just something I don't think you can replicate online. The excitement while waiting for the show to start on TV. I cherish that. It's important to me. I don't know if I'm the only one or not.

[JamesPolo]

#cancelsouthpark

[AJV2688]

What the hell is all of this cancel south park sh*t going on? We need south park more than ever right now. All the other shows I see on TV have the same single bias view, and are so afraid to offend anyone. Can't we at least keep the show going until there are more views represented on TV?

[joshferrell]

I wonder if they are going to do something so offensive and so politically incorrect that it will cause the PC communist to try to get the show canceled...

[JamesPolo]

HannaFuckIt or whatever her name is had found people on the internet that hate South Park. Still I don't really think I know or have heard of any that truly hate the show. I don't know either why they've chosen to do the #cancelsouthpark idea. Are there people trying to cancel the show? Can the show be that offensive and pass censorship that people would want to cancel it? I think AngelDeb had said the Westboro Baptist Church hates the show and I think Al-Qaeda does too. Is it going to be to dig deep to find everyone that says they hate the show like that ginger that got mad and made that video gingers have souls? That would be something to make an episode or whole season that is hand crafted to piss off people that state they don't like the show.

[kfgg]

It worries me, but as someone who understands unique marketing this makes sense.

You take a shocking hashtag and promote the new season with it. On Twitter anybody who used it would get an automatic response, spreading it even farther.

Last year anybody who tweeted #southpark21 and the chicken emoji automatically got a link for free delivery of chicken from Fooji.

[Loves2rim]

Good afternoon. I am a die hard fan and just wanted to throw an idea out there. I don't know if the creators will ever see this msg but pray to god it gets to them somehow. I would love to see south park do an episode on the youtube legend LA Beast. He's a big crazy dude who does these extreme and often gross stunts resulting in him hilariously vomiting and hurting himself. I want to see cartman trying to mimic him either calling himself the south park beast or cartman beast. Im telling you this episode would be monumental, la beast has millions of subscribers and no less than 10k likes on every one of his videos! I'm so surprised that Matt and Trey haven't gon after him yet XD. And last but not least, we need a Drake episode. Drake of course is Canadian but raps street and sings emotionally driven songs at the same time. I feel like these many conflicting and often contradicting personas would drive Stan, Cartman, and Kenny f*cking crazy XD. And drake NEEDS to be Canadian, im talking the accent, the beaty eyes and flapping head, the whole 9 XD. I feel like that would be a great episode focusing on Ike as well. I Pray these ideas find there way to the show's writers im telling you the viewers are gonna go ballistic and for me it would be a dream come true . Thanks for your time.

[JVM]

I've mentioned this elsewhere, but I think #CancelSouthPark is one of the many simple tagline-driven ad campaigns Comedy Central has been using for the last several years, among the likes of "X is Back", "Heads Up", "Look Out", and the 20th Anniversary trophy with Stan -- something selected by Comedy Central's marketing department to adorn previews and make some headlines ahead of the actual new episode information that will have no bearing on what Matt and Trey actually deliver.

It's a smart marketing campaign as well, because it catches the attention of fans who've tuned out the last few years, who may not care about the last few seasons but might not be ready to watch the show go away; it also invites and acknowledges the possibility of controversy, a cornerstone of Comedy Central's marketing for the show for a long time... and it's getting headlines, so it's doing its job.

We'll see what airs Wednesday.

[kfgg]

It's all marketing. It catches people's attention. The South Park Twitter account bot tweets a generic response telling people when Season 22 starts whenever anybody tweets at it with "#cancelsouthpark"

It's actually really unique marketing.