The South Park marathon will be a good measuring stick for fans of the classic series to see if Season 21 of South Park is as true of a return to form as creator Trey Parker has teased it will be.
Whether that means the series will opt out of trying to hit the current headlines in favor of more original story lines, or whether they’ll just try to better balance those two ideas, remains to be seen.
Neither Parker nor co-creator Matt Stone has been too quiet about the fact that they were worn out trying to keep up with the election last year, and it sounds as though fans should expect a change in style; if not completely, then at least from Season 20.