As season 20 of South Park rolled out, Donald Trump and Hilary Clinton were reaching the final stages of their Presidential clash.
South Park, as a result, struggled to keep up with current affairs, the show’s creators seemingly writing themselves into a corner as the election campaign progressed.
Come season 21, Trey Parker and Matt Stone are going to lay off the Trump jokes, instead concentrating on what made the show such a hit, the kids.
“This season I want to get back to Cartman dressing up like a robot and [screwing] with Butters, because to me that’s the bread and butter of South Park: kids being kids and being ridiculous and outrageous but not ‘did you see what Trump did last night?’