'A Big Christmas Miracle?' — South Park Season 28 Episode 5 Looks Set to Finally Deliver Satan and Trump's Butt Baby

South Park looks acceptable to bring Season 28 to a adjacent with the long-awaited(?) transportation of Satan and Donald Trump’s ‘butt baby.’

Today, December 10, South Park Season 28 Episode 5 airs astatine 10pm ET / PT connected Comedy Central, earlier streaming tomorrow, December 11 connected Paramount+ from 6am ET / 3am PT. Episode 5 is expected to beryllium the play finale and bring to an extremity South Park’s existent biweekly docket of caller occurrence releases until the caller play starts.

For the uninitiated, the overarching storyline successful South Park Season 27 and Season 28 has been Trump trying and failing to person Satan not to spell done with having their baby, aka the Antichrist. Now it’s really happening, though vice president J.D. Vance, who has conspired with Trump to effort to execution the babe successful caller episodes, whitethorn extremity up having the past laugh.

The occurrence itself is appropriately called The Crap Out, and Comedy Central's occurrence statement declares: "Satan's due, Stan's praying, and lone a Christmas occurrence tin present the Antichrist connected time." How volition Stan origin successful each of this? It’s unclear, but the clip beneath shows Trump and J.D. Vance moving arsenic doorbell ringers for the Salvation Army, truthful determination is that...

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Also unclear is what happens with South Park from here. South Park abruptly brought Season 27 to an extremity aft conscionable 5 episodes, and the anticipation is that Season 28 volition extremity with the aforesaid number. Could we spot Season 29 sooner alternatively than later?

Traditionally, South Park creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone make each occurrence week by week, which makes for a chaotic accumulation but topical shows. Comedy Central had delayed the Season 27 ender conscionable hours earlier it was owed to air, with Parker and Stone insisting the blasted laic astatine their door. “Apparently erstwhile you bash everything astatine the past infinitesimal sometimes you don’t get it done,” the brace told Variety. “This one’s connected us. We didn’t get it done successful time. Thanks to Comedy Central and South Park fans for being truthful understanding. Tune successful adjacent week!”

As acold arsenic we astatine IGN are aware, Parker and Stone had missed the scheduled merchandise of South Park conscionable erstwhile before, owed to a powerfulness outage, but ne'er for not getting an occurrence done successful time.

It’s worthy noting that during their San Diego Comic-Con 2025 panel, which took spot the time aft the Season 27 opener aired, Parker said helium and Stone were unsure what the adjacent occurrence would be, revealing the determination was “super stressful.”

South Park has enjoyed large ratings and sparked overmuch statement ever since the Donald Trump-skewering Season 27 opener successful July, which you tin work the details of here. It roasted Trump to specified an grade that it sparked a rebuttal from the White House. Parker and Stone person said they were attracted to “new taboos” and a fearfulness of speaking retired against the Trump administration.

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