‘South Park’ announces second COVID-19 special: ‘We will be herd’
After its major talker “Pandemic Special” final fall, “South Park” is returning with its second COVID-19 episode subsequent month.
Premiering March 10 (8 EST/PST), Comedy Central’s one-hour “South ParQ Vaccination Special” will observe South Park residents as they attempt to get vaccinated.
“We will be herd,” learn a tweet from the present’s official account on Friday.
Presumably a nod to “herd immunity,” which the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention describes as a “situation in which a sufficient proportion of a population is immune to an infectious disease (through vaccination and/or prior illness) to make its spread from person to person unlikely,” the particular comes as 12.9% of people in the United States have received at least one COVID-19 shot and 5.4% have acquired each doses of the vaccine.
To date, the U.S. has seen greater than 28 million coronavirus circumstances and is nearing half one million deaths, in keeping with Johns Hopkins information.
Trey Parker and Matt Stone’s “South Park” premiered its twenty fourth season on Sept. 30 by tackling the one factor on everybody’s minds: 2020 and every little thing that got here with it. In true “South Park” vogue, the one-hour “Pandemic Special” took fiery jabs at President Donald Trump, the COVID-19 pandemic and police brutality.
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The episode was the speak of Twitter when it aired, as folks both could not consider the community would air one thing prefer it or discovered the present hilariously relatable. Memorable scenes included Stephen Stotch reprimanding his neighbors for improperly sporting their masks, Eric Cartman faking a pc glitch to get out of on-line studying, and Token, the one Black child at school, getting shot by police after a battle broke out between Cartman and Kyle.
While the episode touched on a number of factors of 2020, Stan summed up how lots of people really feel: “I can’t take these shutdowns anymore and I’m scared of what it’s doing to me. … The truth is I just want to have fun again … I want my life back.”
The “Vaccination Special” episode will be the present’s first episode since its final COVID-19-themed particular. In 2019, Comedy Central renewed the long-running animated series through 2022.
Contributing: Rasha Ali and Jayme Deerwester
This article initially appeared on USA TODAY: ‘South Park’ to air new COVID-19 episode: ‘Vaccination Special’
