The new South Park episode originally scheduled to air tonight (Oct. 16) — Episode 1704, “Goth Kids 3: Dawn of the Posers” — has been delayed by a week due to a power outage at South Park Studios last night, according to Comedy Central. Due to the power outage (an image from the outage is pictured below), all computers at the studios were down, so everything from animation to rendering to editing and sound on the episode was unable to be completed in time for the episode to air tonight, as originally planned.
According to South Park co-creator Trey Parker, quoted in a Comedy Central release regarding these developments, “It sucks to miss an air date but after all these years of tempting fate by delivering the show last minute, I guess it was bound to happen.”
Tonight, Comedy Central will instead air an encore episode of South Park, “Scott Tenorman Must Die,” at 10pm ET/PT. The encore presentation will be live-tweeted, and will be followed by a new episode of Key & Peele at 10:30pm ET/PT.
The new episode originally scheduled for tonight, “Goth Kids 3: Dawn of the Posers,” is now scheduled to air next Wednesday, Oct. 23, on Comedy Central. In “Goth Kids 3: Dawn of the Posers,” one of the Goth kids has been sent to a camp for troubled children. When she returns, her friends find her changed in a disturbing way. With their very existence threatened, the Goths have to do something drastic — they are forced to ask the Vamp kids for help.
