Pack your swim trunks—Casa Bonita‑style celebrations are in order. South Park creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone have just inked a jaw‑dropping five‑year, $1.5 billion streaming pact with Paramount. The deal hands Paramount global streaming rights to the long‑running animated juggernaut and brings the show to Paramount+ in the United States for the very first time. Through their Park County banner, Parker and Stone will deliver ten fresh episodes every year. It’s a milestone moment for a show that’s been testing the limits of cable television since 1997 — and it’s arriving with both celebration and controversy.

The duo will also retain creative control, which is likely to reassure fans wary of corporate interference. Whether Paramount can keep pace with their chaotic energy remains to be seen, but the deal does guarantee that South Park will continue to comment controversially on, well, everything. Season 27 debuts later today on Paramount+ and, ideally, will mark the beginning of a new and more stable era for the series. Fans had also previously launched a petition demanding that all episodes, including those previously pulled, be made available on the platform again.

Paramount‘s relationship with South Park fans hadn’t exactly been all that, to be blunt. Earlier this month, fans were disappointed to hear that the streaming service had pushed back the launch of Season 27 to July 23, despite being slated to come out on July 9. Following the announcement, Stone and Parker took to social media to release an official statement that read:

“This merger is a s–tshow and it’s f–king up South Park,” the duo wrote on the show’s official social channels. “We are at the studio working on new episodes and we hope the fans get to see them somehow.”

What Can We Expect From ‘South Park’ Season 27?

Behind-the-scenes chaos aside, the Season 27 teaser promises vintage South Park lunacy: a wildfire engulfs the town, beret-wearing French activists attempt to “reclaim” the Statue of Liberty, and Butters takes a swing at air-traffic control—with predictably disastrous results. Meanwhile, Cartman turns up in a hospital delivery room during a woman’s labor, teasing an abortion-themed episode, Kyle somehow transforms into a turkey, and yes, a Diddy-centric storyline is coming—because of course it is.

Season 27 of South Park will premiere today, July 23, on Comedy Central at 10PM ET/PT and, yes, will be on Paramount+.

via Collider