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South Park: Season 21

10 episodes Premiered Sep 13, 2017 Updated Oct 3, 2026

Role: Meticulous television and film archivist. Task: Produce a JSON object for "South Park" Season 21. Constraints: Use ONLY provided SYNOPSIS and SOURCES. No invented/guessed titles, names, dates, counts, awards, ratings, etc. Omit details not in the material. Style: Original, neutral, encyclopedic prose, plain text. No markdown, no asterisks, no headings, no bullet points in the text content. Output: Valid JSON on

Previously on South Park

Season 21 Lore Primer

Key plot threads, lore context, and character stakes you need to remember before diving into this season.

  • ⚡ Join Cartman, Kenny, Stan, and Kyle as they take on the opioid epidemic, experiment with water bears, dig into the underbelly of social media and go to war with Canada.
  • ⚡ Character alliances, factions, and personal loyalties undergo significant shifts under escalating stakes.
  • ⚡ Addresses unresolved cliffhangers and thematic mysteries introduced during previous seasons.
  • ⚡ Establishes the primary seasonal conflict that drives serialized character arcs toward the finale.
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Season overview

Role: Meticulous television and film archivist.
Task: Produce a JSON object for "South Park" Season 21.
Constraints:
Use ONLY provided SYNOPSIS and SOURCES.
No invented/guessed titles, names, dates, counts, awards, ratings, etc.
Omit details not in the material.
Style: Original, neutral, encyclopedic prose, plain text.
No markdown, no asterisks, no headings, no bullet points in the text content.
Output: Valid JSON only.
JSON Keys:
overview: Factual 160-220 word summary of this season's narrative arc.
primer: Array of exactly 4 concise bullet points summarizing essential previous lore, character positions, and stakes.
TMDB Season Synopsis: "Join Cartman, Kenny, Stan, and Kyle as they take on the opioid epidemic, experiment with water bears, dig into the underbelly of social media and go to war with Canada. For them, it’s all part of growing up in South Park!"
Source [1]: General overview: "Four boys. One f**ked-up town." "Follow the misadventures of four irreverent grade-schoolers in the quiet, dysfunctiona" (cut off).
Source [2]: Season 1 info: "Join Stan, Kyle Cartman and Kenny as these four animated tykes take on the supernatural, the extraordinary and the insane."
Source [3]: Creators: Trey Parker and Matt Stone. Voices: Parker and Stone do most male characters; April Stewart and Mona Marshall do female characters.
Source [4]: Matt Stone info: Born May 26, 1971. Created South Park with Trey Parker.
Source [5]: Irrelevant/nonsense.
Overview:
Subject: South Park Season 21.
Characters: Cartman, Kenny, Stan, and Kyle.
Plot points: Opioid epidemic, water bears, social media underbelly, war with Canada.
Theme: Part of growing up in South Park.
Drafting (aiming for 160-220 words):
The twenty-first season of the animated series South Park follows the misadventures of four irreverent grade-schoolers: Cartman, Kenny, Stan, and Kyle. During this season, the characters engage with several significant issues and scenarios as they navigate life in their town. The narrative arc includes the characters taking on

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Season 21 Episodes

Episode Guide

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Season 21: Filler vs. Essential Canon

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Mytharc (3): Crucial lore & season climaxes
Core (7): Character development & subplots
Side Quest (0): Standalone / filler
S21·E2 Core

Put It Down

Sep 20, 2017 · 23 min

When Tweek is caught in the middle of a petty conflict, it drives his relationship with Craig to the brink.

S21·E3 Core

Holiday Special

Sep 27, 2017 · 23 min

In a return to form, a forbidden love story between a white man and a Native American man unfolds.

S21·E4 Core

Franchise Prequel

Oct 11, 2017 · 23 min

Facebook is the ultimate weapon for Professor Chaos.

S21·E5 Core

Hummels & Heroin

Oct 18, 2017 · 23 min

Beloved entertainers are being cut down in their prime due to massive overdoses of opiates. Stan is about to be exposed as the source of the illegal drugs.

S21·E6 Core

Sons a Witches

Oct 25, 2017 · 23 min

This year at the traditional Halloween get together, a witch casts a spell that terrorizes the town and ruins Halloween for the boys.

S21·E7 Core

Doubling Down

Nov 8, 2017 · 23 min

The peer pressure for Heidi to break up with Cartman increases.

S21·E8 Core

Moss Piglets

Nov 15, 2017 · 23 min

Jimmy and Timmy’s experiment could win them first prize in the annual science fair.

S21·E9 Mytharc

SUPER HARD PCness

Nov 29, 2017 · 23 min

It’s never been more challenging to be a PC Principal.

S21·E10 Mytharc

Splatty Tomato

Dec 6, 2017 · 23 min

The children of South Park claim to have seen Mr. Garrison lurking around town. The townspeople are angry that the President is scaring their children.

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