Trey Parker and Matt Stone have renamed South Park to South America, and Comedy Central’s website had already picked up the new title by Wednesday morning. The shift turned a Tuesday statement into a visible change before the next season begins, and it gave the show a new label just days before its return.
Parker and Stone framed the move as a jab at President Donald Trump, Apple and Google, saying they were inspired by the bravery and patriotism of Apple and Google. They also thanked their parent company with a line that called Paramount a Skydance Capitulation, pushing the rename beyond a joke and into a pointed shot at the companies around the show.
The timing matters because Trump has been pressing for geographic name changes, including a push to flip Lake Ontario to Lake America, and Google and Apple have agreed to some of those changes on their map apps. By Wednesday morning, Comedy Central’s website was already using South America, while TV Guide still listed the show as South Park, a split that shows how quickly the new branding spread and how unevenly it was being carried.
South Park has been on the air since 1997, and its most recent seasons leaned hard into anti-Trump satire, including a caricature of Donald Trump impregnating Satan. That history makes the rename feel less like a one-off stunt than a continuation of the show’s current argument with Trump and the companies around him.
What is not clear yet is whether the change stops at the website or reaches the on-air title when the 29th season premieres next Wednesday at 10 p.m. ET/PT. For now, Parker and Stone have made their point, and Comedy Central has already followed it online.
