Halloween special The Woman in the Hat airs Oct 31 on Comedy Central.
South Park will air a Halloween special titled The Woman in the Hat on Friday, October 31 at 10 p.m. Eastern on Comedy Central, the network said. The episode continues the series’ recent focus on the Trump administration, using a fictional demolition of the White House East Wing and a resulting haunting to lampoon current events and return several recurring political figures to the storyline.
Comedy Central’s promotional images show animated depictions of Donald Trump and Satan in construction hardhats surveying rubble, and the episode’s logline says the White House faces a disruptive spirit from the East Wing. The plot includes a seance convened at the White House attended by characters representing Attorney General Pam Bondi, FCC chairman Brendan Carr, South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem, and Senator J.D. Vance, while a spectral Melania haunts the halls. Subplots follow the town of South Park, where Stan and the other children respond to their family’s worsening finances and create a memecoin called South Park Sucks Now to try to escape living with Grandpa Marsh.
The episode’s dialogue acknowledges criticism of the show’s political direction. In one scene Stan says, Everyone...