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South Park Season 26 Finale Preview: Old Habits Die Hard for Garrison

With the Season 26 finale set for this Wednesday, here's a look at a preview for Trey Parker & Matt Stone's South Park S26E06 "Spring Break."

This week, it's the 26th season finale of Trey Parker & Matt Stone's South Park (I know, right) – so who better to go into the break with than Garrison? If you're like us, you were already sold on S26E06 "Spring Break" the moment you saw Garrison in the preview for the clip below. But seeing that he's falling back into some "old habits" and how that might just complicate things? Yeah, we're definitely there (but damn, these six-episode seasons fly by).

With a new episode hitting Comedy Central on Wednesday, March 29th (10 pm ET/9 pm CT), here's a look at the teaser for Comedy Central's South Park S26E06 "Spring Break":

South Park Creators Discuss Animated Series' Origins

Parker & Stone checked in with hosts Doug Herzog (former network executive at MTV, Comedy Central & FOX) & Jen Chaney (TV critic at New York Magazine/Vulture) on Basic!, a podcast series offering a look back to the glory days of basic cable history. While we don't want to spoil the episode for you because it's definitely a must-listen for fans interested in knowing a lot of the behind-the-scenes happenings, there were some highlights that we wanted to point out. First up, MTV passed on the series outright, while FOX was only interested if the series could be adjusted to focus on a family and not four kids (looking to apply to South Park what they thought it was about The Simpsons that made it work).

And at around the 21:20 mark, we have to give Herzog a ton of credit for throwing himself on his creative word by admitting that he tried to stop Parker & Stone from killing Kenny every week. That conversation segued directly into how Mr. Hankey, The Christmas Poo (S01E09), helped "mainstream" poop, as well as a great anecdote about how many a piece of poop was a bridge too far for one Comedy Central executive.

And then, starting around the 28:20 mark, the trio discuss the "The Gauntlet" short created for the 2020 MTV Movie Awards, spoofing Russell Crowe's Gladiator and John Travolta's Battlefield: Earth. When word hit that the short ended with a Cartman/toilet paper joke that wasn't too flattering to L. Rob Hubbard (author of Battlefield: Earth), Dianetics & Scientology, Isaac Hayes (Chef), who was a Scientologist, asked the show's creators if a Scienologist rep could see the short before it aired. Now, we get the backstory on how The Church of Scientology learned what was in the short at the same time as the rest of us did.

And here's your chance to check out the entire episode for yourselves – a "must" for any South Park fans:

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