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\u201cSouth Park<\/a>\u201d returned Wednesday with \u201cConflict of Interest,\u201d the fifth episode of Season 27, following a one-week delay. The episode, originally scheduled to air Sept. 17 on Comedy Central, was postponed just hours before broadcast. \u201cApparently, when you do everything at the last minute, sometimes you don\u2019t get it done,\u201d said<\/a> co-creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone in a statement posted to Instagram regarding the skipped week. \u201cThis one\u2019s on us. We didn\u2019t get it done in time.\u201d<\/p>\n The delay was unusual <\/a>for the long-running series, which produces episodes week by week. Some speculated Comedy Central postponed the episode out of caution after conservative pundit Charlie Kirk<\/a> was assassinated on Sept. 10. The network had previously pulled a repeat of Season 27\u2019s second episode, \u201cGot a Nut,\u201d which parodies Kirk. (\u201cGot a Nut\u201d remains available to stream on Paramount+.) Stone dismissed concerns of censorship, saying,<\/a> \u201cNo one pulled the episode, no one censored us, and you know we\u2019d say so if true.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cConflict of Interest\u201d takes aim at FCC Chairman Brendan Carr<\/a>, who recently pressured ABC to take Jimmy Kimmel Live!<\/a> off the air. The episode places Carr in a string of slapstick misadventures involving President Donald Trump, who is trying to abort a child he is having with Satan. Carr falls down stairs, eats a poisoned meal and contracts toxoplasmosis, which the show jokes could threaten his \u201cfreedom of speech.\u201d In one scene, the JD Vance character directly references Carr\u2019s real-world warning<\/a> to ABC: \u201cWe can do this the easy way, or the hard way.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cSouth Park\u201d is expected to return<\/a> to its bi-weekly schedule, with new episodes airing every other Wednesday from Oct. 15 through Dec. 10.<\/em><\/p>\n The post \u201cSouth Park\u201d gives FCC chair Brendan Carr toxoplasmosis in return episode<\/a> appeared first on Salon.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n