South Park: Post Covid: The Return of Covid (also stylized South Park: Post COVID: The Return of COVID) is a 2021 American adult animated comedy television film written and directed by Trey Parker. It is the second in a series of South Park television films for the streaming service Paramount+ and premiered on December 16, 2021.[1][2] It is a direct sequel to and continues the storyline of the previous film, South Park: Post Covid.[3] It is the fourth and final episode of the 24th season and the 311th episode of the series. Plot[edit]Stan Marsh flashes back to the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, when he, Kyle Broflovski, Kenny McCormick and Eric Cartman were sent home from school before they could blackmail fellow student Heather Wiliams into attending a Denver Nuggets game; and the events leading to him burning down Tegridy Farms and inadvertently killing his sister Shelley, leading to their mother Sharon's suicide. Presently, South Park remains under quarantine due to the new COVID-19 variant. On the run and guarding his last sprout of marijuana, Randy Marsh is cornered by Shady Acres nurses when Token Black defeats them and takes Randy to Kenny's laboratory. At the lab, Stan and Kyle, alongside Wendy Testaburger, Tweek Tweak, Craig Tucker, Jimmy Valmer, and Clyde Donovan, cannot get past Kenny's firewall without a voice command from either him or his institutionalized associate, Victor Chouce. Wendy realizes that the experiment will need aluminum foil, all supplies of which are in grounded cargo ships. Stan and Kyle head out to retrieve Chouce while Tweek and Craig search for foil. Stan and Kyle find that "Chouce" is actually "Chaos" at the South Park Mental Asylum. They enter Chaos' cell to discover that he is actually Butters Stotch, who gradually became insane after his parents abandoned him. In his isolation, Chaos began dealing in NFTs, upon mention of which asylum personnel subdue Chaos and remove Kyle and Stan from his cell. Chaos uses a paper on Kenny's research given to him by Kyle to convince a guard to release him. Meanwhile, Randy cultivates his marijuana as the others explain Kenny's plan to time travel and prevent the pandemic. Randy is convinced that his marijuana is the solution to their problem. Their plans are further complicated by Clyde's refusal to be vaccinated. At the South Park Church, Father Scott Malkinson is approached by Cartman and his family. Cartman forms the Foundation Against Time Travel while hiding his family in the attic, intent on preventing Kyle from implementing Kenny's plan. Tweek and Craig arrive at the church and inadvertently inform Cartman of their purpose, resulting in their capture. Cartman convinces Clyde to join his cause; he later finds Chaos selling NFTs to senior citizens and uses him to hinder the group at the laboratory. Upon Stan and Kyle's return, Wendy, Token, Jimmy, and Randy have been brainwashed into investing in NFTs, while Cartman and his group have stolen the equipment. At the church, Cartman reveals his plan to have Kyle killed in the past, while Kyle and Stan undo Chaos' brainwashing. Wendy admits that Kenny's plan was not to prevent the pandemic but to salvage the boys' friendship and improve the future; Token states that "Tegridy Weed" was only in Kenny's notes as a reminder to take some marijuana with him. A depressed Randy forgives Stan for his actions and gives him his last seed of marijuana. Cartman prepares for Clyde to travel back in time when Stan and Kyle arrive and use their Amazon Alexas to neutralize Chaos. Cartman and Kyle begin fighting until Yentl, Cartman's wife, convinces him to allow Kyle and Stan to implement their plan. Cartman’s infant son activates the machine, sending Clyde back in time. Arriving to retrieve his father's gun, Clyde convinces his past self not to be vaccinated. Adult Clyde approaches the boys with the intent to kill young Kyle when Stan, Kyle, and Cartman arrive, having traveled through time to intervene. Before Clyde can fire, Cartman shoots him dead. Realizing that they cannot prevent the pandemic, Stan, Kyle, and Cartman instead decide to change their reaction to it. They approach Heather Williams and blackmail her to get their younger selves courtside tickets to the Nuggets game, where the boys forgive each other. Stan sends Randy the marijuana strain from the future, which Randy cultivates for mass distribution. Under the strain's influence, everyone forgives each other for their behavior during the pandemic, changing the future. Almost everyone's lives have changed for the better in the revised future, with Sharon, Shelley, and Kenny alive in the new future, while Cartman has become a homeless alcoholic on the street. Cast[edit]
Reception[edit]Dan Caffey of The A.V. Club said about the film "Picking up where November’s Post COVID left off, The Return of COVID finds South Park's grownup kids in full Avengers: Endgame mode, trying to figure out how to travel back in time to reverse the shitty present in which they currently live. If that sounds like an overly basic distillation of the plot, that's because, like the first movie, The Return of COVID complicates the story with subplots that sometimes make the core narrative feel like it's stalling."[5] The ending of the film which revealed the fate of an adult Eric Cartman led to some strong reactions from longtime fans of the show.[6] References[edit]
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Will there be a third South Park Post Covid?Development. On August 5, 2021, Comedy Central announced that Parker and Stone had signed a $900 million deal for extending the series to 30 seasons through 2027 and 14 feature films, exclusive to the Paramount+ streaming platform owned and operated by Comedy Central's parent company, ViacomCBS.
Will post Covid have a sequel South Park?South Park: Post Covid: The Return of Covid (also stylized South Park: Post COVID: The Return of COVID) is a 2021 American adult animated comedy television film written and directed by Trey Parker.
How many episodes is the South Park Post Covid special?South Park, fresh off its two December Post Covid movie events, will return to Comedy Central for its 25th season next month. The long-running animated comedy from co-creators Matt Stone and Trey Parker will return with six episodes on Wednesday, Feb.
What did Cartman say in Hebrew Post Covid?As selfishly as he was acting, Cartman's motivation was to ensure he didn't lose his family. He even tells Kyle in (broken) Hebrew, "משפחה היא לא רק חשובה, היא הכל." which translates to "Family isn't just important. It's everything." He really, truly loves them and even has a Heel–Face Turn because of his wife.
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