>>283843
South Park can't afford one episode a month. For a wide variety of reasons.
1. It's one of Comedy Central's top rated shows and one of the few hits they still have as most of their crap has under performed or been outright cancelled or currently in a nebulous state of disrepair (see Daily Show).
2. The show is old and as such, it's popularity is very fragile. Going once a month would cause people to forget all about it.
3. It's a cash cow. Pure and simple. Going once a month would cripple Parker and Stone's income as far as moving South Park out of the mainstream public eye.
>>283903
Parker and Stone have SHIT power. They are whores. Self-admitted whores.
They got their shit smacked down TWICE for doing episodes based on the Mohammed Cartoons. The second time, they got forced to sign NDA banning them from EVER talking about the behind the scenes shit that went down with 200/201 and banning them from ever TRYING to sneak it into another episode. Let alone unable to keep Comedy Central from releasing the edited version of 201 on DVD.
But as I said, Parker and Stone have zero power. They are whores, spoiled whores at that. They are absolutely POWERLESS without Viacom propping them up. They even admit this, in terms of the fact that they acknowledge that they never want to go back to being indie scum, who get heavily censored by the MPAA and can't get a major mass market release for their films in theaters. Let alone advertising.
They sold out and sold out hard and know they can't really stand up to Viacom if Viacom decides to fucking yank their chains. They tried to fight back with 200/201 and were outright bitchslapped into submission by the suits.
Even with Book of Mormon, it took every dime they had to make and you KNOW they are looking at Viacom/Paramount to buy the movie rights to it in a couple of years. And Trey Parker is known to have expensive tastes in drugs and hookers, plus an ex-wife he is having to pay alimony to after he left her for a crack whore he met in the back room of a Colorado strip club.
The only "power" they have is the mutual desperation Comedy Central has with needing their last unsullied hit show on the air and even then, Comedy Central has the power because they know Parker and Stone need them more than they need the two. Comedy Central CAN move on from South Park; Parker and Stone CAN'T move on from South Park without going back to be nobodies who will never find a corporate sugar daddy who will treat them as well as Viacom did.