International ‘South Park’ Fans Sound Off on Paramount+ Pulling the Series
by Keegan Kelly · Cracked.comSubscribers in Canada and the U.K. are irate about the unexpected disappearance of ‘South Park’
July 14, 2025
Amidst a pending merger and acrimonious contract negotiations with Trey Parker and Matt Stone, Paramount Global somehow has the time to find a new way to piss off South Park fans worldwide.
Back in May of this year, Paramount co-Chief Executive Chris McCarthy announced to shareholders that, following the expiration of the contentious South Park streaming rights contract with Warner Bros. Discovery, his company’s flagship streaming service would become the one-stop shop for all South Park content on the internet. Unfortunately for McCarthy and Paramount, the excitement over the move lasted just a few hours before South Park fans and insiders accused Paramount of planning to add a dozen South Park episodes to the infamous ban list upon the migration of the full series to Paramount+, and the company’s failure to secure a contract extension with Parker and Stone (and alleged interference in the pair’s negotiations with other streamers) further cemented the fact that this was not going to be a South Park summer for Paramount after all.
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Now, with the online South Park fandom already rabble-rabble-rabbling about Paramount’s shoddy patronage of their favorite show, Paramount’s move to scrub South Park from international streaming markets where they had hosted the show for years without so much as an announcement to subscribers has the fandom in full angry mob mode.
Over the weekend, one non-American South Park fan went viral with their Reddit thread in which they posted a screenshot of an email they received from Paramount customer service after they inquired about the surprise absence of South Park from their expensive Paramount+ plan. “Unfortunately, South Park has come to the end of the window in which we have the rights to carry it on Paramount+,” the Paramount representative wrote, “Which is why it has now had to come down off the platform.”
The syntax (and a later typo) in the email suggests that Paramount didn’t prepare its customer-facing employees for the sudden removal of one of its most popular shows, let alone provide them with a stock, PR-approved response for such predictable inquiries, which would mean that everyone besides the Paramount board themselves was blindsided by this sudden removal of South Park. And, whenever customers are faced with a massive reduction in services without warning, they’re bound to have some questions.
“How does one go about setting paramount on fire?” one top commenter asked under the post.
“What the hell is happening?” another asked bluntly
One more former Paramount+ subscriber inquired, “Did they attach an image of them rubbing their nipples?”
Now that the former exclusive streaming home for classic South Park episodes has dropped the series from international markets, many friendly South Park fans are left without the (legal) ability to stream any South Park content besides the Paramount+-exclusive specials, such as Joining the Panderverse, The End of Obesity and, ironically, The Streaming Wars. “All the specials are still on Paramount+ as they have been,” one Canadian South Park fan reported. “But the episodes are now gone. And they are not available on Crave TV either which is how we (exclusively?) are able to access HBO Max content. So I don’t believe there is anywhere we can see the episodes at the moment.”
As always, the easiest and least legally actionable answer to the South Park streaming problem is simple: “Physical media people. You could avoid all of this and own it,” one user wrote. But, of course, not everyone can afford to drop hundreds of dollars on both a Blu-ray player and the South Park box set, so Paramount+ shouldn’t be surprised when overseas South Park fans take a page out of Fatbeard’s treasure map the next time they want to watch the show without any hassle.
The Somalians are probably rubbing their nipples just thinking about it.
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