‘South Park’ serves up a beef crisis, not a Halloween special

The Hollywood Reporter, citing a Comedy Central preview, said the boys would fight to keep South America’s newly prized beef in local hands. Variety’s account of the October 28 episode, “Guinea Pig on a Stick,” says the government takes the town’s beef amid a national crisis, prompting Cartman, Stan, Kyle and a shrunken Randy to seek a solution. Despite its Halloween-week timing, Variety says it was not a Halloween special.