South Park Explains What’s Next for Randy After Tegridy Farms (And Why Things Won’t Just Go Back to Normal)

South Park has finally updated fans on watch’s going to happen to Randy Marsh after Tegridy Farms was sold, and it unfortunately also revealed that things aren’t going back to normal anytime soon. South Park Seasons 27 and 28 have continued through their respective runs this Fall, and with it has been telling a continuous story tying it all together. There are a lot of spinning plates up in the air with this multiple season long story, and they involve several of the characters wgho have been going through some significant status quo changes. The most of which has happened to the Marsh family.

South Park Season 27 previously made a massive change to Randy after seven years with the reveal that he was closing down Tegridy Farms, and moving away. But it’s been a few episodes (and the start of a new season) since that reveal without any new clear direction for Randy. But unfortunately with the newest episode of the season, South Park has shared a new update for Randy after leaving Tegridy Farms and he confirms that he won’t be returning to his old life any time soon.

The Marsh Family No Longer Has a Home

South Park Season 28 Episode 2, “The Woman in the Hat,” is the latest Halloween special for the long running animated series and confirms it’s been a month since the Marsh family moved away from Tegridy Farms. Randy has had trouble finding work, and the government shutdown means he can’t go back to his old job of being a geologist either. The family has been living in a motel in the meantime, but the episode sees them making a bigger change when they all move in with Stan’s grandpa at the nursing home.

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It’s a bummer of a change that sees Stan worrying about the state of the town (and on a more macro level, the current state of the show), but they all just realize that this is the state of the world in the animated series. One of South Park‘s strengths has been how the real world’s events have impacted each of the characters, and this is something that’s a scene that’s all too familiar for many families potentially caught in the same situation. Which means for now, it’s not going back to the old status quo anytime soon.

What Does This Mean for Randy’s Future?

From the state of the Marsh family caught in the chaos of everything else happening in the latest episodes, it seems like there’s no direct path for Randy moving forward. He’s not going to go back to his previous job before Tegridy Farms, and his time as Lorde might be too fantastical at this point to bring it all back up either. Randy’s caught in a very real ordeal after leaving Tegridy Farms, but there’s also yet to be any more material to mine from that idea thus far. But we could see a shift kick in soon.

Because while Stan notes how terrible things are in the world with the latest episode, South Park also notes that things might change soon enough. As fans watch the final three episodes of the series through the rest of the year, we’ll start to see all of its extended Trump and Satan stories kick into effect and potentially change the series even more. This could also lead to welcome changes for Randy, but until then everyone is stuck in limbo.

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