While the age of 27 has spelled doom for a number of famous entities, South Park is feeling positively rejuvenated—and it’s got the viewership numbers to back that up.
In the three weeks since South Park’s Season 27 premiere aired on Comedy Central, the long-running series has been making headlines for its brutal skewering of the current White House administration, with President Donald Trump, Vice President J.D. Vance, and Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem among its favorite targets so far. And audiences—whether out of political alignment, outrage, or general curiosity—can’t seem to get enough.
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On Wednesday, as Deadline reported, Paramount Global—the parent company of Comedy Central and Paramount+, where the Emmy-winning series airs and streams, respectively—released the latest viewership stats for South Park’s second episode of the season, and they’re pretty impressive.
According to Paramount’s numbers, the second episode of the season, titled “Got a Nut,” drew 6.2 million viewers worldwide in just its first three days. That’s a slight jump above “Sermon on the ‘Mount,” the Season 27 premiere, which brought in 6 million viewers in that same time frame. What’s more impressive is that streaming viewership between the two episodes is up a whopping 49 percent.
These audience numbers have been big enough to make “Got a Nut” the most watched episode of South Park since 2018.
While new episodes of South Park typically air on Comedy Central on Wednesday nights, the network is instead celebrating “South Park Day,” as the series premiered on August 13, 1997. South Park will return with a new episode on August 20.
