South Park hit yet another home run with Season 27’s continued jokes about the Trump administration.
The second episode of Season 27 drew 6.2M global multi-platform viewers across Comedy Central and Paramount+ in its first three days, Paramount Global said Wednesday. That’s a slight uptick from the premiere episode, which reached nearly 6M viewers in the same time frame.
Paramount says that global streaming consumption of the long-running series from Trey Parker and Matt Stone has grown double digits in the first three days of Episode 2702’s release, up 49% from the same period of streaming for the series post-premiere.
On cable, the second episode of this season is now the highest rated episode of South Park since 2018, outperforming the premiere episode by 54% in the 18-49 demo with a 1.53, per Nielsen data.
In terms of total viewers on cable, Episode 2702 brought in an audience of 1.56M in L3, indicating that the majority of the audience came from streaming.
The August 6 episode featured commentary on the ongoing masked ICE abductions of undocumented immigrants and U.S. citizens across the country with a parody of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem shooting puppies and raiding heaven, among other things. The episode follows laid off South Park teacher Mr. Mackey as he joins ICE once he loses his job at the school, conducting his first raid with little to no training save for a short video from Noem declaring that “together we will make sure everyone is in this country legally.”
There is also Cartman as right-wing provocateur Charlie Kirk doing his podcast on the toilet while getting busy — and a stylized version of JD Vance makes a first appearance as well. And, of course, there’s more Trump and Satan canoodling to boot.
Taking yet another shot at parent company Paramount, South Park also depicted ICE going after Dora the Explorer. Parker and Stone recently struck a new, five-year overall deal with Paramount Global as well as a five-year streaming license deal reportedly worth around $1.5B as streamers such as HBO Max clamored for the opportunity to stream the 300-plus episodes of the long-running animated show.
South Park is taking another week off, so expect a new episode on August 20.
