After the much-talked-about season 27 premiere of South Park , on-air viewers turned out in significantly larger numbers for the show’s second episode.

The Aug. 6 installment, which mocked Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem (who was not pleased ) and Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents, drew 838,000 viewers for its initial airing on Comedy Central — almost double the 430,000 who tuned into the season premiere on July 23. That’s the third-highest initial tune-in for South Park in the past three seasons, behind a March 2023 episode about ChatGPT (in which the AI bot is credited as a co-writer with Trey Parker) that drew 1.04 million viewers and the season 25 premiere in February 2022, which logged 844,000 viewers.

After the much-talked-about season 27 premiere of

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