After a three-week wait, “South Park” is back with new episodes and a new season.
In a sudden turn of events, the short-lived Season 27 ended with just five episodes instead of the previously decided ten, a Comedy Central spokesperson confirmed. Details regarding the reason have not been disclosed. In Wednesday’s Season 28 premiere, South Park Elementary School is wrapped up in a “6 to 7” TikTok trend that Palantir co-founder Peter Thiel attributes to the Antichrist.
The episode begins with a meeting led by PC’s principal, who is determined to get South Park Elementary School back on track after getting wind of some “demonic numerology” going on. To defuse the situation, he invites a guest speaker to talk sense to the students. It’s Peter Thiel, the “absolute expert on the end times and the coming of the Antichrist.”
“Hello, everyone. I’m Peter Thiel, and I’m here to talk to you about the Antichrist,” he says. “OK, so first of all, what is the Antichrist? The Antichrist is a newer, more human form of Satan that will soon be roaming the Earth. We don’t know how soon it will be roaming the Earth, but it could be within the next six to seven weeks.”
The students at South Park Elementary School all erupt, “6-7!”
Confused, Thiel continues his impromptu TED talk. He explains that Satan was unable to produce children until Donald Trump came along. Donald Trump has a manhood perfectly sized to fit into Satan’s “pinhole” sized rectum. How masculine is Trump? Thiel estimates its size to be “6 to 7 centimeters.”
Once again, his alpha generation audience yells “6-7!”
Frustrated, Teal yells back at the children, “The Antichrist is coming! When the Bible mentions the eagle, it refers to America, it refers to the opening of the fourth seal, and it refers to Hell coming to Earth. It’s right in Revelation chapter 6…chapters 6-7.”
Desperate to put an end to the seemingly diabolical “6-7” craze, Teal ventures into the school’s data center with PC Principal and South Park Elementary School counselor Jesus Christ to find answers.
“We downloaded all the students’ information and loaded it into an AI facial detection program, so the school’s surveillance cameras could monitor their every move,” he says. “Look! Two students pass each other in the hallway. They give each other signs. Six, seven. Exactly 67 seconds later, this kid in this weird hoodie makes the same gesture. And inside the girls’ bathroom, two girls are doing the same thing!”
Worried, Jesus stops him and asks, “Wait, why is there a camera in the women’s bathroom?”
Teal replies, “To stop the Antichrist!”
All the while, Teal is secretly working for J.D. Vance, who is determined to stop the birth of the Antichrist in order to replace the Devil’s Son with Trump. He tells Vance on his way to a child suspected of having ties to the demon child, “We’re very close to finding the secret of the numbers. We’ve narrowed it down to one boy who seems more possessed than the others.”
The child in question: Eric Cartman.
Ah, “The Exorcist,” Teal walks into Cartman’s room to free him from his possession.
Teal laughs and tells Cartman, “I took an Uber to meet you. Do you know how long it took to get here? About six or seven minutes.” Cartman starts laughing so hard he vomits splatter all over Teal.
Unable to complete the exorcism, he tells Mr. Cartman that he must take the child to Washington, D.C., and that if he does not “uncover the secrets he is carrying,” “everything we hold dear could end.”
“6-7” (pronounced “six-seven”) is a viral lyric from American artist Skrilla’s rap single “Doot Doot (6 7).” The phrase quickly entered the cultural zeitgeist through TikTok, becoming especially popular among younger users. As demonstrated on “South Park,” “6-7” is often recited in tandem with a hand gesture popularized by a TikTok user named Maverick Trevilaine, better known as “The 67 Kid.” The phrase doesn’t seem to have any real meaning and serves as a joke within the internet.
Thiel recently made headlines after The Washington Post published an off-the-record, invite-only talk about religion and the technology industry. Over four meetings lasting about two hours, the venture capitalist accused Greta Thunberg and all critics of the rapid development of artificial intelligence of being “legionaries of the Antichrist.”
