After a three week wait”South Parkreturns with a new episode and a new season.
In an unexpected turn of events, the short-lived 27th season ended after just five episodes instead of the previously planned 10, a Comedy Central spokesperson confirmed. No details about the reasons were provided. On Wednesday's Season 28 premiere, South Park Elementary School was swept up in the “6-7” TikTok trend, and Palantir co-founder Peter Thiel believes the Antichrist is to blame.
The episode begins with a rally led by PC's principal, who is determined to get South Park Elementary School back on track after learning of the “Santakin numerology crap” going on. To set the record straight, he brings in a guest speaker to enlighten the students: “the ultimate expert on the end of days and the coming of the Antichrist,” Peter Thiel.
“Hi kids, I'm Peter Thiel and I'm here to talk to you about the Antichrist,” he says. “Okay, so first of all, what is the Antichrist? The Antichrist is a new, more human form of Satan that will soon walk the Earth. We don't know how soon he will walk the Earth, but it could happen within the next six to seven weeks.”
Then the students at South Park Elementary School burst out in unison: “6-7!”
Confused, Thiel continues his impromptu TED talk. He explains that Satan could not have children until Donald Trump a man has emerged with a manhood of the perfect size, capable of fitting into Satan's “pinhole” sized rectum. How big is Trump's masculinity? Thiel estimates it to be between “six and seven centimeters.”
Once again, his Gen Alpha audience screams, “6-7!”
Frustrated, Thiel shouts back to the children, “The Antichrist is coming! The Bible mentions an eagle, which refers to America, the breaking of the fourth seal, and the coming of hell to Earth. It's right here in the Sixth Revelation… Six-Seven.”
Determined to put an end to the seemingly demonic “6-7” craze, Thiel dives into the school's data center to find answers with PC Principal and South Park Elementary School counselor, Jesus Christ.
“I downloaded all the students’ information and fed it into AI facial recognition software so the school’s security cameras could follow their every move,” he says. “Now look. Two students pass each other in the hallway. They sign to each other: six, seven. Exactly 67 seconds later, this strange kid in the park makes the same gesture. And then in the girls' bathroom, two girls do the same thing!”
Concerned, Jesus stops him: “Wait, why is there a camera in the women’s restroom?”
Til returns: “To stop the Antichrist!”
All this time, Thiel has been secretly working for J.D. Vance, who is determined to stop the birth of the Antichrist so he can take Trump's place in place of the devil child. On his way to see a child he suspects is related to the demon's spawn, he tells Vance, “I'm very close to solving the mystery of the numbers. I've narrowed it down to one little boy who seems more possessed than the others.”
The child in question: Eric Cartman.
Ala The Exorcist, Til approaches Cartman's room to free him from his possession.
Til tells a giggling Cartman, “I came to you in an Uber. Do you know how long it took me to get here? About six or seven minutes.” Cartman starts laughing so hard that he vomits on Til.
Unable to complete the exorcism, he tells Mrs. Cartman that he must take her child to Washington, and that “everything we hold dear could end” if he does not “reveal the secrets he keeps.”
“6-7” (pronounced “six seven”) is a viral song from the rap single “Doot Doot (6 7)” by American artist Skrilla. The phrase quickly entered the cultural zeitgeist thanks to TikTok, becoming especially popular among younger users. As South Park shows, “6-7” is often said in tadum with a hand gesture popularized by a TikTok user named Maverick Trevillane, known as “Child 67.” This phrase doesn't seem to have any real meaning and acts more like an internet joke.
Thiel recently made headlines after Washington Post has published the contents of his informal invitation-only lectures on religion and the technology industry. Over the course of four roughly two-hour talks, the venture capitalist accused Greta Thunberg, as well as anyone who criticizes the rapid development of artificial intelligence, of being “legionnaires of the Antichrist.”
