South Park Skewers Taylor Sheridan’s Two Biggest Hits, Then Takes On President Trump

South Park just muscled its way back to the top of the streaming pile, and it did it by edging past Taylor Sheridan’s current wave of hit shows. Yes, the cartoon chaos machine is outranking the Sheridan-verse right now. Let’s break down who’s sitting where and why everyone’s talking about this week’s episode.

South Park jumps to No. 1, Sheridan’s shows crowd the rest

Per the latest FlixPatrol readout, South Park has unseated Tulsa King and Mayor of Kingstown on the US charts. Tulsa King is still hanging tough, but Mayor of Kingstown slipped a bit. Landman is in the mix too, because apparently every Sheridan show shares the same gym membership.

• US: South Park at No. 1; Tulsa King at No. 2; Mayor of Kingstown at No. 5; Landman at No. 7
• Worldwide: South Park still on top, followed by Tulsa King, Yellowstone, and Mayor of Kingstown

Why the sudden surge? That new episode is... a lot

Timing probably helps. The newest South Park, "Sora Not Sorry," dials up an already wild arc that has Donald Trump in a relationship with Satan, complete with a baby. The episode cranks things even further with a scene that is deliberately meant to rattle you: Trump and Vice President JD Vance go from a strategy chat about what to do with the literal spawn of Satan to a hot-tub detour and then, yes, the White House bedroom. Over all of it, Foreigner’s "I Want to Know What Love Is" blares like the world’s most cursed mixtape.

Fans were... not okay, at least if your timeline is any indication. Lots of jokes about the nightmares this one’s going to fuel. South Park being South Park, the show knows exactly which buttons it’s pushing and stomps on all of them.

Tulsa King almost lost Frank Grillo, until Stallone made a call

On the Tulsa King side, there’s a solid bit of behind-the-scenes drama. Frank Grillo’s character, Bill Bevilaqua, wound up in federal custody in Season 3, and Grillo told US Weekly he thought that was his exit. He was ready to call it a swan song and ride off.

"You’re not leaving me. You’re not going anywhere."

That’s what Grillo says he heard from Sylvester Stallone himself. Next thing he knew, he was back in Atlanta and jumped into two more episodes — specifically Episode 5 and Episode 6 — as a favor to Sly. On-screen, Bevilaqua is currently tucked in a holding cell, but Grillo says he’ll be back for Season 4 and, this time, sticking around for the long haul.

So, quick state of the union: South Park is having a moment on the charts off the back of a memorably unhinged episode, and Tulsa King is keeping one of its scene-stealers around thanks to some classic Stallone persuasion. Both shows are streaming on Paramount+.