This Is The Second Most Divisive ‘South Park’ Episode So Far This Year

When South Park returned to TV in 2025, series creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone came out hot against the political movement that has taken over American culture in recent years, but they probably didn’t expect the far-right to try and pin a murder on them.

By far, the biggest controversy in this especially spicy South Park Season 27/28 has been the show’s treatment of right-wing political activist Charlie Kirk in the August 6th episode “Got a Nut.” While Kirk himself loved his South Park depiction and praised it proudly, the next month a shooter at Utah Valley University murdered Kirk, causing many conservatives to blame South Park, its creators and “Got a Nut” for the violent act. 

But that’s not what we want to talk about – no, now that the heat has finally died down on “Got a Nut,” we can finally get back to talking about the other truly shit-stirring episodes that created a divide in the fandom, the most controversial of which is, in our opinion, last month’s “Twisted Christian.”

It turns out that pairing a Gen Alpha brainrot trend with the most depressing critique of conservative Christianity in South Park history can ruffle a few sleeveless t-shirts.

In “Twisted Christian,” the “6-7” meme takes over South Park Elementary, leading P.C. (Power Christian) Principal to bring in billionaire antichrist expert Peter Thiel to root out the trend's supposedly demonic roots using invasive mass surveillance technology. Meanwhile, a depressed Jesus Christ, now serving as the school's guidance counselor, grapples with the reality that right-wing Christians like P.C. Principal have completely ignored his teachings and now use his name as a justification for silicon-injected bigotry.

Controversially, the episode ends with P.C. Principal kicking Jesus' ass so bad that Jesus decides to join the far right while Peter Thiel takes a possessed Cartman into his care to attempt to prevent the birth of the antichrist from Satan's ass.

In the wake of “Twisted Christian,” many fans felt that the downer, cliff-hanger endings to the episode's plotlines were genuinely depressing, and not in the “You're Getting Old” way where we'll still be talking about it 14 years from now. And, when South Park failed to resolve either of the story threads from “Twisted Christian” in the following episode, “The Woman in the Hat,” it further soured fans' feelings on the entire 6-7 demon plot. 

On top of all that, many fans of the series are still struggling to accept that, within the floating timeline of South Park, Stan, Kyle, Cartman, Kenny, Butters and all their classmates are now Generation Alpha, and they naturally gravitate towards the fads and inside jokes of America's real-life youths. Considering how kids these days specifically perform the “6-7” meme in order to confound us uncs, South Park's embrace of the brainrot gag remains a controversial subject among its OG fanbase.

While Cartman thankfully recovered from his 6-7 possession and escaped Thiel's clutches in the most recent episode, “Sora Not Sorry,” as far as we can tell, Jesus has yet to return to form following his depressing plotline in “Twisted Christian.” Until that plotline resolves in spectacular and unexpected fashion, “Twisted Christian” will likely remain the most divisive Season 27/28 episode thus far.

But, hey, at least no mob has demanded that Paramount cancel South Park because of it.