Got a Nut

"Got a Nut" is the second episode of the twenty-seventh season of the American animated television series South Park and the 330th episode of the series overall. It premiered on August 6, 2025.^[1][2][3] The episode features Clyde Donovan and Eric Cartman becoming right-wing podcasters and Mr. Mackey becoming a United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer, in a story that parodies the immigration policy of the second Trump administration.^[4]

"Got a Nut"
South Park episode
Episode no.	Season 27 Episode 2
Directed by	Trey Parker
Written by	Trey Parker
Production code	2702
Original air date	August 6, 2025 (2025-08-06)
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Plot

When South Park Elementary counselor Mr. Mackey is fired due to federal budget cuts, he gets a job with the United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), which sees him participating in the arrest of undocumented immigrants at various locations. These include a Dora the Explorer stage show where both audience members and the show's star are arrested, as well as Heaven. During these raids, Mackey's superior, Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, is seen shooting non-aggressive dogs, rejuvenating her frequently deteriorating face with botox, and participating in photo-ops.

To pay his monthly expenses, Clyde Donovan starts a podcast, and offends many of his classmates by expressing right-wing, antisemitic, and misogynistic views. He also angers Eric Cartman, who feels that Clyde has "stolen his shtick", and beats him up before taking over his podcast. Cartman uses the podcast as a platform on which he engages in "masterdebating" with callers, but when Clyde wins a Charlie Kirk Award for Young Masterdebaters, which includes a free vacation, Cartman is outraged once again.

Mackey's performance as an ICE agent earns him a bonus, but he learns from his banker that his monthly expenses have increased. He also learns that he has earned a meeting at Mar-a-Lago with President Donald Trump, who wants to help him with his expenses by giving him a promotion that will see Mackey replace Noem as the face of DHS. Mackey, however, is horrified by the debauchery he sees at Mar-a-Lago, including Trump's casual nudity, the presence of Satan in Trump's bed, and an imprisoned Dora massaging an elderly guest. When Mackey encounters Clyde, who is also there as part of his free vacation, Mackey confesses that he is disillusioned at having taken a job doing something he does not believe in, simply to pay for his expenses, and resolves that he is at heart, a school counselor. Together, Mackey, Clyde, and Dora escape the resort.

Reception

According to initial ratings information, not counting the full cross-platform total, the episode drew 838,000 viewers for its first airing on Comedy Central.^[5]

Prior to the release of the episode, a trailer drew from one of the scenes of a caravan of armed masked ICE officers speeding in the street. The Department of Homeland Security account on Twitter (@DHSgov) posted a screencap from the trailer while promoting a link to the ICE career site. The South Park account, in reference to Assistant Press Secretary Taylor Rogers' statement that "[South Park] hasn't been relevant in over 20 years" in response to the preceding episode "Sermon on the 'Mount", retweeted the quote "Wait, so we ARE relevant? #eatabagofdicks".^[6][7] When reached for comment by Newsweek, a DHS spokesperson told, "We want to thank South Park for drawing attention to ICE law enforcement recruitment."^[8]

Responding to her depiction in the episode, US Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem condemned South Park on the Glenn Beck Radio Program, saying "It's so lazy to just constantly make fun of women for how they look. It’s only the liberals and the extremists who do that." Noem added "If they wanted to criticize my job, go ahead and do that, but clearly they can't".^[9][10][11] Noem also called the episode "petty", but said she had not watched it.^[9]

Prior to the episode's release, Charlie Kirk expressed appreciation for South Park and its parody of him. Regarding the aforementioned promotional trailer, Kirk stated, "my first reaction is that I kinda laughed. [...] We as conservatives should be able to take a joke, we shouldn't take ourselves so seriously – that's something that the left has always done."^[12]