Hey everyone.
So this may not be too interesting for some of you, but I am really interested in sharing this piece of information. The Vaccination Special, while it was not as successful as The Pandemic Special, was still highly rated and is cable's #1 telecast of the year so far. What I find interesting is that this episode was highly rated due to the younger audience, which was to be expected. When it first aired (at 8/7c time), it received a rating of 1.74 million viewers, and by the end of the night, in which reruns of the episode replayed several times (presumably for the people who may have missed it), the total number of viewers were 3.47 million. I'm gonna assume that some people just neglected to turn on Comedy Central, or the older audience doesn't want to see children in the spotlight. You know, I've seen some older viewers state that they relate to the adults more, but I don't see how, considering that the adults are all stereotypes and are completely dead in the brain.
I wonder what the creators are going to do with this information. I really hope we don't see more of the adults because The Pandemic Special did put more focus on them and that episode got higher ratings, but I just hope they take into account how The Vaccination Special got higher ratings from the younger viewers, so perhaps maybe they can compromise by balancing out the screen time between the adults and the children. I predict that the next episode may be about Kenny trying to bring his friends together again, or maybe it will be some bizarre plot involving Stan, Kyle, and Cartman undergo some kind of test in which they try to regain their trust for one another (like maybe they are put in a life-threatening situation in which they are forced to trust each other), but I think my idea is far-fetched and unlikely.
Also here are my sources:
