Black Friday Sale more than 50.000 users simultaneously accessed the site, temporarily causing delays and server overloads. The overwhelming numbers of visitors also caused the servers of several online shops, such as the electronics store Saturn, to suffer significant downtime. Despite the technical problems, the first Black Friday Sale generated a significant turnover and was considered a notable success by online retailers and organizers alike. After successfully launching in 2013, and having a successful 2014, 2015 and 2016, the Black Friday Sale is set to return on 24 November 2017. Online shoppers are expected to spend billions on this Black Friday sale. Once
Black Friday (South Park) amount of cut content from "", a video game which Parker and Stone were heavily involved in the development of. However, as the episode became more and more focused on "Game of Thrones" and Black Friday, the aspects which were lifted from the game were almost entirely scrapped. "Black Friday" received critical acclaim. Max Nicholson of IGN gave the episode a score of 8.7 out of 10, writing: "Cleverly fusing elements of the Next-Gen Console War with HBO's Game of Thrones, 'Black Friday' was easily one of the best "South Park" episodes we've seen in Season 17." Ryan McGee of