Season 3's "A Phineas and Ferb Family Christmas" hit the new airwaves on Friday, December 2, 2011. 4.224 million viewers cleared time off their holiday schedules to see it, making it the 8th most-watched regular episode in series history on the strength of a 2.9 household rating. The new episode checked in at No. 19 on the Cable Top 25, topping SpongeBob by 14 percent as the top animated broadcast on the chart. For the week, it finished 4th among Disney Channel programming behind the hugely successful Good Luck Charlie, It's Christmas!, its Sunday rerun, and the series premiere of Austin & Ally.