( CNN ) -- Peace . Love . And Snarknado 2 . What does it say when Americans unite , not once , but twice in a lifetime for a TV show ? And not just a TV show , but one where a twister filled with man-eating sharks menaces a major metropolitan area . We could n't afford a psychologist so we 'll just have to look at social media . Last summer , `` Sharknado '' churned up a storm of laughs , 5.3 million viewers and enough clever tweets to choke a ... shark . It was the same story Wednesday night for the debut of `` Sharknado 2 : The Second One '' on Syfy . The Twitterverse exploded . # Sharknado2TheSecondOne was the top-trending hashtag on Twitter well into the overnight hours and social search website Topsy recorded more than 215,000 tweets with # sharknado2 over the past day . But what inspires such passion , such creativity ? Is it the rubber sharks flying through Midtown Manhattan , the implausible storyline , the Al Roker cameo ? Yes . Yes . And yes . With this amount of chum in the water , there was bound to be a feeding frenzy , right ? And there 's more to come . Syfy has already signed on for a third `` Sharknado '' movie . Screenwriter Thunder Levin predicts now that New York has gone down , there might be a `` global Sharkapocalypse . '' Heaven forbid . Sequel suggestions are already making the rounds . With all this creativity floating around , some were offering Syfy suggestions for new shows at # NewSyFyOriginals . This one has promise . And you know you 've got a good thing going when the National Weather Service and the Weather Channel are joining in on the fun . . Syfy announces 'Sharknado Week ' around 'Sharknado 2 ' premiere . CNN 's Dorrine Mendoza contributed to this report .
Social media explodes for Sharknado It debuted last summer 's on Syfy . Sharks invade the Big Apple for the sequel to Wednesday pop culture phenomenon . Screenwriter predicts there might be a `` global Sharkapocalypse '' in third outing .