"All the Best Cowboys Have Daddy Issues" received a 6.8 in the ages 18–49 demographic in the Nielsen ratings. The episode was watched by 18.88 million viewers, the sixth largest audience in American television the week it aired.[5] It was also an improvement of over 1.7 million over the previous episode, "Raised by Another".[6] In the United Kingdom, the episode was seen by 3.76 million viewers.