History HilariousInHindsight / SouthPark

** The Black Friday trilogy's primary conflict was UsefulNotes/XboxOne vs UsefulNotes/PlayStation4. It was thought that the Xbox One would 'win' the Console Wars after Bill Gates beated the president of Sony to death in the finale "[[Recap/SouthParkS17E9TittiesAndDragons Titties and Dragons]]". [[https://www.extremetech.com/gaming/301380-why-the-playstation-4-triumphed-over-the-xbox-one It has become obvious over the years]] that the UsefulNotes/PlayStation4 not only "won" the Console War against the Xbox One ([[MyFriendsAndZoidberg and Wii U]]) but absolutely eviscerated the competition in a CurbStompBattle, outselling both the competitors combined. It was true even in the holiday season! Justified, as the Xbox One suffered from a infamously botched press-release and a lack of console-exclusives when compared to the UsefulNotes/PlayStation4 and eventually the UsefulNotes/NintendoSwitch.

* "Obama Wins" had an alternate ending planned -- albeit never animated -- in case Mitt Romney had won the 2012 presidential election, which would have depicted the boys allowing Disney to have control of the ''Star Wars'' franchise on the grounds that they couldn't possibly screw it up any more than ''Film/ThePhantomMenace'' had. Years later, Parker and Stone would go on record as deeming the sequel trilogy as being way, ''way'' worse than ''The Phantom Menace'' or any of the other prequels.

* The episode "[[Recap/SouthParkS18E6FreemiumIsntFree Freemium Isn't Free]] deals with exploitative free-to-play games. Years later, ''Videogame/SouthParkPhoneDestroyer'' was released, itself a [=F2P=] game that isn't all that different business-wise from the games that episode was mocking.

* "[[Recap/SouthParkS9E10FollowThatEgg Follow That Egg]]" becomes weird to watch after Colorado legalized same-sex marriage in 2013.

* "[[Recap/SouthParkS7E12AllAboutMormons All About Mormons]]":
** UsefulNotes/{{Mormonism}} is denounced by Stan, who says Joseph Smith made it all up. Three seasons earlier, in "Probably", the director of new arrivals in {{Hell}} reveals only Mormonism is the correct religion.
** That episode is also especially funny in light of Trey Parker and Matt Stone's ''Theatre/TheBookOfMormon.''

* Mr. Garrison started morphing into the show's Creator/DonaldTrump parody slightly before pro-Trump political cartoonist Ben Garrison came to prominence.

* TheMovie (which depicts Saddam Hussein in Hell and as the BigBad) was made years before Saddam Hussein's death, interestingly enough.

** Remember how Butters said he prefers playing ''Hello Kitty Island Adventure''? [[http://www.hellokittyonline.com/ Yeah, that's more-or-less real now]]...

** [[Series/HereComesHoneyBooBoo "Mama June" Thompson]] admits how ashamed she is about her excessive weight after title titular bar is raised. Since the show aired, Mama June had lost over 150 pounds and barely looks like her old self.

* "Tweek vs. Craig" was followed by "Tweek x Craig". The Franchise/{{Monsterverse}} would follow the same pattern with ''Film/GodzillaVsKong'' and ''Film/{{Godzilla x Kong|TheNewEmpire}}''.
* ‘’South Park is Gay’’ becomes one on light of ‘’ Tweek x Craig’’ and Tweek and Craig’s ongoing relationship. In the former, the boys become metrosexual as part of a fad, and Craig leads a group, including Tweek, determined to be “more gay” than the main four. Craig (and Tweek) did in fact, end up being more gay.

** The Black Friday trilogy's primary conflict was UsefulNotes/XboxOne vs UsefulNotes/PlayStation4. It was thought that the Xbox One would 'win' the Console Wars after Bill Gates beated the president of Sony to death in the finale "[[Recap/SouthParkS17E9TittiesAndDragons Titties and Dragons]]". [[https://www.extremetech.com/gaming/301380-why-the-playstation-4-triumphed-over-the-xbox-one It has become obvious over the years]] that the UsefulNotes/PlayStation4 not only "won" the Console War against the Xbox One ([[AndZoidberg and Wii U]]) but absolutely eviscerated the competition in a CurbStompBattle, outselling both the competitors combined. It was true even in the holiday season! Justified, as the Xbox One suffered from a infamously botched press-release and a lack of console-exclusives when compared to the UsefulNotes/PlayStation4 and eventually the UsefulNotes/NintendoSwitch.

* In "[[Recap/SouthParkS16E12ANightmareOnFaceTime A Nightmare on Face Time]]", Kenny, who's known for constantly dying, wears an ComicBook/IronMan costume. About 9 years later, the Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse release ''Series/WhatIf2021'', a show where it becomes something of a RunningGag for Tony Stark to die, in almost every episode.

!!''WesternAnimation/SouthPark''

* A later episode, [[Recap/SouthParkS7E8SouthParkIsGay "South Park Is Gay"]], had everyone turn metrosexual, with Craig being the leader of another 4-boy group (with Tweek being one of them), saying they look pretty gay, before commenting "Not as gay as us, though!". Like the above example, this became funnier after Craig and Tweek became an official couple.

* Although this can be applied to many adults of the late 90s, "[[Recap/SouthParkS3E11Chinpokomon Chinpokomon]]" seemed to imply that, like many other "fads", ''Franchise/{{Pokemon}}'' would eventually fade into obscurity. Nope, the Pokemon series is still as popular now as it was back then, with ''Pokemon'' as a whole being Creator/{{Nintendo}}'s second biggest CashCowFranchise (just after Mario), and the anime series actually rivals ''South Park'' [[LongRunners in terms of longevity]] (both premiered in 1997 and are still going strong). Even better, statistics and sales data show that ''Pokemon'' is just as popular with adults today as it is with children. Granted most of those adults are probably people who got into the series as kids in the 90s, but it shows that there are adults out there who do understand Pokemon's wide appeal, unlike the adults in South Park.

** The Black Friday trilogy's primary conflict was UsefulNotes/XboxOne vs UsefulNotes/PlayStation4. It was thought that the Xbox One would 'win' the Console Wars after Bill Gates beated the president of Sony to death in the finale "[[Recap/SouthParkS17E9TittiesAndDragons Titties and Dragons]]". [[https://www.extremetech.com/gaming/301380-why-the-playstation-4-triumphed-over-the-xbox-one It has become obvious over the years]] that the UsefulNotes/PlayStation4 not only "won" the Console War against the Xbox One ([[AndZoidberg and Wii-U]]) but absolutely eviscerated the competition in a CurbStompBattle, outselling both the competitors combined. It was true even in the holiday season! Justified, as the Xbox One suffered from a infamously botched press-release and a lack of console-exclusives when compared to the UsefulNotes/PlayStation4 and eventually the UsefulNotes/NintendoSwitch.

* South Park making satirical cameos and jabs at Disney for a living has certainly become this in the recently released ''Film/ChipNDaleRescueRangers2022'' where they gave Randy Marsh a nonspeaking cameo during a spa scene, and an outright-plagiarized unmodified one at that since Creator/ComedyCentral and Creator/TreyParkerAndMattStone weren't listed in their reference credits nor did they made any effort to redesign nor rename him. They literally just copy and pasted him into the movie without any reason for him to be there. This coupled with the fact that Randy just so happened to be the character at the center of [[Recap/SouthParkS23E2BandInChina the show's then-most recent stab at the company]] makes it all the more apparent that ''Creator/{{Disney}}'' wanted the last laugh.

* Mr Garrison started morphing into the show's Creator/DonaldTrump parody slightly before pro-Trump political cartoonist Ben Garrison came to prominence.

* In "[[Recap/SouthParkS16E11GoingNative Going Native]]", a 2012 episode, one of the things that Butters is mad about is that Ben Affleck is married to Jennifer Lopez. He is corrected that he is married to Jennifer Garner. In 2022, Affleck ends up marrying Lopez after his divorce from Garner.

* ''Recap/SouthParkS6E7SimpsonsAlreadyDidIt'' was released one year before the ''Simpsons''-themed videogame ''VideoGame/TheSimpsonsHitAndRun'', which has an end reveal[[note]]Aliens turned Earth into the setting of a series[[/note]] similar to the plot of ''Recap/SouthParkS7E1Cancelled''. ''Cancelled'' predates ''The Simpsons: Hit & Run'' by several months. Just one year after a ''South Park'' episode where various characters acknowledge in-universe many plot points of the series are similar to things which happened in ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' before, a ''Simpsons'' adaptation ended as a ''South Park Already Did It'' situation.
* ''Tweek vs Craig'' was followed by ''Tweek x Craig''. The Franchise/{{Monsterverse}} would follow the same pattern with Film/GodzillaVsKong and Film/{{Godzilla x Kong|TheNewEmpire}}.

** "The Eyes Of A Child", the spoof AwardBaitSong that plays over the end credits, is slightly extended for the soundtrack album, with an upbeat bridge that repeats variations on the lyric "Eye on my hand! / I've got an eye on my hand!/ But still I cant find you!". At the time this was just a complete nonsequitir, but after 2006 it started reminding people of ''Film/PansLabyrinth'', specifically a scene in which the protagonist is being hunted by the Pale Man, a child-eating monster who holds his eyes in his hands.

** "The Eyes Of A Child", the spoof AwardBaitSong that plays over the end credits, is slightly extended for the soundtrack album, with an upbeat bridge that repeats variations on the lyric "Eye on my hand! / I've got an eye on my hand!
/ But still I cant find you!". At the time this was just a complete nonsequitir, but after 2006 it started reminding people of ''Film/PansLabyrinth'', specifically a scene in which the protagonist is being hunted by the Pale Man, a child-eating monster who holds his eyes in his hands.

* ''Recap/SouthParkS6E7SimpsonsAlreadyDidIt'' was released one year before the ''Simpsons''-themed videogame ''VideoGame/TheSimpsonsHitAndRun'', which has an end reveal[[note]]Aliens turned Earth into the setting of a series[[/note]] similar to the plot of ''Recap/SouthParkS7E1Cancelled''. ''Cancelled'' predates ''The Simpsons: Hit & Run'' by several months. One year after a ''South Park'' episode where various characters acknowledge in-universe many plot points of the series are similar to things which happened in ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' before, a ''Simpsons'' adaptation can be described as ''South Park Already Did It''.

* The "Super Cool Ski Instructor" meme, particularly the "you're gonna have a bad time" excerpt, has experienced a bit of a revival thanks to ''VideoGame/{{Undertale}}'' character [[spoiler:Sans the skeleton]] warning players on a KillEmAll run that [[WhatTheHellPlayer they're "gonna have a bad time" if they don't stop their omnicidal ways]].