History HilariousInHindsight / SouthPark

* In "[[Recap/SouthParkS4E15FatCamp Fat Camp]]" Kenny starts eating and doing gross things for money with people egging him to do it and taking pleasure in watching him. This episode premiered 6 months before the premiere of ''Series/FearFactor''.

* Also, the clumsily-written, heavily homoerotic novel Mr. Garrison wrote when he got fired for being a teacher (as seen on season four's "[[Recap/SouthParkS4E6CherokeeHairTampons Cherokee Hair Tampons]]"[[note]]the one where Kyle is suffering from diabetes-related kidney failure and Stan tries to convince Cartman to donate one of his kidneys[[/note]] becoming a bestseller is funnier now thanks to the ''Fifty Shades'' books.
** And also feels more relevant than ever with the rise of alternative remedies online.

* "Cherokee Hair Tampons" feels more relevant than ever with the rise of alternative remedies online.

* In "[[Recap/SouthPark/S4/E7ChefGoesNanners Chef Goes Nanners]]," the topic is censorship and there is a debate on changing the town's flag which features four white guys hanging a black guy. In his proposal, Chef mentions the Cleveland Indians changing their logo and nickname. In 2017, the Indians changed their logo because the old one was deemed racist.
* "[[Recap/SouthParkS4/E8SomethingYouCanDoWithYourFinger Something You Can do with Your Finger]]" features Randy Marsh as part of a boy band. Guess who performs as Lorde in Season 19?

* In "[[Recap/SouthPark/S4/E7ChefGoesNanners Chef Goes Nanners]]," the topic is censorship and there is a debate on changing the town's flag which features four white guys hanging a black guy. In his proposal, Chef mentions the Cleveland Indians changing their logo and nickname. In 2017, the Indians changed their logo because the old one was deemed racist.

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

* In "[[Recap/SouthParkS12E5EekAPenis Eek, A Penis!]]", Cartman encouraged the inner-city kids to cheat by saying that the New England Patriots cheated all the time. In 2015, the Patriots get accused of deflating footballs.

* 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.

* An episode about Cartman using his position as the announcement reader that spoofed UsefulNotes/GlennBeck, leading to him running for class president has an eerie parallel with the UsefulNotes/DonaldTrump election.

* In "[[Recap/SouthParkS4E12TrapperKeeper Trapper Keeper]]" Rosie O'Donnell tries to find a number of ridiculous loopholes to ensure her son wins the kindergarten class election run by Mr. Garrison. Fast forward to 2016 when Rosie o'Donnell is doing the exact same thing after Trump got elected. Even funnier considering Garrison acts as Trump in South Park Season 20.

* One of PC Principal's {{berserk button}}s ([[HairTriggerTemper of which there are many]]) is anybody mocking Caitlyn Jenner, due to being a recent transgender woman. Come election time, and Caitlyn Jenner has endorsed UsefulNotes/DonaldTrump, one who's very popular with the politically incorrect crowds for his rather [[RuleOfCautiousEditingJudgement controversial statements]], which is exactly the type of people PC Principal beat up. And this also makes it hilarious that in ''South Park'', Jenner is working with Mr. Garrison, who is the stand in for Donald Trump.

* "[[Recap/SouthParkS14E2TheTaleOfScrotieMcBoogerballs The Tale of Scrotie McBoogerballs]]" (where Stan, Kyle, Cartman, and Kenny write what's in essence [[SoBadItsGood intentionally awful]] vulgarly erotic book after finding ''Literature/TheCatcherInTheRye'' boring and being angry that it's not the controversial book they thought it was, then pin the blame on Butters to avoid being disciplined) doesn't seem so absurd now thanks to the popularity of ''Literature/FiftyShadesOfGrey'' (and its sequels, ''Fifty Shades Darker'' and ''Fifty Shades Free'').
** Also, the clumsily-written, heavily homoerotic novel Mr. Garrison wrote when he got fired for being a teacher (as seen on season four's "[[Recap/SouthParkS4E6CherokeeHairTampons Cherokee Hair Tampons]]"[[note]]the one where Kyle is suffering from diabetes-related kidney failure and Stan tries to convince Cartman to donate one of his kidneys[[/note]] becoming a bestseller is funnier now thanks to the ''Fifty Shades'' books.

* In "[[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.

* (This could also overlap with HarsherInHindsight, but hey, this ''is'' ''WesternAnimantion/SouthPark'', after all). One of the major plot points in ''WesternAnimation/SouthParkBiggerLongerAndUncut'' involves MoralGuardians starting a war with Canada over a movie. It was supposed to be a satire of the censorship standards of the time, but [[http://time.com/3638987/the-interview-cancelled-sony-hack/ flash forward fifteen years later....]]
** Double points since the ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'' creators also did ''Film/TeamAmericaWorldPolice'', a film making fun of then North Korean leader Kim Jung Il. They managed to avert [[Film/TheInterview a hack or getting the film pulled]], though.
** Also, Sheila's unhealthy hatred for an animated movie resembles Sean Penn going out of his way to write an angry ''public'' letter telling Trey and Matt how angry he is about Team America.

* Pretty much the whole main plot of Season 3's "[[Recap/SouthParkS3E5TweekVsCraig Tweek vs. Craig]]" becomes this after Season 19's "[[Recap/SouthParkS19E6TweekXCraig Tweek x Craig]]". In the former, the two are goaded into fighting each other and Clyde outright says (albeit slightly misguidedly) that they "really hate each other". In the latter, the two start dating to satisfy the town and end up at the very least very close friends, with some later official notes even stating that Tweek is one of the only two things Craig actually cares about.
** 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!". This became funnier after Craig and Tweek became an official couple.

* "At least it doesn't get all preachy and up its own ass with messages, you know?": Once a [[SelfDeprecation burn]] on ''South Park''[='=]s descent into being more political than funny, it can now also be applied to ''South Park''[='=]s biggest rival ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'' as well.

* Remember "[[Recap/SouthParkS10E8MakeLoveNotWarcraft Make Love, Not Warcraft]]", wherein Butters said he prefers playing ''Hello Kitty Island Adventure''? [[http://www.hellokittyonline.com/ Yeah, that's more-or-less real now]]...

* UsefulNotes/OsamaBinLaden being shot in the head by US soldiers on multiple occasions (namely the season five episode "[[Recap/SouthParkS5E9OsamaBinLadenHasFartyPants Osama bin Laden Has Farty Pants]]" and the season 14 episode "It's a Jersey Thing") becomes funnier now that bin Laden's death (and how he died) has become a reality.
** Fun Fact: That episode aired on Australian television the day before Bin Laden was reported dead.

* In the "Go God Go" series ("[[Recap/SouthParkS10E12GoGodGo Go God Go]]" and "[[Recap/SouthParkS10E13GoGodGoXII Go God Go XII]]"), one of the atheist groups, the Unified Atheist League, wears hats that kind of look like condoms on their heads. In ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheBraveAndTheBold'''s LighterAndSofter AnimatedAdaptation of ''ComicBook/EmperorJoker'', we kind of get the feeling that SelfDemonstrating/TheJoker's whoopee cushion crown [[UnfortunateCharacterDesign looks like]]... you know... [[GettingCrapPastTheRadar a condom]].

* "[[Recap/SouthParkS5E2CrippleFight Cripple Fight]]" has Timmy being jealous of Jimmy stealing all of the attention and taking his place as the new crippled kid. This becomes hilarious when Jimmy appears more frequently and actually does end up replacing Timmy in following episodes, with Timmy being DemotedToExtra as a result.

* The opening narration for "[[Recap/SouthParkS13E2TheCoon The Coon]]" sounds just like the opening narration for ''Series/{{Arrow}}''.

* Cartman believing that he's somehow turned ginger in "[[Recap/SouthParkS9E11GingerKids Ginger Kids]]", as it was later revealed that his biological father was a ginger.

** Speaking of ''Undertale'', there is a character in the game called Undyne who looks like some sort of fish and is an implied lesbian. Gay fish, anybody?
* One of PC Principal's {{berserk button}}s ([[HairTriggerTemper of which there are many]]) is anybody mocking Caitlyn Jenner, due to being a recent transgender woman. Come election time, and Caitlyn Jenner has endorsed UsefulNotes/DonaldTrump, one who's very popular with the politically incorrect crowds for his rather [[RuleOfCautiousEditingJudgement controversial statements]], which is exactly the type of people PC Principal beat up.
** And this also makes it hilarious that in ''South Park'', Jenner is working with Mr. Garrison, who is the stand in for Donald Trump.

* The episode "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.

* The Member Berries get this again with the release of ''WesternAnimation/DespicableMe3,'' where Trey Parker does the voice of the BigBad, who is a former child star obsessed with TheEighties.

* "[[Recap/SouthParkS14E2TheTaleOfScrotieMcBoogerballs The Tale of Scrotie McBoogerballs]]" (where Stan, Kyle, Cartman, and Kenny write what's in essence [[SoBadItsGood intentionally awful]] vulgarly erotic book after finding ''Literature/CatcherInTheRye'' boring and being angry that it's not the controversial book they thought it was, then pin the blame on Butters to avoid being disciplined) doesn't seem so absurd now thanks to the popularity of ''Literature/FiftyShadesOfGrey'' (and its sequels, ''Fifty Shades Darker'' and ''Fifty Shades Free'').

* In "[[Recap/SouthParkS11E4TheSnuke The Snuke]]", it's revealed in the midst of the ''Series/TwentyFour'' parody that [[spoiler:Hilary Clinton has a nuke in her vagina]]. In the 2014 video game, ''[[VideoGame/MetalGearSolidVThePhantomPain Metal Gear Solid V: Ground Zeroes]]'', it's implied that [[spoiler:Paz has a bomb placed there herself]], and ''24'' star Creator/KeiferSutherland voices the lead character in the game.

* One of PC Principal's {{BerserkButton|s}} ([[HairTriggerTemper of which there are many]]) is anybody mocking Caitlyn Jenner, due to being a recent transgender woman. Come election time, and Caitlyn Jenner has endorsed UsefulNotes//DonaldTrump, one who's very popular with the politically incorrect crowds for his rather [[RuleOfCautiousEditingJudgement controversial statements]], which is exactly the type of people PC Principal beat up.

* In the episode "An Elephant Makes Love to a Pig", Cartman mentions that he would never let a woman [[IWasBeatenByAGirl kick his ass]]. 12 seasons later, [[spoiler: Wendy beats him up over his insensitivity towards breast cancer.]]
* The episode "The Tale of Scrotie [=McBoogerballs=]" (where Stan, Kyle, Cartman, and Kenny write what's in essence [[SoBadItsGood intentionally awful]] vulgarly erotic book after finding ''Literature/CatcherInTheRye'' boring and being angry that it's not the controversial book they thought it was, then pin the blame on Butters to avoid being disciplined) doesn't seem so absurd now thanks to the popularity of ''Literature/FiftyShadesOfGrey'' (and its sequels, ''Fifty Shades Darker'' and ''Fifty Shades Free'').
** Also, the clumsily-written, heavily homoerotic novel Mr. Garrison wrote when he got fired for being a teacher (as seen on the season four episode "Cherokee Hair Tampons"[[note]]the one where Kyle is suffering from diabetes-related kidney failure and Stan tries to convince Cartman to donate one of his kidneys[[/note]] becoming a bestseller is funnier now thanks to the ''Fifty Shades'' books.
* In the Season 2 episode "City on the Edge of Forever" (which spoofs ClipShow episodes by twisting events of previous episodes -- and even one scene of the episode itself -- and ending each clip with at least one character eating ice cream), the last clip shown was the scene from "Cartman's Mom is Still a Dirty Slut" where Cartman's father was revealed, only instead of the father being revealed to be Cartman's mom (who is revealed to be a hermaphrodite), it was instead John Elway of the Denver Broncos. Then came Season 14, where Cartman's biological father was {{retcon}}ned into being a Denver Bronco.
* All the times Kyle told Cartman not to call his mom a bitch become funnier once he actually did it himself in "Fun with Veal".
* "Follow That Egg!" becomes weird to watch after Colorado legalized same-sex marriage in 2013.
* ''Terrance and Philip'' was meant to be a self-deprecating caricature of South Park itself, satirizing the critical reviews declaring it nothing but bad animation and ToiletHumour. Like South Park had emphasis on being American, the parody needed its own emphasized nationality; [[WhatCouldHaveBeen originally Terrance and Philip were going to be British]], but they settled on Canadian. Then many of the [[CanadianSeries Canadian cartoons]] produced in the TurnOfTheMillennium and TheNewTens were just like Terrance and Philip: poor and simplistic animation, [[GettingCrapPastTheRadar raunchier than American kids' shows]], and full of fart jokes. Terrance and Philip was a stereotype of Canadian cartoons before they even got that reputation!
* In "Music/{{Korn}}'s Groovy Pirate Ghost Mystery", Cartman expecting and preparing for Christmas as early as during Halloween is played for laughs. These days, in many places around the world, Christmas shopping season and preparations begin even ''earlier.''
* In "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.

* (this could also overlap with HarsherInHindsight, but hey, this ''is'' ''WesternAnimantion/SouthPark'', after all) One of the major plot points in ''WesternAnimation/SouthParkBiggerLongerAndUncut'' involves MoralGuardians starting a war with Canada over a movie. It was supposed to be a satire of the censorship standards of the time, but [[http://time.com/3638987/the-interview-cancelled-sony-hack/ flash forward fifteen years later....]]

* In "The Cissy", Eric's "Erica" alter ego is portrayed to have more knowledge on gender identity and sexuality issues than most adults, to an extent that's pretty unrealistic for a fourth-grader. Stephie's character in "Assigned Male" is more or less exactly like this..... except A). She's actually trans and B). It's not PlayedForLaughs.

* Pretty much the whole main plot of Season 3's "Tweek vs. Craig" becomes this after Season 19's "Tweek x Craig". In the former, the two are goaded into fighting each other and Clyde outright says (albeit slightly misguidedly) that they "really hate each other". In the latter, the two start dating to satisfy the town and end up at the very least very close friends, with some later official notes even stating that Tweek is one of the only two things Craig actually cares about.
* An episode about Cartman using his position as the announcement reader that spoofed Glenn Beck, leading to him running for class president has an eerie parallel with the Donald Trump election.
* In "Raising the Bar", [[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.
* In "Chef's Chocolate Salty Balls", Cartman describes independent movies as being about "gay cowboys eating pudding". 7 years later, ''Film/BrokebackMountain'' fills 2/3rds of that criteria. Parker and Stone even said in an interview "if there's any pudding eating, we will sue".
* In "The Passion of the Jew", Creator/MelGibson is portrayed as a raving lunatic who loves torture. Tapes to his ex-girlfriend Oksana Grigorieva makes this exaggeration even funnier.

** The whole plot of "Cartoon Wars" was kicked off by ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'' deciding to show the prophet Mohammed uncensored. Then ''South Park'' did it with the episode "201" and caught controversy because of it.
* Remember the episode "Make Love, Not Warcraft", wherein Butters said he prefers playing ''Hello Kitty Island Adventure''? [[http://www.hellokittyonline.com/ Yeah, that's more-or-less real now]]...
* Osama Bin Laden being shot in the head by US soldiers on multiple occasions (namely the season five episode "[[Recap/SouthParkS5E9OsamaBinLadenHasFartyPants Osama bin Laden Has Farty Pants]]" and the season 14 episode "It's a Jersey Thing") becomes funnier now that bin Laden's death (and how he died) has become a reality.

* The entire "Make Love, Not Warcraft" episode seems to have become a prophecy for the future of ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft'' now that a hacker has started killing large groups of people in major cities.
* "Medicinal Fried Chicken" counts as this, since the state of Colorado subsequently voted to allow marijuana for recreational use.
* In "Fantastic Easter Special", we hear a news reporter say that "Pope Benedict has stepped down, ushering in a new era of... Pope Bill Donohue" (since Bill is an American of Irish descent). Nearly six years later, Benedict did indeed step down, and now we have a new American pope (a ''South American'' one, if you want to be pedantic, but it still works).
* In "Britney's New Look", after Music/BritneySpears is paparazzi'ed to death [[TheLottery as a sacrifice for a good corn harvest]], the show implies that Music/MileyCyrus will be the next sacrifice. Come 2013, and Miley's starting to veer towards train-wreck territory...
* Although this can be applied to many adults of the late 90s, "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 hey it shows that there are adults out there who do understand Pokemon's wide appeal, unlike the adults in South Park.
* In the "Go God Go" series ("Go God Go" and "Go God Go XII"), one of the atheist groups, the Unified Atheist League, wears hats that kind of look like condoms on their heads. In ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheBraveAndTheBold'''s LighterAndSofter AnimatedAdaptation of ''ComicBook/EmperorJoker'', we kind of get the feeling that SelfDemonstrating/TheJoker's whoopee cushion crown [[UnfortunateCharacterDesign looks like]]... you know... [[GettingCrapPastTheRadar a condom]].

* In "Two Guys Naked in a Hot Tub", two men speculate that Ricky Martin is gay. This episode aired over a decade before he actually came out.
* In "The Snuke", it's revealed in the midst of the ''Series/TwentyFour'' parody that [[spoiler:Hilary Clinton has a nuke in her vagina]]. In the 2014 video game, ''[[VideoGame/MetalGearSolidVThePhantomPain Metal Gear Solid V: Ground Zeroes]]'', it's implied that [[spoiler:Paz has a bomb placed there herself]], and ''24'' star Keifer Sutherland voices the lead character in the game.
* The purple unicorn on Wendy's t-shirt in "Breast Cancer Show Ever" looks somewhat similar to [[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic Twilight Sparkle]], who would not exist for another two years.

* TheMovie was a fully-blown {{Disneyesque}} musical. Years later, we get the episode "Elementary School Musical", which focuses entirely on how the boys react badly to everyone else in the school singing and dancing like the characters in a Disney musical.
* The episode "Cripple Fight" has Timmy being jealous of Jimmy stealing all of the attention and taking his place as the new crippled kid. This becomes hilarious when Jimmy appears more frequently and actually does end up replacing Timmy in following episodes, with Timmy being DemotedToExtra as a result.
* The opening narration for ''The Coon'' sounds just like the opening narration for ''Arrow''.
* In 1997, South Park did a bumper commercial for Magic: The Gathering, where Kenny said that it sounded "fucking gay". But fast forward to 2014 and the episode "Cock Magic" involves Magic The Gathering... and Kenny turns out to be a pro at it! Kinda makes Kenny sound like a hypocrite.
* Cartman believing that he's somehow turned ginger in "Ginger Kids", as it was later revealed that his biological father was a ginger.
* In "Christian Rock Hard", Cartman forms a Christian rock band by inserting Christian lyrics into secular songs. Well now there's a RealLife [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ApologetiX band]] that does pretty much that.
* The episode "Butt Out" opens up with a cheesy anti-smoking rap and dance routine. Over a decade later we got this [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fcAj3lOyv3s anti-smoking commercial]].
* Saddam Hussein became Canadian Prime Minister in "It's Christmas in Canada!". In the Family Guy episode "Back to the Pilot", one of the things Stewie claims would happen without 9/11 is that Saddam Hussein could be president. (Along with Mexico becoming the world's dominant superpower and [[{{ArsonMurderAndJaywalking}} the Cookie Monster inventing Facebook]].)
* In "Eek! A Penis", Cartman encouraged the inner-city kids to cheat by saying that the New England Patriots cheated all the time. In 2015, the Patriots get accused of deflating footballs.
* At the end of "Cripple Fight", Big Gay Al tells the crowd that the law shouldn't force the Scouts to accept gay leaders and instead the correct approach is educate the organization so they will change their mind. In 2015, Boy Scouts of America decided to change their policy without any lawsuits making them.
* In "Fat Camp" Kenny starts eating and doing gross things for money with people egging him to do it and taking pleasure in watching him. This episode premiered 6 months before the premiere of ''Series/FearFactor''.
* The 2002 episode "Jared Has Aides" had Jared the Subway guy falling from grace because he wanted everyone to [[PoorCommunicationKills have aides]]. Thirteen years later, the real Jared is going to jail for child porn. YMMV on whether it's hilarious or [[HarsherInHindsight harsh]], but it'll probably be funny in [[RunningGag 22.3 years]].
* Could also cross with UnintentionalPeriodPiece, but "Here Comes the Neighborhood", from 2001, has the kids thinking people using DVD players is crazy in favor of VHS as no one owns a DVD player. Nowadays, it would be quite the opposite.

* In "Dead Celebrities", Kyle questions why people would still eat at Chipotle if they knew it would make them crap blood. This is funnier knowing that Chipotle had outbreaks of e.coli and the norovirus, and this hasn't stopped certain people from eating at Chipotle.
* YMMV on hilarious, but in the 2007 episode "Guitar Queer-o", Randy criticizes ''VideoGame/GuitarHero'' because the guitar controls are plastic and that playing a real guitar is cooler, Stan telling him off on it. This is the exact reason the series eventually died in 2010, with ''Warriors of Rock'' selling poorly, implying people got sick of band games and found plastic guitars inconvenient. And with the rise of Rocksmith, more people got the kick out of playing real guitars. Guess South Park was right, huh?

* One of PC Principal's {{BerserkButton|s}} ([[HairTriggerTemper of which there are many]]) is anybody mocking Caitlyn Jenner, due to being a recent transgender woman. Come election time, and Caitlyn Jenner has endorsed Creator/DonaldTrump, one who's very popular with the politically incorrect crowds for his rather [[RuleOfCautiousEditingJudgement controversial statements]], which is exactly the type of people PC Principal beat up.
** And this also makes it hillarious that in South Park, Jenner is working with Mr. Garrison, who is the stand in for Donald Trump.
* One of the earliest episodes of the show, "Big Gay Al's Big Gay Boat Ride", introduces Stan's homosexual dog, Sparky. 16 years later, the ninth season of ''WesternAnimation/TheFairlyOddParents'' also introduced a pet dog named Sparky, a fairy dog that Timmy wanted as a pet.

* "Chickenlover" was about a perverted criminal having sex with chickens. Cut to 2016, and a guy in real life films a controversial video of him having sex with a UsefulNotes/McDonalds [=McChicken=] sandwich (the incident went viral and the video was deemed disturbing by numerous people).

* In the season 3 episode "Cat Orgy", after Cartman takes a photo of Shelly with her boyfriend to tell his mom about (since she, according to Cartman, didn't want any babysitter to bring over her boyfriend), Shelly says she'll make a "turd sandwich" out of Cartman if he tells his mom. Cut to five seasons later, Cartman creates a mascot named Turd Sandwich in "Douche and Turd".
* In "Trapper Keeper" Rosie o'Donnell tries to find a number of ridiculous loopholes to ensure her son wins the kindergarten class election run by Mr. Garrison. Fast forward to 2016 when Rosie o'Donnell is doing the exact same thing after Trump got elected. Even funnier considering Garrison acts as Trump in South Park Season 20.
* "Ginger Kids" is all about a group of redheads with pale skin being galvanised into purging the world for their own selfish reasons. The exact same thing happens in ''VideoGame/PokemonXAndY''.
* "Dances With Smurfs" has Cartman turn into a Radio/GlennBeck expy. Nowadays he can come off as a TakeThat to Creator/AlexJones.
* The Member Berries get this again with the release of ''WesternAnimation/DespicableMe3,'' where Trey Parker does the voice of the BigBad, who is a former child star obsessed with the 80s.
* In "The Coon", Cartman tries to guess Mysterion's identity. One of his guesses is Craig, with the comment that "Only you would think of a name that dumb". Come ''VideoGame/SouthParkTheFracturedButWhole'', and Craig's superhero name is the decidedly uncreative Super Craig.

* The Member Berries get this again with the release of ''WesternAnimation/DespicableMe3,'' where Trey Parker does the voice of the BigBad, who is a former child star obsessed with the 80s.

* "Dances With Smurfs" has Cartman turn into a Creator/GlennBeck expy. Nowadays he can come off as a TakeThat to Creator/AlexJones.

* "Dances With Smurfs" has Cartman turn into a Creator/GlennBeck expy. Nowadays he can come off as a TakeThat to Creator/AlexJones.

* "Dances With Smurfs" has Cartman become an expy Creator/GlennBeck. Nowadays it can come off as a TakeThat to Creator/AlexJones.

* "Dances With Smurfs" has Cartman turn into a Creator/GlennBeck parody. Nowadays he comes off as one for Creator/AlexJones.

* "Dances With Smurfs" has Cartman turn into a Creator/GlennBack parody. Nowadays he comes off as one for Creator/AlexJones.

* In the season 3 episode "Cat Orgy", after Cartman takes a photo of Shelly with her boyfriend to tell his mom about (since she, according to Cartman, didn't want any babysitter to bring over her boyfriend), Shelly says she'll make a "turd sandwich" out of Cartman if he tells his mom. Cut to five seasons later, a mascot named Turd Sandwich appears in "Douche and Turd".

* "Ginger Kids" is all about a group of redheads with pale skin being galvanised into purging the world for their own selfish reasons. The exact same thing happens in ''VideoGame/PokemonXAndY''.

* In "Trapper Keeper" Rosie o'Donnell tries to find a number of ridiculous loopholes to ensure her son wins the kindergarten class election run by Mr. Garrison. Fast forward to 2016 when Rosie o'Donnell is doing the exact same thing after Trump got elected. Even funnier considering Garrison acts as Trump in South Park Season 20.

* A season two episode of ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'' had Stan complaining that independent movies were all about "Gay cowboys eating pudding." Less than a decade later, ''Film/BrokebackMountain'' depicted the "gay cowboy" part of it, but sadly not the pudding part. When Parker and Stone heard about it, Parker said, "If there's any pudding eating in it, maybe we'll sue."
** The episode "The Tale of Scrotie [=McBoogerballs=]" (where Stan, Kyle, Cartman, and Kenny write what's in essence [[SoBadItsGood intentionally awful]] vulgarly erotic book after finding ''Literature/CatcherInTheRye'' boring and being angry that it's not the controversial book they thought it was, then pin the blame on Butters to avoid being disciplined) doesn't seem so absurd now thanks to the popularity of ''Literature/FiftyShadesOfGrey'' (and its sequels, ''Fifty Shades Darker'' and ''Fifty Shades Free'').
*** Also, the clumsily-written, heavily homoerotic novel Mr. Garrison wrote when he got fired for being a teacher (as seen on the season four episode "Cherokee Hair Tampons"[[note]]the one where Kyle is suffering from diabetes-related kidney failure and Stan tries to convince Cartman to donate one of his kidneys[[/note]] becoming a bestseller is funnier now thanks to the ''Fifty Shades'' books.
* In "The Passion of the Jew", Creator/MelGibson is portrayed as an insane lunatic that loves torture. The tapes to his ex-girlfriend Oksana Grigorieva makes this exaggeration even funnier (or more disturbing).
* A guy in the "Cartoon Wars" episode mentioned he likes ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'' because "[[SelfDeprecation it doesn't get all preachy and up its own ass with messages]]" (referring to ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'' at the time). ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'' fans who don't view this as a FunnyAneurysmMoment will agree this statement applies to most of ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'''s episodes as of late (or, at the very least, the episodes from seasons seven and eight).
** In said episode, the main issue was ''Family Guy'' planned to show Mohammed uncensored in the face of Islamic death threats and everyone in town burying their heads in the sand rather than deal with the problem. Years later, a similar incident happened on the ''South Park'' two-part episode "200" and "201."
*** And even later, ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'' did an episode called "Turban Cowboy." While it didn't have Muhammad physically depicted, it did center on Peter converting to Islam and it was criticized on Wikipedia for mocking the Islamic faith.
* The two episodes in which UsefulNotes/OsamaBinLaden gets shot in the head by a U.S. soldier ("''[[Recap/SouthParkS5E9OsamaBinLadenHasFartyPants Osama Bin Laden Has Farty Pants]]'' and "It's a Jersey Thing") became a lot funnier now that that has become a reality. Normally this would be HarsherInHindsight, but it's okay because of the target. To further add much deserved insult to injury, Creator/ComedyCentral ran an Osama mini-marathon before the May 4th episode.

* "Medicinal Fried Chicken"'s plot about medical marijuana being legalized (while fast-food places like KentuckyFriedChicken are being outlawed in low-income areas[[note]]despite that Colorado has no low-income areas[[/note]]) becomes this after marijuana became legalized in Colorado on November 6, 2012.

* The episode "Butt Out" opens up with a cheesy anti-smoking rap and dance routine. Over a decade later we got this [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fcAj3lOyv3s anti-smoking commercial.]]

* The episode "Cripple Fight" has Timmy being jealous of Jimmy stealing all of the attention and taking his place as the new crippled kid. This becomes hilarious when Jimmy appears more frequently and actually does end up replacing Timmy in following episodes, and Timmy has been DemotedToExtra as a result.

* Cartman believing that he's somehow turned ginger, as it was later revealed that his biological father was a ginger.

* Saddam Hussein became Canadian Prime Minister in "It's Christmas in Canada!". In the Family Guy episode "Back to the Pilot", one of the things Stewie claims would happen without 9/11 is that Saddam Hussein could be president. (Along with Mexico becoming the world's dominant superpower and [[{{ArsonMurderAndJaywalking}} the Cookie Monster inventing Facebook]])

* The 2002 episode "Jared Has Aides" had Jared, the Subway guy falling from grace because he wanted everyone to [[PoorCommunicationKills have aides]]. Thirteen years later, the real Jared is going to jail for child porn. YMMV on whether it's hilarious or [[HarsherInHindsight harsh]], but it'll probably be funny in [[RunningGag 22.3 years]].
* Could also cross with UnintentionalPeriodPiece, but "Here Comes the Neighborhood", from 2001, has the kids thinking people using DVD player is crazy in favor of VHS as no one owns a DVD player. Nowadays, it would be quite the opposite.

* One of PC Principal's certain BerserkButton ([[HairTriggerTemper which isn't that hard]]) is anybody mocking Caitlyn Jenner, due to being a recent transgender woman. Come election time, and Caitlyn Jenner has endorsed Creator/DonaldTrump, one who's very popular with the politically incorrect crowds for his rather [[RuleOfCautiousEditingJudgement controversial statements]], which is exactly the type of people PC Principal beat up.

* In "Trapper Keeper" Rosie O Donnell tries to find a number of ridiculous loopholes to ensure her son wins the kindergarten class election run by Mr. Garrison. Fast forward to 2016 when Rosie O Donnell is doing the exact same thing after Trump got elected. Even funnier considering Garrison is acts as Trump in South Park season 20.

* In "Raising the Bar", [[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.