Every Time South Park Predicted The Future
The long-running animated sitcom South Park best excels when satirizing contemporary culture, but the series also has a serious knack for predicting the future. First airing on August 13th, 1997, South Park has continued to run for a highly impressive 317 episodes to date. Created by Matt Stone and Trey Parker, South Park has become infamous over the last two and a half decades for its profanity and dark, surreal humor that pokes fun at a wide range of topics - with the series also occasionally helping shape the modern zeitgeist it aims to mock.
Now in its 25th season, South Park continues to revolve around Stan Marsh, Kyle Broflovski, Eric Cartman, and Kenny McCormick (all voiced by Parker and Stone) and has already seen the boys tackle navigating St. Patricks Day, the perils of Airsoft, and a fluctuating real estate market in their titular Colorado town. South Park's consistently current feel is primarily owed to its unique production schedule, where Parker, Stone, and their creative teams write each episode just a week before it airs. This cutting-edge, last-minute approach to episode creation has also helped Parker and Stone hold sway in the national conversation, with South Park able to satirize breaking news and events in a way few other TV series can.
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As a result, South Park's immersion in contemporary culture has led to some scarily accurate predictions of the future from the show. From predicting celebrity meltdowns and behaviors years before they happen to accurately guessing technological advances, South Park's prescience is famed and far-reaching. Here's every time South Park predicted the future chronologically, as well as when
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