‘South Park’ creators predicted Pokemon Go in 1999 episode
Jul 22, 2016 | 6:05 PM
SAN DIEGO — “South Park” co-creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone have been getting the same question over and over on the eve of the premiere of the show’s 20th season: When are they going to do a Pokemon Go episode?
Their answer? They already did … 17 years ago.
Parker and Stone on Friday at Comic-Con said their season 11 episode “Chinpokomon,” in which a seemingly harmless fad is actually a recruitment strategy for the Japanese army, is basically a Pokemon Go episode already.
Stone laughed that the app-based phenomenon “ripped off” their thing.
