The South Park Episode That Aged So Poorly The Writers Had To Apologize

In 2006, "South Park" aired an episode titled "ManBearPig." With the hype surrounding Al Gore's documentary "An Inconvenient Truth," Trey Parker and Matt Stone crafted an episode set on taking the former vice president of the United States down a peg. To satirize the politician and climate activist, they reimagined Gore touring around the country and giving talks about a fictional monster called ManBearPig. Despite the skepticism he regularly receives, Gore continues to exclaim and insist that the creature is real and a threat to us all.

While the episode still has some funny moments, it's aged increasingly poorly as the evidence for climate change has stacked up over the years (via NASA). For this reason, never afraid to turn the harsh light onto themselves, the "South Park" creators reversed course by making an episode called "Time to Get Cereal," where ManBearPig is shown to be just as real and dangerous as Gore warned. Though the episode doesn't contain an outright apology, it does feature characters feeling bad about how they didn't take Gore seriously and how they shouldn't have made fun of him so needlessly. While that might not be enough for those who took issue with "ManBearPig," it's likely the best they're going to get from the "South Park" creators.