The following is a list of South Park episodes where a real life pop-culture fad (such as a video game, movie, TV show, ext) is one of the main parts of the story, or is noticeably talked about or made fun of.

Explanation of the contents

This is what pop-culture fad each respective episode of this list is a parody/satire of.

• "Chinpokomon" - Pokémon video game/toy/TV series/trading card franchise
• "South Park is Gay!" - Queer Eye for the Straight Guy
• "Elementary School Musical" - the "High School Musical" movies
• "Guitar Queer-O" - the Guitar Hero video games
• "Make Love, Not Warcraft" - World of Warcraft, currently the most popular and successful MMORPG in the world
• "The Passion of the Jew" - Mel Gibson's "The Passion of the Christ"
• "The Return of the Fellowship of the Ring to the Two Towers" -- "The Lord of the Rings" movie/book trilogy
• "The Ring" - The Jonas Brothers
• "The Ungroundable" - somewhat of the "Twilight" movie/book series, but mostly of the "vampire" fad in general
• "W.T.F." - Wrestling franchises such as WWE
• "You have 0 Friends" - Facebook.com
• "Butterballs" - Lip-dub video genre.