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
• "The Return of the Fellowship of the Ring to the Two Towers" - The Lord of the Rings movie/book trilogy
• "South Park is Gay!" - Queer Eye for the Straight Guy TV reality show.
• "The Passion of the Jew" - Mel Gibson's The Passion of the Christ
• "Make Love, Not Warcraft" - World of Warcraft, currently the most popular and successful MMORPG in the world
• "Guitar Queer-O" - the Guitar Hero video games
• "Elementary School Musical" - the High School Musical movies
• "The Ungroundable" - somewhat of the Twilight movie/book series, but mostly of the "vampire" fad in general
• "The Ring" - The Jonas Brothers
• "W.T.F." - Wrestling franchises such as WWE
• "You Have 0 Friends" - Facebook
• "Faith Hilling" - Internet meme photography.
• "Butterballs" - Lip-dub video genre.
• "I Should Have Never Gone Ziplining" - Ziplining
• "Black Friday" - LARPing and Game of Thrones.
• "A Song of Ass and Fire - LARPing, PS4, XBox video game systems and Game of Thrones.
• "Titties and Dragons - LARPing and Game of Thrones.
• "Grounded Vindaloop" - The Oculus Rift.
• "Time To Get Cereal" - Red Dead Redemption II