Dans l'épisode "Boulettes de Chef au chocolat salé" (2x10), sorti en 1998, Cartman dit que les films du festival indépendant Sundance Festival sont à propos de cowboys gay qui mangent du pudding.
7 ans plus tard, sort un film indépendant avec des cowboys gays.
Trey Parker et Matt Stone seraient donc des devins? Est-ce qu'ils mangent du pudding dans Brokeback Mountain?
Although there are some differences, South Park's prestige film about two gay cowboys seems too close to Brokeback Mountain to be a coincidence. As it turns out, it might not be. While "Chef's Chocolate Salty Balls" came out seven years before Brokeback Mountain, the episode actually came out a year after the release of Annie Proulx's short story that the film was based on. Just days after the story was released screenwriters were attempting to adapt the story into a film, meaning that news of a Brokeback Mountain movie was out before the South Park episode was made. While not confirmed, it is entirely possible that South Park creators Matt Stone and Trey Parker heard about the potential adaptation and decided to make mock it before the movie was even released. When asked if they were prophets by the AP, Stone responded in a predictably off-color way, saying "No, but Cartman is. [Laughs] We went to Sundance a lot in the mid-to-late ’90s, and you could just tell it was going toward gay cowboydom."